A kilometer isn't that far, not really*, even when you're a sbusy tracking with mystical superpowers. It wouldn't take Ling Qi ten rounds to do it, for instance, and we won't have mitigated any of the Aggravated Damage we'll be taking. TRD is less than optimal for dodging in round one, and since our Dodge is better round one than our facetanking, GCD is the superior reaction to use. It's part of why we've got that 'block 3 semi-perfect damage for 3 qi each' Insight, to make up for that lack of semi-perfect blocking.
Zhengui can't heal Aggravated damage, only Lethal and non-lethal, and she can put out quite a bit of Aggravated Damage.
*Edit: I can cover this distance with five minutes of jogging, out of shape as I am. Can't do a string of those anymore though.
I know that the point isn't to do those things, that the point is to do what you're saying.
And I disagree, because she's already shrugged FVM off before. At least twice, with Dhartiri supporting her, during Thunderdome 2 and the Surprise Interrupt. FVM won't help at all so long as Dhartiri is up. All of her buffs > all of our other buffs means she has no reason to reveal cards she hasn't already used.
Besides, she's probably expecting us to run. We've always ran from her before, after all, so she's probably side-boarded a relevant art or two. Timing our retreat is something we haven't done before, however.
She was capable of matching TRD in aggravated damage back in week 32, with just an instant up, at range. She's a facepuncher who's gone up a stage since then and has moved on to a successor Art, why do you think she can't do better now? Especially since she isn't holding back?
No, we need to do something she isn't expecting. Even with our showing against Ji Rong, she's probably confident we'll run again. Thousand Rings Unbreaking should come as an unpleasant surprise, better one where she thinks she's doing well than one where she's being cautious. More cautious.
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