Strongest Haki Users in ONE PIECE, Ranked

2. Strongest Conqueror's Haki users

Conqueror's Haki needs two tables, because "has it" and "can infuse with it" are different achievements and most lists merge them.

Table A — possession, confirmed

Roger · Rocks · Shanks · Whitebeard · Kaido · Big Mom · Luffy · Zoro · Yamato · Garp · Gaban · Loki · Harald · Imu · Doflamingo · Chinjao · Katakuri · Rayleigh · Silvers-era Roger Pirates and others. Possession alone is not a ranking — by chapter 1170 the story has established it is at least partly hereditary, with Harald acknowledging Loki has it as his son.

Table B — infusion, demonstrated

This is the table that ranks. Before it, what it is ordered on, because otherwise the order below the tie looks arbitrary:

Ranking metric. Positions are set by demonstrated output and the context it was demonstrated in — what the infusion did, to whom, and under what pressure — with direct clash evidence weighted above one-sided showings, and repeatability weighted above a single instance. Confidence is a separate axis and does not move a character up or down. A high-confidence weak showing still ranks below a medium-confidence decisive one; the confidence column tells you how sure we are of the entry, not how strong the character is.

#	Character	Demonstration	Layer	Status	Confidence
1=	Gol D. Roger	Used Conqueror's throughout the Rocks fight; cancelled out by Rocks (ch. 1165)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Deceased	High
1=	Rocks D. Xebec	Countered Roger's Conqueror's with his own, cancelling it (ch. 1165)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Deceased	High
3	Monkey D. Garp	Half of the joint finish on Rocks; states infusion also raises defence (ch. 1165)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Alive (captive)	High
4	Scopper Gaban	Kamudo — forces Imu to block with both weapons (ch. 1190); repeatedly cut up and sent back the Knights of God who came for the young Shanks, with Conqueror's attacks (recalled, ch. 1170)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Alive	Med-High
5	Shanks	Divine Departure — drops Kid and Killer in one blow (ch. 1079)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Alive	Med-High
6	Monkey D. Luffy	Picks it up mid-fight after Kaido uses it on him, then applies it (ch. 1010)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Alive	High
7	Edward Newgate	Clash with Roger where the weapons never touch (ch. 966)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Deceased	Medium
8=	Kaido	Infuses it into Hassaikai against Luffy (ch. 1010)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Fate unconfirmed	High
8=	Charlotte Linlin	Infused punch downs Page One (ch. 1011)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Fate unconfirmed	High
10	Loki	Ragnir's lightning strike on Harald, infused (ch. 1170)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Alive	Medium
11	Roronoa Zoro	Unconscious infusion (ch. 1033) → combat application on King (ch. 1035) → possession stated by Gaban (ch. 1152) → one strike Sommers identifies as coated, not reproduced on demand (ch. 1194)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED, unsettled	Alive	Low-Med
12	Yamato	Infuses it into the kanabo, clashing with Kaido (ch. 1024)	CHAPTER-REFERENCED	Alive	Low-Med

Secondary classification — not ranked.

Character	Record	Layer	Status	Confidence
Silvers Rayleigh	Classified as an infusion user by the chapter-referenced source; ch. 1161, the chapter usually cited, names no Haki type and no technique	SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION	Alive	Low-Med

The twelve ranked above and Rayleigh together are the thirteen characters currently classified by the chapter-referenced source as having demonstrated infusion: Roger, Whitebeard, Kaido, Luffy, Big Mom, Yamato, Zoro, Rayleigh, Shanks, Garp, Gaban, Rocks and Loki. That is a classification, not a manga-confirmed census, and it will move.

Note two absences. Imu is not on it, and neither is Harald — both have confirmed Conqueror's Haki, neither has a classified infusion demonstration. Several rankings have already promoted Imu on this axis.

And the entries in that classification are not all equally strong. Zoro's rests on a specific attack in a specific chapter that the source links directly to infusion, backed by an in-story naming two arcs later, so it is ranked. Rayleigh's rests on the classification alone, with no demonstration on the page to set a position by — and a secondary classification is never used as ranking evidence on this page. So his entry is recorded under the table rather than ranked on it.

