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Kanz's argument

TL;DR: Vrtra and Estinien are dead. Sneak attacks don't work. Buffs and war of attrition favor us.

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Our final match of this showcase is going to be an explosive one. Unfortunately, this explosion will consume the enemy team in a blaze of nuclear hellfire.

To start things off, I want to very quickly dismantle the value of Garrus' ambush time. To do this, I want to propose a fun little game to you. Check this video out:

https://youtu.be/uRDQJcAzq7Y?t=39

No, I don't want anyone to watch this in full. Instead, simply count the seconds where the characters are moving forward, deeper and deeper into the depths of Ala Mhigo, and skip over any and all instances of battle until you hit a full minute of walking. Then look at how much more video there is left. This is a massive, sprawling terrain, and Garrus won't get into position to ambush my team in time.

Estinien is dead. There's no way he can survive an uppercut, Rise and Fall, Starshower, Dolphin Flurry AND Final Heaven from Tifa, and then take a quadruple damage ANYTHING from anyone. It's just too much. He's gone. Which leaves Vrtra all alone with the rest of my team. The Hall of the Griffin is very large, and Vrtra should be able to move, so it's likely he'll try to escape. Unfortunately, the Hall is very sturdily built (you can see it in the final segments of the video above where Zenos appears), and even more unfortunately, there's a much bigger, badder dragon in the way.

https://imgur.com/Ls1Ok4x

This is the size of Vrtra, relative to my character, a 5' 10'' human (I'm the guy with the flaming halo, hi everyone).

https://imgur.com/tveBjVi

This is the size of Shinryu's top third or top quarter, seen from a distance, with my character as a reference.

https://imgur.com/YyTMZ9J

...And this is Shinryu's size from up close and personal. Note the halo as my character clings on for dear life to him. It's not even possible to capture a full shot of the size of Shinryu's bladed tail using an unmodded instance of FF14. The best I can do is show you how it covers the arena with plenty of room to spare.

https://imgur.com/pISgQ50

Vrtra will try to fly away, and he will be put in a tail hold or simply slammed against the ground by Zenos. The rest of the team will butcher him afterward. He's simply too small and too weak to escape this fate. Once taken care of, that just leaves Zeratul and Garrus to deal with as active threats, as Raiden is in a cake and can be dispatched at leisure. Enter Yu and Kiryu. Yu's Izanagi persona has the Rakunda skill, which inflicts defense down on a chosen enemy and will nuke Garrus' defenses, leaving him vulnerable to Yu and friends' attacks. Kiryu, for his part, has the persona Vishnu, which not only allows him to combine its attacks with his for a devastating tandem physical offensive...but also has Tetrakarn, a buff that reflects *any physical attack* an ally is hit with to the attacker, and doesn't fade away until consumed. This turns Zeratul's sneak attacks into liabilities because he'll try to kill someone and end up hitting himself with his warp blade. He's not very resilient to them -- one good stab from Artanis' own blade killed him in Starcraft 2. Even if he survives his own botched assassination attempt, he'll be heavily wounded, and his team has no way to patch up wounded allies. His and Garrus' preferred fighting styles heavily lean on physical attacks (especially Garrus, whose only non-physical attack is Overload, a lightning strike...and Yu's Kohryu persona passively reflects lightning). Taking those away from them turns them into sitting ducks. Raiden is tough enough to take his own hits reflected back at him and continue attacking, but unfortunately, he'll be debuffed and facing an overwhelming numbers disadvantage before long -- and what's worse is, his enemies will keep getting back up if defeated, and Yu's Heat Riser buff will turn Zenos, his most dangerous foe, into an even greater menace by buffing everything he can do. It'll likely be a drawn out battle, but the outcome should never be in question. These upstart invaders will not snatch Ala Mhigo away from its true owners. Their invasion will be repelled, and their defeat will serve to remind them of the most important constant they should have remembered before challenging us: their own inferiority.