And when the DMC community needed him most.... he vanished.

YouTube: How many times have you watched this?

Me: Hard to say. It’s the only memory I have of us since this was uploaded.

Normal people: Tries to dodge Vergil
High skill player: Tries to royal guard Vergil
Sasaki: Tries to chase Vergil

The finale of Sakaki countering Vergil's Judgement Cut End using Dante's Judgement, with the music build up and the arena turning purple is the most epic thing I've ever seen in a DMC fight.

So much to love and to learn here!
- Badass intro
- All DMC3 themes, one for each phase
- Slowmo backslide
- Royal Releasing him out of airplane mode before he even charges at you
- Dodging JCE with shotgun rolls into Real Impact
- Royal revenge kills the doppleganger
- Finishing with JCE vs Judgement

Perfect fight, probably the best I've seen against Vergil. Even better than Brea's, and god do I love her fight!

This is the only version of this fight I have EVER seen, where Vergil is treated like neither a boss, or a joke, but as an equal.

Some no damage players fight him with skill.
But dang, you fight him with STYLE.

Those musical transitions between each phase should have been in the actual game.

2:36
Vergil : lol you're trying to just guard my Judgement End again like other?
Dante : Sliding his way through to Vergil
Vergil : What Form of power is this?
btw I love the way he only uses DT when Vergil start using one , it make the battle look much more dramatic.

This is the most stylish fight against Vergil I’ve seen by far. That was amazing!

3:39 Vergil's Ultimate vs Dante's Ultimate, It hit me so hard at the end and I cried.

2:27
Vergil: Prepare to... ughhhhh

Virgil: How many times have players watched our fights?

Dante: Hard to say. It’s the only memory they have of us since they were kids.

2:39 behind you Vergil
Oh God oh fujk he has airpods on oh frick

3:00 Making a separate post because predicting Vergil's Doppelganger and taunting in advance so that Vergil taunts back, thus making him immobile while Sakaki kills the doppelganger with Royal Revenge is ABSOLUTELY GENIUS.

0:27 One of the best battle intros I've seen.

first time i see someone dodges JC end with coyote stinger roll. thats badass

You even see the auras turn purple at the end from both of their ultimates clashing. This is one of the best things I've ever seen

Friendship ended with: Donguri
Now sakaki is my best friend

This is half an analysis:
I can say without a doubt that this is the most technical, creative, difficult, and flawless Vergil fight in DMC5.
The sheer insight of enemy behaviour, creativity to come up unthinkable ways to deal with them, precision to execute the planned scenarios, judgement to act it out in midst of the battle, reaction for these interactions to be possible, and the consistency too pull them without fail throughout the fight, is simply unbelievable. All the blocks are perfect and that's only the least impressive aspect of this fight.

For me, this is truly the first Vergil fight where Vergil is fought not like a boss where you find an opening to attack and combo, but like an equal where you're actively taking it head on and dance with like a cutscene (AYU also deserves a mention for his SoS Cavalier Angelo before Sakaki though).

Simply the work of a God. I can't believe this only took about a week.

"Highlights", some more obvious and have been done before, but writing them down nonetheless in case people missed it:

0:22 Walking sideways to evade Phantom Swords
0:26 Air trick in advance, predicting Vergil's Air Trick. Also do a clash with him, then does a side flip to stall time and look flashy while Vergil sheaths, so they can trick back at same time again to stay in perfect sync.
0:30 Although using Interceptors to cancel out Vergil's swords is nothing special, how Sakaki went out of his way to activate Sword Formation the exact same time Vergil summons his first sword deserves a mention.
0:48 Backslide finisher breaking the threshold is not a coincidence.
1:37 interesting setup of using Royal Revenge into revolver to cross under Vergil
2:01 DTing at same time, this is a recurring theme in this fight, where Sakaki imitates Vergil's way of fighting (including phantom swords vs Sword formation as well)
2:05 To match Vergil's Trick Up, Sakaki jumped up in advance, and Air Tricked higher to evade Vergil, then stepped on him and skystarred, and rainstormed the swords that he knew would appear. Don't ask me how he knew Vergil would do that before he even tricked up.
2:10 Small detail, but good choreography by using shotgun and airtrick/dashes while Vergil missed his Rising Star, instead of standing still and regrouping thoughts
2:12 Fourhanded vs Sword Storm
2:17 One of the best sequences I've seen in DMC5 so far. Mustang→Rainstorm→Skystar→Helm Breaker, the sync in the end is absolutely perfect. It's even better that both used summoned swords at same time as well.
2:28 I don't need to say a thing.
2:37 Using Cut-in to dodge when you could've used simpler ways like blocking or dashing, brave and adventurous, like everything else in this video. On top of that amazing insight to predict Vergil would Judgement Cut End and 1: Ignite Balrog in Advance; 2: Space perfectly (as well as fluidly and naturally so you don't even notice it) so that he lands right next to Vergil to Real Impact immediately without moving.
3:00 Sakaki predicted when Vergil would use doppelganger, and taunted in advance, so Vergil taunts back, then proceeded to lay waste to the doppelganger while Vergil is stuck in taunt animation? Wow.
3:15 This sequence (Dash → Hightime → Skystar → FlipJump → TrickDown → GunStinger) to evade quad judgement cut is fucking awesome.
3:37 Again, predicted the Judgement Cut End, for this spectacular finish.

It would be more accurate to name this video "Dance with Vergil". Currently, I don't believe there is another person that understands M19 Vergil better than Sakaki.



P.S. Also be sure to check out Sakaki's Credo Boss Fight video as well! Arguably the best one even to this day, very technical and creative, great use of reversals, "footsies", and Lucifer timing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ken8sOu0x-8