#1 (tie) — Roger / Rocks — strongest directly evidenced parity.

Roger and Rocks share first place on a specific basis: their Haki directly cancels in chapter 1165. That is stronger evidence of parity than most cross-character scaling in the fandom, because nothing is being chained through a third party — the two quantities meet and neutralise. It does not prove identical range, identical control, or identical lifetime ceiling, and we are not claiming it does. It proves they were equal at that clash. Note too that Rocks was demon-amplified by Imu at the time, which cuts in both directions and is a reason to hold the tie rather than break it.

On Zoro. His entry is at eleven and marked unsettled, which needs explaining because it is the most contested line in any Haki ranking.

The record separates into three stages, and keeping them apart is what makes the entry defensible.

Ch. 1033 — unconscious infusion. Going all-out with Enma, Zoro infuses Supreme King Haki into his swords without knowing he is doing it; Beasts Pirates nearby are knocked out. Ch. 1035 — combat application. The long-range finishing attack on King. Ch. 1152 — explicit possession. Gaban states that Zoro has Supreme King Haki, and Luffy says he has been sensing it off him the whole time.

That third stage is what keeps this out of reader-inference territory. The weak version of this argument is we saw an effect in 1033 and concluded it was Conqueror's infusion — a visual effect on its own does not establish which Haki produced it. The strong version is that a later chapter states the possession outright, and 1033 is then read backwards through it. We are using the strong version.

What the Egghead Vivre Card does is list two Haki types for him rather than three. That makes the supplementary listing incomplete or inconsistent with the chapters — it does not disprove the chapters, and we will not use it that way. The genuinely unsettled part is elsewhere, and the story says it plainly: in chapter 1152 Zoro did not know he had it, and Gaban tells him he needs to be able to control it consciously. A demonstrated infusion he cannot yet reproduce on demand is exactly what a rank of eleven with Low-Med confidence is for.

Chapter 1193 is the closest the story has come to testing it, and it does not settle it. (PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED.) Zoro fights Sommers on an explicit condition supplied by Loki: the steel heart has to be pierced by a blade coated in Conqueror's Haki, because ordinary damage will not finish him. Zoro breaks out of Sommers' thorn cage and lands a strike through his torso. Sommers is wounded, conscious and still speaking at the end of the chapter, his heart not shown destroyed, and Zoro's own verdict is that he is still practicing.

What that is not. The chapter puts the requirement on the page and shows Zoro working to it. It does not show the infusion being produced consciously, and it does not show the condition being met. It also does not say which part fell short: whether the coating failed, or whether the heart was not reached. Attempting a technique on instruction is not a demonstration of it. The mechanism itself is in how God's Knight immortality breaks.

Chapter 1194 moves it forward, and still does not settle it. (PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED.) Sommers himself says the 1193 strike reached his heart without Conqueror's Haki, and concludes Zoro cannot use it at will — his reading, attributed to him. Zoro then lands one strike, 千八十煩悩鳳, that Sommers identifies as coated — and it hits a ship rather than Sommers. After that Zoro cannot get it back: he rejects hit after hit, and says 「戻らねェ!!」. The chapter ends with Zoro in a three-sword stance, black lightning-like effects drawn around it; no strike is shown and the effect is not named. That is a second demonstration on the record, again not consciously reproduced, which is exactly what the unsettled marking describes. Nothing on this table moves. He stays at eleven, still marked unsettled. Our chapter 1194 report has the fight in full.

Loki and Harald both entering this table is one of the quieter consequences of the Elbaf arc, and we placed them against the rest of the island in Strongest Elbaf Characters in ONE PIECE, Ranked.

What infusion is actually for

Two mechanics have emerged recently that most lists have not caught up with, and both raise the stakes on this table rather than the possession one.

Infusion is what lets you hurt something that cannot be hurt. Conqueror's infusion blocks regeneration in immortal opponents for a short time — Gaban demonstrates it by decapitating an immortal with his axe infused, stopping the healing that would otherwise undo it. That is the mechanical basis under Gaban's advice in chapter 1152 and his explanation to Shanks in chapter 1170, and it is why we ranked the God's Knights the way we did in Strongest God's Knights in ONE PIECE, Ranked: immortality is not an answer to Conqueror's Haki.

