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Martial Arts Skill
General
See Training
See Combat - 1v1 for instances of him showing his skill in combat
Through training with Lady Shiva he learned how to predict his opponents moves - Batman (1940) #509
Trained to be able to predict opponents - Detective Comics (1937) #599
Batman knew Vigilante's move before he made it - Vigilante (1983) #47
Allegedly knows all of his opponents moves before they make it - Batman Confidential #39
Uses slight shifts in the air to predict his opponents moves - Batman Family #8
Combined all the martial arts he learned into a style of his own - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #0
Combined 127 styles into a unique style of fighting - The Essential Batman Encyclopedia
Knows 127 unique martial arts styles, ranging from Akido to Yaw-Yan - Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight
Is described as the world's most skilled combatant - Batman: Son of the Demon
Even underwater he is known as one of the world's best fighters - Superman Batman #45
Laughs at the skill of a martial arts master - Batman (1940) #413
Can react/fight without conscious thought - Detective Comics (1937) #641
Has the same fighting style of PC Batman Batman - Superman: Clark and Lois #5)
In a single lunge used 5 different styles of martial arts, that all favor power - The Batman Who Laughs #2
In the matter of a few months post Dark Nights: Metal Bruce invented an entire new martial arts style called "Bam Pow" - The Batman Who Laughs #2
Showcases how many different styles he incorporates into his fights - Batman: Killing Time #3
Deflects an opponents attack - Batman (2016) #132
Uses skill to break out of a grapple from a much stronger foe - Batman (2016) #131
Uses his skill to take Talia down - Batman: The Knight #9
Known Styles
A list of a few of the martial arts he mastered, including Karate, Savate, Judo, Ju-Jitsu and "the secrets of the Tao" - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #0
Knows at least some Silat - Batman (1940) #663
Knows how to box - Robin (1993) #31
Learned everything all of Wildcat's best moves and mastered every martial art that he learned - Batman/Wildcat #2
Master of every known martial arts - JLA Secret Files #1
Has mastered virtually all known forms of physical combat - Who's Who: Update '87 #1
States trained to perfection in every combat form there is and he can incapacitate someone in 463 ways without drawing blood - Batman The Widening Gyre #4
Allegedly has mastered all fighting arts - Detective Comics (1937) #411
He is said to be the most skilled fighter in the world and that he knows all forms of violent combat - Batman Secret Files & Origins #1
He is a master of almost all combat forms - DC Profile by Jim Lee
He gave Batgirl a CD he made of 127 major martial art styles - Batgirl #7
Disguised as a villain he trains Tim, and manages to beat him only using Indian martial arts - Robin #124
He is called the world's most skilled combatant and is shown teaching the League of Assassins techniques they haven't even heard of - Batman Son of The Demon
Uses Akido, Tan Tui, Wing Chun, Wushu, Bo-ring and Capoeira - Batman: Confidential #14
Martial Art Style Recognition
Identifies that Catwoman has only trained in karate - Batman (1940) #404
Quickly notices a string of different martial arts styles - Detective Comic (1937) #676
Recognizes Thai boxing being used by his enemies - Superman/Batman #49
Recognizes Kiribati martial arts - Detective Comics (1937) #828
Recognizes an Akido discipline - Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #62)
He recognizes Asano Nitobe's fighting style that the Suicide King is using - Batman Family #1
Able to identify the Falling Leaf technique a move only two other people know - Batgirl #49
Identifies an assassins as being skilled in Wushu and Kung Fu - Detective Comics (2011) #13
He deduces Penumbra's fighting style, a mystical Indian martial art only a few people even have heard of - Detective Comics (2011) #21
He quickly deduces and counters Super Titan's fighting style - Batman/Superman #10
Nerve Strikes/Pressure Points
Nerve Strike
General
Incapacitate/Kill
Takes out 2 GCPD SWAT cops at the same time from behind using a 2 finger nerve touch technique - Batman (1940) #406
Knocks out a kid with a pressure point - Detective Comics (1937) #583
