Unskilled but Strong/Quotes

Kenpachi: Did you know sword strikes are more powerful if you use both hands?
Nnoitra: Everyone knows that!
Kenpachi: But most people don't realize quite how powerful.

—Bleach

"Expert skills aren't enough to take the world title. At times, you need the savagery to paint the ring red with blood."

—Bill, Hajime no Ippo

"The strength to make all tactics useless. That is strength absolute."

—Younger Toguro, Yu Yu Hakusho

Valkyrie: You fight in vain, monster. I am a shieldmaid of Asgard! Trained in war for three millennia!
Red She-Hulk: Yeah, well... (tosses Valkyrie away) I'm really fricking strong.

"It's like I know every combo in the game and he keeps pressing the A button!"

—Gibbs, Titan Maximum

"Strategy doesn't matter. Only two things matter: Force in as great a concentration as you can manage, and style. And in a pinch, style can slide. In any battle, there's always a level of force against which no tactics can succeed."

—Xykon, against Dorukan, The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness

Jin: Your stance leaves you wide open, and your moves are totally inefficient. All in all, your fighting style is a mess.
Mugen: You son of a...
Jin: I swear, you are the most undisciplined fighter I've ever known...
Mugen: Shut your damn mouth!
Jin: ...and the only one I wasn't able to kill.

—Samurai Champloo

Katara: She's strong.
Member of White Lotus: She lacks restraint.

—Legend of Korra, commenting on Korra's Firebending in episode 1.

"So you've never lost huh? You defeat all your enemies in one shot. You deflect all attacks away. People like you wouldn't know how to street fight."

—Touma Kamijou, to Accelerator, A Certain Magical Index Episode 14

"[Steilman] doesn't know how to fight. Not for real. He's never had to learn, because he is big and strong and mean."

—Senior Chief Petty Officer Horace Harkness, Honor Among Enemies

"A shame with that physique of your's you never learned how to fight."

—Dark, Hunting Humans

"The attacks he sends out are just smashing swings with no technique to them. But that's enough. If there is overwhelming power and speed, there is no room for technique. Techniques are something humans invented to compensate for their weaknesses. Weaknesses are something this giant doesn't have."

He has no idea of the arts of war,
of shield or sword-play, although he does possess
a wild strength(...)

—Part of Beowulf's Badass Boast about why he doesn't fear Grendel, Beowulf

"The machine's good, but the pilot can't bring out its full potential!"

—Kincaid Nau, himself a former example of this trope.

"A beastkin, huh? Her Ars Magus aptitude is average, but her physical tests are off the charts. She would have no trouble taking on a group of two or three people."

—Jin Kisaragi, Heart to Heart, discussing Makoto with Tsubaki

Your speed and your strength makes you a beast at fighting! You might even be better than me at that... but you have no experience with fighting techniques!
I'm a prodigy, I can easily read the moves of an amateur like you]]

—Garou on Saitama, One Punch Man

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