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Tournament OMPL XII - Post-OMPL Thread
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Wasn't sure if I would actually get around to this ever but here goes - hopefully this doesnt end up as another drafted post that just gets deleted cos I procrastinate finishing it for too long haha.
Gonna start off with a bit of a tour breakdown from my perspective, with some shoutouts, and then ill wrap it up with a team dump and if can be bothered ill briefly explain how they work. I might decide to leave the team dump though for a second post instead in case any of them get used in the remainder of the ompl games though.
*Future racool here* did in fact do this more or less as I cant say for certain that none of my teams will be brought, unlikely but not impossible. I have written this all out though, so I will just edit the actual teams backin once this tour is done so be sure to check back in if you are interested :) I will also chop them up and post in metagame threads too if i get around to it, if not someone else can feel free rofl.
OMPL breakdown from racools perspective:
I honestly didn't even expect to be back this summer - I havent come back to mons in years and the few times I have was only for a few months. Furthermore in the past when I would come back, all my close friends were still active or would also come back for ompl same as me. Not to mention the metas felt a lot more comfortable and enjoyable to me at least back then. However for some reason unbeknownst to even myself, I ended up feeling quite motivated to manage an ompl, and draft a team full of as many of my old friends as possible. I wanted a fun tour where we just all collaborated made some heat teams and hopefully suprrised some people along the way :P
That being said, my lack of knowledge of the current playerbases especially in metas such as PIC and inh but really across the board really hampered me in the draft, and I think if I manage in the future ever it will only be if Ive been active for a bit longer than I was before this tour. I say this because being able to pivot is an essential skill in drafting in an auction - I know this because the last time I managed with the 5-star jolteons, I had a very clear draft plan built around geerat, but he ended up balooning in price and I pivoted into QT which worked excellently - we made finals and lost in a very close tiebreaker. I also did not expect to get so involved in quite a few metas, which did make this tour a lot more enjoyable, but also bittersweet af as I struggled not being able to play and help my team more. I gave it my all though so as much as some foresight might have helped, I cant say I have any deep regrets, and despite this being the first time I have never made poffs of a tour.... I still had a surprising amount of fun! :)
Shoutouts
Quantum Tesseract T - thank you for agreeing to manage w me. Tbh the prospect of managing coming off of being pretty firmly quit was a bit daunting, and I dont think I would have if you hadnt agreed. I know you were a bit dissapointed w your results, but Im also well aware that you were pretty fried for time and if I had to last minute prep for multiple metas and play raw I would do worse tbh. You also kinda entirely saved our draft whilst I was busy moaning about how it didn't go to plan, and furthermore the week where there was all that drama you put up with me being quite dramatic and kept it from spiralling. I do hope we get to team again sometime, if we do we definitely winning!! If not though was a pleasure.
Potatochan - Honestly what an arc. From 'who the fuck is a potato chan' to 'Im so fucking glad we have a potato chan' !! Genuinly probably the biggest single reason I got so engaged with this tour. Testing with you throughout multiple tiers and just repeatedly cooking was without a doubt the highlight of the tour for me. I just wish there was some parallel universe where you actually cared enough about ompl despite all the other tours you were in to be fully locked in all tour, cos i genuinly think locked in potato goes 7-0 here. Like you werent even played in the tier you wanted to play, and then you were forced to play the entire tour when you only wanted to play a couple weeks, and ended up having to play 6 metas, and despite going positive, I know youre a bit dissapointed in the fact that your 3 losses were entirely avoidable and focused you doesnt lose those. Tells you all you need to know about how cold you are. You were the only one I tested with all tour who repeatedly outplayed me, and you pushed me to actually build sick teams and de-rust playing wise so I could keep up. If I end up managing again you will be the first person I draft and thats not even an exxageration. Upbid me to 22k+, idgaf.
Atha - Ngl you entirely saved our tour, especially with the slow start followed by close week after close week.... I dread to think what would have happened if we didnt like walk into every single week up 1-0 thanks to you. Also with me quite busy with work and then trying to help quite a few slots in the end, having such a confident and consistent player and builder who was kinda uninspired and still dominated without needing really any help..... yea was pretty fucking clutch.
hayedenn - A close second to atha when it came to carrying us lol. Firstly im really sorry about the whole mix up we had in the penultimate week, especially looking back on it, was pretty badly communicated and handled. Ngl you were the most enjoyable slot to watch cos you pushed variety and brought heat teams. The week you brought kommo-o was my favorite replay of the tour!! With you and atha we were largely going into every week up 2-0 and I just wish we were able to do that more justice, because you deserved to make poffs and have a crack at winning this thing. I was worried when we had no money for mnm but QT nabbing you i think was undoubtedly the steal of the tournament and one im very grateful for !!
ghostlike - I know you were beating yourslef up by the end of the tour, but you were still one of our strongest performers, and most commited preppers so in my mind theres nothing to beat yourself up about. I mean goatlike was a thing by week3 with the flying start you got off to, and outside fo that your only 3 losses came in an unwinnable mu, as well as 2 game 3's in a very compettiive bo3. You also were torn on the gg loss between the team you brought and a diff team, so that one really is just total bad luck. The other 2 series were winnable but like losing to stresh and abriel in a g3 each time is nothing to feel bad about. Lets also not forget that you didnt get to play either of your top 2 options all tour outside of bo3 which is a whole diff ballgame. One of the most thorough preppers Ive seen and your ideas are super cool, ty for getting us plenty of much needed wins and looking forward to seeing you end up next tour with a record that more reflects your ability!
Les2BG - Sorry it took so long for you to get any games, the draft worked out such that I had 2 gg players and not much flexibility in most other slots which ended with you being shortchanged a fair bit. YOu came in with a big win, and then that last week was partly my fault because I was so eager about my stall that I really glossed over the fact that you really dont play stall at all. I had some other cool teams which would have been much more up your alley, and I think with offense your as good a player as anyone else! Hopefully next time you get a chance to play more often though, and congrats again about leading the tier now, looking forward to seeing what you do with it :) Stop hating on potatos tr team tho LOL its so good ;-;-;
anaconja - Honestly im really gutted you didnt get your bounce back win, it really sucked seing a great player have the run you did. I have to apologise for fucking you over in the prep department for the first fair few weeks, and I really wish I had gotten more involved earlier. INH is a pretty mental meta and the hardest ive ever found learning a meta (i believe i lost about 12 straight games vs the bijou stall pilotted by pchan lol) so I have a lot of sympathy for you coming out of semi-retirement to have to play this typa tier with basically no team help. Furthermore you just really couldnt catch a break. From a couple of unforseeable autolose matchups (the hearthflame one was so rough and just yea not your fault at all) to some unfort rng.... and I think it got in your head by the end of the tour which is super understandable. Like for as dominant as atha was, he benefitted from some timely rng or opponent throws to capitalise off of, and in bo1 mons that can be all it takes. Like the moth miss that week was probably a winning position which blew, the psynoise crit was again winnable, and the few times you did maybe make a suboptimal play your opponents had no mercy. A few turns here and there and we are all complimenting you for going 4-3 or 5-2 and being an instrumental part of our poffs run. But yea, don't beat yourself up about it, and I am so rooting for your next tour to be a bounce back one !!
Smudge - Honestly a fairly similar situation to conja, with probs more on the matchup luck than rng (although you werent exempt from some unfort rng at times too). Im also well aware that you had quite a lot on during this tour, and a few weeks where you felt pretty bummed out about mons due to some unfort ties in other tours n stuff. Just dont beat yourself up about it, I didnt do you justice by drafting you with no PiC support, and it showed with much better results and teams the weeks yuki was able to lend a hand. Im very sure that given different circumstances with a bit more time and energy from better tour results elsewhere we coulda been talking about you as one of the PiC steals of the draft!! Bottom line youre also insanely chill and fun to chat to so id happily team with you again regardless, and like conja will really enjoy rooting for you to have a bounce back tournament and remind people that youre still a beast of a player so they better not write you off!!
