 Side it is extremely impressive that these players have had such consistency over such a long period of time They really are some of the best in the world as we load into losers finals. We got Zombat on one side We got Ninja killer on the other let me hear it out there Go we got some good crowd noise out there ready for the combat Ninja Making the immediate first three to the duck He's gonna make Zombat pay the iron price for it Oh literally cuz that's what Syrax is made about 98% of Chilling behind the hat Some boss frames he wants to avoid those those plus threes of Johnny all day like that plus three and he can't fall Let's block that take away some of that frame data. I think that ninja killer might be the very first person to Floss block just one one of Johnny Very tough to do He's floss blocking loud hats as they approach to that's the kind of scary. Yeah. Yeah for sure Lots of funky little timings here from Zombat trying to take his turn maintain his turn. He got some damage out of it Hey Break of course The way you scoot it back in the Johnny movement put himself in a bad spot though. Okay, it's his turn Okay took a risk and he was right That normal has such a bigger hitbox than you expected to especially forward And shades of that going back to MK9 Big ol Johnny with them back to them. It's a 4-3 in this one Zombats using it all Doesn't have enough pickup on the Syrax Do you know that one? Then you're trying to get in at the down three. It's been consistent. Mm-hmm. Yeah, he has gotten it before Johnny gets to set things up here. He comes and how aggressive they are in Dashing up and baiting with dash of nothing. It's been so so prevalent throughout the set and hello That's my first time so I must put the low hat down and able to react to the approach with the upshot This guy's best to oppress him in this round Zombat down in life up Approaching he's got it And ninja away Not enough hit advantage though as ninja ducks through it And we'll take the round built the meter and put you to the corner That's just an optimal way to end that round from start to hit Oh Hat puts these another one already has both of them back. Oh, okay Excellent stuff by Zombat on the approach. Okay time to party Maybe not none of it advantage. I guess to go to the nut punch This is perfect from ninja to kill all the time of the height meter with the combo Oh and good trade just gonna avoid Johnny getting something off that hat something I wish I'd see more people do is challenge it with something that's gonna lose a turn Yeah, your biggest individual damage dealer there down to It still hurts raw it's still like crazy a combo if you're looking to get one hit there you go He's got Cyrax still he might be scheming for the round in the game. He's got it 1-0 ninja killer as a reminder Nobody's taking games off this dude the whole tournament except for sonic fox The proverbial run continues A little bit of a difference how much damage these characters dish out With a similarity and what and what they can do to your platform block But you see how much damage ninja can do be a little bit of a difference maker in some of these matches to be able to Half-life someone on a touch. Mm-hmm Speaking half-life already Johnny's below it. Oh No hat the first one to go blocked by ninja killer tonight or oh, yeah, the crowd likes it. Okay the in-game crowd Finishes the string just getting the throw Better for the position now as he would ninja's been right on so many Attempts of them approach him with that low hat which is about what he's always got to do with this matchup If he's not gonna get his own doubt by the billion electrical orbs that ratings ready to possess They really do see him Neutralizing a lot of stuff that other people are not his offense remains fantastic, of course But defensively you talked about how he's been follows walking strings and falls walking hats He has evaded hats a lot. Here's another example of that Ninja kill finding out that the best way not to deal with something is to not deal with it to not be there This look it's a versus game man That's been versus game mantra ever since the seared the subgenre of fighting games began. Don't be there All you gotta do is go back in time and what better game to do that in and then in this one. It's all about time Using all the forbidden strings now is on my little throw something new a ninja to sit back down real quick But then there was a cap that ninja got a was it was that like a meterless Superman? He was definitely doing bobbling Ninja conceding the round. Oh, I mean definitely conceding. Yeah, yeah But I think he did that just to get out of the corner Meanwhile, almost put himself in the corner with that one if you want a couch. Oh sick another right read On the hat something that was so smart. That's getting away So you get reset the situation to get the loud hat out and get started yet again Just like this Generating a challenge with buttons on wake up my goodness He's built some more meter himself Trust me the straight projectile Would have been a cool pick up tough to do Boom, we did come off the meter three bars here Zombets out But to what end he's got to set things up be it again here. He comes on the approach Escape is ready. Here he is. Can you get it? Can he make it happen? Everyone's drinking out of the hit Boxes out one of false blocks right some of this shadow kid could have done many more and it's going to D What a block what patients can he be only the second person of the tournament to take a game off Ninja killer? Johnny waltzing up with the camera to make sure it happens and it was enough to seal The fate and Johnny just hit Ninja killer with the DX or so to say Combat just hit this man with the DX taunt. Are you kidding me? I saw the reference from NRS to put that 90s WWF back in the day Reference in there shout outs X gonna give it to you our second taunt in this top eight Yeah, and both have been on Ninja It's our secret pack that we don't know about oh Hat a few times ninja jump back Against the versus trying to meet him because they've been playing that game of who's gonna get the instant jump home a lot quicker When low hats out Getting some more that height meter Yeah, I'm actually impressed that ninja was looking for a hit confirmation on the jump back That is some footsies right there. It deletes the three bars right away And now if Zombat finds a hit, it's gonna be big damage Ninja killer still getting 285 out of that No, he didn't believe it and he didn't get the rest and then rather than low hat teleport comes out No, it's under some juicy damage to it wasn't for the job there's their Zombat dying With full resources, this is not how you want to go you don't think that he's arranged to dash cancel into that But he is yeah That's what we saw him. Oh man This is not an easy character to get that on we saw that in Johnny mirror that Johnny doesn't really have great big damage Low starters and so okay, I get it but this is the guy who does a Taunt right back at you. Okay, ninja not thinking hard. We know he's got a few other characters Sounds like back to character select and I don't know if he's gonna switch but at least it'll take some time Yeah, right. We've seen the raiden. We've seen the Lou It's up to him Might be thinking one of the two big ones. Is it just lower Cyrex? Whoa? Whoa? Trying to change up the shirt. Maybe I would be a big switch not one we've seen from him today But he's thinking about it hovering over low hovering over Lou Huge decision to make here and losers finals if he loses this next game It will be a rematch sonic fox versus ninja killer in grand finals Back to Johnny Johnny will he switch cameo? Nope He just wanted to over Ninja priest is that the next movie? After ninja mime he goes from in a mime to a priest. Wait a minute. What kind of story are classic story? What kind of story arc is that what? From a mime to a priest make it happen in a little bit. I love it They're gonna get an ironed out up there on the stage, but yeah, it remains a pretty sizable advantage for ninja killer in this situation I mean, you know yet again Ninja killer trying to get back up to what seems like the faded rematch versus sonic fox We already saw it in winners finals those three one Who knows what happens in grand finals though? Yeah, this is gonna be great guys either way It's sliced Zombat still in this as well. Yep Fantastic start to the pro competition I would say and again going back to the fact that there hasn't been a pro competition for years Right, right hasn't been a lot of activity something happened in March 2020 that prevented anything more happening I don't remember exactly who knows at this point awful lot, but a lot of off lines didn't occur A lot of things didn't occur yeah in that time and so we're coming into a really Wild Wild West era Where you know, it's a new game new everything everyone's coming as a melting pot We we see so many names coming out that we haven't seen in a long time That's true names as well. That's also true great start to the bro competition I think it's only gonna get better and yet especially as more people find out that it's even happening as you said Three finalists that we have here were in the top four of that same event that you mentioned back in March of 2020 The week before the world ended as we're all trying to come back to life Not just from there, but from the two days of East Coast throwdown prior to this It has been a long one ladies and gentlemen, but this is you know That's a massive shout out to East Coast throwdown and the tour for giving so much stream time to mk1 this weekend It was awesome. That has been great. We got a chance to see five day Saturday and Sunday, which is awesome See yeah, that has been really really great as just a fan of watching it when I wasn't up here commentating I was out there in the crowd watching it. I was up in my room watching it That's been watching the whole thing. Of course It was really I was able to kind of walk around and check it out as we're going to it's awesome Definitely definitely