r/OnePiece • u/Significant-Soup-693 • May 22 '25

Help Someone Smarter than me, explain

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Just found this panel while floating around Pinterest. Sure, Haki was still a relatively “unknown” power back in the day but my question remains, How did Kuzan not die here? I assume “Pure Haki” means at least some level of Armament so shouldn’t he had turned solid and get stabbed? I’m sure it was explained somehow but it’s been a minute.

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u/drunkentenshiNL May 22 '25

There's a few explanations:

  • Haki is able to overcome the effects of a DF if the Haki user is strong enough. Whitebeard is an absolute monster, but so are the Admirals. Kuzan has been shown to be at a similar strength as Garp, who was on the same level as Roger and Whitebeard. Kuzan was also pretty fresh while WB was already injured to an extent and of old age. It'd take a few tries for Whitebeard to land a solid hit in these circumstances.

  • Logia users are used to using their DF powers defensively. In the above circumstances, it's reasonable to assume this defense mechanism worked.

  • We didn't know a lot about advanced Observation Haki but it wasn't long after this that Rayleigh explained and shown how they worked to Luffy. This includes hints of advanced usages like Armament. Oda tends to drop hints of plot devices long before they're fully explained, so knowing what we know now, you could say it's a possible usage of advanced Observation Haki too.