From: cat æscling Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 23:36:12 +0000 (-0500) Subject: PoGO PVP: Add final team, closing thoughts X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/commitdiff_plain/610ede1d1aee95cfda904d64f4656ae2480b078e?ds=inline PoGO PVP: Add final team, closing thoughts * Its name is Sparkblub, not Sparksblub * The Dragonair is not named Sparkblub --- 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! + ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: [PvPoke]: