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Well, yeah. That would be part of the \\\"Legendary Soldier\\\" skillset. Notice how Snake counts the shots he hears just before he encounters Ocelot for the second time and then, seeing that he\\\'s switched to a revolver, immediately knows that he and Eva have his number (so long as Eva can handle the knife he has on her, and she does). This tells us (as does the actual gameplay fight shortly thereafter with literal HUD icons tracking the shots in each of Ocelot\\\'s revolvers) that Snake makes it a priority to keep track of how many shots his opponent has (or at least for a revolver or certain other conventional firearms... it doesn\\\'t work so well against bee-firing Tommy Guns or a guy who uses his hands to fire off a machine gun belt). As his mentor, clearly The Boss has carefully honed the same skill. The first time? Assume that Ocelot knows how to perfectly spin his cylinder \\\'\\\'just right\\\'\\\' so that for that gun, the shot will be on the second trigger pull (reasonable assumption given his mastery of other revolver tricks) so that he will be able to pull off the shot on the sixth trigger pull of the juggle, if not interrupted (again, a reasonable assumption given psychology; The Boss knows he has a penchant for flourishing and the skills to pull it off, and if Snake didn\\\'t initially know he would actually try to juggle and shoot, he sure does when he\\\'s spying on Ocelot and the other antagonists the first time. Maybe The Boss has even seen him practising the trick, or else heard about him doing so).

Then, she keeps track of the gun with the bullet, yes even while it\\\'s being juggled, or if that\\\'s too hard even for her then she counts the trigger pulls and after five, she knows it\\\'s time to act. Ocelot can also keep track (he learns the weight of the gun with the bullet in, or something) and in this first instance, he tosses it straight up into the air (instead of on a diagonal for more juggling) and that means obviously The Boss knows it\\\'s gonna be the one which actually has the shot (and she rubbishes the idea of luck on the battlefield, so yes she most certainly has these skills instead!). In the second instance, Ocelot actually shoots on the fourth trigger pull, and doesn\\\'t toss it straight up, instead shooting after a normal juggle toss. I take that to mean that the first (empty) pull was on the loaded gun, instead of one of the empty guns like he did on the first occasion, and he changed his pattern here to try and throw Eva, The Boss (not that she really could have done anything with Volgin standing watch) and Snake off. So this suggests that Snake was even better at keeping track of the loaded gun than The Boss (yes, mid-juggle, and also perhaps showing that he can read Ocelot\\\'s psychology and tells very well) which serves as \\\'\\\'masterful\\\'\\\' foreshadowing that in several different ways, he does have what it takes to surpass The Boss.
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Well, yeah. That would be part of the \
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Well, yeah. That would be part of the \\\"Legendary Soldier\\\" skillset. Notice how Snake counts the shots he hears just before he encounters Ocelot for the second time and then, seeing that he\\\'s switched to a revolver, immediately knows that he and Eva have his number (so long as Eva can handle the knife he has on her, and she does). This tells us (as does the actual gameplay fight shortly thereafter with literal HUD icons tracking the shots in each of Ocelot\\\'s revolvers) that Snake makes it a priority to keep track of how many shots his opponent has (or at least for a revolver or certain other conventional firearms... it doesn\\\'t work so well against bee-firing Tommy Guns or a guy who uses his hands to fire off a machine gun belt). As his mentor, clearly The Boss has carefully honed the same skill. The first time? Assume that Ocelot knows how to perfectly spin his cylinder \\\'\\\'just right\\\'\\\' so that for that gun, the shot will be on the second trigger pull (reasonable assumption given his mastery of other revolver tricks) so that he will be able to pull off the shot on the sixth trigger pull of the juggle, if not interrupted (again, a reasonable assumption given psychology; The Boss knows he has a penchant for flourishing and the skills to pull it off, and if Snake didn\\\'t initially know he would actually try to juggle and shoot, he sure does when he\\\'s spying on Ocelot and the other antagonists the first time. Maybe The Boss has even seen him practising the trick, or else heard about him doing so).

