What Everyone Gets Wrong About Haki 

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It's pretty insane to believe that so many thought that there was just no haki pre timeskip because there were no colors 💀

It blows my mind how some people weirdly believe that Observation Haki, especially future sight is passive yet Katakuri *explicitly* states that in order for him to use it, *he needs to focus* otherwise it won't work

Morj’s hairline is being maintained by Armament Haki. Oda confirmed it himself.

Haki can nullify devil fruit ❌ Haki can resist devil fruit ✅

One thing I didn’t remember till now is that even Katakuri was caught off guard, which lends credence to the idea that you have to be actively using it. otherwise he would’ve stopped eating during his tea break the moment Luffy started approaching the house to destroy it.

The fact Blackbeard said Luffy's Haki IMPROVED in Impel Down means at least since Crocodile, Luffy displayed a certain level of Haki even if it was infant stages and wasn't explicitly shown

Shanks also mentioned that he had to look like a threat when coming on board an enemy’s ship when Marco told him he made a mess which clearly implies Shank was turning on his Conqueror’s Haki just before going on board.

I always believed that Armament Haki works literally how Rayleigh explains it. The user covers themselves in Armament Haki from head to toe thus enhancing their physical capabilities. This doesn't take up much stamina because the coating is of a lower concentration. Whenever the black coating effect occurs, it's simply increasing the concentration of Haki. The whole invisible Armament would be similar to Ten from Hunter x Hunter. Examples for Invisible Armament was when Zoro took an explosion from King and said that he was glad that he used Haki or when Apoo was stabbed in the neck but Armament Haki was used to prevent it from being fatal.

THANK YOU!! I was really annoyed with the people who talked like Observation Haki was some passive ability. It's been proven wrong all the time, and we even got Kaido using it only for a split second. People take Katakuri as a standard Observation Haki user, but his whole character was that he NEVER let his guard down. He is the only guy who turns it on as much as possible.

My headcanon for armament is this: it works a lot like Nen from Hunter X Hunter. You can spread it throughout your entire body (similar to Ten) and get the benefits of being able to strike at the true form of Devil Fruit users (bypassing defenses from Logia types, or those like Luffy). Alternatively, you can focus it on a specific body part (similar to Ken), strengthening that body part to a high degree, and turning it black.

I’ve interpreted the “Haki canceling devil fruit abilities”, as requiring a certain threshold of power to use, as opposed to just having more Haki than your opponent. That is, if a devil fruit user has a Haki amount of 1, and he uses his ability on someone with a Haki of 10, the latter couldn’t cancel it because they need to have a Haki of 100 to cancel the ability. This would explain why someone like Chinjao and Sai couldn’t undo being turned into toys by Sugar, but stronger characters like Law, Kaido and Big Mom can undo abilities.

Emotional state affects observation haki usage. It's abundantly clear during Luffy's fight with Katakuri. Good video.

Law only became aware of the possibility to counter-act DF using a great deal of Haki during his fight with the Yonko, as he stated in 1063. So it would make sense most aren't really aware of it or outright incapable of countering DF because they don't possess enough Haki to reverse the effect(which might be more difficult than outright negating it, but this is pure headcanon).

About the black lightning, since WCI I’ve always assumed that they are meant to represent a very high haki output, regardless of type. Three scenes I always remember are: Big mom destroying the KX launcher with conquerors, showing that it doesn’t have to be a clash between two characters of any sort, let alone a clash between conquerors users, Katakuri using edge mochi (a mochi mochi no mi + armament technique) to kill the chefs that saw him eating, showing that it has nothing to do with conquerors (unless you want to assume that that’s somehow some proto version of conquerors coating which I think we can all agree is ridiculous), and Sanji kicking Oven in the neck to save Chiffon (yes, the black sparks are small but they are there, and in multiple panels) which of course is even more evidence that it’s not representing conquerors nor a clash between conquerors necessarily.

In the case of people who became toys, they probably can't even activate their Haki in that form, just like someone petrified by Hancock can't activate Haki.

