Way to miss the point about the courts. Court 5 is the court with the most consistent level of power for the middle schoolers. When they're preparing for court 3 Oni obviously thought all the guys there are valid contenders to challenge court 3. During the 6th tiebraker game you can see there's a clear tier structure of who's better out of the remaining 5 players but nobody went to Akutagawa and specifically said: "You're a joke, don't even bother trying." Does this mean Akutagawa is as good as the average court 5 player? Most likely not. He's almost certainly the worst out of the court 5 players but since nobody ever speifically question why he belongs in court 5 (note that Yamato's evaluation specifically says it's unclear how he can be a court 3 with such weak stats) you've to assume he has a baseline stat within the ballpark of court 5 players.
No. Yamato has weak stats, but it does not imply he has a baseline stat within the ballpark of his court's players. He is simply an outlier for storyline reasons.
This doesn't apply to the loser's bracket or court 6 because it is readily obvious these courts cover guys who are godlike to guys who can genuinely be normal people. The best court 5 player might not be better than the best court 6 player, but the worst court 5 player is definitely better than the worst court 6 player.
Doesn't mean a thing. It was random. The Pair Puri says it was decided by who had Shuffles at particular times.
Yuki, Fuji, Kikumaru, Marui all could have been in Court 5. It's simply because they did not have shuffles when Jirou did.
Read the Pair Puri's. Your knowledge is completely flawed on this.
You seem to drink too much on the Data Tennis cool-aid too. Inui calculated Ryoma's serve in their first match and still can't return it.
You mean Twist Serve? You think at this stage in the story Inui cannot return it? You have no proof on that.
Considering he can read when Zero Shiki Drop will come.
Power type techniques, not counting people who can just naturally return them (they're almost invariably the top tier of players), requires either a matching power or a technique that cancels out power.
He's obviously not a top tier player like Yukimura who can return a power shot by his tier status. He's not a power player by any stretch of imagination.
You are focused too much on the Power Player title. Which is something you clearly don't understand.
You don't have to be a power player or always be of the very top tier tier return something as long as you understand it perfectly.
Konjiki is the teammate of Ishida Gin so would have seen Hadoukyuu for over a year. Chances are, he can return a few Hadoukyuus.
In the national semifinals, Inui was commenting how Hado 12 is well beyond what is returnable for Kawamura and Kawamura is obviously much stronger than Konjiki.
Kawamura did not have good technique back in Nationals. Konjiki was effortlessly returning Tornado Snake. Kawamura didn't have that level of technique.
You can't compare players when you don't even understand the basics of PoT.
There are 5 stats to a player: Mental, Power, Speed, Technique and Stamina.
Konjiki's Technique is likely above Nationals!Kawamura's.
Unless you want to go the route of 'better Data Tennis', power shots after a certain level are well beyond what can be returned by any amount of calculation. You must possess equivalent strength or some kind of technique to deal with it and Konjiki doesn't have them.
You don't know that. We've not seen enough Konjiki. He calculated 7th Hadoukyuu perfectly, returned Dunk Smash and Tornado Snake effortlessly. The guy doesn't suck.
At any rate Magic Volley can probably be returned but because the baseline for court 5 is much higher than any other court, Akutagawa gets the benefit of the doubt.
NO. You do not understand Shin Prince of Tennis.
The databook states that you advance up a court depending who you are drawn against.
It was random. Yukimura, Fuji, Yushi, Marui, Kikumaru, Yagyuu just so happened to be drawn against 6th Court opponents and no opponents higher.
It was by chance Tezuka, Chitose, Atobe, Shiraishi, Kirihara, Akutsu, Jirou etc. got drawn against 5th Court players. It was all by chance. It's stupid to think Jirou was
chosen to be in 5th Court because of his skill.
Remember Fuji says ''If everybody wins their matches, the 5th Court will be entirely made up of Middle Schoolers''.
It was simply who you were drawn against.
You're basically looking at the worst court 5 player versus a below average player on the loser's bracket. Every other court 5 player would easily destroy a below average player on the loser's bracket, and since it was never said Akutagawa is especially bad compared to rest of the court 5, he gets (perhaps unreasonable) boost to his stat for somehow making to court 5 without having his ability questioned.
We don't need it to be said.
The High Schoolers below 3rd Court level are all weak. 4th Court were completely shut down by 3rd Court.
So we know getting to 5th Court is a simple task
So obviously, the likes of Jirou could reach 5th Court.
Akutagawa
is especially bad to everybody in his Court. Let's leave out the obvious Oni.
Let's throw him against Krauser. Krauser would kill Akutagawa.
Tachibana, Akutsu, Chitose, Tezuka, Atobe, Kirihara, Kite, Gin and Shiraishi would all destroy Jirou.
His ability wouldn't get questioned since the Middle Schoolers don't care about 5th Court. They all want to aim for the top.
So none of your reasoning is relevant.