A strong enough release can strip a transformation. During the Egghead Incident, the burst of Supreme King Haki that Joy Boy had stored inside Emet reverted the Five Elders present from their transformed forms back to human form and displaced three of them entirely. Imu felt it from Mary Geoise and recognised it as Joy Boy's. The story has not explained the mechanism, and we are not going to pretend it has — but a Haki release that undoes a transformation is a kind of feat that appears nowhere else on this page. We covered what it does and does not prove about the Elders in Strongest Five Elders in ONE PIECE, Ranked.

On the largest crowd figures. Luffy knocked out 50,000 members of the New Fish-Man Pirates. Per Oda, Shanks or Rayleigh could have knocked out all 100,000 — OFFICIAL SUPPLEMENTARY, and unusually direct for this kind of comparison.

Read it narrowly. It is evidence that Shanks and Rayleigh had greater crowd-knockout capacity than the Fish-Man Island version of Luffy. It is not a statement about raw Conqueror's Haki in general, and it is not a statement about the Luffy of 2026, who has since learned infusion and fought through Wano, Egghead and Elbaf. It is still the cleanest illustration of why our package ranking and an output ranking are not the same list.

On Sanji. He is not on either table. Chapter 1187 establishes that Sanji has the potential to awaken Supreme King Haki, and potential is not possession. Several 2026 lists have already promoted him. We are holding until it happens on the page.

3. Strongest Armament Haki users

Armament is the branch where the evidence gate does the most work, because the published records are unusually specific.

The source documents two named Armament applications, and they are separate records rather than rungs:

• Emission — seventeen characters on the published roster: Sentomaru, Boa Marigold, Kuzan, Sakazuki, Borsalino, Rayleigh, Hyogoro, Kawamatsu, Luffy, Roger, Whitebeard, Oden, Kaido, Big Mom, Garp, Koby and Doll.
• Internal destruction — explicitly demonstrated by exactly two characters: Rayleigh and Luffy. (The two demonstrations, side by side.)

How it is ordered. By the number of documented Armament applications on record, each counted once. Two is more coverage than one; it is not a claim that internal destruction beats emission, and the chapters make no such claim. Equal counts share a place, because the emission record does not separate the people on it — a supporting feat with a chapter locator tells you how well we can point to the moment, not whose Armament is greater. Mihawk and anyone credited only through a Black Blade have no documented application, so they are not on the table.

#	Character	Documented Armament applications	Supporting feat	Status	Confidence
1=	Silvers Rayleigh	Emission, internal destruction	Ch. 947 ties Luffy's internal-destruction technique to Rayleigh's collar removal in ch. 504	Alive	High
1=	Monkey D. Luffy	Emission, internal destruction	Learns and applies internal destruction in Wano (ch. 947); counters Kaido's untouchable flame-form with emission	Alive	High
3=	Gol D. Roger	Emission	On the published roster; also states that Armament counteracts Devil Fruit powers (ch. 1165)	Deceased	Med-High
3=	Monkey D. Garp	Emission	On the published roster	Alive (captive)	Med-High
3=	Edward Newgate	Emission	Bisected Saint Maffey, a Knight of God, in passing (ch. 1161)	Deceased	Medium
3=	Kaido	Emission	Sustained an untouchable flame-form as a counter-strategy	Fate unconfirmed	Medium
3=	Charlotte Linlin	Emission	On the published roster	Fate unconfirmed	Medium
3=	Kozuki Oden	Emission	On the published roster	Deceased	Medium
3=	Sakazuki / Kuzan / Borsalino	Emission	On the published roster	Mixed	Low-Med
3=	Hyogoro	Emission	Teaches the applied technique to Luffy	Alive	Low-Med
3=	Kawamatsu	Emission	On the published roster	Alive	Low-Med
3=	Boa Marigold	Emission	On the published roster	Alive	Low-Med
3=	Sentomaru	Emission	On the published roster	Alive	Low-Med
3=	Koby	Emission	On the published roster	Alive	Low-Med
3=	Doll	Emission	On the published roster	Alive	Low-Med

Note who shares that third place — Sentomaru and Koby do, alongside Roger and Whitebeard, and several characters routinely ranked far above them are not on the table at all.

