Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-26134263-20190504053618/@comment-26134263-20190506032208

DMUA wrote: If Kirito actively runs away from combat, why wouldn't the out of combat senses kick in?

Kirito would have to cast luminous element while evading Kahuna's strikes, while his regen just happens. He's still not technically out-of-combat, just a distance away hiding. If this were in the tabletop sense rounds would still be happening, but Kahuna would just have to roll Perception checks as Kirito's trying to resposition in the fog.

Well yeah, he still has to cast the Sacred Art, it's just via the fog and being in hiding + being able to react better to shots because of distance + Hypersense + Distinguish, it'd just be much easier.

Also correction: Phase was the first one to use feints with his daggers.

It's not out of possibility, but literally 0 feats in-combat so far that Kahuna used perception in had Drinking """Problem""" in effect.

As for Escape I'll have to check the scans for, since its description literally just says the ability to disengage using martial arts... somehow. I wouldn't bet it would allow Kirito to move 20+ meters though. Even an Incarnation-enhanced Vorpal Strike only went about 15 meters.

As long as Kirito has an image of the thing he wants to do, he can literally skip the chanting and say "Discharge!", letting Incarnation do the rest. That would put Kahuna off, especially since in the first round he only saw Kirito do Sacred Arts traditionally, whereas in actual battles Kirito skips some lines to make it faster or unpredictable.