Powers & Abilities Is hardening supposed to be impressive?

Albino 👑

Albino 👑

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Is it?


The first time we see it is from luffy. Which I guess is supposed to be cool and impressive to show how much stronger he’s gotten but the ability itself was never specifically hyped much


In punk hazard we met Vergo who had extremely hyped up armament. Him being capable of hardening him and his weapon. Smoker was capable of doing the same thing besides full body while also being less proficient


Then all of a sudden zoro being capable of hardening his swords becomes a hype moment. Not to say it’s not impressive I guess but it’s only weird because that wasn’t the case when we saw other characters being capable of the same


Kinemon is also a pretty weird case where him being able to harden his swords was never really hyped up in dressrosa but it kinda was in onigashima. Him using armament the whole time against kaido but getting a oden flashback talking about armament right before using hardening


Even fodder has shown the ability
Hell even characters like Kiku marigold and pre timeskip zoro were capable of armament flow an advantanced application but not hardening


Going back to the strawhats
  1. Luffy was capable of basically spamming the technique with it never being specifically hyped much
  2. Zoro being able to do it was lowkey made a big deal. With zoro only really using it when pushed to get more serious. His current post wano self being able to do it a lot more casually
  3. Sanji has straight up just never shown hardening on screen despite the fact he obviously has armament haki. If you disagree show panel of him doing it
 
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Robin swan

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I'd say the strength of the haki is. Some just using haki sn't impressive but someone using strong harden coa will be. Say for example with get a character like weevil vastly overpowering someone like jinbe with harden coa. That would be impressive.
 
Julius

Julius

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Juanpiz said:
Or reading comprehension
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Aesthetics. Because its irrelevant for the most part

Recent example is Sanji deflecting Saturn's spider leg while Luffy needed his "super duper ultra mega blaster 2000" black hardening, to do the same thing. Its not a big deal, we all know both of them can use Haki, its irrelevant if its black or not, its more a matter of consistency with specific characters rather than a standard followed every single time Haki is involved or might be involved.
 
CbShadow

CbShadow

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CoA and hardening haki is impressive. Oda showed us the different benefits and purpose to haki over time. Remember, everyone has the potential to learn CoA haki so not everyone's haki will be strong or impressive.

Luffy CoA haki was weak and unimpressive prior to Wano. Not only was he not using flowing or barrier haki, all of his major opponents defeated his haki.

Through Zoro learned the benefits and purpose to hardening haki. Mihawk trained Zoro to make his hardening haki so strong his swords won't even chip. The main benefit to hardening haki is to make it so powerful it won't break.

In Wano we learned about flowing and barrier haki and how it can be used to increase your offensive power, defensive power and caused internal damage.
 
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