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The diverse powers from Devil Fruits in One Piece make predicting abilities a gamble, with some being overlooked due to user weaknesses. Haki is another major source of power in One Piece, essential for survival in the New World, although some users fail to maximize its potential. Underrated Devil Fruits like Foxy's Slow-Slow fruit or Wapol's Munch-Munch fruit have immense potential in the hands of more powerful users.

The greatest strength of One Piece is the diverse powers available to characters through Devil Fruits. Predicting what new abilities will pop up in a given story arc is a total gamble due to the wide berth of what they can do. Of course, with so many Devil Fruits, it's easy to forget some that are incredibly powerful. There are a lot of factors for why that is, of course.

The other major source of "supernatural" power in One Piece is Haki,...

Warning: Contains spoilers for One Piece episode #1072.One Piece episode #1072 recently aired, and it ends one of the biggest misconceptions about Haki. While Armament Haki is typically illustrated by a person’s body or weapon turning black, nothing of the sort ever happened the few times Armament Haki was used pre-timeskip. Many viewed this as a blatant contradiction, and to explain the perceived discrepancy, it’s become common to assume that Armament Haki had no black coloring pre-timeskip because Luffy couldn’t use Haki at that point, and it’s supposed to be invisible to anyone who can’t use Haki.

The idea of Armament Haki being invisible to people who can’t use Haki has never had any genuine support, and One Piece episode #1072 finally puts that misconception to bed. During Luffy and Kaido’s fight, Kaido remarked that Luffy was using Armament Haki, but there were numerous instances...