SEA and Mada - gonna lump you both in here as our stab starters the whole tour. Sorry I wasn't more help prepping for stab, i tried but i didnt enjoy building for the meta one bit and it meant that often you were going in underprepped unless QT had managed to eek out a bit of time to build something solid, and I wasn't there for nearly as many tests as I should have been. TY for turning up though despite busy tours schedules and in thecase of sea some irl stuff too, despite all the challenges yall got us to break even in a stab slot that was pretty neglected:)) Also SEA you asking to see the food id cooked really made my day, was super proud of how they turned out and was dying to show people and you asking before i had a chance to say anything was really sweet :)) I am completley confident that with better prep around you and less stuff going on irl, youd have dominated this pool cos you still went positive despite it. also s/o berry for reccomending sea to me pre-draft.
subs: Mossy Sandwich willdbeast tzaur - sorry none of you got to play, yall were super chill and popped up to support like every game, and im very glad we had you! Mossy was ready to sub into inh when we thought we might lose to act which was cool as hell, and yea only got positive vibes from you lot, ty ty :)
yuki ty for joining and helping us for PiC! Its a shame you kinda lost interest cos id have loved to see you go undefeated like youre capable of. Dope to talk to tho and wish i coulda got you. Both our PiC wins came under your guidance too lol. Next time maybe we can team together :) (who knows maybe even omwc lol)
Don Vascus ty for joining too after smacking us with that hearthflame lol, and apologies for doing the ungodly and bringing stall sample twice LOL. You helped me learn the tier the week I got in, and the offensive core you suggested was fire :)
pannu a v late addition, and whilst it might not have translated to that much needed win it was still cool having you around, I really enjoyed our tests :) I still hate the meta tho !!! Oh and I dont forgive you from stealing jrdn from me ;(
Team Dump
AAA Teams:
Godly Gift Teams:
Inheritance Teams:
Have a bunch of teams and have written up some accompanying descriptions for them to paste into these empty sections the minute the tour is over dw.
Honestly this ompl was full of surprises, didnt think I would even be here and ended up having actually quite a lot of fun despite having such a different team than I planned for. Im a bit gutted we didnt make poffs, especially as we were 1 damn game away from it with so many games that were right there :((( But my team gave it their all despite not being put in chosen tiers or not having support so I got nothing but love for them, like I cant tell you how much I wanted them all to just win and stick it to the rest of oms lol. Dunno if I will make another comeback or not again for ompl, but if not it was a weird way to bow out, not the way I would have pictured it, but I still had fun so yea, pce :)
Gonna start off with a bit of a tour breakdown from my perspective, with some shoutouts, and then ill wrap it up with a team dump and if can be bothered ill briefly explain how they work. I might decide to leave the team dump though for a second post instead in case any of them get used in the remainder of the ompl games though.
*Future racool here* did in fact do this more or less as I cant say for certain that none of my teams will be brought, unlikely but not impossible. I have written this all out though, so I will just edit the actual teams backin once this tour is done so be sure to check back in if you are interested :) I will also chop them up and post in metagame threads too if i get around to it, if not someone else can feel free rofl.
OMPL breakdown from racools perspective:
I honestly didn't even expect to be back this summer - I havent come back to mons in years and the few times I have was only for a few months. Furthermore in the past when I would come back, all my close friends were still active or would also come back for ompl same as me. Not to mention the metas felt a lot more comfortable and enjoyable to me at least back then. However for some reason unbeknownst to even myself, I ended up feeling quite motivated to manage an ompl, and draft a team full of as many of my old friends as possible. I wanted a fun tour where we just all collaborated made some heat teams and hopefully suprrised some people along the way :P
That being said, my lack of knowledge of the current playerbases especially in metas such as PIC and inh but really across the board really hampered me in the draft, and I think if I manage in the future ever it will only be if Ive been active for a bit longer than I was before this tour. I say this because being able to pivot is an essential skill in drafting in an auction - I know this because the last time I managed with the 5-star jolteons, I had a very clear draft plan built around geerat, but he ended up balooning in price and I pivoted into QT which worked excellently - we made finals and lost in a very close tiebreaker. I also did not expect to get so involved in quite a few metas, which did make this tour a lot more enjoyable, but also bittersweet af as I struggled not being able to play and help my team more. I gave it my all though so as much as some foresight might have helped, I cant say I have any deep regrets, and despite this being the first time I have never made poffs of a tour.... I still had a surprising amount of fun! :)
So lets get into it. As I said I had a very clear overarching plan. I wanted to manage with xavgb as he is probably the user ive talked to the most on this site, and teaming/testing with him when we were both in our oms peak was probably the most enjoyable experiences ive had on the site. That being said Fc sniped him weeks before I even unquit, so I approached Quantum Tesseract, they are another friend who as I mentioned ended up being the cornerstone of my last draft when we made finals and someone who I would have tried to get regardless as yea I was going for what you all might think of as an ancient irrlevant washed oldies team, but what I considered as a reunion w friends lol. I then convinced Jrdn to sign up, as hes my oldest friend on the site and the reason I got into oms, not to mention my om goat for years before stresh decided to go nuclear. I had seen so much jrdn slander cos of his most recent tour, and despite the gen 9 oms scene not being the most jrdn teambuilding friendly meta (too threatspammy with the top 15 mons just being better, kinda countering his niche approach) I still back a locked in jrdn to do well and I liked the idea of him coming back and dominating ngl. I also wanted shiloh because again aaa goon, one of the best players oms has scene and a friend. I liked the idea of just feeding him teams all tour and watching him go to work. Finally the last person I specifically wanted was Isaiah, one of my last close friends I made on the site and an absolute teambuilding demon when locked in on a meta. The aaa meta kinda is like antimatter w him atm so I wanted him to pair with anaconja for our inh slot, as they signed up for only inh. Really unfortunately though, isaiah pulled out for irl reasons right before which was a blow for my plans. For PIC I wanted yuki if under 16k, but figured that was a long shot so wanted to get a good douer in Smudge as a second option. From mocks i really didnt want to wade into the spend 20k on chromate/yuki/hizo battle and figured a great dou tours player for half the price was a strong option, especially as I figured jrdn + rozes would not come cheap. For stab i wanted Clementine, as they are a UK lad same as yuki and I have never been let down teaming with uk peeps. OMWC is always a vibe for this reason. Finally I left BH and MnM in QT's hands as the tiers are more in their wheelhouse than mine.
The actual draft swiftly went completely sideways, I was on my phone and decidedly useless putting a bit of an unreasonable burden on QT when the draft plan was mine. We ended up getting Atha for ludicrously cheap compared to all the mocks. Its pretty hard to say no to 15k atha, even without knowing that he would end up being so completely dominant, but in my particular case it really did change the plan as I had my aaa slot quite fixed with jrdn and rozes. Again my plan was to team with friends, and having a self sufficient aaa slot in atha p much guaranteed to go positive with ludicrous upside soudns like a bargain for 15k, and im not even remotely unhappy that it turned out that way now, but at the time I was panicking. In hindsight there was no real reason to panic, rozes would have only really been 1k cheaper ish, so its not like my margins were fucked, should have just proceeded w my plan but yea, ended up stressing and lumping even more burden on QT. I then proceeded to miss jrdn, which caused a bit of a ripple effect. Atha reccomended ghostlike as a great pickup for both gg and mnm, so I got him to fill the gg slot that we needed now, without really realising that he much preferred to play aaa. We also then let yuki slip for 14.5k which was a blow as that was an absolute bargain for probs the best PIC in the pool if locked in. We got conja for about what we expected to have to pay which I was v happy with, and then probs the most iconic part of our draft was Potatochan. Apparently we basically let all the good bh'ers slip, so QT said they only player left in the pool they trusted was potato, which QT felt was lowkey one of the best pilots in the pool. So what was the twist? Potato had signed up last minute and not for bh. In fact potato just wanted to get picked by a friend and play a couple aaa games lol. This resulted in us paying 14.5k for someone who we had no idea on whether or not would actually play the tier we needed him for. QT then clutched up for mnm by suggesting hayedenn, i had no idea who this was otherwise id have been more supportive of this pick. Turns out this was beauts, someone who QT had got us to draft for jolteons way back when, and is a solid player and builder. We missed clementine in stab due to not having the funds at this point, im sure ive got the chronological order of this wrong btw. So we shored this up with SEA and Mossy Sandwich and Mada. Again in hindsight we would have been better off with adding more inh support in someone like gary but hindsight is 20/20 and the logic was that in mada and sea we had 2 excellent tour players capable of flexing into other slots. We were also able to nab smudge for a reasonable price which I was happy about.
If im being honest, I was pretty sad coming out of the draft, because I didn't really get any of my friends and felt bad cos I promised jrdn id get him (was the main reason he signed up and he even was playing gg ladder games to get warmed up n all). But beyond that I didnt know the majority of the players or the tiers at this point, so I really had no idea what to expect. In hindsight our team was actually solid and with a few adjustments in the draft along with some more composure from me in the moment, we were I think very close to having a great draft. Something to keep in mind for the future for sure. I think the biggest changes would be just a greater focus on active players. This ranges from prioritising splashing on active PIC and INH players, to just yea getting active subs. The more active teambuilding the better and I think this showed in our gg slot where despite a couple of unfort results, I think we had a notable builder advantage each week, while in slots like inh and pic where i doomed our players to having no support, we basically had no builder advantage until I got some helpers in. Again this is why I do ultimately blame myself because I tunnelled on a specific draft and lacked the composure and playerbase knowledge to make the most of still having a solid draft in the making.
