Unreleased Preview — Not Yet in Game
Bulky is listed on the official Gakuran Trello as a work-in-progress fighting style. It is not obtainable yet. All details below come from the official Trello card and may change before release. We will update this page with full combos, perks, and a Best Build once it launches.
Gakuran Bulky Style Guide (Preview)
The tanky posture-pressure brawler from the official Trello. Built to out-last opponents with high Resilience and chip damage — but still unreleased.
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Quick Answer
Bulky is an unreleased (WIP) Gakuran fighting style described on the official Trello as a posture-pressure tank. Its perks include Crushing Force I (+10% posture damage), Heavy Hitter I (+5% guardbreak), Guard Pierce IV (25% block chip), and Resilience IV (45% grapple). It favors a Tall build. Early community tier lists project it around A-Tier, but that is speculative until release.
What We Know From the Official Trello
Crushing Force I
+10% posture damage — steadily drains opponent posture to force guard breaks.
Guard Pierce IV
25% block chip damage — strong pressure even through blocks.
Resilience IV
45% grapple win chance — a durable tank that wins most clash trades.
Source: Official Gakuran Trello - Combat Styles (Bulky card, WIP). Stats subject to change.
Last checked 11 September 2026 — still unreleased. The check covered the card's WIP status plus two independent signals: post-update third-party trackers that continue to group Bulky with the unreleased styles, and a 30-day video sweep that found no Bulky gameplay to review.
Projected Role (Speculative)
- Best Height: Tall (per Trello).
- Playstyle: Posture-pressure tank — out-last and out-chip the opponent.
- Community Projection: Early tier lists place it around A-Tier, but this is unconfirmed until launch.
Why This Is a Preview, Not a Guide
A released style page here contains tested combos, matchup notes and a build recommendation. Bulky has none of those because it is not obtainable, and inventing them would produce a page that is confidently wrong the day the style launches in a different form. What the board provides is the intended stat profile, which is what this page reports.
| Trait | Bulky (per Trello) | Where that sits today |
|---|---|---|
| Block chip | Guard Pierce IV — 25% | Between Boxing's III (20%) and Muay Thai's V (30%), so above average but not the ceiling |
| Grapple clash odds | Resilience IV — 45% | Below Wrestling and Muay Thai, which both run Resilience V (55%) |
| Posture pressure | Crushing Force I — +10% posture damage | An entry-level tier on a released scale, so this is a starting point rather than the identity |
| Guardbreak damage | Heavy Hitter I — +5% | Matching the lowest released tier, well under Wrestling's maxed Heavy Hitter III |
The honest reading is that Bulky is designed as a durable all-rounder rather than a specialist: no trait reaches the top of its scale, and two sit at the bottom. That is a coherent design — a style that never loses an exchange badly — but it is also the profile most likely to be re-tuned before release, because "never the best at anything" is hard to make attractive without a distinctive tool.
What to Do Until Bulky Launches
- Do not reserve rerolls. An unrollable style cannot reward waiting, and the profile above may change before it ships.
- Build the habit it is designed around. A durability-first style rewards disciplined trading, so practice identifying which exchanges are worth taking — the posture and guard break page is the right place to start.
- Compare it to what exists now. If a tanky mid-range profile is what you want today, the released styles with Resilience V and high Guard Pierce already deliver it.
- Ignore pre-release value guesses. Any video assigning Bulky a price or trade value is describing something nobody owns. Launch timing and final numbers appear in the patch notes.
This preview is re-checked on a fixed review cycle. If the card still reads WIP at the next check the verification date rolls forward; if the style ships or is dropped, this page is rewritten.