 Rockwell who's busy so we'll get to him in just a little bit we're gonna have some fantastic players ready for you up here who have made the top eight as you would expect we have some of the very best players in the world that was a lot of Mountain Dew baby let's go we're gonna start our East Coast throwdown topping of Mortal Kombat 1 first matchup two legends of the game ultra David rewind and Sonic Fox getting us started here what a weekend it has been 300 competitors ascending or descending down here into Connecticut to throw down in the very first stop of the pro competition nearly $13,000 on the line total with $10,000 coming in from the pro cop almost three thousand from the players themselves then we are narrowed down to eight Sonic Fox ready to fight not every not just everyone in the top eight but ready to fight that camera to and give it some some sensual looks ready to ready to make it rain in this top eight hopefully I don't know what the matchup is gonna be out of the gate to training partners to legends of the electronic sport throwing down right now David it's we are ready here's Fox's run the only salmon 3-0 the struggling black 3-0 Costner 3-2 that was close to Susie this is for rewind then we had 3-1 over Samij 3-0 over Pluramite 3-0 over Pulse Sonic Fox a pretty good run in their own right 3-0 over disaster 3-0 over Jean 810 3-0 over Schiezer 3-2 over dialogue here's where things get that was close here's where that was close and then 3-2 over Splash that was close then 3-0 over King Gambler and it is the character matchup that we were looking for between these two Rico and rain what an interesting what matchup it is because this is one of the only characters that can consistently shut down the water bubble of rain in this matchup very very counter counter zoning is right going to sit up like this but first they go in the Sonic and look at that damage for a week they get it started making it rain indeed rewind in control trying to get back in control here Sonic Fox comes up he's got the big I can hit confirm up close and broke before the setup was coming that full charge on the projectile of rain gonna cause a really good knockdown that can set up all the water shenanigans and he has the second end of the geyser comes out anyway gonna put the knockdown in the rain god putting them down sit down rewind Sonic takes the early lead gets a double red into the corner we go and here we go what is the mix I'm gonna be completely hidden but it was the low and ready for it was rewind job barely missing the mid back to the wall now rewind trying to get out bullying them with the pressure multi hitting two at any point could break armor even the stand two of rains knockdown what's it gonna be just damage no setup okay I lied right to your face portals on the screen is gonna put the double portal if you don't it portal comes again there's plus frame setups that can come the confluence beam that can happen no rewind still fighting scraping us right through this trying to just move forward out of that corner not for long Fox back in control setting up the whirlpool in front watch out there three one trying to mount it there's a lot of chip and there's enough chip for Fox to take game number one this is a character you know this is you know this character well you can stop the sentence right there David this is a character this is a character in rain when the game was first showing up when rain was first showing up we were like oh this is a dedicated owner big donor Premier's owner and then as the game came out and has evolved over the last month plus a little bit more to the character than that and at this point Fox is out there saying that if you don't think that rain is top tier you might not be playing that character right that's right but isn't it crazy how the projectiles are what lead to a lot of that sure that's a big part of rain's games though he's just Premier zoning up close okay for sure for sure yep yep yep they didn't put that part in there no yeah they didn't say where rain would be zoning from and you know what among these two you know who's the Premier's owner you know it's a Premier's owner among these two characters right imagine it's the giant dude with a sphere from outworld and not the guy with a staff but you know you could be playing him like that the way that rewind plays him he has it's not just about zoning maybe not even primarily about zoning depending on the matchup with Darius that means that he has huge damage on a command grab when the man's the scene as we say in the best time to do it right there in that slight negativity of blocking the double overhead minus six if you're there with rain yeah always that's always a guess of if armor's gonna come or not and that's what Cyrax is all about with rain here everything into geyser everything into Cyrax is gonna be the name of the game here comes bring them back up for another chance straight beam not into too much look it's rain trying to get in on raco putting up a bit of the wall with those ninja stars as Rewind up against the wall right there I love that every time he knocks him down you just checks with Stan to a natural armor built in and that's going to be the round for sonic the straight shot cancel movement building meter while rain's doing it kind of a win-win super sick character again setting up chip setting up trying to pressure anyway denied by Rewind jump cancel Fox and this is something I feel like rain needs to the game plan is you have to let low rip at some point and sonic is committing and there we go gets the confirmation that off the 211 rain gods those rain god checks are so smooth and very very quickly timed by sonic immediately checking the space big forward movement on a Rewind dashing in trying to get the button for himself he's got pressure 250 into up close not for long Cyrax makes it all safe the meter build almost has full stack right now sonic full control wash in the feet of this man everything into geyser geyser into Cyrax that's good chip by the way backing off to exactly the right spot to get down to anti-arsonic Fox two games to zero trying to make their way into winners finals and just like in those previous sets even going down to the wire we didn't see a lot of setup action it was just this big damage cast outs 40 send them full screen throw put something on the screen to try to react to and I love that he's done a really good job of getting to Raco cuz that's that can be tricky as rain he's back at the character select especially way dancing around on that screen especially Rewinds been playing he has kept everyone out with that just down four and projectile alone that not return Raco I was about to ask whether he made a change but the game just gave us the answer right there as it's right back to Raco Darius and again there's a couple different cameos that you could play with Raco that I think are really strong with him but they don't give you the big damage cash out of Darius that they do not exactly what Rewind has gone back to steals a big turn that's great that one was on hit there there we go the scoop boom boom boom beating in the face of range trying to flatten that nose a little bit I think no I'm playing around roast of my own character that's your boy that's why I got the mask on don't worry advantage okay back off just a little bit back to me the significant damage here he's gonna be up close to he gets to pressure where's he going and the overhead Rewind looking good here tries to armor on reaction to the cross-up but a little too quick to go to jump in a braid great defense oh not the fox is common though get the spinner yes we tried to move in maybe too far and then amplified stars one of the better chip out options in the game as it is look at adaptation by Rewind to recognize that Sonic had been pressuring with highs on awful lot on the knockdowns I wake up down one's gonna stop that the back three not working out form here Cyrax coming into homie knocked out before he could release from the skies not this time no pick it up yes and again he's got that was such good recognition by Sonic weeks that was only pick up a pull by the fact that he got to the corner there I was able to close the distance that was insane portals a little bit of turn with the portal there is your another one yes no plus on block that's called the confidence beam baby you didn't even see it because they were so close but a beam activates between the portals rain does some cool stuff a very cool character Rewind's out of there and look at that poke special Cyrax special yes so it's Rewind who's away now but to what end he's got a lot of a life lead to make back Fox way ahead box by knowing that the one threat right there was command grab swung their way through that anything in the geyser Fox still had three bars for breakaway as well you know they were in a pretty good position no cancel oh they're swinging out there it's getting a little scrambling watching the feet just the toes are exposed from right go but they get a cleaning to wow what a down to have expected to crush and blow not anymore all right Rewind corner time there will be breaker than it is going to be spent by Fox but already a lot of damage this is Rewind's opportunity with fatal blow and planning is possible we saw some movement with this character oh it's gonna work is there gonna be a setup they're gonna be looking for one more here one more and that's gonna be it Rewind one two three no alive still living but not for long and it is a game for Rewind it will not be three zero so scary good patience by Rewind letting Sonic swing there through the setup I'm assuming knowing that rain was gonna cross up right there didn't try to wake up and get it get it crossed up as well we got ourselves a game oh yeah it's a good match I was not looking for a 3-0 here either way I could tell you that three of the four in the winter side of this top eight EVO champions oh the range on the back three that's a footsie button right there you want to play footsies that's footsies that's what's playing footsies with right there the down three of rain oh that's what about early those quick mixes of Rewinds the low sweep down four and then back to going for the dome mm-hmm just a little bit outside wow interesting so my foxtie audacity to try to whip I know right 70 frame yeah the audacity right there Fox is moving in they tried to pick it up not quite Rewind oh Kara cancel in the grab pressure go the make it happen make it what where they're going it's gonna be throw okay okay it's scary cuz if you don't delay hard mix if you do delay throat can get you yep yeah rain's got some mean stuff there not gonna end up mattering is despite all that what's really me 383 from Rewind what happens to your neck right there underneath the Rekos armpit it snaps I don't want to be there no one does I don't want to be in touch give me the spin that's rain's bubble either no one knows what's going on in there armor launcher not the biggest damper though for Sonic oh Sonic box you backing off always goes into the range where rain god's gonna be safe and launches really good space mm-hmm on the specials of Sonic knock down there from straight shot Fox using that to move in a little bit trying things out no rewind through colors just project how I don't think extended it because of the breaker Daris is back Rewind could be a threat on offense on a fox nose everyone said thank you for giving me command grab cuz here we go I've seen this before fishing for with so many lows and then mid-command grab I've seen we've seen that's bubble time though yeah you notice Fox not spending bar they are keeping that for breaker just in case no that's gonna be chip oh my goodness that's a super effective move in and of itself water that's being electrified I mean it seems pretty good why is rain the only dual type in the dual type where are they headed put it out okay no no mix up right there was not an overhead but could have I believe broke armor no sorrow story about though okay get crazy back dash by Sonic dashes up into the one two though scoop no he does spin Daris already Fox is not gonna bother breaking maybe no okay not gonna bother here with a lot of bars a lot of resources for Fox a lot of money to spend two Cyraxes to their name as well yeah we're gonna couple of bars to maybe you know the flash of lightning wasn't gonna be quick enough are you kidding me that's a 3-1 victory for Sonic Fox into winners finals of this event and always the crowd pleaser splitting the seas of their enemies Sonic Fox Fox into winners finals the other side of this thing we haven't really yet gotten to talk a lot about the other players in this top eight the mighty unjust will play against Ninja collect wins you know all those ninja plan all those questions from the chat all when ninja plan when Sonic when's ninja where is where is Sonic they're both in this topic when Sonic Fox plan on probably in about another 30 okay okay we'll see we'll see but coming up next Ninja killer both on the winners side so you know let's not let's not look too far ahead but but we do have the potential of that going down which could be insane guys that is everyone watching knows that that's what could happen here we're not gonna jinx it and we're gonna find out very soon because when we come back more mortal combat guys it's gonna be ninja killer versus the mighty unjust and welcome back everyone to the mortal combat one pro competition at the very first stop of the tour here in the 2023 to 2024 season the pro competition hasn't happened since 2019 2020 it's been quite some time the last time the pro competition happened grand finals of the entire thing is what could be finals tonight that is the destiny that every other player in this bracket is trying to stop they're trying to stop the two elder gods of mortal combat from colliding but the story of ninja killer in this tournament ultra David you just looked it up I did would you like to tell everyone I am fearful of what it means this man has had an amazing path he has not lost a single game I didn't say match up I said a single game 30 over cursed 30 over did 30 over June Dragoon 30 over to easy 30 over Turkey sucks 30 over zombie to make his way here mighty unjust has had a great path as well 30 over Zescal and over violence and a revised Gemini 3 2 over DO nevertheless he's here can