Some additional points: - Sanji and Jinbe have used “black lightning”. Neither of them use CoC - The red scabbards and Zoro consistently attacked Kaido without Black coating on their swords (some of the scabbards even CUT Kaido)

imagine if Oda introduces a character named Morj and makes him comment that he's surprised the raid didn't fail

Look at Caesars "Gastanets" attack in chapter 671, it produces black lightning both times, so the black lightning isn't even limited to haki

zoro uses his asura moves pre-timeskip, so i think the ability itself isnt particularly linked to conquerors haki (or any haki for that matter), but i think when he damaged kaido he did utilize it

My interpretation of black coating is that it is the character using more excessive armament similar to how g4 is luffy using almost all of his armament to coat himself. Armament haki can be used without the coating visual as we see multiple times but black armament is to display that the character is using a more excessive version. Which is why when zoro coats his sword it displayed as a powerup even though we know he uses haki all the time. It also lines up how g4 excessive haki can break doflamingo's strings.

I think Haki is just resistive towards Devil Fruit abilities. Like you can resist an ability before/while it's being used on you but you can't do anything AFTER the ability takes effect. For example, a lot of debate was stirred up about countering Ivankov's devil fruit and turn back after Ivankov changes your gender. To my understanding, you can counter that ability while Ivankov injects you and resist it but haki is ineffective after your gender was already switched. Now then how did Law change back after he was already turned? It was described in the chapter that it was a disease and Law turning back probably had to do with either him being a doctor or the fact that diseases can be cured, unlike Ivankov's ability, which literally alters your DNA. That's not a disease per se. To counter Bonnie's ability you probably have to know about it and use haki before she uses it on you. But for Big Mom and Kaido, their haki is already way too high to begin with so you cant do anything to them and Law is especially unlucky in this area. His room affects the surroundings and the things within his room so he cant get people with higher haki into it but however, Kidd was able to turn BigMom into a magnet just fine, I think that's because abilities like Kidd's, Sugar's and Bonnie's directly affects the target and you need to have active haki to counter them.

It's also wotth reminding that haki blooms in extreme situations. We've only ever seen Zoro use Ashura in dire situations. Meaning its 100% possible that its advanced conquerers.

Great video!! Keep up the great work!

Haki is so impressive as a result of the slow-burn narrative. It's perfect for the setting to tie the theming together, as well as explain how people without devil fruits are capable of being as strong as they are... and how logias do not dominate the entire setting. It all just simply makes sense, and complements the progression of the long-term story. Physical power is achieved with character development and strength of ambition. Again, it's perfect. You wanna know what's absolutely insane? Hiriluk's explaination of what's later revealed to be haki is 100% accurate, yet explained in such a way so as to allow it to not be limited to merely what he explains in that arc. And of course it's remained consistent with what he's described as far, far back as Drum Island. It's so... One Piece. Just fantastic stuff all-round.

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I really enjoyed the analysis and the breakdown of all the types, good job on specific details yo improve the contex

I'm always surprised by how few people failed to see just how ENORMOUS learning about haki was. By the time it's revealed and talked about it's been shown dozens of times and the audience never knew what they were seeing. So many things that were likely blown off as plot armor or random coincidence were all people using haki often without knowing anything about it or only one side knew but not the other.

I’ve always read/understood the story through the eyes of the protagonist(s) where if they didn’t understand the power oda wasn’t going to really illustrate it to its full potential as you see pre time skip a bunch of evidence of haki (maybe even oda didn’t really know how he wanted to flesh out haki at the time), but the whole power system of haki as flawed/subjective as it may be really gives oda freedom in his story to do many different things and honestly keep characters relevant no matter what their power is or lack of special ability. When you have such a structured power system I think it’s hard to keep many characters in the thick of things (ie naruto/sasuke, goku /vegeta). So I’ve always saw the haki system as more of a writing aide than just a pure power system

Next video “what everyone gets wrong about hello fresh”

Just realized I’ve watched every vid you’ve posted for the past 6 months didn’t even realize it but your content is addictive and so well made and thought out

Well done sir. Great video, comprehensive research and good reasoning

The Anime mainly makes it look more flashy and does alot of over the top exaggerations like that Luffy and Kaido flying thing

My theory on sugars fruit for example, would be that you would have to know what is about to happen to block it, and since you never remember the people before they become toys it could be hard. And once you become a toy, technically you're no longer a human so you probably don't have haki

I have made these Arguments for years. It's the same as the Martial Arts and with Martial Artists, Fighters, and other people proficient in Skills. Haki deals with the Soul, Willpower, and more.

