Oh my god! Beowulf’s Grendel Buster attack is so good!

He puts down his swords and just beats your ass with his fists. It’s perfect because in the original legend, manmade steel always failed him. His swords were always breaking because he was so strong. The only thing he could truly rely on was the might of his own body.

I think it makes sense with the whole lore of the setting too. When he’s using his swords he just looks like some generic warrior, but when he reveals his noble phantasm you learn that he’s Beowulf, who slew the mighty Grendel with his bare fists.

Fun fact. The reason he originally fought Grendel unarmed was because Grendel fought unarmed. Grendel was some kind of vaguely described monster, so of course he didn’t use weapons. Beowulf’s reasoning though was that if he fought unarmed, then this would be an entirely fair fight, and in a fair fight when all else is equal God’s Favor determines the victor.

Thing is though, the only surviving records of Beowulf come from The Christian Church. At the time most of the population was illiterate, writing supplies were expensive, Christian Monastaries were the only groups really recording stuff. It’s generally believed that Beowulf and contemporary stories weren’t originally so heavy on the Christian Values, but when the Christians recorded these stories they kind of gave the whole thing a Christian paint job.

So in the version of the story that survived Beowulf fights Grendel unarmed in order to submit to the will of The Christian God, but who knows how that went down and for what reasons in the version people told in the streets back then.