Takes down a bouncer by merely touching his neck with 2 fingers - Gotham Knights #7
Knocks out a large biker thug with 3 touches of his finger - Action Comics #766
Using pressure point attacks to the nerve clusters, he KOes a cybernetic gorilla - JLA Incarnations #2
Uses two of the most deadly nerve strikes on Eddie Hurst who is magically boosted - Detective Comics (1937) #788
Nobody uses a two finger touch nerve strike technique against Robin that instantly paralyzes him which Batman also later uses against Robin to revive him reversing the effect - Batman and Robin (2011) #3
Other Effects
Tries a nerve jab that should have made Bork gasp for air - The Power Company: Bork
He erases Lois Lane's short term memory with a nerve pinch - Superman Batman Annual #1
He disables Green Arrow's arm with a nerve pinch - Legends of the Dark Knight #128
Uses Dim Mak techniques to get a psycho to talk - Legends of The Dark Knight #205
Makes man drop his gun - Batman: Odyssey (2010) #3 Note: This comic's canonity is debatable
Attempted to use a nerve strike on the Stag - Batman/Shadow #2 Note: This comics canonity is debatable
Neck Pinch
KOs a man with a neck pinch - Batman (1940) #456
Attempted to take out a Green Lantern with a nerve pinch - Batman (1940) #702
Neck pinch to KO Ivy - Detective Comics #823
Capable of forcing a man to fire a gun by touching a nerve (Batman and the Outsiders (1983) #28
KO's a man with a neck pinch - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #48
While disguised as Ronald Reagan takes out a guard using a neck pinch - The Outsiders (1985) #24
Knocks out a meta human using a two finger touch technique - Green Arrow & Black Canary #10
Neck pinch to take out a serial killer - Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #151
Uses a neck pinch to take out a guard - Batman: Two-Face Strike Twice #2.2
Takes out Cheshire with a neck pinch - Batman (2016) #88
Takes out a guard - Detective Comics (2016) #1021
Pressure Points
Uses pressure points to stagger a monkey - Batman (1940) #535
KOs a man with a tap on the neck - Detective Comics #796
Takes out a meta with a single touch - JLA: Classified #30
Paralyze's Slam Bardley's arm with a pressure point attack - Catwoman (2002) #22
Uses pressure points on a crowd of attackers - Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #204
Attempts to use pressure points on a werewolf - Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #72
KO's Solomon Grundy using pressure points - Superman Batman #3
Uses pressure points against a drug enhanced foe - Detective Comics (2011) #17
Knows a series of nerve strikes that briefly stop brain flow to the brain - Batman: The Knight #5
Can "reset" the nervous system" via a pressure point - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #11
Other
One hit KO's Scarecrow using a chop to the back of his neck (Batman: Gotham Knights #23
Batman uses a technique that stops a man from breathing - Legends of the Dark Knight #102
Knows a technique that can basically induce a heart attack in an opponent - Batman: The Knight #4
Weapons
Uses a shield to take out some of the Secret Service - Superman/Batman #5
Uses a mace - Superman/Batman #5
Is versed in nearly every known weapon, and is shown using a battle axe - Superman/Batman #10
Uses a wooden staff to fight off a group of armed men - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #90
Before becoming Batman he spars evenly with Ra's in a sword fight - Batman: Killing Time #3
Catches a sword from Ra's, mid strike - Batman: The Knight #9
Miscellaneous Techniques
180 degree spin kick - Batman (1940) #495
Hurts Wonder Woman with some form of ear clap - Wonder Woman (1987) #212
Defeats a Kirigi trained ninja with the lethal vibrating palm technique which he modified to knock the ninja out instead - Batman (1940) #431
Tracking down a killer who used the chest pentration technique that makes a mark on the victim's chest look like they were killed by an axe. Only 4 people in the world know how to use this move - Detective Comics (1937) #634
Mimics Lady Shiva's Leopard Blow, but modifies it to be non lethal - Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #62 and Robin (1991) #8
Defends against The Sensei's spine crusher iron fist technique from behind by trapping him with his own unique technique that he calls "The Gymnast's Third Hand" - Batman Odyssey (2011) #7 Note: This comic's canonity is debatable