Agito is much stronger now, I think he will draw with Kuroki in a rematch.

So if Metsudo has 500 bodyguards each in 11 squads how many are in each squad someone pleaaaase help me with this I cant figure it out the math does not add up.

For this fighter file, we have the successors of the formless style, Lu Tian and Kanoh Agito.

To undestand both of them, we must first break down their ficticious martial art, the formless style, which is why they’re on the same Fighter File.

The Formless style, as its name suggests, is martial art that doesn’t have an specific form while attacking. To learn it, the practicioners must train a good body control, similar to the Niko style Water Kata, they develop the capacity to go fully limp on his body, turning almost like water or jelly, this way they can neutralize the damage almost completely. The users must also be trained in basic martial arts moves, jabs, straights, simple throws. The Formless is made to able to use any move any time, but the most important part of this martial art, is to develop a “beast mentality”. The inhuman method to become inhuman, is to put the practicioner alongside 49 others, preferably of the same level of hability, into a Gu ritual and have them all fight to the death as if their lives depend on it, this enviroment makes the practicioner experiment unrelenting and countless attacks from any angle, and also is forced to give in to their savage instict of survival. This ends with the winner of the 24+ hours Mortal Kombat being accostummed by instinct to going limp the same moment the attack comes since one mistake could end up in death and also with the beast mentality allowing him strike instantly with no hesitation.

The Formless style takes his worth in being able to accostume to any compatibility and technique, which makes it the most effective is that when the practicioner gets the hang of the opponents moves and timing, he can counter it and if for some reason the opponent manages to surpass the understanding of the practicioner, he will go limp and avoid damage, the more someone fights it, the more he runs out of aces in the hole.

Being a brute forcing martial art, Formless has the same weakness of being unneffective against opponents with a better phisyque and strength, the sole practicioners of the Formless are mainly tall and buff men after all, apart from that, the Formless style has three weaknesses

The first one is the automatic instinctively response, similar to Naidan, even if the reaction is wrong he throws it without knowing, and as the style consists mainly in strikes, masters of striking martial arts or fighters with unnanturally fast reflexes have it easy predicting their moves, even if they haven’t mastered pre-initiative. At the same time, is too reliant on the user’s reflexes, exhaustion caused by a long fight or consecutives ones make the counters coming slower by the time and the limping also coming later, which lessens the amount of damage it can nullify.

The second is the universality, normally, if the counter for every move were limited to one or two it would be more predictable but easier to perform, instead, with counting every possible counter, the user needs time to think it best move, this weakness can be aggravated by the exhaustion mentioned before.

The third and last weakness is one shared by the Niko Style water kata, the going limp only works against striking attacks with enough space to maneuver and nullify the damage. If the practicioner is grabbed with a hold or too sticked to the ground, the he will unavoidably receive damage since he doesn’t have were to redirect the damage.

Is to be noted that “The Other Niko” trained two generations on the technique, the first one was teached partially the Niko style and the second was focused on developing only the Formless.

Now we go to the main part of the Post, the Fighter files.

First we have the man who earned the title of King in the Kengan Matches, the Legend, Kanoh Agito.

Strengths: Agito is a martial arts prodigy, being rescued by the dainipon bank and undergoing a new training, that of the bodyguards, in order to supress and control his beast mentality, this way, Kanoh developed some kind of schizophrenia, resulting into two different personalities; “I”, the beast who fight with brute-force, and “Us” a normal human who fights using all the techniques he learned. We have to treat these two as separate parts to appreciate how terryfying can Agito be.

“I”, as explained before, is the beast mentality trained into the Formless style, his main strength comes from countering and nullifyng his opponent’s moves, by both countering and resisting them. He’s aggresive and at the same time, greedy.

“Us”, is the human side Metsudo tried to keep in Agito to make it more stable and less homicidal, instead of a Brute Forcer, “Us” trained multiple martial arts in order to discipline himself and gained the capacity of mastering every kind of move and also he’s an analist, developing his “Acme of martial arts”.

Originally, “Us” remained as the “Standard” personality who kept analyzing the opponent’s technique and gaining some more scope and evolving midway, after analyzing his opponents tactics, “Us” develops a custom made and “I” make use of it with the Formless.

Later, Agito prioritized giving “Us” more protagonism after “I” started to fall off during the Annihilation Tournament due to the Formless’ Weakness. After that, “Us” showed all he learned from the beggining, which came as the “Acme of martial arts”, a style that focuses on the basics and many moves from different martial arts. This style and mentality is pretty aggresive like “I” but mantains a more technical strategies and a good form, even by integrating strategies from his opponents. As noted by Ohma Tokita and Erioh Kure, “Us” has two aces in the hole that work better than “I”, the Dragon Shot and the pre-initiative, two moves than “I” can’t use due to his aggresive and impulsive nature. Despite being the total opposite of “I”, “Us”shares the same mentality of being able to beat the enemy under any circumstances, for that he developed to be able to throw knockout blows at any range.

