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Upon further thought, Shizu's ability bears some similarity to Teru's mirror. It feels like a learning ability to me, though for Shizu it's more on the subconscious level.
She'll passively accumulate information about her opponent's style as she plays them and as time goes on she'll auto adjust to correct her play to suit the opponent's ability and power. The strength she'll be able to unleash is dependent on how much data she's gathered and as she gains understanding and insight on her opponent that flame will manifest like we saw on chapter 19 page 21 right before she ronned Awai.
Her defensive abilities seem to increase as well as her offense as she protected herself perfectly throughout the match from direct damage except for the very first hand, also shown as she directly identifies the incoming threat of Awai's wait on page 9 of chapter 19 and avoids the direct hit that Himiko walks right into.
Koromo also explained Shizu did the same thing against her, at first getting dominated by three Haitei's while preventing two on the first day and then completely blocking all attempts to do it on the second day. She still failed to beat Koromo but still apparently impressed her by auto adjusting to Koromo's style to compete with her but still losing due to the current skill gap that they had.
So it seems the longer a match goes on or the more times she fights the same person, Shizu will get progressively harder and more dangerous to deal with. If my theory is correct, Awai will have one hell of a fight on her hands in the finals. We'd have to see how long it takes Shizu to adjust to Saki's kans too.
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