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Might I suggest Steel Devil Style for free parries/counter-attacks, it's kind of limited, but if linked to a perfect defense, ISP can reply tit for tat without paying for the counterattacks and I wouldn't say taking a -single- SMA charm would be cheating... the trick is to find complimenting weapons, which you'll run into even now. ~ Haku

PS - I should note that Death Parrying Stroke and Life Severing Blow -works- even with NON-martial arts combos/attacks as they ARE reflexive charms. And that 5 Dragon style does compliment VBoS very well, due to its charms and style weapons ~ Haku

Thank you for the suggestion. I completely forgot about Steel Devil Style. However, I won't use Death Parrying Stroke and Life Severing Blow for flavor reason. As for 5 Dragon, too expensive for its ability. Invincible Sword Princess is already dipping into 6 different styles, possibly 7, not including the basic Melee. I don't know how effective the end result will be against Lion, but it'll be a beauty to behold. - TonyC

I dunno, I think Five-Dragon could definitely be worth it. I think all you'd want would be Five-Dragon-Force Blow. Granted, it's Simple, but it looks like Simples are not a staple of her arsenal, so it fills a potential Combo slot. Couple that with a reaver or grand daiklave, and it's a very inexpensive way to produce a lot of damage. I don't have the Lion's stats handy, unfortunately, so I don't know if a base damage of 38-44L (numbers assume Strength 5, Essence 5, and ISE) would pierce the Lion's soak effectively. - David.

Steel Devil Style is very useful, reflexive counter-attacks + parries are always nice, as they don't eat into your actions. As for 5 Dragon, it's mainly 5 Dragon Forces Blow, that's the single most damaging charm you could fit into a MA tree, double the raw damage? With strength 5 (which can be higher with strength increasing exercise - up to essence 5), grand daiklave (11L), you could be looking at 21L, before successes or charm boosting. And for 2 motes, it 'jumps' up to 42L, and if you combo it with a extra MA action charms and some sort of defensive charms... Remember, the Lion only has 26L soak before charms or special effects.
~ Haku

You might also want to note that ghost-seeing blind fold works -beautifully- until it's soaked with the blood of a blind person. Which means that blind exalt better not bleed on his blindfold. ~ Haku

Excellent point on Five-Dragon Force Blow. I'll have to reconsider and recompute just how much essence Princess has in her pool after all the committed stuff. Steel Devil, on the other hand, is not useful here. The restrictions just don't play well with the other charms she has. - TonyC

Hmmm... point, but you'll need to spend essence just to do any form of counter-attacks when the Lion guns for you. Against exalts or powered beings, counter-attacks are beautiful; mainly because you can't counter them and you have to spend defensive actions, which has be charm produced or reserved just to defend or risk getting pinged to death.
~ Haku who likes to think of CA as part of the spam technique.

How are you going to get the weapons to all match? Unless ISP is fighting barehanded... she's not going to be able to use alot of those MA charms, and if barehanded, her melee charms get disengaged. ~ haku who is a tad worried here about those charms.

- Mwahahahaha!!! No, look, I'm writing the charms down right now. I haven't actually built the actual combo and I think I'll go with tactics 3 and watch the cherry blossoms fall, but the style weapon thing is not a problem. - TonyC (who's going to clear the comments soon.)

Heh! Well... one way of getting a decent combat stats 'barehanded' is to use the PG's version of Wood Dragon's Claws, which allows you to reflexively hot-swap 20 points about in the stats at the start of any turn, up to Occult + Essence in any single stat. If you're using classic combat, it can get... very potent (speed+7, accuracy+7, damage+6, defense+0). It's power drops if you're using rate as you have to factor that one in there. ~ Haku

What, no specialties? - Quendalon

Ooo, good catch. I was so wrapped up in the magic stuff I forgot about the basics. - TonyC

Shouldn't Brawl still be favored? Also... I think Willpower 10 would be nice for the Princess. But then again... I still haven't fully understood your WP regaining strategy and the combo yet. So many Charms! - sssssz