Oda, in his stroke of epileptic genius, created one of the most convoluted and horribly inconsistent power systems of all great shonen, haki. Even worse, he decided to turn a cool concept like conqueror's haki into armanent haki 2.0, with visual cues that leave readers arguing about crayon scribbles like illiterate toddlers for days
Conqueror's haki is wielded by one in a million. Within a fraction of that, only a handful of strongest can imbue it, which fandom calls ACoC
CoC users like Doflamingo, Katakuri, Chinjao spent their entire 40+ yrs not learning how to imbue CoC. Sanji is just barely learning he has CoC, let alone try ACoC. Does that make them weak dumbasses? No, it just shows how downright HARD it is to learn ACoC. So hard that rulers and awakened users go their whole lives unable to do mold that burst of CoC onto their fists. Even the earliest we see Roger, a fighting genius with no haki mentor, using it is at the age of 32
Zoro however, found a shortcut to that in the form of Enma. Enma which sucks ALL the haki that a user has. For Zoro, who always had CoC within him, Enma unleashed his CoC and coursed it across his blades
That's why he's only been using ACoC during King of Hell, the mode where Zoro lets Enma have full reign over his haki. Technically he is, but he is not at the same time. He's imbuing CoC but it's Enma that channels it for him, not himself
Now against Sommers, he is finally LEARNING how to imbue CoC on his own, without the need for Enma but thanks to KoH, he's got the intuition. That means he will be able to use it outside of KoH, and start getting creative with shit too. His KoH will no doubt be amped when he unleashes more CoC than Enma would normally take
In the New World where shit gets merciless without warning, getting Enma was Zoro's greatest stroke of luck in his journey. He doesn't have affinity for CoC + massive plot armor like Luffy does, who had to fight ACoC users and nearly died doing it. Zoro was able to skip those 10-20+ extra years and avoid becoming the next Doffy, get straight to the point and let him defeat Mihawk 20 years sooner in time for Oda, his wife, and Sanji's VA to finally go travel the world when the manga ends
Conqueror's haki is wielded by one in a million. Within a fraction of that, only a handful of strongest can imbue it, which fandom calls ACoC
CoC users like Doflamingo, Katakuri, Chinjao spent their entire 40+ yrs not learning how to imbue CoC. Sanji is just barely learning he has CoC, let alone try ACoC. Does that make them weak dumbasses? No, it just shows how downright HARD it is to learn ACoC. So hard that rulers and awakened users go their whole lives unable to do mold that burst of CoC onto their fists. Even the earliest we see Roger, a fighting genius with no haki mentor, using it is at the age of 32
Zoro however, found a shortcut to that in the form of Enma. Enma which sucks ALL the haki that a user has. For Zoro, who always had CoC within him, Enma unleashed his CoC and coursed it across his blades
That's why he's only been using ACoC during King of Hell, the mode where Zoro lets Enma have full reign over his haki. Technically he is, but he is not at the same time. He's imbuing CoC but it's Enma that channels it for him, not himself
Now against Sommers, he is finally LEARNING how to imbue CoC on his own, without the need for Enma but thanks to KoH, he's got the intuition. That means he will be able to use it outside of KoH, and start getting creative with shit too. His KoH will no doubt be amped when he unleashes more CoC than Enma would normally take
In the New World where shit gets merciless without warning, getting Enma was Zoro's greatest stroke of luck in his journey. He doesn't have affinity for CoC + massive plot armor like Luffy does, who had to fight ACoC users and nearly died doing it. Zoro was able to skip those 10-20+ extra years and avoid becoming the next Doffy, get straight to the point and let him defeat Mihawk 20 years sooner in time for Oda, his wife, and Sanji's VA to finally go travel the world when the manga ends
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