Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-26134263-20190504053618/@comment-38894999-20190504072141

First thing to mention is on Kiri being able to deflect Sludge's Money Shots. They're shotgun shells, where there is no bullet to deflect or destroy, only shrapnel that he's gonna have to avoid.

Anyway, Big Kahuna is going to start the fight off by trying to keep the gap closed with Kirito. He remembers how their first battle went where Kiri started spamming System Calls to chuck the elements at him with impunity once distance was created. It's likely he'll start off with just Sludge readied, regardless of whether he's drunk or not, since it's not a bright idea to start a fight just firing off all cylinders. This means Kirito will have to deal with the quaint martial art that is Zui Quan. A style that exploits false "openings" for opponents to fall into. Has he fought a drunken boxer before? If not, then Kirito is going to struggle in melee at the start.

While Kahuna doesn't have nearly as much experience fightin' in VR/AR as Kiri would by this point, he's likely not going to be phased by any kind of tricks that'll show up from his young opponent. Kahuna has more experience with real life applications of combat, and he's rather creative with such situations in SAO anyway as you can personally attest to. The thousands of videogames he's beaten certainly serve well as inspiration and inference for him in fights like this, too, so he's going to be perceptive and adaptive as the confrontation progresses.