Hardy had choice. He just had to break his D1. Also he knew Mutsus would run over QP/Halamada. Why not break the pairs and get QP to play in D1?
It wouldn't have worked on the first point either since the AnS ACE would've taken priority. I knew he was gonna use it within the first four points, so I sealed three of those with Asura and Black Hole. Could've sealed all four (and actually won that match) if I had used Nobuteru over Miyako, but I forgot about Slow Starter.
I guess you didn't forget it against me?
Oh, I forgot. What a terrible mistake. He had the strongest team. Could've won the tournament. I guess, his dream of facing Anera came true after he lost to you
Wait until the match is up and you will find out.
I was planning on using the same line-up unless I played against you or Kaoz, that's why thinking I was playing Anera in SFs kicked me in the butt.Yea, your team was outmatched in terms of strength. Hardy is really a baka though. Always using the same lineup. Kaoz always knew how to counter Q.P. in D2. And his D1 is his weakest pair. Talking about Kaoz, he also knew which lineup I was gonna use. So, I can't be sure about the finals
I guess, his dream of facing Anera came true after he lost to you
Bad luck. Don't worry, you're the semifinal one after all
Yanagi | Deuce | Ad | Kimijima |
- | Formation | Data Doubles – Negotiations Complete |
- | 1st Point | Negotiation |
- | 2nd Point | Negotiation |
- | 3rd Point | Negotiation |
- | 4th Point | Negotiation |
- | 5th Point | - |
- | 6th Point | - |
- | 7th Point | - |
Yuuma | Deuce | Ad | Yuuho |
- | Formation | - |
Synchro | 1st Point | Synchro |
Synchro | 2nd Point | Synchro |
Synchro | 3rd Point | Synchro |
Synchro | 4th Point | Synchro |
Synchro | 5th Point | Synchro |
Synchro | 6th Point | Synchro |
Synchro | 7th Point | Synchro |
1st Point
Yuuma to serve.
18+25+14 - 21+21+18
[Data Doubles - Negotiations Concluded activates.]
18+25+14 - 22+21+18 (SB)
18+25+14 - 24+23+22 (Synchro)
[Negotiation activates.]
ACE (Synchro)
Point won by Mutsu/Mutsu, 1-0.
Stamina (Kimijima) -1, Stamina (Yuuma) -0.5, Stamina (Yuuho) -0.5. (Data Doubles - Negotiations Concluded, Twins)
2nd Point
Yanagi to serve.
18+24+14 - 20.5+20.5+18
[Data Doubles - Negotiations Concluded activates.]
19+24+14 - 20.5+20.5+18 (SB)
[Negotiation activates.]
19+24+14 - 22.5+22.5+22 (Synchro)
ACE (Synchro)
Point won by Mutsu/Mutsu, 2-0.
Stamina (Kimijima) -1, Stamina (Yuuma) -0.5, Stamina (Yuuho) -0.5. (Data Doubles - Negotiations Concluded, Twins)
3rd Point
Yuuho to serve.
18+23+14 - 20+20+18
[Data Doubles - Negotiations Concluded activates.]
18+23+14 - 20+21+18 (SB)
18+23+14 - 22+23+22 (Synchro)
[Negotiation activates.]
ACE (Synchro)
Point won by Mutsu/Mutsu, 3-0.
Stamina (Kimijima) -1, Stamina (Yuuma) -0.5, Stamina (Yuuho) -0.5. (Data Doubles - Negotiations Concluded, Twins)
4th Point
Kimijima to serve.
18+22+14 - 19.5+19.5+18
[Data Doubles - Negotiations Concluded activates.]
18+22+14 - 19.5+19.5+18 (SB, Slow Server)
[Negotiation activates.]
18+22+14 - 21.5+21.5+22 (Synchro)
ACE (Synchro)
Point won by Mutsu/Mutsu, 4-0.
Match won by Mutsu/Mutsu, 4-0.Tezuka | Deuce | Ad | Niou |
- | Formation | - |
Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot | 1st Point | Illusion (Yamato) |
Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot | 2nd Point | Illusion (Yamato) |
Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot | 3rd Point | Illusion (Yamato) |
Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot | 4th Point | Illusion (Yamato) |
Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot | 5th Point | Illusion (Yamato) |
Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot | 6th Point | Illusion (Yamato) |
Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot | 7th Point | - |
Oni | Deuce | Ad | Tokugawa |
- | Formation | - |
Spirit Demon | 1st Point | Glowing Destruction |
Perfect Black Jack Knife | 2nd Point | Black Hole |
Spirit Demon | 3rd Point | - |
Perfect Black Jack Knife | 4th Point | Black Hole |
- | 5th Point | - |
- | 6th Point | - |
Spirit Demon | 7th Point | - |
1st Point
Oni to serve.
26+18+14 - 22+25+15
[Niou turns into Yamato.]
