Changes: Halberd Proficiency

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"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

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)
Hiten (Inuyasha)
Hoshiyomi (Inuyasha)
Hakudoshi (Inuyasha)
Bankotsu (InuYasha)
Tsubaki Shinra (Highschool DxD)
Hannyabal (One Piece)
The Genie of the Hoya Hoya no Mi (One Piece)
Charlotte Oven (One Piece)
Tao Ren (Shaman King)
Hood Sickle (Skylanders)
Various Podao Users (Kingdom)
Gamaken (Naruto)
Momiji (Ninja Gaiden 3)
Momiji (Ninja Gaiden series)
William Adams (Nioh)
Lu Bu (Record of Ragnarok)
Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)

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-|caption = Edward Newgate/Whitebeard (One Piece) has decades of experience in wielding his Naginata Murakumogiri 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.
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 <gallery>
 Ikkaku wielding Hōzukimaru.png|Ikkaku Madarame's (Bleach) ''Hozukimaru'' Shikai takes the form of a Naginata which he wields with great skill.
+Polearm Proficiency by Whitebeard.gif|Edward Newgate/Whitebeard (One Piece) has decades of experience in wielding his Naginata Murakumogiri 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...
+File:Shanks_vs._Whitebeard_(One_Piece).png|...engage in a tremendous clash with Shanks in old age with enough power to split the Heavens...
+File:Roger_vs._Whitebeard_(One_Piece).png|...most prominently the Pirate King Gold Roger himself during his prime.
 Oven naginata blade.gif|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 Lips and Bird of Qin Kingdom.jpg|Ou Ki, ''The Monstrous Bird of Qin'' (Kingdom) wielded his treasured Podao with the prowess and valor of a Great General of the Heavens,...