- Oh, she got the chokeslam.
Yooooo!
(upbeat music)
- Welcome back to another episode of Scenic Fights,
(punch swoosh)
Fight Scene Breakdown.
I'm Chad Vázquez and I'm Pak.
And we are breaking down, "Arcane".
A TV series that is based off the very popular
video game, "League of Legends".
We'll be breaking down the fight
between Vi and Sevika from Season One, episode five.
And, of course, since we're doing a breakdown
based off League, I thought it'd be a good idea
to bring my Korean brother, Pak.
- We Koreans, we love our League, bro.
- And I love that Korean barbecue.
With that said, let's do it.
- Let's get it.
(mouse clicks)
- Boom. Flying knee by Vi.
You thought you're relaxed? Not anymore girl.
- [Pak] That's how you start beef
- [Chad] Mm-hmm.
Nice form there too.
Boom. Right cross.
Vi's not having it. She grabs Sevika's hair.
Makes her face eat the wall.
She's gonna fight back. Beautiful back kick.
Okay. Let's pause right here.
(mouse clicks) Before we get into
any of the boxing, Vi starts to fight off
high energy, flying knee.
Sevika responds back though.
She's like, "No, I'm not impressed."
So she's to respond back with a nice turning sidekick.
Let's break these two moves down before moving any further.
- And we really gotta acknowledge
that instead of a sucker punch,
Vi opens up a fight with a flying knee.
That's gangsta.
- All right. So we can safely assume Vi was running.
Dude like, running.
So this was her setup.
She walked in. Saw Sevika, (feet thudding) started going.
In this case here, in her run,
it's the right leg that has to make contact,
her head goes right over that knee.
With that balance
this left leg is now light enough to be launched up
to hit her opponent.
Looks like this.
(Chad whooshing)
After that beautiful flying knee thrown by Vi,
Sevika gets pinned to the wall by Vi.
And Sevika, she ain't having it.
She was having a good time, smoking her cigarette, relaxed,
before she got knee
in the face. (Pak laughing)
So she has a nice move to respond back with Vi,
and that's a turning sidekick.
If you notice the details, Sevika looks at her target
not only with her eyes, but she also points
with her shoulder.
Now her support leg
moves inward just below her head for balance.
Her power leg,
you notice the knee lifts up,
not downward
upward for good extension to the target.
So from here, a little test here,
shoulder, eyes line up,
support leg comes in, power leg comes up
and makes contact. (feet thuds)
(feet thuds) (Chad swooshing)
(mouse clicks)
Cape off, showing the metal arm.
- [Pak] Uh-oh. It's the shimmer, that's that shimmer.
She's glowing.
- Shimmer being that purple stuff in her bionic arm
for those that are not about that life.
- [Pak] Sevika wants it. She said, "Let's get it."
- [Chad] Jacket off.
Okay. Good guard by Sevika, - Nice.
- gets an over hook on Vi.
- Ooh. Dirty. - Two headbutts by Sevika.
- Dirty.
- Punch right to the stomach.
That must hurt. - [Pak] Oof.
- [Chad] Vi's punching now, she's slipping,
she's moving, upper cut.
Okay. Vi's moving, baby.
- Yo, Vi got hands. - Mm-hmm.
She's moving. - Dang, girl.
Ooh. - High punch.
All right. (mouse clicks)
Pak, calm down. You calm down.
You know who you are.
- This fight's got be so hyped.
- A lot's happening here.
So we have a good boxing sequence
but what's very interesting,
the wall is playing a role in the fight here.
And, of course, Chad's favorite,
the Superman punch is thrown in the mix.
So let's break down the boxing.
Let's break that Superman punch and we'll have a good time.
- Let's get it.
- After that awesome side kick thrown be Sevika,
Vi gets back up. And she starts showing the crowd
and Sevika what's about to happen here.
Jacket comes off and you know,
(jacket thuds)
Vi's ready to throw those hands.
Vi is aggressive.
She started with a flying knee.
Sevika is aware of this.
Sevika tactically draws Vi in towards her
and reversed her to the wall.