she sub raid in Cyrax here in the winter side sub armor on oh little bit of theirs I just forced off the breaker to how much meter have we got it only took a couple of seconds here we're trying to be outside of that range exactly that spot right there it's gonna be a huge point of contention between these two the problematic for everyone the bullying pressure when's the lightning gonna come it is and can't you unable to punish it probably from that range match up specific there you saw earlier a character like shouts up really quick and far able to catch up a slower side with that sword again that range dancing back and forth out of it is Ninja killer again okay committing more to the string this time is unjust get the same range early with just the 4 2 as well then you get to knock down overhead overhead again all these changes up no patience I hold on maybe a chance he brings out the boy he's got a creep though he's got a long way to creep he's got a whole stage to creep he was creeping not long enough couple parts here he's got Cyrax as well just to the corner a couple damage four corner carry definitely make a note of that oh look at that two bars either okay he just built it I mean what he's doing is just building a lot of bar look at this if you look down at the bottom right right that was legit he only had one bar moments ago that's one of the first things that I like to note about Mortal Kombat one of comparison of previous iterations of you build meter like crazy as ninja off the back sit down come on and good luck avoiding whatever's coming next though he backs off actually rather than trying to chip sent to a game he's got a full stage to creep not gonna happen game one goes to a totally unconcerned ninja killer that's great that he won the world championships with the same look on his face yeah yeah emotionless just very ready never out of his own head just so focused yeah yeah exactly his movement's been great as well yeah he's in and out of the range we were talking about but on top of that on reaction he shut down the ghost drop a couple of times for example Gorge Santa Cruz okay okay first real up close sento series the sandwich begins one loaf on the right one loaf on the left rated in trouble in the middle oh man I hope that sandwich because oh my goodness can you play the game though ninja I think it's just kind of letting go of things doesn't want to come off any bar he did false walk in there and negated a bunch of that show see some straight sento from unjust where he doesn't have access to those spear specials just the sword says on hand me I'll adjust by yeah I'm scared if you guys to hit oh I can really pump out some damage and just bullies them with the normals the sento stands wonderful round by mighty unjust yeah sento stands still has some buttons in there got some good tools all back and immediately denying the activation point on sento as well if everything's that I'm just does somewhere random given time back dash back to sub-zero he threatened it there okay flies over punish ninja killer in for some chip in for some meter building you know that you're expecting it no one just is ready for the staggers he says you're gonna come off that meter you're gonna come off that Cyrax and you're gonna give me my turn but you like it or not close that gap I'm just playing hard to get right now oh that's got a corner very tight I'm just trying to back dash but there's nowhere to go ninja harassing finally brings out cage and that's the beauty of just not doing the kind of standard just string in the Cyrax trigger the siren you know stringing lightning cage really change it up the meat in the middle that's the big raiden in trouble low first time around yeah nothing patient trying to jump out gave ninja that much time is he in time yes ninja unphase meanwhile terrible things are happening to raiden he seems cool though that's right he's got the amulet can't really do a ghost trap we've already seen ninja killer get right past that he had no fear to just kind of walk into the range of that and do it confidence in the champ pushback on that to do where most scenarios if you block a low poke he's gonna be able to check you with that forward to just doing it such good distances yeah in the pushbacks to deny it yeah that's really a huge huge part of that of this match as we've been saying that's like one third screen range in front of where can she is maybe half screen who does it for a moment resetting it slightly than killer he can get back in any time but first adjusts will get things going back to start simple to sleep here comes that we're trying to chase you woke up swing it to the killer patient there's the bar but since I was gone my injustice thank you for spirit stance back no self the call and you know that immediately hit stagger right there ice-fest on all right well the boys out now he's just a blog he's frozen for a little while for a long time oh no that's taking up about a third of it happen but now he needs more he needs more he needs more with the electric fly and so ninja killer takes another game even smiling just right there recognizing just you just what could have happened right there the magic of being down to the wire again we mentioned it before but coming into this set ninja killer has not lost a game that can't end you probably the closest he has been to losing a game let's see if unjust can continue to sit down with my ex spirit charge because of all the meter though I started in letting go late in the blockchain like he did towards the end of the last round obviously just just missing flawless block to avoid some of that ship so I'm sorry there the ice shield not even there for subs your heart to track you when you're moving forward with some of those normals of kimchi here we go oh that's the best friend yeah but he's the boys out not for long oh let him live let him live again yeah trying to chase escape is perfect I don't know how ninja is able to read what the puppet is gonna do as well as as his opponent he's not only in his opponents mind but he's in it what his opponents puppets mind that's insane but there's also knowledge knows all the options oh yeah part of beautiful flawless block there I'm just getting the timings down but it's just damage done I saw Maron doesn't have to be worried about projectiles right now and doesn't want to test okay let's see the teleport or big I saw always second push yes the headbutt oh he's gonna have more work that he's still in this round eight seconds on the clock a slight life lead okay steals a bit of a turn a full spot and it was perfectly executed the flawless box saved us wow that is a tight timing right there that unjust knew exactly when can't get any better than that and that is you know going back to talking about how you know different players from different eras are using mechanics maybe a little bit better right out of the gate these mk11 players and their flawless blocks have been so wonderful to see again dancing outside of the forward to range ninja even here just standing in it let's go ahead walk forward to get into the range of it and I'm a react yeah he's ninja so scary like that he tests you constantly look right for the range again sorry let's play ninja just patient he's got a huge life lead he doesn't need to move or take risks and again another late flawless block miss I love how he knows all these last round it's like all these little bespoke conversions out of cyrax that he's ready for any of your time flawless bug at first but not the second time and it is match point ninja killer to get what seems like the fated winners finals with box it really is they say they say choose your destiny I thought this was supposed to be a whole new timeline aquaman it was it was it was chosen for the same thing anyway lukeng said slightly different story same ending again jump in oh no you're right no what do you mean lord lukeng what do you mean by again I'm swinging oh okay all right I see the cold shoulder for once okay ninja's out of there not not not an aspect of subserv that you see an awful lot but it's plus on block it's good actually yeah it gives you breathing room it's a it's a good reversal yeah wait it out unjust just look randy and ascent oh and how many times have they dashed up into each other and ninja finally it's had a button waiting for unjust this time around versus dasher block and wait a second oh he's going for as much as he could right now 518 got a flawless he did not get the timing and just like that setting up the winners finals between ninja killer and sonic fox where's uh where's when's when's the fun sonic box plan where's uh where's ninja where's sonic box for the best ninja plan for the past three years we've been in hundreds thousands of chats yeah with hundreds and thousands yeah of people asking where are these two well they're here they're playing in winners finals again man I just have to reiterate ninja killer has not lost a game it was close one of those games was real close we're just looking at it every four eyes real close nevertheless six has not lost a game here towards the end those last two unjust able to get around on the board the acknowledgement unjust still alive though as is that you saw earlier rewind still alive in this yeah this top eight loser still littered with mortal combat finalists mortal combat medalists this is insane just just to start the story in the new era that is mortal combat one here the pro competition four offline stops a lot of online action check out the pro competition here for 2023 to 2024 exactly and in this we still have as you said a lot of the way to go it was only two matches only to decide our winners finals this is what losers looks like which is where we're headed next pulse versus king gambler winner of that will play against the mighty unjust and then down there at the bottom of losers round one video games yo versus zombie pulse gambler potentially the only mirror that we'll see tonight a couple of the johnnies down there making their way through but a lot of variety in that top eight yeah for sure no raco rain you've seen the raiden kenchi but but see some johnny cage yeah we have the potential for some general shells chicken we do that's possible we'll see what comes up in the next match for pulse it's been a longer road had to get 3 0 over b dog 3 2 over destroyer in a close match 3 1 b dog again then oh 3 versus rewind some of his results a lot more than that he's in loser's side has played a lot of matches just highlighting a few for king gambler a bunch of matches as well looking at 3 1 over big daddy g 3 0 over blue linkys 3 2 over big daddy g however it was sonic fox who sent him to losers oh 3 s and that match with big daddy g insane brought that back from the grave it felt like the king gambler very clutch as it's known to be and pulse here having to get through a very deadly mirror with b dog so if there's someone warmed up for the mirror it's gonna be coming into this there you go sure and b dog no slouch really many of himself making top 16 congrats there and everyone making top 16 top 24 64 98 222 it only showed up that's a pretty good placing to me oh what a difference in cameo okay allowing him to do slightly different things like i said slightly yeah i mean you know i i love the the team aspect of this and it really makes a huge difference on how your character plays on how your team plays this is not a character game this is a team game because i can say to you and say that both cameos can do a same thing they can do something something cameo and b plus i mean that's right but they do it two completely different ways yeah like there's a big set up factor with lot with low hat you can steal turns offensively with low hat it's your turn for even longer as johnny with low hat but you don't really get the same like extended chip series that syrux can get you don't get some of the same combo conversions that syrux can get yep but you can get unrelenting pressure and longer pressure with that low hat as we got false here in a position to show us it if you can get it going no gambler it's got has got the syrux train on the rails yeah choo choo okay out of there oh come out of the rescue footsie footsie the loud hat unexpected to finish the string it's very rare to see johnny go beyond two normals because that's how the pressure is built right yeah he can still be plus after two depending on what he brings out or oh interesting interesting low hat blows it up trying for the parry well i don't know if those are go shadow kick attempt or what with that stand three or four out there in oblivion from the corner gambler shot a check even though only a little bit of the helicopter hit right there we did the jump early almost recognize again setting up safe jump into pressure one one just such a bully string it's his turn still a buck in time maybe looking for safety but no no and that juggle was a little weird and finally committed pulses unafraid to go for those parry meets big damage yeah all the crowds in this game this time threw it out loud hat gets to set it up no no it's denied i was a lot of whipping and perfectly punished game i threaded the needle there this could be a for the death yes and he throws the phone come on what a waste no he's fine he's got plenty of money this is john carleton he's doing fine how do you think you know you can afford the matches still man yeah no you're right here gotta have them burners and man the movement in this match between these two is so sick loud hat's still there because he held on to it that's it's done means you get the combo out of it i love that we can visually see both players recognize when they go into each other's for three range ago man i feel like you know that right now so we're a little too close oh that was a big challenge just that one special and that's what separates us too as well is you can see a lot more of that rising uh the uppercut of johnny with the cyrox assist yeah versus the loud where it's much more grounded there she is oh didn't believe in it here we go gambler moving on two bars spent cyrox lets you set up the bomb we're blocking the low head almost dash into it gambler yeah and you want to do it balls with no fear just like before in a very similar situation johnny with the perry fatal blow with his back to the wall which was just all a bet everything in in the