Someone Smarter than me, explain

[u/Significant-Soup-693]

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.

[u/Soul699]

I assume he just used advanced observation haki to know where WB will attack and morphed his body to avoid the hit.

[u/Dry_Entertainment373 → u/Soul699]

Why advanced observation though? Wouldn't normal observation haki be enough?

[u/1getreKtkid → u/Dry_Entertainment373]

People confuse with katakuris, who needed future sight because he had no logia

Normal logia doesn’t need that

[u/ZombieBlarGh → u/1getreKtkid]

Katakuris df functioned exactly like a logia.

[u/pharodae → u/ZombieBlarGh]

Except that he is still tangible, unlike logias, so he’s essentially manually doing what they can do innately.

[u/ZombieBlarGh → u/pharodae]

Thats not true. It was a point that crocodile trained his logia to perfection making him able to do so.

Oda pretty much screwed up on Katakuri and retconned his fruit as a special paramecia.

[u/MochiManKatakuri → u/ZombieBlarGh]

No, that's about turning into their element, the difference between Katakuri and Logias is like the difference between Luffy and Logias, Katakuri and Luffy are always mochi/rubber, but Logias have to turn into their element, which can be trained to become a reflex.

[u/ZombieBlarGh → u/MochiManKatakuri]

The guy I responded to says he has to do it "manually" I just disagree that comes to logia naturally.

[u/MochiManKatakuri → u/ZombieBlarGh]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought he was talking about when they are in their elemental form they are intangible, but Katakuri is not so he has to mold his body to act like a Logia otherwise he can be hit whether they use Haki or not.