If you notice, Sevika's keeping a tight guard
as she's moving backwards
she's moving back at angles left, right,
while keeping a tight guard.
Vi in her rage and not really thinking here,
one of Vi's punches slips off the guard
while Sevika gets an angle.
The next punch by Vi goes across
but she doesn't pull her other arm in time enough.
So when she does so Sevika goes around
and times it wrapping around the arms
with her cybernetic arms and locks up the two arms
during the sequence.
With a very confident posture and smile,
she turns Vi around 'cause she knows what she's done.
Sevika has Vi's back pointed to the wall
which is where she wants her.
And with now, two good headbutts here.
One, two for good measure.
She now releases off
and continues the fight with Vi's back on the wall.
This is good thinking by Sevika's part,
if you are in a fight and you have to engage someone
whether with strikes or grappling,
it is a good thing to put your opponent's back
against the wall, so they cannot move
and you're able to hunt them down and break them down away
that allows you to win the fight.
Great tactics by Sevika.
But let's see how Vi fights her way back.
Vi is in a very tough situation.
She's pinned against the wall.
You see these scenarios very similar in combat sports
like boxing, where you're pinned against the ropes
or mixed martial arts, where you're pushed against the cage,
same situation here.
So to get out of that situation, Vi is in a square stance,
first attack that Sevika throws is a hook.
Vi weaves over and respond with an upper cut to the body.
using her left arm. Once that's thrown,
she comes up and continues to counterattack
with a right cross, boom. Right to the face.
What it does, it creates a little extra distance
for Vi to get more to a proper stance
as Sevika and Vi re-square up.
Vi now throws a flick jab.
Flick jabs are good to test out a guard
and you can also use it for good, quick misdirection.
For example, as I throw a flick jab,
I can redirect into a hook, tricking my opponent
thinking that I'm going straight down the pipe
so when they close up,
I can go around their guard and hit the face.
So flick jabs, again, are good to just harass,
misdirect and test the guard out and see where to go next.
I'm guessing Vi was testing out the guard
to see what Sevika would do next
so she can plan her next attack.
Now, Sevika has the right idea here.
Even as she's getting punched up, like, pretty badly,
she is staying close to Vi keeping the pressure on her
and making sure that she stays stuck on that wall.
Now let's look at the rest of the boxing sequence
and see how Vi fights her way out of that wall.
The tactic that Vi uses to get her back off the wall
is a counterpunch tactic, aggressive defense, if you will.
In the first exchange, as Sevika throws her first punch,
Vi sees it coming.
So she steps her head and her foot to the side
as she blocks,
we see that the blocking hand turns to a hook
and pulls the wrist down and opens up Sevika's face
(punch thuds) to hit her with that uppercut.
For some reason though, Vi did not leave from here.
Maybe the space she was in was too tight
and she felt very smothered by what's going on here.
So she decides to go back in the line of fire.
Now the second punch comes, Vi slips it.
She responds with two uppercuts.
Cocks back, hits with a cross.
It's during here, she exit out.
So, again, here's the sequence,
(hand thumps)
Vi got her space back.
But there is a gap between her and Sevika
and we know she wants to close that gap quickly.
She follows up with a Superman punch.
To close the distance, Vi takes a step with her power leg.
Her head aligns up with that knee.
It allows her to create this jumping effect
and it makes this back leg, the support leg
light enough to throw her rear punch.
So from here,
(hands thumps)
(mouse clicks) Sevika's angry.
She's glowing. Throws a keg at her.
Nice
Sevika charges. Vi pushes her right to the wall.
- Oh, she got the chokeslam. Yeah.
(mouse clicks) - Sevika just represented
a generation, an age group and a culture
with that chokeslam.
The greats. Undertaker, Kane.
The Big Show, also called The Giant, in WCW.
For those who know I'm talking about, right?
Remember the era?
Sevika thank you so much for that.
Moving back to the fight.
(mouse clicks) Let's go.
And now Sevika is burning Vi's face with that shimmer.
Okay. Crouch shot. You know, you love it.
Double fist punch to the back.
Throws her to the wall.
- [Chad] Vi's strong, dude. She's just tossing this chick.
