Unfortunately I don't have a competitive environment to develop my masculinity into its alpha-stage potential, but I enjoyed playing around with this anyway. The exploding animation worked really well when I missed the dude's head and wrapped around to nail him in the crotch. So satisfying in how responsive, popping-explody, and blood-glittery it is.
I also like how the trails become material that has to be aggressively pushed through. It communicates how fights tend to start as planned, targeted attacks that demonstrate the ego's depiction of itself as a capable ninja just waiting for an opportunity to strike; but then they end up being these desperate and pitiful wrestling tangles where it is just someone struggling to get out of a hold while the other one tries not to get bit.