The ability to be a master of handling artillery, either innately or through training. Variation of Ranged Weapon Proficiency and Enhanced Accuracy.
Also Called[]
- Artillery Aptitude/Combat/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery
- Enhanced Gunnery
- Enhanced Artillerymanship
- Expert/Master/Skilled Artilleryman
- Hōjutsu (Art of Gunnery)
Capabilities[]
Users, either innately or through training, are masters of handling artillery — large weapons that fire munitions at a range far beyond those of regular small arms — allowing them to perform great feats and benefit in far ranged combat. Users are to have excellent bull-eyes aim on their target via ammunition.
Users are able to operate all forms of artillery, such as cannons, heavy rockets, and howitzers. They can create artillery as well as repair them, as well as possessing expert knowledge and handling them. Users have excellent intuition on trigger-initiated, hand-held, and hand-directed implements, especially with an extending bore, which thereby resembles the class of weapon in either form or concept.
Applications[]
Variations[]
- Aircraft Artillery: A large-caliber gun mounted on an attack aircraft, this is typically found on a slow-flying gunship.
- Autocannon: A large-caliber weapon that fires shells rapidly
- Chain Gun
- Revolver Cannon
- Rotary Cannon: A large-caliber multiple-barreled automatic firearm that uses a Gatling-type rotating barrel assembly to deliver a sustained saturational direct fire at much greater rates of fire than single-barreled autocannons of the same caliber. Combination of Rotary Machine Gun Proficiency and Artillery Proficiency.
- Ballista: An ancient missile weapon that launches either bolts or stones at a distant target. Combination of Crossbow Proficiency and Artillery Proficiency.
- Cannon Proficiency
- Catapult: An ancient ballistic device used to launch a projectile a great distance without the aid of gunpowder or other propellants – particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines.
- Trebuchet: A type of catapult that uses a long arm to throw a projectile. It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder.
- Coastal Artillery: A fixed-position weapon dedicated to defense of a particular location, usually a coast or harbor. Not needing to be mobile, coastal artillery used to be much larger than equivalent field artillery pieces, giving them longer range and more destructive power.
- Field Artillery: A mobile weapon used to support armies in the field. Subcategories include:
- Anti-Aircraft Artillery: A guns, usually mobile, designed for attacking aircraft by land and/or at sea. Some guns were suitable for the dual roles of anti-aircraft and anti-tank warfare.
- Anti-Tank Artillery: A gun, usually mobile, designed primarily for direct fire to destroy armored fighting vehicles with heavy armor.
- Anti-Tank Gun: A gun designed for direct fire to destroy tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.
- Field Gun: Capable of long-range direct fires.
- Gun-Howitzer: Capable of high or low-angle fire with a longer barrel.
- Gun-Mortar: Typically breech-loaded, capable of high or low-angle fire with a longer barrel.
- Howitzer: Capable of high-angle fire, it is most often employed for indirect-fire.
- Infantry Support Gun: A directly support infantry units
- Mortar: A typically muzzle-loaded, short-barreled, high-trajectory weapon designed primarily for an indirect-fire role.
- Mountain Gun: A lightweight gun that can be disassembled and transported through difficult terrain.
- Rocket Artillery: Launches rockets or missiles, instead of shot or shell.
- Tank Gun: A large-caliber gun mounted on a tank or an assault gun to provide mobile direct fire.
- Naval Artillery: A gun mounted on a warship to be used either against other naval vessels or to bombard coastal targets in support of ground forces.
- Nuclear Artillery: An artillery which fires nuclear shells.
- Railgun Proficiency
- Railway Gun: A large-caliber weapon that is mounted on, transported by and fired from a specially-designed railway wagon.
- Recoilless Gun: A type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the moment of firing, creating forward thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil.
- Siege Artillery: A large-caliber artillery that has limited mobility with indirect firing trajectory, which was used to bombard targets at long distances.
Associations[]
- Enhanced Combat Mastery
- Enhanced Gunmanship
- Gun Creation
- Gun Manipulation
- Hidden Arsenal
- Ranged Weapon Proficiency
- Vehicular Combat
- Vehicular Mastery
- Weapon Proficiency
Limitations[]
- May require a degree of training or exposure.
- May take time to achieve mastery.
- May be limited to certain types of artillery.
- Heavy firepower and range may cause much collateral damage and friendly fire.
Known Users[]
Comics
- The Cannoneer (DC Comics)
- Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
- James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics)
- Frank Castle/Punisher (Marvel Comics)
- Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
- Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel Comics)
Anime/Manga
- Mine (Akame Ga Kill!)
- Seryu Ubiquitous (Akame Ga Kill!)
