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My question is about busoshoku haki or coat of arms as people like to call it.
Until the last episode I thought haki was something that required intensive
training to master. But in the last episode

For those who haven't watched spoilers:

> Sabo was shown wielding busoshoku against a small army at 17.

Now I only started reading the manga in the zou arc so I'm not sure if this is
filler or cannon but is it safe to assume then that some people just have an
aptitude for mastering buso quickly? I mean only a small percentage of people
are capable of using haoshoku so it seems like it makes sense.

But it took Luffy two years to perfect it and I'm not even sure if Ace ever
learned it. Does anyone have any feedback on this?


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Aptitude for Busoshoku?


Haki does require intensive training to master, but after being rescued by
Dragon at the age of ten, he presumably started training with the
revolutionary army shortly after his injuries healed.

At this point, Sabo wasn't just your average ten year old, having been
fighting Luffy and Ace many times every day, he was already stronger than an
average pirate or soldier. It seems likely that Dragon or Ivankov or another
high ranking revolutionary saw his potential, and trained him specially, as by
just the age of 22 he had already risen to the rank of Chief of Staff, number
two in the revolutionary army.

Unlike Luffy, he was in a position where he was surrounded by strong allies
who could train him and teach him useful skills like Haki and martial arts, so
having learnt to use busoshoku haki effectively by seventeen isn't hard to
believe. Except for in the New World, haki is a very rare skill, and
considering it took Rayleigh eighteen months to teach Luffy the basics. Luffy
never had anyone to teach him growing up in Fusha Village and then setting
sail by himself, as you would need someone who knows haki themselves, which is
rare, and is also willing to spend the time to train you.


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This matter is not mentioned specifically in the manga either, but we can make
a few suppositions about it.

First, as ton.yeung mentioned in a comment, by 17 Sabo has been around people
who have mastered Haki for a long time now (Dragon, Ivankov, and many more we
may not yet know). Therefore, he had time to train and learned how to master
it by 17.

Another thing is that we know from Rayleigh that every person is better at one
type of Haki than in the other two. Luffy is better at mastering the Emperor's
Haki. Sabo, who has shown incredible strength in his fingers, may be better at
Busoshoku than in the other two and therefore that may explained why he was
able to master it so young.

Last but not least, Ace Luffy and Sabo have shown exceptional physical and
mental capabilities from a very young age. Common sense may not applied to
these three.


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