Way of the Animental

Monks of the Way of the Animental lean to mimic the ways of animals, working them into their martial arts, combining them with elemental energies via their ki to further augment them to harness a power similar to the rare Animentals, spirits of elemental energy that the form of animals and other creatures. These practices grant them a unique way of fighting in battle that often catches their foes off guard. This martial art is most known in recent history as being a favorite for Genasi and Eladrin who take an interest in martial arts. This martial art uses 5 primary styles that each utilize the features and abilities of an animal, element(either purely or some related form such as wood and metal technically being variants of earth in different ways), and sometimes even seasons. These styles are as follows:

• Wooden Tiger Style. This style embodies the stalking calculating like movements of the tiger, burst with  great vigor when the moment comes to strike. The style also focuses on crushing your foe, like a tiger once it has pounced on it's prey, but still remaining strong and flexible to alter your tactics if need be, primarily making use of your power in tactical ways.
• Flowing Deer Style. This style is defensive in nature, much like the cautious, using the fear that would be a weakness to some to their advantage, not being afraid to flee if need be. This style also focuses on being hyper aware of one's surroundings, much like the hearing of a deer. This style also specializes in counter attacks and throwing weapons when they do have to fight back.
• Bear of The Earth Style. This style centers around being stable and strong like a bear or the earth itself, pull down opponents and their strikes. The use of "dead weight" in fighting can be advantageous in grappling, take-downs, bring-downs, while still being stable in terms of offense and defense, withstanding blows and dealing blows in return.
• Blazing Monkey Style. This style is about the fiery power of passion in one's heart and the agility of a monkey, hitting foes hard, fast, and as much as possible, leaping, lunging, pinching, dynamic patterns, and fast flurries of striking much like a monkey would. This style is also considered top be light and fast like a flickering fire, over time or with enough rapid combos, erupting into a mighty blaze of damage to their foe.

Animental style

3rd-level Way of the Animental feature

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level you chose one of the 4 Animental fighting styles, gaining benefits and abilities based on which style. You can change your Animental fighting style choice whenever you gain a level in this class.

Bear of The Earth Style

• As a bonus action you can expend 1 ki point to gain resistance to piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing damage until the start of your next turn.
• If you aren’t wielding any weapons or a shield when you make an attack roll, roll your martial arts die twice, dealing bludgeoning damage equal to the total.
• At the start of each of your turns, you can deal bludgeoning damage equal to your martial arts die to one creature grappled by you.

Blazing Monkey Style

• When you hit with an unarmed strike you can spend 1 ki point when the attack hits to also deal an extra 1d10 fire damage.
• Once per turn you can use Flurry of Blows without expending a ki point.
• When you take the attack action you can move up to 10 feet, without provoking an attack of opportunity, towards a creature before rolling for the attack.

Flowing Deer Style

• As a reaction when a creature targets you for an attack, you can attempt to dodge the attack, causing any creature to have disadvantage on attack rolls against you, until the start of your next turn. You can not use this ability while you  are incapacitated, restrained, or otherwise unable to move. 
• When you perform a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the attack and damage roll.
• As a bonus action you can expend 1 or more ki points to create a protective layer of frost that covers you and your gear. You gain 5 temporary hit points for each ki point you spend. If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage each ki point you spend.

Wooden Tiger Style

• You can add 10 feet to your long jump distance.
• Immediately after you use the Dash action on your turn and move at least 20 feet, you can make one melee attack as a bonus action, that target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone and restrained. 
• You have advantage on grapple checks and Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Para-Style

6th-level Way of the Animental feature

You can expend 2 ki points to harness another Animental style in addition to your active one, alternating between the 2 as needed until you finish a long rest, you can use this feature once, you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. 

Animental Form

11th-level Way of the Animental feature

At 11th level you can, an action, expend 5 ki points to transform into an awakened tree, an earth elemental, a fire elemental, or a water elemental. this form can take on the physical aesthetic of any creature you chose, but functions as the listed creature's stat block. this feature functions the same way as the druid's wildshape feature.

Metal Style

17th-level Way of the Animental feature 

Your ki and skill of the way of the animentals has reached it's peak, giving you access to the mighty metal style, an man made power derived from the elements, but rarely manifests in a form independent from the work of the civilized races. You gain the following benefits:

• Fire Absorption. Whenever you would take fire damage, you take no damage and instead regain a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt.
• Immutable Aura. You are immune to any spell or effect that would alter you form against your will.
• Splitting Strike. Your melee attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18–20. In addition your Deflect Missiles trait can now be applied to any ranged attack that targets you.