User blog comment:Fintin/Doflamingo's Survival and Bird Cage/@comment-3273232-20140412091558/@comment-24799733-20140418000808

Shirahoshi's ability being something other than Haoshoku Haki was obvious to me from the get-go.. And yes, my argument for Usopp is wishful thinking, but it's based on making sense.. Authors always change their minds.. do you mean to tell me that Usopp is weaker than Nami?? My argument it's based on sense.. Let's take Shanks' crew for example.. It's obvious that most of their members are Haki users.. And if the SH crew wants to face enemies like that in the future (i.e. Kaido's crew) it should make sense for most of them to have a fighting chance... I don't mean that Usopp will be a super menace and control his possible power right away, nobody does that, of course that will make him too OP... but wouldn't it be the same if Jinbe joined too... He's probably on Luffy's level, that is the epitome of an OP crew... What I mean is that on the journey across the New World, the SH Crew will get stronger just like they did on their Grand Line journey.. I can't imagine Usopp getting stronger by just using new tricks and plants.. The most reasonable way to grow stronger in the New World is Haki..