RESURGENCE
During Week 4, I lost a bit of motivation and got busier, then I went on vacation, I came back week 7 and wrote a recap more detailed than ever with so many new elements for weeks 4-7, I had it saved to the drafts because it wasn't done and it disappeared in two days so I said fuck it, I'm not continuing this shit but I told someone if their team made playoffs I would do it all over again, less detailed than I initially had it(If it’s more than 30 turns, it probably ain’t getting touched, ima keep it a buck, if it says "yeah" that's a guaranteed not happening), the team unfortunately made playoffs and I'm a man of my word so here we are, back, with a new approach, better than ever....
SCL Ubers Recap Week 4
Glimm continues to show how inconsistently bad it can be with a 22% WR overall. (It’s WR stayed the same from the last time I wrote this shit lol)
Ditto outbreak, after 3 weeks of straight offense, people have started to counter that key playstyle of the metagame using the equalizer.
Lana unleashed after a subpar performance from false.
First Lunala sighting since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
Kyogre & Ho-Oh left home with 100k to gamble at the casino and came home with 0.
Webs seemed to have took all of Kyogre & Ho-Oh’s money before they even got there.
M Dragon vs entrocefalo
Webs continues to be one of the best, if not the best playstyle at the moment; way harder to play around and it doesn’t look like the ghostceus webs will be slowing down anytime soon, while M Dragon decides to bring some standard balance. Scarf Ribombee lead into Ho-Oh, 5x scale shots back to back turns, and a fire blast dodge with zacian, ultimately winning entro the game definitively. Entro got a little bit lucky this game but nothing I would say drastically changed the outcome of the game.
Lana vs fade
The first sighting of Ditto, it didn’t get any playtime as the game was won before it came out. Glimm sets up a tspike while LO Mirai gives it a life lesson, Groundceus comes in and gets hit with Draco as it clicks Judgment, killing the Miraidon but putting the Groundceus in range of any mon to be revenge killed. Caly-Ice comes in and clicks Tera Fire to tank the BB and set up TR. Caly-Ice clicks SD on the Zacian CC as the Fairyceus comes in and lives the glacial roll, allowing two TR turns to be wasted. At this point, the game was over whether jon won the speed tie with his mirai or not. Well, there was certain variables that could have helped endgame but who cares. Small mistakes can cost you the game, in this instance, it was not clicking recover on the draco, I do understand jon’s viewpoint as he thought it could be agility + dpulse and he clicked tspikes over mudshot first because he thought it could be eject pack, shit happens.
Aberforth vs 7u9i2
Finally, CM Ghostceus without webs, unfortunately for Aber, he brought treads into this shit. Aber catches 7u on the scarf u-turn and clicks overheat on the zacian switch, scorching it to oblivion and pivoting into ho-oh with the eject pack. 7u starts to get bullied by the kyogre as it’s free to come in and click ice beam on several turns but it’s slowly dying from the hazards. With ogre very low, Caly-I has a way better time than it would it being healthy. 7u sacks the korai to ho-oh after killing the opposing one to allow mirai to come in and click u-turn into ghostceus and set up a free CM, forcing ho-oh to come in and whirlwind. Aber safely whirlwinds out the caly-I on a potential tera fire + sd and burns the ghostceus as it clicks cm. Caly-I comes in on the treads volt switch and clicks SD on the recover, setting up tr, and now able to spam glacial. Caly eventually dies to the ogre as ghostceus can now come in and click cm and win the game.
Icemaster vs Reje
The first sighting of Lunala begins as it’s paired up with threats such as groundceus, dual bikes, zacian, and ditto vs traditional webs with dual steels + kyu-b. Icemaster brings in his ditto turn 1 in an attempt to get up sticky webs of his own but Reje seen it coming from a mile away as he brings in groundceus. Ice switches ditto out into korai and takes a chunk of damage from eq, flare blitzing, trying to get as much damage done as possible and dies to the second eq. Ice goes into his own arc and clicks judgment as reje switches into his own bee, breaking it’s potential sash. Reje clicks stun spore, predicting the zacian-c to come in to get an opportunity to shift the game projection. The endgame goes on for a bit more but not to any surprise, zacian + kyu-b was too much for the rest of ice’s team.
