" I didn't even have a plan. That's why you couldn't win."- TheDragon in one of my works.

This guy's in a [=DnD=] group where our Scholar-Barbarian half-orc does this. In our most recent session, he demanded to be catapulted on a boat, punched a hole to the lower deck, said "Fuck it" and punched the bottom out of the boat, and got off the boat. This guy can also be this: He somehow constantly fails Spot-Checks and non-combat checks, but during combat, he will get a 20 (meaning a critical hit) and an 8 (16), which is called the Coffee Special (Literally, I yell, "FUCK IT!" and kill.)

When fighting, this Troper combines a PrimalStance, ImprovisedWeapon, and ShrodingerFu, he's also a CombatPragmatist, where you will either find me kicking someone in the nuts, crouch and sweep kick him, throw dirt in his eyes, and bash him through with a sock full of rocks, or just scratching, biting, and gouging.

Pisceyia: Other ADD/ADHD sufferers can attest to this: A short attention span with a side order of hyperactivity really helps in a fight. When I get in a fight, I generally just scream at the top of my lungs the entire time and... do stuff. Really, I have no idea what I do the entire time I fight. All I know is I usually end up winning.

This troper. You can't out-think me in a game, because I don't think.

GoatBoy: In high school, I once beat up the football team's star player by windmilling and kicking wildly. People who witnessed it said it was the most awesome thing they'd ever seen.

When this troper was a freshman in high school, he had a mentor in the form of a senior guy. He once told this troper that if ''you'' don't know what you're doing in a fight, there's no way your ''opponent'' could know.

This troper has a roleplay character that does this in her most commonly-used incarnation. She uses the ability to summon inanimate objects as a form of HammerSpace, and has played enough video games to have most of an idea how they work. Your best bet is if she's been playing a particular video game recently, in which case she'll probably attempt to imitate a character.

I use this tactic in Risk. I've actually found a way to randomly select one territory in Risk to invade. This tactic works for me to commonly choose which continent I'll go for if no clear cut path is shown.

This troper has a friend who uses this strategy for poker. He might as well not look at his cards, but he does anyway, which just throws you off even more!

Duck Kung-Fu or Limping Duck is a fighting style which imitates the movements of a duck as its form. Needless to say, it's confusing as... a fighting style based on an aquatic bird..

This troper's sister regularly beats him at ''SoulCalibur 4'' using a mixture of this trope and ButtonMashing.

This Troper plays a Pokémon trainer in a Pokémon roleplay who practices this. Of his team: A Snorlax that fights while sleeping, a Lopunny who charms more than she battles, a Spinda who has been known to swipe drinks from bystanders and fight while drunk, a Teddiursa who fakes fear and weakness before suddenly raging out, and a Clefairy/Clefable pair who specialise in Metronome (A move that in itself is completely random in it's effects.)

This Troper plays Super Smash Bros. a bit like this. Simply put, he doesn't think during battle; rather, he knows which move he likes, and randomizes usage of them depending on his mood. This causes him to do things that violate common sense sometimes, like charging right into a Samus that's chargin' its Power Beam instead of being evasive. The awesome part? It usually works. He wins most battles among his friends as Toon Link by randomly shooting arrows, throwing boomerangs, dropping bombs, ground attacking, aerial attacking and copious amount of roll/spot dodging.

Also, ''he doesn't think during a match''. It's all just done by instinct and a short attention span.

This troper learned VirtuaFighter 4's Lei Fei using the ButtonMashing variant of this trope, combined with him nearly all of his attacks doing ''exactly'' what I expected them to, which I've never seen before or since. Note that I say ''learned'' - I now know ''exactly'' what his various attacks do - but early on I won several matches in a row, including one round where Lei ''never stopped attacking the entire time'', which seems really hard to do effectively in VF.

This troper channels this trope in everything I do as my way of thinking seems to link things togeather with strange logic before it even occurs to me. This also fits my behaviour as my emotional and biological responses are so vastly differentiated that they're essentially anathema to one another. This leads to situations where my body will respond to stimuli by, for instance, show fear, reverance and sincere apology while my mind is completely absent from the equation until afterwards where it's all just as planned and they believed bullshit because to my body it was genuine. Vice versa I can inflict flu symptoms by convincing my biology that it's sick, inducing flu symptoms and making my acting very much more effective, though that's an intentional example.

