Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-73.19.129.12-20151001211819

Gsimenas wrote

Tell that to the Lizardman Lord.

Seriously. You think that he didn't know that a breath attack was bad news? Even if he didn't know that it would cause paralysis specifically, he most certainly had to consider that it would have some sort of negative effect and/or high damage. The point is that he stopped thinking logically (and he commented that he threw logic out the window at that moment) and endangered his own life even though he knew that he wouldn't be able to rescue Asuna from the attack in time.

Where did we start talking about winning? As far as I remember, I was trying to dispute the claim that "Kirito does better under pressure", since that's not always the case.

3.9.129.12 wrote:

If you're reading the fan translation, I would like to point out that the Japanese was 少なくとも、途中からは, which, as I understand, means "at least starting midway" when he said that he was being super-serious. So, to answer your question, he wasn't serious at first because he was still in his casual mode when he accepted the challenge. A better question is "why did he have to get serious midway?" 3. Well then that proves he didn't use feints only once. I can't say much about the battle with Asterius because I didn't read it. Even if I'm perhaps am wrong about Kirito doing better under pressure,  like liz said " ... "Probably, in a normal game, Kirito won't fight seriously anymore. Kirito only fights seriously when the game isn't a game anymore..." Kirito would likely do better in conditions where he would be serious.

5. Are you saying the fan translation is wrong?