Oh and probably the absolute biggest takeaway is that I should have self bought. At the time of the draft, I wasn't sure how active I would be, nor how engaged I would be in the tour, and I didnt love the AAA meta (the only tier ive played in ompl and omwc) so the idea of just building and prepping the aaa slot was enough for me. I dont have anything I feel like I need to prove anymore, and I dont like playing unless Im locked in, cos then I missplay and get super pissed off at myself. As it turns out I did lock in kinda throughout the tour and feel like I could have had strong showings in bo3, aaa and gg, so yea, hindsight 20/20.
The actual draft swiftly went completely sideways, I was on my phone and decidedly useless putting a bit of an unreasonable burden on QT when the draft plan was mine. We ended up getting Atha for ludicrously cheap compared to all the mocks. Its pretty hard to say no to 15k atha, even without knowing that he would end up being so completely dominant, but in my particular case it really did change the plan as I had my aaa slot quite fixed with jrdn and rozes. Again my plan was to team with friends, and having a self sufficient aaa slot in atha p much guaranteed to go positive with ludicrous upside soudns like a bargain for 15k, and im not even remotely unhappy that it turned out that way now, but at the time I was panicking. In hindsight there was no real reason to panic, rozes would have only really been 1k cheaper ish, so its not like my margins were fucked, should have just proceeded w my plan but yea, ended up stressing and lumping even more burden on QT. I then proceeded to miss jrdn, which caused a bit of a ripple effect. Atha reccomended ghostlike as a great pickup for both gg and mnm, so I got him to fill the gg slot that we needed now, without really realising that he much preferred to play aaa. We also then let yuki slip for 14.5k which was a blow as that was an absolute bargain for probs the best PIC in the pool if locked in. We got conja for about what we expected to have to pay which I was v happy with, and then probs the most iconic part of our draft was Potatochan. Apparently we basically let all the good bh'ers slip, so QT said they only player left in the pool they trusted was potato, which QT felt was lowkey one of the best pilots in the pool. So what was the twist? Potato had signed up last minute and not for bh. In fact potato just wanted to get picked by a friend and play a couple aaa games lol. This resulted in us paying 14.5k for someone who we had no idea on whether or not would actually play the tier we needed him for. QT then clutched up for mnm by suggesting hayedenn, i had no idea who this was otherwise id have been more supportive of this pick. Turns out this was beauts, someone who QT had got us to draft for jolteons way back when, and is a solid player and builder. We missed clementine in stab due to not having the funds at this point, im sure ive got the chronological order of this wrong btw. So we shored this up with SEA and Mossy Sandwich and Mada. Again in hindsight we would have been better off with adding more inh support in someone like gary but hindsight is 20/20 and the logic was that in mada and sea we had 2 excellent tour players capable of flexing into other slots. We were also able to nab smudge for a reasonable price which I was happy about.
If im being honest, I was pretty sad coming out of the draft, because I didn't really get any of my friends and felt bad cos I promised jrdn id get him (was the main reason he signed up and he even was playing gg ladder games to get warmed up n all). But beyond that I didnt know the majority of the players or the tiers at this point, so I really had no idea what to expect. In hindsight our team was actually solid and with a few adjustments in the draft along with some more composure from me in the moment, we were I think very close to having a great draft. Something to keep in mind for the future for sure. I think the biggest changes would be just a greater focus on active players. This ranges from prioritising splashing on active PIC and INH players, to just yea getting active subs. The more active teambuilding the better and I think this showed in our gg slot where despite a couple of unfort results, I think we had a notable builder advantage each week, while in slots like inh and pic where i doomed our players to having no support, we basically had no builder advantage until I got some helpers in. Again this is why I do ultimately blame myself because I tunnelled on a specific draft and lacked the composure and playerbase knowledge to make the most of still having a solid draft in the making.
Oh and probably the absolute biggest takeaway is that I should have self bought. At the time of the draft, I wasn't sure how active I would be, nor how engaged I would be in the tour, and I didnt love the AAA meta (the only tier ive played in ompl and omwc) so the idea of just building and prepping the aaa slot was enough for me. I dont have anything I feel like I need to prove anymore, and I dont like playing unless Im locked in, cos then I missplay and get super pissed off at myself. As it turns out I did lock in kinda throughout the tour and feel like I could have had strong showings in bo3, aaa and gg, so yea, hindsight 20/20.
I wont go into too much depth here but basically from what I saw we got off to predictably a bit of a slow start with a lot of our team being a bit rusty in the metas they were playing. I think the main thing that I didnt factor for was QT's availability - they are super busy atm which meant I couldn't count on them to just do QT things and prep every single slot haha (this genuinly was how we made finals once lol). This especially burned us because bo3 isnt really a tier you can play without prepping much given the quality of the players there, which kinda showed in the first 2 weeks there. Atha and ghostlike got off to great starts in the first 2 weeks, and despite the 2 losses, they were both close (one week we were literally up 3-0) with some rng and some plays here and there being the swinging factors.
At this point we made the major decision to swap QT into bh - potato split his first 2 bh games but wasnt enjoying the tier much at all leading to him barely being able to test and the idea was that we could rotate ghostlike and potato into bo3 with the other covering gg. Potato and I were spamming gg tests and both really enjoyed it, and I trusted him highly to pilot my teams in a bo3 slot, while ghostlike was on an early gg tear whilst voicing keen desire to play mnm and aaa. This experiment worked a treat in week 3 with us taking it to the top ranked heart takers, my highlight being watching potatochan absolutely take it to ivar, earning us a much much needed win, and I thought at this point we had struck gold because we did this all whilst QT, smudge and conja were still unable to get over the hump.
Week 4 was rough though, we had a 3-0 lead again in what at the time felt like a must win week with us shifting potato over to gg and ghostlike into bo3 to take on the om goat stresh. Atha and hayedenn continued to be free wins despite their opponents that week being icemaster and lana 2 of the most highly priced players for their tier. QT also had his bounce back week, but unfortunately stab pic inh and bo3 lost in what became a bit of a running theme. I quite badly fucked it with our stab prep which wasnt ideal and yea they just outprepped us in all the losing slots that week.
Week 5 is the one i replay constantly mostly cos of the potato vs RoFnA aaa game. Honestly that was a bizzare game, it looked like our ghold was gonna win if it hit stuff, but spikes was super rough cos I FUCKED it by opting for fluffy tusk over physdef scrappy tusk. This meant pecha just kinda entirely spinblocked meaning our ghold could only really get in a couple times. I do think this matchup was still winnable though, as we definitely coulda kept all 3 layers from going up, not to mention ice spinner dd dnite had a lot of opportunities to win too but pchan thought empo was ice beam unfortunately. Where this became a brutal watch though was the endgame, rofna kept hexing our pecha which was such a throw, as dead pecha means we can spin for free and then win with ghold + stail combo, but potato didnt see this line leading to some tough moments in the game discussion chat. I found out later that potato was incredibly burnt out, and that combination with me also not pushing for tests was tough for him in a slot like bo3. Locked in pchan doesnt lose that game at all even with fluffy tusk, and yea where i beat myself up here is that if i had made that scrappy tusk (it was fluffy cos initially it wasnt physdef pecha) even non-locked in pchan still comfortably clears that. The other gut punch though was ghostlike basically coinflipped his gg team between 2 of them, and yea rolled the autolose one instead of the autowin matchup. When you consider how unbelievably close the run in for poffs were.... yea these matches really started to add up. We went into week 6 feeling like we shoulda had 2 more points whilst the solgs shoulda had 1 less. What reallllly blew was this was the first week we got a PiC win (smudge clutched a huge win vs chromate proving that he had all the capability of being a top slot) and it was our 2 much more reliable slots losing to players I feel like they were better than. Happens but still is tough. Oh wait also with our inh game, I build a cool team with don for conja that probably woulda won but suggested that because the team we were facing were likely out that their opp might bring something not as serious and that we should stall them, only for us to get psynoise crit to lose rofl. Conja genuinly couldnt catch a break.
