Strategy vs strength. Which is more important?

[TenHands]

I saw a video of strongman Eddie Hall once where he said something along the lines of "I'm not the best fighter but I have the most powerful punch in the world."

This got me thinking of the traditional idea of Karate being a way of turning your body into a weapon, rather than a "fighting" style. In other words, the idea hardening your limbs and fine-tuning your individual techniques to be very powerful, rather than developing a strategy for 1v1 consensual "fighting."

So, what is more important: making your individual techniques super powerful through hard conditioning, or a more well-rounded focus on fighting strategy? In other words, who would be more safe during a prototypical "self defense" situation: a guy with the most powerful punch ever or a guy who is the best "fighter" ever?

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Old saying said,

- Strength count for 10 techniques.
- Everything has counter, only extreme speed plus extreme power has no counters.

Can you use good strategy to fight against a grizzly bear? The strategy has limitation.