User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 884: Sing or Swim/@comment-72.80.49.209-20171102220055/@comment-120.28.47.154-20171106054158

@Feminist

Here's my take.

Katakuri mastered observation haki to the point he can see a few seconds beyond what the current situation notes (i.e. Jigra still having a normal conversation, Luffy having not yet got out from the cake, Jimbei explaining Katakuri's power, Katakuri predicting what people will say and etc.). All this, especially the verbal prediction, does not have a solid causation scenario. You don't know what people will say based on sense alone.

You can, however, see palpable causation when it comes to combat (i.e. Luffy punching Katakuri, Marco and Vista attacking Akainu and Aokiji getting impaled by WB's Bisento). It doesn't need a super high-level mastery of observation haki to know you're getting hit when the enemy is right in front of you and you're focusing on them. Tho you might get hit by something else that you're not focusing on (i.e. Jozu hitting Aokiji). Don't get me wrong, I believe that the Admirals also have high mastery of observation haki.

My conclusion, Katakuri has more mastery of observation haki than the Admirals (covering only the literature as of this comment's writing, of course).

Otherwise, Oda creating so much hype into Katakuri's foreseeing abilities would not make any sense if in the near future it was stated that characters later focused would be better at it than him.