Why Advanced Conqueror's Haki Is So Confusing

Advanced conquerors hockey the ability to use Conker's hockey offensively in combat just like armamentaki is the single most powerful ability in one piece and the simplest way to tell if a character is using Advanced Conker's hockey or not is to see if they use Black Lightning right no this is easily the most widespread popularized quote-unquote fact about how hockey Works in one piece that has no basis in anything and is easily provable to be false Black Lightning features in plenty of other moments from characters that are not Advanced conquerors hockey users and aren't even conquerors hockey users and yet the myth persists of Black Lightning being tied to conquerors such that anytime any character shows even a few little black Sparks suddenly they must be one of the most powerful beings on the planet the truth is as far as we can tell so far it's about correlation not causation consistently throughout the story Oda has drawn in Black Lightning anytime he wants to show a particularly strong display of hockey but it seems like it just so happens that most characters with strong hockey also happen to be Conker's hockey users which is why naturally we see this black lightning effect far more often with Conker's hockey users and now that Oda has introduced Advanced conkers hockey of course he's going to draw in Black Lightning pretty much all the time for those instances because they are always supposed to be strong displays of hockey so while Advanced conkers hockey is almost always going to feature Black Lightning Black Lightning doesn't always mean Advanced Conker's hockey it can even just mean regular old Armament so why did this rumor begin it all comes down to how hockey has been explained to us in the story which at this point has to be acknowledged as somewhat Messy as some of the inconsistencies in how hockey has been written has led some readers to make their own assumptions to fill in the gaps assumptions that then become popularized and spread around till it's a feedback loop where most of the community think that black lightning signifying conquers hockey is Canon and there are even some readers coming up with additional headcanon editions such as only black lightning with a certain coloring means conquerors hockey or only when Sparks are shown while charging up an attack or only when the lines are a certain thickness and shape so on and so forth today we're going to be breaking all of this apart the history of why these assumptions came to be and the truth about how hockey has been explained to us so far and what we actually know about Conker's hockey today so before we get into it make sure to subscribe so to begin with it's time to acknowledge that hockey is not a well-explained power system as far as Shonen Power Systems go to be clear I don't believe that a power system is only good if the author spells every aspect of it out for us like in say hunter hunter I think it's perfectly fair to give a basic groundwork explanation and then trust the reader to understand when certain things are happening like we see in one piece for example example Law's reaction to seeing Luffy use Advanced Conker's hockey for the first time was to point out the key indicator that Luffy's attacks aren't even touching which is a clear parallel to Odin's reaction realizing that Whitebeard and Roger's attacks aren't even touching the reader can put two and two together and now understand that this is a clear indicator for advanced conkers hockey which is when attacks don't make contact the scene of Luffy and kaido is shortly followed by big Mom showing the same visually clear indicator against page one which wordlessly confirms to readers that big mom has advanced conquerors hockey as well Everything feels consistent nothing needs to be explained that much and finally we see Luffy and kaido have a conquerors hockey Clash that splits the sky a clear callback to previous moments where yonko clashed with each other and split the sky something which seemed like an unexplainable level of power in the past but now that Luffy and kaido have this moment we can finally understand through context clues that every yonko likely uses Advanced conquerors hockey and this type of Sky splitting effect that we see comes from when two strong Advanced conquerors hockey users Clash I think that this is all really good personally there's no need to take the reader out of the story with lengthy explanations of how advanced Conker's hockey works and when it's being used just provide the reader enough context that everything falls together however the problem is when the author trusts the reader to rely on context clues but then becomes extremely inconsistent with those context clues the only explicitly established context clue for advanced conkers hockey is the no contact aspect but Oda seems to stop bothering to draw that indicator after a certain point in a fight the Luffy vs kaido match is actually littered with examples of clear contact being made despite both of them using Advanced conquerors hockey in fact for most of the latter half of the fight Oda stops showing the advanced Conker's hockey visual effect of no contact it also definitely doesn't help that technically no contact attacks should also have been a thing even with just Advanced Armament hockey as we are told that advanced armament hockey is supposed to be creating some sort of invisible armor around you as seen by hyogoro Rayleigh and very possibly even the Admirals here and the second level of advanced armament even projects hockey in a way that should also be a no contact attack as seen by Luffy against the tree so the problem is that we're given this one clear context clue of advanced Conker's Hockey being used in that it would be visually represented by no contact but that also seems somewhat possible with just Advanced Armament hockey and so the only thing we have to differentiate Advanced conquerors from Advanced Armament is by basically assuming that advanced conquerors has a far more extremely pronounced no contact visual effect but then at the same time at some points Oda just doesn't even bother drawing that no contact effect which is the one defining aspect we have to rely on to tell whether Advanced conquerors hockey is being used or not that's why you can't really blame readers for wanting to figure out some other sort of hidden indicator of advanced Conker's Hockey being used because the one and only indicator that was actually established for us is too unreliable so that leads us to the Black Lightning head Cannon it is very very understandable why readers latched on to the Black Lightning visual cue because Black Lightning is factually very often shown along with Advanced Conker's hockey attacks a lot of readers feel that has to be an important indicator because for example I've seen some people argue that garp's Galaxy impact doesn't necessarily have to be Advanced Conker's hockey since technically couldn't you get the same effect from Level 2 of advanced armament hockey after all garp's Galaxy impact could be argued to just be a bigger version of what Luffy does to this