His second and final evolution so far consisted on combining “I” and “Us”, changing midway between the two and forming an unpredictable and aggressive style. As “I” and “Us” are literal different personalities, even a master of pre-initiative would have a hard time adapting to both. After the tournament, he managed to cordinate both personalities so well to manage accelerate the frecuency between both personalities.

Weakness: Kanoh’s main weakness is that both of his styles while being to perfect, can also become predictable against experienced fighters.

Kanoh Agito had some weaknesses that he overcame with each evolution.

His first weakness was those of the Formless style, being too reliant on the natural reflexes and losing his ability to counter due to exhaustion.

After his first evolution, even though “Us” proved to be too much for a fighter such as Sen Hatsumi, being the basics of martial arts give away a form to be traceable for a master, just like Formless, if someone can adapt to its speed, Martial arts can also become predictable.

There’s also the fact that having two separate martial arts limits how much he can perfect each one, like a collector, Kanoh having two martial arts results on both of them being half-developed.

After his third evolution, Kanoh’s weakness fall down to the time lag ocurred while changing from “I” to “Us” and from “Us” to “I”, meanwhile that for striking this weakness one has to get a grisp of both Formless and Martial Arts and also the timing, in the case this comes to be, Kanoh will be left defenseless. However, the only man able to do such feat, after Kanoh’s further progress after the Kengan Annihilation Tournament perfected his technique so much that Gensai Kuroki that there was no way for him to assure a victory against Kanoh after his development.

Kanoh also had the weakness of “I” being too arrogant, wanting to assert dominance by beating his opponent using the same style as them, even if it gave them a handicap, but that was left behind after Kanoh managed to surpress his beast instincts and become more human.

With Kanoh’s fighter file done, now we go to Lu Tian, the polar opposite of Kanoh.

Strengths: Lu Tian strength comes from developing his Formless style even further and acquiring a true beast mentality. Unlike Kanoh’s need to formulate a “Custom made” before going onto offensive, Lu Tian seems to be able of countering any move by instinct, he perfected the technique so much he can counter even moves or strategies the opponent hasn’t used before, making Kanoh and . Not much can be said at this point after we analyzed the Formless style but there’s one thing Lu Tian has as his Ace in the hole, The Guihun.

The Guihun is the chinese version of the Removal, unlike its Japanese counterpart, Guihun doesn’t limit to unleash the body’s unused potential, but also boost the musculature of the user. This doesn’t boost Lu Tian’s speed, but also takes away the weakness of the brute force of being weak against physically stronger opponents, making him as strong as Julius, the strongest Kengan fighter in terms of raw physique.

Weakness: Lu Tian managed to create a perfectly unpredictable Formless, with Kanoh’s mastery of pre-initiative being unable to cope with him, however, at the same time, Lu Tian also relies on his hability to read the opponent’s moves, taking into account that both Kanoh’s Formless and Martial Arts are equally strong, Lu Tian managed to beat Martial Arts instantly meanwhile he struggled a bit to beat Formless, this proves Lu Tian has a hard time against unpredictable opponents, once Kanoh showed up his signature combo or FormlessXMartial Arts, Lu Tian was powerless.

Contrary to what Lu Tian believed, Guihun was more counter producent than benefical. Meanwhile it did boost his strength and speed, Lu Tian is a regular person, even if he had a constitution strong enough to resist the usage of Guihun, his body wouldn’t be able to resist it’s maximum output.

Even though he managed to to dodge Kanoh’s Jabs, his reflexes dampered, as in many times, Lu Tian became aware of Kanoh’s moves right after he threw them or even connected instead of before. The reflexes were a vital part of the Formless hability to nullify damage.

There’s also to be noted the fact of the vascularity (Veins and muscle being marked around his body), this is most likely due to the technique stiffing the muscles, which completely nullifies the flexibility needed to nullify the damage, meanwhile at the same time protected him of some of Kanoh’s punches, without his limp muscles, the Dragon Shot was more than enough to K.O him.

Even though he managed to beat Kanoh’s martial arts in no time, while using Guihun, Kanoh only used Martial Arts (which is mostly because Lu Tian’s sudden increase in strength made his Formless useless), it was more than enough to beat Lu Tian in a few minutes, which goes to show how incompatible Formless and Guihun are.

His fight against Kanoh was clearly the first time he actually used Guihun (at least first time more than a few seconds), as he clearly wasn’t able to properly regulate it, which lead to an overuse of releasing, going straight to 97%, a percentage that even killed some Kure or Wu clan members.

That arrogancy lead him to contract several injuries that leaved him unable to keep his status as a worm fighter of high level. Even during his fight against Akoya Seishu (a fighter not near Kanoh’s level, currently becoming weaker than he was at the beggining) used the Guihun and lost almost immediatly.

For today’s Fighter File we have Naidan Mönkhbat.

