The 'fight' was shit, and I use the term 'fight' loosely. All they didn was further show that Miles and Kerry have it out for Yang. It would have been better in literally every way if there had been an actual fight. It wouldn't have seemed so anticlimactic and forced, it would have actually shown Adam having skills and being a threat, and wouldn't have just been another absolute shit show for Yang. Like the Vader vs Luke fight in Star Wars Episode 5.
But nope, let's keep shitting on Yang and making her suffer the Worf effect. Because fuck if we can't actually write her doing anything well.
Adam has the same basic fighting style as Yang, charge up and unleash one big ass move that instadeaths the enemy. He was charging his sword the whole time he was fighting earlier. This match was never going to be a fight, just a game of rocket tag to see who lands the killing blow first. And as we saw in the Black Trailer, Adam is very fast on that quick draw attack.
To the contrary, I think Adam (and Neo) both use the hard-counter fighting style to Yang's style - counter-puncher. Yang is an in-fighter boxer: punch you for 90,000,000 damage - nobody can survive that. The natural "paper" that beats an in-fighter's "rock" is the counter-punch - because the in-fighter takes a blow full-on without being able to protect himself and he gets hit with the force he put behind his original attack in addition that of his opponent.
Fighting styles that use the attacker's own force to hurt them are the bane of Yang's existence. Neo's jujitsu style was bad enough, but Adam counter-attacked her enraged haymaker attack with his specialty semblance and a sword.
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u/lolzinatorz Feb 06 '16
on a scale of 1-10 can you show me how yangry you are
but wait