This is utterly baseless. We're a stealthy skirmisher build, and thus fighting like a stealthy skirmisher is not at all shameful when its how we dominated our preliminaries. We have explicit acknowledgment that our performance in the prelims met all expectations and made up for Gan's loss, so we are under no pressure to use strategies to show off in this round beyond beating the opponent.
We're facing an opponent specialized in powerful alpha strikes based on her elemental composition and past performance, so assuming our defense is solid enough to take her in her strongest point is the height of arrogance.
By contrast we already know she's not particularly amazing at mobility compared to us, that the environment allows for stealth, and that our next two opponents are going to almost certainly be packing perception arts because we ruined their day with stealth too often. This is our best opportunity to showcase our ambush ability, which if it fails due to unexpected perceptiveness AND mobility, then goes to our defenses anyway.
