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** Xiaoxing herself, as well; her entire fighting style revolves around using [[Instant Knots]] to tie her opponent up, thereby incapacitating them.

** Kunugi often uses the [[Hannibal Lecture]] to disarm opponents (figuratively speaking) while confusing them with illusions and violently seizing every opening in their defense.

** Ranma Saotome does this whenever he battles an opponent that is clearly more powerful than him. When facing his rival Ryoga, who'd been powered up by the Mark of the Gods, he resorted to using the "Saotome Desperation Techniques", which were basically just creative ways to make his opponent look away from him so could attack them while they were distracted ("What's that behind you?!", "Look, there's 500 yen on the ground!", etc.). When he was getting his butt kicked by prince Herb, a man with an irrational hatred of breasts (due to be being cursed by a naked girl while he was distracted by her boobs), Ranma repeatedly [[Attractive Bent Gender|flashed his breasts at him]], until the guy was so overwhelmed with anger that his [[Beam Spam|accuracy was shot to heck]]. The man is the heir to the Saotome Anything-Goes School of Martial Arts for a reason.

** Strangely enough, the other two key elements of his personal style (alongside this) are [[Beat Them At Their Own Game]] and [[Honor Before Reason]].