The ability to wield flails or chained weaponry with great skill. Variation of Weapon Proficiency.
Also Called
- Ball & Chain Proficiency
- Bola Proficiency
- Chained Weapon Proficiency
- Enhanced Nunchakumanship
- Flail Proficiency
- Nunchaku Proficiency
Capabilities
Users are able to demonstrate a nimble aptitude for swinging weaponry. The user is able to wield swinging weaponry with great skill in hand condition, agility, and moderate attack power.
Applications
- Beat your enemies silly.
- Immobilize your opponent.
- Whirl your weapon to counter or block attacks.
- Be able to use the weapon as a rope if the length of the rope or chain is long enough.
- Strangle your opponent with the rope or chain.
Associations
- Adoptive Muscle Memory
- Crushing
- Empathic Weaponry
- Enhanced Combat
- Enhanced Whipmanship
- Enhanced Yo-yo Proficiency
- Intuitive Aptitude
- Metal Manipulation
- Sentient Weaponry
- Soul-Bound Weaponry
- Supernatural Flailmanship
- Weapon Manipulation
- Weapon Creation
- Weapon Manipulation
- Weapon Proficiency Touch
- If users possess energy capabilities, they may be able to perform:
- Energy Blades
- Energy Blast via swings
- Energy Infusion
- Spatial Slicing
- Temporal Slicing
- Flail-shaped Beam Emission
Known Users
Cartoons/Comics
- Uncle Ruckus (The Boondocks)
- Mattew "Matt" Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
- Elektra Natchios (Marvel Comics)
- Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics)
- Danny Ketch
- J. T. Slade/Hellfire (Marvel Comics)
- Marc Spector/Moon Knight (Marvel Comics)
- Carl "Crusher" Creel/Absorbing Man (Marvel Comics)
- Starling (Storm Hawks)
- Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Yang (Yin Yang Yo!)
- Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug (Miraculous Ladybug)
- Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee (Miraculous Ladybug)
- Boris (Bondi Band)
- Sugilite (Steven Universe)
- Alexandrite (Steven Universe)
- Texas (Motorcity)
- Pantro (Thundercats)
Anime/Manga
- Tomoe Tachibana (Absolute Duo)
- Seryu Ubiquitous (Akame ga Kill)
- Baldorias S. Fanghini (Black Cat)
- Ikkaku Madarame (Bleach)
- Hollow Ichigo (Bleach)
- Marechiyo Ōmaeda (Bleach)
- Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)
- Vikemon (Digimon)
- M.M. (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
- Ginta Toramizu (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Saturn (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Shuten/Anubis (Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors)
- Jakotsu (InuYasha)
- Might Guy (Naruto)
- Tenten (Naruto)
- Kisame Hoshigaki (Naruto)
- Ban (Nanatsu no Taizai/The Seven Deadly Sins)
- Rakuyo (One Piece)
- Krieg (One Piece)
- Zeo (One Piece)
- Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
- Rem (Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World)
- Kan Mei (Kingdom)
- Blossom (Powerpuff Girls Z)
- Rinku (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Maruss (Zatch Bell!)
Video Games
- Deus (Asura's Wrath)
- Bayonetta (Bayonetta)
- Ness (Earthbound/Super Smash Bros.)
- Lucas (Earthbound/Super Smash Bros.)
- "Yoyo Yoko" Koshibojin (Ehrgeiz)
- Bridget (Guilty Gear)
- Malin (King of Fighters)
- Kirby (Kirby)
- Murai (Ninja Gaiden)
- Ryu Hasabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
- Melpha (Queen's Blade)
- Sigui (Queen's Blade: Rebellion)
- Acolytes (Ragnarok)
- Priest (Ragnarok)
- Mike Jones (StarTropics)
- Captain Blue Jr. (Viewtiful Joe)
- Trick Chain (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Kratos (God of War series)
- Kim Wu (Killer Instinct series)
Television/Movies
- Sam Puckett (iCarly)
- Mei Mei (Kung Fu Panda)
- Sister (Kubo and the Two Strings)
- Gogo Yubari (Kung Fu Panda)
Web Animation
- Sun Wukong (RWBY)
Gallery
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Tomoe Tachibana (Absolute Duo) uses a modified kusarigama as her Blaze.
Baldor (Black Cat) wielding Heimdall, a rocket-boosted Orichalcum flail with a control at the handle, so powerful it is capable of shattering a city block.
Ōmaeda Marechiyo's (Bleach) Shikai, Gegetsuburi, takes the form a spiked ball attached to a long chain...
...It has little defensive power and is more for simple offensive force.
Darkray (Kurohime) wielding the Death Angel Hammer in her weapon form (though Hammer resembles more of a flail), along with five others.
Yo-Yo Kirby (Kirby) wielding his namesake weapon like a flail.
Malin wielding bladed yo-yo as flails.
Kisame Hoshigaki (Naruto) extending Samehada's handle, changing it into a shark's skin flail.
Rakuyo (One Piece) wielding a sentient spiked flail with a canine-like face, biting its opponets at the same time as impact.
Hyper Blossom (Powerpuff Girls Z) wielding a yo-yo as a flail.
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The Heroine (Toukiden) wielding a kusarigama that has a flail attached to the opposite end.
The Shizuru Kuwabara: Reikibuki
After upgrading his Billy Club, Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics) gained the ability to use his grappling hook to connect both parts to serve in a variety of ninja-themed flail weapons.
Trick Chain (Valkyrie Crusade)
Sugilite (Steven Universe) uses a flail made from Garnet's gauntlets and Amethyst's whip.
Mei Mei (Kung Fu Panda)
Sam (iCarly) often carries around a sock full of frozen butter to swing and hit people she dislikes.
Kratos (God of War) wields the Blades of Chaos, two short blades connected to his wrists by chains that extend outward.
One of the Sisters (Kubo and the Two Strings) is adept at the use of a chain-scythe/claw weapon.
When his ÄRM, Babbo is in his base form, Ginta (Marchen Awakens Romance) sometimes ignores his true usage and chooses to throw him at the enemy.
Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance) uses Allu Majuu as a flail, countering Ginta's use with Babbo.
Saturn's (Marchen Awakens Romance) Weapon ÄRM, Eisenkugel summons a chain with a heavy ball at the end. Sadistic and insane, Saturn takes his time battering his opponent before killing them.
Maruss (Zatch Bell!) controls a chained iron spike ball with his Eijasu Garon spell.
Sun Wukong vs. Roman Torchwick (RWBY)
With the finesse of a master, Jakotsu (InuYasha) wields her/his Jakotsutō, a sword with multiple blades linked together for great lengths of slashing.
Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
His favorite weapon of choice, Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) is a master...
...in wielding nunchaku, easily blowing away entire groups of opponets with each swing.
Might Guy (Naruto)
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