Week 6 followed the gut punch pattern lol. Atha and hayedenn got on the board for us, with sea getting a huge win vs kaif in stab and les picked up where ghostlike left off continuing our gg dominance. We needed one of conja, smudge, potato and QT to win for us to have been in a tb for poffs. Unfort potato threw (this was my mistake potato hat literally told me he was burned out and if i didnt fuck it with the whole ghostlike/hayedenn sub thing i coulda just played ghostlike in bo3 and he probs wins here), and we made a last minute swap of hoodra -> goodra on the inh team which combined with a few unfort decisions meant we lost a matchup i think we had. I didnt watch bh so i cant comment but yea, just felt like yet another week slipped through our fingers.
Finally the dreaded week 7, where we were reliant on other teams choking, which just to rub salt in the wounds did in fact happen. I made the bad call of pushing les to stall in gg, we rolled autowin matchup but unfortunately les wasnt too confident with stall, which they did tell me before, and we threw that in the end. And unfortunately hayedenn wasnt able to keep hard carrying us, with their loss highlighting the missed opportunities we had by not capitalising on the atha + hayedenn combo sending us up 2-0 every week. Pchan made a nice sub into inh to keep that slot from going winless, i was really sad it wasnt conja who did this, and id still vouch for them as an inh starter, just wasnt their tour this time around unfortunately. Ghostlike was the other tough match as the aaa game felt free when tspikes went up, i think if we had played slightly more patiently with mana we woulda caught the pert with eball and probs just won, but yea sometimes thats just how the cookie crumbles. It was nice to see both QT and smudge end on wins after dissapointing seasons by their standards, but was also salt in the wounds because it meant we finished off the season where if we had won 1 more game in any of our last 4 weeks we woulda made finals tb at the very least.
Ngl was probably the most invested ive been on the whole in the builder, which made me doubly invested in the games. In the past either playing or managing ive pretty much only handled my aaa slot, with a few tests if needed in other stuff, but i never really built for anyone else. Like even managing last time i just bought mlove and he built all his teams i just tested w him. So yea this is the most ive built for a tour which got exhausting by the end with how we kept getting so damn close, but if we had made it im sure it would have been so rewarding so yea. Despite not getting where we wanted, I got a lot out of the tour which was dope. Like im so much more vested in gg, and even care a bit about inh too which is cool.
Stab can genuinly do one tho, lottery ass meta. Like genuinly making meta defining changes right before an ompl should be banned imo. Stab banningterra and unbanning like 10 broken mons with basically 0 playtesting before ompl was an insane decision. Like we had weeks of wogerpon and lati meta, followed by an entire tour of kyurem gfire and h-lilli. Its like if aaa released 2ac right before ompl, even if it makes the meta better long term, huge scale changes take months before they settle. Like even if you ban terra, the instinct I feel like should be to then ban extra mons out of fear of shit being broken cos now you cant tera defensively to check. The fact that the instinct was the exact opposite is wild to me, and quite clearly it didnt work.
At this point we made the major decision to swap QT into bh - potato split his first 2 bh games but wasnt enjoying the tier much at all leading to him barely being able to test and the idea was that we could rotate ghostlike and potato into bo3 with the other covering gg. Potato and I were spamming gg tests and both really enjoyed it, and I trusted him highly to pilot my teams in a bo3 slot, while ghostlike was on an early gg tear whilst voicing keen desire to play mnm and aaa. This experiment worked a treat in week 3 with us taking it to the top ranked heart takers, my highlight being watching potatochan absolutely take it to ivar, earning us a much much needed win, and I thought at this point we had struck gold because we did this all whilst QT, smudge and conja were still unable to get over the hump.
Week 4 was rough though, we had a 3-0 lead again in what at the time felt like a must win week with us shifting potato over to gg and ghostlike into bo3 to take on the om goat stresh. Atha and hayedenn continued to be free wins despite their opponents that week being icemaster and lana 2 of the most highly priced players for their tier. QT also had his bounce back week, but unfortunately stab pic inh and bo3 lost in what became a bit of a running theme. I quite badly fucked it with our stab prep which wasnt ideal and yea they just outprepped us in all the losing slots that week.
Week 5 is the one i replay constantly mostly cos of the potato vs RoFnA aaa game. Honestly that was a bizzare game, it looked like our ghold was gonna win if it hit stuff, but spikes was super rough cos I FUCKED it by opting for fluffy tusk over physdef scrappy tusk. This meant pecha just kinda entirely spinblocked meaning our ghold could only really get in a couple times. I do think this matchup was still winnable though, as we definitely coulda kept all 3 layers from going up, not to mention ice spinner dd dnite had a lot of opportunities to win too but pchan thought empo was ice beam unfortunately. Where this became a brutal watch though was the endgame, rofna kept hexing our pecha which was such a throw, as dead pecha means we can spin for free and then win with ghold + stail combo, but potato didnt see this line leading to some tough moments in the game discussion chat. I found out later that potato was incredibly burnt out, and that combination with me also not pushing for tests was tough for him in a slot like bo3. Locked in pchan doesnt lose that game at all even with fluffy tusk, and yea where i beat myself up here is that if i had made that scrappy tusk (it was fluffy cos initially it wasnt physdef pecha) even non-locked in pchan still comfortably clears that. The other gut punch though was ghostlike basically coinflipped his gg team between 2 of them, and yea rolled the autolose one instead of the autowin matchup. When you consider how unbelievably close the run in for poffs were.... yea these matches really started to add up. We went into week 6 feeling like we shoulda had 2 more points whilst the solgs shoulda had 1 less. What reallllly blew was this was the first week we got a PiC win (smudge clutched a huge win vs chromate proving that he had all the capability of being a top slot) and it was our 2 much more reliable slots losing to players I feel like they were better than. Happens but still is tough. Oh wait also with our inh game, I build a cool team with don for conja that probably woulda won but suggested that because the team we were facing were likely out that their opp might bring something not as serious and that we should stall them, only for us to get psynoise crit to lose rofl. Conja genuinly couldnt catch a break.
Week 6 followed the gut punch pattern lol. Atha and hayedenn got on the board for us, with sea getting a huge win vs kaif in stab and les picked up where ghostlike left off continuing our gg dominance. We needed one of conja, smudge, potato and QT to win for us to have been in a tb for poffs. Unfort potato threw (this was my mistake potato hat literally told me he was burned out and if i didnt fuck it with the whole ghostlike/hayedenn sub thing i coulda just played ghostlike in bo3 and he probs wins here), and we made a last minute swap of hoodra -> goodra on the inh team which combined with a few unfort decisions meant we lost a matchup i think we had. I didnt watch bh so i cant comment but yea, just felt like yet another week slipped through our fingers.
Finally the dreaded week 7, where we were reliant on other teams choking, which just to rub salt in the wounds did in fact happen. I made the bad call of pushing les to stall in gg, we rolled autowin matchup but unfortunately les wasnt too confident with stall, which they did tell me before, and we threw that in the end. And unfortunately hayedenn wasnt able to keep hard carrying us, with their loss highlighting the missed opportunities we had by not capitalising on the atha + hayedenn combo sending us up 2-0 every week. Pchan made a nice sub into inh to keep that slot from going winless, i was really sad it wasnt conja who did this, and id still vouch for them as an inh starter, just wasnt their tour this time around unfortunately. Ghostlike was the other tough match as the aaa game felt free when tspikes went up, i think if we had played slightly more patiently with mana we woulda caught the pert with eball and probs just won, but yea sometimes thats just how the cookie crumbles. It was nice to see both QT and smudge end on wins after dissapointing seasons by their standards, but was also salt in the wounds because it meant we finished off the season where if we had won 1 more game in any of our last 4 weeks we woulda made finals tb at the very least.
Ngl was probably the most invested ive been on the whole in the builder, which made me doubly invested in the games. In the past either playing or managing ive pretty much only handled my aaa slot, with a few tests if needed in other stuff, but i never really built for anyone else. Like even managing last time i just bought mlove and he built all his teams i just tested w him. So yea this is the most ive built for a tour which got exhausting by the end with how we kept getting so damn close, but if we had made it im sure it would have been so rewarding so yea. Despite not getting where we wanted, I got a lot out of the tour which was dope. Like im so much more vested in gg, and even care a bit about inh too which is cool.
Stab can genuinly do one tho, lottery ass meta. Like genuinly making meta defining changes right before an ompl should be banned imo. Stab banningterra and unbanning like 10 broken mons with basically 0 playtesting before ompl was an insane decision. Like we had weeks of wogerpon and lati meta, followed by an entire tour of kyurem gfire and h-lilli. Its like if aaa released 2ac right before ompl, even if it makes the meta better long term, huge scale changes take months before they settle. Like even if you ban terra, the instinct I feel like should be to then ban extra mons out of fear of shit being broken cos now you cant tera defensively to check. The fact that the instinct was the exact opposite is wild to me, and quite clearly it didnt work.
