XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc, rec.arts.anime.fandom   
   From: ray33@shaw.ca   
      
   On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:03:28 GMT, Sea Wasp   
    barked out:   
      
   >Eric Schwartz wrote:   
   >> robkelk@deadspam.com (Rob Kelk) writes:   
   >>   
   >>>By Batman's standards, Ranma and Goku suck as fighters.  (Raw power   
   >>>doesn't impress him.)  I doubt any anime character would measure up to   
   >>>his high standards.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I don't follow Ranma enough to comment, but I think it's pretty clear   
   >> that, over time, Goku is exactly smart enough as a fighter as he needs   
   >> to be.   
   >   
   >	Goku is up on Bats' level, OR BEYOND, in terms of skill. And if he   
   >wasn't, he would be in a few hours. Goku learns any technique he sees.   
   >He trains at a frequency and with an intensity that makes Bruce Wayne   
   >look like a dilettante.   
      
         Ranma is very much up to 'Bats" level and beyond as well. Ranma   
   trains in the school of 'Anything Goes Martial Arts School of   
   Indiscriminate Grappling'  (Saotome ver. and not Tendo ver. though both   
   are the same except in famial name) which holds the precept of learn and   
   adapt in any given fight. Ranma is able to learn an opponents technique   
   in almost all cases just by having that technique used against him only   
   once. He then analysizes it and can come up with various ways to counter   
   and even defeat the technique. Ranma does all this 'on the fly' during a   
   battle where as Batman most often needs to go back to the Batcave and   
   have his computer do the analysis for him if the moves used against him   
   are ones he doesn't recognize, before he can come up with a solution for   
   countering it.   
      
      
      
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   from a battle they can not win.   
      
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