Hello world, this is gonna be my first ever post that isn't like "in" or "won ggs" so hopefully this is functional (I don't know what I'm doing)
NDBD
I had a pretty disappointing NDBD where i didn't play my best and spent most of it trying to catch up to a rapidly developing meta while being largely out of the loop of all the cookery happening behind the scenes, still s/o redgoop and dbd for buying me, even tho I wasn't able to put up a good score I had fun and learned a lot
W1 was just a default sun team, not that many thoughts on it, just wanted something generically strong and easy to play (not my team so no paste)
W2 vs Voltix
This week I was a fair bit more involved w teambuilding, the general idea was that into arty's scout fini and mence especially looked really strong so I wanted him to bring some sort of arch rain to counter that, the first draft ended up looking pretty similar to goth rain comps later in the tour funnily enough, but the actual final team ended up pretty different going in a kyub direction to try catch mons in that vein in a different direction
first draft
(final team is not mine again so no paste)
W3 vs Jello
From here on out I was starting so I generally have more structured thoughts on what the teams are meant to counter and just generally do. At this point in time I was very convinced that ghold solved a meta that at least from what I saw at the time was moving towards pao mence or stak fini hands semiroom comps both of which it sits on very hard so I wanted to build something around it. The team aims to keep offensive pressure and allow my clickers to safely press buttons
W4 vs xqiht
This week ngl I was very tapped out of after getting my wisdom teeth out a few days before, eventually just decided to copy an eragon team from invis that seemed good without putting much further thought into it and got punished pretty hard for subpar prep and play
W5 vs eragon
Eragon had been using like pretty much exclusively semiroom in invis so I decided to try beat that with a semiroom of my own and a pretty hard comfort pick (unfortunately a pretty outdated comfort pick as it turns out) that aimed to catch the high flutter, mmence, incin and lando usage with gambit in particular. General aim is to hit some reads, get one of the 2 setup wincons into position and press buttons until everything is dead. This team is probably getting increasingly outdated because of the shift towards goth (a lot of the mons are goth fodder which eragon took advantage of) among other things.
W6 vs foods
With the rise of goth and given my lack of sun usage for probably the last like 6 months lol I decided to have some fun and load up the same goth sun team that xq clapped me with a few weeks ago. Sun needs no introduction, just has endless very pressy buttons that are very hard to switch into. The team I loaded in the end was unfortunately a pretty bad version of the full potential of goth sun due to lack of experience with both goth and sun in building and playing, but it is what it is
what I loaded (we don't talk about the yard set)
what could've been
W7 vs farfromani
Pretty standard rain team that aimed to catch out their general lack of the highest speed tier that would allow things like koko and basc to press many buttons and occasional lack of tr coverage, i think if i were to rebuild the team I'd change the mence set, esp without better support dd is very ambitious but idt tw is that great either cause of how the 3 mons that could benefit from tw probably already just outspeed everything and my other 3 mons are slow as bricks so they can't really benefit from it. The main problem I had while trying to build was just getting all of the potential components of rain onto one team, wanted to run arch pretty badly but didn't want to dedicate enough support for it to make it actually a good mon
Invis
My thoughts here are gonna be a lot less detailed and targeted cause of how I scout and cteam a lot less aggressively for individual tours (maybe that's what I need to do in teamtours lol) and just generally load what I think is good and/or funny at the time. (disclaimer: these teams are now pretty old and probably outdated and also idr my reasons for bringing some things exactly)
vs Schister
yeah idr lol, this team in particular is very outdated
aimed to catch pretty defensive cores with only phys stopping being intim
built during my 'ghold is the messiah' arc
vs Logice
I had played 2 games vs Jello the week prior and got immensely cooked by mawile so I wanted to use it
vs McBruh
I had some fire cteams prepped (here they are) that I didn't get to use and instead played badly and loaded bad teams
Shoutouts
I wouldn't be here, able to throw games in the largest tours, without all the testers and friends who helped me. Massive shoutout to
Sunrose (ty for all the games and chat),
Wesleyy (manager of first teamtour in ndfl, pretty much learned the tier to support),
Test Bots,
Daepiquejt,
Penter,
shadekirby321,
ARTYMASION and any other testgamers i've forgotten (sorryyyy), yall are goats
lmk if anything is wrong or not working with this post I once again do not know what I'm doing
This tier is so peak, let's hope for another good year
