Him being a zoner makes more sense to me.
He's a literal god. Why would he bother touching you?
Because he's the god of war.
I don't like the idea of violence incarnate not being a brawling rush down character with extremely violent(as far as the T rating can be pushed) moves.
Axe swings, sword stabs, crushing war hammer blows.
At the most he could have an axe throw or a spear chuck,
Like his weapons should spawn in his hands during combos, example: square, square, X, square = sword swing, sword swing, morning star attack, war axe chop.
Would be so cool, maybe even have the weapons teleporting into his hands be random.
Who said anything about fear? It's about being a god and not having to. Because you're agod.
But if you want to be technical, all warmongers are cowards.
No, only Jesus.
If he can take the time to walk backwards while throwing weapons at someone he can take the time to run up to them and stab them repeatedly.
See what you're saying would make sense if he was off in some cave somewhere looking through a magic portal or some shit and sending an army or a wave of weapons at his enemy, but in game he's only a few feet away from the person he's fighting.