Sidewinder vs Hydra

First-ever Hydra solo kill in a Sidewinder. Made possible by the +120% damage of premium ammo with the small hammergauss. Took a painful 10 synths of premium ammo and 8 synths of basic ammo to do (though it could arguably have been done with "just" 8+6, maybe even less) plus 25 synths of heatsinks and 4 synths of limpets. This was my 3rd serious attempt at this fight; I have a couple bloopers of the sidey eating 128 enraged Thargon missiles, before managing to pull this fight off.

Also, this is the first time ever I've used a Weapon Focused / Cluster Capacitors build; Full build info here: https://edsy.org/s/vN0ms1M

LiveSplit AX files here; this is the free tool I use to automatically track split times for hearts destruction (and overall): https://github.com/Astyrrean/LiveSpli...

Full-length (raw, unedited footage) here:    • Sidewinder vs Hydra (FULL LENGTH UNED...  

Credits:
CMDR Maligno, for showing us the "way of the sidey" [ship name is dedicated to him]
CMDR HeliMeli (NEWP), for nagging me to do this in Horizons without taking advantage of uninterruptible synth bug in Odyssey, and for pointing out every single mistake of my very-approximate flakless flying 🙃
CMDR Lawson FPV (09TH), CMDR LMAO-C (Conspirator), CMDR Orlandu, CMDR Aeroblast (09TH), CMDR Sirruf, CMDR Michal17 (DUCC) for always cheering me on through my mad endeavor
CMDR Toyotanos (AXIN) for helping me make this video a lot better
CMDR Konstantine Novakov, for agreeing to create some of his awesome cover art for the edited version of this video
CMDR alterNERDtive (GMBT), for his amazing code for LiveSplit; "it just works"™️
CMDR Aranionros Stormrage, for spending his time playing GW2 and leaving all the AX glory to us 😈

Glory, To Mankind !!!

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Background to the fight
04:55 - Fight begins
06:50 - Heart 1 destroyed, repair
07:52 - Heart 2
10:09 - Heart 2 destroyed, repair
12:00 - Heart 3
13:28 - Heart 3 destroyed, repair
13:49 - Heart 4
16:08 - Heart 5
19:00 - Heart 6
21:15 - Heart 7
24:34 - Heart 8
25:51 - Final kill