tree however garp's Galaxy impact has all of this crazy lightning going around that's why it feels very tempting to just point to the lightning and say well this is almost always drawn in when Advanced conquerors hockey users are doing things so wouldn't it make sense that this is the indicator that it's Conker's hockey and not just Armament and the truth is things would be so much easier if this were the case but unfortunately it's just not established to be the case because Black Lightning comes up throughout the series even when it's just Armament hockey users unless these are just writing Mistakes by Oda that he later retcons the fact is that as it is right now Black Lightning does not mean conquerors hockey the real Trend simply seems to be that black lightning or black Sparks are used when Oda wants to show very strong Hockey being used which is why Oda will draw it for certain impressive displays for armamentaki such as Sabo vs Burgess or the scabbards putting their all into one giant attack against kaido and that's why Oda will also usually display it for when two conquerors hockey users Clash such as Luffy and doflamingo so on and so forth and Oda will almost always use it when it's an advanced Conker's hockey user doing pretty much anything so that is the trend that seems to be the case right now pretty much any display of strong hockey will get the Sparks or even the lightning Visual and Oda will just use it less frequently for Armament more frequently for conquerors and almost always for advanced conquers that's why I personally would still assume that garp's attack here was Advanced conquerors hockey simply because the no contact effect is so ridiculously pronounced and the amount of lightning is pretty much unprecedented in fact to me it visually looks like perhaps the single most impressive display of advanced conquerors hockey that we've ever seen but I think it's just such a damn shame that we can't actually say that for certain because the truth is you can technically make the argument that it could just be really really good Advanced armamentaki as advanced armament hockey can also have no contact and can also produce lightning even looking at Kobe we have the visual of black Sparks but that doesn't mean anything on its own other than he's about to display a strong show of hockey when Kobe does his attack on Pizarro it's pretty much identical to xinjiao's attack on Pika and xinjio wasn't an advanced Conker's hockey user or even an advanced armament user for that matter now for the record maybe Kobe is a conqueror's hockey user maybe he even tapped into advanced conquerors haki here in some sort of a hockey Bloom but from what we are shown all we really know for a fact is that Kobe is doing a strong hockey attack what category it falls into well we have pretty much no way to know for sure and now here's where things get really messy so as I said the main indicator of advanced conquerors hockey the lack of contact is too inconsistently shown that is what led most readers to assume that the secondary indicator Black Lightning is what we should be using to determine if Advanced conkers hockey is being used or not that became the most broadly accepted popularized misconception however what then happened is that many readers within this group of readers then also realize that the Black Lightning theory was also too inconsistent to be correct this group of readers who likely do a lot of rereading began to realize that there are many exceptions to this black lightning equals Advanced conquerors hockey rule as there are countless examples of clashes throughout one piece producing Black Lightning when there are very clearly not Advanced Conker's Hawk users and there are even examples of black lightning coming up when the characters aren't even conquerors hockey users at all these realizations led to the new levels of extreme Advanced headcanon where the second subset of readers actually began to try and find specific details in the types of ways that black lightning was drawn I've seen so many arguments at this point with some people claiming that the Black Lightning it's all about the coloring you need to have lightning with red coloring or it's not conquerors hockey but the problem with this is that you can find Armament users producing lightning with red coloring I've seen the arguments that it's about the thickness of the lines that small sparks don't mean Advanced conquer but huge streaks of lightning do but again that's too vague Oda draws huge streaks of lightning for Armament users too I've seen people say that only conquerors hockey users can charge up their lightning but that's something that comes up too rarely in the story to even use as clear evidence I mean for example do we even know if ulti is a conqueror's hockey user or not I've seen people talk about how the key indicator is how fluid the lightning looks I've seen people talk about the sound effects used I've seen so many different conclusions I can't believe that the rarest and most important ability in the series has unfortunately produced this amount of headcanon from readers just to find some level of consistency for it and look maybe one person's theory is correct maybe all this time Oda is doing something very very subtle but consistent with his lightning maybe a very specific curvature of the lightning or maybe just the right ratio of black to red shading or something like that and that's the true secret consistent indicator to Advanced conquerors hockey but as it is right now it's just not provable the Black Lightning being Advanced conquerors hockey is headcanon based on everything we've seen black lightning or black Sparks indicating a Conker's hockey user is also headcanon there are too many inconsistencies and counter examples in the story to say otherwise again my personal belief which is just speculation but it seems to me the only thing that is observably consistent is that Oda doesn't put that much thought into when he's doing the black Sparks or the black lightning or not and he mostly just likes adding those visual effects in when he wants to show some impressive Hockey being used so he may occasionally use it for Armament he will often use it for Conker's hockey users and he will almost always use it for advanced conquerors hockey I think it's correlation not causation until something else is clarified for us I would assume that we can only really know if a user is a conqueror Zaki user if they knock some people out with conquerors hockey or are stated to be conquerors hockey users and we can only really know if someone is an advanced conquerors hockey user if Oda makes a particularly big deal out of the no touching effect but let me know your theories on Conker's hockey below and if you 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Channel: Mr Morj

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Keywords: Conqueror's Haki, Advanced Conqueror's Haki, Haki, Haki Explained, Explained, Koby, Akainu, Koby Haki, One Piece

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Length: 13min 27sec (807 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 25 2023