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I haven't talked about Zenos' backup much yet because I felt it was important to establish to what extent he is by far the biggest force on the field. You might think this is because the rest of my team is outshined by Kamek's... andyou'd be wrong. Not only is Zenos the strongest fighter on deck, Selvaria is either the second or third strongest with ease, depending on how you rate Tusk. I'll let her feats speak for themselves:

She devastates tanks, plural, with a single shot of her Valkyrur lance...: https://streamable.com/pnfug
She deflects tank shells...: https://streamable.com/8o3q5
Moves so fast it looks like she's teleporting around...: https://streamable.com/grj61
Dodges bullets and even slices them clean in half while not even using her Ragnite lance and shield or the full extent of her powers...: https://streamable.com/eugu8

...And even withstands getting shot at multiple times if someone can actually get a hit on her and keeps on going without really being slowed down (my apologies for not providing an easy bite-sized link for this particular aspect of her powers -- it's when she activates her Valkyrur Final Flame, once again stripped of her lance and shield so her ability to channel her power should be lower than usual before unleashing the explosion). Point being, not one damn thing in Aigis' gunner arsenal can hurt her, and she's so tough that Aigis isn't liable to get much of a chance to cast while she's bearing down on her. And she has to be killed twice, too, or possibly even more times than that. She's liable to tear through the enemy team incidentally while fighting some of their heavy hitters, and no one really has the capacity to check her for long.

Then there's Tifa. I assume most people here have played Final Fantasy Remake by now and witnessed her asskicking glory. What some might have forgotten is that we've seen her fight without materia, out of practice, and with a child to protect before in Advent Children, and she still kept up perfectly well with Loz, whose punches could smash stone pillars -- and here, all she has to deal with is having her materia scattered in close proximity. Losing materia is barely gonna slow her down for the initial asskicking, and once she has it back, Carbuncle is a tide-turner. It can haste the whole team, give them defensive buffs, and oh, did I mention that its Diamond Dazzle move can both full heal the whole team and revive them? So on the off chance Selvaria goes down twice or Kiryu bites the dust early, there you go -- that gets them back in the game, easy as you please, and it can't be wasted because it'll automatically trigger if Tifa herself is somehow KO'd. A pair of tiger shots are going to sting, but they're not nearly enough to slow her down very much.

And then there's Kiryu. Kiryu, who's taken getting shot multiple times, getting hit with a lead pipe defenselessly for 30 seconds straight, who was stabbed by an envenomed blade before he went out to fight tigers barehanded, who regularly trades blows with Goro Majima, a lunatic who can hit with so much force as to blow through the entire floor of a soapland with one swing, bringing their fight to its basement. He'll be just fine here, Tiger Shot or no Tiger Shot. His job here is to take the survivors of the enemy team after the initial ambush wrecks them and make them regret being born. For personality reasons, I expect him to seek out Sagat, as a warrior of his caliber can sense other warriors. I consider this a fairly even matchup by default, but Kiryu won't be operating at his default -- he'll be sped up and taking half damage from everything Sagat, and he has either a full heal or an extra life to spare, depending on how you think the fight goes. He's got this.

So where does this leave us overall? My team has two out of the three best fighters on the field. It has the enemy team split up and wounded. It has attacks the enemy team has no answer for. It has a very, VERY significant durability and AoE advantage. The situation is as simple as divide and conquer, compounding advantages in both power and strategy into an overwhelming victory. That is all.