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UU 2021 UU Circuit Playoffs - Finals [Won by Shiba]

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Congratulations to Poek to making the last round.


Thank you to my supporters, especially:

  • KM and xujing691691 for supporting me throughout the tour in small discord chat and giving hours worth of advice and tests
  • Adaam for later joining that small chat even after I haxed him r1 to support
  • Aqua Jet for tests and ideas
  • Arxtric for tests

https://pokepast.es/0ce3f23ef6be1c2e

Game 1 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8uu-599265

Brief thoughts on where play could be improved by me:

Turn 6: Toxic is a little overly ambitious and can be healed by a likely Heal Bell anyways if I hit Azelf, Scald is probably optimal here for Amoonguss burns

Turn 26: Obviously Nihilego should not be sacrificed because it's necessary to keep Togekiss comfortably countered. The logic was of course not anticipating Iron Head - kudos to Poek for keeping that hidden and going for a poor play here by me. Shadow Ball Close Combat is the optimal Aegislash set for the meta but his set is logical considering he already had a dedicated stall breaker, Togekiss. Umbreon made more sense here. The position goes from quite pleasant for me (Nihilego pressures him long term AND stops Togekiss) to considerably worse in this turn. Inexcusably poor play for a stall main...

Turn 48: Staying in isn't obviously incorrect, but it is impatient - I can pretty easily Defog whenever I need to later in the game if Mence keeps the HDB. Anticipating a SR here, I try to stay in and weaken Krook - poor play because I need an early wake and to get the prediction right, and damage on Krook isn't really game breaking. Better here is to go Umbreon.

Turn 69: Roost is definitely a play since it covers everything, including a very likely U-Turn (did not expect Azelf the progress maker to be sacked), but DWB worked here and got the KO. Roost funnily enough wouldn't have worked because of the drop

Turn 90: At this point, Ditto is getting a bit low as Poek is correctly Sludge Bombing it and Regen is getting outdone by SR + Bomb, probably better here was to fish for Scald burn

Those are my main thoughts on where my play could be improved...I'll of course be reviewing this multiple times.

This was an embarrassingly pathetic and shameful loss and poor play by me. I threw away prep to reuse a stall team because I was too confident in my stalling skills. I apologize to those who helped me.

I hope to get stronger from this and keep playing UU.
 
Poek vs Shiba -

Poek had the more convincing semis win, winning 2-0 compared to Shiba's 2-1. But I generally favor people who struggle to go further, it might heighten their sense of danger.

It's hard to evaluate Poek's trajectory since he wasn't challenged that much in the last round but Shiba seems to have been improving over the course of the tournament so I see it trending in his favor. Poek seems to be bringing a greater variety of teams though, with almost all of Shiba's team being quite fat offenses but Poek risking more HO. I feel like Shiba will have more prep this time though and not be at a MU disadvantage so I predict him.
 
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