Powers and Abilities of Guts in Berserk

Swordsman/Tactician Master

Guts has been wielding huge swords since he was six years old, culminating in his amazing strength and master swordsmanship. Guts is remarkably deft and agile in the heat of battle, capable of ducking and countering even the most rapid strikes, despite his Herculean bulk. He is a combat pragmatist and a dynamic improviser who takes advantage of any possible opportunity to overcome opposition; on multiple occasions, he has utilized youngsters to bait and distract attackers when they are overpowered. Even combatants with exceptional fighting intelligence, such as Silat and Serpico, have succumbed to Guts’ adaptability and combative wit.

Peak-Human Conditioning

Guts has been a battler since he was nine years old, and he’s had nearly two decades to hone his skills into the deadly fighter he is now. He earned the esteem of the legendary swordsman Nosferatu Zodd for being the first human in three centuries to hurt the apostle during his days as a mercenary in the Hundred-Year War, when he single-handedly slew 100 Tudor soldiers. His strength and reflexes develop dramatically even after the Eclipse, honed to its pinnacle in his ongoing battle against alien creatures as one branded.Guts’ combat prowess improves to the point that he can compete on an equal footing with the most powerful apostles in their regular forms. Guts proves his ability to deal with Zodd’s freed form on the Hill of Swords, with the match ending in a tie after Griffith orders Zodd’s retreat.

Guts can ignore his body’s physiological safety measures while wearing the Berserker Armor, allowing him to perform superhuman feats of strength, speed, and agility, allowing him to decisively overcome formidable apostles even in their freed forms.

Indomitable Will

Guts has an unbreakable resolve, allowing him to endure in the face of apparently overwhelming challenges. His willpower is so strong that he has mutilated his own body in the pursuit of his objectives, allowing himself to be harmed in order to create openings and counterattack opponents. As a branded person, it is his personal determination that propels him onward in the face of obstacles, and it is a major role in his ability to retain his humanity.

Fate Defiance

Guts’ life has been plagued with occasions where his survival was mostly coincidental, despite the fact that much of his survival is reliant on his pure tenacity and tenacity. He is left to die for an unknown amount of time beneath the corpse of his hanging mother, yet when he is discovered by Gambino and his mercenaries later, he still lets out a healthy cry. Guts “began [his] life from death,” according to the Skull Knight, and as a result has a knack for evading it. Examples of such situations include, but are not limited to:

Guts is the solitary survivor of a fake charge in which his fellow mercenaries are all murdered by a hail of arrows during one of Gambino’s mercenary operations.

He survives a high fall after being fired down a cliff by Gambino’s mercenaries, fends off a pack of wolves, and is taken in by another mercenary band by coincidence.

He reaches out for Chitch’s unclasped flower during his hostage-taking of a noble’s son, causing the archer behind him to miss a shot aiming at the mercenary’s back and instead hit the noble’s son.

His survival in the combat with Bazuso is heavily reliant on Bazuso’s ax shattering before it can cut his head.

Between his membership in the Band of the Falcon and his reappearance three years later as the band’s raiders captain, he was involved in a combat in which he was the solitary survivor among a slew of fallen troops, prompting Griffith to marvel at his “luck of the devil.”

Despite Zodd’s prophesy that Guts would perish during the Eclipse, the warrior fights back against the hordes of apostles – even after nearly all of his friends have been murdered – and survives the sacrificial ceremony.