Kabaji seems to have a limited memory on what he can copy. Otherwise by now he should the moves of every character he's ever met. Since Chitose is said to be a good strategist, the easiest way to deal with Kabaji is use some weak moves with Muga to trick Kabaji into copying it, and then easily score off him while he's using a useless move. Kabaji can only tie with his opponent unless it's a power shot, and that's because Kabaji is stronger than most characters to begin with, so all you'd need is a sequence that goes like:
Chitose uses a weak move (say, something from St. Rudolph) and scores a point (generally Kabaji loses a point to the move he saw the first time and then tries to get the next point back with that move)
Kabaji copies the move
Chitose easily scores the next point because Kabaji is using a weak move
At this point he's two points ahead and he can just trade points and still win that game. Now if there's a way for Kabaji to be selective about what move he copies, this won't work, but so far it seems to me Kabaji just copies any move without thinking about it, so he doesn't have the option of not copying either.[/QUOTE]
At least with Tezuka he seems to remember everything he sees in a given match (otherwise he would have forgotten the zone when using Hyaruken). Also I think it's not required that Kabaji loses a point before he learns how to copy.
I believe he copied Ban without losing a point. So if Chitose uses a weak move I think Kabaji will be able to return it. Furthermore we are forgetting about Chitose's blind side.
If Kabaji is hitting powerful shots (which he naturally hits) to Chitose's blind spot Kabaji can win (Tachibana never aimed for it except for the last shot and it was never mentioned in Tezuka's match because Tezuka doesn't need that stuff to win).
Furthermore to get past kabaji in the first place you need powerful techniques, he was good enough to be the number 13 representative.
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ah right, i forgot about tezuka zone getting copied...that changes a bit...
in regards to Kintarou's TnK. I think that it depends. The whole point to accessing TnK for everyone except Tezuka is to truly love playing tennis and love the challenge no matter winning or losing. So if atobe proves enough of a challenge, i think Kintarou can activate it.
I'm not 100% that Atobe is a challenge in the same way that Oni and Yukimura were to Kin and Ryoma respectively.
Also what was the point of Tezuka accessing TnK?