The good friend of Liu Dongcheng turned out to be the worm infiltrate with the highest status. Is the cause really something worth to die for?

Strength: Naidan has two aces in the hole to fight his opponents, his khüch and his eye of the sky.

Naidan’s Khüch is the culmination of conditioning his body like no other and without resting nor hesitation, being able to rivalise, or in all cases falling behind only to the superhumans of the Kengan Association such as Wakatsuki, Julius and Raian. The main atribute is not his physical strength but resilience being sturdy and able to remain solid still. With this, Naidan has a complete control over his body being able to move precisely and without wasted moves. Naidan hability to remain still consist in a similar yet completely different way of power flow manipulation. Just like The Niko Style and the Mudo Style, the principle is to exert force into the opponent’s gravity center, but instead of exerting minimal force to precisely maneuver the flow into a different one, Naidan’s technique consists in keeping the opponent’s gravity center still, unabling them to put more strength into their attacks.

The eye of the sky consists in a very good focus on the opponent’s positioning around him, and predicting his next move. This form is not close enough to pre-initiative, but held similar results with less effort, it works almost instinctively, and works as a master killing move, since the stronger the fighter is, the most likely is for them to find the best positioning and timing, something that Naidan can counter better.

Naidan strategy on the arena consists in countering the opponents moves, as a mongolian wrestler, his moveset include mainly techniques to knock the opponent down so his best assets are his throws.

If an opponents approaches, he grabs him and throws him.

If the opponent uses a combo, he protects blocks and wait for the moment to grab him, this is easier for Naidan since he only need to protect his head, and the rest of his body is already well conditioned to resist powerful strikes without flinching.

He’s a specialist in grappling so he must be well versed in countering throws and holds.

His resilent body may not be able to block soft strikes, piercing moves or attacks from people stronger than him, but for that there’s Khüch, to prevent them from using their full power. His eye of the sky might not be perfect predictions but as long as he figure out where the opponent is located, he can grabe them, and if he can grab them, he can use Khüch to nullify their moves, with their moves rendered useless and being close quarters, Naidan can throw his opponent with no problem.

His fighting style covers all the situations he may face in bare-handed combat and at the same time, his strategy is universal, which makes it useful against any opponent, and as it too simple, it makes it harder to overcome, and easier to perform, truly one hell of a fighter.

Weakness: Even if his strategy and technique makes for the perfect combination, is to be noted is impossible for it to be flawless, and Naidan biggest weakness, is that his Khüch/Eye of the Sky combo is his only asset while fighting, therefore, if an opponent can strike the weakness of both, Naidan might fall down to a weaker opponent.

The weakness of his Khüch is his head, as we stated before, Naidan must protect his head since its the only part of his body he doesn’t have conditioned to receive damage. His capacity to protect his weak spot depends on his ability to predict his opponent’s next move, which lead us to the Eye of the Sky’s weakness.

As stated before, Eye of the Sky is not pre-initiative, his ability to predict instantly an opponent’s moves doesn’t come from predicting the inception, instead, Naidan has worked up a formula that goes by rule-of-thumb, meanwhile it makes it more appliable to any kind of fighter, it’s less effective when a fighter goes rampage or unpredictable. Naidan worked his formula to be able to keep using it instinctively and althought that makes it to never miss to apply it, if it’s the formula itself which doesn’t work correctly on the opponent, Naidan still goes as the formula and misses, which leaves him wide open.

Naidan is strong against well formed opponent, but weak against brute-forcer. Brute forcers don’t follow any pattern nor form while fighting which may leave him unable to perfectly predict his moves with the Eye of the Sky, and as brute forcers aren’t neccessarilly formed in martial arts, the strength of their strikes doesn’t come from the center of gravity but raw strength, which lessens the amount of damage his Khüch can nullify.

It is also to be noted that there are some moves in the Kengan continuity that can counter the Khüch’s power dispersal, such as Rolon’s “shoulder-rotating-elbows” are the main example, as they take strength from rotating the shoulder while leaving the center of gravity still, Rolón keeping his position as top-gladiator proves that, assuming Naidan fought him, the Khüch wasn’t able to stop it.

Hello everyone, sorry I didn't keep the schedule, but I had to stop making Fighter files due to homework, although waiting till the end of the Berserker Bowl was worth it. Today I return with a new Fighter File, I hope you find it good and interesting.

For this Fighter File we have the two-faced star rookie, Gaoh Ryuki, the so called grandson of the martial arts master Gaoh Mukaku and the successor of the forgotten and obsolete Gaoh Style of classical Jiu-Jitsu.

Strengths: To begin with, Ryuki’s main asset while fighting is the Gaoh Style, a fighting style similar to the Niko Style, largely separated into different techniques, specialized to be used as last resorts. Even though the fighting style was originally a weaponized martial art used to kill, Ryuki managed to use it a good K.O techniques during his debut as a Kengan fighter, his ability relies on catching the enemy off guard, being unpredictable and strike with no mercy. Even though not as much as the Niko style, the Gaoh Style also come prepared with some irregular techniques of body control such as Armorclad (Indestructible) with enhances the physical resistance, and Weeping Willow, which manipulates the flow of the attacks thrown by the enemy.

