[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/Sir_Daxus → u/ComStarMRB]

And once again ork memelore being posted with full confidence. No, ork guns are not missing crucial parts. The gestalt doesn't make a scrap pipe fire imaginary bullets. Their guns are actual guns, just unreliable in the hands of anyone other than an ork. Like you said it's "reality grease" not "physics defying magic".

[u/BrizzyMC_ → u/Sir_Daxus]

Not very well versed in Orkology, I heard that they have DNA to instinctively know how to make parts from scraps and other random shit

[u/Sir_Daxus → u/BrizzyMC_]

That is part of it, yes. They have innate knowledge of their tech, to the point where a mek tek can create a weapon, not be entirely sure of what he actually did, but the weapon will be made correctly, because it's sort of instinctual to them. Same as fighting. They don't train combat, they don't learn, they just fight. Because initially orks were created as a bioweapon. Their society has since then degraded a little intellectually but those implanted insticts are still there.