Itsuka Kendo

**Itsuka Kendo**, also known as **Battle Fist**, is the class representative of Class 1-B at U.A. High School and is training there to become a Pro Hero.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Itsuka Kendo, Battle Fist
* **Origin**: My Hero Academia
* **Gender**: Female
* **Age**: 16
* **Birthday**: September 9
* **Classification**: Human, U.A. High First-Year Hero Course Student, Class 1-B Representative, Transformer Type Quirk User
* **Blood Type**: O
* **Height**: 166 cm (5'5.5")
* **Weight**: 51.4 kg (113 lbs)
* **Skin Color**: Light
* **Eye Color**: Teal
* **Hair Color**: Orange
* **Relatives**:
* **Alignment**: Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **A-Class**
* **Powers and Abilities**: Big Fist
* **Standard Equipment**: Hero Costume
* **Weaknesses**:
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**:
* **Voice Actor**: Saki Ogasawara

### Power Stats

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* **Speed**:
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* **Striking Strength**:
* **Durability**:
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* **Intelligence**:
* **Key**:

## Appearance

Itsuka is a girl of medium height and has a slim, curvaceous build. She has teal eyes and long ginger hair that she typically wears tied into a high ponytail on the left side of her head. Her bangs are split into three clumps around her eyes, and some of her hair sticks up in large tufts at the top of her head.

For her hero costume, Itsuka wears a turquoise knee-length qipao, over which she has a black double-breasted corset, ending just below her breasts. She also sports black short pants under the qipao. For accessories, she wears a loose brown utility belt around her hips with a satchel attached at the back; a thin black domino mask around her eyes and white-heeled navy blue boots with wide vamps that reach down to her toes, filled in with white slips.

## Personality

Itsuka is a spirited girl who is thoughtful of others. She does not hesitate to criticize even her classmates if she feels what they are doing is not right, like whenever she karate chops Neito Monoma on the back of his neck to prevent him from antagonizing Class 1-A and the rest of Class 1-B. She is also willing to pass on opportunities that would benefit her if she feels other people deserve it better. This is shown when she let Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and Ibara Shiozaki participate in the tournament event of the U.A. Sports Festival in place of her team. Tetsutetsu has stated that because of Itsuka's cheerful personality, she can bring all of Class 1-B together, thus making her the "big sister" of Class 1-B.

Itsuka is additionally friendly to people outside her class and seems to hold no signs of ill-will towards Class 1-A, making her a minority of the 1-B students. She has displayed sympathy towards others, even if she is not particularly close to them. She showed concern for Izuku Midoriya and Tenya Iida after hearing about their run-in with Stain and helped Class 1-A by telling them what was supposed to be on the First Term Final Exam's practical portion despite it being somewhat against the rules.

In combat, Itsuka is very analytical. She is able to understand Mustard's Quirk (comparing the motion of his gas to that of a tornado) and using that logic to determine the user's location. She is also able to use her own Quirk to dispel the gas Mustard emits, allowing her and Tetsutetsu to fight without the need for gas masks.

## Main Skills and Equipment

**Big Fist**: Itsuka's Quirk grants her the ability to enlarge both of her hands to a gigantic size. With the increased size comes enhanced striking power and gripping capabilities.

* **Enhanced Strength**: Itsuka appears to have strength greater than the average human since she can carry people and lift her enlarged hands without a problem, as seen in her fight against Mustard. Her enlarged hands grant her proportionally increased chopping and gripping strength. During the Joint Training Battle, she proved to be strong enough to easily crush Momo's shields made of tungsten, the strongest metal on earth.
* **Double Jumbo Fist**: With both her hands at normal size, Itsuka strikes her enemy with them, activating her Quirk just before impact to maximize damage.

**Keen Intellect**: Itsuka is shown to be extremely intelligent and tactical, demonstrated when she theorized the location of Mustard and the pattern of his Quirk, Gas, and being able to figure out how to quickly dispel the villain's fumes. She has excellent analytical skills and a high sense of perceptiveness, and as she's ranked A-class in her official intelligence stat, her capacities in this regard are overall redoubtable. Tetsutetsu has even commented on Itsuka's quick wit, her level head in situations, and her ability to make the right decisions on the fly.

During the Joint Training, Itsuka demonstrated her incredible camaraderie and ingenuity, taking into account all of her teammates' strengths and weaknesses to effectively devise a two-fold plan for battling against the opposing team. Her first plan of action was to have Shihai Kuroiro take control of Fumikage Tokoyami's Dark Shadow and launch a surprise attack. Itsuka knew that Fumikage would use Dark Shadow to scout out her team and that the opposing team would never expect any member of her own team to take control of Dark Shadow. When Shihai inquired as to what would happen if he failed at her strategy, Itsuka revealed an effective contingency plan. If the opposing team was focused on fighting him, they would have had to use light to weaken him; and by taking advantage of that said light, Dark Shadow would not only be weakened as well, but the rest of her team would be able to pinpoint the opposing team's location, surround them, and go all out. Another part of her auxiliary strategy was to have Manga Fukidashi use his Quirk, Comic, to separate Momo from the rest of her teammates, knowing that the heroine was the opposing team's main strategist. Itsuka figured that if she brought the match to her own area of expertise, close-quarters combat, she would secure victory for her team.
However, despite her ingenuity, Shoto Todoroki realized a flaw in Itsuka's precautionary strategy in separating Momo from her teammates. He pointed out that if she really wanted to be cautious of Momo, then Itsuka would have had her entire team overwhelm the Everything Hero from the start of the match. This may simply be an indication of a strategic preference to be more broad than direct in her approach, rather than singling out the "brains" of the operation. However, Shoto's analysis further implies that Itsuka purposefully did not attempt to overwhelm Momo because she sought to personally engage with her in battle after strategically isolating her, and her confrontational sentiment is exemplified by the challenge that Itsuka had made to her self-proclaimed rival prior to the exercise. Although her team ultimately won the match, this oversight may have cost her and her classmates their victory; thus, for all Itsuka's strategic capacity, this demonstrates that she's equally inclined to make rather risky and impulsive decisions, or just generally lose sight of the big picture.

## Relationships

* Neito Monoma
* Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
* Reiko Yanagi
* Momo Yaoyorozu
* Nejire Hado