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i was looking very closely at the battle with the scorpion trash beasts in penta. zanka tends to make very sure, stable movements, and he does a lot of blocking- then he goes for the one-hit-kill. he's careful, focused, and efficient. he likes to watch and wait for his moment, figuring out how his opponents operate. i also realized that he relies heavily on his hearing.

we can see the same tactics in these 2 fights as well (zanka vs raiders and zanka vs gil). when he fights the raiders and mud dolls he mostly stays put, lets attacks come to him and blocks them. once he figured out the givers' strategy, he incapacitates each of them with a single strike. when he fights gil, he blocks her attacks while constantly analyzing her. (her? they? i dont know) his eyes are trained on her and he aims to find out the extent of her abilities. he can't DO this with jabber, who has interchangeable toxins, a huge range of different abilities, and doesn't really give him a chance to think

the killer whale mask is so fucking cool cuz it reflects his opportunist fighting patterns. also it just looks sick as hell

check this out too

(just from the wikipedia page for orcas)

zanka is able to understand subtleties in sounds and vibrations to get a better sense of his surroundings, to the point of just doing straight up echolocation.

i hit the image limit GO MY KILLER WHALE ZANKA AGENDA