Don't see how you think this proves it was the same Irie. Irie plays at all kinds of different levels.
It's not a definite proof by any stretch of the imagination, but I would say it heavily indicates it. So far, Konomi's been trying to compress as much information into just a few pages as he could and I think when looking at it like that, especially since it was the only thing we've really seen in that match, you can get Akiba > Shuffle!Irie from that.
You can see what I said with the last line Kaoz. The furious expression on Irie's face is not what we saw against Atobe.
Different Irie's.
Sure, after then it's a stronger Irie than the team shuffle one. I never contested that.
He practically out did Atobe who is said to be good at long matches. He pretended his shoulder couldn't move when it could move fine.
If Atobe is a stamina monster which he might well be, then Irie has to be.
Atobe's ankle was injured though, so that comparison doesn't hold water. On the contrary, when you look at the
bottom panel, they are both on the ground, even though Atobe had to move that much more than Irie. This really underlines that Irie's stamina isn't great.
Prove that he stopped acting.
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I'd say those three pages, and especially what Atobe says in the last one, show that he didn't act anymore.
You can't prove that. Niou's smash can be returned by Fuji with Higuma Otoshi.
don't know why you think his Speed should have increased either. Not everybody's speed increased.
The power part is pretty obvious from the G10 match imo. It's hard to say anything about Niou's power in the Fuji match because he downgrades his stats to fit the person he copies. It might be that he could have done it, but Tezuka/Shiraishi weren't able to.
Speed should have increased for everyone, at least a bit. It might not have increased by a whole lot though.
What makes you think he will get a good idea of Irie's real strength? He may not. Irie could hand him a false impression of himself for many games like he did with Atobe.
He could only do that with Atobe because he was that much stronger than him. As I said, I don't think that the difference between Irie and Niou is as high as you make it out to be, hence he wouldn't be able to keep his act up and still score enough.
Chances are Irie didnt want to render his arm useless
Fair point. I guess what I was getting at is that we saw Mouri combat it while Irie just really didn't show anything of the sort.
And what about Yips? Wouldn't that work with Irie?
It's questionable whether it would work, but a moot point in this match since Niou shouldn't be able to copy it. As you correctly say later on, Yips is Yukimura's personal ability, something Niou can't copy.
as of now, niou has seen irie play. ( he knows about being toyed on and that irie has great skill)
He hasn't actually. The losers didn't witness the 3rd vs 5th court matches and they played at the same time during the revolution matches. Although someone else might have told him about it.
according to irie's stats he lacks strength. if niou can harshness the strength of gin or kabaji, irie may not stand a chance.
I doubt that Irie is helpless against power players, although all I can base it on are Oni's PP comments.
