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[Spartansfan8888]

 Of what specifically was the flaw in the main character's fighting style Sun Li taught? Just curious dunno if I missed it

Edited by Spartansfan8888, 31 December 2011 - 06:29 AM.

[Zaxares]

Crimson Khana talks briefly about it if you defeated her in honorable combat and she teaches you her weapon style. She says it resembles a deliberately exposed gap in your defenses (presumably your chest), but one that cannot be exploited and so tricks opponents into trying to attack there.

Judging by the cutscene when Sun Li reveals his true intention, the gap is only exposed when your character is looking upwards (or otherwise distracted). It may be that Sun Li's trick only worked because you trusted him implicitly and thus dropped your defenses around him.

[dragonflight288]

Sky also mentions the flaw when we first meet him in Gao the Greater's fortress. Silk Fox mentions it after we fight her when crash landing in Tien's Landing.

It's mentioned enough to make you think about it, but not enough to make it obvious that Master Li trained you with a flaw.

[Clertar]

It's a wonderful detail in the game. As a kungfu practitioner myself, I always imagined the flaw as a gap during only a fraction of a second that appears when you protect your body with an arm/hand while preparing or dealing an attack, or switching between attacks. Something that's there in such an unexpected way that it can only be exploited if one knows beforehand where and when it appears.