Shoutouts
Quantum Tesseract T - thank you for agreeing to manage w me. Tbh the prospect of managing coming off of being pretty firmly quit was a bit daunting, and I dont think I would have if you hadnt agreed. I know you were a bit dissapointed w your results, but Im also well aware that you were pretty fried for time and if I had to last minute prep for multiple metas and play raw I would do worse tbh. You also kinda entirely saved our draft whilst I was busy moaning about how it didn't go to plan, and furthermore the week where there was all that drama you put up with me being quite dramatic and kept it from spiralling. I do hope we get to team again sometime, if we do we definitely winning!! If not though was a pleasure.
Potatochan - Honestly what an arc. From 'who the fuck is a potato chan' to 'Im so fucking glad we have a potato chan' !! Genuinly probably the biggest single reason I got so engaged with this tour. Testing with you throughout multiple tiers and just repeatedly cooking was without a doubt the highlight of the tour for me. I just wish there was some parallel universe where you actually cared enough about ompl despite all the other tours you were in to be fully locked in all tour, cos i genuinly think locked in potato goes 7-0 here. Like you werent even played in the tier you wanted to play, and then you were forced to play the entire tour when you only wanted to play a couple weeks, and ended up having to play 6 metas, and despite going positive, I know youre a bit dissapointed in the fact that your 3 losses were entirely avoidable and focused you doesnt lose those. Tells you all you need to know about how cold you are. You were the only one I tested with all tour who repeatedly outplayed me, and you pushed me to actually build sick teams and de-rust playing wise so I could keep up. If I end up managing again you will be the first person I draft and thats not even an exxageration. Upbid me to 22k+, idgaf.
Atha - Ngl you entirely saved our tour, especially with the slow start followed by close week after close week.... I dread to think what would have happened if we didnt like walk into every single week up 1-0 thanks to you. Also with me quite busy with work and then trying to help quite a few slots in the end, having such a confident and consistent player and builder who was kinda uninspired and still dominated without needing really any help..... yea was pretty fucking clutch.
hayedenn - A close second to atha when it came to carrying us lol. Firstly im really sorry about the whole mix up we had in the penultimate week, especially looking back on it, was pretty badly communicated and handled. Ngl you were the most enjoyable slot to watch cos you pushed variety and brought heat teams. The week you brought kommo-o was my favorite replay of the tour!! With you and atha we were largely going into every week up 2-0 and I just wish we were able to do that more justice, because you deserved to make poffs and have a crack at winning this thing. I was worried when we had no money for mnm but QT nabbing you i think was undoubtedly the steal of the tournament and one im very grateful for !!
ghostlike - I know you were beating yourslef up by the end of the tour, but you were still one of our strongest performers, and most commited preppers so in my mind theres nothing to beat yourself up about. I mean goatlike was a thing by week3 with the flying start you got off to, and outside fo that your only 3 losses came in an unwinnable mu, as well as 2 game 3's in a very compettiive bo3. You also were torn on the gg loss between the team you brought and a diff team, so that one really is just total bad luck. The other 2 series were winnable but like losing to stresh and abriel in a g3 each time is nothing to feel bad about. Lets also not forget that you didnt get to play either of your top 2 options all tour outside of bo3 which is a whole diff ballgame. One of the most thorough preppers Ive seen and your ideas are super cool, ty for getting us plenty of much needed wins and looking forward to seeing you end up next tour with a record that more reflects your ability!
Les2BG - Sorry it took so long for you to get any games, the draft worked out such that I had 2 gg players and not much flexibility in most other slots which ended with you being shortchanged a fair bit. YOu came in with a big win, and then that last week was partly my fault because I was so eager about my stall that I really glossed over the fact that you really dont play stall at all. I had some other cool teams which would have been much more up your alley, and I think with offense your as good a player as anyone else! Hopefully next time you get a chance to play more often though, and congrats again about leading the tier now, looking forward to seeing what you do with it :) Stop hating on potatos tr team tho LOL its so good ;-;-;
anaconja - Honestly im really gutted you didnt get your bounce back win, it really sucked seing a great player have the run you did. I have to apologise for fucking you over in the prep department for the first fair few weeks, and I really wish I had gotten more involved earlier. INH is a pretty mental meta and the hardest ive ever found learning a meta (i believe i lost about 12 straight games vs the bijou stall pilotted by pchan lol) so I have a lot of sympathy for you coming out of semi-retirement to have to play this typa tier with basically no team help. Furthermore you just really couldnt catch a break. From a couple of unforseeable autolose matchups (the hearthflame one was so rough and just yea not your fault at all) to some unfort rng.... and I think it got in your head by the end of the tour which is super understandable. Like for as dominant as atha was, he benefitted from some timely rng or opponent throws to capitalise off of, and in bo1 mons that can be all it takes. Like the moth miss that week was probably a winning position which blew, the psynoise crit was again winnable, and the few times you did maybe make a suboptimal play your opponents had no mercy. A few turns here and there and we are all complimenting you for going 4-3 or 5-2 and being an instrumental part of our poffs run. But yea, don't beat yourself up about it, and I am so rooting for your next tour to be a bounce back one !!
Smudge - Honestly a fairly similar situation to conja, with probs more on the matchup luck than rng (although you werent exempt from some unfort rng at times too). Im also well aware that you had quite a lot on during this tour, and a few weeks where you felt pretty bummed out about mons due to some unfort ties in other tours n stuff. Just dont beat yourself up about it, I didnt do you justice by drafting you with no PiC support, and it showed with much better results and teams the weeks yuki was able to lend a hand. Im very sure that given different circumstances with a bit more time and energy from better tour results elsewhere we coulda been talking about you as one of the PiC steals of the draft!! Bottom line youre also insanely chill and fun to chat to so id happily team with you again regardless, and like conja will really enjoy rooting for you to have a bounce back tournament and remind people that youre still a beast of a player so they better not write you off!!
SEA and Mada - gonna lump you both in here as our stab starters the whole tour. Sorry I wasn't more help prepping for stab, i tried but i didnt enjoy building for the meta one bit and it meant that often you were going in underprepped unless QT had managed to eek out a bit of time to build something solid, and I wasn't there for nearly as many tests as I should have been. TY for turning up though despite busy tours schedules and in thecase of sea some irl stuff too, despite all the challenges yall got us to break even in a stab slot that was pretty neglected:)) Also SEA you asking to see the food id cooked really made my day, was super proud of how they turned out and was dying to show people and you asking before i had a chance to say anything was really sweet :)) I am completley confident that with better prep around you and less stuff going on irl, youd have dominated this pool cos you still went positive despite it. also s/o berry for reccomending sea to me pre-draft.
subs: Mossy Sandwich willdbeast tzaur - sorry none of you got to play, yall were super chill and popped up to support like every game, and im very glad we had you! Mossy was ready to sub into inh when we thought we might lose to act which was cool as hell, and yea only got positive vibes from you lot, ty ty :)
yuki ty for joining and helping us for PiC! Its a shame you kinda lost interest cos id have loved to see you go undefeated like youre capable of. Dope to talk to tho and wish i coulda got you. Both our PiC wins came under your guidance too lol. Next time maybe we can team together :) (who knows maybe even omwc lol)
Don Vascus ty for joining too after smacking us with that hearthflame lol, and apologies for doing the ungodly and bringing stall sample twice LOL. You helped me learn the tier the week I got in, and the offensive core you suggested was fire :)
pannu a v late addition, and whilst it might not have translated to that much needed win it was still cool having you around, I really enjoyed our tests :) I still hate the meta tho !!! Oh and I dont forgive you from stealing jrdn from me ;(
Team Dump
As a precursor to all these teams I would like to highlight my approach towards teambuilding as it is quite useful when it comes to understanding how these teams actually are built and how they are meant to be played. This might also help you make any changes to these if you so wish.
For tours I really do think surprise factor wins games. Every one of my teams features a breaking or sweeping set that I havent used in any other team. This approach has been a big reason why ive won so much and been so dominant, and despite me not enjoying gen 9 oms as much, the same principals still apply. In fact they arguably apply even more, as defensive counterplay is so unbelievably limited. Again sticking with the theme of surprise factor, so many of my teams will have a surprise scarfer. Or double scarf if the scarfers are obvious, to again result in a surprise scarfer. They tend to usually function as triple threats: giving you a free attack on stuff for a good chance to kill as they dont expect the scarf, in most cases giving you a way to check setup threats or just threat mons in general with a trick scarf, and then your bog standard speed control and revenge killing potential. By varying these scarfers too, you force your opp to burn turns scouting if they are good (or you just take the free attacks and kills if they are bad) both of which gives you a lot of momentum for basically free. Finally there is almost always a lot of pivoting - i find this just gives you so much room to outmanouver opponents. This was even more pivotal back in the day, but even now it just is a very compatible playstyle with me and one I naturally gravitate a lot towards.
