Garou

Hero Hunter

*"The popular will win; the hated will lose. It's such a tragedy. Then I won't lose to anyone. I will become the strongest monster ever and change this scenario."*

## **Summary**

**Garou** (ガロウ, *Garō*; Viz: **Garo**) is a former disciple of Bang who was kicked out from his dojo for going on a rampage. Because of his fascination of monsters and his hatred of heroes, he is commonly called the **Human Monster** and the **Hero Hunter**. Sitch of the Hero Association views him as a grave threat to the organization despite being only a human.

## **Human**

### Debut

Outlaw (Chapter 45/Chapter 39/Episode 13)

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Easily physically overpowers a bunch of heroes.
* Rips a hero's arm off with ease.
* Caves a hero's face in with a single blow.
* Stomps Mumen Rider, Charanko, and the Tank Top group.
* One-shots Spring Mustachio.
* His chop sinks Saitama into the ground up to his knees.
* Smacks Metal Bat around in the early part of their fight.
* Cracks a the ground around him with a stomp, up heaving a manhole, and then tosses it at Metal Bat.
* Knocks back Metal Bat with a punch.
* Pounds a goop monster apart with one shot.
* Pierces a hole in the wall with his finger to spy on the heroes.
* Overpowers the heroes, breaking the Kendama, lifting one of them over his head, and knocking another one out with pebbles.
* Pulls the roots of plants from the ground, staggering the heroes, then knocking three more of them out.
* Deflects minigun fire with his bare fists.
* Knocks out the last hero with a punch.
* Breaks a tree in half to avoid Genos' blast, then breaking the cables used to capture him.
* Breaks the ground from his strike, then spinning a tree around so he can get some distance from the heroes.
* Rips the blade off a knife and threatens a man with it.
* Creates a small hole in the ground by spitting his tooth out.

#### Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist

* Knocks Tank Top Master back into a wall, heavily damaging him.
* Manages to knock back Metal Bat during his barrage.
* Keeps up with Genos in CQC and then kicks him into the ground.
* Knocks away Royal Ripper with ease.
* Fights back Bug God and Royal Ripper.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Tanks a blow from Tank Top Master.
* Tanks being tackled by Tank Top Master.
* Tanks a punch to the face from Tank Top Master as he strikes back.
* Tanks more attacks from Tank Top Master.
* Survives a chop to the neck from Saitama.
* Survives a beating from Watchdog Man.
* Survives being kicked through a wall by Saitama.
* Tanks a punch to the face from a hero.
* Continues to tank the attacks from the heroes, then overpowering them during their attacks.
* Tanks blows from Genos.
* Takes a brutal beating from Bang and Bomb.
* Continues to get beat up by Bang and Bomb, still able to fight back.
* Survives being backhanded by Saitama.
* Survives the absolutely brutal beatdown from Royal Ripper and Bug God, technically dying, transforming into Half-Monster Garou.

#### Piercing

* Purposely impales his hand on Spring Mustachio's attack.
* Tanks multiple attacks from the heroes, especially getting shot in the leg and back.
* Minigun fire only bloodies his fists from deflecting all the ammo.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Is too fast for a bunch of heroes to keep up.
* Dodges a hero's fire blast, then blitzing him, ripping off his arm.
* Recovers mid tackle mid-air from Tank Top Master's attack.
* Keeps up with Tank Top Master and then outspeeds him in CQC.
* Stomps Mumen Rider, Charanko, and the Tank Top group.
* Dodges Sprin Mustachio's attacks, then countering his ultimate attack.
* The early part of his fight with Metal Bat is in his favor.
* Continues to beat up Metal Bat after he gets more pumped up, Metal Bat unable to hit him still.
* Continues to outspeed Metal Bat in combat.
* Metal Bat and Garou become somewhat even after Metal Bat is quite pumped up.
* Dodges Blam-Blam's gunfire and then Stinger's counterattack as he tries to attack Blam-Blam.
* Dodges multiple attacks from the heroes, but not all of them.
* Blocks some rocks a hero throws at him.
* Outspeeds the heroes in their attack, setting up a counter attack to knock out 3 of them.
* Outspeeds the last three heroes, surprising them so he can knock out three more of them.
* Blitzes the last hero as he tries to prepare for CQC.
* Keeps up with Genos in CQC, landing a few blows.
* Gets behind Genos after copying Watchdog Man's fighting style.
* Breaks a tree and dodges Genos' attack.
* Even his eating is FTE.
* Outspeeds Royal Ripper as it tries to attack him and Tareo.
* Fights back Bug God and Royal Ripper.

