Not sure if this is the right lace, but I wanted to get it off my chest. I hate Ajani's Axe. I REALLY hate it. he's a very cool chracter, but it's the stupidest weapon I've ever seen, counting the thing Gideon uses. the axes are at an angle that spinning it won't matter because it's shaped more for stabbing, but the blades are too wide to be good for that, and the second one gets in the way. it's too short for a quarterstaff, it's just....like he would literally be better off fighting with a baseball bat. I am a bladed weapons nerd, fantasy weapons irk me, but that one is especially bad
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Ajani's double axe is made off his Axe and his brother's Axe. He stitched them together after the assassination of Jazal. Ajani is not a good fighther hinself soo he doesn't need to use it that much.
It was like 2 bladed maces back then
Ajani's double axe is made off his Axe and his brother's Axe. He stitched them together after the assassination of Jazal. Ajani is not a good fighther hinself soo he doesn't need to use it that much.
It was like 2 bladed maces back then
Right, but even individually they're poorly designed. Their blade is along their top, perpendicular to the handle, which is completely nonsensical for an AXE. An axe is all about leveraging the physics of it swielder's swing to increase it's impact strength, having the blade arranged as it is means that it will rarely/never come to bear against your opponent when using the proper swinging motion for an axe weapon.
To actually make use of the axe's blade end you'd need to use a thrusting motion, more like a rapier or a smallsword, but the width of the axe actually serves to reduce its effectiveness in that use as well, both because it's physically unwieldy (due to its weight distribution), and because you're then spreading the total force over a larger cross-section at point of impact.
Ajani's axe simply doesn't make much since before or after he tacked Jazal's onto it.
I honestly had to google it, cause I had no idea what a monk spade was. From what I can tell there are two key differences; First, Ajani's axe seems to be notably shorter in length (which could simply be a proportional issue with Ajani being as large as he is, but the net result is the same) and second, the blades of Ajani's axe are much larger than that on the spade.
Additionally, from the videos I watched of monk spade use on youtube, it seems as if they're used more similarly to a quarterstaff or Bo (lots of spinning strikes and rotational movement), with the blade used primarily for thrusting moves or just as added weight. There's no indication really that Ajani wields his axe in any way similarly, though admittedly written fiction can be a poor form for conveying such movement.
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It was like 2 bladed maces back then
Right, but even individually they're poorly designed. Their blade is along their top, perpendicular to the handle, which is completely nonsensical for an AXE. An axe is all about leveraging the physics of it swielder's swing to increase it's impact strength, having the blade arranged as it is means that it will rarely/never come to bear against your opponent when using the proper swinging motion for an axe weapon.
To actually make use of the axe's blade end you'd need to use a thrusting motion, more like a rapier or a smallsword, but the width of the axe actually serves to reduce its effectiveness in that use as well, both because it's physically unwieldy (due to its weight distribution), and because you're then spreading the total force over a larger cross-section at point of impact.
Ajani's axe simply doesn't make much since before or after he tacked Jazal's onto it.
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I honestly had to google it, cause I had no idea what a monk spade was. From what I can tell there are two key differences; First, Ajani's axe seems to be notably shorter in length (which could simply be a proportional issue with Ajani being as large as he is, but the net result is the same) and second, the blades of Ajani's axe are much larger than that on the spade.
Additionally, from the videos I watched of monk spade use on youtube, it seems as if they're used more similarly to a quarterstaff or Bo (lots of spinning strikes and rotational movement), with the blade used primarily for thrusting moves or just as added weight. There's no indication really that Ajani wields his axe in any way similarly, though admittedly written fiction can be a poor form for conveying such movement.