These arent the be all and end alls as you will see if you look through all my teams, but it certainly is a trend and one that ive found has very little 'counters'.
The other big cornerstone to my teams is that I test... like a LOT. I basically mold the teams to my playstyle and pretty much learn how I can play out of pretty much any matchup. This works especailly well with extreme playstyles, as your opp thinks your fishing and doesnt really respect you in the builder as much, when in reality I test the teams to the point where they can play out of virtually any matchup, effectively making them less of a 'fish' than standard teams lol.
I have a philosophy and approach towards building that really dates back to the first omwc i won, where me and xavgb tested aaa constnatly. I would pack teams with surprise factor but paste the teams in the chat so stresh would see them. He would then smack me over and over until I learned how to win with the teams vs a godly player without any of my surprise factor advantage. I would only bring teams that over the course of a week of testing were in fact able to play out of basically every matchup i could conceive. Then i would go into my games supremely confident because I knew that there were good odds that I had the preview advantage like 60-40, or 70-30, which with my piloting ability was like a sure fire win, but equally i knew that even if i rolled a losing matchup, I would know how to play that early to make it look like a winning matchup, through early bluffs, and maximising my surprise factor advantage opportunely.
It is quite intensive, and I can't say I have had the time to do that with these teams this tour, but honestly if you do have the time for it I would highly reccomend. I think people largely focus too much on the builder theory, and tunnel on just actually checking everything, when in reality so much of mons is understanding what your opponent sees, and recognising how to capitalise on this. Its not quite as simple as 'ill just outplay' because often times you test and make mild adjustments that enable you to 'outplay' when in reality this is just outprepping.
The combination of this approach and not being afraid to vary your playstyle as much as the meta allows (obviously stuff like stall isnt really viable to this level in aaa for example) whilst maintainign this rigidity where you only bring teams that you are comfortable you can make winning plays with even in bad matchup, is kinda just my teambuilding to a T. Where it fell short this tour is that I think it is very reliant on the pilot also familiarising themselves with how to play all these matchups, and unfortunately there wasnt always time for that.
There is a downside to this though. A lot of these teams struggle notably more once they have been revealed, so dont expect this to work as well if you are trying to ladder. You might have to start varying the sets or just using diff teams and rotating through them a bit. Like a lot of the time counterplay is very specific - theres a mon thats a huge threat and the only real way is to use your surprise trick scarf and disable it. That isnt repeatable if you play the same guy again and again. You will find that the more balanced teams struggle less with this but it still will always be a thing. These type of teams are hard tailored to an ompl setting and will diminish in potency the more they are used.
For tours I really do think surprise factor wins games. Every one of my teams features a breaking or sweeping set that I havent used in any other team. This approach has been a big reason why ive won so much and been so dominant, and despite me not enjoying gen 9 oms as much, the same principals still apply. In fact they arguably apply even more, as defensive counterplay is so unbelievably limited. Again sticking with the theme of surprise factor, so many of my teams will have a surprise scarfer. Or double scarf if the scarfers are obvious, to again result in a surprise scarfer. They tend to usually function as triple threats: giving you a free attack on stuff for a good chance to kill as they dont expect the scarf, in most cases giving you a way to check setup threats or just threat mons in general with a trick scarf, and then your bog standard speed control and revenge killing potential. By varying these scarfers too, you force your opp to burn turns scouting if they are good (or you just take the free attacks and kills if they are bad) both of which gives you a lot of momentum for basically free. Finally there is almost always a lot of pivoting - i find this just gives you so much room to outmanouver opponents. This was even more pivotal back in the day, but even now it just is a very compatible playstyle with me and one I naturally gravitate a lot towards.
These arent the be all and end alls as you will see if you look through all my teams, but it certainly is a trend and one that ive found has very little 'counters'.
The other big cornerstone to my teams is that I test... like a LOT. I basically mold the teams to my playstyle and pretty much learn how I can play out of pretty much any matchup. This works especailly well with extreme playstyles, as your opp thinks your fishing and doesnt really respect you in the builder as much, when in reality I test the teams to the point where they can play out of virtually any matchup, effectively making them less of a 'fish' than standard teams lol.
I have a philosophy and approach towards building that really dates back to the first omwc i won, where me and xavgb tested aaa constnatly. I would pack teams with surprise factor but paste the teams in the chat so stresh would see them. He would then smack me over and over until I learned how to win with the teams vs a godly player without any of my surprise factor advantage. I would only bring teams that over the course of a week of testing were in fact able to play out of basically every matchup i could conceive. Then i would go into my games supremely confident because I knew that there were good odds that I had the preview advantage like 60-40, or 70-30, which with my piloting ability was like a sure fire win, but equally i knew that even if i rolled a losing matchup, I would know how to play that early to make it look like a winning matchup, through early bluffs, and maximising my surprise factor advantage opportunely.
It is quite intensive, and I can't say I have had the time to do that with these teams this tour, but honestly if you do have the time for it I would highly reccomend. I think people largely focus too much on the builder theory, and tunnel on just actually checking everything, when in reality so much of mons is understanding what your opponent sees, and recognising how to capitalise on this. Its not quite as simple as 'ill just outplay' because often times you test and make mild adjustments that enable you to 'outplay' when in reality this is just outprepping.
The combination of this approach and not being afraid to vary your playstyle as much as the meta allows (obviously stuff like stall isnt really viable to this level in aaa for example) whilst maintainign this rigidity where you only bring teams that you are comfortable you can make winning plays with even in bad matchup, is kinda just my teambuilding to a T. Where it fell short this tour is that I think it is very reliant on the pilot also familiarising themselves with how to play all these matchups, and unfortunately there wasnt always time for that.
There is a downside to this though. A lot of these teams struggle notably more once they have been revealed, so dont expect this to work as well if you are trying to ladder. You might have to start varying the sets or just using diff teams and rotating through them a bit. Like a lot of the time counterplay is very specific - theres a mon thats a huge threat and the only real way is to use your surprise trick scarf and disable it. That isnt repeatable if you play the same guy again and again. You will find that the more balanced teams struggle less with this but it still will always be a thing. These type of teams are hard tailored to an ompl setting and will diminish in potency the more they are used.
AAA Teams:
Godly Gift Teams:
Inheritance Teams:
Have a bunch of teams and have written up some accompanying descriptions for them to paste into these empty sections the minute the tour is over dw.
Honestly this ompl was full of surprises, didnt think I would even be here and ended up having actually quite a lot of fun despite having such a different team than I planned for. Im a bit gutted we didnt make poffs, especially as we were 1 damn game away from it with so many games that were right there :((( But my team gave it their all despite not being put in chosen tiers or not having support so I got nothing but love for them, like I cant tell you how much I wanted them all to just win and stick it to the rest of oms lol. Dunno if I will make another comeback or not again for ompl, but if not it was a weird way to bow out, not the way I would have pictured it, but I still had fun so yea, pce :)
thank you to racool for being the only reason i didnt cancer week 1
After the very scientific finding of the improved odds of winning if you nickname your team, it is only natural to wonder:
Submit now who you think had the best nick, and after tuesday ill create the final poll with all the submitted answers
Poll closes probably tuesday to give all the johnmpl-ers a chance to get submitted. If you sub yourself youre a lame-o
Submit now who you think had the best nick, and after tuesday ill create the final poll with all the submitted answers
Poll closes probably tuesday to give all the johnmpl-ers a chance to get submitted. If you sub yourself youre a lame-o
Helo its SpaceSpeakers, uhhhhhh we got kicked out of OMPL in Playoffs by SSSSS again 
so imma post all the MNM teams that i built with my Heart Takers mnm core Ivar- Placus- Sammy
MNM :
Week 1 :
(W)
Week 2 :
(W)
Week 3 : 
(L)
Week 4 :
(W)
Week 5 :
(W)
Week 6 :
(L)
Week 7 :
(W)
Semis : 
(W)
BO3 :
Week 2 :
(L)
Week 4 :
(W)
Week 5 :
(L)
Week 6 : 
(W)
Semis : 
(L)
Some cool teams that i dont have chance to use and i think they r worth to use
(Ivar tb)
(Standard)
(Kyurem white + Glowking)
(Mew2)
(Psychic Surge)
(Rage Fist)
(Semi Trickroom)
(Trick room)
( this was pre Redorb ban but i think it still works )
Well, that's it.Im happy that i went undefeated in MNM. Thanks ojr and Ivar57 for drafting me, thought i would go undrafted this OMPL tho.
