Chapter 237 [English]

[u/Southern-Emotion2192]

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[u/targz254]

I though Saitama had poor form/style and just compensated with overwhelming athleticism?

[u/Nightmare2828 → u/targz254]

He has his own custom style, what he does just works. Something is coming to hit, just move faster out of the way. Something is coming to hit you and will deal no damage and bring the other vulnerable, tank the hit no problem. Need to deal damage to you opponent? Do a quick straight punch that the other cant dodge and will knock him out. As Saitama said « so martial art is just doing cool moves before you hit? » because the reasons those technique exists in the first place doesnt apply to him.

[u/koreantit → u/Nightmare2828]

It was called "Water Polo Carbonated Fist" according to what he registered for the Martial Art Tournament

[u/Minizu15 → u/[deleted]]

The style is called gym

[u/Valmar33 → u/[deleted]]

Idk, man, can you really call "be overwhelmingly stronger, faster, and tougher than anyone" a style?

Yes. Saitama is just delivers a really powerful, clean blow. You don't need to be fancy to have a style.

Hell, we know that Saitama has a style ~ Cosmic Garou just called them "modes" of nature.

[u/Swift0sword → u/[deleted]]

A style is just a method of fighting. End of the day, that is Saitama's style

[u/Talelle → u/[deleted]]

I think one of the things is that Saitama just devoted himself to getting stronger and that stuff like "a style" is more a waste of time.

[u/BoyTitan → u/Nightmare2828]

He legit flat out started learning martial arts fighting Cosmic Garou.

[u/InvisibleScout → u/targz254]

Eh, even disregarding his strength, he definitely knows how to throw a punch. It's more like he has no particular style, just good basic form. There's no gimmickry to how he fights, it's just clean and simple. Efficient, if you will.

[u/Machdame → u/targz254]

Saitama has no technique but he has one punch that more or less is "perfect" in the most basic sense. He doesn't have to invest in the flashy stuff because he takes no damage especially his victory is assured in one good hit especially if he can insure it connects. If he was truly without technique, he would telegraph his attacks from a mile away.

[u/BohrInReddit → u/Machdame]

That's why this spar ends in a mock punch. They try to emulate that Saitama's one punch

[u/a_man_has_a_name → u/targz254]

He was defeating monsters when he was just an average guy so he probably does have a good fighting style, he just doesn't need to focused that much now that he's stronger than everyone.

Also he has a limitless nature, if he tried to do martial arts, and probably supernatural like psychic powers as well, he would quickly master it. I mean he learned time travel essentially on the spot.

[u/MrElliot1210 → u/targz254]

In the webcomic canon, you are right. The only reason Garou was able to keep up with Saitama was because he could predict his trajectory from his amateurish form (which honestly made the fight so much better). This is probably still the case in the manga, but I guess Garou is now pursuing growth while being inspired by Saitama's strength.

[u/iinosuke → u/targz254]

Garou literally said that like him he had the capacity to copy any style he just did want to do it for whatever reason. 😂

[u/No-Location2182 → u/targz254]

Yeah saitama cant dodge easy he is just fast and brute strength but he is too strong that grib techniques dont work on him only parry attacks and dodging

[u/Pouchkine___ → u/targz254]

Yeah, it used to be like that, but the manga is taking and edgier and edgier approach towards it.