Here's some Kenshiro feats,I will also present feats performed by people who scale below Kenshiro, just so I don’t bog this list down with names I haven’t given context to. Kenshiro stands as the single most skilled fighter in his universe, surpassing all his predecessors and having absolute mastery over almost every single martial art displayed throughout the series. Kenshiro is perhaps the greatest
Pressure Point user in fiction without any exaggeration. Most of his attacks are
one hit kill, and not only that, depending of the pressure point and the technique, striking a pressure point can cause all sorts of effects such as:
Among many others, afterall Hokuto Shinken has a innumerable amount of
techniques, and is stated to have
infinite fighting variations, And Kenshiro is the most skilled fighter in his series which is no small feat because Hokuto No Ken is a verse full of broken and highly lethal martial arts, even the "weakest" ones can do things like:
The Strongest ones in the series are
Hokuto Shinken,
Nanto Seiken, and
Gento Koken
Hokuto Shinken:
The art's power is focused into
channeling one's energy in a single blow and striking into the 708
Keiraku Hikō (経絡秘孔, "Hidden Channeling Points") points in the human body (also known as pressure points, power points, vital points, tsubo, etc.). These pressure points destroy the enemy from within, and causes the victim to explode (hence its durability-negating nature), be controlled involuntarily or otherwise incapacitated. It can also be used to heal certain physical and psychological wounds, such as restoring a person's voice, eyesight or memories, though the main purpose of Hokuto Shinken is assassination. Here some of it's best techniques:
Kenshiro is
the greatest Hokuto Shinken user of all time in his series, he's so skilled that
he can easily strike a pressure point as small as the tip of a pin with a strand of hair, the mastery over Hokuto Shinken not only makes Kenshiro incredibly versatile but also super deadly, especially to
human characters, but even if someone is not human and has different pressure points, Kenshiro can still kill him, Kenshiro
can discover the locations of ones pressure points, and even if he don't, he can use the
Tenha Kassatsu A technique that is able to reveal the locations of one's vital points it also allows it's user to hit an opponent's pressure points without even making physical contact with them, Kenshiro doesn't even need to know the exact location of one's pressure points for Tenha Kassatsu work.
1800 years ago in China, during the "Three Kingdoms" era, the Hokuto fist was split up amongst the three clans, and all 3 had different versions of Hokuto.
Kenshiro knows all of those, especially Hokuto Ryuken. The ultimate Hokuto Ryuken technique is Anryū Tenha the user
can bend space around himself to avoid attacks or
distort space around an opponent to disorient them and trap them in a weightless space, it also can distort the distance between himself and his opponent,
control the arena and atmosphere. EOS Kenshiro also scales above
Toki and
Raoh who were so skilled that they both created
their own versions of Hokuto, which Kenshiro
also knows.
Nanto Seiken:
While Hokuto Shinken targets vital points to destroy enemies from within, Nanto Seiken teaches how to kill from the outside. This style not only incorporates weaponry but the more advanced schools allow fighters to kill with their bare hands, ranging from hand-to-hand stabbing techniques to slice enemies apart with air pressure. There are
108 sects Nanto Seiken. The six strongest Nanto masters are called the
Nanto Roku Seiken, who correspond to the six stars in the Nanto Roku Sei constellation.
Junsei,
Gisei,
Yōsei,
Jinsei,
Shōsei, and
Jibosei (Those who live under this star do not master any Nanto style. Instead, the combat capabilities come from the
Nanto Goshasei guardians) which leaves us with the 5 strongest Nanto martial arts. They are:
Most of them are pretty broken, they are capable of doing things like
A flying kick which maims the enemy by slicing the tendons in their arms and legs,
cutting the opponent’s ligaments so
finely that the cartilage along with all connective tissues would regenerate in 3 seconds if left unmoved (i think this attack is somewhere in the nano/pico meters range),
slice the victim apart from the back without touching it,
create powerful ilusions to obscure the user's presence and mystify opponents,
fly and phase through the enemies attacks while simultaneously slicing them, and many others.
Kenshiro is a master of all 108 Nanto styles.
Gento Koken:
The Gento style focuses on use of
ki energy, usually projected outwards as a blast or sometimes as a shield. It uses
ki and
light like a blade to
destroy the opponent's body on a cellular level.
Here's Falco disintegrating a man with a Gento attack (
here's the anime version of this scene for you to see more cleary),
Falco easily desintegrated Jako too.
Gento fighters can also shoot ice from their hands, and
Kenshiro also knows this super deadly style.
But there's something that almost every martial art in Hokuto no Ken utilizes
Tōki:
Tōki (闘気,
Fighting Spirit) is a special type of ki energy used in several martial arts, including
Hokuto Shin Ken,
Hokuto Sanka Ken,
Nanto Sei Ken and
Gento Kō Ken. It can be used to launch ki-based attacks that strike targets (even precise ones, like the
Keiraku Hiko) at long range, or to defend the user from attack. Kenshiro has displayed impressive ki mastery over the course of the series,
he's able to shoot ki attacks,
use ki like telekinesis,
he can use ki to touch's one pressure points,
he can absorb other's ki,
can also prevent his ki from being absorbed,
can use ki as force field and protect himself,
he can also pass through Ki shields, and also
use ki to fly,
put fear on others and
pacify animals. An expert user can often radiate tōki from his own body as a Fighting Spirit Aura (
Tōki no Aura) he can use
his Aura to attack for him and manifest a barrage of fists,
anticipate attacks,
dull murderous intent,
strike a man's heart,
fright a fighter's ki back into his body, and leave him completely incapable of moving and so weak that even a single pebble can knock him down and redirect ki blasts, and
hit other people's vital points automatically (
a scene of something similar happening in the anime)
So Kenshiro is extremely versatille not only due to the mastery of Hokuto itself but also due to the amount of
other martial art styles at his disposal.
Now for the sake of comparasion
Technique copy:
Using the
Sueishin technique,
Kenshiro can easily assimilate the enemy's style,
it's stated multiple times in the series that
Kenshiro just need to see a martial art in action once to completely master it.
Kasumi (Kenshiro's uncle) even says that
this is what makes Hokuto Shinken the ultimate martial art,
Hokuto users not only steal your martial art, they can instantly do it better than you and understand it on a much deeper level than you ever could, Kenshiro for example
surpassed Solia's prowess in Gento Kō Ken [
a martial art once deemed to be more deadly than Hokuto Shinken and with 2000 years of history], after only seeing a single move of said style. Other Hokuto fighters besides Kenshiro could also copy martial arts,
Raoh for example, even before setting on his quest to summon all kenpo users,
had already mastered almost every martial art After starting his quest, Raoh goes out of his way to summon masters of all martial arts and “steal their secrets”, aka, master their martial art (also yeah,
he masters a whole martial art by reading a piece of paper describing it..),
here’s the japanese and
here’s the translation We are told by Toki that Raoh repeated this process with
“hundreds of families”, meaning that Raoh has mastered hundreds of martial arts.
Kasumi Kenshiro copied Hokuto Sonka Ken's KI manipulation to create the Tenha Kassatsu. And even
Jagi who is a absolute fodder compared to EOS Kenshiro,
could copy a Nanto style. here's Ken and other Hokuto users using some fighting styles that they copied.
Analytical Prediction:
Kenshiro has multiple forms of precog. he can
use the opponent's breathing-rhythm to predict their moves,
predict the opponent’s moves by reading his muscle and eye movements,
just like the Colonel did,
Hokuto fighters can anticipate the attacks of those who enter his aura, along with being able to read the aura of others to predict their movements,
Hokuto fighters can also receives visions of other fighters attacks, accurately predicting when, where and which attack would be and what effect would it have if connect it. (
here's a anime scene of this happening too), Hokuto fighters can also sense one's presence and smell
killing intent, which
makes them highly unlikely to be
taken by surprise, it's also quite difficult to predict an attack of a Hokuto fighter since
they can change their fate and
erase their presence. when 2 Hokuto masters fight each other
no one can predict the outcome.
Enhanced Senses :
Hokuto fighters can
Acrobatics:
Alot of martial art have displayed incredible Acrobatic stunts during the series things like
There's also the fact that some fighters in HNK can
fly/
float/
glide with Certain techniques. Also Kenshiro scales above anyone else in any type of combat.
Body Control:
Information Analysis
seeing a person is enough for him to perfectly know his strength, Hokuto users such as Kasumi can
see a martial art’s blind spot and
perceive the split second in which the user focuses energy to throw an attack and use that knowledge to predict the attack,
effectively negating the martial art as a whole. This martial art had
no conventional blind spots the user could even
punch and kick behind his back. Like
Juza, Hokuto fighters can
read a martial art so well that they can predict every move from it.
Reflexes:
Accelerated Development/Learning Speed:
Kenshiro not only can copy techniques
he also can nullify its effects and see right through it. He has been shown to adapt to incredibly complex techniques on the fly, such as when
he adapted to Anryū Tenha's space-warping ability, he was able to
discover that Souther suffered from dextrocardia by sensing his blood flow and heartbeat, after just one fight, and also
able to find away to kill a guy that was "
immune" to Hokuto Shinken in mid fight, other Hokuto fighters such as Kasumi
can see a martial art’s “blind spot”, that is,
he can perceive the split second in which the user focuses energy to throw an attack and use that knowledge to predict the attack,
effectively negating the martial art as a whole, he also can
come up with new techniques on the fly in order to counter his opponent’s, in fact even minor characters in HNK are crazy adaptable this is evident when Shachi and Kaiser fought each other, The two were constantly one-up each other,
Shachi was able to fully read the Kaiser’s moves and then
Shachi got outskilled by Kaiser, showing that even fodders have the ability to quickly adapt to the opponent’s martial art. Speaking of Shachi, he has been shown to be able to
adapt to Han's speed just by watching him and Kenshiro fight,
even though he previously couldn't see Han's fist attack him, Kenshiro was also able to adapt to Souther's speed,
at first Ken could barely see him, but seconds after he was able to completely blitz Souther,
Ken is also said to become stronger according to his opponent level of power, and he did
managed to fight Raoh to a standstill and would have killed him had he not been stopped, despite
Toki stating only minutes prior that
Ken didn't even have a 1% chance of defeating Raoh. He's stated to have
"infinite potential" in terms of technique and combat prowess multiple times throughout the series. Scales significantly above
Toki, who, with his sheer skill and talent,
bent Raoh's fate and manifested his harbinger of death.
The same technique doesn't work twice on
a Hokuto master.
Martial Arts/Weapon Mastery:
Kenshiro is the greatest Hokuto Shinken master of all time, and he has absolute mastery over every single martial art displayed throughout the series (with few exceptions), he's also stated to have mastered
nunchaku, sword and staff use he's able to
deflect knives using his nunchucks, and is excellent at
throwing spears, other Hokuto fighters such as
Charles De Guise have show
incredible use of firearms, Hokuto fighters can turn anything into a deadly weapon, such as
cutlery and even
a strand of hair.
Skill scaling chains:
Hokuto no Ken skill respect thread. this doc does a good job of clarifying the scaling, but i also recommend for anyone interested to read the whole thing just for you to see how bonkers the skill feats in the series are.
Combat feats and Experience:
Read the
Hokuto no Ken skill respect thread feats section. in HNK you pretty much have to fight in apnea
because the slight loosening of muscles and the minuscule amount of nerves devoted to such an act and not the fight could be used by the opponent to win. About experience, even some fodders in HNK had like a
thousand fights, Kenshiro fights nearly every day in the apocalyptic wasteland. Also Given the context of how Hokuto works, how it was designed as the “ultimate martial art” and how its masters tend to go around the planet fighting other martial artists in order to enhance the style (
here’s a notable instance of
this happening) it’s a fairly safe bet to say that Hokuto Shinken ultimately contains aspects of every martial art that has ever existed from 2000 years ago to the moment the series ends, and Ken states that due to the nature of Hokuto Shinken's transmission,
it's like he has 1800 years worth of combat experience and training, he was an assassin from the very moment he was born, and due to the fact that he also went through the initiation ritual like Kasumi and
touched the Hokuto stone,
which makes him live through the lives of every single successor in the history of Hokuto, effectively gaining 1800 years of combat experience. Ken scales above Raoh (
who is stated to have surpassed the power of Hokuto itself) and
Kaioh who fought on equal grounds against Shachi possessed by
the Hokuto goddess (a deity that probably has millions of years worth of experience)
)
