Club Proficiency

Club Proficiency
Kaidou (One Piece) wields his signature Kanabo, Hassaikai, with absolute power, easily breaking the hardest of defense and defeating the strongest of opponents.
Power/Ability to:	Be a master of wielding clubs.

"With my eye I see a new way. With my club I create a new path."

― False Son (Risk of Rain 2)

The ability to be a master of wielding clubs. Variation of Blunt Weapon Proficiency.

Also Called

• Club Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Skill/Specialism/Talent
• Baton/Nightstick Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency/Skill/Specialism/Talent
• Bludgeon Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency/Skill/Specialism/Talent
• Kanabō Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency/Skill/Specialism/Talent

Capabilities

The user, either innately or through training, is a master of wielding many types of clubs, among the simplest of all weapons: a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon, such as a mace, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, Cosh or nightstick inflict heavy blunt force damage and/or trauma, making the user very dangerous in close quarters combat. The user can also break down structures and take out heavily armored enemies.

Applications

• Attack Movement Manipulation
• Crushing
• Defense Bypassing
• Deflection
  • Parrying Mastery
• Dual Wielding
• Earthquake Generation
• Peak Human/Enhanced Precision
  • Precise Strike
• Heavy Strike
• Impale if the club has spikes.
• Megaton Strike
• Multi Strike
  • Megaton Multi Strike
• Physical Attack Reversal
  • Countering Mastery
• Pressure Strike
• Weighted Attacks
  • Body Destruction
  • Facial Disfiguration

Variation

• Leiomano Proficiency

Associations

• Adoptive Muscle Memory
• Baseball Bat Proficiency
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Knobkerrie Proficiency
• Mace Proficiency
• Stick-Fighting Mastery
  • Arnis Mastery
• Tonfa Proficiency

Limitations

• May be very hard to lift.
• User may be in trouble from mid to long range.
• May hinder the user's movement.
• May require a degree of training or exposure.
• May take time to achieve mastery.

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Aeni/Manhwa

• Azan (Berserk)
• Grunbeld (Berserk)
• Pippin (Berserk)
• Wyald (Berserk)
• Love Aikawa (Bleach)
• Dokuro Mitsukai (Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan)
• Ogremon (Digimon)
• Coachmon (Digimon Universe App Monsters)
• Melina (Elden Ring: Road to the Erdtree)
• Goblin Slayer (Goblin Slayer)
• Demon King (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)
• Higuma Kagarite (Hell Warden Higuma)
• Gaku Haku Kou (Kingdom)
• Kan Mei (Kingdom)
• Mou Bu (Kingdom)
• Rin Bu Kun (Kingdom)
• Ryuu Sen (Kingdom)
• Tajifu (Kingdom)
• Zenou (Kingdom)
• Yong Museong (Legend of the Northern Blade)
• Kotetsu Hagane (Naruto)
• Alvida (One Piece)
• Gin (One Piece)
• Kaidou (One Piece)
• Mr. 4 (One Piece)
• Mr. 9 (One Piece)
• Minokoala (One Piece)
• Minorhinoceros (One Piece)
• Minotaurus (One Piece)
• Minozebra (One Piece)
• Urogue (One Piece)
• Yamato (One Piece)
• Gaku (Sakamoto Days)
• Buddha (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie/Record of Ragnarok)
• Heracles (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie/Record of Ragnarok)
• Bjorn Yandel (Surviving the Game as a Barbarian)
• Gobta (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)

Cartoons/Comics

• Ekko (Arcane)
• Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)
• Dick Grayson/Nightwing (DC Comics)
• Duke Thomas/The Signal (DC Comics)
• Bobby (Dungeons & Dragons TV series)
• Captain Caveman (Hanna-Barbera)
• Hercules (Marvel Comics)
• Mac Mangal (Marvel Comics)
• Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
• Boris (Samurai Jack)
• Snarl (Transformers: Animated)
• Sumo Kuma (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)

Live Action Movies/TV Series

• Battle Fever J (Battle Fever J)
• Denzimen (Denshi Sentai Denziman)
• Sun Vulcan (Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan)
• Goggle V (Dai Sentai Goggle V)
• Dynamen (Kagaku Sentai Dynaman)
• Core Zyurangers (Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger)
• Core Ohrangers (Choriki Sentai Ohranger)
• GoGoFive (Kyukyu Sentai GoGoFive)
• Sae Taiga/GaoWhite (Hyakuju Sentai Gaoranger)
• Tsukumaro Ogami/GaoSilver (Hyakuju Sentai Gaoranger)
• Core Dekarangers (Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger); except Banban "Ban" Asuka/DekaRed
• Ren Kosaka/Go-On Blue (Engine Sentai Go-Onger)
• Saki Royama/Go-On Yellow (Engine Sentai Go-Onger)
• Sosuke Esumi/Go-On Red (Engine Sentai Go-Onger)
• Akira Nijino/ToQ 6 (Ressha Sentai ToQger)
• Shuten-douji (Shuriken Sentai Nininger)
• Misao Mondo/Zyuoh The World (Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger)
• Patrangers (Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger)
• Haruka Kito/Oni Sister (Avataro Sentai Donbrothers)
• Ishiro "Chashiro" Meita/Bun Blue (Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger)
• Mira Shifuto/Bun Pink (Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger)
• Taiya Hando/Bun Red (Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger)
• Adam (I, Frankenstein)
• Makoto Hiwaka/Kamen Rider G3 (Kamen Rider Agito)
• Hibiki/Kamen Rider Hibiki (Kamen Rider Hibiki)
• Gentaro Kisaragi/Kamen Rider Fourze (Kamen Rider Fourze); via Elek States
• Naoto Taruma/Jiban (Kidou Keiji Jiban)
• Bikel (Tokkei Winspector)
• Exceedraft (Tokusou Exceedraft)
• Janperson (Tokusou Robo Janperson)
• Core Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
• Core Zeo Rangers (Power Rangers Zeo)
• Core Lightspeed Rangers (Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue)
• Alyssa Enrilé/Wild Force White Tiger Ranger (Power Rangers Wild Force)
• Merrick Baliton/Wild Force Lunar Wolf Ranger (Power Rangers Wild Force)
• B-Squad Rangers (Power Rangers S.P.D.); except S.P.D. Red Rangers
• Gorrox (Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel)
• Ushar (Star Wars)