These are two different Rayleigh entries and they carry two different evidence labels. His Conqueror's infusion is recorded as a SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION under the infusion table and not ranked, because no chapter names it. His internal destruction is CHAPTER-REFERENCED, because the chapters do the work. Do not read the weaker label across from one to the other.

On the evidence behind that internal destruction, since the supporting feat changed: the chain is chapter 504, where Rayleigh removes Camie’s exploding collar without setting it off, and chapter 947, where Luffy destroys a collar the same way and the technique is tied back to that moment — with Hyogoro explaining it as sending Haki inside a target and breaking it from within. Rayleigh’s Kizaru showing at Sabaody is a genuine Armament feat, but it belongs on the emission record, not internal destruction, so we no longer use it to support this row.

The shared first place is deliberate, and it is the honest answer. Rayleigh and Luffy are the only two characters with both documented Armament applications on record. That separates them from everyone else on this table by the amount of the record, not by a claim that one application beats the other. It does not separate them from each other.

We looked for grounds to break it and did not find any that hold. Rayleigh demonstrated internal destruction first and is the character the story teaches the concept through; Luffy has used it in combat and also holds the Kaido flame-form emission feat. Those are different records, not a hierarchy. Ranking one above the other would mean inventing a tiebreaker the story has not provided — which is the exact failure mode this article was built to avoid. So: #1 (tie).

And Mihawk is not on this table. This will read as an omission, so here is the methodology in full:

We are not saying Mihawk is a weak Armament user. Mihawk does not have a published demonstration of emission or internal destruction that would put him on this table. That is a statement about the record, not about him.

The Black Blade deserves the same treatment. It is frequently cited as proof of elite Armament Haki, and the causal link — that turning a blade into a Black Blade requires or demonstrates emission or internal destruction — is not something the story has established. So we do not use it as ranking evidence. If that link is ever made explicit, this table changes, and we will say so in the change log.

4. Strongest Observation Haki users

This is the lowest-confidence section in the article, and it is deliberately grouped rather than ranked.

The reason is structural. Observation splits into abilities that barely compare to each other: how far into the future you can see, how far away you can sense, how well you adapt mid-combat, and how precisely you can read intent. Enel has the greatest raw range on record and is simultaneously beaten by an opponent throwing attacks with no intention behind them. A single ordered list would hide that, so we are not making one. The groups below sort characters by the kind of record the story has published for them. They are not tiers, and the first group is not a claim that future sight beats range or intent reading.

Observation also has the least visible evidence of the three branches — the wiki's own framing notes that unlike Armament's blackening or Conqueror's ripple, Observation has almost no visual indication in the manga at all.

Future Vision, on record

The full evidence for each of these is in all future sight users in ONE PIECE.

• Charlotte Katakuri — CHAPTER-REFERENCED · Confidence: Medium. Around chapter 860. The character through whom the story defines both the ability and its limits: it requires calm and focus, it can be lost under agitation, and it cannot tell you how to dodge what you see coming.
• Scopper Gaban — CHAPTER-REFERENCED · Confidence: Medium. Shown a future in chapter 1149 before dropping his weapon and surrendering; how fully the chapter frames that vision as his is still open. He and Shanks also sensed an abnormal Haki across Elbaf on the day Harald was killed, fourteen years before the present (ch. 1152) — a sensing feat at extreme range.
• Monkey D. Luffy — CHAPTER-REFERENCED · Confidence: Medium. Acquired over the Katakuri fight, around chapter 894 — the case that shows the ability can be learned.
• Shanks — CHAPTER-REFERENCED here; read directly for our future sight piece · Confidence: Medium. Sees Kid's attack causing heavy damage in chapter 1079 and intervenes before it happens, so the future he saw is changed.
• Kaido — CHAPTER-REFERENCED here; read directly for our future sight piece · Confidence: Medium. States in chapter 1042 that Luffy is not the only one who can see the future. That establishes the ability; no scene shows him using it, which is why the package table shows it without counting it.