#### Reactions

* Dodges Golden Ball's shots with minimal movement, countering his attacks. He is only cut once at the very beginning.
* Dodges Shooter's arrow rain.
* Continues to dodge attacks from the heroes.
* **Deflects a volley of ammo from a minigun, stopping them from being able to harm the kid in the barn.**

### **Misc:**

#### Martial Arts Skills

* Uses Fist of Flowing Water, Crushed Rock on instinct, the skill allowing the user's body to fight on its own. The style focusing on deflecting and redirecting attacks and using the flows like water in people.
* His fighting style focuses on countering, incapacitating, and breaking his enemy, able to redirect the power of the enemy's own attack back at them.
* Copies Watchdog Man's fighting style from memory.
* Can redirect hits from Bang, who is his clear physical superior.

#### Aura

* His evil aura is overwhelming.
* Can sense killing intent.

#### Intelligence

* Fools the remaining heroes from the ambush, especially Stinger, so that he can press his advantage and then leave only one left standing.

### **Other Feats:**

#### Stamina

* Heals from his fights before his kidnapping after some sleep.

#### Statements

* Became Bang's greatest student, then defeating many of the other disciples.

#### Off-Screen

* Beats a gang of thugs off-screen without a sweat.
* Slaughters a bunch of heroes off-screen.
* Beats Tank Top Vegetarian with ease.
* Continues to beat the piss out of heroes he encounters.
* Beats the piss out of the rest of his class after he feels he has learned all he can in Bang's class.

## **Half-Monster**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Smacks Overgrown Rover into the ground, cracking the ground below it.
* Breaks the pieces of rubble Gyoro Gyoro tries to use to seal him in.
* Immediately after awakening from his incapitation, he pummels Pur-Puri Prisoner to the ground.
* Easily beats Puri-Puri Prisoner and sends him flying through multiple brick walls.

#### Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist

* Begins his rampage by busting through a wall, proceeding to casually rip off Royal Ripper's blade and decapitate it with one blow, then destroying it's body.
* Deflects Orochi's attacks and then turns some monsters into slices.
* Blocks an punch from Orochi that creates a large shockwave.
* Kicks back Superalloy and into the ground by redirecting the power of his own attack.
* Matches a punch from Darkshine after getting more and more ferocious.
* Has become strong enough to damage Superalloy Darkshine.
* Kicks around Darkshine, damaging him again, and pins him to the ground.

#### Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist

* Tears apart Royal Ripper with a hit, the shockwaves traveling through the air to tear his body to shreds.
* Slams a monster into a wall hard enough to crack the wall, breaks another monster's face, and tears apart the last one's arm.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* After some initial seizing, he is fine after being squeezed by Orochi and then being dropped to the ground.
* Survives a beatdown from Orochi.
* Tanks a charge from Darkshine that sends him through multiple walls while asleep.
* Tanks another blow from Darkshine while asleep.
* Tanks getting his ribs shattered and being thrown through multiple sections of the base by Darkshine.
* Survives being crushed as the city was uprooted, his near-death giving him yet another amp of monsterization.

#### Piercing

* Gets stabbed through the chest and then slammed into a wall, getting up moments later.

#### Heat

* No-sells being blasted with hot water.
* Tanks Overgrown Rover's blast that destroys the surrounding area.
* Tanks the blasts from Overgown Rover that causes a quake for the city block on the surface.
* Tanks yet another blast from Overgrown Rover that sends him through multiple floors of the Monster Association Base.
* Tanks a large heat blast that doesn't seem to disturb him due to adaptation and then tanks being punched by Orochi and then slammed into a wall again.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Is now too fast for Royal Ripper to fight back.
* Avoids the attacks from two monsters and then gets away from the attack of a third monster.
* Dodges attacks from some monsters and easily beats them in CQC.
* The combined speed Showerhead and Unihorn's attack looks like it's barely moving to him.
* Outruns Overgrown Rover's blast.
* Outspeeds most of Overgrown Rover's blasts again.
* Dodges a few of Orochi's attacks.
* Deflects Orochi's attacks and then outruns his follow up attacks. Even evading his bite when Orochi transforms.
* Is fast enough to launch an assault on Darkshine while asleep.
* Runs literal circles around Darkshine while asleep.
* Is too fast for Darkshine to land his starting blow.
* Gets faster and faster as he fights Darkshine, Darkshine unable to do anything but throw one punch.
* Has become too fast for Darkshine to keep up.
* Darkshine is barely able to retaliate in combat.