Video Games

• Shugoki (For Honor)
  • Okuma
• Arataki Itto (Genshin Impact)
• Multiple Civil Protection (CP) officers/Metro Cops (Half-Life)
• Leilani (Indivisible)
• Ekko (League of Legends)
• MPN2 Arena Mode Protagonist (Madness Combat)
• Various Nexus Agents (Madness Combat)
• Nexus Riot Guards (Madness Combat)
• Subject 1v02P_6 (Madness Combat)
• Club Strong (Mega Man Star Force)
• Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
• Cloakers (Payday)
• Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5)
• Ogerpon (Pokémon)
• False Son (Risk of Rain 2)
• Brick (Shadow Fight)
• Bull (Shadow Fight)
• Irbis (Shadow Fight)
• Shadow (Shadow Fight)
• Gargaros (Yo-kai Watch)
• Seth Lowell (Zenless Zone Zero)

Web Animations

• Deimos (Madness Combat)
• Jesus/Jebus (Madness Combat)
• Hank J. Wimbleton (Madness Combat)
• Sanford (Madness Combat)
• Sun (Madness Combat)
• Tricky (Madness Combat)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Aeni

Wyald (Berserk)

Love Aikawa's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Tengumaru, is a giant kanabo club that can ignited itself to increase attack power.

Ogremon (Digimon)

Coachmon (Digimon Universe App Monsters)

Melina (Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree) using a club to kill Bloodhound Knight Dariwill with two critical hits.

The Goblin Slayer (Goblin Slayer) frequently wields clubs as improvised weapons to effectively kill goblins...

...and the far deadlier, Hobogoblins.

Demon King (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)

Higuma Kagarite (Hell Warden Higuma)

An extremely skilled wielder, Mou Bu (Kingdom) uses his immense and destructive strength to destroy his opponents with every swing of his war mace.

Rin Bu Kun (Kingdom)

Tajifu (Kingdom)

Zenou (Kingdom) completely obliterating his opponents with each swing of his war mace.

Kōtetsu Hagane (Naruto)

Alvida (One Piece)

Yamato (One Piece) inherited his father Kaidou's preference for using kanabo and is just as formidable in terms of power...

...He even uses it to fight on equal ground with him in his strongest form.

Gaku (Sakamoto Days)

Buddha (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie/Record of Ragnarok) wields his divine spiked club with godly skill and proficiency, taking on other Gods with his club.

Gobta (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)

Cartoons/Comics

Ekko (Arcane)

Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)

Dick Grayson/Nightwing (DC Comics)

Duke Thomas/The Signal (DC Comic)

Captain Caveman (Hanna-Barbera)

Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

Mac Mangel (Marvel Comics)

Sumo Kuma (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)

Live Action Movies/TV Series

Adam (I, Frankenstein) uses enhanced batons to fight against demons.

Hibiki/Kamen Rider Hibiki (Kamen Rider Hibiki) with his Ongekibou Rekka.

Gentaro Kisaragi/Kamen Rider Fourze Elek States (Kamen Rider Fourze) with the Billy the Rod.

Shuten-douji (Shuriken Sentai Nininger)/Gorrox (Power Rangers Ninja Super Steel)

Ushar (Star Wars) carried a war club with a kinetite charge at one end with concussion vector vanes that would release a widely dispersed concussive blast when a target was hit.

Video Games

Shugoki (For Honor)

Arataki Itto (Genshin Impact)

A Civil Protection (CP) officer/Metro Cop (Half-Life) using a Stun Baton.

Leilani (Indivisible) wields a leiomano, a shark-toothed club, with incredible skill.

Ekko (League of Legends)

Club Strong (Mega Man Star Force)

Cloakers (Payday)

Ogerpon (Pokémon)

Brick (Shadow Fight)

Bull (Shadow Fight)

Irbis (Shadow Fight)

Gargaros (Yo-kai Watch)

Seth Lowell (Zenless Zone Zero) wields a riot baton and a shield that can be combined together into a greatsword.

Videos

T-1000 in Pescadero hospital - Terminator 2 -Remastered--2

Luffy vs Kaido (Divine)Thunder Bagua FIXED-2

Kaido uses Thunder Bagua to attack Zorro and Trafalgar Law - One Piece 1027-2

Nightwing VS Daredevil (DC VS Marvel) - DEATH BATTLE!-2