- Beluga J. Heard (Black Cat)
- Suì-Fēng (Bleach)
- BG9 (Bleach)
- Gin (Case Closed/Detective Conan)
- Hairo (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Rappa Momochi (Gintama)
- Keicho Nijimura (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamonds are Unbreakable); via Bad Company
- Narancia Ghirga (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Aerosmith
- Renkotsu (InuYasha)
- Ginkotsu (InuYasha)
- Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail)
- Nagato/Pain (Naruto); via Asura Path
- Franky (One Piece)
- Tilestone (One Piece)
- Baby 5 (One Piece)
- Gladius (One Piece)
- Firetank Pirates (One Piece)
- Hyōgo Kujiranami (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Tail Yellow (Ore,Twintail ni Narimasu)
- Issei Hyodou (Highschool DxD)
- Aetheria Akasha (Trinity Seven)
- Oregano (Sora no Otoshimono)
- Nagumo Hajime (From Common Job to Strongest in the World)
- Various Characters (Gundam franchise); via mobile weapons
Video Games
- Taison Nyudo (Asura's Wrath)
- Bayonetta (Bayonetta)
- Nekozuka (Blue Archive)
- Bo (Brawl Stars)
- Brock (Brawl Stars)
- Penny (Brawl Stars)
- Nani (Brawl Stars)
- Dante (Devil May Cry)
- Urzael (Diablo)
- Jinx (League of Legends)
- Pharah (Overwatch)
- Genesect (Pokémon)
- Kohran Li (Sakura Wars)
- Inklings (Splatoon)
- Agent 3 (Splatoon)
- DJ Octavio (Splatoon)
Literatures
- Timballisto (Redwall series)
Movies
- Shen (Kung Fu Panda)
Gallery[]
Mine (Akame Ga Kill!) wielding Roman Artillery: Pumpkin to great effect, from machine gun to long-range sniping.
Seryu Ubiquitous (Akame Ga Kill!) firing a large volley of heavy artillery for widespread damage.
Beluga J. Heard (Black Cat) wielding Verethragna bazooka with deadly skills, whether for firing or a makeshift hammer.
BG9 (Bleach) has an array of missiles made of spiritual particles, and temporarily had access to Suì-Fēng's Jakuhō Raikōben.
Urzael (Diablo) possesses a powerful cannon that he can use in combat and as a melee weapon.
Dante (Devil May Cry) can wield various artillery to their full potential with his Gunslinger Style.
Rappa Momochi (Gintama) utilizing the powerful Ninja Artillery hidden within her puppet.
Renkotsu (InuYasha) was very skilled with handling and creating all types of artillery of his time, his hand cannon being his signature.
Ginkotsu (InuYasha) was equipped with a large arsenal of heavy artillery thanks to Renkotsu's expertise.
Shen (Kung-Fu Panda) was skilled in artillery, his interest in his family's fireworks led him to create powerful cannons.
Nagato (Naruto) has access to heavy artillery from the Asura Path, such as a chakra cannon or missile launchers.
Franky (One Piece) is very skilled with a large armament of heavy artillery which he installed in his bionic body, from rocket launchers, machine guns...
...to laser cannons.
Tilestone (One Piece) wielding the Demi Cannon that was meant to be installed into battleships as a hand cannon.
Baby 5 (One Piece) using her Buki Buki no Mi powers to transform herself into a large assortment of artillery that she wields efficiently, such as a missile or hand cannon.
The Fire Tank Pirates's (One Piece) great marksmanship skills extends to artillery such as cannons and arm-mounted machine gun.
Genesect (Pokémon) is armed with a cannon, which allows it to fire its Techno Blast, a powerful artillery attack dependent on the drive installed.
Hyōgo Kujiranami (Rurouni Kenshin) became skilled with artillery, replacing his missing right hand with heavy weapons such as the Armstrong Cannon or a customized grenade launcher, both of which he fires with great effects.
Kohran Li (Sakura Wars) is a master of heavy artillery, her preferred weapon being a bazooka.
Inklings (Splatoon)...
..can use the Inkzooka, which fires long-ranged tornadoes of ink...
..the Inkstrike, a powerful, remotely guided ink torpedo...
...and the Killer Wail, which unleashes a devastating barrage of sound, all of which resemble artillery, with proficiency.
Agent 3 (Splatoon) can use the Inkzooka with proficiency.
DJ Octavio (Splatoon) can use octorpedoes, rocket fists, the Octarian equivalent of the Killer Wail...
...and octomissiles, all of which resemble artillery, with proficiency.
Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail) creating his Super Long Distance Anti-Material Magic Cannon which has a range of 400 km that reach from the port town of Hargeon to Magnolia.
Issei Hyodou (Highschool DxD) using his Dragon Blaster Beam Cannon to strike Cao Cao with great aim.
Narancia Ghirga's Stand, Aerosmith (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) possessed a wide array of powerful artillery weaponry to destroy its enemies...
...equipped with small machine guns on its wings that fire tracer bullets with infinite amount of ammunition...
...and a single miniature bomb.
Keicho Nijimura's Stand, Bad Company (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamonds are Unbreakable)
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Jinx (League of Legends)
James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine (Marvel Comics)
Nagumo Hajime's (From Common Job to Strongest in the World) supreme marksmanship includes heavy artillery such as his gatling gun Metzelei...
...and Rocket Launcher Orkan.
Genesect (Pokemon)
Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
Frank Castle/The Punisher (Marvel Comics)
Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics)
Nekozuka Hibiki (Blue Archive)
Videos[]
Josuke Vs Keicho (Part 1)-2
Josuke Vs Keicho (Part 2)-2
-HD- ジョジョ • JoJo- Diamond Is Unbreakable - Josuke vs Keicho Nijimura-2
ジョジョ 5 Narancia vs. Formaggio (1) 『HD』
ジョジョ 5 Narancia vs. Formaggio (2) 『HD』
ジョジョ- Narancia vs. Tiziano And Squalo 『Final』-2
Genos VS War Machine (One Punch Man VS Marvel's Iron Man) DEATH BATTLE!