### **Misc:**

#### Martial Arts Skills

* Uses Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist, a style that turn the user's attacks into spiraling piercing attacks, which tears apart Royal Ripper casually with one blow to the head and then the body from the shockwaves traveling through the air. Bomb has shown that the effects of this style can be used through kicks and they will spread out and hit others as collateral.
* His technique tears apart a monster's arm.
* His attacks cause Puri-Puri Prisoner to be unable to stand up. As well, after a short time of rest, has healed the holes and major damage from fighting Orochi.
* The mastery of his skills, especially Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist, means his body will fight on its own perfectly even while asleep, having beat Puri-Puri Prisoner and fighting Superalloy Darkshine after being knocked out by Orochi.
* Uses Whirlwind Water Stream: Cross Fang Dragon Slayer Fist all by himself despite it needing Bang and Bomb together to pull it off earlier. Garou able to copy skills to an insane degree. As well, has developed some form of regeneration.
* His strikes have gained the ability to turn stone into sand just from the collateral from the vibrations and reverberations. This coming from his use of Whirlwind Water Stream: Cross Fang Dragon Slayer Fist.

#### Monsterization

* His increasing power and monsterhood comes from his experience so close to death.
* Can seemingly jump in mid-air.
* Adapts to and becomes immune to Gyoro-Gyoro's TK. Which can increase gravity over 300 times when it fought Tatsumaki.
* His adaptation has made him effectively immune to heat output such as Orochi's after fighting Overgrown Rover and him, stating to Gyoro-Gyoro outright that the same trick won't work on him any more.
* Adapts to gain regeneration when Darkshine does so much damage to him.
* The black spirals will heal whichever part of him is hurt.

### **Other Feats:**

#### Off-Screen

* Off-screen kills a bunch of monsters, then eating them.

## **Sleeping Armored**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Makes an explosive debut.
* Brawls Bomb.
* Bomb and Garou trade blows, Garou then beating Bomb to the ground.

#### Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist

* Garou and Bang are fairly even as they brawl each other.

#### Exploding Heart Release Fist

* Garou and Bang continue to go blow-for-blow as they pull out that they can.
* Eventually wins against Bang in their brawl.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Garou and Bang are fairly even as they brawl each other.
* Garou and Bang continue to go blow-for-blow as they pull out that they can.
* Eventually wins against Bang in their brawl.

#### Piercing

* Tanks blows from Bomb.
* Bomb and Garou trade blows.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Bomb and Garou brawling is so fast that Fubuki can not see them clearly and does not even notice Garou coming at her for an attack.
* Bomb and Garou trade blows.
* Garou and Bang are fairly even as they brawl each other.
* Garou and Bang continue to go blow-for-blow as they pull out that they can.
* Eventually wins against Bang in their brawl.

### **Misc:**

#### Martial Arts Skills

* Negates Bomb's attack by replicating the attack and meeting it.
* While asleep, he can recreate a martial arts that he had only read some of once a long time ago that is strong enough to almost kill Bang.
* Uses Whirlwind Water Stream: Roaring Aura Sky Ripping Fist despite Bang and Bomb needing to use their individual styles to accomplish this. Their martial arts causing the area around them to slowly be reduced to dust.

## **Awakened Armored**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Easily bursts through Vomited Fuhrer Ugly's chest and kills him, then knocking away Platinum Sperm and dissipating much of Evil Natural Water.
* Makes Sage Centipede recoil with his attacks.
* Garou and Metal Bat together are able to damage Sage Centipede enough to make him regenerate.
* Breaks Sage Centide's grip on him and damages his face and feelers.
* Metal Bat and Garou working together damage Sage Centipede's caraprace, Garou then blowing a hole through Sage Centipede and taking his core.