Other Observation records, no Future Vision on record

• Silvers Rayleigh — CHAPTER-REFERENCED · Confidence: Medium. The in-story explainer of what Future Vision is, which is not the same as being shown using it.
• Enel — CHAPTER-REFERENCED · Confidence: Low-Med. The greatest sensing range demonstrated by anyone: he tracked movements and conversations across the whole of Skypiea. Also the clearest illustration of the branch's limit, since intent is what Observation reads, and unintentional action is invisible to it.
• Loki — CHAPTER-REFERENCED · Confidence: Low-Med. Identified Imu as the source of the Haki reaching down into the Underworld (ch. 1177).

Confirmed, insufficiently measured

• Roger, Garp, Zoro, Sanji and most top-tier fighters. All confirmed users; almost none with a feat that can be compared against another.

If this section looks thin next to the other three, that is the honest shape of the evidence rather than a gap in the research.

Imu is a special case, and needs to be

There is a fast-growing 2026 take — several outlets are now running it as a headline — that Imu has dethroned Shanks as the most powerful Haki user in the series. It is worth taking seriously and it is worth separating carefully, because Imu produces an enormous number of supernatural effects and most of them are never presented as Haki.

Confirmed Haki. In chapter 1150 Imu releases a blast of Supreme King Haki. In chapter 1179 the Abyss Imu travels through is explicitly described as emanating Supreme King Haki. In chapters 1177 and 1181, other characters — Loki from the Underworld, Luffy at the school — identify Imu's power specifically as Haki they can sense. This is real and it puts Imu on the possession table above.

Observed, but not identified. The second form in chapter 1191 has fully blackened arms. It looks like Armament Haki. It is not named as Armament Haki, so we are not counting it as one, and neither should any ranking that wants to stay honest for more than two chapters.

Chapter 1192 — what is on the page. (PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED.) Those same arms turn up wielding named blades — 混沌剣 Tōfū and 虚無剣 Bōfū, combining into the shield 空虚の盾 Tōfū-wa-Bōfū. The blackness is drawn continuously across the arms and the weapons. The chapter does not name any of it as Haki, of any colour.

What we take from that. (ANALYSIS — our reading, not a statement in the chapter.) There is now a second available explanation for the black — a weapon effect rather than hardened skin — and the chapter confirms neither. That is the point this article rests on: a black visual effect does not on its own identify which Haki produced it. We broke the weapons down in Luffy and Loki Break Imu’s New Shield in ONE PIECE 1192 and the naming in What Imu’s “Tohu” and “Bohu” Swords Really Mean.

Not presented as Haki at all. The Shallows Covenant. The demon transformations inflicted on Dorry, Brogy and Rocks. The magic circles, the summoned cannons and shotguns, the grimoire, the Abyss Circle, the regeneration. These are the abilities that make Imu terrifying, and none of them are Haki.

The same separation applies one rank down the World Government: we had to do it for the Five Elders too, in Strongest Five Elders in ONE PIECE, Ranked, where immortality and attack output kept getting merged into a single figure.

Strip the third layer away and the picture changes. Imu's clearest Conqueror's Haki showing is a blast that knocks out the children and some of the giants — but not all of them (ch. 1150). That is a good crowd result. It is not a better crowd result than several characters on the tables above, and it is a long way from the standard Shanks set at Marineford.

So our position is narrow and stated as such:

Imu may rank extremely high by demonstrated Haki pressure, but not every blackened or supernatural effect shown by Imu is confirmed as Haki. On the Haki-specific record alone, Imu does not displace Roger, Rocks or Shanks.

