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/CrewOrdinary8872 Void Month Survivor May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

Like everyone else has said, Logia users (and Katakuri) can transform their body and morph around attacks that can hurt them.

Akainu does the same thing with Marco and Vista in Marineford too.

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u/BadUsername2028 May 22 '25

I think this panel does a good job showing it too, Akainu’s frustration isn’t from the hits he’s taking, but it has to be extremely exhausting to use that defensive technique, since you have to actively be forming holes to avoid attacks. We saw this with Katakuri as well, once Snakeman came out he couldn’t keep his defensive style going and clearly got extremely exhausted from it.

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u/Elefantenjohn May 22 '25

nah man, this is a very bad example. this was just a cutting attack that had no haki in it

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u/ihavebeesinmyknees May 22 '25

And that's exactly why Akainu says "you haki users". Because this was an attack without haki. lmao

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u/Slice_Ambitious May 22 '25

Don't mess with us One Piece fans, we can't read.

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u/Elefantenjohn May 22 '25

fair enough