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Tournament LCPL XIII - Finals [Won by the Piplup Patrol]
- Thread starter Eseque
- Start date
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9lc-792285 and as of such, history is about to repeat itself.
CUSTOMS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US LADS LSFG IT PIPLUPS
link is ip grabber my bank account is empty and my builder deleted be careful on the internet guys
only way y'all win is by framing me smh
No, feels weird, Potato bread is awesome though
SV: Fille v. Laroxyl top 10 anime moments where a character rages to win a fight
ORAS: Kingler v. kythr Top 10 anime moments where revenge didn't work
BW: Kaboom v. Envy1 Top 10 anime moments where the power of friendship fails
rip
ORAS: Kingler v. kythr Top 10 anime moments where revenge didn't work
BW: Kaboom v. Envy1 Top 10 anime moments where the power of friendship fails
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yeah, but I'm also allergic to wheat.
Mister Magnus vou ter que ficar anulando toda hora, olha o perigo
If my team didn’t want me to play the tiebreaker.
I’ll help with all my energy
Also Grats Piplups y’all were the best team for the whole season
I’ll help with all my energy
Also Grats Piplups y’all were the best team for the whole season
Vamos piplups
Now that DPP is over I wanted to teamdump.
Week 1 vs SEA (W)
https://pokepast.es/94264ba0333b2c65
Nickname Theme: Characters from Coolboarders 2
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Disgustingly High Stunky usage.
Team Ethos: I came off the back of running lead Gastly at the end of BKCPL with Thunderbolt. I wanted this to be able to exploit certain matchups but not lose out in power or accuracy to using Icy Wind. I forget what it mattered for but it came up in calcs. The main exploit was to have something that could handle most leads and let me start to get in to rotations. The plan was for the rest of the slots to have Stunky counterplay. Recycle Bronzor was meant to be the play, but given the amount of Yache Gligar in the scout in lead, the turn 1 u-turn solidified to me that 1. SEA had to respect I might be scarf bc Gligar probably was, and 2. I need to preserve my Zor as there are lines where it needs to be high because of the likely Gligar set.
Week 2 vs avarice (W)
https://pokepast.es/ef439d9545f7ddd1
Nickname Theme: All Mons were named by one of my Students. The name "The shit that Nibbler shits out in Futurama" was changed in post. My student was also very unimpressed about being shown Pineco after.
Biggest Trend to Exploit: They just gonna get passed something.
Team Ethos: Plan was to run something that would have a great time vs Screens, Rain, and those Staryu/Koffing lead style balances. This was a bit of a non game, but I felt like I was in a strong spot, allowing the rotations as I felt Elekid would be exceptionally well placed here. After the first bit of hax I don't think I needed any more to close out and I still favoured myself without it anyway. Diglett might have been rough but eh.
Week 3 vs Nails (W)
https://pokepast.es/3b19b40636d802b1
Nickname Theme: Nicknames provided by my best friend's gf as his insistence.
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Nails is well known for a building ethos based around Gligar / Munch / Chinchou / Extra Rain Insurance / Ghost / Wildcard.
Team Ethos: Team was built around the Wailmer ironically. In hindsight lead Cran was a nightmare, but my answer was that it couldn't really switch in and I had revenging options. I got lucky in this match, but I think the prep was close to great. The Wailmer has really surprising equity in testing so it was a big shame it couldn't really go for it. Munch was stretched really thin here, as I was expecting to really be in a removal of threat then sweep with Gligar/Chinchou situation. This team needed some tweaking, but was important for my own scout to have. Back Wailmer and no ghost were both things I wanted there moving forward.
Week 4 vs Zcarlett (L)
https://pokepast.es/b700b526d70f1149
Nickname Theme: Nicknames provided by friend.
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Zcarlett is likely to try and c-team balance.
Team Ethos: I struggled really hard this week with building which was in part due to what took me out the next week. I knew I wanted to have something other than balance in my builder, and I built a masterpiece of a team vs her in BKCPL. I chose the water spam with Remo before I'd even seen the Remo from prev weeks, I wasn't watching any other matches in my pool. This team sucked tho. It won the single game of prep I ran with it so I washed my hands of the whole thing and ran with it. Also played the game terribly. My worst week by a long way.
Week 5 Subbed due to medical reasons. Really glad my team was able to back me up. Possibly saved my life. Rest of the team built Ty's team this week.
Week 6 vs HSOWA (W)
https://pokepast.es/ba5b58e684cf684a
Nickname Theme: Playable Characters in Persona 5 Royal
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Expected rain, but with a high screens chance.