I'm not gonna make a huge shoutout post since there will be someone doing that.
PociekMociek is the person who i enjoy talking to and building teams with the most. Guess i don't have to say how good he is, also this is my first time teaming up with Placus, i'm glad that our slot went positive even though he forced me to play mnm week 7. Hope we can still be on the same team next year.
SammyCe123 Ivar57 broken players. They built teams for almost every tiers. Yall should have picked MNM in Bo3 instead of Stab/AAA tho since we cooked a lot. It's my pleasure to be your teammate this OMPL. Pretty sure i learned a lot and will be stronger next year.
Another shoutout for a group of friends TTTech RoFnA zastra LordBox. They didnt try to draft me and kept bullying me smh. Well, at least they made me try harder in this tour in order to kick them out of OMPL ( yes, all of them didnt make it to playoffs which is funny as fuck)
so imma post all the MNM teams that i built with my Heart Takers mnm core Ivar- Placus- SammyMNM :
Week 1 :
(W)Week 2 :
(W) Week 3 :
(L)Week 4 :
(W)Week 5 :
(W)Week 6 :
(L)Week 7 :
(W)Semis :
(W)BO3 :
Week 2 :
(L)Week 4 :
(W)Week 5 :
(L)Week 6 :
(W)Semis :
(L)Some cool teams that i dont have chance to use and i think they r worth to use
(Ivar tb) (Standard) (Kyurem white + Glowking) (Mew2) (Psychic Surge) (Rage Fist) (Semi Trickroom) (Trick room) ( this was pre Redorb ban but i think it still works )Well, that's it.
I'm not gonna make a huge shoutout post since there will be someone doing that.
PociekMociek is the person who i enjoy talking to and building teams with the most. Guess i don't have to say how good he is, also this is my first time teaming up with Placus, i'm glad that our slot went positive even though he forced me to play mnm week 7. Hope we can still be on the same team next year.
SammyCe123 Ivar57 broken players. They built teams for almost every tiers. Yall should have picked MNM in Bo3 instead of Stab/AAA tho since we cooked a lot. It's my pleasure to be your teammate this OMPL. Pretty sure i learned a lot and will be stronger next year.
Another shoutout for a group of friends TTTech RoFnA zastra LordBox. They didnt try to draft me and kept bullying me smh. Well, at least they made me try harder in this tour in order to kick them out of OMPL ( yes, all of them didnt make it to playoffs which is funny as fuck)
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dont feel like writing an intensive teamdump post lol feel free to ping me if u have any questions about team comps/spreads
https://pokepast.es/d21e82d205108f4b
w1 vs ana I knew I was gonna face some balance w/ a quirky breaker, that's what he usually builds + what he bought vs me in wc and it worked then. i decided on a scary wincon w/ sub so sub + bu kyurem was fresh in my mind after fiora mentioned it to me. i paired it up w/ taunt adapt urshifu bcuz that weakens water-types which are the main thing that kyurem is scared of. last mons are just defensive core that I threw together but didn't want to be too passive cuz if I'm passive vs ana I lose. ting-lu is glimm set bcuz I wanted tspike for sub synergy and mortal spin is good removal for kyurem
https://pokepast.es/82ad54fed5c855e0
this team is ass lol. didn't know what to expect from drip + tech so I thought a basic ngas balance would let me outplay any mu I ran into, hindsight is 20/20 tho and I prolly should've swapped my team after getting my ass whooped in tests.
https://pokepast.es/f92aedbc00dfdba9
had 0 motivation this week so I wanted to bring a basic balance, a lot of these sets can be credited to bijou, fissure and gary as they basically built this team for me
https://pokepast.es/ecce0e624bdf1848
basically the same mindset I had going in on the prep vs drip but this time I properly tested my team and executed it well. this is a balance team that lets u actually outplay any MU. Psalt glisc is broken on hstack cuz it ups on every removal we have and isn't threatened by any of them, this suicune set is peak and unless u face vs mg prim or gholdengo its impossible to wall. RM here is jaw instead of tough claws bcuz crunch is more spammable than knock and this guy is my main progress maker
https://pokepast.es/dcd739622e67e305
this is just a bunch of cool sets I wanted to bring, fiora mentioned sg + burst + noise melo to me and I decided to build this team, its gunk last bcuz bijou has a fetish for fairy regenvest
https://pokepast.es/82b435350df67373
kinda lame balance team but I wanted to give SD + TC rm a try aswell as prim bcuz everyone was glazing that mon
https://pokepast.es/aa2ff5ea2e48b4ae
I went schizophrenic while prepping vs lily and this has a good mu into all her teams bcuz her building has very notable weakpoints; lack of regenvest and reusing the same few mons / sets ALOT are notable weaknesses. rbolt beats her usual spdef mons notably ting-lu, tusk is good vs all her physical guys she bought more then once, and ogerpon takes fantastic advantage of her love for primarina.
https://pokepast.es/24f87e3621298026
ngl I was just burnt out and not having fun atp so I decided to bring 5 mons I'm comfortable with using that are good + an idef bpress rocks guy (I had been laddering ou for a bit w/ a bpress skarmory team that had defensive utility but was also a set up sweeper so I decided on bringing that idea in inh cuz its cool) and rely on outplaying to win, most choices irt items or ev spreads are fine-tuned to deal with bjs usual picks tho, physdef mons that don't lose to RM and running noise setup to deal w/ triage
https://pokepast.es/d21e82d205108f4b
w1 vs ana I knew I was gonna face some balance w/ a quirky breaker, that's what he usually builds + what he bought vs me in wc and it worked then. i decided on a scary wincon w/ sub so sub + bu kyurem was fresh in my mind after fiora mentioned it to me. i paired it up w/ taunt adapt urshifu bcuz that weakens water-types which are the main thing that kyurem is scared of. last mons are just defensive core that I threw together but didn't want to be too passive cuz if I'm passive vs ana I lose. ting-lu is glimm set bcuz I wanted tspike for sub synergy and mortal spin is good removal for kyurem
https://pokepast.es/82ad54fed5c855e0
this team is ass lol. didn't know what to expect from drip + tech so I thought a basic ngas balance would let me outplay any mu I ran into, hindsight is 20/20 tho and I prolly should've swapped my team after getting my ass whooped in tests.
https://pokepast.es/f92aedbc00dfdba9
had 0 motivation this week so I wanted to bring a basic balance, a lot of these sets can be credited to bijou, fissure and gary as they basically built this team for me
https://pokepast.es/ecce0e624bdf1848
basically the same mindset I had going in on the prep vs drip but this time I properly tested my team and executed it well. this is a balance team that lets u actually outplay any MU. Psalt glisc is broken on hstack cuz it ups on every removal we have and isn't threatened by any of them, this suicune set is peak and unless u face vs mg prim or gholdengo its impossible to wall. RM here is jaw instead of tough claws bcuz crunch is more spammable than knock and this guy is my main progress maker
https://pokepast.es/dcd739622e67e305
this is just a bunch of cool sets I wanted to bring, fiora mentioned sg + burst + noise melo to me and I decided to build this team, its gunk last bcuz bijou has a fetish for fairy regenvest
https://pokepast.es/82b435350df67373
kinda lame balance team but I wanted to give SD + TC rm a try aswell as prim bcuz everyone was glazing that mon
https://pokepast.es/aa2ff5ea2e48b4ae
I went schizophrenic while prepping vs lily and this has a good mu into all her teams bcuz her building has very notable weakpoints; lack of regenvest and reusing the same few mons / sets ALOT are notable weaknesses. rbolt beats her usual spdef mons notably ting-lu, tusk is good vs all her physical guys she bought more then once, and ogerpon takes fantastic advantage of her love for primarina.
https://pokepast.es/24f87e3621298026
ngl I was just burnt out and not having fun atp so I decided to bring 5 mons I'm comfortable with using that are good + an idef bpress rocks guy (I had been laddering ou for a bit w/ a bpress skarmory team that had defensive utility but was also a set up sweeper so I decided on bringing that idea in inh cuz its cool) and rely on outplaying to win, most choices irt items or ev spreads are fine-tuned to deal with bjs usual picks tho, physdef mons that don't lose to RM and running noise setup to deal w/ triage
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Yeah uh why do you have a virizion on one of your teams, and why is it av contrary?
Hi, it's me, cat. This was my first OMPL and I'm really fucking glad with the way it went. I've managed and played in other TTs before but none of the teamcords I've been in have felt as fun to be in as ours. From Schpoonman and ponchlake discussing Hades 2 midseason to pannu calling me theotherone because they forgot if Gimmicky or me was the other manager, this OMPL has been an amazing experience and one hell of a ride.
