From: cat æscling <redacted>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 23:36:12 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: PoGO PVP: Add final team, closing thoughts
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PoGO PVP: Add final team, closing thoughts

* Its name is Sparkblub, not Sparksblub
* The Dragonair is not named Sparkblub
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diff --git a/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot b/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot
index 814aa7c..723af45 100644
--- a/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot
+++ b/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot
@@ -87,7 +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) \
@@ -121,7 +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) \
@@ -218,6 +218,81 @@ 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
+
+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!
+
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