Then, she keeps track of the gun with the bullet, yes even while it\\\'s being juggled, or if that\\\'s too hard even for her then she counts the trigger pulls and after five, she knows it\\\'s time to act. Ocelot can also keep track (he learns the weight of the gun with the bullet in, or something) and in this first instance, he tosses it straight up into the air (instead of on a diagonal for more juggling) and that means obviously The Boss knows it\\\'s gonna be the one which actually has the shot (and she rubbishes the idea of luck on the battlefield, so yes she most certainly has these skills instead!). In the second instance, Ocelot actually shoots on the fourth trigger pull, and doesn\\\'t toss it straight up, instead shooting after a normal juggle toss. I take that to mean that the first (empty) pull was on the loaded gun, instead of one of the empty guns like he did on the first occasion, and he changed his pattern here to try and throw The Boss (not that she really could have done anything with Volgin standing watch) and Snake off. So this suggests that Snake was even better at keeping track of the loaded gun than The Boss (yes, mid-juggle, and also perhaps showing that he can read Ocelot\\\'s psychology and tells very well) which serves as \\\'\\\'masterful\\\'\\\' foreshadowing that in several different ways, he does have what it takes to surpass The Boss.
Changed line(s) 1 from:
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Well, yeah. That would be part of the \
to:
Well, yeah. That would be part of the \\\"Legendary Soldier\\\" skillset. Notice how Snake counts the shots he hears just before he encounters Ocelot for the second time and then, seeing that he\\\'s switched to a revolver, immediately knows that he and Eva have his number (so long as Eva can handle the knife he has on her, and she does). This tells us (as does the actual gameplay fight shortly thereafter with literal HUD icons tracking the shots in each of Ocelot\\\'s revolvers) that Snake makes it a priority to keep track of how many shots his opponent has (or at least for a revolver or certain other conventional firearms... it doesn\\\'t work so well against bee-firing Tommy Guns or a guy who uses his hands to fire off a machine gun belt). As his mentor, clearly The Boss has carefully honed the same skill. The first time? Assume that Ocelot knows how to perfectly spin his cylinder \\\'\\\'just right\\\'\\\' so that for that gun, the shot will be on the second trigger pull (reasonable assumption given his mastery of other revolver tricks) so that he will be able to pull off the shot on the sixth trigger pull of the juggle, if not interrupted (again, a reasonable assumption given psychology; The Boss knows he has a penchant for flourishing and the skills to pull it off, and if Snake didn\\\'t initially know he would actually try to juggle and shoot, he sure does when he\\\'s spying on Ocelot and the other antagonists the first time).

Then, she keeps track of the gun with the bullet, yes even while it\\\'s being juggled, or if that\\\'s too hard even for her then she counts the trigger pulls and after five, she knows it\\\'s time to act. Ocelot can also keep track (he learns the weight of the gun with the bullet in, or something) and in this first instance, he tosses it straight up into the air (instead of on a diagonal for more juggling) and that means obviously The Boss knows it\\\'s gonna be the one which actually has the shot (and she rubbishes the idea of luck on the battlefield, so yes she most certainly has these skills instead!). In the second instance, Ocelot actually shoots on the fourth trigger pull, and doesn\\\'t toss it straight up, instead shooting after a normal juggle toss. I take that to mean that the first (empty) pull was on the loaded gun, instead of one of the empty guns like he did on the first occasion, and he changed his pattern here to try and throw The Boss (not that she really could have done anything with Volgin standing watch) and Snake off. So this suggests that Snake was even better at keeping track of the loaded gun than The Boss (yes, mid-juggle, and also perhaps showing that he can read Ocelot\\\'s psychology and tells very well) which serves as \\\'\\\'masterful\\\'\\\' foreshadowing that in several different ways, he does have what it takes to surpass The Boss.
Changed line(s) 1 from:
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Well, yeah. That would be part of the \
to:
Well, yeah. That would be part of the \\\"Legendary Soldier\\\" skillset. Notice how Snake counts the shots he hears just before he encounters Ocelot for the second time and then, seeing that he\\\'s switched to a revolver, immediately knows that he and Eva have his number (so long as Eva can handle the knife he has on her, and she does). This tells us (as does the actual gameplay fight shortly thereafter with literal HUD icons tracking the shots in each of Ocelot\\\'s revolvers) that Snake makes it a priority to keep track of how many shots his opponent has (or at least for a revolver or certain other conventional firearms... it doesn\\\'t work so well against bee-firing Tommy Guns or a guy who uses his hands to fire off a machine gun belt). As his mentor, clearly The Boss has the same skill. The first time? Assume that Ocelot knows how to perfectly spin his cylinder \\\'\\\'just right\\\'\\\' so that for that gun, the shot will be on the second trigger pull (reasonable assumption given his mastery of other revolver tricks) so that he will be able to pull off the shot on the sixth trigger pull of the juggle, if not interrupted (again, a reasonable assumption given psychology; The Boss knows he has a penchant for flourishing and the skills to pull it off, and if Snake didn\\\'t initially know he would actually try to juggle and shoot, he sure does when he\\\'s spying on Ocelot and the other antagonists the first time).