Amazing video as always

Fujitora isnt always using obs haki that's why he has that stick

Pretty spot on made me think in certain instances. Like I don’t think Luffy knows you can overcome non Logia DFs. I think law is just a different level of intelligent likely seeing that his DF was negated in certain instances without even likely Big Mom or Kaido understanding what they were doing themselves and not many DF users like Law are top tier and smart enough to recognize what’s happening. I think he’s likely just way too smart and unlocked a new ability others will likely learn from him. Also agree fully that Asura was ACOC even Kaido acknowledged him. Same with your take on Observation being on or off based on if the user is actually using it at the time which I think gives credit to law uncovering the nature of Haki a bit more deeply allowing him to use it to overcome DFs in a more significant way.

I really enjoy your explanation videos, keep it up bro.

Love this video, Morj

Asura in itself IS conquerors haki, it is implied in One Piece Yellow : Grand Elements (ワンピース イエロー グランド エレメンツ) a pre TS databook. That's why Kaido felt it when Zoro used it, but he did not use the advanced version until chapter 1033 because he wasn't using Enma correctly which prevented him from releasing all his haki (conquerors included). That's why the black lightnings only appear starting from chapter 1033 for Zoro

I feel like Morj is becoming more and more of a One Piece historian 😂

I love the way this was explained. I love it when people provide evidence to their claims. And this is what I’ve thought about haki all this time. Great video, you should really make more like this rather than the speculative nonsense that everyone is making nowadays.

lol love how when he catches the hint his voice drops 😂

Before watching the video I'll point out some stuff I think people get wrong, specifically about black coating. It's been a long time since I've re read the parts of the manga where that would be explained, but from what I remember, there's no difference between black coating and non black coating, it's just oda not being consistent. Some examples: Kaido saying Luffy is coated in armament and conquerors in gear 5th even tho his punches aren't coated in black. Cracker blocking a black coating gum gum pistol from Luffy without using black coating. Also Luffy pointed out how tough is armament haki was. Sanji supposedly not having armament haki, even tho he mentions it multiple times. What happens in his case in my opinion is that giving him black coating would change almost nothing visually in his design, at least in the manga, and Oda also gave him a unique look for diable jambe since before the timeskip, one that doesn't mix well with the black coating design. I actually really like haki and how it has slowly been explained to us, and thematically I think it's perfect, but yeah, Oda is just very inconsistent with it, specially with armament, I actually think he's made a pretty good job telling us when someone is using future sight, even if it isn't the most visually pleasing. I think when a character is confirmed to have armament haki, like the tobi roppo or law, we're supposed to asume they're using it every time they attack. But I agree it isn't perfect, because that's not the case with defense, actually putting up your armament haki in the exact spot you'll be hit is difficult, so that isn't necessarily the case. Its actually an incredibly hard power system to be consistent with. Now I'll watch the vid :3

I'd like to add one more: Everyone seems to think that haki is a replenishable but finite resource that can be depleted if used excessively. This stems from luffy saying he can't use haki for 10 minutes after Gear 4, however, in no dialogue is it stated that Luffy runs out of haki. I have always taken this as Luffy just being physically too worn out and exhausted to use haki, since it is straining. Besides, haki has to be infinite at least in some individuals, as Big Mom and Kaido live in permanent ACoC coating.

I honestly wasn't paying attention wo what you were saying, but the Uta New Generation music video came up as an ad, so this gets my like.

