Champion of Melekatha REDUX!

[Archpaladin Zousha]

About a year ago I made a thread seeking advice on how to build a tiefling martial artist who uses the melekatha style and trying to overcome his infernal heritage through a combination of meditation and prayer to Iomedae, bringing justice to his home city and finding enlightenment while doing it.

I'm revisiting that concept to try and get a better plan in mind now that the UNCHAINED! monk is available and stuff.

My original plan was to use the Flowing Monk archetype, dip a level of Cleric to gain proficiency with the longsword and gain access to the Crusader's Flurry feat and then begin taking levels in the Evangelist prestige class, allowing me to continue gaining Flowing Monk goodies while still getting a kind of "Perfect Self" since dipping would bar me from gaining it anyway.

I'm curious as to how effective such a setup would actually be, however. In my previous thread, I debated using the Sacred Fist archetype for the Warpriest instead, and now that Pathfinder UNCHAINED! has come out (I will not stop capitalizing UNCHAINED! until it has become a Paizo forum meme! :P) there's a whole other angle to consider. As I've been told, the archetypes of the standard monk won't work with the UNCHAINED! version. As such, I'm unsure whether to use it or not, since there's a lot of stuff that I like about the tweaks in the UNCHAINED! Monk, but it doesn't have quite the same reflective attacks that define the Flowing Monk. chbgraphicarts has suggested to me that I dip a level in Swashbuckler to gain access to the Opportune Parry and Riposte deed, and that's a tempting idea, though I'm not sure how well it'd fit with the dipping I plan to do into Cleric, as that'd restrict me from some high level UNCHAINED! Monk powers.

Is this idea I have viable? Are there ways I could change it to still maintain the core focus (longsword to honor Iomedae, melekatha style martial arts, and is essentially a Golarion-based cross between Batman and Uesugi Kenshin)? Thank you all in advance. :)

[blashimov]

Well, so the great thing about flowing monk is that it doesn't really replace anything that you couldn't replace in the unchained monk. In fact, third parties have converted all the archetypes, so if this is a home game where you know the DM, I can't see much of a problem.

One alternative is to replace flurry of blows as well, but that's a bit harder to shoe into the unchained monk, especially if you consider the character forced to fight sometimes with the longsword.

I don't know how to replicate the style outside of flowing monk, it seems tailor made. I find them great. It would be very effective IMHO.
It does favor dex a lot though, which makes longswords difficult without either the swashbuckler abilities or agile property. One option is to hold it but rarely use it until you can get that enchantment/feat - take agile manuevers and make all your flurries trips, disarms, and the like.

[Ancient Dragon Master]

That's...Impressive Divine healing