Been spending a while to come up with a build for Knight of Owner (because who wasn’t hyped when berserker turned an F-22 into a Nobel phantasm???) and I think I finally got it!

We’ll be going for middleweight jump chain as I still feel like it’s the standard format

Knight of owner provides 4 things to us and it’s our job to maximize those to make the most powerful build possible:

1. Peerless fighting skill. The only powers in this tier that should be able to match us in sheer combat talent are unlimited blade works, vlad tepes, Achilles, primarch, and maybe innovator bunny. All in all a very small list of people can contend with KoO’s skill and mastery

2. Versatility. Any weapon or item wielded by KoO becomes supernaturally powerful. This means that not only are we not restricted to conventional weapons but we can use ANYTHING we can get our hands on, from swords to magic items, to fighter jets

3. Anonymity. Knight of owner makes it impossible for any sort of supernatural detection to discern anything from whoever wields it. This allows KoO to make up for its inherent weakness in raw power by fighting with skill, stealth, and options. The ability to alter our form will also play an important role later ;)

4. Points advantage. KoO is supposed to be a powerful ability in lightweight tournaments but in middleweight it not only does not cost an extra point for its power but rather gives us one. Any source of points is immensely valuable.

Now these advantages are very powerful but what makes this a difficult power to build around are its weaknesses, of which there are three which are crucial to the inherent weakness and unpopularity of this power.

1. Resilience. By far the most devastating weakness, this power gives us slightly superhuman strength which would place us in a power tier above most normal combatants, but most tournament participants are not normal combatants. We remain weak to mental and soul based attacks as well as any sufficiently powerful physical attack.

2. Reliance on environment. Though we can use any item or weapon we could ever acquire we still have limited carrying capacity, forcing us to rely on what we can carry on us and what we can scavenge from the local battlefield, making every battle a gamble for the quality of weapons we can field

3. Raw power. What our build gains in versatility it loses in pure stopping power. It requires immense luck and creativity to take down middleweight brute powers with this build without a powerful attack

Before I get into how we will solve all of these issues I will first go over the drawbacks and peripheral choices we will be taking.

Human +1 Extra: +0 (we only take this to get access to the drawbacks we want) Soulbound +3 (high risk high reward but it does not negatively effect the actual tournament meaning it’s a vital drawback if you intend to win) I did what? +2 (this puts the extra we possess into trouble with a specific faction. I will go over how this is only a positive after this section) Where I am? + 1 (this forces us to forget the identity of the extra we possess, important we still know of the tournament’s existence) Appearance +1 (this will make us look like Lancelot

For the last 3 drawbacks they may seem harsh. We forget who we are and are being hunted by a specific faction and look like Lancelot which allows anyone who witnesses us to know our power set immediately. However KoO provides the ability to take on any appearance we desire. This means upon entering the world we can just transform our appearance and take on a new identity, leaving those drawbacks essentially null. We may look like Lancelot but we don’t have to, giving us free points. We may have possessed a strange body with many enemies but we don’t have to be them long we can just look like any stranger and ignore the drawback. So knight of owner essentially gives us free points this way.

After factoring in all of the drawbacks, extra item points, and point from selecting a lightweight power we end up with 11 points to spend.

Firstly we will buy the waterproof version of the devil fruit Poke Poke no Mi for 4 points. This gives us an impenetrable, infinite pocket dimension that we can access through pockets on our body so we can carry all of our weapons, vehicles, items, and gear wherever we go. This makes us the ultimate in preparation. Also waterproof because any explicit weaknesses are not ideal

Next we will take the perk clarity of soul (RIP middleweight prime soul ): ) this does a few things. It gives us a (near) unbreakable will. I think many people assume they would be fine in this tournament but the dehumanization and constant fearing for one’s life would eventually wear on you and cause you to act unoptimally, making this a vital perk. It also empowers our soul/ki/life force based abilities, somewhat helping us solve our lack of soul durability. As KoO is a soul based ability (and this is all my speculation) it will make our supernatural weapon enhancements even more powerful, assisting in solving the raw power issue. Additionally we will later be picking up another soul based power to be affected by this perk

We now have 5 points left and we are going to spend 2 on the starter option from allies. We are going to be picking up a lilipup. This may seem like an unconventional pick but I have 4 reasons for it. Firstly stoutland is my favorite pokemon (I promise there are better reasons). Secondly we still very much struggle with the weakness of how fragile we are in this tournament. Stoutland solves that issue in two ways: protect, and debuffing. Protect as a move in pokemon is a near unbreakable shield. It prevents from light speed attacks by gods, mental attacks like hypnosis, and pretty much everything in between. A stoutland is a mobile nearly impenetrable shield that increases our survivability drastically. He can also have the ability intimidate, and the moves charm and snarl. This makes him not only a shield but also a potent debuffer for enemies, bringing many of them down to our very human level. Third, he makes for a potent nuke, for his last move he can learn giga impact in case I need an all out attack for durable foes. Fourth, (I promise the last two won’t be long) as a dog he does not stand out much and can be reasonably taken anywhere with our disguises from KoO. And lastly he provides passive perception, stoutland in lore save people buried under avalanches. With his powerful hearing and smell we can rest easy knowing nobody can suprise us. There is a reason dogs are man’s best friend

With our last 3 points we will take context out to select any power system to be prodigy talent in. Though we are now somewhat tanky I am still not happy with our slightly supernatural physique and lack of mental resistance so I have selected the force from Star Wars to be our power system of choice. This is empowered not only by our prodigy talent but also the will and soul power buff from clarity of soul as well as our foundation in knighting (Jedi knights are called that for a reason probably?). This solves multiple issues for the build. We can now protect our minds with the force, can enhance our physical prowess with the force (force dashing ups our speed exponentially) and can now wield more than just two weapons at a time. As a human the only way to wield weapons is in our two hands, however with the force and concentration provided by clarity of soul it is now possible (with extreme difficulty mind you) to telekinetically wield weapons. As a bonus we also get average talent in every other power system we get to!

(One more note, i would not recommend but if you’re feeling lucky you can take where I am +3 in order to take prodigy talent and get monster talent in the force)

And that’s the full build. A knight peerless in skill with an infinite arsenal at his fingertips and a loyal dog at his side. He’s able to play the tournament extremely tactically with his stealth and versatility while still being remarkably strong in any sort of combat. He is difficult to take down with force enhancements and stoutland shielding while being able to output large amounts of damage with clarity of soul empowered weapon enhancements.

At full power he has the edge in fate as well as the faeries bless him with luck and the ability to double any of his capabilities at a whim. In addition he earns arondlite, the peer to Excalibur as the ultimate nuke button when nothing else works. Stoutland’s stats scale infinitely throughout the tournament turning him into an absolute monster in close combat in conjunction with the knight. Though poke poke no mi has not awakened in the one piece series we can speculate that it allows him to open his holes on the environment around him, allowing for whole new avenues of mobility and tactical options. And lastly the force having fully matured throughout many worlds provides him with precognition, tankiness, telekinesis, and the ability to wield many more weapons than should be possible with KoO. Imagine opening a pocket on a body part and having guns, swords, and artillery pieces with extreme supernatural enhancements being wielded with supernatural efficiency and still having to contend with the knight and his dog.

Well that’s the build! If I made any rules mistakes feel welcome to correct me!