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.