I managed to pull a 2-1 victory in Tekken 6 out of my ass against someone who knew what they were doing by mashing until they fell down. ''That was the first time I'd played a fighting game except SuperSmashBros''.

This is the embodiment of how this troper fights both in real life, and in Fighting games. In real life, this toper uses whatever move comes to mind first in any situations, some of which make absolutely zero sense. Such as twisting around his own arm to get out of a chokehold. And in Fighting games, I end up using any character, really don't bother to learn moves, and still manage to do some absolutely crazy cool moves. Especially with Voldo. I make him do his rape dance. And it kills people.

This troper (who posted this on the main page too, sorry) won against several experienced opponents on some fighting game (I think it was Marvel VS Capcom or something) via pure button mashing. After having some time alone to practice and get good, a newbie comes up and asks to try it. When I oblige her, she beats me - via button mashing.

This troper's favourite moves in {{Pokemon}}? Assist and Metronome. The former can generate any move known by any 'mon in your party... The latter can become any move known by any 'mon. In the entire game. Then again, it's just as likely to go horribly wrong as it is to provide an incredibly powerful attack - but there's no way to plan against it, because literally anything could be coming next. Troper is attempting to find out what happens if you use Assist and it turns into Metronome.

Conversation before an assignment: #QUOTE# '''Classmate 1''': So, what's our plan #QUOTE# '''Troper''': Let's not have a plan. The other team will think we have a plan, but we really won't have a plan, but our not-plan will be so much of a plan that the other team will think it's the plan that we didn't plan, so the plan we didn't plan will be the plan that we planned. #QUOTE# '''Classmate 2''': What #QUOTE# '''Classmate 1''': GENIUS!

This troper has actually used this term to describe his fighting style to several people. He has never been in a "real fight" before, only sparring matches, but he usually comes out on top in most of those. The style is almost reminiscent of an idiot trying and failing at Drunken Boxing or Monkey-style Kung Fu. I'll stumble around, twirling my hands randomly, my feet constantly moving(Fun fact: A good way to determine what your opponent will do next is to watch their feet) and never giving the other guy a clue as to what the hell I'm thinking. It looks almost like I'm krumping/moshing. A lot of the people I fight will laugh or stare dumbly at me, and then that's when I lay into them, or not. I mostly just do whatever pops into my head at that second. One of the first times I used this "strategy", if you can call it that, was during a sparring match in the middle of the street with one of my friends(a blue belt in akido and a brown belt in karate). He came at me, and I just dodged him through most of it, occasionally creeping in to punch him lightly in the stomach or to toss gravel into his eyes, but there was one point where I pulled off my coat, acting like I was too hot. He did the same, and I waved the coat like a campy matador. He doubled over laughing, and that's when I came up to him(rather quickly, considering my weight) and wrapped the heavy $300 coat around his head. Then a laid into him with everything I had while he was blind and suffocating. He pulled the coat off of himself a few seconds later and soundly beat me.

Now, this story might go in another category, due to the frank and unashamed underhandedness of it, but I felt that it belonged here because of this simple fact: Everything I did came to me as I was doing it. Not a single move was planned, except maybe the coat thing, and the idea only occurred to me as I was running up to suffocate him. I didn't care that the coat cost more than I had spent on my meals for that month, I didn't care that it was a gift from a person I really admired(although I almost cried later on), at the moment all I cared about was what was running through the fuming wasteland that passed for my brain, and I was going to act on those thoughts, come hell or high water.

This troper uses a combination of this and combat pragmatism as his main fighting style. I'll often try to stay away from my opponent during a fight and just do random taunts and actions in an attempt to humiliate them into charging blindly and trying to grapple. Once they do that, the fact that I am 6' 2", 220 pounds, and have no sense of honor(can you say Ear biting?) usually gives me the upper hand.

When I was younger, my friend and I didn't understand what the moves in Kung Fu were for, when just punching someone would surely be much easier. My friend came up with the idea that the complicated moves were all to distract your opponent so he wouldn't know when you were actually going to punch him.

In a D&D game my mother's taking part in, she has a half-orc cleric. This cleric is a cleric of a god of chaos. She gets her spells randomly. Unfortunatley, they usually turn out to be rather apt...

I spent about 2 weeks playing Up and Down the River in math class last year. I was terrible, overshooting bids by a large margin, or undershooting just as ridiculously. My classmates soon learned that they couldn't trust my bids. At all. On top of it all, I was terrible at it anyway.