1. Ch. 1155Rocks and Harald, on the recordBoth are revealed to possess Supreme King Haki. Harald's matters later: it is what makes his fight against Shanks and Gaban a Conqueror's-versus-Conqueror's fight rather than a rout.
2. Ch. 1161Whitebeard bisects a Knight of GodSaint Maffey of the Satchels Family is cut in half by Newgate — described as a stray attack, not a duel he was even engaged in. Elsewhere Rayleigh reaches Shakky and blows Shepherd Sommers away. No Haki type is named for Rayleigh's strike and the technique is not named.
3. Ch. 1162Rocks defeats GarlingBefore Imu ever enters the fight, Rocks D. Xebec beats Garling Figarland and cuts down his transformed family. This is the single most awkward data point for every ranking that puts Garling near the top on presence alone.
4. Ch. 1165The chapter that changed the rankingsRoger tells Garp that Armament Haki can counteract Devil Fruit powers, and that he has been using Supreme King Haki throughout. Garp answers that Rocks countered with his own, and the two cancelled out. Garp then confirms that Conqueror's infusion can raise defence as well as boost attacks. They pour everything remaining into one attack and Rocks goes down — and it knocks both of them out from exhaustion.
5. Ch. 1166Garling's kill, in contextRocks has already been beaten unconscious and reverted to normal by Roger and Garp. Garling, Sommers and Maffey then approach him and Garling kills him. The kill is real. The condition of the target is also real, and most rankings quote only the first half.
6. Ch. 1170The weakness of the Knights of GodGaban tells Shanks that the one thing the Knights of God are weak to is Supreme King Haki put into an attack — the wounds hurt, recovery slows badly, and repeated hits can take them out of the fight — and gives the reason: in the Roger Pirates era the Knights kept coming to take Shanks back, and Gaban cut them up and sent them back each time. Shanks replies that someone called Sommers had said as much. The feat is Gaban's. Loki's Conqueror's Haki is confirmed in the same chapter, and his finishing strike on Harald is infused with it.
7. Ch. 1190Gaban names a techniqueKamudo — a blast of Supreme King Haki heavy enough that Imu has to block it with the Axe of Xingtian and Honebami Toshiro at the same time, and it still shears the branch he is standing on. One-armed, at his age, in the present day.

The Rayleigh claim everybody is repeating

One correction that matters more than its size, because it is being reported as fact across the SERP.

Multiple 2026 articles state that Oda officially confirmed Rayleigh as an advanced Conqueror's Haki user in chapter 1161, during the God Valley flashback.

Chapter 1161 does not say that. What it shows is Sommers preparing to kill Shakky, and Rayleigh arriving and blowing him away. No Haki type is named. No technique is named. There is no statement from Oda attached to it anywhere in the chapter.

What does exist is a chapter-referenced source that classifies Rayleigh among the characters seen infusing Supreme King Haki. So the claim is not baseless — it is over-titled. A secondary classification is being reported as an authorial confirmation, and those are different tiers.

We mark Rayleigh's infusion SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION: enough to record next to the infusion table, not enough to rank him on it, and nowhere near enough to attribute to Oda. That is a deliberately weaker label than the one we give Zoro, whose infusion is tied to a specific attack in a specific chapter and corroborated by an in-story naming in chapter 1152. Rayleigh has the classification without the panel; Zoro has both.

The distinction matters because of what Rayleigh himself says about this Haki: it can be controlled but cannot be trained to become stronger directly, because it is the embodiment of the user's spirit and only grows as the person does. That is the closest thing the series has to a rule for ranking Conqueror's Haki, and it is a statement about the person, not a technique you can audit frame by frame.

FAQ

Who is the strongest Haki user in ONE PIECE? By demonstrated breadth, Luffy — he is the only character with a counted application in all three branches, and the only one with all four: emission, internal destruction, Future Vision and Conqueror's infusion. Seven characters share second with two each. By single-branch output, the honest answers are different: Roger and Rocks tie in Conqueror's Haki, and Rayleigh and Luffy share first in Armament.

Is Shanks the strongest Haki user? Shanks has the most conclusive single Conqueror's infusion technique in the series, and his Future Vision is on the page in chapter 1079. He shares second on our package table, behind Luffy alone, because no emission or internal destruction has been shown for him — which is a gap in the record rather than a verdict.

What is the strongest type of Haki? The story does not rank the three types against each other. What it does is give two of them stated jobs: chapters 1152 and 1170 establish Conqueror's Haki as the specific counter to the Knights of God, and chapter 1165 has Roger telling Garp that Armament Haki counteracts Devil Fruit powers. Those are different jobs, not a ranking.