The 🐐 dropped another banger video with the green haired goat as the thumbnail 😮‍💨

Do you think that conquer’s Haki can be temporary? Haki seems willpower based. The two instances Sabo and the Scabbards involve huge emotional charge behind the scenes. It makes me wonder if their emotions charged their will and manifested in that way. Temporary haki flare driven by emotion.

I love everything about this video. Thanks Morj, educating the fanbase is the work of the real chads.

I haven't gotten far enough to see haki get used or even explained but I'm so intrigued by it so thanks for this video

Thank you for this vid, tired of going back and forth over the years 😂😂😂Sanji used observation against the Don Kreig Pirates

Don't get why people would be surprised at Zoro tapping into Haki abilities pre-ts, people had to learn that shit somehow to teach it later on, and since Haki grows in battle that's obviously when it will be unlocked, like how Conqueror's showcase it without any mastery or knowledge, as is the case for Ace, Luffy, Doffy and Zoro. Usopp tapped into observation, so did Enel without knowing it was Haki specifically but known as something else, and the Kuja pirates are ALL warriors using Haki, they also had to somehow learn it so at some point the first Pirate Empress or something tapped into it unknowingly. The question is how the fuck Buggy has yet to unlock it..

I always assumed it depended on focus, strength of will and overall health.. ie at the coliseum they were turned right after they were beaten and unaware of what was happening. Katakuri being flustered and unable to use future sight. And shanks fainting those with out any haki(will). As far as colored and non colored haki I think it was just based on oda's decision after time skip to better help emphasize haki vs conquerors haki.

I think Zoro's conquer haki "key" is pretty clear: when he "give" everything he has and stop "controling" he is able to infuse conquer haki. He did that for the firdt time with Asura, against Kaido in a desperate attack. And he did it again with Enma, when he "unleashed" all his haki flow and let Enma take as much as it wanted.

For a second, I thought Zoro was wearing Mickey Mouse ears in the thumbnail.

Guys when will we get the wano analysis ?

I've thought that Haki is the fighting spirit, like users extension of will.

Note that even Katakuri was caught off-guard DONUTS Time!! He didn't foresee Luffy interrupting his meal, or anything up to Lufffy landing some G4 blows, not until Katakuri composed himself and made a conscoiuus effort to use future sight again.

That boy morj looking fresh with that jacket on .

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Didn't Luffy cancel out Doffy's Parasitic Strings thingy? This ability also affects the individual directly so it makes sense it can be cancelled with Haki

Good stuff Morj. Keep it up. One thing to add. The mechanics behind aCoA and aCoC are basically the same. That's why Luffy and Zoro were able to pick up on it so easily. When Zoro used ashura he put it all on the line and it just makes sense that some of his conc would also get infused into that attack.

Observation is probably constantly in use, it wouldnt really have much of a point if it had to be manually activated to be able to sense oncoming attack's, it was even shown white beard was using observation haki in his sleep to deal with aces assassination attempts. Or for example in fishman island when luffy noticed caribou in shirahoshis room, why would luffy just randomly turn on his observation haki just then ? It makes much more sense that observation is something that is constantly active, similar to hearing, you dont have to turn on your hearing, but you cant hear literally everything and sometimes you aren't paying attention to the things you hear. Future sight may or may not be something that has to be activate but even that may be able to be always active.

Oda already stated that the black coloring for armament haki is something he adds for the reader sometimes, in the manga nobody actually sees things turn black when armament haki is used

Haki stopped making sense the minute Big Mom didn’t use her conquerors coating against Kidd and Law. Luffy going gear fight and having Haki right after he was just taken out the 10 minute time limit didn’t make sense either.

