 Here we go! Oh, and we're gonna go! And we do have, it's a Liu Kang match, and it's a Johnny match all in one. We have a lot of ancient warriors. Defender of Earthrealm, born and bred. Do not shame your ancestors. First match of losers, comeback! Silver ride, Johnny Cage, Liu Kang! Here we go! Two of my favorite characters to watch. Trying to take up some space here. Johnny's got that huge threat of the walking low. Okay. Both of these characters can be very aggressive, but also both play the mid-range so well. They do have great fireballs, to be honest. And then, yeah, their staggers opposed to pretty legit. Here we go! He goes for the left punish, but went into the active frame. Sucked in like a vortex there. No offense in meter there. Didn't have it. He waits, and he's gonna seal it. Silver ride taking round number one. That 4-4 pressure of Liu Kang itself can be so relentless. So overwhelming. And here we go. Directly again with that, as you were saying. Keep them re-stood, and he finished that straight. Oh, whoa! It's only a 4-4. Wow! What a read from Silver ride, and so early. And his own grab, not concerned about the same amount of combat. Ooh. Down was not pushed out with people. Johnny Cage thing to do in the world right there. That's what I'm talking about, the big walking low. That catches so many buttons in this game. Not quite there. Here's a punish. Got him. And there's no way to escape. He already knows what's gonna happen. No rematch here. You're gonna hold this out. Down 1-0. Silver ride coming out. Swing it. What a fast game one. Both of these characters can do that. They can blitz. That they can. We'll see what combat does. With Silver ride getting that first hit, and just never letting go. Yeah, and in that last round right there, where there was an air and a punch, I felt like everything went downhill after that. And that may be combat trying to condition the Silver ride, not only against counterpoked of a down one. Four down four, but that's a pretty tricky punish for a lot of people. Not for Lou King, who's gotta have a four and four like that. See what he gets? Backs off. He knew what was coming and then nothing else. Okay, here we go though. Another chance for combat. Do a good damage. Saving it as Silver ride, he did have defensive arm. Wow. Are you serious? That was a goal. The down one. The absolute guts. But he finds himself in the same position right here. Keep himself safe. There is combat. Just trying to hit confirm. No pickup off the jump kick. And a shot in there. There's something like that. What an interruption speaking up on the four and four up three. I was like four and four up three. Yeah, that's right. There is a little hole there. Of course, Lou King can do stuff to take it up, but that's not what happened there. That's the constant mind game going to be played by Lou King in that pressure on top of the plunder of other attackers that the character has available to pressure. Jumping on it. No answer here. Silver ride not ready for it. Oh, the spacing on that. If you poke, it sets up such a good whiff on us for Johnny Gage. It's not quite there. Didn't expect the fire. Interrupting. And combat backing off. I really like that he's willing to do that. Sometimes he'll just back off here. Oh, no. The chase comes as a result. But I like that he's willing to back off. He has the life lead. Oh, so my spot is laying right into the fatal blow. Firm right there. I had a silver ride. And the pressure was high enough for him to say, you know what? I've got to come off in here. Got to get the lead. Had to say one game, but one per game option. Now it's his life. And so he's the one backing off. Just gone for chip. Whoa, what a call-out. Look for the low fireball right there. Now I was about to say combat has made some miracles happen with that fatal blow. Cancels, he confirms the works. What a whiff punish out of silver eye. He's got a chance to pressure here. He does a little delay and it's great. He gets the crush out of there. His combat. Bad position right now for combat. Even eating a meaty forward forward. Uh-oh, right there. Here we go. Combat ready for them. Whoa. As if he had to read on silver eye, trying to be disrespectful. Silver eye's got a lot of disrespect in the putt and the hits that are on Johnny Cage so far. Whoa. What a flawless block. Trying to answer, no. Combat knows it's time. He's trying to rush it. He gets the grab at least. Oh, man. And his seconds are ticking for him to get that fatal blow back. And there it is. Wait a minute. And he does another one. Not going to be the kill here, but one hit away now. Silver eye in a bit of trouble. The range, of course, those are highs. Oh, my. He's heavily in time. If that had come but a few frames later, Liu Kang would have been there. This big sigh relief from the combat right there, one-one now. Close on both sides. Here we go again. Safety on that. Okay. Wow. Okay. What a call right there from the kick itself. Whip on it. Oh, had a chance. That's what Johnny Cage is built for right there. That walk back and reactionary, especially with that low. That looks so quick. Super fast. I guess those were especially at that range. Is this a chance? Yes. Still provide a little bit of damage. Harassing in here. Staggering, even on hit. Still in here. Combat caged. Here's a big chance for him. Will there be a break? Of course. Oh, caught him trying to be disrespectful. You're his combat. Definitely tightening things up, and that's what we're seeing in the turn around here. Plus, Reims. Yeah, this one. Whoa. It was a big call out right there from SilverEye. Of course, he was looking for a button on the approach from combat. Nothing came. It's fireball. Can't pair that. Nice reversal. A nice back throw right there by SilverEye to reverse this position. Got it. Read out the wake up. Bring us a massive damage here. And there's no break. No break going either. Uh-oh. Oh, that's not... Did we jinx it? I rarely see that one hit in tournament, but going for the big stuff there is so arrived. That's okay. He's got a hefty health lead. He says, you know what? Let's