What exactly did Katsuo do here to stop the Exploding Lotus Dance? Did he absorb the explosions, block it? I know he made handsigns but what were they for?
Wow, quite the old post. Well if I'm remembering correctly, I just had him funnel extra chakra into his hands to tank the hit.
Mountain Shifting Palm Style is an interesting taijutsu style. When it comes to throwing palm strikes, its power is relatively average. Its real use is defense. Via pooling chakra in his palms, he's able to harden them to various levels, problem is, it take a toll on his energy to tank blasts like that. And it only really absorbs the energy coming directly at you, meaning he usually gets clipped by attacks even when defending.
And, obviously, ridiculous explosions like Absurds require something a bit more.
But to be fair, I actually put less power in my defense against Absurds explosion than I did Sagiso's as I wanted to use the residual force (which I realize was pointless now).
You'll have to forgive some of my past posts as I had a habit of unintentionally autoing hits. I was also trying to make the battle more cinematic and less scientific, kinda like the show.
Tl;Dr
Katsuo's a hard boi. But his palms are really
really hard.