moment normally you see johnny's try to throw those when their opponent's back is to the wall so you gotta guess judge on it jump but no the straight use of the perry mechanic of that fatal blow coming in yeah balls man the movement in this match up is a treat to watch oh keep it up nope he put you got the in and out and ready for that grab was gamblers he stucks under it's his turn and johnny guy's not the biggest damage dealer it's just that honest near 300 every touch the full time to play good blocks there and oh my goodness the loud yeah it's happened a couple of times i really like the covering kind of both sides was just a four three cameo input okay not gonna be into the flesh monster i think that abomination down there i don't know i can't look at it we're moving out of there okay we're going back that's a that's a sheng sung's christmas tree yeah all right let me look at the star on top and they're so aggressive on wake up i you see them for dashing on wake up so much and dash canceling just trying to close that gap again normal range again okay it's pulse finding the moment for himself back and off no wow the brave call uh-oh he said i'm not gonna drop this one it ain't over yet what a price to pay look at this 400 i'll wait it all out yeah he did not want to even take a rest it lasts a long time the active rams are there for a long time i'm really smart don't want to swing into that it doesn't have the scariest lows or your low start or even front could just weather it gambler one of the sirex if guys ever get confused if you see the spin it's gambler on the hunt mm-hmm taking away a south bar a block right now pulse you know both of them it just comes down to being right on the stagger when you've got enough of those frames to get nine out and at four three look at that knee in the working just look at it dizzy somewhere smiles look at me i know every time it's still called is the knee i think it sure is shots of dizzy there are another own studios and every cage player in the world is probably did away that's actually my pulse shaking his head it was so good you know something's good when you shake your head like oh yeah got the water to stay hydrated looking for rain hydro booster mk9 pure or sorry pulse oh god you're in trouble buddy pulse here so back to character select i'm looking for a character change might be there be a cameo change gambler was on cindal early couple other characters cameos well he's definitely considering it if he does change if you're not familiar with the rules here if he changes characters then his opponent gets to change cameos and response what if so yeah never mind it's not gonna be the case i thought the word a wild scenario okay sure whoa dude you are so cut yeah i'm on the sand and claret a diet there's nothing better than johnny cage interacting with johnny cage johnny cage and nobody loves kids more than johnny cage which is canon yeah yeah in this mortal combat all timelines are possible so it's being plus two oh he swung through it johnny cage's parry is so unique in this game to where you don't want to commit to something that's going to leave you in much recovery that's that's the difference versus just getting straight up punished for it yeah now one parry gave gambler all of this throw to the sky this jet yes no but just chip is all he needed gambler probably a little bit of the smarter uh in that situation to go for the shadow kick one little bit of the special because now we are back in a mortal combat we're building meter matters mm-hmm yeah that's true actually punished he gets to hunt on the approach low at all you just get slow johnny down that's it i love it yeah grab in the air the animation is so good this may have a good animation oh that no punch gives me shivers every time doesn't have two bars for the full thing so pulse move sword out of the corner was the throw that was why it worked gambler was looking for that to be the back throw i see a really similar use of cyrax they soften other characters too where it's poke special cyrax johnny cage gets it but that added mix up with him coming from the sky a lot of people try to uplock and get blown up really different kicks and oh my goodness is he gonna be able to press the button low heads back again man all these turds stolen back and forth pulse they're both having he's got low hat and it is there he got it out of it in true assist fashion you did you sure it did pretty pretty that guy in the back like the two can you imagine just watching these two clones fighting each other and not leaving yeah i wonder what are you doing here well almost got sniped uh awkward pickup there almost i was gonna fall out of the corner on that second hit okay gambler feeling it this is right guys those are eliminated from the pro competition gambler with a huge life lead looking at it maybe no not quite 299 saw the down one and says thank you for doing down one as long as doesn't see the uppercut my turn yeah down ones downpokes in general really minus in this game giving the opponent sometimes straight up opponent yes depending but in any case definitely the opponent's turn that said really important turn sealing tools anyway you under that little bit of time between the matches paying off getting composed settled it's a big moment a big stage a lot of people watching millions watching millions watching a lot around the world live you know hope they can't hear me right back in back to madam Bose restaurant yeah just brought it out no sarah call this is the only stage that i want there to be an interactable and i want to be mad and bobein throw up throw up she's pretty hardy she'd probably handle that oh yeah if she can handle the table yeah exactly she can handle being she felt two stories she was fine it's a big drop big start my pulse immediate wake up microduck thank gambling woke up with violence there load some hype too that's something we haven't seen in this mirror at all yes where is the hype the hype has not been needed that the sauce has not been needed it's just been the basic page of cage the game plan i don't know if the sauce is not needed a lot of dudes in the background there taken from it pretty deeply right now they're on that bar yep still low hat we came out some extra resources there so you know what i can do some damage too no syrax needed man the fact that he gets to keep this turn that long oh that is terrifying pulse moving forward escape failed again he was looking to maintain corner low hat on the approach you're gonna get hit anyway exactly recover time like a punch by the hat as well just these one more pulse he's pushing him to the corner guesses right on the 250 50 gambler man his growth itself were excellent throughout that match as he consistently had the right read on which direction to do that gambler was not expecting three to one and with with the path that pulse was given i mean cementing himself as one of the johnny cage if not the johnny cage maybe so in the competition up next video games yo and zombat taking a look back here at the mountain dew replay the redo the do over there's an excellent mirror start to end again pulse being given the gift of having to do this mirror twice in a row in bracket yeah there was a little bit of time in between top 16 and now but his match for top eight was an excellent mirror and it was against another johnny syrax in particular right so got a lot of a lot of the matchup the knowledge there has had to deal with the mirror a lot in those tournaments an excellent start to this game for pulse one of just a couple of players in this top eight that we can say is like coming from the mk11 era because we've got quite a few eras covered here for sure going back quite a while thank you sonic for being able to cover all that all the years by yourself pretty much yeah but ninja kill you know almost representing that kind of mkx era of coming in same thing with with with king gambler so it's really cool to see rewind as well coming from kind of the middle ages then we got some of the old ages and then the new ages or start eras if you want to if you want to be on lore here yeah let's go to the next match in the first sorry the final of the round one losers matches video games yo and zombat so vgy was sent down to losers by do those three games to one his losers run though has been pretty amazing 3-0 over gubi 3-0 over alcatraz 3-0 over okukui 3-0 over ludi 3-1 over titanium tigers 3-2 over turkey sucks 3-1 over wise gemini that match of turkey if you guys didn't see it yeah yeah down 0 and 2 goes to character select screen it says you know what i need what do you need some of the generals chicken went to general shall reverse 3-0 to stay alive in this tournament for zombat it was ninja killer who sent him down he was one of the people who ninja killer has destroyed 3-0 other than that though 3-0 over do 3-2 over tigers as well 3-1 over spiro 3-0 over furious pillow sat a pretty good run himself taking a look at the controller there so it's like the idea to start out with again is shame yeah because that's who we started out with earlier yep you know we talked about the general shall but that shang has been cooking as well has a really good zoning game that's one of the three that's been implementing uh-huh more more of a zoning game zombats got a few characters up his sleeve is it lew that he's gonna go back to here yep sounds like it is we've seen a few from him lew johnny raiden would have a situation calls for yeah zombats ready what you've done to me in this timeline you i'll say shane sounded really angry in the background and i don't know is there a difference yeah i know yeah i can understand it's true i get it lord luke yeah lord luke did some savage things in this new timeline immediately called down the low hat that's one of those things that it forces you to make that kind of decision though once it's on the screen you're forced to do something about it or or holding it it's on head me oh right he had sirex he's all right man that would have been a second version but okay and of the couple shanks we've seen in this event you saw uh one of the other shanks on the stream was really only old shane focused vgy very young shane oriented going in and out of both so beautiful to watch so she gotta do with this character if you're gonna play him at a high level like vgy is it's in and out of the different options oh that was that was something that was maybe him reading it was gonna jump over the maybe maybe yeah that's such a good anti-air yeah i could see that it's all bad moves forward at just the right moment to take the round well here's the chosen one sometimes he does forward for and no matter where you're on the screen you get sucked into and get hit what are you talking about he's the one who made this timeline did he choose himself what are you up to lord luke hang yeah you're right he didn't choose himself as i chose him yeah come on i want to recount on that oh that could have been gnarly for him rare drop i want to see that damage that the chosen one's capable of and no allowed to pick up off the back though either so you did that's that that's that's trickiness of cyrax is that that helicopter spin a frame off and it's completely different what it's gonna do oh i received the big combos yeah so swaggy but lost the corner because of it mm-hmm zombie trying to back off slightly not quite vgy trying to harass too far what happened oh no it ends up being all right for zombie right was he was going for the brutality because i think he was fishing for brutal but didn't hold the button to maybe get it i don't know this is still a clean start was on that looking unbothered right back in vgy right back in with luke and we know as he as we said he's got another character on deck if he needs it yeah but will refuse to go shall unless he's down oh and two right because because that's how strong i think vgy feels shall is that is that's just not fair i mean and and rightly so because it's a boss character yeah i mean that's yeah it's like stocks in in older games you know shall would have three stocks that makes total dense question mark yeah maybe maybe don't overthink it yeah i never overthink it aqua that was a clinic yeah lots of big screen control and zoning and luke luke for luke's part can do a great job of shutting that stuff down it's got an enhanced projectile there it is that blows up other projectiles on its way forward for example have to load it when you throw straight skulls as well always has kuml on teleporter where available that we're not going to see too much just because how slow it is easy to react the engine out there yeah not really like a random neutral tool vgy really in control oh that was a real combo could have had more one of the rare instances where you see uh lu lao have to actually go to someone no me the complete opposite siren what a best friend come on even while he's on his own on the screen he's such a good character whoa vgy we're in the hunt now with old shang back in for the spin morphenbeck they have to throw oh special got it no zombie has three bars uh oh and don't test vgy he's been reacting with that shang fatal all torment long double red next to throw and the old man from downtown the least expecting thing so visually tricky i don't think anyone's blocked here the zombie didn't sometimes and good to kind of micro walk back into the range where he kind of hits at more of a tip where where he's probably going to go over a low a poke attempt yeah i can have a low crush for sure there's a lot of low crushes here in mk1 beautiful so cool every time setting up a little bit more pressure and out of there instantly back to young he's safe oh man that's good very well time to armor through a lot of the low hatching and against vgy even while he's chasing it down he's time to armor to kind of meet him before there's time to get an armor break attempt that wasn't it though yeah i guess we're there this time nice work on the flawless denying chip damage for a little while okay vgy with an excellent whip punish for the round here to crowdfunding clapping they have been waiting for a full shang combo i think this entire time earlier it kept getting ended early into the syringe or and then in the transformation everyone's like oh we want more reps we want more skulls more ground eruptions and shang wishes he could take that round