Then, she keeps track of the gun with the bullet, yes even while it\\\'s being juggled, or if that\\\'s too hard even for her then she counts the trigger pulls and after five, she knows it\\\'s time to act. Ocelot can also keep track (he learns the weight of the gun with the bullet in, or something) and in this first instance, he tosses it straight up into the air (instead of on a diagonal for more juggling) and that means obviously The Boss knows it\\\'s gonna be the one which actually has the shot (and she rubbishes the idea of luck on the battlefield, so yes she most certainly has these skills instead!). In the second instance, Ocelot actually shoots on the fourth trigger pull. I take that to mean that the first (empty) pull was on the loaded gun, instead of one of the empty guns like he did on the first occasion, and he changed his pattern here to try and throw The Boss (not that she really could have done anything with Volgin standing watch) and Snake off. So this suggests that Snake was even better at keeping track of the loaded gun than The Boss (yes, mid-juggle, and also perhaps showing that he can read Ocelot\\\'s psychology and tells very well) which serves as \\\'\\\'masterful\\\'\\\' foreshadowing that in several different ways, he does have what it takes to surpass The Boss.
Changed line(s) 1 from:
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Well, yeah. That would be part of the \
to:
Well, yeah. That would be part of the \\\"Legendary Soldier\\\" skillset. Notice how Snake counts the shots he hears just before he encounters Ocelot for the second time and then, seeing that he\\\'s switched to a revolver, immediately knows that he and Eva have his number (so long as Eva can handle the knife he has on her, and she does). This tells us (as does the actual gameplay fight shortly thereafter with literal HUD icons tracking the shots in each of Ocelot\\\'s revolvers) that Snake makes it a priority to keep track of how many shots his opponent has (or at least for a revolver or certain other conventional firearms... it doesn\\\'t work so well against bee-firing Tommy Guns or a guy who uses his hands to fire off a machine gun belt). As his mentor, clearly The Boss has the same skill. The first time? Assume that Ocelot knows how to perfectly spin his cylinder \\\'\\\'just right\\\'\\\' so that for that gun, the shot will be on the second trigger pull (reasonable assumption given his mastery of other revolver tricks) so that he will be able to pull off the shot on the sixth trigger pull of the juggle, if not interrupted (again, a reasonable assumption given psychology; The Boss knows he has a penchant for flourishing and the skills to pull it off, and if Snake didn\\\'t initially know he would actually try to juggle and shoot, he sure does when he\\\'s spying on Ocelot and the other antagonists the first time).

Then, she keeps track of the gun with the bullet, yes even while it\\\'s being juggled, or if that\\\'s too hard even for her then she counts the trigger pulls and after five, she knows it\\\'s time to act. Ocelot can also keep track (he learns the weight of the gun with the bullet in, or something) and in this first instance, he tosses it straight up into the air (instead of on a diagonal for more juggling) and that means obviously The Boss knows it\\\'s gonna be the one which actually has the shot (and she rubbishes the idea of luck on the battlefield, so yes she most certainly has these skills instead!). In the second instance, Ocelot actually shoots on the fourth trigger pull. I take that to mean that the first pull was on the loaded gun, instead of one of the empty guns like he did on the first occasion, and he changed his pattern here to try and throw The Boss (not that she really could have done anything with Volgin standing watch) and Snake off. So this suggests that Snake was even better at keeping track of the loaded gun than The Boss (yes, mid-juggle, and also perhaps showing that he can read Ocelot\\\'s psychology and tells very well) which serves as \\\'\\\'masterful\\\'\\\' foreshadowing that in several different ways, he does have what it takes to surpass The Boss.
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