In casual play, this was fun. In tournament play, it was a gamble.

He funneled the enemies into a narrow space, then used the enemy’s own rocket launcher (stolen via a perfectly timed jump-dodge) to clear three waves in one shot. The crowd erupted.

He still lost the second match—barely. But something shifted. He noticed ShadowFox was using a specific crouch-jump cancel to avoid a laser beam that Kaito had always dodged by running. That tiny tech saved ShadowFox 0.3 seconds per cycle. Over ten cycles, that was 3 seconds of extra damage on the boss.