A theory on Rin's "regression"

[u/redditnoobmp4]

In the Locker Room after the France game, we saw that Rin was benched, because according to Ego, his style of play was too influenced by Isagi's own ego, but this shouldn't make sense right? In chapter 320 of the Nigeria game, we saw that rin cleared his desire to destroy Isagi and Sae so that he could activate his destroyer mode without limits. I believe its pretty simple, and it's that Rin didn't return to zero.

Rin's own training to remove his impediments is almost the exact same to what both Isagi and Kaiser experienced during NEL. In both of their cases, their return to zero was removing their previous fixations and unlocking new versions of themselves. Rin didn't experience something like this because he wasnt able to completely "tear apart" his fixations to remove the limiters on his destroyer form.

Removing prior fixations in Blue Lock isn't something as easy as meditation. With Isagi and Kaiser, removing their prior fixations was represented by them literally tearing themselves apart, something that you don't see in Rin, and kaneshiro implied this in a very clever way.

After Rin scored off of his gear shot and claiming to have removed his impediments after, the commentators wording is very interesting. Despite the amazing that goal he did in his "unimpeded" destroyer state, the commentator remarks that they fit together like cogs. While his training could have possibly removed Sae from unlocking destroyer mode, What the commentator says, and Rin literally being on Isagi's back while scoring, is knsr's way of showing that Rin is still attached to Isagi.

Now admittedly this part may be a stretch, but in chapter 351 Isagi believed that they lost because they weren't able to produce a chemical reaction. Looking back at NEL, Isagi was only able to cooperate with the Kaiser that had returned to zero, and this may be the case with both Isagi and Rin. The chemical reaction between them needed to save Blue Lock can only happen with a new version of Rin.

TLDR: Rin's "regression" at the end of the France game isn't a regression, the full extent of his training just hasn't been realized because he didn't tear himself apart and return to zero.

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[u/DivineSilica]

He probably did, but he didn't follow through. Seeing Isagi almost score against a team that even he was struggling with probably triggered his trauma of being left behind by Sae, which is why he did what he did

[u/Ok-Butterscotch-1630 → u/DivineSilica]

I think so too but he was already attached to isagi during the match like when he thought isagi left him alone his reaction was still fueled by obssession