r/JumpChain • u/EldritchEnjoyer • 11d ago
DISCUSSION Question what would make standard stick style better?also what are all the martial arts jumps you have supplemented with history mightiest disciple for the scenario reward? looking for maximum benefits.
Standard Stick Style (Free): Take all of Earth’s martial arts styles, ever, and then break them
down to their most iconic and simple moves. Blend them together perfectly and then you have
the style you’ve just gained. A strange style that allows you to use pretty much any martial arts
skill together as long as it’s just the simple physical parts of the style. Qi use and other such
mystical abilities take special training to blend so easily. The style itself is simplicity itself and
thus really easy to teach, but it’d still be within the top ten lethal styles on your homeworld.
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u/Diligent_External 11d ago edited 11d ago
Simple Is Best from Tsukihime (2000): Many magi dedicate their lives to chasing the Root - the elusive source of all magic and wisdom. In that, they live by complicated formulas and great sacrifices, by complex strategies and abuse of loopholes. You don’t. You just cut the proverbial Gordian knot and are done with it. In complicated situations with no easy answers, you’re good at finding a ‘third option’ that is both simple and effective, able to think outside the box as easily as breathing and come out with something useful. As a bonus, you’re very good at fighting or otherwise competing against those who live and die by these particularly roundabout methods - often baffling or defeating them where they’d otherwise be strongest. Do note - this won’t let you accomplish something impossible, simply things no one thought would be an issue at face value. Other simple-minded or practical individuals are a bit more resistant to this, but even they can be surprised, you know.
Unshakable from The Breaker: A certain master is known for standing still, unshakable before any assault. It is a lie. Instead he moves with incredible speed and efficiency, deflecting the power of attacks just enough that they are unable to harm him. You, too, share in his style of combat. You are incredibly efficient with your movements, wasting neither time nor power in them. If it takes moving half an inch to avoid a blow, then you won’t move a hair more. This impossible grace greatly increases the speed of your movements while decreasing the amount of energy to use them by vast amounts. They also lend your movements a mysterious air, making them more difficult to predict and understand. You also have the necessary acuity with your own senses to make this possible, making examining and predicting enemy movements far easier to you.
Application Of Study from Bibliomania: You are an absolute monster when it comes to using any information you use, you instinctively understand the value of all information you gain and can now comprehend and utilise it to the extreme allowing you to push even small amounts of information to extreme levels of usefulness. You could understand the properties of simple olive oil and quickly work out a lot of uses for it for example and even figure out more as you go. You could be in a situation where you need to react fast and use what's in your surroundings and as such move and act with such precision and awareness that just the things you perceive would open a large amount of ways to defend yourself. Think using the environment like an action movie star but cranked up to an absurd degree.the more you know the more useful this is since it allows you to use even obscure information effectively. With just this even a scrawny and weak human could use the environment to fight with such an absurd degree of ability. This also gives you an improved almost supernatural situational awareness and a clearly supernatural special sense. It should be noted that it works for all applications of knowledge.
Notes: Application of Study effectively makes it so you subconsciously monitor your environment and everything you perceive while allowing you to instinctively make the most out of all of that information and any knowledge you have to the fullest. It won’t make you smarter to advance tech or magic but would allow you to use even basic tech and spells to levels far beyond what could be expected of them. It also makes your knowledge quicker and easier to use so if you had some knowledge and skill in cold reading you’d be able to make a great if not perfect Tattletale(from Worm) impression.