back he's already halfway dead yeah where's his buddy gears snap back that time hey hey hey perfect a little bit there and there's that forbidden overhead i think 100 success rate so far the conversion on the grab allowed by kung lau teleport ah honestly i think it looks better with the old version of shang with those pants oh yeah they're both super cool no sh does not complete the string didn't want to take the risk falls buck he's honestly done a great job at negating chip in this match goes into the shang sweep as well just checking each other right now good or poke move port move back dash interpression right there was so sick not enough to kill needs a little bit more setting it up nice chip on the way through tied up one to one in games one to one in rounds here on home territory for lou checks the approach to down three using that advantage to get going but the flawless blocks from everyone at this level at this stage of the tournament has been incredible nice work to get to the other side to get pressure he's got a lot of resources here that was all spot finally ah that's the risk that you take as louis for completing that string i think yourself opened up the walk down from vgy right now just to get forward thrown uh too bad here but gives zamba at the space chilling zamba as soon as lau was ready to play he was back in again flawless block again to getting a ton of chip changes up with just the book special syrax is there he's back flawless blocked again so good on it man if you can consistently do that you just you are playing on a different level everybody else even a flawless block the low hat on approach vgy he's feeling the need of a clutch moment and with the armor oh no doesn't get that which is going to be either knocked on in front of him nice and do all the space that one drop with syrax unable to close the gap he would have had some pressure right there two to one all right now down now down two games do you guys think it's gonna happen i mean vgy just halfway smiled i think that he just thought about it but it's a lot to think about and there's so many yeah so many micro things to think about okay we're at the character select screen because what's the choice because even just match up wise like that's i can't seem like it might be tough i can't downplay no but it is a little bit tough over show okay like a favor like i'm like okay all right the crowd knows what they want to see but i want to see vgy give himself the best chance whatever he thinks is the best chance and looks like in the crowd he thinks it's general shout shout sub and this is the one to take away what's going to give him the problem which is all of those projectiles full screen yeah and sub also gives general shout a lot of damage that makes sense with that ice armor you reference that means that some of that zoning from lulao is not really going to matter as much and freeze on any hit allowing him to get out the damage buff and keep to keep it going usually hitting for a four to 450 in the frozen general sales chicken it goes frozen you just put it in the microwave for for five minutes you're good to go is that a back throw yes here we go for the ride general shout a carrier that does not go on the ground lightly has a wonderful wake up himself one of the best armored moves in mk1 big buttons galore zombat has three bars yet three bars near the start of this combo he chose to just tank that and vgy had access to some more damage right there but ops to leave the axe on the ground as well thinking ahead axes back in his hand now completely different characters when we were talking about the zoning that is potential for lulao but that's not what this has been about at all zombat has been much more focused on the approach now waiting it out i go up close won't must establish by more of a strike throw with this one nice vgy on the hunt though he's getting towards the corner another spot that'll end up so far away where shall my struggle hey is in that four four range because that's you know it's hard for shout against the buttons out overhead though without axe a completely different animal three bars gone he didn't even have to think about that hat oh god mom what a button the press with 13 on the clock and its match point as we see the first missed i think overhead from vgy's uh oh shout miss another miss missing all those domos right now okay one two to the land cool takes his 340 leaves the axe safe plus and he's going crazy right now that was also plus yeah that's still his turn again vgy had a range where he's hoping maybe to whip punish hoping to get things going and then one time he goes for the low project on a low profile to stand to okay and look at the health bar of zombat boom broke the armor trying to pick up though it didn't fully launch vgy's axe back laying down the law of the land it's the low tried to get a big hit out trying to get the slowest normally he's gotten the overhead and he's gonna get burned for it quite literally here into the ground here comes the mortal combat logo ladies and gentlemen the ground and etched into the history of mortal combat is this player's zombat formally known as combat named after what he does and does it well he moves on vgy's out great showing yet again for him we talked about the strength of his loser's run it ends here but nevertheless awesome performance by him so we're setting up for the next round of losers the mighty unjust versus pulse and it will be rewind versus zombat huge one down there that's losers quarters finals guys you guys are following along in the bracket there's now only six remain in this top eight vgy fantastic run in this event making top eight breaking the curse so many ninth places traveling the massive events for vgy broken here in the new era a really cool duo of characters that do two completely different things other than representing our world let's go man that was that was some footsies right there by zombat so again three games to one for him and let's remind you where we're at in the bracket we're still waiting here we're so we're sonic blocks when is ninja killer playing man in a little while let's win this finals we're gonna set that up for later the mighty unjust and pulse and losers round two and rewind versus zombat and losers round two as well massive all around there everyone on standby for sonic ninja we got unjust and pulse battle of the northeast right there tri-state team tri-state from last night yeah in the building and rewind and zombat again matches that have happened throughout final combats and finals throughout the eras and setting down is unjust is pulse as everyone anxiously waiting to see how this all unfolds this is the beginning of competitive mortal combat one years ahead it's exciting i thought coming into this weekend of course as many of us did that unjust had a great chance and it's only ninja killer who's taken him out and ninja killer did it three zero but that's the case for everybody he's taken out everybody three zero so i don't feel like there should be much negativity associated with that if you're unjust you don't want to lose like that of course but you can't feel as bad as maybe it otherwise would so now in this loser's run that's starting for unjust he's going to hope to move forward pulse continues his losers run he's been in losers he's already making it happen he is ready to go three one over gambler in the last match he looked good wait did i just hear baraka yeah yeah it's a button check it's yeah but i have seen unjust breakout okay yeah that's true that's true that that that is one of those characters yeah but so is the cast yeah why doesn't he make shame yeah we'll see what he does it would be the first bracket that we've seen in the top eight first bracket in a little while actually they're both smiling which is a really good sign to see here all right here we go i'll love your name rest community here we go this quarters yeah i'm here on the the slicey slice still right back to baraka baraka syrax is my guess yep there's syrax i'm just a big old pile of sexy good man i love baraka's lines in this game poor sad baraka poor sad baraka poor baraka no poor poor previous versions of baraka that no you're right yeah and this this one is sad for all previous ones on behalf of everyone he deserves the tarka thanks bud you're welcome the tarka has made him a superhuman in my opinion sure you're right doesn't have some downsides maybe yes it's not all upsides okay but on the other hand pretty strong out there you're making valid arguments right now david yeah maybe tarka is the way maybe it's the way every malina player agreeing with you out there trying to play a bit of a distance game it's definitely something that baraka can't do for a while but as you see if he's trying to stay too far away he's gonna end up cornered and that's exactly where he's at now ah spins out that's why i stopped that approach over underneath the kung lao hat just building these back just just chilling says thank you for the turn finally oh ball says thank you for trying how much this gonna do pretty good 352 pulse is still there still his turn unjust knows that's trying to block it out lots of funky timings on this and then the classic idea as baraka you try press the button and then you you think ah they'll never think that i'm gonna back dash into a button again but this time pulse expected it it was all so much blood comes out even he bites that neck that's that tarka 230 pulse unafraid even with baraka knocking him down to wake up with the down four to steal a turn there too there's some audacity oh footsies knows the exact spacing that too when i've seen him plenty of times before call the man no he didn't arm call syrux i'm just starting to crumble now problem go for some booze on johnny's side right now what a duck and pulse with three bars looking to end in here and he does in game one is over just like that kissing the trophy unjust you know i've talked to quite a few people about kenchy versus johnny just not liking that up close without the sento out we'll see if he's gonna go back there and just pray for the hit no it's a rematch quickly back to baraka there's very much dual match on both sides in this matchup baraka's got great footsies obviously you know about the great damage the great pressure the great chip great corner carry as well ability to if he wants to take away wake ups as well take away turns with parry's yeah and frame and talk about terms look at this in frame okay finally oh god i'm too crazy dancing on i'm his pulse and johnny does not matter it's still a flawless victory facing through a multiple times not just to get the victory but a hype one too is he just maxed the star out on the bottom right i hope we see it loud hat setting it up on the way forward as he did in the last match versus gambler pulses throw mix-ups have been great picking up all the women sick oh yeah i got kind of funky there i don't just realize that at least even there as two unstoppable legs met each other on such an awkward frigging but down four not if it managed to jail into the string there well awkward as well kung la's gonna send him full screen look how quickly they still dashed at each other's face there's like a script even though we're full screen mm-hmm let's go like a movement for sure let's box it's your pulse already do right there after the low hat he went in and then still back dash trying to bait afterwards as well that's still a clean round on just knock him into the snow took took the skies on this approach hmm great damage and corner carry yeah awful a lot more yes so sick 455 are we gonna see the now maybe the time could still be saving it another wave goes by a spider just that was not gonna be a lot of damage those just chop chop there and giving up a lot of bar but pulse moving in trying to move in setting up with the hat the one with still had the recovery on the four three that knee again what a pickup pulse is here duck and he could end it unjust with calling out pulse of me i did the mind games there and the layers are too many to even comprehend couple guys who played each other so unbelievable so one one the baraka pick looking all right for him damage the flip sees are there contending with a fast johnny setting things up on reaction he's in pulse again maybe trying to back off setting things up yet again with the hat yes here it is knocking baraka into the back stuck by the wall okay pick it up damage available to him trying to maintain pressure here as he comes in no denied on the enhanced chop and also maxing that star out we could see hype in the next round if he wants to bring it out unjust oh forbidden combo the juggle and now coast to coast we were on the left side just a few seconds ago on the right side here by the wheel is pulse now finding the hit again let me hear the pressure from pulse maintaining it so much damage unjust finally with a chance though it's broken right away pulse does not want to see any of that he's got hat immediately that actually hit syrex to deny the safety okay back dash back one foot season to damage into corner carry stand for was the idea got underneath the pulse and he can still take this round if come back in that round by the mighty unjust johnny away he'd love to set up hat again here comes holding it allowing him on the approach again hat the setup of that the forward movement factor of that setting up already again into the corner has a chance it's not a big one and it's not gonna happen as pulse will take it and it's two to one almost two rounds in a row i'm gonna come back by baraka in that second round didn't happen in the third and he's right back in unjust with baraka running in here in his tournament life the wake up from him maybe the idea is to play a little bit faster closer trying to get in a little bit more actively if so pulse with the footsies denies right away johnny in and out you never know whether he's going to be in or whether he's going to back off and set up the hat or whether he's going to be in and set up the hat as here he is yet again hunting for the round kill got it it's match point pulse rex wasn't there though he was too far man pulse is firing on every cylinder again as he hunts for the pressure lau hat up again up again stealing his own turn as that's been the name of the game unjust is underneath doesn't have far miss to the low