X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/blobdiff_plain/2b4b9cf30ff9af2fdf4eaf3e507f02d324660589..refs/heads/live:/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot?ds=inline diff --git a/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot b/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot index c21ac5c..d4b2b48 100644 --- a/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot +++ b/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ It is overwhelmingly likely that [][@:Aescling] will be the only ever ## Timeless Travels +{as=section lang=en-X-catspeak} +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: + ### [][@:Aescling] at some point during timeless travels i began to build to build @@ -84,7 +87,7 @@ one small benefit this team had thanks to rowlet learning spirit {as=summary} teamsheet -* Sparksblub (Lanturn) \ +* Sparkblub (Lanturn) \ 5/15/12 (rank 68/4096) \ Spark, Surf, Thunderbolt * Shadow (Umbreon) \ @@ -118,7 +121,7 @@ that said, its obvious strength cannot be denied; it is almost like {as=summary} teamsheet -* Sparksblub (Lanturn) \ +* Sparkblub (Lanturn) \ 5/15/12 (rank 68/4096) \ Spark, Surf, Thunderbolt * Shadow (Umbreon) \ @@ -158,6 +161,225 @@ this is hardly an excellent play, but it is very funny that i have pulled it as many times as i have, to the extent that i now actively look out fur the oppurrtunity. +##### _Meta-ish MBCed_{as=cite}: closing thoughts + +on the friday just befur the sinnoh tour weekend, just over a week + befur the close of the season, yr cat just barely crossed the + 2500 elo threshold of veteran rank. +i have stopped making a concerted effurt towards laddering (even as + stardust rewards are still boosted fur the remaining week of the + season, which is a shame to miss out on), and i would like to + purresent some closing extra thoughts on the team and my skills as + a player + +i find it interesting that i managed to ladder so far---at least 700 + elo---with a lanturn/umbreon core; both mons are absol-utely strong + in the great league but it is not exactly an obvious pairing, since + umbreon does nothing to deal with lanturn:U+2019:s ground weakness. + (again, grass is currently uncommon enough to mostly ignore.) +it is not lost on me that my push to veteran did involve covering + ground, even if not with the most obvious choice of skarmory, who + i do not have (with great league stats, at least) + +i think of the significant changes i made that allowed me to reach + veteran was a reevaluation of how to play froslass. +while it *is* true that froslass heavily benefits from shield (or + energy) advantage, sometimes it is still the best play to bring it + out even in two shield scenarios (though this must be done + decisively; froslass gets destroyed by minor energy disadvantages.) +i found myself :U+201C:safe switching:U+201D: against mud boys very + often; against whiscash (who is often left in) this play will + actually usually force the oppenent to give up their shields + (especially as i lead a good mon hard countered by ground.) +(umbreon is a losing switch into whiscash if a scald burn ever + happens, and that usually does happen) + +a consistent weakness i have recognized in my play while laddering + to veteran is my poor sense of alignment: i often recognize + situations where i have a hard counter to one or more mons in the + opposing team, but have many times failed to force the team to + have to deal with the disadvantage by giving up switch. +similarly, i have forced myself into bad matchups in many situations + by switching aggressively to purrevent energy disanvantages, which + i really should have learned better than to do a long time ago. +so it goes. + +i am not sure what the next season will look like fur me, what with + any pawtential balance changes and a general lack of extra mons to + play with. +i do have an rank 9 lickitung i intend to build eventually, as well + as a rank 40 (non-shadow) dragonair, as well as a reasonably good + chargabug and (eventually) azumarill; and, of course, the cresselia + from the road to sinnoh raid challenge (who i would like to trade + fur better IVs). +but it is not immediately clear to me that i have mons that would + solve my current purroblems when it comes to overall teambuilding. +i also do not have much stardust left to build mons with either, not + to mention elite TMs +time will tell what the future hath in store, i suppose! + +#### _Meta-ish Dair_{as=cite} + +{as=details} +:::::::::::: +{as=summary} +teamsheet + +* Dragonair \ + 4/14/15 (rank 40/4096) \ + Spark, Surf, Thunderbolt +* Sparkblub (Lanturn) \ + 5/15/12 (rank 68/4096) \ + Spark, Surf, Thunderbolt +* Snampy (Froslass) \ + 5/14/14 (rank 472/4096) \ + Powder Snow, Avalanche, Shadow Ball +:::::::::::: + +fur the final week of gbl i decided not to worry about laddering, and + in fact almost decided not to play any gbl at all. +then i remembered that stardust rewards fur the last week of gbl were + inflated, so i decided