I mean, if they have swords, attacking all at once is a good way to slice your own team. Trading off on lunging in to strike is honestly not a terrible strategy, the solo guy will get tired faster, and then they can descend upon him while he’s winded.
But only one has a sword??? Surely you have the others hold him down and have sword guy go in for one assured Stab.
Dude jerks to the left last minute and your buddy loses a finger
I wonder what would actually happen is we reproduced fights like that. Of course the group has a great advantage, but realistically, if like more than 3 people attack at the same time, they might end up hitting each other, so it’s not absurd for some to hesitate. There’s also our group behavior that makes us behave weird when in groups. I also remember a video with a group of people fighting against one guy where people joked about this, because it was almost one at a time
I did aikido for a bit in college and one of the things we practiced was sparring multiple opponents. Once you’re against more than 3 people, they’re really getting in each other’s way, and if you’re clever you can use their numbers against them.
I feel like in a real fight, i.e. when you don’t have superhuman reflexes, you would 1) try to run away, and failing that 2) keep moving around, so they can’t tackle you and take you down.
And for that, it’s definitely a problem when you’re fighting so many people that they can surround you and close in on you.
Now you made me remember that video from an old samurai master teaching fighting strategies for 1vs1, 1vs2 and 1vs3+, where that last one was running away lol
I mean it works in football 🤷
I just want a realistic ninja movie where they all scatter in different directions and disguise themselves as peasants and artisans. One tries to kill him in his sleep. One tries to stab him in the anonymity of a crowded marketplace. Another tries to poison him at a tea house. One tries a concealed crossbow in an alley. Yet another spends decades learning to be a great artist and is commissioned to paint the hero.
Brilliant. And a suspicious number of them could have experience working backstage in a theatre.
Sounds like the Lone Wolf & Cub manga. There was at least one movie adaptation but I don’t remember how true to the original it was.
Wife gets pregnant, hero is there when the baby is born
Baby tries to garrote the hero with its own umbilical cord
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This is one of the subclauses of Mook Chivalry.
Note also the closely related Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu.
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Entering tvtropes places you at an extremely high risk of losing the rest of the day and most of the night.
I would love to join in, but they have an ad blocker blocker.
Use an adblocking dns. Helps with ads everywhere else that you don’t have an adblocker running.
I do that too.
Weird, I’m running both unlock origin and dns adguard and the site loads fine for me.
Dr. Mcninja was at the forefront of researching those laws.
Damn, forgot about the good doctor. Need to dig out my printed edition.
Yesss… I just assumed it was the Ask A Ninja guy.
gotta put CWs on those tvtropes links, or unwitting passers-by could get trapped for hours
But what if stuffing people face first down the rabbit hole is all part of my master plan, hmm?
then you are a bastard and a charlatan
Done… I swear I posted that before reading your comment, lol
idk it might be too small
Wish I hadn’t looked this up and found out it’s nearly 20 years old. 😭
take a moment. recognize that each one of those frames in the animation were painstakingly hand developed in Adobe Flash, one of the worst animation studios in world history.
nobody, and I mean nobody, deserves to be subjected to flash key animation.
I’m so old I’ve never even seen this on YouTube
Just like we practised, teleport around at random and take up the whole frame when on camera.
There are not so many fighting scenes worth the effort. I can think of just a few. Kill Bill had a few good ones, including the one where she fights a coffin. :)
And there is Oldboy (… *Bing*)
The Crazy 8s fight in Kill Bill wasn’t too bad. She was constantly seeking to get in a better position to fight them one at a time.
Right, I liked that one, too. Interestingly the O-Ren garden scene impressed me more, I think it pushes different emotional buttons than the let’s wreck a tea house/ nightclub scene.
There’s a rhythm game called Kickbeat from a dozen years ago that runs on this classic trope.
The hordes of enemy henchmen just circle around you in a very orderly manner so you can read the pattern and kung-fu your way through them one or two at a time.
One Finger Death Punch does the opposite. You really have to deal with 100MPM (mooks per minute) coming from both sides and throwing shit at you. Fun little arcade game
Remember to glow red if you’re gonna hit hard, and yellow if you’re just going for a little tap.
I wouldn’t describe Raid Redemption as one at a time.
