You savagely squeeze and twist when grappling. You tighten your grip around your target’s throat. You squeeze your opponent tightly enough to crush armor or items between you.
Prerequisites
Wis 13, Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +3 or monk level 3rd.
Benefit
When you succeed at a grapple check while using this style, your opponent takes an amount of bludgeoning damage equal to your Wisdom modifier in addition to any damage your grapple deals, such as when you choose to harm your opponent as part of a successful check to maintain a grapple. In addition, you gain a +2 bonus on combat maneuver checks to maintain a grapple.
If your base attack bonus is +5 or higher or your monk level is 5th or higher, the damage that you deal with the Kraken Style feat on a successful grapple combat maneuver check increases to an amount equal to your Wisdom bonus + 2. While using this style, you can choke your opponent when you successfully maintain a grapple instead of choosing to damage, move, pin, or tie up your opponent. This suffocates your opponent. The grappled opponent can take a breath during any round in which you do not maintain the grapple.
If your base attack bonus if +7 or higher or your monk level is 7th or higher, the damage you deal with the Kraken Style feat on a successful grapple combat maneuver check increases to an amount equal to your Wisdom modifier + 4. While using this style, you can crush your opponent when you successfully maintain a grapple instead of choking, damaging, moving, pinning, or tying up your opponent. When you do, you deal an amount of damage equal to that of your unarmed strike or one of your natural attacks to your foe’s armor or an item held in your foe’s hand. This crushing damage bypasses half of the hardness of the armor or item.