Does Zoro have advanced Conqueror's Haki? (Chapter by chapter, the full record is in does Zoro have Conqueror's Haki?) Three separate things are on record: he infused it into his swords without realising it (ch. 1033), applied it in combat against King (ch. 1035), and had the possession stated outright by Gaban (ch. 1152). What he does not yet have is conscious control — Gaban tells him so directly, and in 1152 Zoro did not know he had it at all. Chapter 1193 has him fighting to a stated requirement for a Conqueror-coated blade and attempting it against Sommers, which is setup rather than proof: Sommers survived it with his heart not shown destroyed, the chapter shows no conscious infusion, and it does not identify which part of the condition went unmet. Chapter 1194 adds one strike that Sommers identifies as coated — it hits a ship, not him — and then shows Zoro unable to reproduce it on demand, which is the same gap in conscious control. The Egghead Vivre Card lists two Haki types for him, which makes the supplementary listing incomplete rather than the chapters wrong.

Why is Mihawk not on the Armament table? Because he has no published demonstration of emission or internal destruction, which are the two documented Armament applications this list counts. That is a limitation of the record, not a claim that he is a weak Armament user.

Is Imu the strongest Haki user now? Imu's confirmed Haki is real but narrower than the character's presence suggests, and the covenants, demon transformations and summoned weapons are never presented as Haki. Imu is also absent from the published Conqueror's infusion roster. On the Haki-specific record, no.

Can Sanji use Conqueror's Haki? Not yet. Chapter 1187 establishes he has the potential to awaken it. Potential is not possession, and we are waiting for the page.

What is Ryuo? Wano Country's name for Armament Haki itself, founded on the concept of inner flow. It is not a synonym for internal destruction, and it is not a fourth type of Haki.

What would change these rankings

• Mihawk demonstrates emission or internal destruction. He enters the Armament table immediately.
• The Black Blade is explicitly tied to emission or internal destruction. Same effect, and it would also add every Black Blade wielder at once.
• Rayleigh demonstrates Future Vision. He gains a second branch and moves to second on the package table on his own, with three counted applications.
• Rayleigh's Conqueror's infusion is named on the page. The SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION label comes off, he enters the ranked infusion table, it starts counting on the package table — second on his own — and the Oda attribution finally becomes accurate.
• Anything separates Rayleigh and Luffy on internal destruction. The Armament tie breaks.
• Imu is shown with a counted application. Blackened arms identified as Armament Haki would put Armament on the record but would not by themselves be a counted application; a published emission, internal destruction, Future Vision or infusion would place Imu on the package table.
• Kaido is shown using Future Vision. It starts counting, and he moves to second on the package table on his own, covering all three branches.
• Roger or Kaido demonstrates internal destruction. He joins Rayleigh and Luffy in the shared first place on the Armament table and moves to second on his own on the package table.
• Shanks demonstrates internal destruction. He enters the Armament table and moves to second on his own on the package table, covering all three branches.
• Zoro reproduces Conqueror's infusion consciously. Set up but not shown as of chapter 1194 — he is fighting to a stated Conqueror-coated-blade requirement, and in 1194 lands one strike his opponent identifies as coated, then cannot reproduce it on demand. A confirmed conscious reproduction moves him out of the unsettled marking and up several places on the infusion table; his package count does not change.
• Sanji awakens Conqueror's Haki. He enters both Conqueror's tables.

Our call

The interesting thing about refusing to rank on reputation is how much it rearranges.

Rayleigh finishes above Roger in Armament, and ninth on the package table, because his whole counted record sits in one branch. Sentomaru and Koby share a place with Whitebeard and Kaido on the Armament table. Mihawk does not place at all. Rocks shares first place with Roger in Conqueror's on the strength of one panel where their Haki cancels. Seven characters share second on completeness, and Kaido shares that place rather than holding it alone only because his Future Vision is a line of dialogue rather than a scene. Imu, who is currently being written up as the new strongest Haki user in the series, does not place on the package table and does not appear on the infusion table at all — because once you remove the covenants and the demons and the grimoire, what remains is a crowd-clearing blast that did not clear the whole crowd.

And Luffy takes first place on completeness rather than on power, which is the only claim the evidence actually supports.

None of that is contrarianism for its own sake. It is what you get when the gate is a published demonstration of a specific named application, the applications are counted rather than stacked, and the gate stays shut for everyone who has not cleared it.