right oftentimes when you come to a major you can't really see most of the action Or if you're not physically in the major I mean if you're just at home right you get a slice of what's happening But a lot of the stuff is happening out there where everybody's playing on the setups luckily this time We did actually get to see almost all of the qualifiers Especially in that top 24 range We're usually only get those kind of few winners matches while everything happens off stream A really good job from the entire team here a massive team here putting that entire thing together Here at the pro competition and he's goes throw down this this crew has been great the area is great It's it's it's had an old-school feel and always has does he's goes throw down Love the feeling here for sure. It's very homey feeling For us in the fgc. We're in Right Johnny allow yet again for Zombat. Okay the start the brave start for him He spent 10 minutes in that chair thinking about round one fight shadow kick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah You know what ninja kill is not gonna expect the unexpected He's waiting from the whiff as they both do fighting themselves in their shadows As the sun's peeking through the glorious dead looks in the back It's a beautiful stage, so I know those trees are hungry. Yeah You think that cute little baby face tree right behind Johnny right now is hungry I would love to feed someone to that baby in the tree. Yes Baby Groot. He's starving Pick up on a little insect Zombat trying to chase I know that put the plus two out and was like go ahead ninja whiff Come on and then knowing the gravity was high. He just ended it with bobbled Oh Zombat. Whoa Okay, almost max hype after that A little something new that he threw at the offense right there And notice what he does in the back dash guys really changing it up So quickly So come on that is good whiff punishing not only a button, but that dude did dash into the button It's a very fast nine frame button. No less Zombats in there for pressure It's still not over. Oh my goodness. It is not your turn Zombat With the time able to make the adjustments get every single thing that this character is capable of doing going the hype That reads everything. He did a lot more Setting up whiff punishing. It was almost all that he did low hat and walked back He would do something on block back back dash back. Here's whiff punishing with just back dash Raw 4 3 even the one you called out where he dash canceled the newest punish. Yeah, that was there Disgusting drawing first blood here. Wait a minute the prophecy Something to the way will the timeline be different this time Zombat with the down one interruption. It was his turn briefly not anymore backing off hat footsies Ninja I don't think he's gotten one clean whiff punish on that normal in particular Just because he's doing it from so far away But he's trying. Mm-hmm. Oh what a duck but nothing else Cyrax and making it work Spinning in hit anyway As low hat was there Zombat undeterred right back in three bars gone for a ninja killer. This does not look Not looking good so ever Both lousin play the meter could be close He thought that was gonna be the round And so he held it to build the height meter and said ninja kill is in will he get the round on this? It's not enough Shouting over the chip, but he missed it down three super man. It says 1.45 hp up there. That's what was remaining To get up to match point believable One whiff down three is all that separated in there A ninja gets something on the boy's got the corner cannot let go and Zombat with the audacity just wake up forward dash grab Nobody beat ninja killer the whole tournament until sonic box and now Zombat on the cusp of doing it again No conversion no ninja killer. Okay Takes the three bars from Zombat Have expected the high blood right there behind that We are not seeing him able to escape as many of these hats that ups as before We're not seeing him able to fall as far as many of them as before either that said here. He can pump out the damage Oh, no going the wrong way, but Zombat. I don't know what he tried to wake up with me We got negative edge hypes ready Activated The spotlight's on him ready to go. Was it surely supposed to have been hat? No cyrax. What are you doing? Hype is gone. No, Zomers gonna need to make some huge reach if you want to steal it now Trying to get more hype again. It's possible. I don't know if he's gonna get the chance So down two will do it. We are in the hound situation to get in the grand finals Let's get it going started as he always had Zombat with that low hat to establish a little bit of presence But no gets nothing of it. Then just to jump at me over one more time. I've been down to you all day I even got the anti crossover on deck Feeling dizzy prioritizing a corner is ninja killer. Is this huge with no breaker? Ninja go up for the throat right now Match point to set up The prophetic match with every go time to guess and up the rematch with sonic boxing grand finals