Later, after his fight with Naidan, Ryuki trained under Setsuna Kiryuu into the techniques of the Koei Style, gaining the terrifying and lethal techniques of the Rakshaha’s Palm and Blink.

With Blink, Ryuki was able to create some good instant blind spot counters, taking his unpredictability to better use, with this combo, Ryuki could afford to repeat using one of his techniques, since the enemy might learn to counter it but not necessarily manages to get the timing to counter it.

Rakshaha’s Palm on the other hand is a terrible asset on its own since it’s an unblockable technique that holds some terrible results on whoever’s flesh ends up touching.

Combining all the previous points, the Gaoh Style, the blink and the Rakshaha’s Palm together, Ryuki becomes an insta-kill opponent whom you’ll never must leave your guard down against.

Technique aside, Gaoh also has a good amount of durability and pain tolerance, similar to Ohma, he was able to keep his cool and remain conscious despite being beaten and using some techniques whose usage included sustaining injuries.

Weakness: Despite being such a terrifying person as stated before, Gaoh Ryuki has two major weaknesses into him that keeps him very low on the strength level of the Kengan roster.

The first weakness is his fighting style, both the Gaoh Style and the Koei Style were old and obsolete.

The Gaoh style is mainly a weaponized martial arts, both to be used with weapons and also against them. As we saw during Ryuki’s nighttime vigilantism with Akoya and Setsuna, some techniques are specifically to be used with weapons, and some are specifically to be used against a specific weapon, meanwhile this broadens the effectivity of the Gaoh Style about situations, it leaves Ryuki with less aces in the hole when fighting bare-handed.

The second flaw of the Gaoh Style is its reliance on the surprise element, as we saw with the first three fights of Ryuki, though some techniques can be lethal when connecting, even lesser fighters are able to block it whereas they saw it once, just like the Falcon, Ryuki’s techniques become more useless the more he uses them, and unlike the Falcon, we’re not talking about fighting strategies but complete moves, add the fact that Ryuki has to discard some techniques since they’re not meant for bare-handed combat, the more Ryuki fighting style is shown, the more he won’t be able to use. There’s also to be added that some techniques like blocking the opponents vision to connect a flying kick have already become so obsolete than are to be unnefective even the first time they’re seen.

The third flaw is that the Gaoh style seems to be strictly a killing Martial art, some of the attacks of Ryuki are meant as one-hit killing technique such as “Pierce”, the technique used to kill Naidan. As we saw during the first half of Ryuki’s fight against Naidan, in contrast to his other fights were he were willing to be brutal and for a moment he was willing to kill the opponent, when Gaoh tried to fight without killing, the Gaoh style was completely useless. Granted, the fact that he was getting his ass-kicked was because Naidan is a really good fighter, but as we saw in the second half, Gaoh could only use his signature unpredictability with no holds barred. Without killing techniques, all the Gaoh Style has left are simplistic and predictable attacks.

When it comes to the Koei Style, the flaws were explained mainly with Setsuna. Blink is reliant on the blind spot of the opponent, in other words, the attacks always come from one or two spots, if used to many times it becomes predictable. Rakshaha’s Palm twisting force is lethal, being unable to be blocked nor parried since it can also twists from the sides, however that only applies from the elbow to the hand, the move can be easily parried thorught the elbow to the shoulder. It is also to be noted that there are already some techniques in the Kengan storyline able to nullify it’s effects such as striking the hand before the rotation is complete or using indestructible to keep the flesh still.

Ryuki’s second and biggest flaw lies within his own personality. Although he’s no one to be blamed taking into account the environment he grew in, Ryuki is a savage, a simple man that kills for survival and see killing as the main weapon to use to get rid of problems, not only he shows no remorse, but he never actually thought about leaving his opponents alive, which leads to the assassin’s dilema; “Focus on how to kill, neglect how to defeat”. Ryuki is an animal and limiting himself not to kill someone only messes up his integrity as a fighter. Setsuna corrected this by teaching him the Koei Style, the techniques were brutal and savage enough for Ryuki, but at the same time, as they were meant mainly to hurt instead of killing, they allowed Ryuki to fight unchained from the rules. This way Ryuki kept fighting, thinking that the willingness to kill was a sign of conviction instead of a weakness.

His other personality flaw is his loyalty, Ryuki is very loyal to his grandfather’s teachings, still using the Gaoh style, ignoring its flaws and keeping the mentality of all worms must die, which in the end clashed with his loyalty to Koga and Kazuo, becoming unstable during his fight with Naidan.

