Joe Fenton <jlfenton@npgcable.com> wrote:
  >Well, the way I think of it, the youma's are always sucking in ki,

not putting it out like that attack needs. As such, Ranma would
have to modify the attack accordingly. Maybe look at it like the
youma is handling the "cold" part and Ranma would then assume the
"hot" part.

  any act of aggression can put out hot ki if you dont know anything about controlling it while fighting in any way, but it dosent have to be hot ki at all, 2 examples are when ranma used the freezeing weapon combined with his hot ki to creat an assending dragon punch in an instant, another time akane used fire,
  who knows maybe youma dont have ki and thats why they need it 
   
  ryuuji grey wrote:

you forgot a few important factors, it also involves the
intensity of ranmas energy, how fast youma can drain energy
would also depend on how fierce the energy is, considering
ranma has the ability to channel his ki into his body for high
attack speed and defence, and the ammount of work involved
ranma's ki would be really "excited" so youma might not even
be able to take off ranmas energy successfully,

I didn't forget, it just wasn't necessary to go into in any
real detail for the post. You do make some good points there.

it should be noted that if an author decides that a youma
can absorb ki blasts, all of ranmas attacks become alot less
effective, since ranma generaly uses ki in his attack and movement
unless hes holding back, some of his strength and latent abilities
will be useless.

That was just one thing I was trying to point out. An author could
decide youmas are capable of absorbing ki attacks, or they could
decided such concentrated and highly focused ki could burn them
out. It would depend on the story and how well the writing was.

the one attack ranma will always have to his advantage is
the accending dragon punch, the focus of this particular ki attack
is to keep ranmas ki as calm and contained as possible, the less
movement ki has the colder it is, thus the soul of ice, the unexcited
nature of his ki would make it difficult to pull off of ranma,
considering youmas normal aggressive ness, it wouldnt be hard to
provoke them into this,

Well, the way I think of it, the youma's are always sucking in ki,
not putting it out like that attack needs. As such, Ranma would
have to modify the attack accordingly. Maybe look at it like the
youma is handling the "cold" part and Ranma would then assume the
"hot" part.

generaly ranma is very very fast and could easily out manuver most if not all youma, 

Yes, even normal people were able to dodge most of the youmas.
One or two had high speed attacks or were able to do bursts of
high speed, but nothing any of the Ranma characters couldn't
handle. The main thing would again be exactly how to stop a
creature that feeds on ki.

senshi are for the most part increadibly slow, sure they
know attacks that could fry ranmas butt if he where to try
to fight power Vs power, but that isnt martial arts, people
forget that ranma fights extremely highcalibur and dangerous
martial artists, They KNOW the basics, the basics are the most
important but since both ranma and his usual opponent know
they cant use half of their most powerfull attacks, they dont,

One thing you notice in Ranma is that he normally starts fights
by using the LOWEST level of skill he needs to stay in a fight.
He lets the opponent lead off on any special moves. He does this
mainly because it's how he learns things. He learned how to do
his ki attacks by irritating Ryoga enough to use them against
him enough times to figure out how it was done. He did the same
thing with Ryu Kumon, and altough the manga doesn't say so, you
KNOW by the end of the arc, Ranma knew how to do the Yamasen-ken.
He was able to do the umisen-ken after seeing it done (on him
by his father) ONCE, so as many times as he saw Ryu do the
yamasen-ken, you KNOW he knew it by the end, and indeed he
was even able to counter all the attacks.

the senshi however dont know martial arts, their clumsyness
and power can be used against them because they arent aware
and cant defend against it, ranma may know ki blasts and how
to create tornados, but most of his powerful attacks are in
the raelm of common martial arts, and the senshi arent the best
at melee combat, senshi are also increadably human, and that
means that ranma knows their weakpoints, their wrists and
shoulders bend the same as ours,

Yep. His best bet would be to fight in a manner similar to
Happosai.

ranma could quite easily beat the senshi individualy without breaking a sweat, especialy as a girl. 

Well, as long as he fought HIS way and didn't get suckered
into trying to fight THEIR way. As I said above, Ranma often
lets his opponents have their way for a while just to see if
they have anything he would like to learn. So it's possible
he might let them attack their way in an effort to figure out
what they were doing, much like he did with Ryoga and the
shishi hokodan.

ranma might not be able to beat a youma, but if a youma
wanted to get at ranma, s/he would be hard pressed to even get close

Yes, Ranma could easily avoid a youma, but he's usually
not the kind to avoid a fight unless he had no other choice.
For example, if it were just him, he'd probably stick around
and try to slug it out.


			
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