Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-26134263-20190504053618/@comment-26134263-20190505044356

@Pixel examples of the enemies "being very, very stupid"? In the Aincrad arc he fought those who were ruthless and unpredictable in combat such as Laughing Coffin members; smart fighters like Asuna (the Progressers ME2); NPCs that could adapt on the fly; geniuses such as Akihika Kayaba. In the Fairy Dance arc he fought Eugene who was considered the best player in the game at the time. In the Phantom Bullet arc he fought Death Gun who was a higher-up Laughing Coffin member. Especially in the Alicization arc he was fighting people over 100 years old and had extreme battle experience way beyond both him and Kahuna. Kahuna also never seen Kirito Skill Connect with one sword before, only two, so you'd think that he'd think that he wouldn't know Kirito could Skill Connect with only one sword. Kirito would also use the environment to his advantage, since he's familiar with the place too, such as knowing that his enemy cannot see where he is on the map if he simply runs into the fog (and because Kirito has the Distinguish Outside System Skill he would know where Kahuna is and Kahuna wouldn't know where Kirito is). He would try whatever he can to cheese Kahuna, especially once he figures out that Kahuna is a tank and can throw trees. He would also spam Sacred Arts at that point (and because forests are rich with resources, he wouldn't stop anytime soon because of a lack of resources), blinding him, freezing him in place for a cheese hit, knock him back with an aerial element, and constantly use the fog to dash in and out of sight and locate him through Distinguish and umbral element. Here's how I would see one of the battle possibilities playing out: -Because Kahuna wouldn't open with a shotgun in the face and instead try to close the gap against this version of Kirito, and because Kirito doesn't know his enemy's AP advantage, they would both charge in towards each other. -Kirito would likely get the first hit considering Kahuna doesn't use Sword Skills as an opener in-character iirc, but then he would realize how tanky Kahuna is and how little his HP budged. Now there's two situations that can arise from this: --1: Kirito gets hit by Kahuna's true damage melee attack and suddenly realize that his Life is basically either half or in the red zone (He definitely wouldn't get one shotted because of Hypersense + battle instincts helping him at least move out of a critical blow). --2: Kirito manages to not get hit. --Either one of those will lead to this next one anyways: -Kirito escapes into the fog and heals himself up with luminous element, then plan to use the environment from there as much as he can. From there it's just a battle of who could out-last each other, which would be pretty even, considering that Kahuna has Battle Healing and Kirito has Incarnation + luminous element spam to heal (and remember they're in a forest. Kirito won't lose any resources any time soon to spam Sacred Arts).