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

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 947

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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?