His third and last personality flaw is his ignorance, Ryuki is full of himself, even though he doesn’t necessarily see himself as the strongest of them all like some previous entries, he thinks he’s stronger than he actually is, as we saw in his fight against Koga, despite believing he evolved way further since his fight in the Kengan vs Purgatory Tournament, he actually was the same as his first fight, the same weaknesses as ever, the result was the same one he was bound to have in the beginning, which only was delayed with the incorporation of new techniques.

Kumo got replaced as Guchi and Hachitaka became Hachio? Tokita shrinked in size and Shichiohba grew in size.

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Is the word "Kure" something about demons (since the Kure clan members are legit monsters on their own) or it means something else?

Hey, guys! Don't you think we should add more things about Mokichi Robinson and Lihito? Like for example, Mokichi have managed to defeat Saw Paing in a Kengan Match...So shouldn't his record 49 wins and 2 losses?

Don't you also think that we should add more about Lihito's technical improvement during his fight against Saw Paing in the "Berseker Bowl"? Especially about his new technique, "Shuhari"...Y'know, it's ancronym for the stages of martial arts; obey, digress & transcend! At the first stage, the user must obey their master's teachings. And the next stage, the user digress from said teachings, and incorporate other teachings!

By the way, you also add the parts where Lihito's fingers are tough enough to endure Saw Paing's Hammer of Burma without getting broken!!!

P.S. Adam Dudley has two losses! Remember his latest fight...When he was defeated by Gaoh Ryuki in the "Berseker Bowl"? Just wanted to point it out to you, my friend!

I ask the following because I know things like the underwater shadow boxing is good and other fighting anime like Baki have many real fighting styles but ay unrealistic levels.

So I wish to know what material arts could actually work in real life/could be useful

For this Fighter File we have the mysterious new Fang of Metsudo, Misasa, due to the lack of information available to analyze or comment, I’ll also add another Fighter into the File, the Traitor Fang, Yumigahama Hikaru.

Little is known about this fighter, “Misasa” is not even his real name. The only thing we know for certain is that he’s undoubtfully the strongest bodyguard in service when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, and that’s all we need to know.

Strengths: There’s a clear gap in terms of raw power and physical prowess between Misasa and the previous fangs of Metsudo, so far Omori Masamichi, Kanoh Agito and Yumigahama Hikaru being at least 201 cm tall and Takayama Minoru, one of the top-candidates to succeed the title being 207 cm. How did the smaller Misasa became such a strong contender like those four? Instead of being limited by his weakness, a smaller frame, Misasa managed to turn it into his best asset in the moment of fighting. By a smart use of the techniques of Silat, Misasa pushes the fight into his own rhythm and turn it into a close range fight. As someone smaller, Misasa is pretty experienced when it comes to fight someone bigger than him and in enclosed spaces meanwhile it’s the opposite for the bigger guys, it’s like a southpaw boxer. Misasa’s style is consist in parrying the opponent’s incoming attack and strike its weak points right after he loses balance. To further decrease the distance between him and his opponent giving him more advantage, Misasa limits his attacks and parries to the use of his elbows. This strategy is pretty simple which makes it harder to overcome. No to mention is pretty easy to limit one’s fighting space, as long as he keeps pressing, the opponent is bound to move backwards and run out of space even if it wasn’t a fight with ring-out rules.

Weakness: So far as I can tell, Misasa didn’t displayed any weakness, after all the only match were we saw him fight was one-sided, this doesn’t necessarily mean he’s unbeatable, any fighter such as Kanoh can lose despite not having any notable weaknesses.

On the other side, we have the so full of himself, savant of martial arts, the one reaping for rewards, Yumigahama Hikaru, the one man who managed to fool Dainipon Bank and the Kengan Association by himself.

Strengths: Yumigahama managed to do something that hasn’t been done since the first Kengan Match, to recreate bare-handedly the usage of weapons, as improbable it seems, and differencing it from attack such as the Devil Lance, Yumigahama’s form completely recreates the form of usage and effects of a weapon, with some tricks such as the redirected spear he can use to exploit the similitude of a weaponized style to trick the opponents. To make this possible, Yumigahama employs an incredible finger-strength and hardness, alongside his big frame and long limbs to recreate the range of weapons. To further increase his martial prowess, Yumigahama Hikaru seems to be able to recreate the usage of any kind of weapon technique (as long as its a contact weapon), even dual use of weapons. Of course, his arsenal is not limited to weaponized martial arts but some bare-handed combat as well. So far, all the styles he used in his fight in the Kengan vs Purgatory tournament specialized in different kind of attacks, so its most likely that Hikaru has at least one fighting style for any kind of situation.

Weakness: The biggest enemy of a collector is time, the time he spent perfecting one of his many styles is time he doesn’t spend perfecting the rest, let’s just say Misasa and Hikaru are both fighter level 1000, but meanwhile Misasa is a complete 1000, Hikaru is a 1000/X, he’s a fighter of quantity instead of quality, he can’t beat a 1000 level fighter using 100, 90 and 120 all separately.