26+18+16 - 22+25+15
26+18+16 - 24+25+17 (Memories)
26+18+16 - 24+27+19 (Loyalty)
26+18+16 - 24+31+20 (Divine Path of the Asura)
27+18+17 - 24+31+20 (Leadership)
27+22+19 - 5+23+16 (The Man who flows like the River, Loyalty)
27+22+19 - 8+23+16 (SB)
27+22+19 - 12+23+16 (Spirit Demon)
27+22+19 - 12+33+16 (Glowing Destruction)
35+22+19 - 12+33+16 (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
35+22+19 - 18+33+16 (Spirit Demon)
ACE (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
Point won by Tezuka/Niou, 1-0.
Stamina (Tezuka) -0.5, Stamina (Niou) -0.5, Stamina (Oni) -0.5, Stamina (Tokugawa) -0.5. (Boulder Training)
2nd Point
Tezuka to serve.
25.5+17.5+14 - 21.5+24.5+15
[Niou turns into Yamato.]
25.5+17.5+16 - 21.5+24.5+15
26.5+17.5+17 - 21.5+24.5+15 (Leadership)
26.5+17.5+17 - 23.5+24.5+17 (Memories)
26.5+17.5+17 - 23.5+26.5+19 (Loyalty)
26.5+17.5+17 - 23.5+30.5+20 (Divine Path of the Asura)
26.5+21.5+19 - 4.5+20.5+16 (The Man who flows like the River, Loyalty)
29.5+21.5+19 - 4.5+20.5+16 (SB, Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
37.5+21.5+19 - 4.5+20.5+16 (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
37.5+21.5+19 - 13.5+20.5+16 (Perfect Black Jack Knife)
25.5+17.5+19 - 13.5+23.5+16 (Black Hole)
[ACE (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot) activates. Negated by Black Hole.]
62 - 53.5
Point won by Tezuka/Niou, 2-0.
Stamina (Tezuka) -0.5, Stamina (Niou) -0.5, Stamina (Oni) -0, Stamina (Tokugawa) -1. (Boulder Training)
3rd Point
Tokugawa to serve.
25+17+14 - 21.5+23.5+15
[Niou turns into Yamato.]
25+17+16 - 21.5+23.5+15
25+17+16 - 21.5+25.5+17 (Loyalty)
25+17+16 - 21.5+29.5+18 (Divine Path of the Asura)
25+17+16 - 23.5+29.5+20 (Memories)
26+17+17 - 23.5+29.5+20 (Leadership)
26+21+19 - 4.5+15.5+16 (The Man who flows like the River)
26+21+19 - 4.5+18.5+16 (SB, Divine Path of the Asura)
26+21+19 - 8.5+18.5+16 (Spirit Demon)
34+21+19 - 8.5+18.5+16 (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
34+21+19 - 14.5+18.5+16 (Spirit Demon)
ACE (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
Point won by Tezuka/Niou, 3-0.
Stamina (Tezuka) -0.5, Stamina (Niou) -0.5, Stamina (Oni) -0.5. (Boulder Training)
Stamina (Tokugawa) -0.5. (Pushy)
4th Point
Niou to serve.
24.5+16.5+14 - 21+23+15
[Niou turns into Yamato.]
24.5+16.5+16 - 21+23+15
25.5+16.5+17 - 21+23+15 (Leadership)
25.5+16.5+17 - 23+23+17 (Memories)
25.5+16.5+17 - 23+25+19 (Loyalty)
25.5+16.5+17 - 23+29+20 (Divine Path of the Asura)
25.5+20.5+19 - 4+14+16 (The Man who flows like the River)
25.5+21.5+19 - 4+14+16 (SB)
33.5+21.5+19 - 4+14+16 (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
[Perfect Black Jack Knife does not activate (Stamina (Oni) = 0).]
[Black Hole does not activate. (Stamina (Tokugawa) = 0).]
ACE (Perfect Zero Shiki Drop Shot)
Point won by Tezuka/Niou, 4-0.
Match won by Tezuka/Niou, 4-0.Echizen | Deuce | Ad | Yukimura |
- | Formation | - |
- | 1st Point | Perfect Play |
Spirit Samurai | 2nd Point | Perfect Play |
Spirit Samurai | 3rd Point | Perfect Play |
Spirit Samurai | 4th Point | Perfect Play |
Perfect COOL Drive | 5th Point | Perfect Play |
Perfect COOL Drive | 6th Point | Perfect Play |
- | 7th Point | Perfect Play |
Amadeus | Deuce | Ad | Nakagauchi |
- | Formation | - |
- | 1st Point | - |
- | 2nd Point | - |
- | 3rd Point | - |
- | 4th Point | - |
- | 5th Point | - |
- | 6th Point | - |
SABR | 7th Point | - |
1st Point
Amadeus to serve.
23+24+14 - 32+21+9
23+24+14 - 33+21+10 (Pro's Experience)
23+24+14 - 36+21+10 (SB)
23+28+14 - 37+20+10 (Perfect Play, Improvisation)
65 - 67
Point won by Amadeus/Nakagauchi, 1-0.