Team Ethos: Had to fit Brick Break, Snover, and something to really mess with rain that wasn't munch/chinchou. Settled on going to Scarf Trace Porygon. I felt like I played this about as well as I could have. Made a great read in builder, and managed to never let the (90% likely Drifloon) get in for free on a Tri-Attack. Really straight forward game, didn't see the Teddi tho, and even less the fire punch lol.
Week 7 I was still not doing great, and we figured holding back some stuff might be good. I built the team this week tho.
https://pokepast.es/e3bf0104df0bd069
No Nickname Theme, left it to Ty
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Fantos will be looking to simply outplay.
Team Ethos: Made a conscious decision to play a rocksless team to stop fantos from being able to navigate some of the more complex oran manipulations in complicated lines that would really favour the experience. Snover was required for Diglett shenanigans then. Fantos was also the most likely to run Duskull, so I put in the Duskull exploiter Gligar set. Also expecting to find that Fantos would run something fundamental, HP Ground Gastly felt really good as it would likely grab a Houndour/Stunky off guard while also being a great option for picking off Chinchou. Ty also really liked lead Licky, so we ran that. I last minute swapped to Surf from Ice Beam, which is the better middle ground, but worse in to the exact scenarios that Ty faced. They piloted well, it was a good win.
Semi vs Zcarlett (W)
https://pokepast.es/b97adbb597c25af7
Nickname Theme: My Strahd DnD party
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Fundamentals so I can outplay.
Team Ethos: I wanted to play on my terms so I played comfort style with mons I don't use a lot like Stunky and Machop. I don't think I've ever run a Chop lead in DPP LC before this match, ever. Which is wild. Went for the SpD set with Sub. Ended up getting the Cran vs it which was a shame lol. Decided not to take the 50/50 which actually would have been fine in the end. The GLigar set was going NUTS in testing, went with the best SNover scarf set that exists, and decided after much deliberation to not go for anything else weird. Navigated the game pretty well. Wasn't as clean as it could have been, but played the outs well.
Final vs Fantos (L)
https://pokepast.es/e6a0e7a56b364eed
Nickname Theme: Paw Patrol
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Play for margins with a team that had win on the spot potential but was fine regardless.
Team Ethos: This was a very introspective week where we looked at what was likely to be brought vs me. The prevailing theory was that we would be seeing Elekid and unlikely to see Ponyta. I also had in the back of my mind the high chance of HO. Really stuggled with the build for a long time during the week and this was the only week Turtwig nearly made it through vetting, but I canned it this time before it was even on a build. I said pre-match the only way I lose this is if we see a Gligar lead with Pony. We saw that. Ended up only losing to a speed tie. This team also had Anorith over Gastly for the entire build until the last night.
It was so funny to see the game go exactly how I feared, then still get the exact endgame I predicted, then fucked it up because I went slow on the set for a contingency I didn't even use. But hey, that's mons, and that is my error.
This was a really fun tourney to take part in. I learnt a lot through it and grew a lot as a player. I hope we win the tiebreak, but I'm still really happy with debuting with a 5-2 record and the team going 7-2 in my slot.
Week 1 vs SEA (W)
https://pokepast.es/94264ba0333b2c65
Nickname Theme: Characters from Coolboarders 2
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Disgustingly High Stunky usage.
Team Ethos: I came off the back of running lead Gastly at the end of BKCPL with Thunderbolt. I wanted this to be able to exploit certain matchups but not lose out in power or accuracy to using Icy Wind. I forget what it mattered for but it came up in calcs. The main exploit was to have something that could handle most leads and let me start to get in to rotations. The plan was for the rest of the slots to have Stunky counterplay. Recycle Bronzor was meant to be the play, but given the amount of Yache Gligar in the scout in lead, the turn 1 u-turn solidified to me that 1. SEA had to respect I might be scarf bc Gligar probably was, and 2. I need to preserve my Zor as there are lines where it needs to be high because of the likely Gligar set.
Week 2 vs avarice (W)
https://pokepast.es/ef439d9545f7ddd1
Nickname Theme: All Mons were named by one of my Students. The name "The shit that Nibbler shits out in Futurama" was changed in post. My student was also very unimpressed about being shown Pineco after.
Biggest Trend to Exploit: They just gonna get passed something.
Team Ethos: Plan was to run something that would have a great time vs Screens, Rain, and those Staryu/Koffing lead style balances. This was a bit of a non game, but I felt like I was in a strong spot, allowing the rotations as I felt Elekid would be exceptionally well placed here. After the first bit of hax I don't think I needed any more to close out and I still favoured myself without it anyway. Diglett might have been rough but eh.
Week 3 vs Nails (W)
https://pokepast.es/3b19b40636d802b1
Nickname Theme: Nicknames provided by my best friend's gf as his insistence.
