Thread:Mangetsu20/@comment-4969779-20120610220024/@comment-2089817-20120611030856

I should probably note to everybody on this message wall. Just because a page has a million abilities or is the length of a graduate studies paper, doesn't always mean it's an "uberpowerful" character. Power and strength, as Itachi stated to Sasuke during their fight, are two very different things. Wielding a strong steel sword and never having used it, or any sort of weapon, even once in your life... against a wooden stick in the hands of a martial artist who has trained for several years in the art of weapons... You tell me who will win that one. When it comes down to it, experience can never be replaced with excess detail, intelligence, or even research. It's one of the reasons why when I see Hakuda being a major component on a character's article, I tend to be a bit more excessive in my opinions toward them because of my own experience with martial arts, which is what Hakuda is. Just going to a few wikipedia articles on "Karate", "Judo", and "Taekwondo" does not mean you are now a master of martial arts in a theoretical sense. Congrats, you know the gist of them, and some of the history as well. But do you know what kick is best for what situation? Or what is the best counter to a specific attack, or the best way to break the stance of an opponent? It is through experience that we learn these things.

RPing is the equivalent. By RPing, by writing stories, and by testing those powers, can you truly understand how they work, what their flaws are, when is the best time to use them, when is the worst time to use them. And so on. Hope this clears things up.