Battle Dancer Question

[KozanShoku]

A Battle Dancer Gains the same Unarmed Strike Damage as a monk is there any reason why taking superior unarmed strike shouldn't allow the player to be considered 4 levels higher in battle dance for unarmed strike damage?

[Morcleon]

A Battle Dancer Gains the same Unarmed Strike Damage as a monk is there any reason why taking superior unarmed strike shouldn't allow the player to be considered 4 levels higher in battle dance for unarmed strike damage?

By RAW, it doesn't work because a battle dancer gets a battle dancer's unarmed strike progression, not a monk's unarmed strike progression. However, it would be entirely reasonable to houserule that it does work.

[Darrin]

A Battle Dancer Gains the same Unarmed Strike Damage as a monk is there any reason why taking superior unarmed strike shouldn't allow the player to be considered 4 levels higher in battle dance for unarmed strike damage?

The Battle Dancer has no monk levels, so no, they don't get to treat their unarmed strike as 4 levels higher. However, Superior Unarmed Strike does give them an unarmed strike damage that scales by character level, so this makes dipping Battle Dancer viable, particularly for small-sized brawlers (Superior Unarmed Strike's damage is not adjusted for size).

It would be a very reasonable house-rule to allow Superior Unarmed Strike to treat Battle Dancer's unarmed damage as 4 levels higher, though.