#### Monster Calamity God Slayer Fist

* Kicks the ground and launches tons of rubble into the air. Garou, Platinum Sperm, and Flashy brawl in the air, lighting up the sky with their movements as they attack each other.
* Garou and Platinum Sperm are too fast for Flashy and knock him out of their fight.
* Cuts Platinum Sperm in half and blows him up.
* Chops Sage Centipede in half across his entire length with a karate chop.
* Garou and Saitama brawl across the planet, Garou kicking Saitama hard enough to crack the landmass under them, then chopping at his head hard enough break the ground and cause a local thunderstorm.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Undisturbed by being assaulted by Platinum Sperm.
* Garou, Platinum Sperm, and Flashy brawl in the air, lighting up the sky with their movements as they attack each other.
* Tanks getting assaulted by Sage Centipede and Evil Ocean Water's Sea Cannon, the blast making the hole Tatsumaki made look small.
* Tanks getting assaulted by Sage Centipede's Great March, using his thousands of limbs to punch him.
* Withstands getting casually smacked back by Saitama.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Kicks through Vomited Fuhrer Ugly, knocks back Platinum Sperm, and breaks apart Evil Natural Water in 50 milliseconds.
* Dodges a surprise kick from Flashy.
* Garou, Platinum Sperm, and Flashy brawl in the air, lighting up the sky with their movements as they attack each other.
* Garou and Platinum Sperm are too fast for Flashy and knock him out of their fight.
* Platinum Sperm and Garou light up even more of the sky with their fight in 13 microseconds.
* Easily dodges attacks from Metal Bat.
* Can kick Sage Centipede without him able to do much to retaliate.
* Tosses Sage Centipede's core above the clouds and proceeds to blitz him.
* Garou and Saitama brawl across the planet, Garou kicking Saitama hard enough to crack the landmass under them, then chopping at his head hard enough break the ground and cause a local thunderstorm.

### **Misc:**

#### Martial Arts Skills

* Combines all the martial arts techniques he has absorbed into one, the Monster Calamity God Slayer Fist.
* Garou can resonate and amplify the physical power of those near him, boosting Metal Bat closer to his level despite Metal Bat being far inferior.

#### Monsterization

* Can now regenerate entire limbs almost instantly.

## **Monster**

### **Output:**

#### Monster Calamity God Slayer Fist

* De-roots buildings by kicking Saitama through them, destroying them with the shockwaves of his attacks.
* Blows a volcano in half by attacking Saitama on it.
* Hits Saitama into the planet hard enough to bend the crust, shockwaves large enough to compare to the core of the planet, and creates a landmass on the opposite side of the planet.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Tanks getting sent flying by Saitama.
* Tanks getting blown through multiple mountain ranges by Saitama.

### **Misc:**

#### Martial Arts Skills

* Can attack the internals of an enemy with his shockwaves.

#### Monsterization

* Continues to adapt and evolve, growing wings and becoming bulkier as he continues to fight.
* Evolves more arms and biological jets to fight,

## **Cosmic Fear**

### **Output:**

#### All Life Eradication Fist

* Saitama and Cosmic Fear Garou brawl each other.
* Rips out Genos' core and tears him apart.
* Causes massive nuclear blasts as he attacks Saitama.
* **Garou and Saitama meet fist-to-fist, unleashing enough energy that the blast being redirected destroys all the star systems visible within its path.**

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Saitama and Cosmic Fear Garou brawl each other.
* Tanks getting assaulted by Saitama from all directions.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Saitama and Cosmic Fear Garou brawl each other.

### **Misc:**

#### Cosmic Fear Awareness/Skill

* Has learned to harness the flows of the cosmic forces, able to wield them for combat, using this to make his attacks literally nuclear.
* Mimics Saitama in order to try to replicate his power.
* Mimics a gamma ray burst in hopes of destroying Saitama.
* The passive cosmic radiation coming off Garou is immediately incapacitating the people near him.
* Copies Blast's powers and uses them to undo being sealed in another dimension.
* Uses his portals to attack Saitama from all directions.
* Can teleport to whatever is within his vision.
* Garou and Saitama use the control of subatomic particles and the cosmic flows to send Saitama back in time, Saitama defeating Garou in zero punches with the reversal of causality.