There are...drawbacks to the shonen fighting methods. Anubis snarls, letting the chains drop. If his main attack won't work, he'll lean on more traditional methods of hack-and-slash. He looks for the Black Ceptar, sickle at the ready this time. Hopefully, as much as he was struggling, it was buying time for Najaran to come up with more cards to use, or another plan.

Meanwhile, he had 400 years of hand-to-hand combat to draw from. Hopefully it would be enough.