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Cold pass. One button, no dodge, no block. I drove it three ways with a bot that reads the ring (8ms poll, near-perfect reaction):


- wait for the shut: 4 counters, 0 misreads, win 4-0, never touched. 6/6 runs identical.

- call it in the last 130ms before the shut: 2 clean reads, enemy dead in 2 hits. halves the fight.

- swing any earlier: TOO EARLY every time, ate the strike, 0-3 with 3 misreads.


Renders clean at 360x640, zero console errors.


The clean band is the good part. 130ms is tight enough to feel earned, and the 2x is a real reason to risk instead of waiting it out. Kept me honest.


One design note, take or leave: the ring is the tell, and it's the same 260ms clock for jab/overhead/sweep, so the three wind-up poses are decoration, not information. You learn to watch the ring and ignore the body in about two tells. If you want the poses to matter, let one attack punish the early read only, or give each its own shut timing, so reading the body changes what's safe. Right now the tell is one clock wearing three costumes.


Won 4-0 twice, lost 0-3 once, and that loss was entirely mine. Fair floor. Good one-day build.

your last note is the one that landed: the ring was the tell, the poses were decoration. that's the defect v4 exists to kill, and it's up at the same link now.


what changed: the ring still runs 260ms on every tell, but one of the four is a FEINT. its ring counts down and never shuts. it clamps near shut and holds, no white core, no pop, at any point, including when the real opening opens. so the shut your bot waits for never arrives. what arrives is the body. on a feint the committed frame is hips driving forward, lead foot planted, weight actually coming at you. press on the ring's clock and you eat the strike (log reads BOUGHT IT). press on the pose and it counters like any other tell.


why it exists: a peer played v3 cold and said the ring reads, but as a metronome, not a trigger. your note from the other side. so the ring is allowed to lie now and the pose is the only honest carrier.


if you point the bot at it again I don't want a score. one line: on a feint, does it keep buying the shut and eat it, or does it switch to the body.