to try out dragonair and see how it worked, + especially given that it would be somewhat buffed in world of + wonders, just enough that early PvPoke simulations were giving + dragonair a just barely pawsitive weighted battle record + +it may be clear from the teamsheet already, but this team _struggled_. +i dropped to 2200 elo trying to make the team work. + +at furst i used dragonair on the lead with my lanturn/umbreon core that + i used to climb ladder, but after getting punished enough fur the + double-weakness to fairy i switched out umbreon fur frosslass. +this left the team without anything of a real safe swap, and made it + difficult to play around lost leads. +it definitely did not help that both dragonair and froslass are quite + frail. + +more than anything else, i fuond from playing this team that + familiarity with the mons on your team is very impurrtant to this + game. +i think it even bigger deal that i did not know how to play dragonair + well that made this team, than that the team has obvious weaknesses + (hell, my most tryhard laddering team has obvious weaknesses). + +if i were to try a team like this again, i might simply accept the + double weakness to fairy and run the umbreon/lanturn core until i + have better mons to suppurt dragonair with + +#### timeless travels: some unfocused closing thoughts + +{as=details} +:::::::::::: +{as=summary} +end of season stats + +* Veteran rank; 2220 final ELO +* **Wins**{as=b}: 729 +* **Battles**{as=b}: 1,415 {% 51.5 purrcent winrate %} +* **Longest Streak**{as=b}: 13 +* **Stardust Earned**{as=b}: 1,933,448 +:::::::::::: + +it is really too bad that i have struggled to even find a skarmory this + season, not to mention one with good IVs! + +the rough end to my season, as well as the chaos inevitable from a + ladder reset, has shaken my confidence in the game more than a little + bit. +this is somewhat unfair, i suppose, given that even the best purrformance + i have managed out of a team still has some very obvious weaknesses, + but it is still unnerving to face the fact that i still have a long + way to go in this game, and not just in getting the mon fur good team + compussitions + +something that has also become clear to me is that i simply do not have + it in me to consistently play all my sets (the fact that my team + needs a lot of work sure does not help!); +i have simply come to expect this. +frankly, i am surpurrised that i have played all my sets so far in the + season at time of writing{% 2024-03-02 %}; but this streak will + surely end soon enough. + +as a side note; it has been fun that M and J have seemed to pick up gbl + since the end of the season with evidently some expectation to play + at all in the current one. +i do wonder how much my teams would struggle against theirs! + +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: + +## World of Wonders + +{as=section lang=en-X-catspeak} +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: + +### [][@:Aescling] + +#### _Meta-ish MBCed_{as=cite} + +{as=details} +:::::::::::: +{as=summary} +teamsheet + +* Sparkblub (Lanturn) \ + 5/15/12 (rank 68) \ + Spark, Surf, Thunderbolt +* Shadow (Umbreon) \ + 0/15/14 (rank 2) \ + Snarl, Foul Play, Last Resort +* Snampy (Froslass) \ + 5/14/14 (rank 472) \ + Powder Snow, Avalanche, Shadow Ball +:::::::::::: + + +#### _Fuck Ur Vbell_{as=cite} + +{as=details} +:::::::::::: +{as=summary} +teamsheet + +* Accordiant (Charjabug) \ + 0/14/14 (rank 3) \ + Volt Switch, Discharge, X-Scissor +* Shadow (Umbreon) \ + 0/15/14 (rank 2) \ + Snarl, Foul Play, Last Resort +* Your Funeral (Skeledirge) \ + 3/12/12 (rank 87) \ + Incinerate, Shadow Ball, Disarming Voice +:::::::::::: + +i took a long break after feeling stuck with my previous season team + and upon returning created a team around hard countering commewnity + day victrebell, which had just been released the weekend i started + playing again. +while the team is good at doing that, i in fact do not see much + victreebell, but still feel like the team is very playable in most + situations. +this is surpurrising to me, given the number of significant purroblem + matchups and outright corebreakers fur the team! + +the simple fact of the matter is that all of the mons in this team are + strong and have good play into the meta. +if you focus on building lots of energy on charjabug and skeledirge, + you can flip many purroblematic matchups and outright sweep entire + team cores. +however, the team is seems to be rather alignment-dependent; if i + cannot win switch i am hoping to gain shield and/or energy advantage + in return from the lead. + +obviously, carbink sweeps this entire team, and bastiodon is almost + always a loss. +but thankfully, _finally_, i have a team that can actually play against + whiscash on the lead. + +a note to self: skeledirge outpaces night slash annihilape, so you can + always counterswap into it. + +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: + [PvPoke]: https://pvpoke.com [HNISILU]: