 I actually thought like the biggest thing to him was he seemed to be in quite a character crisis at the start of the game Right there was kind of playing at all sorts really and you know a lot of Sonya a lot scorpion but As soon as he realized that lotus fist Kung Lao fit him like a glove Was when we saw him truly bring back that confidence that we know scar to have which is exactly the character He's going with now in the beginning it was Sonya, but it is now all cool. Wow And the backup to start us off he classic Big hit there confirmed instantly And you know what I think this matchup gonna go really well for scar just because Kung Lao has some air mobility as well But more importantly the lockdown to keep Jackie grounded is so important with being able to beat a character like that Of course, this is gonna be a repeat matchup for scar who was sent to me by Diopsis and Winner's side of course one of the best upgraded players around and Nivek had such a close Game five dragon like so close to a reverse through game So both players they are hungry to keep going no one is more gonna go over to here Especially if I cut and it's just crazy that that's it's the unfortunate reality that one of them house who always misses the conversion That could have done so much more damage now scar scouting out the fatal blow, but no punish I think maybe a little bit too far away to guarantee it Last thing you want to do is try and punish your fatal blow the unsafe button be a little bit too slow Oh, no, that was a disaster, but never to drop back confirm. Oh lord. It's not gonna kill But what's it gonna be a down one just trying to trade post and the grab sucking your man scar Barely edging out that first round. You're definitely too close for comfort Yeah, you're definitely seeing cracks in the armor for both players, right? Star missing a fatal blow clinician and Nivek dropping the crucial combo. I Mean that that could be losers bracket for you, right? You have the best players in the world and now it's elimination time. Oh Spends everything but gets the hit know it and that's just the variation You've got to be able to have that confidence just throw it all out there sometimes But now he needs to be a lot more reserved because the scar gets opened up. This is going to do a very Well, what's going to do a lot of damage? There's a lot of drops going on. You can tell there's a lot of stress Execution is muscle memory, but when execution starts to value you begin to doubt Nivek still making his decision making is fine. It's just the the combo drop It's a really honking right now scar and the respect escaped failed as well crushing blow at the ready in case he needs to use it But Nivek on the other hand one hit confirm in the fatal blow could potentially take this second round scar a stone wall Oh, that's a crucial tech And they're just trading post third full cannot get opened up right now Look at the defense from scar. He is just blocking but days tries to interrupt another grab again Oh, what is happening? This is more combat 11. We are seeing it before our very eyes full screen leap in the defense from scar again 17 seconds and scar that was two of the closest rounds that we have seen this entire day I'm sweating that was absurd absurd levels of defense from scar just willing to sit there and block and tech throws at the same time he was ready for absolutely everything nivek Brought it down to I mean that was a last hit situation in that game one that could have gone either way But scar that was just the absolute composure and patience that you will only see from players that have been competing as long as scar has With the accolades that he has as well and now nivek getting some wise words from arnkratos his coach And I believe there's got to be something Valuable to say I mean nivek was so close to being able to edge out both of those rounds But just one or two little mistakes is really what caused them and I think right now is the conversion Yeah, it's execution upgraded is You know again I know upgraded is in the firing line for a lot of the community right now I know a lot of people are not a fan of how strong this character is but she's not easy You can't just pick up and play upgraded. You can't just pocket Jackie and and then that's it right you have to be able to Convert you have to be able to have that execution to recognize what's going on and It's difficult when you drop it that kind of round happened We go a little bit more patience out of nivek this time around not falling for the Honestly, just the double hat throw now scar completely out of resources And then nivek is going to try and keep that corner pressure going star Ops for the foregrab very smart Trying to get a little bit of damage and just keep nivek away from them for the time being But obviously upgraded jacky all that mobility is going to make it so hard to keep wrap a Another hit there's that counter poke that orbiting hat so strong You see scar mean they've have to remember that move you're being had it does use a bar of both offensive and defensive meters So even using that move on hit or block means you can't break away if you get hit So you have to be confident you go for the orbiting hat. You have to know you can make it work Nice little try on the shimmy there from scar He has the grab attempt for the crushing blow at the ready, but I don't think he's going to be able to use it I think this should kill Had to use the fatal blow It might just be enough. It's not going to be enough scar is still alive. He might be able to steal this round away But there's not a lot below. You know what? I respect that risk 100% respect that risk from nivek to just throw it out there And he keeps going the corner pressure again All over scar right now. We're seeing a lot more mix-ups out of nivek That's really what's going to help get him more mileage scar using that grab crushing blow immediately Probably the smart choice. I mean just to get that life right so you don't have to worry about it anymore At least just sit pretty for a few seconds No, and scar you know what nivek has so much more patience It's actually really hard for scar to open him up right now. Nice back grab And again just the little bits of damage not spending too many resources I'll finally getting opened up. No break away to work with this might Oh, no, you're not didn't have the bar could have killed but didn't quite have the resources Now those down one at years. There's no crouching coax. Yeah, that has been so good with that Wait a minute It's not over just yet can nivek Go for one more opening and take this round number two beautiful standing one scar that presents a mind to just have that reaction That's the kind of level of play we're looking at. I mean this this is a set that I honestly don't know how to call it I feel this could literally go either way We're seeing so many game fives today and it's because of this