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