Halberd Proficiency

Halberd Proficiency
Edward Newgate/Whitebeard (One Piece) has decades of experience in wielding his bisentō to fight the strongest of enemies, causing massive shock waves by simply swinging and even imbuing it with his Tremor-Tremor Fruit/Gura Gura no Mi's vibrational powers.
Power/Ability to:	Possess skill in wielding halberds.

"I warned you not to misread it. Hozukimaru isn't a spear. It's a Sansetsukon."

― Ikkaku Madarame to Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)

The power to possess great skill in wielding a halberd. Variation of Enhanced Polearm Proficiency.

Also Called

• Naginatajutsu (Art of the Halberd)
• Glaive
• Guandao
• Podao
• Bisento

Capabilities

Users are able to demonstrate a natural aptitude in the way of halberds. The user is able to wield any kind of halberds with great speed, power, and skill. As one of the largest (or at least longest) classes of weapon that can be carried by normal humans, users of this ability excel in keeping enemies at bay and maintaining a superior position in combat, having a great advantage, at a distance, over opponents wielding smaller melee weapons.

Less conventional techniques employed by masters halberdier include stopping large incoming objects, breaking through any number of obstructions with powerful thrusts, using the tip as a precise long-range slicing tool and blocking incoming attacks with the shaft.

Applications

• Cutting with a halberd.
• Deflection with a halberd.
• Enhanced Polearm Proficiency with a halberd.
• Enhanced Strike
• Impale with a halberd
• Strength Combat
• Severing with a halberd.
• One Hit Kill with a halberd.
• Precise Strike with a halberd.

Associations

• Adoptive Muscle Memory
• Demonic Weaponry
• Divine Weaponry
• Empathic Weaponry
• Enhanced Combat
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Magic Weaponry
• Sentient Weaponry
• Soul-Bound Weaponry
• Weapon Creation
• Weapon Manipulation
• Weapon Physiology
• Weapon Proficiency Touch

• If the user possesses energy capabilities, they may be able to perform:
  • Energy Blast via swings
  • Energy Infusion
  • Ergokinetic Blade Construction
  • Halberd-shaped Energy Beam Emission
  • Spatial Slicing
  • Temporal Slicing

Known Users

• Ikkaku Madarame (Bleach)
• Hoshiyomi (Inuyasha)
• Hakudoshi (Inuyasha)
• Bankotsu (InuYasha)
• Tsubaki Shinra (Highschool DxD)
• Hannyabal (One Piece)
• Charlotte Oven (One Piece)
• Tao Ren (Shaman King)
• Various Podao Users (Kingdom)
• Momiji (Ninja Gaiden 3)
• Momiji (Ninja Gaiden series)
• William Adams (Nioh)

Gallery

Ikkaku Madarame's (Bleach) Hozukimaru Shikai takes the form of a Naginata which he wields with great skill.

Charlotte Oven (One Piece) is a brutal fighter in wielding his massive Naginata which he combines with his Heat-Heat Fruit/Netsu Netsu no Mi powers for vicious flaming slashes.

Ou Ki, The Monsterous Bird of Qin's (Kingdom) favourite weapon is a treasured Podao in which he wielded in countless battles...

...slay Gi Kou, despite his mounted advantage, with ease...

...show off his impressive speed to Shin's neck...

...split Shou Mou of Destruction and his horse in half...

...easily slaying and killling entire armies with every swing...

...and even surpass Hou Ken, the Bushin during their brief duel.

Hou Ken (Kingdom)

A Great General of the highest caliber, Ren Pa (Kingdom) demonstrates his prowess with his Podao...

Shin of the Hi Shin Unit (Kingdom)

Ran Bi Haku, Right Hand Man of Rei Ou (Kingdom)

Gai Mou of the Wei Fire Dragons (Kingdom)

Armed with ferocious strength, Ba Nan Ji, the Iron Hammer of Ganmon (Kingdom) wields his podao...

...with prowerful prowess.

Gyou' Un (Kingdom)

Rozo, King of the Quanrong (Kingdom) wielded his podao with brutal strength...

...easily destroying the powerful Feego Tribe...

...and possessing savage strength that rivaled that of their king, Danto.

Momiji (Ninja Gaiden) is a master in combining Naginatajutsu and Ninjutsu, easily cut down Black Spider Ninjas and Greater Fiends with the Heavenly Dragon Naginata.

Though he could not fully control the Kenkon Naginata, Hoshiyomi (Inuyasha) displayed great combat skill with it...

...using one half of it to easily overpower Inuyasha.

Tsubaki Shinra (Highschool DxD) is a versatile master in naginatajutsu, able to combat master swordsman such as Yuuto with a normal Naginata.

Bankotsu (Inuyasha) has slayed entire armies of samurais and also powerful Youkais with his signature halberd Banryu.