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Nails is well known for a building ethos based around Gligar / Munch / Chinchou / Extra Rain Insurance / Ghost / Wildcard.
Team Ethos: Team was built around the Wailmer ironically. In hindsight lead Cran was a nightmare, but my answer was that it couldn't really switch in and I had revenging options. I got lucky in this match, but I think the prep was close to great. The Wailmer has really surprising equity in testing so it was a big shame it couldn't really go for it. Munch was stretched really thin here, as I was expecting to really be in a removal of threat then sweep with Gligar/Chinchou situation. This team needed some tweaking, but was important for my own scout to have. Back Wailmer and no ghost were both things I wanted there moving forward.
Week 4 vs Zcarlett (L)
https://pokepast.es/b700b526d70f1149
Nickname Theme: Nicknames provided by friend.
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Zcarlett is likely to try and c-team balance.
Team Ethos: I struggled really hard this week with building which was in part due to what took me out the next week. I knew I wanted to have something other than balance in my builder, and I built a masterpiece of a team vs her in BKCPL. I chose the water spam with Remo before I'd even seen the Remo from prev weeks, I wasn't watching any other matches in my pool. This team sucked tho. It won the single game of prep I ran with it so I washed my hands of the whole thing and ran with it. Also played the game terribly. My worst week by a long way.
Week 5 Subbed due to medical reasons. Really glad my team was able to back me up. Possibly saved my life. Rest of the team built Ty's team this week.
Week 6 vs HSOWA (W)
https://pokepast.es/ba5b58e684cf684a
Nickname Theme: Playable Characters in Persona 5 Royal
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Expected rain, but with a high screens chance.
Team Ethos: Had to fit Brick Break, Snover, and something to really mess with rain that wasn't munch/chinchou. Settled on going to Scarf Trace Porygon. I felt like I played this about as well as I could have. Made a great read in builder, and managed to never let the (90% likely Drifloon) get in for free on a Tri-Attack. Really straight forward game, didn't see the Teddi tho, and even less the fire punch lol.
Week 7 I was still not doing great, and we figured holding back some stuff might be good. I built the team this week tho.
https://pokepast.es/e3bf0104df0bd069
No Nickname Theme, left it to Ty
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Fantos will be looking to simply outplay.
Team Ethos: Made a conscious decision to play a rocksless team to stop fantos from being able to navigate some of the more complex oran manipulations in complicated lines that would really favour the experience. Snover was required for Diglett shenanigans then. Fantos was also the most likely to run Duskull, so I put in the Duskull exploiter Gligar set. Also expecting to find that Fantos would run something fundamental, HP Ground Gastly felt really good as it would likely grab a Houndour/Stunky off guard while also being a great option for picking off Chinchou. Ty also really liked lead Licky, so we ran that. I last minute swapped to Surf from Ice Beam, which is the better middle ground, but worse in to the exact scenarios that Ty faced. They piloted well, it was a good win.
Semi vs Zcarlett (W)
https://pokepast.es/b97adbb597c25af7
Nickname Theme: My Strahd DnD party
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Fundamentals so I can outplay.
Team Ethos: I wanted to play on my terms so I played comfort style with mons I don't use a lot like Stunky and Machop. I don't think I've ever run a Chop lead in DPP LC before this match, ever. Which is wild. Went for the SpD set with Sub. Ended up getting the Cran vs it which was a shame lol. Decided not to take the 50/50 which actually would have been fine in the end. The GLigar set was going NUTS in testing, went with the best SNover scarf set that exists, and decided after much deliberation to not go for anything else weird. Navigated the game pretty well. Wasn't as clean as it could have been, but played the outs well.
Final vs Fantos (L)
https://pokepast.es/e6a0e7a56b364eed
Nickname Theme: Paw Patrol
Biggest Trend to Exploit: Play for margins with a team that had win on the spot potential but was fine regardless.
Team Ethos: This was a very introspective week where we looked at what was likely to be brought vs me. The prevailing theory was that we would be seeing Elekid and unlikely to see Ponyta. I also had in the back of my mind the high chance of HO. Really stuggled with the build for a long time during the week and this was the only week Turtwig nearly made it through vetting, but I canned it this time before it was even on a build. I said pre-match the only way I lose this is if we see a Gligar lead with Pony. We saw that. Ended up only losing to a speed tie. This team also had Anorith over Gastly for the entire build until the last night.
It was so funny to see the game go exactly how I feared, then still get the exact endgame I predicted, then fucked it up because I went slow on the set for a contingency I didn't even use. But hey, that's mons, and that is my error.
This was a really fun tourney to take part in. I learnt a lot through it and grew a lot as a player. I hope we win the tiebreak, but I'm still really happy with debuting with a 5-2 record and the team going 7-2 in my slot.