Admittedly I may have to nerf the requirements for a lot of the Unorthodox haha. I'll go do that soon-ish. I actually want people to get the fighting styles they want sooner than I planned at the beginning, since I want to implement a custom style system for people to make their own unique magic and fighting style late in the RP.

If you want to encounter a specific style later though, we discuss that. Usually to setup an encounter, regardless of whether or not we've naturally encountered the opportunity to learn it. Also at set points, teachers for styles and opportunities do just become automatically available, such as when we go to Zora's Domain, the opportunities for the region's various styles and magic open up.

If you fought without a style, you wouldn't be super fucked, but you would be losing out on priority or just general free buffs. These stances are basically what makes melee fighters so dangerous, because not having a stance or style available automatically puts you at a disadvantage. For instance in the Hylian Knight Style, they have the Knight Strider stance, which gives priority to attacking. That means your attack will land first in any given interaction unless your Agility is actually shockingly low compared to the other guy.

It's really little things like that, plus you can change your stance once per post, so if you have access to multiple styles, you can change up your game plan depending on the situation.