Garou

* Garou
* Half Monster Garou
* Awakened Garou

## Summary

**Garou** (ガロウ, *Garō*; Viz: **Garo**) is a former disciple of Bang, but 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 human.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** **7-A** | At least **7-A** | **High 4-C**

**Name:** Garou, Human Monster, Hero Hunter

**Origin:**

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** 18

**Classification:** Mutated Human, Monster

**Attack Potency:** **Mountain level** (Made Metal Bat bleed, kept up with Royal Ripper and Bug God) | At least **Mountain level** (Casually broke Royal Ripper's blade and killed him in one hit, defeated Pri-Pri-Prisoner in a single attack. Caught Superalloy Darkshine's Superalloy Bazooka, and overpowered him) | **Large Star level** (ONE stated that Garou and Boros would be pretty evenly matched, with Garou even having an advantage in close combat.)

**Speed:** At least **Massively Hypersonic+** (Can keep up with Genos, even when weakened. Outmanoeuvred Metal Bat) | At least **Massively Hypersonic+** (Far faster than before. Dodged attacks from a restricted Orochi) | **FTL** (Kept up with and landed attacks on a somewhat serious Saitama, which should make him immensely faster than Geryuganshoop, whose attacks were "nothing" to Saitama and "a bad joke" in his eyes. Stated by ONE to have the advantage over Boros in close combat)

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown**

**Striking Strength:** **Mountain Class** | At least **Mountain Class** | **Large Star Class**

**Durability:** **Mountain Level** (Took hits from a serious Bang while weakened) | At least **Mountain level** (Survived fighting against Overgrown Rover and Orochi. More durable than before. Type 2 immortality makes him difficult to kill | **Large Star level** (Took several casual punches and a few Serious Series moves from Saitama, continuing to fight and attempt to best him), regeneration and reactive evolution makes him difficult to kill

**Stamina:** Very high. After being worn down from fighting multiple Heroes, curbstomped by Watchdogman and knocked unconscious by Saitama, he was forced, without sufficient rest, into a battle against multiple A-Class heroes, where he suffered a gunshot wound to his leg and was hit with poisonous arrows to drain his stamina but still managed to defeat all of his opponents. Immediately afterwards he found himself up against Genos and then both Bang and Bomb who subjected him to continued pummeling to the point that he was on the verge of death. Even after all the aforementioned punishment, he still willed himself to resume fighting ignoring the huge amounts of damage that his body had taken.

**Range:** Standard melee range | Extended melee range normally, several meters with Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist | Stellar

**Standard Equipment:** None notable

**Intelligence:** Quite high (Great knowledge in H2H combat and is able to analyze and memorize an opponent's fighting style and movements in only a few moments) and able to at least predict the plans of the Monster Association. Through observation, he learns of countermeasures for other people's fighting style. Sometimes switches between fighting styles to keep his movement unpredictable or for his own amusement. His mastery of martial arts enables him to attack his opponents as if "(They) were being cornered by dozens of martial artists at once" as described by Superalloy Darkshine, despite the two being roughly on the same level at the time of their fight and Darkshine being a reputable hand to hand combatant.

**Weaknesses:** Garou typically doesn't use Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist until he needs to, as it reminds him of Bang. Intentionally prolongs fights to get stronger, sometimes letting enemies get serious. Tends to underestimate opponents once they are "defeated" | None Notable | His adaptability can be overwhelmed with sufficient power if the gap is too high (Couldn't keep up with a serious Saitama in the end). Adaptation can make him trade speed for more power, turning him into a mindless monster.

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Various Martial Arts Mastery:**

* **Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist:** A special martial art Garou learned from his former master, Bang. It is a combat style that relies on countering attacks despite being stronger than his own. This is also useful for offensive stream of attacks that can take enemies by surprise. The martial art can repel the attacks of his opponents, nullify them, or redirect them with twice the power. Using this technique Garou can beat some of the lower S-Class heroes although he tends to avoid using this attack early on. His technique also wasn't perfected to the point that he couldn't repel Superalloy Darkshine's attack before he started adapting.

* **Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist**: Bomb's martial art. This martial art style involves a powerful hand rotation technique to create a razor-sharp whirlwind pressure that chops the opponent into tiny pieces. The martial art then pushes the opponent back with various degrees of force depending on the proximity towards the eye of the whirlwind. The cutting pressure is also used in the martial art's kicks.

* **Whirlwind Water Stream Roaring Aura Sky Ripping Fist**: A more advanced technique than both Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist and Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist, a move that splits the skies and blasts airstreams into the opponent’s body. It is one level weaker than Cross Fang Dragon Slayer Fist. The technique is powerful enough to break Elder Centipede's carapace before the monster molted. Traditionally when the technique connects, the shockwave created will spread through the victim's entire body, which ultimately reduces the victim to dust.

* **Cross Dragon Fang Slayer Fist:** A technique that is developed by utilizing Water Streaming Rock Smashing Fist and Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist. Was much stronger compared to those two techniques and usually requires two people to perform such a technique. The only other two who could perform this were Bang and Bomb, who were each masters in their respective martial arts styles. The technique is even stronger than Whirlwind Water Stream Blasting Sky Splitting Fist.

* **Various many more techniques**
* **Military Martial Arts**: Based on Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist, this fighting style evolves freely during combat.
* **Tanktop Tackle**: Copied from Tanktop Master. He charges at his opponent, bulling them over with folded forearms. He uses this against Flashy Flash.
* **Tanktop Blow**: Copied from Tanktop Master. Garou unbalances and distracts his opponent by striking the ground with tremendous force after spinning to build up momentum. He first uses this against Bang and Bomb, then later against Flashy Flash.
* **Watchdog Man's Dog Movements**: During his fight with Genos, Garou is shown to have been able to mimic the movement of Watchdog Man in which he uses to catch Genos off guard to catch his right arm.
* **Fighting Spirit** (気合い, Kiai): During battles, Garou is capable of getting stronger either by becoming angrier or with the damage he takes. He copied this ability from Metal Bat.**Monster Calamity God Slayer Fist:** A special technique Garou developed from the numerous martial art techniques that he mastered. Compared to his previous techniques should be his best ability being able to do much more feats with this. With this technique, he was able to finish off the rest of the S-Class Heroes.**God Slayer Instant Attack:** Garou sends a volley of punches at extremely high speeds. Able to actually take down all of Tatsumaki's projectiles with this.
* **God Slayer Ascending Attack:** An upward strike that was strong enough to knock up Saitama
* **Abandonment**: The user removes all restriction that he had placed on his mind. When they are removed the user's mobility, agility and maneuverability are heightened.
* **Adaptability:** While his "limiter" was breaking, Garou seems to be have developed a form of Adaptability. This allows him to become stronger and faster over time as well as make him seemingly immune to any attack that fails to kill him, such as developing stronger resistance to psychic attacks on top of his already immense will. This also allows him to transform into various forms making him a real Monster.
* **Mimicry:** Similar to adaptability, Garou is able to mimic techniques and abilities that he has witnessed before. Tanktop Tackle being one of the moves he was able to copy and the even Cross Dragon Fang Slayer Fist