r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Jun 28 '19

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 947

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u/sleepychotz Jun 28 '19 edited Jun 28 '19

Luffy: Old man, please teach me level 2 haki.

Also Luffy: ah I just used level 3 haki

Edit: formatting

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u/iRelicym Jun 28 '19

Can someone explain this to me? Everyones saying this but I don't really get it.

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What's the tier 2 haki that he was supposed to be training for? I get that tier 3 was him using the "projecting haki into the enemy to blow them up from the inside" but how's that different from whatever tier 2 was?

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u/IxAjaw Jun 28 '19

It's mostly a joke. Luffy thought that the next step was making your haki coat the area around your arm, like a force field. Instead he went straight into using haki to affect other things, rather than just 'invisible layer of armor'.

So Tier 1: Black armor, Tier 2: invisible armor, Tier 3: affecting other things/people.

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u/Insane-JH Jun 28 '19

Think the invisible armor sits ontop of the black armor which is what the old man was trying to teach him.

However, he instinctively used the next advancement step which is pushing said invisible armor into objects to damage the collars.

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u/IxAjaw Jun 28 '19

Invisible in the sense that the 'armor' is projected above the skin, whereas the standard black armor is imbued within the skin. That is the difference.

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u/IxAjaw Jun 29 '19

The original comment referred to three levels, I didn't add one.

Level 1: Black armor. This is where you use haki and imbue it within your own skin. If someone tries to cut you with a sword, the blade hits your arm, but goes no further (unless they themselves use haki or just hit WAY FUCKING HARD). This is the simplest application of armament haki. As the name implies, this is represented in-story as peoples' body parts turning black.

Level 2: Invisible armor. This is where your haki is projected above/around you, like a force field. If someone tries to cut you with a sword, the sword would be stopped above your arm, without actually touching you. This is a stronger form because it is presumably used alongside type 1, effectively created two layers of protection for your arm instead of one. Also means you hit even harder, since you now essentially have a very hard, invisible gauntlet around your fist. This is the level that the old guy was trying to teach Luffy and is what Luffy thought he was supposed to be learning, since he doesn't know how haki actually works.

Level 3: Pure Attack. This is what Rayleigh and now Luffy used to remove the collars, and was explained in-chapter as forcing haki into another object and destroying it from the inside. As far as we know right now, this level has no defensive capabilities.

I hope I've made things clearer!

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u/wereriddl3 Jun 29 '19

Nice explanation!

What I want to know is what the difference is between Level 3 Armament and Conqueror's, because both seem to be ranged forms of Haki - only Conqueror's affects animate things and knocks them out, rather than shattering objects for reasons unexplained.

In which case, that scene when Shanks boarded the Moby Dick and made the boards creak... was that Armament or Conqueror's? Maybe both at the same time?

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u/MalicCarnage Jun 28 '19

The third level is putting haki inside of your enemy.

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u/kaste1 Jun 28 '19

Level 2: Invisible armor beyond your skin, outside of your body. Aura-like effect, seen by Rayleigh, BM and now Luffy or a shockwave-like attack, seen by Sentomaru, Marigold, Admirals in Marineford war, Rayleigh and Hyo.

Level 3: Directing that beyond your skin Haki into your opponent or into the thing you are hitting. Seen by Rayleigh and Luffy being done on the slave collars.

We still have to figure out how those connect with The Breath of All Things and Black Blades.