Hikaru’s other and biggest weakness so far, like Toa, is that he’s pretty much too blinded by his invincibility delusions, considering himself superior to everyone else just because he became the fang of Metsudo in record time and made a fool out of one of the most powerful factions in the underworld. According to what we know, Hikaru stopped training after joining Purgatory, which further accentuate the previous weakness, of course he wouldn’t be able to maintain such physique without training, but he clearly became weaker as he got his head so full. He beat José, however the later broke his right arm, but he still joined the competition despite the time he spent recovering didn’t left him any time to train. During his fight against Misasa he self-sabotaged himself by being to conscious of staying into the illuminated part of the ring, that was mostly because he clearly believed that Misasa’s only chance to beat him was via ring-out rules and proves he’s still overestimating himself so much.

For this fighter file, we have Toa Mudo. The “seeker” coming from New Zealand, surpassing in physical height/weight Julius Reinhold and in a natural way without steroids unlike the German muscleman, which further emphasize the fact that Toa Mudo is a monster since born.

The Purgatory gladiator descends from the warrior Rona Mudo’s bloodline, having inherited a fearsome body and a particular technique. He’s a seeker whom doesn’t brandish his fist for anyone else’s sake but his own, to prove to everyone his supremacy over the martial arts world.

Strengths: The Mudo Style used by Toa has three named techniques (so far), Wai (Water), Hau (Wind) and Maungamanawa (Breathing Mountain). The three techniques are defense or counter, when it comes to offensive techniques there doesn’t seem to be any, as Toa only used Brute Force while attacking. Based on what we saw of the Mudo style (Rona Mudo in the war using a spear or the draw explaining the usage of the Mudo style redirecting a spear stab) we can assume the Mudo style is a weaponized martial art, wether is using weapons or countering weapons.

Wai, similar to Niko style’s water kata, consist on going limp in his muscles to disperse the damage received. With this technique, Toa doesn’t need to waste moves to put up a guard, he simply takes the attack. As we saw with his fight against Julius, with his enormous frame and musculature, unlike the Niko style and Formless style users, he doesn’t need to fall back to completely disperse the damage since his frame is thick enough to pad the distance the opponent arm bury into his body.

Hau, similar to Niko style’s redirection kata, consist on applying a minimal force into the opponent center of gravity to divert the enemy’s upcoming attack in the form of parries or to throw him off balance with ease.

Maungamanawa is the fusion between Wai and Hau, the user goes limp to let the opponent’s attack flow through its body and divert the trajectory of the upcoming attack against them, amplified by one’s own power. To understand better this technique, we need to compare it with another technique with the same function, Niko Style’s secret technique, Demonsbane.

Demonsbane combines the four katas in the following way; redirection diverts the upcoming attack in a safe direction, water makes the body limp so it’ll safely travel around the user’s body without huring it, fire checks its possition and center of gravity so successful and effectively return the strike, adamantine hardens one’s muscle while striking to add more power to the counter.

Maungamanawa covers the two more important basis of Demonsbane (redirection and water) but lacks the Fire and Adamantine forms that add more power into the counter, even then, Maungamanawa is stated to add more power into the attack, How’s that? Well, for the fire kata part, Toa’s enormous frame put him in a solid position no matter where he is, imagine one of his feet already covers two normal foots, so keeping always balanced is no problem for him, and for the Adamantine kata part, Toa’s glorious musculature already put him in position were his hand only can work as something as hard as diamonds. This way, Maungamanawa can successfully recreate the effects of Demonsbane, and as it only require two aspects instead of four, it makes it easier to perform.

Weakness: Toa is vulnerable to mail piercer, just going limp in the muscles would be enough to nullify the pain, but mail piercers, attacks designed to send the force into the insides of the body are effective to attack Toa’s organs, which he can’t go limp on, if we compare it with the Niko Style and the Formless style, Toa just stands there going limp in his muscles, which doesn’t protect his organ, meanwhile the Niko style consist in adding the redirection kata to divert the attack to strike another place far from the vitals of the user and then going limp to disperse and the formless style also includes throwing themselves out of the floor to let themselves be blown away instead of receiving the damage.

Even though Toa is also formed in diverting attacks like the redirection kata, he doesn’t seem to be able to use Hau with anything other than his hands or head, with his frame he can’t divert incoming attacks at close range so he can only use Wai, which, as we saw, is vulnerable to mail piercers.

The Mudo style, as I stated it before, seems to be a weaponized martial art, so besides lacking a decent offensive bare-handed tactics, it’s also designed as a long-range fighting style, Toa is not pretty good against close range fighters as it seems he didn’t managed to beat Arayishama Jurota and was defeated by Rolón in a single strike, that’s for his fighting style, but Toa has another weakness that seems to be his biggest flaw so far. He is a seeker to “prove” that he is the best, that means the already think that he has become the strongest possible, even though he acknowledged Rolón and Medel's strength, he's too confidant and reliant on Maungamanawa and seemingly ignores the technique’s flaw.