THANK YOU MORJ!!! 🙌Finally someone who clears up the Armament Hardening debate in a clear and concise way. Armament Haki can be used without the black shading/coating, in its base form as an INVISIBLE armour hahaha 😄

Very interesting that Zoro says "and my own heartbeat beats as loudy as a DRUM... This is the boundary between life and death" when thinking about the Drums of Liberation

One thing that is true is that every advanced conqueror's attack HAS black lightning, but not everything that has black lightning is advanced conqueror's Lightning appears when there are haki clashes, but not necessarily conqueror's clashes, for example we saw Jinbe with black lightning after tanking Who's Who's armament haki attacks in chapter 1018

Part of the blame does lie on Oda. Yes he shouldn’t always have to signify when people are using Haki but since it’s a power that some have and some don’t… there’s no way to know for sure. He depicts it clearly in some scenes and doesn’t in others. Whereas a system like ki or chakra or reiatsu is always active. Normal humans just have it at a very low level that it’s not visible or it’s effects not obvious. But it’s always on. It’s life force. Whereas Haki is willpower….on a bad day you might not have it. If you have no motivation or a weakened resolve. It’s a complex system but thus it needs proper depiction.

7:32 the first picture was on the brief period in post time skip were haki was still invisible, a common misonception is that haki became visible post time skip immediatly while in reality it became colored after luffy recalled his training with rayleig on the second picture has a weird angle, you can easly argue that luffy was indeed coating but it was just covered by cesars body on the third picture sanjis legs are already black so its safe to assume he was indeed coating himself rayleigh himself has said that haki is invisible armor, so its safe to assume the black coating is that armor colored for only the audience

03:18 its weird how not only there's those ulti scenes like that, the official coloring could help disprove but they even added the red with it, and the treasure cruise artwork also is full of black/red lighting (i know a game is a not good source, i mean that is interesting how it keeps happening with her ambiguos or not)

The devil fruit counter is so weird. Why was blackbeard afraid of boas ability then? If sugar touches someone that kaido knew does he still forget about them or does he still remember because his haki is too strong? Is it a certain level of haki you have to be or is it just your haki relative to the haki of the devil fruit user, because that would explain the BB being afraid of boa because she has conquerors haki

I think people gotta stop expecting 100% story consistency when it comes to haki in general. It's a power built on the emotional concept of willpower. Channeling one's willpower is something that requires one to have personal reasons to be fighting. If there's any major doubt or anything that can disrupt the access you have to your willpower, you're not even accessing the haki playbook. Jinbe exerting his willpower to resist Big Mom's DF ability at the wedding is Jinbe showing the fortitude of his willpower.. or in narrative terms, having no fear. Zoro accessing strengths beyond his understanding just shows the strength of his will + drive versus that of his opponents. Luffy winning against Katakuri wasn't a 'technical' defeat, but his willpower was what finally tipped the scale at the end. I would even argue that in that moment with the scabbards vs kaido, they came closer to harnessing 'Oden's Will' than any of them would have on their own. I think the public conception of "only one in a million have conqueror's haki" is just a response to the fact that it *can* come from anyone, but only one in a million have recognized the capability + have the personal drive to be able to actually channel it. I think we gotta be flexible w the idea that even someone who can't readily access and utilize conqueror's haki can channel it in extreme circumstances where your will, the core of your being, is put to the test. Now here's a spicy angle as a bonus... obviously Luffy fought well against Kaido, but Luffy's victory speaks to Luffy's will as much as it does to Kaido's to "go out in a bang". Kaido, by getting defeated in Wano was able to exert his will in the end. Was that Kaido's true will? Or was this his surrogate will after having his motivations wilted by his false victory against Oden? Food for thought lol

A Morj video on the state of Haki?! Imma need a meal for this 🧆

This is a much needed video Also, why is this video giving me strong “Araki forgot” vibes? 😂

I still think Asura isn’t haki. Asura imo seems to be more so related to Zoro’s animal/demonic like spirit. It’s the same way he is able to use the spirit of animals to change the properties of his attacks, like how he was able to make his slashes combust against Ryuuma by using the spirit of a dragon. It is my personal belief that Asura is the full power of this spirit. Haki is also called “spirit” by some people, but I think it is more accurate to say it is “the ability to not doubt”. Rayleigh uses this exact phrasing. When Zoro “gave it his all” against Kaido, he both manifested Asura, and infused his attack with conquerors haki, unknowingly. The two abilities are most likely related in the same way that Sanji’s emotions are tied to his haki as well. Sanji’s emotions let him use diable jambe, but they also greatly increase his observation haki. They are both separate factors that grant them unique abilities whilst also affecting their haki.

