Summer ☀️

This works very well for trash beasts, because they are not very intelligent, and for most combatants, because they'll tire or get sloppy long before Zanka's endurance gives out. His style relies on being able to weather an offense and take the hits until he ends you in one strike. This is why I think he's very strong and sturdy. He needs the weight and the command over his center of gravity to hold steady, and he needs a lot of power in his limbs and core to smash the living daylights out of his target with Lovely Assistaff.

Unfortunately for those two, Jabber is a lighting-fast assassin type who is--to put it bluntly--ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BUSTED. Like, are you kidding me? This asshole touches you one time and you're done. No wonder he can't find anybody to play with. Mankira is the perfect counter to Zanka's style, because he can't take a hit from her--he has to pull off a long chain of precise parries and dodges just to stay in the fight, and then he has to somehow find an opening through Jabber's blinding speed and hair-trigger reflexes to land a powerful but relatively slow hit.

And Jabber doesn't even have the decency to balance out his nuclear speed advantage by being a glass cannon. He is both fast and durable, meaning in order to win, Zanka either has to pull off one incredibly powerful and totally disabling hit, or he has to pull off a chain of powerful hits, AFTER WHICH he will be forced to weather whatever Jabber's screaming, insensate body will apparently just try to do all on its own. It remains one of the funniest things to me about Jabber Wonger that evidently he just fucking does that when he's unconscious. My sweet princess, what the hell is wrong with you.

But anyway, in order to win a fight against Jabber, Zanka has to dodge every little slice, avoid even the tiniest scrape, and then somehow beat the shit out of him so hard that, even if he uses his numbing agent, he is still physically unable to move. And for Zanka's current fighting style, that's quite the tall order! Jabber is one of the likely few opponents around who can actually wear him down faster than he can catch them out, and Jabber can do it with ease, too.

Therefore, I think, for the fight where Zanka finally gets his win--and I do believe the story is heading in that direction--we'll see him develop a more offensive style. He can't keep letting Jabber put him on the back foot and pin him there. If he's trying to pull off a chain of perfect guards against Jabber, he's losing. If he's going to win, he needs some way to keep Jabber overwhelmed and trying to adjust to what he's doing. He needs to unleash his rage, embrace his mean streak, and GO.