Staff Proficiency

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Enhanced Staff Proficiency
Gandalf (LOTR) is quite impressive with his skills on a staff.
Power/Ability to:	Possess great skills with an staff

The power to possess the skills to wield a staff or wand. A variation of Weapon Proficiency.

Also Called

• Bō Proficiency/Skill/Expertise
• Bōjutsu
• Cane Proficiency
• Enhanced Wand Proficiency
• Rod Proficiency

Capabilities

Users are able to demonstrate a aptitude for the ways of the staff or wand, being able to wield a staff/wand with great proficiency and skill. If the staff possesses magical properties, they are able to repel magical creatures, harness arcanic energies, conjuring spells, incantations and other variations.

They may be able to use close quarter combat against mythical creatures with magic channeled into the staff.

Associations

• Adoptive Muscle Memory
• Demonic Weaponry
• Divine Weaponry
• Empathic Weaponry
• Enhanced Combat
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Magic
• 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 Blasts via swings
  • Energy Infusion
  • Ergokinetic Blade Construction
  • Staff-shaped Energy Beam Emission
  • Spatial Slicing
  • Temporal Slicing

Limitations

• May not be able to wield any other bladed weapons with other proficiency because the staff is considered a two handed weapon to the inexperienced.
• May only be effective against Monsters but not in close range combat.
• May render the user powerless if they are disarmed, unless they can use magic without the object.

Known Users

• Miroku (Inuyasha)
• Keith (Fairy Tail)
• Palutena (Kid Icarus)
• Most Magic Users
• Jade (Mortal Kombat)
• Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
• Sauruman (Lord of the Rings)
• Richard (Jeanne D'Arc)
• Claire (Jeanne D'Arc)
• Nami (One Piece)
• Mages (Warcraft)
• Priests (Warcraft)
• Warlocks (Warcraft)
• Kilik (Soul Calibur)
• Xiba (Soul Caliber)
• Archon (Darksiders 2)
• Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Tim Drake, as both Robin and Red Robin (DC Comics)
• Alleyne (Queen's Blade)
• Nowa (Queen's Blade)
• Nyx (Queen's Blade)
• Lin Chung (Hero:108)
• Goku (Dragon Ball)
• Penelo (Final Fantasy)
• Billy Kane (King of Fighters)
• Mystogan (Fairy Tail)
• Brain (Fairy Tail)
• Miyako Gotokuji (Powerpuff Girls Z)
• Master Cyclonis (Storm Hawks)
• Piper (Storm Hawks)
• Alice Liddell (American McGee's Alice)
• Gambit (Marvel Comics)
• Hughes (Fairy Tail)
• Mary Hughes (Fairy Tail)
• Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
• Voldemort (Harry Potter)
• Wizards (Harry Potter)
• Pedro Penduko (Pedro Penduko)
• Litchi Faye-Ling (Blazblue)
• Venom (Guilty Gear)
• Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper)
• Cooper Clan (Sly Cooper)
• Daredevil (Marvel Comics); via connecting both pieces of his Billy Club to create a staff
• Yalung/Pochiro (Eto Rangers)
• Suchie-Pai (Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai/Queen's Gate)
• Various Super Sentai and Power Rangers characters (Power Rangers and Super Sentai)
• Lai (Warriors of Virtue)
• Jade (Beyond Good and Evil)
• Monkey (Kung Fu Panda)
• Monkey King (Journey to the West)
• Emily Hayes (Amulet)
• Rose Lalonde (Homestuck)
• Eridan Ampora (Homestuck)
• Damara Megido/The Handmaid (Homestuck)
• Mike Chilton (Motorcity)
• Deathstroke (DC Comics)
• Moon Knight (Marvel Comics)
• Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin (Once Upon a Time)
• Fairies (Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
• Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time)
• Sabo (One Piece)
• Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten (Xenogears)
• Larmina (Voltron Force)
• Dragonlord (Dragon Quest)
• Hargon (Dragon Quest)
• Merasmus (Team Fortress 2)