General & Others Does HAKI ruin One Piece?

Does HAKI ruin One Piece?

  • YES, the battles are kinda boring now

  • NO, it has brought balance and nerfed the OPs


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#42
Well i think haki is necessary because how tf one could defeat a logia if he cant touch a logia (being naturalcounter of the logia is pure luck, it's no fun). But i also think haki usage is boring because now everything relies on haki. If you dont have haki, you are ruined. I miss the time when df is unique and the struggle is real to fight a df user.
As sadistic senpai said, i agree with him saying it's better if haki only allows one to touch logia, not with fckin hardening. The boring part is it becomes like competition of whose hardening is harder. So as sadistic senpai said (again), it loses the uniqueness of ones fighting style.
 
#50
Haki was and will always be the best Idea oda ever came up with to even the playing field specifically for non df users
it explains how characters like roger, oden , garp , rayleigh ,mihawk , shanks and so much more were able to get to where they were as pirates/marines.

Problem is especially when you get into the advanced forms , its often vague/badly explained
or inconsistent(luffy's fs).
 
#51
I'm not discounting the 'fighting' spirit part but again theres.more to it than just that.
Being told wrong in my case would be disproving the links between Asian philosophy used in sports and martial arts throughout the world and the concept as adapted to the Haki concept. I don't really think Oda knows that much of sports or martial arts beyond what he's obviously referenced (kenjutsu, Karate, and Judo have come up at least) but even then there's the concept of ki and such things known to mainstream Japanese culture.

https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/karate6.htm

Tell me how this doesn't correlate:

Not all karatekas practice Zen Buddhism as such. Karate masters might be Jewish, Christian, Hindu or agnostic -- the martial arts discipline fits well with a wide range of religions and beliefs. But to advance through the higher levels of karate, it is essential that a karateka cultivate spiritual power, whatever their religious beliefs. The basic element of this power is ki.

Ki is an amorphous, undefinable force, but it is generally described as the energy of life itself. It binds all living things together and gives each person his or her spiritual, physical and mental power. In most schools, beginning karatekas won't worry too much about ki. They focus mainly on proper technique and breathing exercises. But in these basic activities, they are laying the groundwork for later ki exercises.

Through the power of ki, a karateka can break through concrete blocks as if they were made of paper. To break through these blocks, Kathy Olevsky imagined that they weren't even there. She focused her energy and just stepped down through them.
As karatekas develop heightened physical control, they become more aware of the seat of ki in their body. With concentration, karatekas can move their ki up and down, so their source of energy is higher and lower. Experienced karatekas generally center their ki, in order to achieve maximum balance and power. Ki is absolutely crucial in the higher levels of karate: It gives masters the power they need to break blocks and topple much larger opponents.

With Rayleigh's explanations here and beyond.

 
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