RichardMillePlain vs Kate
I don’t think I’ve seen Kate not go for a single speed tie, doesn’t matter the turn, I like that mentality, for the better or for the worse. RPM clicks u-turn, disengaging his korai and pivoting into zac to take the draco. RPM clicks blades as Kate goes into her lando and sets up rocks while taking two blades. She switches into her ghostceus on the pr as RPM goes into ogre and clicks beam on the korai switch-in. Kate doubles into ghostceus and sets up cm as mirai comes in, sets up again on the drift, clicks judgment on the taunt, kills the mirai and gets revenge killed by the korai. Kate goes into mirai and clicks draco as RPM sacks lando. Kyogre misses pulse on mirai but activates its custap and kills mirai with beam. Korai comes in and clicks u-turn and kills ogre for free, pivoting into zacian while RPM brings in his korai, tera fires and clicks flare blitz, obliterating the dog. Kate goes into her own korai, wins the speed tie, and wins the game.
SCL Ubers Recap Week 5
Webs continues to take everyones money and has no indication of stopping anytime soon.
Debut of Iron Bundle, Zamazenta, and Hatterene.
Deoxys-Attack & Rayquaza return for the second time this year.
Mashing unleashed.
Speed-Tie Sweatshop still open.
7u9i2 vs Kate
Very unique structure from 7u here while Kate used standard glisc + ogre bo. 7u low kicks the ogre while Kate clicks pulse thinking that 7u would pivot out into the likes of ho-oh/arch/hatt, in range of a 2hko. Kate is forced to switch out as she goes into glisc, knowing the sequence, 7u switches into bundle to catch the glisc. Bundle clicks pump while Kate tera waters the glisc and clicks toxic, putting the threatening penguin on a timer. Senseless turns of no progression goes on till korai outrages the groundceus, putting itself in range to die to judgment. Mirai comes in and clicks a free dpulse on the arc switches to ogre. Glisc gets up tspikes, making it quite difficult for ekiller + lo mirai in the back. Ekiller eventually comes in and kills the mirai, kate decidingly goes into korai and doubles into glisc on the bundle switch-in. Kate switches against into NDM and clicks DD twice as it gets hit with nuzzle by hatt. Atp, the game is over, the other turns didn’t matter as toxtect glisc + ndm was too much for a poisoned ekiller with only 8 recover pp.
entrocefalo vs Icemaster
Icemaster decided to bring lunala back to back, this time on webs while entro brought glimm, the sisyphus of the metagame, doomed to fail and only good on paper. Entro decides to lead off with zac this time after getting flashbacks from leading glimm into scarf bee. Entro activates his tera and attempts to mortal spin on the korai as ice goes into zacian to block it, enabling himself to set up a SD as entro clicks mud shot to have the scarf korai be faster and revenge kill it. Ice brings in lunala, clicks cm, and sweeps the rest of the team.
Mashing
Two straight offenses, nothing new, a bit time as one has a zamazenta and the other has a deoxys-attack. Jon leads off with mirai on thr obvious deo-a and clicks dpulse while mashing psycho boost. Mashing switches into zac and clicks blades critting the lando, putting it in range of a second blades forcing jon to switch into groundceus and recover. Jon flare blitzes the lando, sending it into oblivion. Mashing brings zac back in knowing korai is banded and clicks blades as jon sacks his lando and brings back in his mirai to drift. Mashing goes into her own and clicks agility as jon goes into zac to sack it to lo drift, allowing him to go into groundceus with no issue and click recover to scout draco. Jon goes for ID while Mashing clicks low kick and she doubles into mirai as jon recovers again, clicking overheat. Korai comes in and lk’s the groundceus, jon goes into mirai, tera ghost to be immune and clicks drift, switches out to sack the korai to bring the terrain back out once mirai comes back in. Unfortunately for jon, ekiller revealed to be tera ghost, and he ends up losing the game.
Aberforth vs Lana
Same six, different structure, beautiful. Lana leads off with a scarf bee as she tricks the treads, locking it into rocks, forcing it to switch. Aber goes into bee and sets up his own sticky web as lana stun spores the opposing. Treads comes in and is blocked by lana’s ghostceus, forcing another switch and a free CM. Aber brings in korai and clicks lo outrage, doing a large chunk to ghostceus but receiving the same amount of damage back, the equivalent to newton’s third law. NGL, I gotta go somewhere I’m going to briefly skip through this shit I ain’t comin back. Aber brings in elec seed agility mirai and clicks parabolic but lana revealed tera ground, tera blasting and blading back to back, killing the mirai and the ghostceus.
Reje vs RichardMillePlain
Webs vs offense, the results are too clear. Obvious bee lead from RPM and semi-obvious lead from Reje, bringing out zac almost guarantees its sub or it could be some trailblaze shit but I highly doubt the latter 9 times out of 10. Reje goes for the sub + sd in an attempt to overwhelm RPM’s team but RPM came prepared with qd and landed stun spore, rendering the zac useless and easy to revenge kill. Mirai comes in and kills the zac with drift; the groundceus comes in gets hit with draco and taunted to it can’t recover as it dies to judgment in the process. RPM brings in korai and clicks SD, scaling down the groundceus and damaging the lando immensely, dying, as it went out guns blazing. Ghostceus cm’s and wisp the korai, rendering it useless, allowing ghostceus to sweep the rest of the mons with judgment + tera ghost.
