'One Piece' Sees Luffy Tap Into A New Haki

'One Piece' Sees Luffy Tap Into A New Haki

One Piece's latest episode saw the fight between Luffy and Katakuri enter a new phase as Luffy tried his hardest to do what Katakuri does so well which successfully look into the future. Those efforts start to bear fruit as Luffy does manage to tap into a new Haki, as he manages to harness the Observation Haki and avoid just a few of Katakuri's attacks.

In Episode 865 of the series, Luffy tries to remember that he needed to be cool in order to proper use of Observation Haki as Katakuri previously explained. During a brutal on slaughter where he took a ton of damage, Luffy was standing still and breathes for a moment. He then remembers training with Rayleigh once more, and Rayleigh tells him that it's important that he clear his mind.The more important, is that he needs to sense his enemy's intent and presence all while not attacking blindly.

'One Piece' Sees Luffy Tap Into A New Haki
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Katakuri launches with  another Unstoppable Donuts attack, and Luffy successfully dodges it. Katakuri notices right away that Luffy might have predicted the attack, and that  launches a barrage of them towards Luffy where Luffy still gets hit by a few of them, but little by little is managing to dodge the punches that makes Katakuri's angered by this.

Luffy concentrates and remembers that every attack will have a hint of intent to it. He then sees Katakuri throwing a right hook before he actually does and manages to meet it with a Giant Pistol. Katakuri manages to connect with a kick right after, but Luffy's statement has been made. He's beginning to tap into the Observation Haki much in the same way Katakuri does. Though it's much less refined than how Katakuri uses it, even Katakuri is forced to note how quickly Luffy is improving in his use of it.