Maungamanawa’s biggest flaw are it limitations in usage, the only two examples of a successfully executed Maungamanawa included big and circular motions, as it seems that unlike Demonsbane, Maungamanawa needs a big swing to deliver the counter and the swing is limited to circular motions, unlike Ohma who managed to delfect Wakatsuki’s punch to his head in a triangle-like angle. This swing limit the usage to horizontal or vertical counters, even though he managed to deploy the technique by diverting a punch to his head, the enormous range of motion of the technique required Toa to use his hands while needing to use the vertical motion, as he couldn’t divert the attack via his head when his arms were pushed out of the way. It is also to be noted that this swing would be predictable against someone with a smaller frame and easier to dodge.

Another flaw in the usage, or to be more exact, flaw in the comprehension, is that the technique doesn’t necessary amplifies the attack’s power. If we compare Toa’s Maungamanawa against Julius with Ohma’s Demonsbane against Wakatsuki. Ohma is pretty far behind in terms of power in comparison with Wakatsuki, Julius and Toa, yet he almost knocked out cold Wakatsuki with an effective Demonsbane used against a normal punch of Wakatsuki. If Toa, whose own power exceeds by far Ohma’s used this counter against Julius, whom had as much power and Wakatsuki and was forcing himself, he would have ripped Julius head, yet he didn’t and Julius kept conscious after the blow and got up after resting 8 seconds, Why’s that? As I said before, the basis of the “power amplification” of the Maungamanawa simply consists in replacing the power of the attack with his own superhuman power, that means the power amplification is not that much against someone similar in terms of strength and durability.

Note: Rolón beat Toa with just one strike, seemingly striking his vitals before he could go limp to disperse the damage, that is indeed a flaw but it wasn’t included in the list because attacks that comes outside of the enemy’s awareness are mostly an universal flaw, applicable to any fighter, even the best ones.

For this Fighter File, we have Julius Reinhold.

The bulk monster of Germany, whom achieved an incomparable amount of muscles via steroids (not a good example) and became a top-level fighter using nothing but it’s mind and brute force.

Strengths: Julius build up his body and fighting strategy based on his beliefs, “technique itself is useless against overwhelming power”, and so he constantly builds up his muscles in order to achieve and maintain that power. Julius might lack martial arts knowledge but his body compensates enough for it, being able to rivals both Wakatsuki Takeshi and Toa Mudo in terms of raw strength, besides, despite being an amateur in the world of martial arts, he’s pretty much a seasoned fighter, being able to notice an incoming attack (to a certain extent) unlike Terashi. Is also to be noted that with his enormous frame, grappling holds and locks would be pretty ineffective against him, since mostly of the grapplers we saw in the Kengan series don’t seem to have limbs long enough to grab him.

Julius biggest factor in the fight is his physical prowess, being able to bend metal and dash at immense speed, plus he’s very knowledgeable in the subject of the human body, being a seemingly expert in the human musculature and as a member of Silverman Gym he’s also knowledgeable in terms of nutrition and maintenance of musculature, his well kept muscles make a fine shield for every kind of attack and his knowledge allow to know exactly which muscle use to block the attack. Adding way more irregularity to his muscle mindset, he also perfected muscle control to a degree where he managed to flex the same muscle at the level of fibers themselves, Gott-Töter Steinbohrer, his new signature move makes use of this ability to inflict mail-piercing damage, all the kinetic energy accumulated by the release of the hundreds of fibers simultaneously is thrown in a swirl motion that not only amplifies his already terrible punch strength but also apply a second force moving in an different way of his attack, this force works like a current, if used like a strike it works similar to a Fa jin, sending the attack into the inner parts of the body, this current can also deflect blocks and counters such as Toa’s Hau. As a brute forcer, Julius specializes in attacks thrown like random formless punches, so Gott-Töter Steinbohrer isn’t limited to an overhead strike but every possible punch he can throw.

Weakness: Meanwhile he’s not a total amateur in world of fighting, Julius biggest flaw is his lack of knowledge, or maybe it would be a lack of experience. As someone whom only focused on his muscles, he’s pretty much capable to analyze and determine the physical qualities of his opponent, as seen in his fight against Wakatsuki, however when it comes to non-hard techniques, Julius seems very unexperienced like when witnessing Toa’s Wai, besides the lack of knowledge make him surprised which distracted him for a moment and he got attacked. As Muteba noted when he stated he’ll rather fight Julius because he would be easier to catch, Julius also is very inattentive of his opponent’s tactics, as he believes his opponents techniques are useless against him he tend to fall for feints. Meanwhile in the case of his unofficial match against Keizaburo Sawada it didn’t pose a problem, a more skilled fighter can trap him as we saw with Wakatsuki Takeshi. Another flaw that could be added to his lack of defensive power is that in the case that he fails to block the attack, which are many, the only thing he can do is to clench his muscles to resist the attack, this trick is useful against fighters with less striking power than him (which are almost everyone) but it won’t work against mail-piercers, stabbing attacks such as the devil lance or the heart jab, the razor’s edge, it might also leave to be cut by Akoya’s ripper, with the later striking his flesh directly afterwards. It’s also ineffective against opponent’s with an insane striking power like Wakatsuki Takeshi’s Blast core or Toa whom matches him physically.

