[Team Rocket Elite]

Great job by the Shana/Taiga combination in managing to get within striking distance of Kanade/Kuroneko. While Shana definitely helped Taiga more than Kuroneko helped Kanade, it's still no easy feat to get this close to Tenshi. Taiga still has two more periods to figure out how to close that gap and manage to do it in 1 on 1 combat. It's going to be tough to do but maybe not impossible.

While the Taiga/Shana combination was on the ball today, Shana herself was not. Only getting 43.4% on Mikoto is pretty awful. For comparison, Shana got 42.9% on Kanade last year. Hopefully, this was just Shana throwing necklaces for a better color like last year and she bounces back from this. Mikoto looks to be pretty much a lock for the Ruby necklace now. I guess Shana can go focus on her current AST match for now.

Sena and Kobato had a lot of trouble this time. Sena nearly gives up a win to Inori. That's pretty far down from her usual level. Although not in as much danger, Kobato also doesn't so so well against Charlotte. Yozora was also a bit weak this time. The Haganai crew are going to need to work harder in the future or their may find their current strength fading fast.