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.