User blog comment:D.Dragon123/Why Haoshoku haki is useless./@comment-4938779-20130115012951

Well i think that CH is very useful because of it power to knock out useless henchmen, that would waste a lot of time and energy fighting them head on, just like what Luffy did by knocking out 50,000 of Hody's men. Its 50,000 men that the strawhats don't have to do deal with.