it's because everyone is so prepared They have that clutch the bar is spent. This is going to do so much damage Oh That's unfortunate still a respectable 33 already used a crushing blow But I mean scar has such a huge life of the I don't know how nivek's going to be able to come back from this Oh, wow, just a straight up jump to nivek. I want to be tried to go for another Crouching poke and yeah Let's get stuff a little bit probably just a little bit too late on that And now while nivek was able to take a round as per the first game Scar now on set point a quick 2-0 lead I mean this what one thing that looks like abundantly clear is so many players are just Ready for upgraded and that's not to say that upgraded isn't winning We know upgraded is doing very well in this tournament, but it's it's not just the standard Upgraded offense. That's right. Right like we're seeing so many players that are using this this this variation They're going for the double burst. They're trying to catch an years They're trying to catch people pressing buttons at weird times You really can't play that variation completely different depending on the player But we're seeing so many players like we're seeing it Perfectly from scar right now is just willingness to sit there and just wait for eventually it's going to end If I don't press anything Or if I look for one specific option and then I see it like instead of trying to be ready for everything Like a lot of people do I should be leaping all over and you're she's got the barn She's spending on the air blast. You think like this is so overwhelming. What do I do about it? So many of these players will just pick an option and they'll just block until they see it If she throws you you're out, you know, I'm calling out the dragon approach because we saw him do that against deoxys And that worked out really well and did that also a dragon dragon did that we saw the same thing So now game number three scar were they comfortable to oh lee bonivic not too far behind The score doesn't really reflect how close these matches have been so this can still go either way Well, they've still been pretty fast games too. I guess it's the nature of them being too great aggressive characters But still nice combo chunky turn 70 damage from scar Both these characters have tons of mobility and tons of damage So it's just kind of like almost the speed run of who's really just going to beat each other first And right now that race is working heavily in scar's favor But nice little four days for three there and the crushing blow that was Really important for nevic. I actually guess the first time I've seen that go for it So definitely not too surprised to see me just go right. I'm just going to use it as an ender get that damage Oh got caught I generally couldn't tell which oh no That's a hundred percent death if he doesn't drop this combo Okay, and he doesn't that was a costly mistake by scar I generally couldn't tell which which one of them is going to be in the corner when scar was just standing on him I was like, hang on a minute. It's gonna like Bump him to the side for that fatal blow. I mean, I understand if you scar right sometimes you got to go for it But nevic more than ready and didn't use his own fatal blow either. He just knew he had enough damage There was no breakaway from scar save the resource And scar Getting a lot better in the set at that strike or grab game really is mixing it up so much better than we saw earlier You know a lot of times nevic was losing a lot because of the lack of pick and firms and just getting caught with punishing Now it's completely different scar super aggressive and going for the striker grab All that down three that delayed nevic Realizing that scar is not going to go for any oji. Oh, okay. That was an interesting ad yet So I'd like to mix up some nevic He's really trying to shake things up a little bit and it's working way better than it has in the past Nevic might be able to put himself on the board it here That scar has that fatal blow So it's definitely around he could win he has to be careful. Oh one hit to the plus frames perfect by nevic And now we're seeing that adaptation start to come in the play And that's exactly what you'd expect right nevic was An absolute like stones throw away from being able to make a full three games come back against dragon Because it was in the exact same situation He went down to convincing games And then brought back two games by the skin of his teeth and then the last game was super close I do wonder if there is uh The potential for that to happen again here now with scar one those first two games very quickly And now hit nevic is it's two one Does he just want to play five games a set like he's want to get his money's worth or what? Well, you know what and this first round is going to be the big statement here Who's going to be able to get that momentum if nevic can keep it going After winning that game number three and kind of just keep all that momentum in his favor It might be able to shake scar a little bit, but right now I mean scar just had two orbit and had some luck and he's not got anything for now Wow, that was an interaction and I love scar's meter management The moment he notices that he doesn't really have a ton of resources to work with He's going to be as defensive as possible and just wait. He has no problem Spending all those seconds on the clock. I mean bar regions of different speeds, right? And you're being hacked. What's that quite fast? So again, but that that's a big change now scar He's going for so many reactionary dive kicks to stop the leap and even in this round We've seen like three of them. It really is making a big difference And then not so much nevic did uh Tech one of those grabs so now scar is going to have to load up that crushing blow again So while scar is on set point right now, nevic had a little bit of a moral victory just then Oh, no, mr. Uh the dash punch Unfortunately for nevic scar he's going to get a hit on the back of it Now patience to counter poke didn't quite confirm it but tried to go for a throw at least scar Want to make sure that his turn never ends Nevic's just trying to open scar up any which way scar no reason to over extend He's just been waiting for the right time of strike. That's you so much damage coming through right now The boss spent leaps then that he will that hurts so much even then after the drop 32 percent Scars so close to just edging out this set and moving on in the tournament nevic on his tournament life right now Taking his time 50 seconds on the clock a crucial throw tech scar cannot be thrown tries to go for your being happy It didn't work out That was a great hit confirmed nevic not ready to give up just yet Oh, he got clipped on the jump kick from scar just at the right time How the hits the nevic reeling back in his chair was not expecting that at all scar with that clutchness