Official Move Approval IV

[Mark]

What about failure rate?

On top of the auto fail if the target has Foresight, if a Foe's TEC is greater, they can recognize the slight of hand, noticing the way he turns down his sheath in preperation for the strike. As such, they can easily side step the attack and negate it entirely.

Asside from that, I'm open to suggestions. It's no different than the average attack, except that it just adds an element of surprise for greater effect.

Failure rate wouldn't be enough by itself, since all attacks can fail in that way if the person is fast or skilled enough. The bit about 'grievous injury and heavy bleed' is what makes me think this is more than a regular strike and needs greater balance, since that seems to me the equivalent of someone charging up a strike. If you add in a blurb about it causing grievous damage to weak foes and less to those with higher DEF, I'd say you're good. Since if the strike isn't charged up it wouldn't make a ton of sense for you to be cleaving giant gashes in someone with 4 DEF, etc. I'm fine with the debuff being a thing regardless of DEF, really just concerned with the damage this will do.