Change log

• 10 September 2026 — First published, current through chapter 1192. Four rankings established. Rayleigh's Conqueror's infusion marked SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION — placed on the table but not attributed to Oda, against widespread reporting of chapter 1161 as an authorial confirmation. Infusion table rebuilt on the thirteen characters currently classified by the chapter-referenced source, removing Imu and Harald and adding Whitebeard and Rayleigh. Armament top place held as a tie between Rayleigh and Luffy for want of a tiebreaker the story has provided. Mihawk held out of the Armament table on methodology. Imu separated into three layers.
• 20 September 2026 — Brought current through chapter 1193. No placement changed on any of the four tables. Zoro: 1193 has him fighting to Loki's stated requirement for a Conqueror-coated blade and attempting it on Sommers without completing it — setup, not a demonstration, so he stays at twelve and stays marked unsettled. The watchlist item on conscious reproduction is marked set up but not shown rather than cleared. Evidence labels updated: 1192 and 1193 are now the two directly-read chapters on this page.
• 25 September 2026 — Rebuilt the Package and Armament rankings around documented evidence coverage rather than a presumed Haki progression ladder. Package and Armament rankings rebuilt without a strength order between techniques. Emission, internal destruction, Future Vision and Conqueror's infusion now count one each as separate records; a secondary classification or a character's own statement of an ability is shown but not counted. The package table orders by branches covered, then applications counted, with ties shared; the Armament table orders by documented applications, with ties shared. Future Vision brought into line with our future sight users piece: Shanks (ch. 1079) added as a demonstration, Kaido (ch. 1042) added as a stated ability that is not counted. Resulting changes — package: Roger 2 → 2=; Garp 5 → 2=; Shanks 6 → 2=; Gaban 7 → 2=; Kaido, Whitebeard and Big Mom enter at 2=; Rayleigh 3 → 9; Rocks 4 → 10=, with Katakuri, Loki, Yamato, Zoro and ten emission-only names now listed alongside him; Imu 8 → not placed (possession is not a counted application). Package radar unchanged at 8. Armament: Rayleigh and Luffy stay 1=; every emission-only entry now shares 3=, and Kawamatsu, Boa Marigold, Sentomaru, Koby and Doll are listed; supporting-feat cells that described a character rather than a feat now read "On the published roster". Observation regrouped by kind of record rather than tiers. Conqueror's tables unchanged. The two diagrams were replaced: a side-by-side view of what each branch documents, and an evidence-coverage matrix for the package table.
• 26 September 2026 — Rayleigh moved out of the ranked Conqueror's infusion table into a separate Secondary classification — not ranked row, so that a secondary classification is never used as ranking evidence anywhere on the page; the entries below him each move up one place (Luffy 7 → 6, Whitebeard 8 → 7, Kaido and Big Mom 9= → 8=, Loki 11 → 10, Zoro 12 → 11, Yamato 13 → 12). Kaido and Big Mom, who left the story in the same circumstances, now carry the same status on every table: Fate unconfirmed.
• 28 September 2026 — Brought current through chapter 1194, read directly. No placement changed on any of the four tables. Zoro: Sommers says the 1193 strike reached his heart uncoated; Zoro lands one strike in 1194 that Sommers identifies as coated, which hits a ship rather than Sommers, and cannot reproduce it on demand; the final strike's result is not shown. That is not a conscious, repeatable demonstration, so he stays at eleven on the infusion table, still marked unsettled, and his package count is unchanged. 1194 is now the third directly-read chapter on this page.
• 5 October 2026 — Correction to the 28 September entry and Zoro's 1194 line: a full-resolution re-read of chapter 1194 p.85 shows no strike on the last page — Zoro is in a three-sword stance with black lightning-like effects drawn around it. No placement changes.
• 5 October 2026 (second revision) — Corrected a misattribution from chapter 1170. The feat of repeatedly driving off the Knights of God who came for the young Shanks is Gaban's, not Shanks'; Shanks only replies that Sommers had said as much. Several independent chapter summaries agree. Re-scored the Conqueror's infusion table on the existing metric: Gaban now has a repeated showing against covenant-immortal opponents on top of Kamudo, so he moves to fourth and Shanks, on Divine Departure, to fifth. No other placement moves, and the package table is unchanged (Shanks' infusion was already counted through Divine Departure). The ch. 1170 timeline entry and the FAQ line were corrected to match.