Everybody who is ranked above Fuwa has better stats than him, so they probably wouldn't have to resort to their special moves in order to have the advantage against him.
Possibly Shiraishi's Bible if it can be muga'd since Bible was used vs Fuji to pivot and hit a counter. Both are national moves so who knows.
It seems to me Tanegashima would have problem against people who don't rely on special moves, and Irie does not rely on special moves (Trollface is not a special move) which would explain why Tanegashima said he hates playing Irie.Tanegashima's tennis is quite confusing. He's style looks very effective against Sanada & those who have flashy techniques.
But I wonder how it would work against Players like Irie, Yukimura.
If Tanegashima plays against Irie or Yuki there will be endless rallying.
Also Tanegashima stated that he would Hate to play against Irie. Right?????
Does that mean anything???
Atobe Kingdom is more of an 'inherent truth of the universe' as opposed to a tech. That is, based on an opponent's position, there's always some spot that is inherently impossible for him to reach no matter what. Atobe Kingdom merely reveals what this spot is. The shot Atobe hits is nothing special, but it doesn't have to be because he's hitting to a spot that, by definition, cannot be returned.
I think Saiki requires the user to have a pretty good understanding of tactics and whatnot. It's not like you just suddenly can see the future. When Chitose first used Saiki he explained why Tachibana's hits can't get over the net because he's hitting them from a bad angle. At any rate it's not like it takes a genius to figure out against a guy who unconditionally copy moves you obviously want him to copy bad moves. Even Kawamura figured this out as he used the 1hand Hado so that Kabaji would break his own wrist, so I'd think Chitose can figure this out easily.
I think he gains control as the match progresses. In the beginning against Sanada it sures looks like he's just using moves totally at random. I mean he was using moves from guys in St. Rudolph!
But, the Tezuka that was getting raped by Kabaji learned Saiki the match after that. How did he went from "moron that lets his rival copy all his moves" to "master tactician" in 1 match?
Then again people thought that Tezuka knew the rain was going to come, then Fuji said we can't know that for sure.
Tezuka probably thought Hyakuren can't be copied so he was overconfident. Otherwise he'd indeed be pretty moronic to use Zone when he surely didn't actualy need it.
There's no way Tezuka could know the rain was coming. He just never gives up no matter what and it happened to work out that rain is advantageous to him due to his experience. Without the rain Tezuka would've hurt himself again and almost certainly still lose the game anyway, so he pretty much lucked out that game, though he only has himself to blame there. Tezuka has to be more than capable of beating Kabaji with just normal rallies.
In Chitose's case he should just start using Muga on useless moves and then counter them when Kabaji copies them, since Kabaji pretty much copies everything whether it's a good move or a bad move. I'm sure he has seen his share of weak moves throughout his games.
Then Kabaji would start copying the counters until Chitose runs out of crap to throw
But the lead he built up while using junk moves would be more than enough. For example in the game against St. Rudolph we see that some random player did a dropshot instead of smashing the ball. That move scored on Kabaji, and then later he copied that move to score. Now, if it was Chitose he can obviously stop that as well and score again. That gives him 2 points ahead. All he needs is to be ahead by one game and he'll win. Kabaji can eventually tie anybody but if you built up a game advantage you'll just win 6-4. He droppe 5 games against Hyakuren and I think he dropped a game against Kawamura. The only reason he made up the difference is that he is stronger than Kawamura and Tezuka physically and their techs happen to render anything else besides power irrelevent. If he copied say Kaidoh, I don't see why Kaidoh can't outlast him in his own game. As shown in the game against the high schooler if the opponent is stronger than him baseline, then Kabaji is still weaker than his opponent after copying the tech. Of course Chitose isn't going to overpower Kabaji, but he can simply use techs that have nothing to do with power. He'd still be better overall on top of being able to build a lead with junk moves at the start.Then Kabaji would start copying the counters until Chitose runs out of crap to throw
Maybe it's not all base stats but just mental strength?