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“Which website did you and Bo-chan get that from this time?”

We have two setters in the Shiratorizawa team: Shirabu and Semi.

Semi is considered “better” than Shirabu, more skilled, but who is on the court?

Yes, the one who has the feeling of security, not the skilled one.

That’s ‘cause Shiratorizawa doesn’t need a self centered setter, on the contrary: it needs someone who can permitt to strong spikers to shine even more.

The manga repeats us a lot of time the most important capacity of Oikawa as a setter is draw out the maximum potential of the spiker, so he would have been perfect for this game style. He would perfectly fits the setter role to the Shiratorizawa point of view.

What makes Shirabu different from Oikawa is that he REALLY enjoys this type of team based on full strenght

And he WANTS to devote himself to the ace.

Oikawa, well… He could not devote himself to the ace, especially Ushijima.

But Shiratorizawa has other strong spikers aside him who probably aren’t at their best

and I think Oikawa’s love for volley is way much stronger than his hate for Wakatoshi, so I guess he would toss to him at the very end.

Another differences between them, but this time not a favour to Shirabu, is that Oikawa wouldn’t have needed to Wakatoshi saying to use him. Oikawa would have done that on his own. It’s his type of playing make a great use of every spiker with all their differences.

Oikawa would have used him down to the last, until leaves him without stamina (for sadism? Ahahahah! No come on, I’m kidding. I think he really cares of his spikers at the bottom. Or at least he needs them at their maximum potential to win the matches, so he can’t exhausted them) and this is what Ushijima desires too. These two could be a great and strange team as much as Hinata and Kageyama.

Here Wakatoshi shows how much he wants to arrives at his maximum, at the peak of his power no matter what. He probably knows Oikawa would have done that and he’s asking to Shirabu to do the same. Still Oikawa is his ideal setter for this, and we know what killer machine would be Ushijima with this type of ally and his 100% draws out.

(“Come on Ushikawa-chan. You’re dying to see yourself at your full potential. Say it.”)

So while Oikawa could be more near to Shirabu for their security and their set ups totally dedicated to the spiker, Semi could be more a Kageyama type: more skilled but too self centered. Kageyama is better as an attacker than a Setter according to Washijou sensei, the coach (Attention! I’m talking about this part of the manga against Shiratorizawa. “The New King Of The Court” is a totally new song and he’s a Monster both as an Attacker and a Setter).

The fact that Kageyama wasn’t needed in the Shiratorizawa (according to Ushijima) is basically the same thing of Semi who isn’t needed to be a regular on the court even if he’s more skilled than Shirabu.

Apparently in Shiratorizawa you can be the best player in world but, as a setter, you’re totally useless if you shine alone while your team mates aren’t at their best. I kinda understand this, though.

It’s Semi Himself to say us these things. He, just like Kageyama at the beginning of this manga, wanted to fight alone and show only his own power. He’s good at serve and there was only a way in the team to shine and be free of playing as he wants: Become a Pinch Server.

Kageyama, just like him, in the Shiratorizawa team would have been only a Pinch Server. I think that not to be accepted was a fortune to him.

At the end, Shiratorizawa has two setters: one who rappresents the stability of the team and the perfect toss dedicated to the spiker and the one who is good at serving.

Combine them and you have the perfect setter for the Shiratorizawa. Who corresponds with this description?

Exactly. Oikawa. An excellent setter (Ushijima cit.) And a Pinch Server with a god like serve.