and now pulse going to work on match point guess it's on the two one sense cool out of here eliminating the mighty unjust here at east coast throw down the crowd going wild what a run it's been for pulse man we talked about it before but in this top eight continuing to look fantastic three to one over two very strong players in a real king gambler then the mighty unjust if you've paid attention to competitive mk leading up to this event in community events yeah pulse has been one to watch both these guys absolutely what a classic but pulse finally making i think the big run to really kick start something special here that's how it seems again only defeated by rewind so far other than that it's taken a lot of big names how it's in this run that he's had just beat unjust gambler before that beat dog twice destroyer as well who was in a rare form in this event yeah so many pulse will move on to the top four of this just more points in the pro competition and these off lines so many points on the line a lot of people this very first event is how a lot of people would like to try to secure themselves in the pro competition as well in previous ones first event is very important yeah for big points and only a certain number of events actually count towards the pro competition this time around is it three out of the four or two out of the four one of those two rewind and zombats coming up next rewind sent down by sonic fox you saw that at the start of this top eight it's three to one fox looked good in doing it and now it's gonna be zombat as the opponent here we go combat zombat this is zombat i mess up every time david it's gonna take us time this new era yeah i understand mr. ock i mean uh i mean aqua yep in there we hear the raco wow raco daria see it again lu lu raiden lau oh raiden excuse me raiden lau which is kind of a not not your average day raiden but for a button check it just might be yeah i guess we'll see we'll see what happens there two big names you're playing early guys one's going home at fifth only ninja killers beaten zombat so far only sonic fox has beaten rewind so far we are here the upper echelon as a player of this game i know that we're getting raco daria's and it is syrax instead of lau you have nothing without that amulet even without raco's bringing up some wonderful points you i just want that note he was a human before being given that amulet he's a pretty good human though raco pulling a decimus maximus meridius smelling the sand before entering combat and this man lives on thrives off of it this raco okay the general kicking from comes out and rewind we'll get another chance at pressure right away and everyone falling for that last hit that string expecting the stagger that is the idea just like that zombat's got the corner oh denied and zombat gets whatever he wants which could have been a lot more yeah given a gift really thereby rewind and and zombat said you know what i'm going to give you that one next time around i'll let you maybe a little bit harder but one of the few to actually fade out rewinds are successfully yeah we've been seeing that all weekend right and that's a little bit of delay on that too rather than just keeping it meaty to make the follow-up timing tougher always wrong just in case the full delay right there maybe or is there something i see good sauce with the armor being quick enough and look at the buttons for rewind a man that has not skipped a single leg day in his life raco oh it's slow he made them go torius but where's the first time please you didn't even know tharius please he said you called the rock target man you call it over there back to zoning trying to stay away oh okay all right you have the first one but the second one was like i'm the actual big one i got you zombat thing i love that a lot of the rains now are because people are so good at flawless blocks that they'll just do singular approach into lightning cage yeah you really gotta mix it up yeah she is oh man a couple of timing issues for rewinding this game so far constant uncharacteristic no no bar spinning literature from combat neither daggers with the full rip the low resetting situation is zombat he's out of there two bars three bars spent gotta do it it's close to having enough but no rewind wanted to close the gap you need to get in the grab range it's your only real viable right there right very smart by combat to go i know where you want to be in the range of this bad boy as he lights up the screen darius please that man is spinning away the one time why he just have you ever seen that one video when it's like when you miss time you're darius assist and it's a video of the actual irl fight going on and they're just whiff the full kick yeah that's exactly what just happened it happened in pro cup darius roundhouse air it's been riko the whole way as far as i know we'll see he's considering making the change it seems oh cool lao lao goro all right i thought it was riko the whole way shall we go double or nothing but it's not any longer get ready that's lao goro goro a great teammate for kung lao and add to our variety of this top eight as well yeah that's during the fray both kung lao and the prince of the shokan goro he said the always the homie goro will raise the roof with you anytime take that man to a party it's going to be unstoppable not anytime like every 20 seconds because that's you ticks his time coming back so you got to be precise about when you want to bring him up and i'm sure we rewind will have that he's used to playing darius darius is a once-around cameo it really is he's actually giving himself a little bit more to play with here yeah but you think oh no combat's going to take a bit of advantage again not quite as much as he could have whoa rewind playing a little bit of burglar right there for a moment yeah will not have the blockers syrax but goro always making that armor a plus launching a situation that raised the roof for goro such a compliment to any special and move in mk really just a costly resource yeah it just takes a while to come back saw too famous you called it out wow that is pretty gutsy but they don't want to almost got punished there okay got it he stays away while the negation electric fly in the sky this is what we came to see right here that's some multiple time kicks in superman everywhere and now something finally goes blocked and the watcher helps bar this up here is we about 400 i lied he's still on a syrax about 400 you said about about with an asterisk he's gonna get into the corner all the way almost and went full degenerate right there with that kick which tried to get you to press this is a very old school style with in front of you do something weird and then just armor because you can and you can again now that goro's back zombat knows that zombat not overextending zombat trying to bait it right there with the neutral jump too solid with dive kick escape failed again his rion was not looking for both of these back throws what patience by zombat and then exactly the right moment there patience again he knew what could come up zombak hold it out big time on defense on offense he was there the audacity to do it unsafely as many times as he did versus you know rewind the head option to do it safely every single time that's just being out read and outplayed in the situation incredible by combat three raw super five seven raw supermans in total in the last couple of games right there it sounds like back to character select is where we're going yeah we are so it might be one and done for lao goro we'll see what the choice is other than the first one working combat really stone walled up in defense okay and it back to it yeah i think our adventures are only beginning from you but what we could see here and the disability of the game it's all he needs just a couple more situations where some of that armor lands because combat is pressing and moving which means he's hit just like this yeah you're right knocking the skulls away at raiden's feet gone now only bones remaining way out of the corner okay only down one though and whose skull is that in the background which one the big one oh big ones my bad full string this time oh yeah there was a mist to put it in somewhere that's right it was a dash cancel something for sure it'd have your dash council goro yeah that's not what kane match point zombat makes that tries to fish out some counterpokes and i mean it's not even fishing if you want them to block it as well i can't say it's fishing anymore it's just living well talking about blocking for me yeah yeah or doing poke and lightning cage you're like okay who are you taking from i kind of want them to block it too yeah later oh hello both jumping back both not wanting to deal with any of that when will the armor come there hey full conversion this time over to the steps combat oh this might be it this might be it combat's going to move on three games to zero not the result expected in that one three zero i wouldn't have thought i you know i would have bet on the other player but i wouldn't have bet on a three zero there it was nevertheless zombat will move on so our top four sonic fox and ninja killer in winner's side and then loser's side pulse and zombat that's gonna be a big one it's any finals taking a look at the man right there zombat is we're gonna take a look back at his gameplay powered by mountain dew so we do yeah the the whole thing was powered by this series right here this series knowing exactly what to do defensively and offensively and then pestering some of the mix at the end here working for him to all reds lows and of course damage egs shout out to rewind great run for him ends up as you could see at fifth place as does the mighty young just seventh places king gambler and video games yo we have our top four there it is sonic fox and ninja killer in winners finals when is uh when is the one sonic fox gonna play when's where's ninja killer when's uh when's ninja and then on loser's side as you could see right there pulse and zombat i think they're coming up next david next the match yeah everyone's been waiting for that hundreds of thousands maybe even tens of thousands of people around the world are waiting for don't do the math on that i never do the math aquaman mr aqua whatever you got in this new era that's right what we do have is another short break we'll be back with that match after this welcome back everyone top four of the pro competitions first stop here at east coast throw down come in your way welcome everyone i am mr aqua i'm joined by ultra david and coming up the match of a lifetime years in the making this run back from final combat the last time the pro competition was held the grand finals of the entire series came down to those two they're ready to throw hands fisticuffs out there as it were ladies and gentlemen viewers around the world it's sonic fox versus ninja killer and winners finals can i get some noise out there for some mortal combat hands against me are you high mage rain syrax for fox no surprise there ninja has a gaggle of characters this time it's the johnny wow coming out to play deny it wanted to get offense going no at the moment there was anything to anything to do anything and it's going to be armored by the high mage of our world come with a geyser decent damage tries to put out the rain god deny so they're down to give a ninja kill the opportunity to start the bully no sonic is the one finding the buttons out there just the one one man would have picked up 389 and just like that ninja is way down it's moving with the with the cancelization of special moves was sonic into seeing ninja going to the range of down three perfectly stopped this is huge wow the idea was a whip punish instead backing off was fox they got the whip on the shred away afterward denied no can't go up into the sky it's tricky no calm off no syrax the call was going to put rain in a good spot to be put on the portal i think that's what ninja was reading trying to shut it down notice the lethality of it build some more meter and away from ninja there is sonic saying stay away from me oh god i'm on punish yes jump cancel up into the sky get a little bit more damage a little bit i said double one two of rains as well causing the full screen knockdown that's how rain starts to get a little bit of the zoning where started he's got the healthy which is what sonic has now this can't allow cage to close the gap gets the gets the throw no breaker like me enough to kill i think no not yet too much scaling they need a little bit more what rain re-depress buttons right there after the low hat spinning at you should be doing his turn but it was an idea of overextending you could see that there was a forward dash afterward by ninja gala he tried to move forward fox called it out game one the fuck that is the first game loss of the tournament for ninja gala first game lost of the tournament it took reaching the top of the ladder to finally fall a step doesn't suit you earth realm book and still reach the top as he makes the switch oh yeah he's trying to counter on paper yeah we knew we knew he's got a few different characters johnny didn't work out so fine he picked electricity electricity on water he's going super effective oh sonic truly tried to whip punish that low with rain's mid which is the four two right there but it got beat oh yeah that's shocking let him bounce nothing you're gonna really do right there for conversion bounce again good ship damage on that too by the way oh as he's doing the straight shot cancel straight shot cancel hello sir x and for those of you listening at home if you want some real fun here in mk1 i want you to i want you to listen to the important when they're in that bubble i know i know yeah so good i mean just shout out in general to the sound effects on rain all the water that's sloshing around constantly i love the sound effects here all right even even that guy just got kind of a mean oh yeah just even when he's pressing buttons if there's water that's coming out of his little staff there you can hear it although there's always water coming out of rain no meter to pick up off that one one try to car throw air these little bit of hydrogen maybe make some more water out of it back to cancel the guys this time and sonic i've heard through the grapevine can't hit confirm that back to single normal yeah that's