Stamina (Yukimura) -0.5.
2nd Point
Echizen to serve.
23+23.5+14 - 32+20+8
23+23.5+14 - 33+20+9 (Pro's Experience)
25+23.5+14 - 33+20+9 (SB, Ace Server)
29+23.5+14 - 33+20+9 (Spirit Samurai)
29+27.5+14 - 34+19+9 (Perfect Play, Improvisation)
35+27.5+14 - 34+19+9 (Spirit Samurai)
76.5 - 62
Point won by Echizen/Yukimura, 1-1.
Stamina (Echizen) -1, Stamina (Yukimura) -0.5.
3rd Point
Nakagauchi to serve.
22+23+14 - 32+19+7
22+23+14 - 33+19+8 (Pro's Experience)
22+23+14 - 33+21+8 (SB)
26+23+14 - 33+21+8 (Spirit Samurai)
26+27+14 - 34+20+8 (Perfect Play, Improvisation)
32+27+14 - 34+20+8 (Spirit Samurai)
73 - 62
Point won by Echizen/Yukimura, 2-1.
Stamina (Echizen) -1, Stamina (Yukimura) -0.5.
4th Point
Yukimura to serve.
21+22.5+14 - 32+18+6
21+22.5+14 - 33+18+7 (Pro's Experience)
21+24.5+14 - 33+18+7 (SB)
25+24.5+14 - 33+18+7 (Spirit Samurai)
25+28.5+14 - 34+18+8 (Perfect Play, Improvisation)
31+28.5+14 - 34+18+8 (Spirit Samurai)
73.5 - 60
Point won by Echizen/Yukimura, 3-1.
Stamina (Echizen) -1, Stamina (Yukimura) -0.5.
5th Point
Amadeus to serve.
20+22+14 - 32+18+6
20+22+14 - 33+18+7 (Pro's Experience)
20+22+14 - 36+18+7 (SB)
28+22+14 - 36+18+7 (Perfect COOL Drive)
28+26+14 - 37+18+8 (Perfect Play, Improvisation)
68 - 63
Point won by Echizen/Yukimura, 4-1.
Match won by Echizen/Yukimura, 4-1.Results | D3 | D2 | D1 |
Philia | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Kaoz | 4 | 0 | 1 |
I thought you would use Oni/Nkagauchi(D3), Mutsus(D2) and Tokugawa/Amadeus(D1). I believed I had it covered even if you had used this. But I thought Perfect play would decrease Amadeus's mental. Now, as it didn't, you could've won with this lineup. My lineup got a bit predictable in the finals. But I persisted with it. I thought I could beat Amadeus/Tokugawa 4-2 as you can only take the first game and another game with Black Hole. But that only counted as long as Yukimura could lower Amadeus's Mental. Now as it didn't happen because of Improvisation you could've won this match. I thought perfect play's mental cannot be prevented. So, in the end luck played a good role in my win.
Thanks Coach KaySea. I learned a lot from studying your matches from the last game. Even in this game, the idea of copying Yamato with Niou came to my mind after seeing Yamato/Irie vs Byodouin/Forgot. So, yeah, thank you very much, mate.
Amadeus's stats couldn't decrease throught The Man who Flows like the River. Niou would've buffed his to 37 base total. Yet D2 was a match he couldn't win. It would've required Amadeus+Tokugawa or Amadeus+Oni(Unsure). But it was not possible to put them in D2. He didn't have a pair which could surpass that base total. I thought Kaoz would use Mutsus there. But Niou would lower their stamina to 0. And synchro wouldn't activate.
It's all about plot power
All the drops would've been prevented and Amadeus' stats would've increased by 1 each. However, like you said, in order to put Amadeus into a lower doubles his partner needs to be quite weak, so I think I would've lost that match regardless. Maybe Tokugawa and Oni would've been able to beat Ryoma and Yukimura though, not sure - both my D2 and D1 had 62 base, so I could've switched them.
Yeah, I think so. How about you? There was actually another strategy I wanted to use with Zaizen, but in the end I didn't have the opportunity. I was going to use him and Oni together and then spamming Spirit Demon. Either the opponent's Mental would've been lower than 7 to begin with or Zaizen's Auto would've lowered it.
Very true. What were everyone's top 5 matches of the season?
Yeah, that was unexpected for me too. I'm not really sure how to interpret it either. One contributing factor might've been that the line-ups were semi-fixed this time though. Using all 10 characters in the future might be possible.
Oni was a bit of a dead weight against you since both Kimijima and Yukimura could negate his Specials and his base total is pretty low. My strategy was actually to KO Niou with 2 Perfect Black Jack Knife, but my two mistakes were that (1) I used Spirit Demon unnecessarily which lowered Oni's Stamina too much, and (2) I misread Black Hole a bit and thought it'd lower Tezuka's Power as well when in reality it only lowers the total.
You deserve it !
They were fine. I mostly wanted to try some new characters out, to be honest.Kaoz said:
The same o/
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What do you expect from a future grand slam winner
