How to Get Observation Haki V2 (Instinct V2) in Blox Fruits

Search for this ability, and you’ll find guides putting the level requirement at 750, which is off by more than a thousand levels. One of them invents an NPC named Izumi and an Ectoplasm collection step that isn’t in the game at all.

Checked against the Blox Fruits Wiki, here’s what the upgrade actually costs. Observation Haki V2, which the game itself calls Instinct V2, needs Level 1800, a full 5,000 EXP on Instinct V1, the Musketeer Hat, and 5,000,000 Beli. It’s Third Sea content, so there’s no way to get it in Sea 1 or Sea 2 no matter what your level is.

What you’re buying is a faster dodge recharge and much better vision. What you’re not buying is extra dodges, and that’s the detail almost every other page on this topic leaves out.

How this was put together: we haven’t tested this ourselves. It’s a research based breakdown built from the Blox Fruits Wiki’s Instinct, Instinct/V2, Hungry Man Quest, Citizen and Musketeer Hat pages, cross checked against published guides. Every number below traces back to a source listed at the bottom. No affiliate links on this page.

What Observation Haki Actually Is in Blox Fruits

Observation was renamed Instinct back in Update 17.3.5, which is why you’ll see players use both names for the same thing. Older guides and most YouTube titles still say Observation Haki.

The ability covers two jobs at once. It gives you automatic dodges against incoming attacks, and it highlights entities through solid surfaces, colour coding every entity in one of three colours so you know what you’re looking at before you commit to a fight.

The toggle is E or K on PC, the left D pad on controller, and the eye button on mobile.

Where to buy V1 first

There’s no route to V2 that skips a maxed V1, so this is where you start. The Instinct Teacher stands at the top of the Aztec style temple in the second area of the Upper Skylands, First Sea, just to the left of the Thunder God boss.

Learning it takes Level 300 or higher, at least one kill on Saber Expert, and 750,000 Beli. If you’re missing any of those, the teacher turns you away with a line about not wanting weaklings in his crew, which is the game’s way of telling you a requirement isn’t met without saying which one.

Prices and requirements verified against the wiki on August 8, 2026.

Observation Haki Levels and EXP Thresholds

Instinct EXP comes purely from dodging, at one EXP per successful dodge, and every level you gain adds another dodge charge. You can check your running total any time by talking to the Instinct Teacher again.

The wiki flags these thresholds as estimated rather than datamined, so read them as close rather than exact:

There’s a gap in that table worth noticing. Your charges stop increasing at 8 somewhere around 2,824 EXP, but the Hungry Man won’t speak to you until you’ve reached the full 5,000, so the last stretch earns you range and nothing else. Hitting 5,000 also hands you the Ultra Instinct title (#072), which is the fastest way to confirm you’ve qualified without counting anything yourself.

Accessories stack on top of whatever your EXP gives you. Pale Scarf and Kitsune Mask add 2 dodges each, while the Black Dojo Belt, Holiday Cloak and Leviathan Crown add 1. Those bonus charges count toward training as well, so wearing them speeds up the grind rather than slowing it.

The fastest way to farm 5,000 EXP

Weak enemies beat bosses for this, and the reason is a quirk in how charges drain. A non boss enemy only takes half a dodge charge off you but still pays a full EXP point, so you get roughly double the value per charge by farming trash mobs.

Server hopping is the other half of it. There’s no cooldown when you switch servers, so you can burn every dodge, hop, and come back with a full bar immediately. Shandas are the usual recommendation because you spawn close to them and they sit a short walk from the Instinct Teacher, which makes checking your progress easy.

If you’d rather leave it running, low damage enemies like Monkeys are the standard AFK pick. Elemental fruit users have a complication here, since normal attacks pass straight through them, so they need enemies with Aura or a boss instead.

Full Observation Haki V2 Requirements

There are four gates, and the Hungry Man silently checks three of them before he’ll start a conversation with you:

• Level 1800 or higher
• 5,000 EXP on Instinct V1, confirmed by the Ultra Instinct title
• The Musketeer Hat, which means the Citizen’s quest is finished
• 5,000,000 Beli for the upgrade itself

Miss any of the first three and all you get is “Go away, weakling.” Money works differently. He’ll run the whole quest with you and only check your wallet at the very end, so it’s possible to do the entire thing and then discover you can’t pay.

The Citizen Quest and the Musketeer Hat

You’ll find the Citizen near the Mansion on Floating Turtle in the Third Sea. Below Level 1800 he ignores you completely and just shouts about the town being attacked.

His questline runs in three parts: kill 50 Forest Pirates outside the Mansion, take down the Captain Elephant boss, then go find the hidden treasure he tells you about afterwards.

That treasure is the Musketeer Hat, and he gives you nothing useful about where it is. It sits behind a breakable wall on the path leading out from the Mansion entrance, next to a dark grey rock and a cluster of oversized mushrooms. Any attack breaks the wall, or you can Flash Step through it if you’d rather not hunt for the right spot.

It’s a decent pickup even if you never touch V2. The hat is a Legendary accessory carrying 12.5% extra sword and gun damage alongside 12.5% lower cooldown on those same skills, and completing the quest also gives you the “Main Character” title.