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Damn I kept trying to ask questions while listening and every damn time you would answer before I could finish lmao. Good info . Hmm I wonder if Doflamingo just didn't know about this haki cancel ability or oda hadn't thought of that yet. He would definitely want to flex on law at every chance he had even if he didn't need too lol

I LOOOOVEEE THIS video. Finally, things are cleared up

I did not even watch yet but this why I have always liked morj, he sys shit that I would agree or disagree with , not just a "meh" nice story masquerading as "theory" KEEP IT UP!

In the anime the coating is sometimes called armament hardening. I took that as a way of saying hardening was an armament technique that gave them the coating.

Great vid

Thanks for the Haki head cannnon vs reality breakdown. I loved the Luffy and Zoro part at the end. QUESTION: Did Zoro also unknowingly use Advanced Conqueror's Haki the first time he used Asura in Enies Lobby?

Love this, I think you should have gone on longer, The things you covered you covered well but, There's a few others In the realm of hockey, That people just can't seem to agree on.

I feel the black lightning was literally just to showcase two strong Haki's clashing, I don't think it has anything to do with what type of Haki they're using. It simply shows that a clash is taking place between 2 strong wills.

Nice finally a haki video

Conqueror haki users as always had high durability, even without advanced coating having conqueror haki allows you to endure significant pain. Katakuri, Whitebeard, Roger, Kid, Luffy, Zoro etc has shown big endurance feats which is an indication of their conqueror haki.

I think the panel you featured at the beginning of the video of black lighting appearing when the scabbards cut Kaido is a bad example for the point you're trying that they're not using Conquerer's Haki. My understanding of that panel in the broader context of that fight is that the cross-shaped scar the scabbards are cutting was left there by Oden using advanced Conquerer's Haki and a trace of that Haki still lingered in that scar 20 years later. When the scabbards attacked together, their strong emotional connection to Oden caused their attacks to resonate with that lingering Haki and thus triggered a Conquerer's Haki black lighting effect. But that's just my opinion. 🤷🏻🍿

could the cancelling out DF with Haki be something like how Doflamingo and Whitebeard broke thru Aokijis ice ball?

I am pretty sure Oda has already addressed the black armament haki. I feel like I remember hearing about or seeing an article where Oda states the Black armament haki is just to make it absolutely clear when haki is being used. As for the times it's not shown as black I imagine all the ink needed to do that would be insane.

7:56 rayleigh already explain that armament haki is like you are wearing invisible armor.

Morj is the Wano analysis video still coming or was it scrapped?

My headcanon for Ashura and other similiar cases is that it's a new discovered form of advanced Conqueror's Haki, like how the advanced conq. haki we know is a combination of Armament and Conquerors while Ashura and Kong Organ Gun is a manifestation ability by combining Observation and Qonquerors

This a good point usopp once used observation haki during dressrosa to snipe pudding and he didn't know what it was or how he I doing it

The Morj hair, gotta love it!

Really great video on haki

I think observation is just the most used form of haki because when you’re a strong combatant in a dangerous world it’s good to have it on as much as possible , if a pirate or marine is at home or just strolling it’ll probably be off but if danger may even be remotely close it’ll be on

Great video

Great vid Morj, though the thing that I disagree with is the notion that Conquerers coating isn’t the only way to do last damage to Kaido. Law Gamma knife was working he just needed to continue hit Kaido repeatedly to get more substantial damage. And if Zoro had Landed his “Dragon Blaze” with just the amount of Ryou he was use, both Kaido & big mom knew it was lethal damage. Conquerors coating is like using an Armor Piercing ammo, but using Ryou the way Zoro was going to use is like using a cannon ball. The Armor Piercing ammo is more advanced then the Cannon ball, but there’s no denying that the more amount of Metal(Haki) the more damage.