what they say that's that's what someone said a lot of chip damage negated right there okay ninja two bars spend it's gonna need more like not quite trying to set up chip maybe yes solid round there by ninja looking composed as ever and was close enough to almost get the conversion much harder midscreen to pick up off a rain god than anything near impossible had the reaction not the belief safe there box taking their turn back and again stealing a turn in there as well oh what a dog everything right now is ninja that was a big minute but the punish very negative was that upshot there it is yep ninja denying it however fox is right back in a couple of bubbles on screen syraxon oh and that's the dirty of the two you always expect rain to cancel and go forward not backward and then we'll punish you hugely forth sonic making the retreat awesome chest up the approach okay the big duck add a ninja killer a lot of resources on fox's side deny look at the time as well 17 on the clock as fox is a big life lead look at the range of that down three it's crazy but with 10 okay huge and they get that chip damage right there fox steals the turn back two games to zero ninja killer went the whole tournament without losing a single game and now two in a row and now we see just a little bit of ninja struggling to get into that range beyond the down three of rain at times sonic's movement with the cancels in and outside of it gorgeous so far they've got the two oh lead on rush towns ninja killer escape failed right knockdown on straight shot as you could see for rain and you know getting some longer charges on those going to sonic will sonic let a full one rip just just to see what happens oh okay sonic box blows it up a little too early in the jump attempt rain god close and when you're up in rain god just showing up there in the sexy trilogy stance you can go close mid or far with well how that thing comes down and there's sonic dancing we'll have to come up with a name for that sonic just moving around with the cancels on the screen yeah i hear a little slide whistle in my head each time the sonic slide just walk me are you kidding me just walk down with the in and out of the range that normal that's back three bars on no oh he didn't have sirex to get the combo excuse me his volume box did not have more damage available there seven on the clock now it's not gonna matter sonic box is at match point the one of the two that had so many game fives on the way two grand finals yet here really hitting some rare form and i love that crouch block stance of rain as well where he's summoning is just a little bit of the water out of the staff to protect him oh my goodness come on come on just pulled up the pro competition mid match taunt and gotta wait with it we're there come on this is the new era come on and ninja didn't like that did he and not one bit he said you're not gonna do that to me not here these ghosts go down because i'm attacking back for 5 18 what an answer taunt me one more time see what happens what an answer oh try the same trick twice there castle in the low and we did not see movement like that around rain's buttons the previous three games and now ninja kill is doing it i'm hoping sonic hasn't messed up at this point it's not looking good you saw what did you do no no don't don't don't don't don't don't give him an answer don't give him an answer no wait a minute sonic fox going for the full setup get you going where is he going is he gonna get out okay yes survives no armor is still my turn and oh and while fatal blows in play sonic fox scheming oh he is scheming with big scheming ninja does not want to outside of the range nobody panic double low is this gonna be ship yes ninja is on the board there are no three outs here today he said taunt that what an answer we just got he's actually not saying anything he doesn't look any different now he's not the first man but we're saying it completely unfazed we're saying that for him he woke up you're saying that really would have been a sexy side switch on the charge for but not there we're so like using every resource to cancel we'll try to cancel yeah okay and not every day these your ratings down to with even behind it great block change up the time okay i think that's sonic right there normally just lets the four three immediately but he waited then four three it wasn't enough ninja killer was ready coming in for pressure a little bit of a conversion out of cyrax just a cool 285 no big deal getting more and more used to throwing in the rope the low mix up and all that conditioning that might be paying off cyrax bang bang bang oh really it works did what did ninja killer try to wake up with i don't know it might cost him his life i'll be fine i'm about this one this he oh no i'll be fine no oh he did why that was the round four to that one i really didn't know what hurts that fatal blow that is he max point the pelvis he goes for the lineage he goes for everything chance yeah he is there whipping him for a while i think that's first teleport in this whole set we've seen and sonic was ready for it okay sonic on a set point yeah they've been there before in this set we saw that went the end of last game sorry enough more overheads but not the most lethal overhead that exists in this game very hard to combo off of you're not eating damage really at all just to knock down and against him again and sonic a little too carry away i think with these lows now yeah it gets us back he's showing ninja a lot of the same things bottle focus on that for sure ninja killer scooting in he's got full resources there's part of it there's part of it oh i think he kind of wants you to back and forth let's fox in syrax still on the screen oh get some distance we've punished no meter doing too crazy just some sequence to build a lot no syrax though just the bubble of death sonic's choices of when to just one one on the screen finds us great moments and turns and this one one one from rain isn't the craziest and biggest normal to really put on the screen right and sonic does it a lot really impressive right even right there cash up one one yeah they're just at the right spot a lot of the time one one doesn't get mixed up in zero one one two minus four one one four good flawless is to no chip all this damage bam will they break yes fox resets the situation they still have the life a little bit maybe not for long because here's ninja killer right up close no fox calls there's no syrax so ninja killer gets to live maybe not for long 15 on the clock 14 on the clock ninja killer's running out of time time is a ticket available some play needs to get hit if you want to stop the time now chip is not going to cut it he's got to get the hit oh super smart did it connect no and fox knows it's two hits knock off clean off to move forward into grand finals look like fox might have a woken sleeping demon after that taunt but they did a great job at getting back to control in that final game so sonic waiting in grand finals hey when's it when sonic when's ninja go take a look back at the instant replay mountain dew yeah again i mean just to reiterate ninja killer came into the set having not lost a game in the whole tournament and it's not like this dude had an easy path he took out some big names doing it so for fox to go up two games to zero pretty amazing but then you know in this next round here i'm getting a little comfortable yeah a little bit too much and then this ended up being over half their life that's the same responding in kind ninja we're thinking right here right now glad to see them having a good time as well one second remaining there at the end sonic had put in two downs one more and i think would have been forced to get hit by the fatal blow so i think this is going to be crazy if ninja waited one more second come on no no no no no no this is this is real this is real guys you think fox is about the time out with the top uh waited like half a second okay half a second because i was like half a second it it made of where it may have that would have been the sickest thing ever i would have maybe in another timeline but not in this timeline yeah on the mic if that been the case but it was not sonic takes it three to one and pulse combat he's sitting up sitting down that's what we're going next final match pulse and zombie zombie three one over video games yo zombie three over rewind pulse having a pretty good top eight himself so far as well three one over king gambler three one over mighty unjust and this is top four to get into loser's finals your reward will be to play against ninja killer they're already in such a good spot though you're in the top eight you've got the big points on the entirety of the season yep people that do well here on paper i think can kind of chill okay as far as an offline goes until the next north american one at combo breaker has only two stops on the pro tour will be held during north america the first one series goes throw down the last one which will be at combo breaker one in one in france and one tbd in brazil gosh i got the info on the pro competition what they'll pay for selfie we got the mirror match sounds like yes that's what i was going to theory craft a little bit was you know what was how is the zombie feeling about johnny cage because this is someone that i know him for that we know him for all right so zombats in the dark pants that's how i'm going to make this work in my head it's going to be tough light pants pulse lpp that's right new nickname lpp it's both getting a little too early on the shadow kick as the painting phase is out of existence and it's the truest mirror that can exist we'll see you can do it just a little bit better zombat trying to lay down the law but whiffs everything in a half oh god no not for long pulse out of there it's still coming and i'm coming oh no just walking that full screen oh that wait about both kids here there pulse don't no no push no nothing right there and that's gonna cost him that will connect oh the haymaker is he gonna be okay no especially after that and the way he screams with the camera on the way down it's a good acting job something back to know you know that the rain hit animations with the weird screams same thing here yeah yeah and every every voice actor was different and how they approached it that's great stuff not low hat clip and pulse trying to make a jump over though combat says thank you Shaolin for the assist a lot of people throwing while the while their camos are showing the screen too yeah it can be a tight timing you want to get a throw as soon as possible of course which johnny the crowd's in oh boy everybody in the chat oh yeah i bet i bet the johnny player is gonna win thanks y'all it's a good point out of them the same then zombat established a little bit of dominance and not one only losing southern 100 hp focused mm-hmm one oh zombat does a full hold on the loud hat falls then that's how we get started he's the one setting the tone here in this one yeah it really seems that way again same idea he gets a juggle too and by the end of this combo loud it's going to be fully back great defense the blocks are here pulse light pants pulse okay oh didn't follow it didn't go to like special move right there office one two four but i just messed those a lot of meter and that had still had a little more a little more camo than he did to get the extra hold when you're holding the low hat of course of kuma look at the camo meter and how much meter you have left is how long you can hold it a range quick there's almost chip point nine two uh oh he did get there in time okay i like the idea for pulse you got to get over by it you know zombat knew what was coming almost a checkmate situation let's try to carry through nice one the blockable following that low hat in two try to answer here but not zomba with landing jump kick he's into pressure just like that throw out of the corner and i love how messy it gets when two loud hats hit the screen because if someone holds it and someone doesn't uh-huh some crazy things can happen we've seen a lot of situations where the first snap throws it first gets the hit but the with that held saves them in the end oh yeah pulse understandably giving a lot of leeway here and stop that finally got some hype going is zombat here finally seeing him come to life both combat and johnny cage that dude about four went back to the start of this game almost main menu light pants pulse i'm not gonna switch characters oh okay so it's a cameo switch i still say i should play me in the biopic combat look just like you with the black on black it's unfair that they give us the same shades and the same shirt i'm just looking at the pants i don't know about the rest of this character well there's plenty of room in this man it's on johnny's mansion to this plenty of room the mansion for both of them there's plenty of room yeah i don't know if there is i don't know if they agree with that you might be right the world's not big enough for two johnny's no that might be lower at least they're fighting at a comfortable 72 degrees very comfortable it's probably 72 outside but he put we still have to send him out i mean he's he's totally pumping with the windows open so it's we're gonna pump it sometimes we're pumping out damage plus frames and a person that's like what in the world don't tell me so i extend this plus on block yeah no are you for real yeah i didn't know that david don't even talk to me for this isn't it isn't it too zero my wrong i thought that zombie won the first one as well okay okay all right we're all getting mixed up here it is johnny both full bar meter close to the hype is zombat if you want to try to style us again and there's the low yes uses the hat just like you saw with gearis in the multitude of uh mains that we saw from him put down kung lao hat do your setup whatever your character has to set up so good hype is activated plus two guess again i cannot push any time it's gone that's that's the crazy thing about hypes you have to worry about invisibility invincibility yeah for sure for sure super cool mechanic light pants pulse pressuring look and forget the kill in the round i think he's got bombs away isn't the scream it's visceral pulse right it's on the board great block got a little early on the center right at a cameo bar oh nice what a pickup low reach the ferry combat within a stand one but still still knew that it was his turn it wasn't going to check in time like the four three after nice block on the low syrax to the rescue almost maybe not for long actually as zombat has the corner backs off to get the hat pressure he's in the corner now he's in the corner but it's his turn no longer whose house is it that's what they're battling over that's what it's all about zombat saying it's mine right now even though back to the wall watch this oh he's blocking light pants pulse making it happen up close syrax is not back quite yet was a fourth row okay had to spend the three to get out of there the lazy boy and they're falling from the sky with the jump kick if he didn't have the breaker what could have been right there that was just a momentum killer yeah for pulse in the end what an uplock it was about to maybe start something magical combat taking a deep breath and glad this one's over with a huge round of applause let's hear it he ends up in fourth place give it up for pulse yeah net plus one don't tell me that man it really is no it's not serious syrax net is not plus one it's literally it's plus one no it's do you want i got combat academy over right now if you want to check it out i'm literally showing him that's one yeah yeah well because it takes a long time to start up so you know you got to have reward right think about it you don't want syrax to be worse right anyway we're in grand finals hey when's ninja killer plan i heard that you used logic on me right there it's sound logic it hasn't really started it does when's zombat plan right now again he's gonna stay up there here as we are going straight into losers finals i correct me from wrong i think zombat got fourth at the first final combat so our three of our top four tonight ladies and gentlemen are three of our top four from the entirety of the pro competition that happened three years ago three and a half years ago so in this new era has much changed i thought this was a new timeline luke what are you doing yeah he made syrax this plus yeah luke but no that says a lot about these players that they could do it across multiple titles in ages they said new era no no it's me across different eras i mean honestly jokes aside 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 we got some good crowd noise out there ready for the combat ninja making the immediate first read of the duck he's gonna make zombat pavy iron price for it oh literally because that's what syrax has made about 98% of the chilling behind the lat jumps and plus frames he wants to avoid those those plus threes of johnny all day long that plus three and he can't flawless block that take away some of that frame data i think that ninja killer might be the very first person to flaw spot just one one of johnny very tough to do he's flaw splocking wow 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 he scooted back in the johnny movement put himself in a bad spot though okay it's his turn 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 old johnny with them back down it's a four three in this one zombats using it all doesn't have enough pickup on the syrax continue that one ninja trying to get into the down three it's been consistent yeah he has gotten them before johnny gets to set things up here he comes and how aggressive they are in dashing up and baiting with dash of nothing that's been so so prevalent throughout the seven hello that's not the first time zombats put the low hat down if they able to react to the approach with the upshot he just tries 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 end oh hat puts these another one already has both of them back oh okay excellent stuff by zombat it's on the approach okay time to party maybe not another hit advantage i guess to go into the nub punch this is perfect from ninja to kill all the time of the height meter with the combo oh and good trade you're 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 wrong it's scale like crazy and combo if you only get one hit there you go he's got syrax still he might be scheming for the round in the game he's got it one zero 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 in 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 tonight during some of these matches to be able to half like someone on a touch 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 better for the position now as he the ninja's been right on so many attempts of him approaching with that low hat which is about what he's always got to do in this matchup if he's not going to get his own doubt by the billion electrical orbs that raid is ready to possess 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 some falls walking hats he has evaded hats a lot here's another example of that ninja killer 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 sub genre 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 who using all the forbidden strings now is on my way to throw something new a ninja so sit back down real quick with it there was a cap that ninja got a was it was that like a meterless superman he was definitely doing bodily ninja conceding the round oh hi mean definitely conceding there 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 to crouch oh sick another right read on the hat something that was so smart that's getting away so you get reset the situation and get the loud hat out and get started yet again just like this generate a challenge with buttons on wake up my goodness he's building some more meter himself try to meet the straight projectile what would have been a cool pick up tough to do we did come off the meter three bars here the zombies out but to what end he's gotta set things up yet again here he comes on the approach escape ready here he is everyone's drinking out to get the hit walks us out one of false blocks right some of this shadow kid could have done many more and it's going to be common what a block what pain of the tournament to take a game off ninja killer johnny waltz enough 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 also the reference from nrs to put that 90s wwf back in the day reference in their shoutouts x gonna give it to you our second taunt in this top eight yeah and both have been on ninja killer yeah what's going on here folks it's our secret pack that we don't know about a few times ninja junk back against the versus trying to meet him because they've been playing that game of who's going to get the instant jump up a lot quicker when the hat's 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 zombie finds a hit it's going to be big damage ninja killer still getting 285 out of that oh you know he didn't believe it and he didn't get the rest and then rather than low hat teleport comes out now it's under some juicy damage too it wasn't for the drop and then there's zombie 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 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 lu 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 lu 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 johnny back to johnny johnny will he switch cameo nope he just wanted to over over okay i get it yeah training once i wrap ninja priest i'm all yours ninja priest is that the next movie after ninja mind he goes from a mime to a priest wait a minute we're gonna we're gonna start a 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 yeah 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 there 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 awful lot but a lot of offlines didn't occur yeah a lot of interesting a lot of things didn't occur yeah in that time and so we're coming into a really wild wild west era uh 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 a great start to the pro competition i think it's only going to get better and especially as more people find out that it's even happening as you said three finalists that we have here we're 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 east coast throwdown prior to this it has been a long one ladies and gentlemen but this is you know that 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 all the fall of the pools saturday and sunday which is awesome to 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 now it's been watching the whole thing of course it was really nice i think everyone streamed because i was able to kind of walk around and check it out as we were going to it's awesome definitely definitely right oftentimes when you come to a major you can't really see most of the action right 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 winter 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 use coast throw down this this crew has been great the area is great it's it's it's an old school feel and always has does use coast throw down love the feeling here for sure it's very homey feeling for us in the fgc we're in johnny lowe yet again for zombat okay the start the brave start for him he spent 10 minutes in that chair thinking about round one flight shadow kick yeah yeah yeah you know what ninja kill is not gonna expect the unexpected is 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 oh come on and then knowing the gravity was high he just ended it with bobble it was on that whoa okay almost max hype after that round hey a little something new that he threw in the offense right there and notice what he does in the back dash guys really changing up so quickly so come on that is good with punishing not only a button but that dude did dash into the button into very fast nine frame button no less zombats in there for pressure they're still not over 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 with punishing it was almost all that he did low hat and walked back he would do something on block bat back dash back he was with 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 giant first plug here wait a minute the prophecy something's in 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 oh ninja i don't think he's gotten one clean whiff punish on that normally 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 syrax 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 is not look not looking good so ever both lousin play the meter could be close not like he thought that was gonna be the round and so he held it to build the height meter instead ninja kill is in will he get the round on this it's not enough that 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 and ninja gets some damage on the boys 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 fox 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 up says before we're not seeing him able to fall as much 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 maybe got negative edge hypes ready activated the spotlights on him ready to go was it surely supposed to have been hat no cyrax what are you doing hype is gone no zomers can 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 to we'll do it we are in the situation to get in the grand finals let's get it going started as he always had zombat with that low hat established a little bit of presence but no gets nothing off it and then just jump every over one more time i've been down to you all day i've got the anti crossover on deck oh feeling dizzy prioritizing a corner is ninja killer that's 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 tequila will do it to set up the rematch with sonic boxing grand finals not gonna happen for zombat but give it up man that was back and forth that was a heartburn of a match we're gonna take a look back at it here with the mountain dew instant replay the redo the do over what a set there's a zombat started to get crazy i think even taunting him here at the end post fatal got him with the dx and that's what ninja was laughing at right there is he got hit by the triple h the triple hdx woke ninja took the lead to one yeah but then zombat woke up and and then there was that break yeah zomber really thought to himself and then after all that time raw shadow kicked when the match started and that set the tone because it worked and there that was just a huge swing you know you got to think back on that and then in the second round this is some huge swing moments that really could have changed things up yeah even right there zombat almost letting go of that of that first round yeah ninja still not letting it phase him and then ninja killed the safety first i know but just playing real safe walking backwards getting out of there if you let johnny dance in front of you for long enough if you don't know and you're just sitting there blocking eventually he's got an unblockable hit so you can't be there get out of there yeah just get out of the range yeah let him do his thing did the smartest thing possible just projectile out of the range you're good to go and that is gonna be ninja killer setting up again what feels like the mortal combat prophecy what what feels destined to be one two in summer guard more times than not in any bracket they possess sonic fox ninja killer our grand finals once more to start this pro competition sonic on the winner side has to cushion ninja already looking for answers will there be any change the winner side match sonic definitely going to be a rain yeah as far as i know that's all that they've played throughout this tournament i've been to sydo seen the destruction that you know just how powerful i am range you got a point oh yeah have you seen the tower ending i have actually i'd be out of them yeah he's gonna be kind of powerful if you if you really think about it yeah totally now we got shank songs christmas tree to start this grand finals god this is the world competition sonic fox ninja killer first blood first big old damage in corner gary going to the thunder god and getting bubbled to the corner you go in some access i'm not done with you either oh what a jump out and totally denying syrax mattering at all there taking away the ability to matter full conversion there and really tight to get the second hit of that for two in your jungle and there's sonic says you can go ahead and either try to fight me or the water that i'm gonna put in front of me because that's what he's been dealing with the entire time lord knows this stage could use a lot of water you can use a lot of cleaning ship it out solid start yeah you do come on don't believe it i don't i'll leave a single word i don't believe it i'm worried that raiden's gonna grab that thing in the background and do something unholy with it which that thing this is the electricity that's gonna power him up oh yeah you're right i'm better by that plus the amulet the rain god those are getting fought by ninja on the way into which may form a possible situation if he gets close enough into it oh portal time sonic does not use that portal for much besides the mind game of like the visual mind game on block yeah that's what needs a feeling turns yeah yeah slightly negative and then armor becomes a guess yeah okay ninja killer was ready for that he's never seen that one before i think the first one to probably take a car or throw grains yeah and checks there again as we mentioned the idea there is button into portal to try to steal a turn ninja killer's denied it because the strings naturally i think minus four on block so i would think that canceling of that would still be a negative yeah totally yeah totally it's just visually you know you got to be looking looking out for it and ninja killer was looking out for it and game one goes to him he's got to win a three out of five set and then another three out of five sets so he's a long away away from taking this tournament still it's been a situation like this before not overthinking it right now because he knows that there's such a long road ahead it's just one at a time here and boy he's out there two wonderful stars i would have changed the stage i don't like grating on this he gets a damage boost there's electricity in the air rain to curve here we go okay okay okay is this gonna work oh unbelievable this dude saw rain rain with some of the deadliest setups wild oaky ninja killer was just out of there no thank you and maintains the corner after the down two no less i think that only tells me that sonic may have missed time that because usually you can stop an attempt of wake-up jump or ninja didn't delay and just won't go jump fantastic either way he's ready yep and as you said he's coming and i'm coming and he's coming and uses one one as such a stagger tool gives him the gives him the triple hitting hit confirm and a special cancel is he got to be the note he was trying to portal out finally charge hey yes and finally a 43 oh friends working out ninja find the side to block low for once default charging look like a decent trade to me yeah be the most speed needs to be careful starting some up the sonic try to teleport we'll always be there even though we don't see it much from ninja yeah no it's true he's just got great movement anyway and he can still scheme and get the approach just like this no no well maybe he was trying to deny breaker actually as now oh he denied breaker this guy what a genius there were still three bars on the side right there for sonic fox if that had been a full regular conversion sonic fox breaks they're out reset situation instead ninja killed the night at all it wasn't even just one that he did it was back to back this jizzens knowing what to do wow not let's start they don't make oh he's figured it out that's what i've been saying he's figured it out so instead of trying to electrify him on the last stage he's going to try to freeze him i see how it is try to watch the toes when i got the entire see ninja even knowing the flawless blocks on those strings of rain that two one one two that string where he swings that staff around one of the best thing you know moves that he has the strings he has multi-hitting on the first hit confirmable 100 safe massive pushback and they're just reacting with these supermans seen a lot of them hit sonic's holding this corner carry i lie through your face i wonder if i'm ninja oh they got the flawless block at least but still it's ninja with corner control trying to speed run this first set now she's sonic do that low from far ranges where i think that it's wanting the ninja to up into that but ninja and all of those kind of micro bait situations has been winning them and that's going to be a shock you're really hard to convert from that normally without something big range like this so smart from box to bring that out it was like 460 because because it's rain yeah you're saying that's the round it's gonna be close that's the round i think you're the only major yeah i don't think this is a mage battle just got an amulet i didn't hear i didn't hear any other mage and now we're not a not a medium mage or like a low mage you know there was nothing there's just him so they auto gave him high mage how much is he gonna dump in okay enough that was a yeah one bar and one sirex for 460 if i rest how much damage rain is going to do with the answer is going to be enough how sonic uses it in the corner as well of using the gap yeah blowing up the gap great knowledge just the two one of that string corner only becomes a launcher ninja killer at set point that does not mean he's gonna win the tournament if he wins this he's got to win a whole of the three out of five again but this is the start and sonic's missed time that before but if you see if timed right and the pit advantage to the sirex get the overhead and forcing the break off a sonic now so forced to reset this is the overhead he was already filming with i like the idea there by fox trying to move away and get a whiff punish setup but didn't quite work out as all these straight hits led to anything crazy sirex is back no water bubbles from sonic to start stopping at us either underneath it with the down three now it's time to play no sirex available sirex here though a little bit of chip a little bit of distance grab again no sirex and that's maybe why oh it was enough for the kill why sonic was going for in those situations testing testing ninja to be only looking for it in the moments where it's going to launch really really smart okay and you know sonic wants this over and oh yeah of course and again you're trying to whiff punish with that back to which is so cool because it does have a good forward hitbox to it and it moves rain back slightly okay kind of auto footsies for you it's so active if you've seen so much how to jump over it and then they just get smacked behind them all the time that water's so active the whole beam man bless the rains down in our world and there you go shot it back to again but i think about seven have whipped in a row but it's about the threat he's making ninja think about it the more that we've got to give it up the more that sonic does it it's going to give ninja something to think about checks and balances on pokes we you get separate two rides on that one two for the two for the price of one there is a breaker probably not there yeah just not a lot of damage but something to think about no cyrax 18 on the clock now very close individual hits didn't believe in the rest even chip matters here and hitter blocked their own reversal again because of cyrax that actually would have been a chipout sequence so ninja had to commit good blocks on the overheads still safe though and gapless all those double overheads oh you never know he's gonna end i love his use of that one one string not a lot of range using it they're either using just the mid or like raw mix the way that they are dancing around with this character oh man that looks fun yeah i tell you everyone watching this even even casuals out there rain is a incredibly fun character there's so many specials to do they all look cool look at him hitting this dance mid rain gun yeah so you guys got cyrax here yes three bars they have to all in suddenly and sonic looking to tie some of two two here 173 away eats spent two bars to make fox spend three bars i get it ninja kill it fights it ninja tried to empty a jump sonic waking up with little buns they're getting crazy car a throw here and we'll be it for the witness to do now going into the final game of set one if box takes this there will only have been one set and the tournament will be over if ninja kill it takes this game we're going to another three out of five they're going in quick stop with a throw into cyrax name of the game baby money up to kill the same advice that that one dude gave the guy lord the ring sure you should have taken the wizard star you gotta take that i'll hold you that's his weakness take the water from him he's gonna try by shocking it out of here ninja jumps over clean over the one but not enough recovery to get the punish oh cyrax please giving ninja kill a chance no but sonic fox is ready there for the tech and puts up the wall the button wall did you see the throw break from rain where he actually did begin off the staff pound sure wait you shall plus yes every patient right now no huge commitment and pressure almost got sniped for whipping that down three fall spot yet again so consistent playing this is made up of likely this whole round it feels like it's been fought over here in the corner ninja killer finds it and with only two bars on sonic fox's side they're gonna have to hold a lot of this oh no jumping in eight seconds remain has the bar and sonic now on tournament point because of it it was in ninja's hands in that round punish yes that is really minus up close some crazy there's the buttons there's the aggression and this is the kind of stuff ninja killer needs oh no but we get it back to back and sonic look in the pounce as a true fox would in a situation like this doesn't get opened up by the mix you shall not pass suddenly it feels like fox is finding every hit and ninja when he finds the hit isn't converting could be the tournament opposition champion it was finals years ago in final combat they run it back here and sonic re-establishing some dominance in mortal combat give it up what a set it felt like faith the whole weekend that it would end up between those two and in that final set hard to get closer than it was down to the final game of the set but it's fox who doesn't and they are elated as you can see just to take a look back and a treat to watch from start to end oh man yeah what a set rain what one of it's not the most intricate character in the game with how many specials he has all the micro and macro things about them i think it makes sense in a way that fox would be one of the people to unlock this character in terms of using them at such a high level that was so good to keep it all unbreakable ninja really testing the limits of fox in this one almost having to reset super knowledgeable ninja even in even in that unorthodox one like rain knowing the gaps in those strings like like two two two one one for example looking back at this now ninja killer remember was up two games had match point i had set point i should say and yet son fox brought it all the way back three games in a row and sonna got so crab heavy in the last couple of games to really started to abuse it in this final game you know unfortunately for a ninja killer they were a couple drops yes that's uh ended up ended up being pretty important allowing fox to take the thing reverse 302 their name sonic another champion here in mortal combat but that top eight was incredible to 16 24 everything top 64 was insane from start to end this was the first stop guys make some noise out there for the first stop of the pro competition our hosts here at east coast throwdown it's been incredible it's been a blast to watch as we're going to set up the uh ceremony out there with the players congrats again to sonic fox first place they've been doing for years at this point almost a full decade in fact yes i when i first got here i got got to sit down for an interview and they were like uh you know give us give us a little history and i said my very first tournament was uh my my first tournament was sonic fox's first tournament is that right sonic was 12 all right that was a long time ago it was a long time ago yeah more than a decade yeah yeah that's how long sonic fox has been doing this i went i went 0 and 2 in that tournament sonic i think got top eight i believe it i totally buy that yeah and fox has been on you know not just having played fighting games all they were playing fighting games for many years before that as well of course having an older brother who's very strong at games too but at the apex of the scene for almost a decade at this point yes and you know and when everyone talks about these games they're like sonic fox is number one coming in mk1 it looks like that storyline will continue yeah we'll find out as the as the pro competition progresses as the meta progresses in this game as well because the game didn't come out too long ago we've only had a few a few weeks with it you know a couple months time is kind of weird but you know it the meta's developed almost every day proof that last night grr single handedly changed the meta of mk1 in that team battle you know my thoughts on gears i think he's super good but i think he's also complicated it might take a little while i don't know if anyone saw but yeah just that team battle i saw everyone freak out about a character overnight and now when everyone gets home get ready for the land of gear says and other things that that people have been finding out here the meta is going to keep developing there's still a lot that we haven't found we're all start learning i don't even know most things about the game david remember that character baraka yeah isn't everybody talking about that character where was he well uh he was he was up here for like two games maybe three games and uh maybe i guess it was four games in the set to be fair but uh anyway yeah it is it's in a very interesting shape the game and it's meta right now things are changing about our character and cameo perceptions but one thing is for sure that sonic fox is the champ let's go up to the stage for the ceremony what's going on everybody how y'all doing tonight that's what i like give you a little bit more noise what's going on calm down yo my name is daron i'm the associate manager of esports i won her brother's games i'm glad to have you all here thank you all for participating thank you all for competing watching doing all that you do you guys contribute yo so now we can do a we do we appreciate y'all but can i get it up for our top eight i have to give them name medals all right so first up we got v g y titions been 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