Talk:Combat Specialist/@comment-26422040-20160528155248/@comment-28248631-20160528185731

Well, as someone else here already said, this is proficiency in hand-to-hand fighting, not weaponry and she has been stated to use mostly weaponry. So she's not particularly a hand-to-hand combat genius.

And you don't have to specialize in hand-to-hand combat to be a fighting genius, neither. Sasuke Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake do not specialize in hand-to-hand (which is known as taijutsu in the Naruto Universe), but they are nonetheless hand-to-hand fighting geniuses, and NOT just because of the Sharingan. The person has to have already had the capacity and flexibility to be able to master many different forms of hand-to-hand fighting, and that's why Sasuke and Kakashi are Martial Arts geniuses. Madara isn't a taijustu specialist either, but as you've seen (if you really have), that doesn't stop him from easily rivaling and even surpassing some of the best martial artists in the Naruto Universe.

Specialization in the Naruto Universe simply means "a primary user of". It does not mean "only skilled in". Sasuke and Kakashi are Ninjutsu specialists, but they are nonetheless exceptionally skilled in the art of unarmed hand-to-hand combat, even for Shinobi.

It wouldn't prevent Erza from being here if she was a primary weapon user but still showed exceptional hand-to-hand skill, but if the individual showed entirely mastery in armed combat and weaponry whilst displaying little or no hand-to-hand skill, they won't be on the list. Kratos is proficient in the use of many weapons (ranging from swords to even more blunt weapons like clubs), but he still isn't a martial artist.