Why Advanced Conqueror's Haki Is So Confusing

I think the true explanation to the lightning in attacks is more likely the fact that Oda through the years decided to slightly change and modify his "style" of drawing for haki clashes. He started experimenting with lighting clashes in dressrosa (with those thing and more perpendicular lightings) and then became more adept/advanced the drawing technique as he went forward through the story and through irl time. We have to remember several years pass in all the time between arcs and Oda, as any person changes and improves his work and technique. So this is mostly a meta characteristic of the story connected to his improvements in drawing, and not truly explainable through in lore means.

I like Haki as a power system but I wish Oda was more clear at times what Haki people are using. Would make some debates so much easier.

“He’ll use it when two conquerors haki users clash… like luffy a ulti” LMAOO

Thankyou for making this video. Its annoying how many people get this wrong... especially with Koby recently.

After watching this, the anime using aura for conqueror`s haki a lot doesn`t really seem all that bad.

Tbh, when I saw black lightning from Koby's fist, I too started to doubt this whole black lighting representing Advanced COC attacks thing

At least in the anime, animator Henry Thurlow explained that ‘gold aura’ is the visual indicator for Conqueror’s Haki, on Episode 738 of the One Piece podcast at 1:20:45.

The anime didn't help by making the first use of advanced conqueror haki so flashy and colorful with petals and golden aura and shit , and they gave him flashbacks of his training with advanced armament during it

i think a lot of people forget that most aCoC users are also using aCoA (advanced color or armament, or "ryuo") in conjunction with it. when luffy punches kaido in chapter 1010 (and throughout most of the fight in general), he's combining aCoA with aCoC because as stated by luffy himself, aCoA alone is "too shallow". he's still using it to deal internal damage, but aCoC allows him to do that to greater effect due to the increased AP it's the exact same thing with roger and whitebeard's clash and big mom punching page one. they're all combining aCoA with conqueror's. law and oden comment on it out of shock because they've never seen the no contact part from either an aCoC or aCoA user. it doesn't necessarily mean all aCoC users are aCoA users, just that luffy, roger, whitebeard, and big mom in those instances were users of both when kaido and yamato use aCoC many of their attacks make direct contact because they're not combining them with aCoA. they're not trying to deal internal damage like luffy. kaido splitting the sky with luffy is one of the few times we actually see him use aCoA because his kanabo doesn't touch luffy's fist. when he splits the sky with big mom earlier their weapons touch in chapter 1048 luffy remembers his aCoA training with hyogoro because he needs it to fight against kaido's magma attack without burning his hand off. if it was possible with only aCoC he wouldn't have brought up the training. he's still combining aCoA with aCoC, but only to boost his AP. aCoA/ryuo is the reason no contact is made and internal damage is dealt

Thank you Morj for this video. I must admit I also used to falsely believe black lightning to be a proof of Conquerors.

In regards of coby feats, I don't really care if it advance CoA or advance CoC, it still looks awesome. If it truly advanced CoC I think oda will further explain it in the future chapters, just wait a bit

The black lightening feels like a representation of high levels, or even advance haki. Haki isn't one of those power systems that has been explained thoroughly through a character. Which is where the messiness comes into play. Gotta love the subtlety of One Piece.

i actually love the idea of black lightning being the form of 'pure' haki, much like how a subtle blue stream is how chakra is often visualized.

Ok, can you explain to me how Luffy and Katakuri did the no touching thing with conquerors haki but without advanced conquerors haki? If you look at it they didn't touch and destroyed everything around them without even using any attack that looked way more impressive than any other conqueror clash, how is that possible? That reminded me of Shanks when he damaged Whitebeard's ship without an attack as well.

Haki isn’t a soft magic system, but it is very squishy. People like to pretend it’s as fleshed out and detailed as something like Nen, but that’s just not true.

10:28 hahaha Advanced Headcanon 😂 I’ll use that from now on

context : ODA IS INCONSISTENT AND ANNOYING

Black Lightning is a distortion in space that occurs when cursed energy is applied within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit. When a sorcerer is able to achieve this, their cursed energy flashes black, and the destructive power of their strike is equal to a normal hit to the power of 2.5.

THANK YOU! There's wayyyy too many creators that jumped the gun saying Koby has conqueror's. Like come on, this isn't new people!

Definitely needed this video. You cleared a lot of stuff that people were confused about. Thank you for your efforts.