Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Both the Aran Ryan fights for practice mode have somewhat different strategies compared to their normal counterparts. Aran Ryan has 3 positions he can go into and skipping the cutscene right as he's about to shift into his next stance will cause his first attack to come out faster. Saving roughly 3 seconds.

TASing this fight (and Contender Aran) was a bit weird as they were the only 2 fights where I had to find the perfect frame to skip the cutscene on. Going too late will cause him to go into a full cycle again; therefore wasting more time, while going too early will cause his attack to come out a tiny bit later.

As for the strategy itself, it's exactly the same as the IL strategy with the obvious difference that you can't use the first buffer at the beginning since you need to cutscene skip perfectly.

39.81 seems to be the perfect time I was able to get when TASing this fight months ago, which includes skipping the cutscene perfectly. I thought this would be easier than the Contender strategy but I personally found the cutscene skip + first attack to be even harder to do. It took 1 hour exactly compared to the 40 minutes I spent getting a 50.22 on Contender Practice mode.

Thanks for reading and watching! :D