For the next Figther File, we have Albert Lee, AKA “The Falcon, The Roving Death”.

This former wrecker from Singapore found his passion in the ninja movies and manga, now he fights using a self-developed version of ninjutsu and keeps doing some hand seals and saying “nin” randomly in the middle of his private life.

Strengths: The Falcon’s ninjutsu consist mostly in feints, he mostly relies on his Ninja misdirection, confusing the enemie doing random hand seals, and his Ninja side-step, throw off the attack's timing to confuse the enemies, combining both he makes use of his opponent’s insight against them to confuse them. His principal weapon while attacking are his fingers, the falcon trained his fingers to make them hard and durable for the usage of piercing attacks and he prepared his big toes to apply poison to his opponent via stabbing. Falcon has many tricks to disconcert his opponents in case the previous ones starts to fail.

Weakness: Falcon has two big weaknesses, the first one is that his techniques rely mostly on taking the opponent by surprise, similar to Ryuki’s techniques, his tricks pose less of a treat to those who already figured out how it works, as such the Falcon needs to beat his opponent quickly, otherwise it’ll start to get used to his tricks, he can gain more time using different tricks but if the opponent manages to last long enough the result will be the same, also, the fact that he attacks the opponent’s weak point make his attacks predictable.

His other weakness is the same as an assassin, like Kure Erioh said, “Focus on how to kill, neglect how to defeat”. Granted, The Falcon never killed anyone given his work as a wrecker and Purgatory gladiator, but Ninjutsu is an assassination technique, in his case is more like “Focus on how not to kill, neglect how to defeat”, as a fighter that relies in attacking the opponent’s weak point, he needs to hold back his attack in order to keep his opponent alive, like Nicolas Le Banner (Jean Luc) said, “The same thing between a middleweight and heavyweight is endurance, middleweight striking power is more than enough to kill”, take for example the Sparrow Stab, the nape was the same point that Hanafusa Hajime tried to strike in order to give Bando Yohei a quick and painless death, but as The Falcon needs to keep the opponent alive, he held back enough as to keep Lihito alive, but that was also to weak to knock him. This not only halves the power on his attacks but it also quickens his exhaustion, Ninja misdirection and Side step require a lot of focus and speed so continuous usage will lead to exhaustion and keeping the hands together with the fragile part that are the fingers exposed makes them an easy target to attack.

For today’s Fighter File I have Nakata Ichiro, AKA “Lihito, The Superman”.

The popular user of the Razor’s edge technique and Tokita Ohma’s debut opponent in the Kengan Matches. After his loss in the first round of the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, Lihito dissapeared from the underworld and his job as president of Cold Storage to train under the mentorship of the same man who defeated him and won the tournament, Kuroki Gensai, now were going to see how much martial arts aptitude did Ichiro gain from the Kengan Annihilation Tournament till the Kengan vs Purgatory tournament.

Strengths: Lihito’s signature move (and only named technique so far) is the Razor’s Edge, an application of Ichiro’s natural and fearsome grip strength, to put it simply, he tears the flesh of his opponents using his fingertips, this ability is not limited to flesh but also solid metal, as such this move cannot be blocked wether with normal blocks or blocking gadgets such as shields or body armor. After training and learning the basic of the Kaiwan style, Lihito gained some more proper form into his fighting style and some proper defense and offense, such as the usage of combos or a better way to deal with holds and locks. Originally, his Razor’s Edge was a move he required speed and a big swing to manage to rip flesh on contact, but after a lot of training before the Kengan Annihilation Tournament he managed to get rid of the need of distance, and after training with Kuroki Gensai, he learned to use some combos from which he can add the Razor’s Edge in-between and he’s able to throw it without the need of a big swing that makes the move predictable.

Weakness: After getting his pride handed to him in a quick and absolute loss in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, Lihito (after some time in grieve) started to take martial arts more seriously and became more focused on his opponents, being able to notice how Kiryuu Setsuna managed to stay alive using Rakshasa’s palm to move his heart while Kuroki Gensai stabbed him with the Devil Lance. Meanwhile this is an undoubtedly grow on him as a fighter, is also his weakness, as someone very applied in learning but short on experience (he only fought in a technical way just once after his two years of training (against Mokichi)), he’s very cautious of his opponent’s moves, which makes him very susceptible to feints, if his opponent specializes in feints, he’ll mostly to react to them falling for the enemies trap, and if he losses his cool he can’t keep its rhythm which is crucial for a technical/analytic fighter.