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Yuji has one of the most unorthodox motivations in shounen manga, and it’s part of what makes him a compelling protagonist. Yuji has a lot going for him at the beginning, but In order to face off against the many cursed spirits and jujutsu sorcerers he encounters, he develops a host of new abilities that help him keep up with foes who have way more experience than him.
7 Quick Learning
Shounen action stories usually focus on the development of their main characters. Even amongst his peers, Yuji is able to learn new skills and techniques at an absurd speed. Before attending Jujutsu High, he had very little combat training and no cursed energy training, yet he was able to pick up advanced martial arts and cursed energy manipulation within a few weeks.
Gojo devised a training regiment that involved Yuji watching movies to learn how to regulate his emotions and cursed energy. A few hours later, Yuji had already picked it up. When he first met Todo, it only took a few minutes for him to not only improve his cursed energy control, but to adapt to Todo’s fighting style and perfectly sync up with him in battle.
6 Curse Resistance
As the main power system behind Jujutsu Kaisen’s fights, cursed energy is used by both the jujutsu sorcerers and the cursed spirits they fight against. While all sorcerers have a level of curse resistance, Yuji’s is extremely high. Especially for someone who only discovered cursed energy in his mid-teens.
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The most obvious example of this is Yuji’s ability to host Ryomen Sukuna to begin with. Sukuna is known as ‘the king of curses’ specifically due to his immense amounts of cursed energy. Just 1 of his fingers is enough to make any curse into a massive threat. Yet, Yuji is capable of consuming all 20 without losing complete control of his body. Even when he was fed 10 fingers at once, he didn’t lose his body for too long.
5 Pure Physical Strength
While cursed energy use is the source of the most powerful abilities in JJK, most sorcerers and even cursed spirits incorporate physical attacks into their arsenal. Even the strongest sorcerer, Satoru Gojo, has been seen using his fists in battle. Yuji is easily one of the most dangerous sorcerers in this regard, thanks in part to his massive physical strength.
While the reason for Yuji’s strength is rather vague, it’s effect on his fights is unmistakable. Even before learning to use cursed energy, Yuji could throw a shot put hard enough to dent a metal pole. Once he learns to add cursed energy to his strikes, he gains the ability to hit cursed spirits with all that strength, resulting in some devastating blows.
4 Martial Arts
While raw physical strength is a big boon for Yuji, it can’t take him very far without some form of polishing. This polish comes in the form of Yuji’s martial arts. He was already trained in karate by his grandfather, but as the series progresses, he learns new techniques, including several from ‘taido’ martial arts.
His martial arts skills allow him to go head-to-head with everyone from curses to other sorcerers, despite his lack of an innate cursed technique. He has techniques like knee release and manji kick, which when used in combination with each other allows him to drop low in an instant, and then transfer his momentum into a powerful kick to his opponent’s face.
3 Poison Resistance
While most of Yuji’s abilities are natural to him, this one actually comes from the influence of Sukuna in his body. Sukuna is an extremely powerful being, with a host of abilities. These abilities actually include poison based ones, giving Sukuna himself a high resistance to poisons of any kind.
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Yuji inherits this passive ability, and is shown to be unaffected by poison, even ones used by cursed spirits like Eso and Choso. He also has a resistance to any abilities that tamper with the soul. Since Sukuna attacks anything that attempts to harm him, trying to manipulate Yuji’s soul means being attacked by Sukuna himself.
2 Divergent Fist
Usually, jujutsu sorcerers have innate techniques that are ingrained in them since birth. This allows them to do things like Gojo’s limitless or Megumi’s shadow manipulation. Without a technique of his own, Yuji developed divergent fist as a way to use his cursed energy in a unique way.
Divergent fist acts like a piston when Yuji punches something. His fist makes contact first, and then the cursed energy follows soon afterwards, making every attack hit twice. This is good not only for raw damage, but for catching opponents off guard. As strong as this is though, Yuji later stopped using it since he learned to control his cursed energy even better.
1 Black Flash
As divergent fist showed, cursed energy does not always impact its target at the same time as a physical attack. Usually this is undesirable, but if the delay is within 0.000001 seconds, it results in a ‘black flash’, essentially a critical hit that does far more damage and heightens the senses for a time afterwards.
Usually, black flash is something that sorcerers do by complete accident. The record for successive black flashes was only 4, and was set by Keito Nanami, who states he didn’t even do it on purpose. Yuji, on the other hand, reaches a point where he can use black flash on purpose. He not only matched Nanami’s record for consecutive flashes, but has used the technique more times than even Gojo himself.
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