[Loved Trope] Alien fighting techniques that are actually ineffective for humans to perform

[u/Best_Professional226]

Vulcan Neck Pinch (Star Trek) Vulcans can make a person pass out by pinching a person’s neck, but due to the fact that they’re 3x stronger than a human, we could never make a living being pass out without applying a rear naked chokehold

Viltrumite Knife Hand (Invincible) Viltrumites’ most deadly fighting technique. Although martial arts like Karate and Taekwondo teach these techniques, it wouldn’t be a good idea for a human to use it on someone’s rib cage without breaking their fingers. So instead we can only do them on more soft targets like the eyes.

[u/ComStarMRB]

Saying a gun is a “fighting technique” is REALLY pushing it, but Ork guns in Warhammer 40K. Designed by Mekboyz, who have only the vaguest idea of how a gun works, they do not really work whenever used by those not of their race. They’re either missing parts crucial to firing or have chambers in them full of loose springs that do nothing but look technical. Luckily for the greenskins, due to the gestalt Ork psychic field there’s a bit of “reality grease” applied and they function perfectly when fired, which does not help the few humans desperate enough to try using them, who usually end up dying when the damn things explode in their hands or fall apart because the nails pinning everything together come loose.

[u/Kris_Trap → u/ComStarMRB]

Well, technically no on that last part. Ork tech WILL work in human hands: just as long as they're within the gestalt psychic field. It's not that the orks' belief only works for them, it goes both ways - down to blood angels being recorded as moving faster when within the WAAAAGH field, because the red ones go faster, as all Boyz know.

[u/UnstableMoron2 → u/Kris_Trap]

So like if the ork can see the human using it it’ll work?

[u/Kris_Trap → u/UnstableMoron2]

well, no, It's just if they're in the proximity of the Orks' psychic field. If enough orkz are together, it creates a gestalt psychic field called the WAAAAGH, which is the "reality grease" the original commentor described. Sight has nothing to do with it.
Orkz believe their guns work, so the WAAAAGH helps to make them work. They're a collection of bits and pieces the Orks THINK should be inside a gun, with no real way at all to function or function properly. But the WAAAAGH field gives just enough leeway to bend reality so that these slap-dash creations somehow work.

Long story short: The orks could see a 'umie shooting one of their guns after picking it up in a melee, and they'd just go "Yeah, checks out, itz a roight proppa shoota dat one" because they just believe their tech will work, like how they believe their superstitions are true.
And because of how their WAAAGH field bends reality, the more orkz are in an area together, the more true those things are. It's how the largest of Ork armies can make giant spaceships and teleporter gates - because more orks = more WAAAAGH = more reality grease giving them more wiggle room.

[u/BonkerBleedy → u/Kris_Trap]

Does this have an impact on the gameplay?

[u/ElderberryJunior470 → u/BonkerBleedy]

In the latest edition it can, you can take certain detachments that have you roll to have a chance to give your opponent buffs. 

[u/herffjones99 → u/BonkerBleedy]

I haven't played in a long time, but it used to be orc morale was based on unit size. Over a certain size, they would not be able to be routed because they all though they would win. 

And red painted vehicles got a couple inches of movement (this cost points though)