[orangejuicetang]

You know, thinking about it, on one hand Awai didn't really feel like she lived up to the hype, but on the other hand, that's partially because Senriyama and Shindouji are both running freaking ridiculous mahjong hax abilities at the table. Or as I like to call them, 'auto-win' abilities. And unlike alot of other hax mahjong auto-win abilities like pursuit riichi or even Saki's Rinshan Kaihou, which require a certain 'condition' to activate, these abilities activate at the very start of the match. Starting from Shindouji, it seems to be literally impossible to win in a match where they have a combo 'key' for, this being based off both speculation from other characters and what's been observed so far, to the point that I don't really think even Teru could break their combo play. Furthermore, this ability seems to have a higher priority than all other abilities seen thus far (in that if there are two auto-win abilities, this one comes out on top). Next there's Senriyama's newfound toki hax which is possibly even more hax than normal toki by herself. Solo Toki can see some turns into the future, but now with their combo play it's not even that, it's similar to Shindouji in that it's over at the start of the match. Toki reveals exactly what the best winning hand will be, and the steps needed to be taken to reach there. Has a lower priority than Shindouji but higher than Awai's supernova. Now onto Awai, her ability lets her basically get a pretty high scoring win as long as those two other auto-win hax abilities aren't activated. This may make it seem worse, but on the other hand, it's not nearly as limited as the other two. Shindouji can only use their combo play on certain hands where they manage to get a key for, and Senriyama only has a limited number of 'charges'. On the other hand, Awai can spam her ability infinitely, without any sort of possibly limits. And then, somewhat similar to Takami, it gets ridiculous when Awai's the dealer. Although Takami's true terror would come if she's dealer in the last hand, think about the situation where Senriyama is out of charges and Shindouji doesn't have any keys, and it's Awai's dealer. They'd literally have no possible way to break through, considering Awai's also passive ability of making everyone else start with terrible hands. In other words, if nobody else at the table has at least a hax mahjong ability on the level of 'automatic win the game', Awai will dealer repeat Hanemans until everybody's dead.

Of course, this isn't including Imagine Breaker Mountain Climber Shizu, who I'm hoping breaks all three of their hax abilities in the same game.