- [Pak] Yeah. Beautiful uppercut.
Throws her against the wall.
- Vi loves those headbutts of the wall.
She's using her environment well.
Some boxing combos there.
- Nice. That's a shoeshine in amateur boxing.
- Yep. Kicks her, her foot out.
Knees her face one more time. - [Pak] Ooh.
- In case Sevika forgot the first one. Sevika's down.
- She's charging up, she's charging up
- And,
drop kick. Boom.
Get out the bar. - [Pak] Ooh.
(mouse clicks) - You're not welcomed!
- Get outta here.
- Okay. The fight's done. We have another boxing sequence.
Really cool.
And again, I love the incorporation of the environment.
We'll go into that in detail.
And a nice-looking interesting dropkick there too
to finish the fight.
Could you do a dropkick in a real fight?
Here's how you do it.
Your homies in an argument, they're going at it.
You see it.
And then from there you just catch the person off guard,
that's the only case I can see you can use in real life.
- Real friends never stop a fight.
They enter with the flying dropkick.
- Mm-hmm.
So Vi gets pushed back against the wall by Sevika,
but Vi is pretty strong.
She hits her with two fists.
You see this a lot in movies and animation,
not really real, but whatever.
Hits two fists down, hugs the waist
and throws Sevika to the wall.
These two re-square up and they are tired.
Mostly Sevika 'cause she keeps on smoking.
But here we are,
Vi keeping her guard up, slips a jab by Sevika.
When she does, she resets back counters with the left hook
and now a right upper cut.
Now these two are near a tight hallway with two walls
right away, Vi uses the environment in the fight.
With her left hand, she grabs the head and boom,
slams Sevika's head to the wall.
She re-squares up.
Sevika throws another hook, Vi blocks it.
With the blocking hand, she captures the head
and another head slam, boom.
It is making Sevika eat the gum off the wall.
Left and right.
Back into their fight stance here,
Sevika is tired at this point,
you can tell she has a tight guard.
And so what Vi is trying to do is lower that guard.
What she do? She starts hitting the body with uppercuts,
slowly, breaking down Sevika's will and guard.
One, two, three, comes up with a lead left hook, boom.
Right to the face.
Sevika is tired.
She's regretting all her life choices
of smoking and drinking 'cause of this very moment,
because of this and Vi sees it,
she kicks out Sevika's ankle,
which brings her down to her knee.
Is that a real thing in combat?
Not like that, but here we are.
Vi gives her second knee to Sevika's face.
This knee is not a flying knee.
It's pretty straightforward.
The opponents down the ground
and Sevika's head is hip level to Vi.
It's an easy step, grabbing the head
and delivering a knee right to the face.
You do see this in combat sports
that allowed knees from standing positions
from some type of clench like Muay Thai,
and of course, the sport of Mixed Martial Arts.
After giving that knee, Vi backs up reassess situations
and see how to continue the attack
and delivers a beautiful dropkick on Sevika
through that door with the check.
(gentle music) (logo shattering)
Overall, this is an awesome fight sequence.
I love the boxing.
I love the use of the environment
and how it affected the fight.
You can see that Sevika and Vi had to be tactical
as the environment was playing a role in their fight.
We saw Vi using the wall to smash Sevika's face into it,
two times.
We saw Sevika using the wall to pin Vi against
and to help her attack.
We also saw beautiful boxing done by Vi.
Good fight stance, good head movement, slipping, weaves,
use of combinations and how to angle to the sides,
particularly, when she had to get her back off of the wall.
I feel the grade for this fight scene is
an A minus. (glass smashes)
- Oh. Wait, Chad.
You forgot to do the dropkick breakdown.
- Oh, you're right.
Let's do it right now. Let's get it.
- You ain't gonna do that on me.
One second. Follow me.
Hey, Logan. So, I'm gonna need a favor.
Uh. Do you mind - [Long] Yeah.
- holding this for me real quick?
- [Logan] Yeah. - Yeah. Just like that.
All right. Thanks, Hyung!
- What up?
What the... (Chad yelling)
(Logan thuds)