SCL Ubers Recap Week 6
Debut of Cresselia
A new competitor has risen the ranks, groundceus, for the past five weeks the top 3 remained the same, times have changed. Ting-Lu has also usurped the hierarchy.
Ribombee has been charged with multiple offenses and doesn’t look to be freed anytime soon.
Lana vs 7u9i2
Aberforth
Not much to say here, bee was lead into gira-o, forced to switch out, mashings zacian free to come in and click behemoth, killing the lunala, then switching out into korai on the opposing zac blades, flare blitzing it, destoying it. Aber goes korai and switches into bee as a sack to scout pr, which was to be revealed, forcing him to tera fire korai. Aber goes for flame charge to gain some speed, cc’s the kyogre and then the groundceus, dying in the process. Aber goes into fairyceus and tries to set up iron def but mashing goes zacian and can spam sd freely, that’s game.
fade
Taka
Full Trick Room vs Webs, THEE worst matchup webs could’ve ever seen. Scarf mirai volt switches out into hatt and sets up tr. Groundceus judgments the mirai letting the korai come in and SD, clicking outrage immediately killing the cress but being revenge killed by scarf mirai. Taka goes into zac, sd’s, then wild charges the ogre, putting him in range of drift so he tera’s as RPM predicts that and goes for draco. Taka goes into ghostceus in an attempt to setup cm but groundceus is revealed to be perish song, game over.
Kate vs Reje
SCL Ubers Recap Week 7
Miraidon finally got hit with a federal indictment as the jury’s deemed him guilty, bulky offense and stall can now freely leave witness protection.
A new King is in town, Ho-Oh.
Eternatus uprising.
Eleceus trend.
SCL Ubers Recap Week 8
Lunala earns a top 3 spot in usage.
Eleceus is set up for failure with a 0% win rate.
Ribombee webs also has a 0% win rate.
Clodsire is back like it's 2023.
Mewtwo is here and ready.
Lana
7u9i2
Mewtwo screens vs a unique structure, don’t necessarily have a name for this, balance-adjacent? Mashing sets up reflect as 7u breaks through it by critting flare blitz, Mashing goes into lunala and psyshocks as 7u goes into clodsire, 7u tera fairies his ho-oh thinking mashing would meteor beam. Ho-oh whirlwinds out the lunala and in comes groundceus, killing the ho-oh and being revenge killed by waterceus. In comes the biggest threat of all, mewtwo, it clicks agility, tera psychics, and sweeps the rest of the team.
RichardMillePlain vs SoulWind
fade
More mewtwo, I fuck with mewtwo. Jon leads off with korai as Kate leads off with zacian, Kate goes for sd on the eleceus switch and gets two high rolls. She reveals trailblaze, forcing jon to tera ghost to guarantee the zacian kill. Jon eventually goes into zacian and clicks SD, killing the etern and chipping the waterceus as he gets burned by wisp. Kate goes into ho-oh to live a wild charge as jon goes into lunala and moongeist, unfortunately, the ho-oh lives on 1%. Kate’s lunala is revealed to be phys def and the korai is scarf, game could not be won by jon atp.
TDNT vs Scottie
SCL Ubers Recap Week 9
Ekiller replaces lunala in the top spot.
Ho-Oh & Koraidon still seem to be the biggest threats in the meta currently, staying at #1 and #2 consistently these past three weeks.
Richard | 77 |
entrocefalo / Taka / Scottie | 75.5 |
fade | 75 |
Icemaster | 75 |
M Dragon / Mashing | 74.5 |
Reje / TDNT | 71 |
7u9i2 / Suzuya | 70.5 |
Aberforth / Soulwind | 68.5 |
Kate | 67.5 |
False / Lana | 65.5 |
Now that this is done, I would like to say I will actually go in depth instead of half-assing with the playoff matches, there was just too many games for me, I mean this shit is at 2700 words minimum.
Predictions
Icemaster vs RichardMillePlain
Last time, I predicted Richard to win but I'm going to go with Ice this time, he struggled at the beginning of the season going 1-3 but turned it around winning 5 games in a row, I think the momentum will continue.
Reje vs. Kate
I'm going to go with Reje, at the beginning of the season I said Reje was drafted for a reason and he put in the work to show he's more than capable of not only playing, but starting in this SCL.
