Making a Martial art out of the Ripple Effect

[Whitephantom]

So ive been racking my brain thinking on a martial art based on laws and rules, commandments and of the sort. One ability the character can use is the ripple effect, but im not quite sure how i can implement it into a pretty powerful martial art with weaknesses on top of the immense power it can cause. Any suggestions could help

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

What kind of ripple do you want ?
Water ripple ? Ground ripple ? Fire ripple ? Air ripple ? Reality ripple ? Timeline ripple ?

Timeline ripple is quite interesting and easy. Because by using certain technique ahead of time, people will realize how to use said technique before the era supposedly come, making the destruction of the supposed future

This will be very frustrating for Transmigrator or Reincarnator. Especially for those who have seen the supposed novel for certain story, making their advantage of future knowledge useless.

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If you want a fighting story with Powers but with proper cost and consequences for every action, a.k.a following "Laws" with no stupid "rule-breaking" plot armor,

take a look at :

1. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha).

It's very through and consistent. It's pretty much the pioneer of Magitech genre.

Or

2. Soukyou no Fafner.

You can say Soukyou no Fafner is the more serious and realistic version of Evangelion. Because this also has lots of strategy fights with superpowered Mecha that require lots of cost and sacrifice part of their body/themselves if they want to increase the power of said mecha.

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[Whitephantom]

If you want a fighting story with Powers but with proper cost and consequences for every action, a.k.a following "Laws" with no stupid "rule-breaking" plot armor,

take a look at :

1. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha).

It's very through and consistent. It's pretty much the pioneer of Magitech genre.

Or

2. Soukyou no Fafner.

You can say Soukyou no Fafner is the more serious and realistic version of Evangelion. Because this also has lots of strategy fights with superpowered Mecha that require lots of cost and sacrifice part of their body/themselves if they want to increase the power of said mecha.

Yeah ill take a look at those then

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Yeah ill take a look at those then

I recommend to Read again, i have edited them to include one idea. But those anime remain.

Those anime may look boring and too "technical". But there's no stupid plot there I promise.

And since you're an author, there's quite lot To be gained from those to implement in story. Unlike mere unintelligent readers/viewers who can only cries due to their boredom since those kind of rule breaking moment like these : "Wow Overpower";"Wow MC save the girl despite it's impossible";etc. didn't happen.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

What if it's fudge ripple?

 

[Whitephantom]

I recommend to Read again, i have edited them to include one idea. But those anime remain.

Those anime may look boring and too "technical". But there's no stupid plot there I promise.

And since you're an author, there's quite lot To be gained from those to implement in story. Unlike mere unintelligent readers/viewers who can only cries due to their boredom since those kind of rule breaking moment like these : "Wow Overpower";"Wow MC save the girl despite it's impossible";etc. didn't happen.

yea the character i made has both martial arts and a magical side to that martial art like a basic element control, even the visible light he can control, and the ripple effect would both be a fun challange to my imagniation and a nice and new "power system" of sorts

What if it's fudge ripple?

whats that though?

What kind of ripple do you want ?
Water ripple ? Ground ripple ? Fire ripple ? Air ripple ? Reality ripple ? Timeline ripple ?

Timeline ripple is quite interesting and easy. Because by using certain technique ahead of time, people will realize how to use said technique before the era supposedly come, making the destruction of the supposed future

This will be very frustrating for Transmigrator or Reincarnator. Especially for those who have seen the supposed novel for certain story, making their advantage of future knowledge useless.

****

If you want a fighting story with Powers but with proper cost and consequences for every action, a.k.a following "Laws" with no stupid "rule-breaking" plot armor,

take a look at :

1. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha).

It's very through and consistent. It's pretty much the pioneer of Magitech genre.

Or

2. Soukyou no Fafner.

You can say Soukyou no Fafner is the more serious and realistic version of Evangelion. Because this also has lots of strategy fights with superpowered Mecha that require lots of cost and sacrifice part of their body/themselves if they want to increase the power of said mecha.

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to put it into a way its understandable, lets say he starts off with making a ripple with a step on the ground simple and plain, but progressively in the story it evovles and mutates into something like the character having the abilty to manipulate time and cause ripples and the such, but with how power that ability is, i would need something as huge, and i already made the character have pretty good limitations to his martial art, i would like to somehow add a "theory" of sorts. To put in more detail, its like saying i punched a person, but heres the technique on how i did it and where i punched and yada yada kinda deal

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

to put it into a way its understandable, lets say he starts off with making a ripple with a step on the ground simple and plain, but progressively in the story it evovles and mutates into something like the character having the abilty to manipulate time and cause ripples and the such,

Basically forced OP on supossedly simple ability. Any technique that can shake the ground can also produce similar result.

And the strongest kind of ripple on ground is called Earthquake. You can make the user move the tectonic plate if you want it that way, destroying the ground of several kingdom and causing tsunami waves. It's 100% kill rate due to the effects of the move.

But, Time ripple usually only affect those protagonist or any character who get transmigrated into novel or such (or at least some future revelation), Because you need to know the future if you want to affect time flow.

Still tho, dimensional ripple that cause bending of reality fabric sounds like a supposedly complicated topic that I can't really imagine MC have it harder than influencing timeline.

Well, that all another food of thought from me.

 

[Whitephantom]

Basically forced OP on supossedly simple ability. Any technique that can shake the ground can also produce similar result.

And the strongest kind of ripple on ground is called Earthquake. You can make the user move the tectonic plate if you want it that way, destroying the ground of several kingdom and causing tsunami waves. It's 100% kill rate due to the effects of the move.

But, Time ripple usually only affect those protagonist or any character who get transmigrated into novel or such (or at least some future revelation), Because you need to know the future if you want to affect time flow.

Still tho, dimensional ripple that cause bending of reality fabric sounds like a supposedly complicated topic that I can't really imagine MC have it harder than influencing timeline.

Well, that all another food of thought from me.

i will put into the story an isekai-ed person, and villains with magic. Unless i, dunno uh, make it separate, like the "time" and "space type of thing. And having the ability to effect the future just in general would be a pretty nice ability to have since things in my story gets pretty crazy. For an example a magic "centered" world collides and combines with the character's martial art "centered" world if that make's sense. But i could just call it a earthquake, but i like having fantasy names with simple things like that. And i also made it so he controls elements, like water air fire all that jazz. i want to make that specific character powerful yet "balanced" with restrictions thats sensible and fun to read about. SInce this can get waaay powerful quickly and all

 

[RepresentingCaution]

whats that though?

Sounds like an ice cream flavor to me

 

[Love4NovelGuy]

If you want an armour piercing strike, then there are only two types of nerfs you can give.

Either make the requirement for usage high, or make using it costly afterwards.

the point of different moves is that they needs sufficient risk.

without that, all moves are the same.

Like picking between 2 armour piercing strike or 5 heavy strikes at full power

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

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