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<blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7865159" data-attributes="member: 6984451"><p>Rick can do "laser built from scavenged office supplies" kata, lol.</p><p></p><p>The most dramatic, immediate and obvious point of reference for Rick being absurdly skilled at hand-to-hand and ranged combat is like Seramus said, Season 3, Episode 3, "Pickle Rick", the scenes where Pickle Rick seemingly effortlessly dispatches a horde of (relative to him, gigantic) rats in melee combat, and his subsequent epic battle with Jaguar (Danny Trejo). He also shows moments of astonishing badassery in S3: E1 during his take down of the Galactic Federation, although fisticuffs play a small role if at all. Other moments of Rick being a combat badass (he fluidly weaves in and out of using his Portal Gun as a weapon and using energy weapons/ray guns (mostly acquired from dead enemies) and his environment with incredible evasion and I think occasionally unarmed attacks but it can be too fast to follow): S2, E6: The Ricks Must Be Crazy* you mentioned Mirtek his fight with the Stephen Colbert the alien scientist, and my reading of that fight has neither of them as "ordinary guys", they're both skilled fighters and both very willing to fight very dirty; S3:E4 implies indirectly that he is deadly in hand to hand combat (the fact that he kills world ender while blackout drunk, the fact that when he (quite accurately) lists his powers as "ability to do anything, but only whenever I feel like it" implies deadly hand to hand skills because they fit as a subset into the set of "anything", and finally he may or may not show sick combat skills in S3:E10, which is by far the episode of the show I have watched the least.</p><p></p><p>Rick's ability to not get hit is much more impressive than his ability to hit people, so my priority was to find a way patterned after a canonical class feature that let him add his Int to his AC. His AC is still a bit lower than I'd like but I do need to point out that 1d10 + 3 bludgeoning does not really qualify as "powerful melee" at CR 27.</p><p></p><p>There are additional examples in Season 4 (thus far, E2 "The Old Man And The Seat") that strongly informed Murderdance but I don't want to spoil anything. It is the one scene in the series where Rick does the most damage in hand to hand combat, though.</p><p></p><p>The way he works his way up the tech tree during his ongoing science duel against Stephen Colbert in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" reminds me of something I forgot to put on the character sheet, expertise with all tools and proficiency with all weapons.</p><p></p><p>But yes, if not for Pickle Rick and the rat scene, the Murderdance ability wouldn't be on there. It's worth noting that Rick is a prime example of power creep. Season 2 Rick is more powerful than Season 1 Rick and Season 3 Rick is more powerful than him and Season 4 Rick is more powerful still. Personally, I think the writers have done an excellent job of making him not feel invincible in spite of that his growing omnipotence and thus are doing an excellent job of what I think of as the Superman problem, i.e. why should I ever care about any fight Superman he is so powerful that he will inevitably always win, and not by virtue of being the protagonist, but by virtue of well, his ability to do anything and his invulnerability to virtually all damage (except when the writers decide he can be beaten to death by an angry punchmonster from outerspace).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ParanoydStyle, post: 7865159, member: 6984451"] Rick can do "laser built from scavenged office supplies" kata, lol. The most dramatic, immediate and obvious point of reference for Rick being absurdly skilled at hand-to-hand and ranged combat is like Seramus said, Season 3, Episode 3, "Pickle Rick", the scenes where Pickle Rick seemingly effortlessly dispatches a horde of (relative to him, gigantic) rats in melee combat, and his subsequent epic battle with Jaguar (Danny Trejo). He also shows moments of astonishing badassery in S3: E1 during his take down of the Galactic Federation, although fisticuffs play a small role if at all. Other moments of Rick being a combat badass (he fluidly weaves in and out of using his Portal Gun as a weapon and using energy weapons/ray guns (mostly acquired from dead enemies) and his environment with incredible evasion and I think occasionally unarmed attacks but it can be too fast to follow): S2, E6: The Ricks Must Be Crazy* you mentioned Mirtek his fight with the Stephen Colbert the alien scientist, and my reading of that fight has neither of them as "ordinary guys", they're both skilled fighters and both very willing to fight very dirty; S3:E4 implies indirectly that he is deadly in hand to hand combat (the fact that he kills world ender while blackout drunk, the fact that when he (quite accurately) lists his powers as "ability to do anything, but only whenever I feel like it" implies deadly hand to hand skills because they fit as a subset into the set of "anything", and finally he may or may not show sick combat skills in S3:E10, which is by far the episode of the show I have watched the least. Rick's ability to not get hit is much more impressive than his ability to hit people, so my priority was to find a way patterned after a canonical class feature that let him add his Int to his AC. His AC is still a bit lower than I'd like but I do need to point out that 1d10 + 3 bludgeoning does not really qualify as "powerful melee" at CR 27. There are additional examples in Season 4 (thus far, E2 "The Old Man And The Seat") that strongly informed Murderdance but I don't want to spoil anything. It is the one scene in the series where Rick does the most damage in hand to hand combat, though. The way he works his way up the tech tree during his ongoing science duel against Stephen Colbert in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" reminds me of something I forgot to put on the character sheet, expertise with all tools and proficiency with all weapons. But yes, if not for Pickle Rick and the rat scene, the Murderdance ability wouldn't be on there. It's worth noting that Rick is a prime example of power creep. Season 2 Rick is more powerful than Season 1 Rick and Season 3 Rick is more powerful than him and Season 4 Rick is more powerful still. Personally, I think the writers have done an excellent job of making him not feel invincible in spite of that his growing omnipotence and thus are doing an excellent job of what I think of as the Superman problem, i.e. why should I ever care about any fight Superman he is so powerful that he will inevitably always win, and not by virtue of being the protagonist, but by virtue of well, his ability to do anything and his invulnerability to virtually all damage (except when the writers decide he can be beaten to death by an angry punchmonster from outerspace). [/QUOTE]
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