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.