Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-73.19.129.12-20150927213957

Gsimenas wrote:

Again, be clear what you're trying to say. I'm not a mind reader. Everything that's not put down in words could be missed by people reading your post.

And we've seen a lot of Asuna's battles to be able to accurately deem whether or not she uses feints often?

Anyway, it's true that Asuna used a feint there. But does that mean that she'd use one again in the next battle? The odds of Kirito using a feint are low if he has only used one once. That doesn't mean that there's no way that he wouldn't use a feint, but it's too case specific to be reliable for an argument. And as your Asuna example showed, Yuuki is quick to recover from a feint. What makes you think that Kirito doing feint will give him enough of an opening if Asuna, who's faster, couldn't even land a single hit using hers?

Source for the "best player" part? As far as I recall, the top ALO players are practically on the same level. And as for SAO, he was only the player with the fastest reaction time. That doesn't necessarily mean that he's the best in other aspects.

And how does that change the fact that Asuna is biased? If she has an ideal image of him, do you think that she'll notice his mistakes?

But had he thought that far before charging in? As far as I remember, he did it nearly subconsciously. That would still be enough to serve as an example of him giving way to his emotions when he's pressured. And Asuna won't be able to rescue him if he makes a mistake like that in a one-on-one battle.

Yuuki's battle with Kirito in the tournament lasted over 10 minutes. Isn't that proof enough that Yuuki is quite the handful? She doesn't need to be an immovable fortress like Heathcliff if she's fast enough to parry most of his attacks and counterattack. 3. Kirito was most of the time fighting AI controlled monsters usually. Feints are unlikely to work on them. Also when he was fighting Yuuki both times we don't know if he used feints, since the author didn't go into great detail on either fights. Kirito not using feints in most of the battles we know about makes sense considering the above.

Not all feints are exactly the same. Yuuki being able to recover from one instance of someone using a feint doesn't mean she'll be able to do it all the time.

5. Kirito doing it almost subconsciously doesn't mean he didn't put any thought into it. Asuna even told Kirito that she'll protect him during that fight, so he may of had that in the back of his head when taking action.

The fight with Heathcliff seems like more of an uphill battle then Kirito's fight with Yuuki. Yuuki may be a strong opponent, but it seems Kirito had an easier time with Yuuki then Heathcliff.