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Now it was time for the two best players in the world to face off: Yanjirou vs Gian. The Kula mirror match is full of unsafe attacks since C Crow Bites can punish so many things, so both players generally have to take some risks to win. Yanjirou won the point matchup, but his Kula soon fell to Gian's Ryo, exploiting j.E at max range perfectly. Gian got a nice back-turned punish in with Ryo against K' who missed a Heaven's Drive, but he didn't want to invest any meter since both players were still sitting on saving shift, so he left it at 5C>6A. He chose to shift on block after, reducing his shift stock to one, and once Yanjirou got the next hit in, he was able to stun and then kill Gato, leaving Gian only with Ryo. Gian used a sneaky throw bait by jumping up at the last moment to make K' whiff his 5C, punishing and KOing him with a super cancel combo. It was down to the last characters for both players: Yanjirou's Gato vs Gian's Ryo. It was an absolute slugfest of a match, with both characters trading hits until only a pixel was left, and ultimately Yanjirou emerged victorious, moving his team to the grand finals.<br> | Now it was time for the two best players in the world to face off: Yanjirou vs Gian. The Kula mirror match is full of unsafe attacks since C Crow Bites can punish so many things, so both players generally have to take some risks to win. Yanjirou won the point matchup, but his Kula soon fell to Gian's Ryo, exploiting j.E at max range perfectly. Gian got a nice back-turned punish in with Ryo against K' who missed a Heaven's Drive, but he didn't want to invest any meter since both players were still sitting on saving shift, so he left it at 5C>6A. He chose to shift on block after, reducing his shift stock to one, and once Yanjirou got the next hit in, he was able to stun and then kill Gato, leaving Gian only with Ryo. Gian used a sneaky throw bait by jumping up at the last moment to make K' whiff his 5C, punishing and KOing him with a super cancel combo. It was down to the last characters for both players: Yanjirou's Gato vs Gian's Ryo. It was an absolute slugfest of a match, with both characters trading hits until only a pixel was left, and ultimately Yanjirou emerged victorious, moving his team to the grand finals.<br> | ||
The second semi final | The second semi final was Team Elf, Operaza/Tacchi/Roger, vs the Rival Team, Ryumi/Ozuma/Sawwakoro. Operaza lead with whip against Ryuumi's Terry. There is a short timeframe before Terry has a stock and thereby access to B-version Buster Wolf where movement in this matchup is less restricted, and Operaza tried his best to move around with Whip, but ultimately lost the point matchup after getting cornered. Operaza's 2nd position Adelheid had to use saving shift relatively early, one of the downsides of having so little HP and stun resistance. Ryumi got a nice double shift combo with Terry>Yuri>Terry in and eventually KOed Elisabeth, with Adelheid soon to follow.<br> | ||
Next was Tacchi, with his all-female team of Jenet/Malin/King(L), who OCVed our team. He had a great start and KOed Ryumi's Terry, getting several short combos and a mean 50/50 left/right mixup in. Ryumi's Yuri did a little better and KOed Jenet and did big damage to Malin from a single combo. HP was about even, but Tacchi was sitting on 4 stocks, Ryumi on only one. Malin got the KO Yuri in a close match and immediately shifted out to King, who now faced Ryo. The leader duel was to be won by Ryo however, who did massive damage to King and forced Tacchi to use a saving shift back to his barely living Malin, who got KOed. King followed shortly after, and Tacchi now had to face Elf's boss, Roger.<br> | |||
Roger a brawler team consisting of Maxima/Kyo/Ryo, likes to employ stun combos and uses front roll aggressively. His Maxima did great against Ryumi's Terry, KOing him early. Yuri proved to be more difficult, and she was fine trading blows with Maxima until he almost got KOed. Roger then managed to deal good damage to Yuri but had to saving shift to avoid getting Ryo LDMed, losing Maxima, then ultimately Kyo, too. It was down to a wild Ryo mirror match, which Ryumi ultimately won, with a bit of help from the low-HP Yuri, OCVing team Elf and moving his team to the grand finals. | |||
[https://youtu.be/mc8xhGo4940?t=12631 Semi Final 1: Hiroshi/Zakuroman/Yanjirou vs GRID/Kenoh/Gian] | [https://youtu.be/mc8xhGo4940?t=12631 Semi Final 1: Hiroshi/Zakuroman/Yanjirou vs GRID/Kenoh/Gian] | ||
[ | [https://youtu.be/mc8xhGo4940?t=13735Semi Final 2: Operaza/Tacchi/Roger vs Ryumi/Ozuma/Sawwakoro] | ||
===Grand Finals=== | ===Grand Finals=== | ||