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The fact that AK took it to Game 10, last hit, last stock, lost because he double SD’d on the last game, and looks more satisfied than Riddles when he lost is proof of a literal unbreakable mentality from him
@@ThirdEyeManifest you know, I thought the same thing but than I remembered this is against a Kazuya. Riddles mains Kazuya and he has to zone the fuck outta him because one hit and he's dead so he deserved what he got
Riddles was just disappointed on how he won, he should've lost that 100%, AK even had a couple of nice hits to get adavantage again but he dropped all of them, just a couple of seconds of pure spaghetti but it is what it is
Big Riddles fan so I'm happy to see the W, but mad respect to Apollokage's sportsmanship. Being this close in grands last hit, losing to an SD, and just immediately turning to your opponent and going "yup GG's, well played" without any sign of salt takes such insane mental fortitude. I would be losing my mind. This dude's going to go so far with that attitude.
He does that trick so many times. Nerves got to him and he probably wouldve gotten it if he kept his cool. He improved so much with his Kazuya game play since their last encounter.
@@ThirdEyeManifestyou really just going through comments and bashing AK because you don’t like snake huh? At least what he is doing takes a lot of planning and thinking. The constant grenade pulls are a part of that. I can tell you know very little about the matchup and game.
i’m a big kazuya hater but riddles was playing so clean, this seems like a super awkward matchup for both characters but they both made it work, great set
This set was insane, I was losing my mind. The movement, adaptation between. Top top top play. This was an amazing set from 2 of my favorites. Great play throughout. AK you are a thread-weaving god, much love.
@Jeremy Hernandez 100% true. Love Riddles, he seems like a really awesome dude, but yeah Kazuya is just bleh to watch. Even Terry is way more hype by comparison
@@External29 kazuya kills at every percent. and it’s not like ak can “spam projectiles” in most matchups, and certainly not this one. it takes a delicate balance of playstyle to play snake at such a level, and this is a prime example.
@@sentryslayer16so kuzuya don’t take skill? u can’t kill at every percent unless u can do a 0toDeath which is not easy….. it’s not a guaranteed death u have to be able to hit every input and most can’t even do 1 electric now imagine doing them consistently! Plus most people can’t read get ups ect.
@@td6508 Just because it's hard to input, doesn't mean the move isn't inherently broken. Its risk-reward is stupidly high and it leads into kill combos at basically any percent while being able to beat almost every attack in the entire game.
Y’all can hate kaz, but leave man riddles alone, he is obviously just great player and a cool dude, you can just tell by his face at the end he didn’t want to win that way lol. Also props to the snake he played that matchup perfectly in my eyes and I really think he probably would have won if he didn’t make the miscalculation.
Amazing set. I wasnt surprised at the end, thats honestly just a snake thing. The tradeoff for blowing shit tf up with like 5 different moves at all times comes with a boom 😂
Damn that's tough .. I'd fight Kazuya though, especially if it's a character than can juggle him. He has a worse disadvantage state and he's more telegraphed.
Kage basically gave him the last game lmao. I think riddles knows too that he half-didn’t earn that. P.S. I say half cause kage killed himself because of the pressure that Riddles was putting on him. So technically not entirely bs.
If Riddles lost I would've been so upset because I would've watched for nothing and I don't like watching Snake 😭 He's boring to watch and fight against. I like the characters where they're in your face and don't run away and you don't need to play so different against. Apollokage seems cool though. Earnes my repsect for the sportsmanship at the end considering how it ended and how he almost won knowing it could've easily went either way.
@@Myztyrio They're obv diff characters (zoner vs shoto) but I might be speaking above your pay grade. They both go for trades because they can kill early.
@@esbluetheprototype They interact entirely differently. Snake has a huge array of tools and ability to play the game in pretty much any way, he is not an archetypical zoner. Kazuya has one mission - get in and grab/punch you. Just because they're both heavy and have high kill power does not make them similar characters at all 😂
I'm fine with Kazuya n all, but the fact that EWGF was made EASIER to do kinda pisses me off. It's still hard, and I do have respect for the people at the highest level for being able to do consistent pop offs with it, but I don't like how much easier it is, even if it's by a miniscule amount.
I mean, as a Kazuya player, the mechanically difficult aspect isn’t really the input of ewgf, but hitting the nair spike while the DI mixup. Also crouch dash cancelling is the only reason Kazuya is viable at a high level, and it’s so annoying to do XD
@@nathanlevesque7812 → ↓ ↘ + tap is the Smash input, in Tekken 7 it's f,N,d~d/f+2, there's one more additional input on-top of it being 1 frame, that is a big deal. Imagine if 2framing people on ledge was 1 frame instead of 2. People would simply hit it 50% less often. Now try to do that consistently. But I also agree with Joshua, the hard part of Kaz is not the input for EWGF in Smash, it's connecting it after nairs and reading DI after they get hit by it. There's only one Kazuya at the top and there's a good explanation for that. This is not true for Steve, there's a ton of Steves that are performing well out of nowhere, there's not a single Kazuya player who wasn't known before that is suddenly known. Character is hard. Harder than people give it credit for, they listen too Tweek too much. I like Tweek but his take on Kazuya is bad. I'm not saying Kazuya isn't busted, he is. But you're not getting carried by him. You have to play really well to play that character. In a lot of fighting games the most broken characters are the hardest ones. Kazuya is top tier in Tekken too but he's hard so not a lot of people play him. They transitioned him well into Smash in that sense too.
@@jonteguy Going from 2 frames to 1 doesn't automatically mean 50% less often. Where was Axiom XL before? Where was Ferps? I had no idea they existed. Saying players 'came out of nowhere' or whatever is just a statement of your awareness, and frankly of selection bias. People pay attention to Steve. They don't notice the equally abrupt rise of players that use Wolf or some other vanilla character.
It's a double elimination tournament and ApolloKage came from losers side of the bracket, which means he had lost in a previous set. Since Riddles hadn't lost a set yet that weekend, he only has to win 1 of the 2 sets to win the tournament. ApolloKage HAD to win both to win.
lol I was guessing if that snake was so good calculating when to drop the c4 or throw the grenade, but he literally lost 3 stocks just because he stood too close of those. Congrats to that Kazuya, sticking with kazuya even when he is in disadvantage against proyectiles, he just showed a great control and domain
My favorite part was when Kazuya could invincibility through a grenade explosion, when normally that's a combo breaker for Snake. Trash character design imo
