From: cat æscling <redacted>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:39:13 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add postscript fur my Timeless Travels season
X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/commitdiff_plain/79848b5218e473001cc60cbf820de286e091e71f

Add postscript fur my Timeless Travels season

* Make an explicit <section> fur my section
* Add langague tagging
* Fix syntax error
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diff --git a/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot b/Sources/Page/PokemonGOPVPTeams.djot
index c21ac5c..814aa7c 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}
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+
 ### [][@:Aescling]
 
 at some point during timeless travels i began to build to build
@@ -158,6 +161,65 @@ 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!
+
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