Best fighting sequence you have read in a novel?

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What are the best fighting sequences you have read? Gimmicks, Tactics, Writing Style, choreography, and whatever else made you like that fight? I am asking about the fight itself, not the storyline/hype leading up to it. Except for novels, what about other mediums?

My favorite novel fight comes from Shadow Slave, it comes at around chapter 580 -

The battle between the two masters, Mordret and Sunny, was intense. Initially, Sunny allied with Mordret, only to later confront him. The strategy involving the flying needle was also quite impressive.
 

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All of my novels fighting scenes, I add a lot of action to all my fucking novels so I'm confident the action is good and intense. I always like playing around with the opponents powers and techniques, and also let them evolve over time through battles and discover new ways to use their abilities.
 

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All of my novels fighting scenes, I add a lot of action to all my fucking novels so I'm confident the action is good and intense. I always like playing around with the opponents powers and techniques, and also let them evolve over time through battles and discover new ways to use their abilities.
Look who talked, the God of Stats:)
 

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When in the Katze Plains, the kingdom and the empire face off, and Ainz casts his super spell Shub-Niggurath, summoning the Dark Youngs. It’s one of those cases where a scene works better in written form in the novel than in its animated counterpart.
 
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Klein's ascension to Godhood. I was so hyped reading that part in LoTM because it was a Royal Rumble of Gods.
 

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When in the Katze Plains, the kingdom and the empire face off, and Ainz casts his super spell Shub-Niggurath, summoning the Dark Youngs. It’s one of those cases where a scene works better in written form in the novel than in its animated counterpart.
You mean the splat. Splat. Splat page?
 

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What are the best fighting sequences you have read? Gimmicks, Tactics, Writing Style, choreography, and whatever else made you like that fight? I am asking about the fight itself, not the storyline/hype leading up to it. Except for novels, what about other mediums?

My favorite novel fight comes from Shadow Slave, it comes at around chapter 580 -

The battle between the two masters, Mordret and Sunny, was intense. Initially, Sunny allied with Mordret, only to later confront him. The strategy involving the flying needle was also quite impressive.
1) Martial world
best spear user
best fights of all CNs i ever seen


2) Martial arts master
best punch-to-punch ultra detailed fights
2.5) The only novel that did a fight where MC dont move 1mm, and the enemy lose by himself (one opponent had unlucky-curse-power, it rebounded, and the guy kept slipping, falling, rolling until going out of the ring. Even MC was fking clueless, stupefied, and saying he kept being on guard as he wondered if it was trap or something)

3) History strongest husband (top2fav among old CNs)
MC kidnapped a lot of "disabled/retarded" people that are in fact people with "locked" bloodline. Not xianxia-wuxia bloodline bs but like DNA kind of lock (superhuman kind of stuff). After operating on each of them, MC trained them into war machines. Starwars kind of troops that follow order66. In first fight, they advanced and slashed in unison as one. And they were like a fking wheatcutter giant machine.
Bonus : MC will recruit a 2nd army but for archery.
Bonus 2 : MC got nukes and fking nuked 1 army, 1 navel army, 1 island, 1 secret base, etc. (a rare CN that did the JP-cliche of "old civilization had op tech stuff")

3.5) FL3 Pirate queen
Turning around herself her 2 blades. Like a helicopter and mashing into ketchup all her enemies. She is a master that "unlocked" her bloodline and not relying on QI. Which means, she (and others) rely on her muscles only, hence unlike a "martial fighter" (that btw arent common) that turn pointless when 0qi and beatable, can go on near forever and can solo an enemy army.
Ultimate defense, ultimate offense.

4) very Very old manga "Soul Hunter" (hoshin engi)
Whip.
Ch196
475475

Ultimate defense and attack. Whip weapon. Last volume. (he was stuck in a black world for Decades (time dilatation))
Sadly only this 1 image exist to showcase his strength (and well its too op and its the end soon).
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5) Andur author on RR.
Forgot which novel.


MC+allies army vs Enemy army.
MC push a button.
Enemy commander get atomized by a laser beam from a satellite in space.
 

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6) Accelerator (To aru majutsu) also kinda the "prototype/pilot design" of later badass short whitehair guy in JP industry (Kakashi/Gojo)
Invulnerability. By vectors.

7) https://uukanshu.cc/book/10609/
A (original) xianxia where MC is finally acting correctly like a "living aeons" cultivator while keeping a young mentality.
Did one wish of mine. (thought wished for a gun but likely impossible with censoring on guns/urban)

MC negotiating vs a bad guy, while dinning in public restaurant. ofc goes bad.
MC directly decapitate the enemy. Done. Naturally pay and goes away.


(early 200+chaps or something)
 

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I liked some of the fights in knights and magic. The tactics for groups of modified mechs were really interesting.

Also, reincarnated as a sword in the first book where the sword and black cat girl protag first meet up is really satisfying.
 

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Klein's ascension to Godhood. I was so hyped reading that part in LoTM because it was a Royal Rumble of Gods.
Damn you beat me to it, I was just about to say the same thing.

Since, my first answer was taken, I'd say Arthur vs Cadel from Tbate in Victoriad
 

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The best fight scenes that I have always read are from novels by Robert E. Howard, he had a talent for making them frenetic and adrenalin-inducing, I recommend that you read his stories of Conan the Barbarian.
 

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i'm not a fan of most fight in stories (whatever the form; writing, animated, LA movie, you name it) because the ending is predictable; the good guy will win, and in the rare case he doesn't it usually came with a healthy dose of foreshadowing and he will come back stronger. but there's a single exception to this: Akame ga Kill. it's the only series that actually have a fight scene that excite me. not because the choreography or tactics or whatever technical thing that exist in the fight, but simply because i truly don't know how the ending of the fight will look like; who will win, and especially who will survive.

even the main character of the series die near the end of the story. at the end of the story only 2 or 3 survive from the original protag crew (around 10 people or so, i forgot it's been a long time)
 

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The best fight scenes that I have always read are from novels by Robert E. Howard, he had a talent for making them frenetic and adrenalin-inducing, I recommend that you read his stories of Conan the Barbarian.
He also wrote some boxing stories. Guy understood action.
 

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The best fight scenes that I have always read are from novels by Robert E. Howard, he had a talent for making them frenetic and adrenalin-inducing, I recommend that you read his stories of Conan the Barbarian.
Great writer. It’s been a while since I last read it. I think I’ll give Conan's stories another read.
 

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What are the best fighting sequences you have read? Gimmicks, Tactics, Writing Style, choreography, and whatever else made you like that fight? I am asking about the fight itself, not the storyline/hype leading up to it. Except for novels, what about other mediums?

My favorite novel fight comes from Shadow Slave, it comes at around chapter 580 -

The battle between the two masters, Mordret and Sunny, was intense. Initially, Sunny allied with Mordret, only to later confront him. The strategy involving the flying needle was also quite impressive.
The Fool's Gambit from lotm
 
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