Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-73.19.129.12-20150918095819

Gsimenas wrote:

2. Bolded it for you. Kirito and Leafa were in no way prepared for a fight with the giant. You're supposed to be heavily armoured to take on their attacks.

3. How often do you actually see him use feints? He's more likely to use a trick that he has up his sleeve than use a feint. And it didn't seem like he had any more tricks that would have been useful in their duel.

5. You know that you're contradicting yourself, right? You're saying that he had to be cautious, yet then you're saying that he had to throw out caution out the window. And no, it was not a reasonable decision. It was completely stupid and he knew that, but still gave into his emotions. During their first battle, Kirito did not know that Heathcliff was Kayaba and he only used low-combo skills that didn't leave him stunned afterwards for that long (and even then the majority of them were blocked, and Kirito later commented that Heathcliff likely saw through his skills because he was the one who designed them). He only used a higher level Sword Skill when he saw an opening - Heathcliff showed a sign of emotion when his HP was close to 50%. But during their battle in the boss room, Heathcliff's defence was impeccable, so it was all just a very risky gamble that backfired.

Why did you start talking about fear? I'm talking about stupidity and giving into emotions here, not fear. And he wasn't awfully bright in that case either. A damage dealer taking the role of a tank? He was only able to block the attacks because Asuna came to help him. 2. Even if that's the case, we still don't know that the boss Yuuki and Co. beat is stronger than one Kirito defeated

3. Not often,but he did use them against Asuna. Why wouldn't he use feints against Yuuki? Also like Asuna he would probably come to conclusion that feints would be useful against Yuuki.

5.I'm not contradicting myself. What I was getting at was that he did have to do something drastic, but at the right moment.

 Kirito ran in to save those players. Also Asuna noted that Kirito is better when he's serious.