try to go for it. And maybe feel himself a little more afterwards. It's a back throw right here. Oh, no. No shenanigans for you. Oh, another one. Well, Reims, look at that big, big win. One round of peace here. Great position, too. Just trying it out. No big deal. Oh, my goodness. The backward movement first in order to get into a whiff, and he got the punish. The spacing in this match has been immaculate from both. Some big hits done. Trying to disrespected. We've seen multiple times SilverEye trying to press buttons there, but he did a high, so it was almost a right create. That mid coming a little too quick one, though. And how many times has he just thrown his way out of this corner? Has SilverEye winning for any kind of minus frames? Oh. Rye's still here. Takes the health lead. Okay. Combat's so confident. They just hook up the ball. SilverEye's right back in there. Saving the meter. Oh, my goodness. Okay. Keep it pretty. So he gets a massive hit confirmable combo with the fatal blow, and he's going to get it back anyway. Oh, my goodness. Is this enough? It's not. Oh, my goodness. He just did that move. He just did it. He just had it. And then he took up the space. That was ridiculous. Yeah, what a threat. He just like canceled the fatal blow. What a threat. So maybe trying to fade out a fatal blow. SilverEye, something crazy. Maybe a flying kick attempt. Who knows? Could be. That was a mind game. Oh, my goodness. Very interesting usage of it right there. So combat takes the game. Talked about his usage of that fatal blow. Canceling things. Everywhere. Creating these miraculous moments. Turning this match around. 2-1-0. 2-1 now for the young man. I mean, SilverEye has really relied on those back throws. See how far he walked. First clean interruption comes. Knocked quite far away. Oh, my goodness. That was the forbidding stick right there. SilverEye wasn't ready for it. That was a high. Did you get hit by it? The high on the end. That was a massive damage on a crushing blow. SilverEye in here for... Very light. So instead, combat. Getting the back throw into the corner now. Trying things out. Bride caught. Doesn't want to just jump out recklessly. Ready there on the punish though. Amplifies one. Does he get it at a time? That would have been nice. Not quite there. He had the right idea. Once you see those blue kinks, start to amplify those bicycle kicks. Take it out of the time. There we go. Loading up that crushing blow. And this is exactly what you want. For SilverEye here, he's going to have blocked and loaded here in round number two. I believe he does need one more. Round two. That sounds right, yeah. Got low one right there. So Johnny, he only has the high option. Yeah, they're very effective against it. You can't just only have that high projectile option here. Ooh. Now that SilverEye has the health. Straightening it. Converting it. Getting aggressive here. And of course, the classic after throwing all the projectiles, of course, the throw works. Look at this. This is almost a zoning game. This is what Bride wants. He has the health lead. He's throwing projectiles. And he's looking for the aggression on the combat to sort of whiff punish. But luckily, some phenomenal spacing on the combat. To guarantee the pressure, instead of whiffing just like that. Got it. Is there an escape? Yes. But still took damage. I'm going to go to a game number five here. Fighter select, huh? Oh my goodness. He's got so many in his arsenal. He does. He does. But he's been sticking it out with Johnny. And I liked how it's been most of the time. It was only that last round that I felt was a little more lopsided. See what he does. And that was SilverEye getting the health lead and changing up the play style. Zoning out, letting combat come to him. Look for the whiff punishes. Whereas most of the match, he had been on the defensive and making the big reads that way. We're seeing him hover over Johnny. So he's still thinking about it. Just thinking about things, a couple of situations. We're going to get from the end. We're going to get that switch. I heard Baraka! Baraka! My slashy boy. So that's a switch for sure. But this is another character with a strong midrange. He's got a great projectile. He's got a bunch of safe tools on the approach. He has harassment up close and a ton of damage. A lot more reward on the hit. Oh, yes. That's for sure. Among the most rewarding. So you see now he has that mid tool. So if it was the fireball war that he didn't like in that last round as we were talking about, this is a way to deal with it. But hold on a second. Look at that. He's got to get it out first. He does! It's only the second that's the mid. The first is still a high. Oh, and this is already looking up. It looks like SilverEye's picking up right where he left off. I love it. But all Baraka needs is one. I think I heard the entire arena catch their threat there. Any time Baraka gets the hit. Yeah, you know if you come. Oh, yes. That means that there's a crush and blow lined up for Baraka on both throws. Got him! Oh, here we go. And you've got to come off that defensive bar. He does. It's going to be coming. It's going to be missed up and through. Oh, here we go, baby. Let's just fast forward to the next round. And just like that. Match point. Now for combat. The entire arena doing the top shot, baby. It amounts to about 50% overall. You can see. All it takes is the one to take the breath out of you. SilverEye slowly making his approach. Oh, that's a hard jump. Kick to end. I right there once it is active. Look at how far he walked forward right there. SilverEye knows now it's crunch time. He's got the corner for himself. Uh-oh! Escape failed. No, but I knew. No crushing blow though. This is huge right here. Get the crushing blow. Hips up. Nice breakaway in a combat. Oh! And everybody crushes a button there. Down talks about it. Stroll instinct into counter poke. I guess crazy things become better tools. Beautiful. Can you dance there? Oh, that was key. Trying to stay away. Trying to stay away. Oh, my God. Get it, get it, get it, get it. Walk up, baby.