Speculating about the latest character Miary Zo’s fighting style feels like piecing together a puzzle where anthropology martial arts history and Tekken’s fight engine converge. From what the glimpse of her during Evo 2025's Armor King trailer - her style seems to draw from heritage combat tradition while still moving with modern sting and purpose.

Moraingy is rooted in coastal Sakalava culture in Madagascar. It is an unarmed bare knuckle striking art filled with rhythmic footwork wideness and intent. Fighters wrap their fists in cloth and stand loose so they can ebb in and flow out between heavy strikes. Victories arrive not by timed rounds but by knockout or crowd appeal and elders’ judgement. The style embraces openness rather than tight guard or detailed drill patterns.

Josie Rizal in contrast practices a Filipino art that blends Eskrima with Yaw Yan kick boxing. Her approach is lean precise and reaction based. She enters with elbow and knee chains and then retreats into quick resets. Her guard stays compact and her timing relies on slip and counter rather than brute strength.

On the ground Craig Marduk represents Vale Tudo influence in Tekken. He swings into a ready position known by Western players as Vale Tudo stance. From there he can shift into takedowns chain grabs mounted ground strikes colliding with foes in clinch control or wall combo setups. Every throw feels like repositioning an opponent into your own orbit of damage and restraint.

Miary Zo appears to bridge these worlds. Standing barefoot wearing fingerless gloves suggests that she still wants knuckle feedback on impact while using grip that feels familiar to Muay Thai signing even if the gloves don’t feel polished. Her stance looks open enough to draw from moraingy width and low posture yet not so rigid that she cannot collapse into a clinch for takedown lift or stomp. From takedown to mounted elbow or stomp chain she may move with cruelty that mimics Vale Tudo focus once she pins an opponent.

What this all adds up to is a fighter built on raw form and old ritual but executed through a frame sensitive hybrid toolkit. She could close distance in wide arcs launch low strikes then collapse into a clinch that resets the fight onto the mat. From there she might chain into mounted stomp or elbow combos that bleed into occupier advantage. She may not feel flashy but will hit hard.

In Tekken terms this may translate into a stand up game that blends long range strike stance transitions and a follow up grappling readiness that assigns her ground throws stomps or chain strikes as legal transitions. That fusion of tribal strike and mounted pressure could give her presence that feels organic to her backstory yet mechanical enough to satisfy competitive form.