The Hungry Man Quest, Step by Step

The Hungry Man lives inside one of the pineapple tree houses on Floating Turtle. What he wants is three ordinary fruits, none of which are Blox Fruits:

1. Apple. Floating Turtle, on top of a hill near the Hungry Man himself.
2. Banana. The Great Tree, on the hill closest to Hydra Island.
3. Pineapple. Port Town, by a stall in the rightmost corner.

Then comes the step that catches people out. Hand him the fruits and he refuses to take them loose, because he wants them served in a bowl. The bowl comes from the Citizen, so you head back, get it made, then return and pay the 5,000,000 Beli. The upgrade applies the moment you pay.

Two things that will cost you an hour

Fruits run on a spawn timer of one every 10 minutes, so collecting all three takes roughly half an hour of waiting even if you know exactly where each one sits. Worse, dying while you’re carrying them wipes them from your inventory and sends you back to the start of the collection.

Between those two, a private server is the obvious call for this quest. If you happen to have Portal, its [C] World Warp ability cuts the travel between the three spawn points down considerably.

What V2 Changes, and What It Doesn’t

According to the wiki’s Instinct/V2 page, the upgrade gives you a dodge recharge of roughly 30 seconds instead of the 50 you had on V1, which works out to 20 seconds faster per charge. Detection range grows noticeably, and the difference is largest against other players rather than NPCs. Your vision while active gets brighter and less blurred. Dashes gain 50% speed as long as you’re in combat, and you can see what your opponent is currently holding or charging. Your own ability icon goes dark while you’re holding a move, which hides your intent from anyone reading you the same way. Cosmetically, your eyes glow in your Aura colour.

The omissions matter just as much. You only see an opponent’s current weapon, never their full inventory. Your dodge count doesn’t move at all, since charges stay tied to V1 EXP and accessories. And V2 does nothing whatsoever about Instinct Breaking, so the same swords, guns, fighting styles and fruit moves that disabled your V1 will disable this too.

One number needs correcting here. A guide currently ranking for this term puts the V2 recharge at 40 seconds. The wiki’s V2 page says 30, and describes it explicitly as 20 seconds faster than V1’s 50, so we’ve gone with the wiki.

Instinct V1 vs V1 With Pale Scarf vs Instinct V2

If you’re weighing up whether 5,000,000 Beli is better spent elsewhere, this is the comparison that actually helps, because a Pale Scarf does more for raw survivability than the upgrade does.

Costs verified August 8, 2026. Pale Scarf is a drop rather than a purchase, so what it costs you depends entirely on the trade market.

What Players Keep Reporting

A few points come up again and again across published guides and the wiki’s own notes.

The first is that the quest is fragile rather than difficult. Nothing in it tests your combat ability, and the way it goes wrong is almost always a random death that costs you the fruits and restarts a 30 minute timer. Running it on a private server is the single most repeated piece of advice on this topic.

The second is that the Beli is the real wall, not the grind. The wiki’s own guidance is to start saving the moment you hit Level 1800, specifically because 5,000,000 is a heavy sum at that point in progression and most players arrive there without it.

Third, the skill that decides fights is Ken tricking. Activating Instinct mid move to escape a combo, called Instinct tricking or more commonly Ken tricking, is described as needing genuine practice. V2 makes it more forgiving by giving your charges back sooner, but the timing is still on you.

Verdict: Is Observation Haki V2 Worth It?

On paper and by community consensus, this is a yes for PvP players and a no for nearly everyone else. Knowing what your opponent is charging, plus getting a dodge back every 30 seconds rather than every 50, is a real advantage in a duel. In PvE it’s a convenience and not much more.

Three honest strikes against it. It’s expensive for what it delivers, at 5,000,000 Beli on top of the 750,000 you already spent on V1, with no additional dodges for the money. The quest wastes your time by design, since roughly half an hour of it is spawn timers and one death undoes that. And it leaves Instinct’s biggest weakness untouched, because attacks that break Instinct still break it exactly as before.

So if you’re sitting on 5,000,000 Beli at Level 1800 and you mostly grind, put it into your fruit or gear first. If you’re in the PvP arena regularly, buy it.

FAQ

What level do you need for Observation V2?

Level 1800. Guides claiming 750 or 850 are wrong, and those numbers match neither the wiki nor the in game gate on the Citizen’s quest.

How much is Observation Haki?

750,000 Beli for V1 from the Instinct Teacher, then 5,000,000 Beli for the V2 upgrade from the Hungry Man, so 5,750,000 in total.

Can you get Instinct V2 in the Second Sea?

No. Every step of it, the Citizen, the Musketeer Hat, and the Hungry Man sit on Floating Turtle in the Third Sea.

Does Instinct V2 give you more dodges?

No. Dodge charges come from Instinct EXP and accessories only. V2 changes how quickly they recharge, not how many you have.

How long does the Hungry Man quest take?

Around 30 minutes of fruit spawn timers, plus travel time and however long the Citizen’s three tasks take you. Dying with the fruits restarts the collection from scratch.

The Bottom Line

Observation Haki V2 costs 5,000,000 Beli and sits behind Level 1800, 5,000 Instinct EXP and the Musketeer Hat. Treat it as a PvP upgrade rather than a survivability one, because faster recharge, better vision and a read on your opponent’s hands are what you’re paying for, and your dodge count never moves.