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So I will be trying to make this a series.

What I'm basically gonna do is dump all the theories I have related to path, explain the paths of different characters to the best of my ability etc. in short we'll be talking about path in this series.

One more thing I'd like to mention is that I'll be using the Questism power scaling system. Ranking potential, strength in quantifiable terms. And I feel like the way Questism power scales is really good because they quantify abilities in to ranks, skills into cards (which are also ranked).

Today what I'm gonna talk about is: what is a Path?

Path is basically the innate nature of a person in fight. That's the shortest definition I can give. It'll be better to understand if I give examples.

Take Daniel for example - PTJ was fore shadowing since the beginning that Daniel can read "innate nature" or "innate thoughts" of people. How? He could talk to Jay without Jay speaking a single thing.

Now the question is, does that mean Daniel always had a path?

Here comes the concept of "Awakening Path". From here on, I'll refer a person who has path as a "path user".

A path user always has a path they just don't unlock it yet. To understand how this works I'll refer to the Questism system. If you've read Questism you must know the fact that for a character to unlock a new skill card they must be pushed to their absolute limits or must train a lot. In short, utilise their potential.

Gukja is the best example. As he trained his strength kept increasing (which is obvious) but he unlocked TUI when he was pushed to his absolute limits. The same way a character can unlock a skill card through training or by being pushed to their limits, a character can unlock path the same way.

Except there is one more variable that plays a vital role: Conviction.

Jinyoung said the key to awaken path is conviction. Now conviction is not only the purple line you see while hitting someone, it can also be desperation/motivation to beat someone or simply believing in yourself.

For example John was desperate as hell when he wanted to beat Gun and awakened path. Same thing with lil Daniel when he fought Paecheon.

The desperation is useless if you don't have enough potential. Now what's potential? From what I understood, it's when you stop growing. A person with a very high potential will take a lot of time to stop growing. A person with low potential will stop growing much earlier.

Take Warren for example, he arguably has every requirement for path but obviously has lower potential than John, Daniel and other path users so just never awakened it.

The other thing is, path varies from person to person. BIQ has nothing much to do with path. But remember every path user has a high battle IQ but not every character with high BIQ has a path. Sinu, Warren are some of the examples. I won't include Tom Lee because he's a 0 gen, Jinyoung awakened path on the verge of death, 0 gens are monsters. Unless Tom dies without awakening path, I will consider there's still a possibility he has a path.

We don't know much about path because so far we've only seen 3 users (John, Daniel and Jinyoung) properly use them. Usage by others is really vague. But I'd say a general thing could be that path amplifies the "special" thing inside you.

In case of Jinyoung this special thing was his copy ability. He's the only know copy user (according to himself) that can copy unique skills. So unique skills are basically when a character creates something that fits their fighting style so obviously it has all their strengths right? Jinyoung was already copying unique skills so that means he was already able to replicate the strengths of a fighter, by awakening path he was able to mix different strengths and create a style of his own instead of copy paste.

I'll probably make another post on how Jinyoung's path works.

Daniel was always able to read the innate nature (that's how he probably communicated with Jay) but awakening path gave him the ability to use all of senses to do so AND find openings.

What about John, doesn't he just spam everything? Is that is innate strength? To spam? Nuh uh. Johns path has something to do with how he "copies". He doesn't blindly copy like the other copy users. He learns that move completely, there's a difference. Proof? Read the manager Kim vs John fight. He wasn't blindly spamming CQC he used his brain, copied the stance and used the appropriate moves with appropriate stances. For example, a person who knows origami will make origami out of tissue 5. That's the case with John. He's understood and learned stuff he copied so well he can execute from any direction. I think there's an incident you can call "fore shadowing". Y'all remember the God Dog arc he punched away hundreds of stones? That's it. He was spamming shit since day one.

Now I cannot comment on paths of others people like James, Kitae, Gun etc simply because don't know much about how they fight. Yes Gun too, I saw a post long ago how he never used Yamazaki Kyokushin but I can't find it now. I'll probably make a similar post in future on his fighting style. Gun never used his original fighting style meaning we still don't know how he would fight at full potential.

That's it for today. Idk what the next one part will be about but will be definitely related to path.

Also the person who made the post about how Gun never used Yamazaki Kyokushin Karate, please 😭 dm me the link gng I need that 😭 I'll even give you the credit where needed in my future posts related to Guns style I don't wanna make a whole post on it 😭