game 1 i decided to bring a neat triple fight team ft.a few 'mons and sets i consider to be largely underplayed, including my favourite, chople scrafty, cb esca, and sash smash + hazards oma. game started off well, with me trying to re-adjust my position on the couch and accidentally clicking cc into a qwilfish, ruining its mid-game value. as a great man once said, "whoops", but life goes on. tried to re-adjust w/some aggro plays off my omastar, allowing sr to go up (given sawk's sturdy no longer had value) in exchange for a smash, which i had thought would assure me at least 2 ko's. an unfortunate miss corrected me right quick, which put me further in a hole. looking to re-constitute, i sought to make some yet more aggressive plays, bringing in my escavalier raw on the sneasel rk such as to preserve a death fodder and catch qwilfish for some reasonable chip (65%, iirc). hoping to seal the deal there, and having no further value for my xatu, i brought it in as to trade for the qwil, removing the threat of intimidate fodder to stifle a potential end-game scrafty, which at that point was the only route i saw as feasible. sadly, i was met w/a flinch, so again, whoopsies. i bring in sawk to cc, thinking that he wouldn't sack his qwil, and bringing in venomoth was far too risky given it would die to knock, and it had moderate value still in this game (given i made that aggro play w/esca, and +1 buzz proved threatening to me once more), but i guess my opp saw differently, and i got predicted i think(?). having to not lose this exchange and knowing my opp was a fan of sub moth, i went in once more, assuming sleep powder was not the play, and i managed to sneak out of this sequence trading moth for escavalier, which was really the most i could ask for. bringing virizion on qwilfish to keep a death fodder in case it breaks down to repeated intimidate cycling w/scrafty to set up an end-game, i bring in virizion on qwilfish, knowing its a safe play here. i throw cc, hoping he would get over-eager and throw ant out and knowing qwil isn't ohkoed by leaf blade all the same, but no such luck, and i take qwil here. i sac sawk here v.his virizion to force def drops, such as to force a roll / speed tie (since i cannot afford to pull the trigger w/scrafty as of yet), but he instead seeks to bring in durant to pop off w/superpower. seeing my window, i dd twice w/scrafty, since it allows me to win if i hit two hjk's and his durant is adamant (the standard) or misses one attack if jolly, essentially being my closest thing to a "win condition" given how the game panned out. sadly, he did opt for jolly, and his durant was trained by one more impressive than whoever trained my omastar, and he seals the game.
all in all, while i would id a couple of his plays as dubious, and personally i'd have valued my qwilfish a bit more highly in this particular mu, he did play fairly well overall, and in spite of hax, i did enjoy myself.