Losers Semifinals ▷ Combo Breaker 2018 - Killer Instinct - Thompxson (Jago) vs Sleep (Aria)

[@anarchicdivinity]

I miss seeing a lot more of KI at tourneys. Great game.

[@TheDeanFilez]

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[@metallica1108]

Anyone else think sleep's face @ 0:03 should be a twitch emote

[@Chromedawgg]

Jago still rocking those damn tube tops lol

[@ishpaltheretrogamer8714]

Yup, Jago is my fan favorite in Killer Instinct. Haduhoken!

[@GamingDemons]

first time i had ever seen thompxson choose a different character in a tournament scene. he actually didnt do to bad with shadow jago. im sure next time he will be ready for sleep at e3. if they have ki there. keep fighting the fight thompxson. you are the best jago by far!!!

[@TheDeanFilez]

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[@RosencrantzxGuildenstern]

Holy shit, that robo booty at 6:07! Hide the vacuum cleaner, boys!

[@RainbowCrash56]

LMAOOO

[@RosencrantzxGuildenstern]

@@RainbowCrash56 Huzzah, a comment! And it only took 4 years...

[@Yeldibus]

That was intense!

[@jagergerg9771]

Good match

[@MaoriGamerDood]

6:06 that pose though. MMMmmm. Lookin good BootyBot

[@bigcsbigbrother3685]

Hey guys, is there anywhere I can watch top 32?

[@flowtrancer]

Fist round 👏

[@dominicduffy747]

Man these black guys really come out for the FIGHTING!!!!

[@u.s.-sheepdog4761]

Wtf, its tiger woods vs rich homie quan

[@hezakighamorgan9974]

No offense against Sleep, but I vehemently dislike Aria. I'm sure there's much more depth to her character than what I've seen and even experienced behind a controller (as I've never seen any breakdowns of her), but as far as I'm aware, she's a projectile spammer who doesn't even fire her own projectiles. At least Jago leaves himself open after a shot, in wide reception to punishment, whereas Aria is built around patience and chipping away at your opponent until they have no choice but to make a push. I could be completely misreading this and it could be bias as she absolutely bodies me every time I face her in KI multiplayer, but I still just... Really don't like her build.

[@rampant1apart]

Hezakigha Morgan well she is fragile in a way where she could lose options really fast if played poorly. That's the common justification for her build.

[@DemonFang72]

She can definitely feel super frustrating to fight, but my two cents is that Aria is an extreme glass canon: -Every time she starts trying to pepper you with the assists, she is risking that body taking a HUGE chunk of damage (the commentators call this out at one point) if you manage to clip the body as the assist "comes out." This ate like 33% of the bar to the body-assist that got stuffed like almost every time it happened in this set! Which is a little weird to factor out how huge that is since an Aria body is like 2/3 of a standard full health bar but 33% of one body off ONE fireball/hit is a TON of damage for an Aria to risk receiving just for trying to use a projectile! And it can happen a lot just for messing up her timing slightly or for making the wrong read since there is a short delay to summoning the assist that can often make using them on reaction unfeasible. If she poorly uses her assist, repeatedly, and it gets punished even just 3 times, that assist body is dead or basically dead! And you can recklessly use both assists so you can potentially let BOTH of your backup bodies die to just a few stray projectiles+pokes, which is a pretty huge risk IMO. Doing this basically limits your total health pool for the match down to 2/3 a standard full bar, Aria's reward for being sloppy or reckless with assist spam d: -Aria goes into triple-body mode in Instinct, which in the hands of an expert is a zoning hailstorm and mix-up monster but if you don't know how to utilize the advanced moveset and/or get opened up anyway, ALL her bodies take the duplicate amounts of the damage! So there is huge risk in using Instinct as receiving an extended combo that eats like 66% of a normal health bar will straight up KILL all of Aria's bodies simultaneously and end the match if she receives it during her Instinct! And obviously there is less offensive potential/reward for Aria if she activates Instinct with just 1 or 2 bodies, so if you want the most overwhelm-factor with her Instinct then you have to risk losing the whole match to a single (extended) combo, basically 😅 All in all, the risk/reward factor is high and a tricky thing to micromanage for Aria on top of all of the inherent complexity that comes with being the only "squad-fighter character" in a game that is designed around 1v1. And so I consider her one of the hardest characters master in KI, especially since she is SO squishy and I think also on par with Mira for the title of "easiest to screw yourself over with/KO yourself with via inexperience and/or mistakes" d: Just my thoughts on this subject, I would recommend giving Aria a try and see for yourself how tricky and unique of an experience playing her can be :3

[@nicholascropper268]

Where all the KI Gold fans at? I know you think this game is bullshit now without TUSK.

[@ganjaman59650]

looking at that match i still wonder if that eagle final was staged... because sleep was not even trying in it, he stopped his offense for no reason like 10 times, i call that losing on purporse, at least he dropped combos on purpose in that match, and not in fear of breakers, and in that match he is the exact opposite and use a strategy that would have destroyed eagle... it make no sense really.

[@DaHecks]

That projectile spam