ki strike (adamantine)

[Snake-Aes]

Would an adamantine hammer break down by breaking something else? When it comes to attacking, a monk with Ki Strike Adamantine can attack as if his body was adamantine. The guy's kick is literally as hard as adamantine, regardless of the actual material. Having it break down because "it's not actually adamantine" makes no sense.

If you think "something nonmagical shouldn't be like that"....well, two little surprises for you
1) Extraordinary abilities break reality and aren't magical.
2) Ki Strike is supernatural.

The strikes are treated as adamantine for the purposes of bypassing damage reduction, not hardness.

So, RAW, they don't get past the hardness, and the DM should feel free to throw some damage the monk's way.

It applies to ALL of the monk's unarmed strikes, so if the DM houserules that it treats your unarmed attacks as Adamantine, so you can sunder with an elbow-drop, then go wild.

Read again. It beats hardness. Mr Mechanophilic Monk can crush the iron golem.