Well that worked. I organized my team this week with the goal of beating Aargaez, having a decent shot against Temp and Nootaku, and hoping to avoid a decently strong, reflect-heavy opponent like EarthCrimson or Rimuru. So I was quite pleased to see Nylem upset EarthCrimson, as I mentioned above, as well as Nootaku and Rimuru not even appearing in the round of 32.

In the finals, Aargaez came at me with a Sasaki Kojiro with an inherited Tiger of Kai and, with buffs, over 570 speed and 24k attack, even before the Tiger of Kai damage bonus. In three of his previous four matches, that character had fired the first shot of the battle, killing two enemy generals in the process. Temp was the only one of Aargaez's previous opponents to even get a single attack off, and he got two before dying.

So of course my lineup did exactly what it was built to do: killed that particular general before it even fired a shot. Game, set, match. And it does take some luck to design a team before the entire tournament to beat one particular opponent, then happen to draw that opponent in the finals while avoiding a few other opponents that my lineup would fare poorly against. But that's why there's a new tournament every week: to reroll who got lucky and who didn't.