The draft was by far the most stressful part of the tour - even though our draft plan felt solid, I was paranoid that we wouldn't get the players we wanted. The draft went much better than expected, although we unfortunately didn't manage to get Bonk, who I had been really looking forward to getting but ended up otherwise since I believed he was starter-worthy in MnM / STAB / Bo3 and we had starters for those tiers already. We ended up with a really solid draft me and Evie were happy with.
It's been a wonderful OMPL with all of you, Wokes, and everyone who joined our teamcord along the way. I'm not very good at shoutouts, sorry......
Betticus IV holy shit you're fucking goated. Your dedication to the tier is wild. I have no idea how we got someone as good as you for 3k. Looking forward to your AAA Seasonal win and your showing this AAAPL.
Kinetic You're bound for great things this circuit. I've lowkey never seen you play STAB but the fact that you helped to put together so many of the STAB teams we used in Bo3 is pretty fucking awesome. Looking forward to that ribbon.
Chessking345 I wish I had more to say but honestly you're fucking goated and these teams were cooking.
pannu i know you hate me and idrc if you end up reading this or not. imo you're the MVP of our whole team. You were always quick to provide test games and feedback on pastes while cooking goat shit in inh every week. Thank you for everything you've done for the team.
Schpoonman I believe this was your first OMPL? I hope you enjoyed the experience. Having you around was really fun - you were active, pretty chill and funny too.
Stories I'm glad I managed to get you to sign up - you're amazing and the fact that you went unnoticed at 3k for the tier where the better clicker wins is nuts.
Redflix again I do wish I had more to say but all I have to say is that you're cracked.
Fissure I knew you were good, but goddamn, this good? I am really sorry for not getting another supports in the pool this year but thank god NeonJolteonWasUsed was happy to join the cord midtour.
Clas this OMPL wasn't the best for you which is a shame because you're pretty fucking good at the game. s/o to your hax too because that's pretty cool
NinjaSnapple we didn't really interact much this tour but I hope you enjoyed being in the team this OMPL
Jrdn you're amazing dude. Maybe GG isn't your cup of tea though... Hope this OMPL helped you redeem yourself after last year's.
Evie you're amazing girl. Your record is such a fraud because you were ROBBED this season. Thanks for being an amazing co-manager and being amazing in general <3
And lastly s/o to everyone who joined along the way
Ren Racool NeonJolteonWasUsed Slither Wing augustakira Career Ended TTTech uppa BoingK CoolTrainerGary eragon Don Vascus The Dragon Master
The draft was by far the most stressful part of the tour - even though our draft plan felt solid, I was paranoid that we wouldn't get the players we wanted. The draft went much better than expected, although we unfortunately didn't manage to get Bonk, who I had been really looking forward to getting but ended up otherwise since I believed he was starter-worthy in MnM / STAB / Bo3 and we had starters for those tiers already. We ended up with a really solid draft me and Evie were happy with.
It's been a wonderful OMPL with all of you, Wokes, and everyone who joined our teamcord along the way. I'm not very good at shoutouts, sorry......
Betticus IV holy shit you're fucking goated. Your dedication to the tier is wild. I have no idea how we got someone as good as you for 3k. Looking forward to your AAA Seasonal win and your showing this AAAPL.
Kinetic You're bound for great things this circuit. I've lowkey never seen you play STAB but the fact that you helped to put together so many of the STAB teams we used in Bo3 is pretty fucking awesome. Looking forward to that ribbon.
Chessking345 I wish I had more to say but honestly you're fucking goated and these teams were cooking.
pannu i know you hate me and idrc if you end up reading this or not. imo you're the MVP of our whole team. You were always quick to provide test games and feedback on pastes while cooking goat shit in inh every week. Thank you for everything you've done for the team.
Schpoonman I believe this was your first OMPL? I hope you enjoyed the experience. Having you around was really fun - you were active, pretty chill and funny too.
Stories I'm glad I managed to get you to sign up - you're amazing and the fact that you went unnoticed at 3k for the tier where the better clicker wins is nuts.
Redflix again I do wish I had more to say but all I have to say is that you're cracked.
Fissure I knew you were good, but goddamn, this good? I am really sorry for not getting another supports in the pool this year but thank god NeonJolteonWasUsed was happy to join the cord midtour.
Clas this OMPL wasn't the best for you which is a shame because you're pretty fucking good at the game. s/o to your hax too because that's pretty cool
NinjaSnapple we didn't really interact much this tour but I hope you enjoyed being in the team this OMPL
Jrdn you're amazing dude. Maybe GG isn't your cup of tea though... Hope this OMPL helped you redeem yourself after last year's.
Evie you're amazing girl. Your record is such a fraud because you were ROBBED this season. Thanks for being an amazing co-manager and being amazing in general <3
And lastly s/o to everyone who joined along the way
Ren Racool NeonJolteonWasUsed Slither Wing augustakira Career Ended TTTech uppa BoingK CoolTrainerGary eragon Don Vascus The Dragon Master
Ehy. I’m the Captain of the SSSSS. The guy whose dreams got trampled on. Yeah shoutouts to that eh ? I think we can all learn a lesson from this, and that’s that THE BAD GUYS ARE JUST FATED TO LOSE. Don’t act like no one noticed brothas. GODLIKE players and prep, for what ? Second place ? The truth isn’t hard to see if you just look. Shits rigged man. Shoutouts to aerobee for never playing BH before and still putting this pool on the grill in short order. I’m still asking God why it had to end like this man. My draft was insane. My plays were insane. They said I was going places. WELL I WENT STRAIGHT TO HELL SO THEY WERE RIGHT. GOD PLEASE ANSWER ME. I REPENT. IM SORRY
teams i used with very short summaries
INH
w1 https://pokepast.es/5626cf78e2e6fd87 - did not want to lose to kyurem, wanted unaware
w2 https://pokepast.es/039bde7c4e5105bb - opp scout hates tspikes, ngas stall seemed :hairline:
w3 https://pokepast.es/f2f1c4863d331c50 - I WON IF I POP BOMBED TING LU
w4 https://pokepast.es/3ce9c470585d35a1 - i ripped a cress set from inh thread and slapped it on deod
w5 https://pokepast.es/304614cc498dd785 - never seen a french person beat ho
w6 https://pokepast.es/ede8f969cef09225 - bijou i hate ur guts for spamming screens
w7 (VOID) https://pokepast.es/e37f1440f33d731c - ngl this team would've won in finals so easily and it was prepped 3 weeks in advance
tiebreak https://pokepast.es/cd1c4042cd43ef27 - curse ting lu is a silly win con
finals https://pokepast.es/4b10f2b005b9b3e5 - better version of tiebreak but probs should've used w7 team
BONUS https://pokepast.es/c0c98a347788650e - i got bored and built this, fun but very prim weak
GG
w7 - NGL I lost the paste but it was really just tailwind offense with eject button setters + cb bramble (adamant)
semis https://pokepast.es/02853346c3320bc7 - serp dozo groundy seemed elite
INH
w1 https://pokepast.es/5626cf78e2e6fd87 - did not want to lose to kyurem, wanted unaware
w2 https://pokepast.es/039bde7c4e5105bb - opp scout hates tspikes, ngas stall seemed :hairline:
w3 https://pokepast.es/f2f1c4863d331c50 - I WON IF I POP BOMBED TING LU
w4 https://pokepast.es/3ce9c470585d35a1 - i ripped a cress set from inh thread and slapped it on deod
w5 https://pokepast.es/304614cc498dd785 - never seen a french person beat ho
w6 https://pokepast.es/ede8f969cef09225 - bijou i hate ur guts for spamming screens
w7 (VOID) https://pokepast.es/e37f1440f33d731c - ngl this team would've won in finals so easily and it was prepped 3 weeks in advance
tiebreak https://pokepast.es/cd1c4042cd43ef27 - curse ting lu is a silly win con
finals https://pokepast.es/4b10f2b005b9b3e5 - better version of tiebreak but probs should've used w7 team
BONUS https://pokepast.es/c0c98a347788650e - i got bored and built this, fun but very prim weak
GG
w7 - NGL I lost the paste but it was really just tailwind offense with eject button setters + cb bramble (adamant)
semis https://pokepast.es/02853346c3320bc7 - serp dozo groundy seemed elite
man. to believe that my first ompl ive ever participated in would end like this is still so surreal. signing up to manage with very little experience with one of my closest friends on the site and then getting picked in an incredibly stacked pool is insane and im so glad to have been given a chance. after the draft i was incredibly happy with the team we had drafted and as the tour went on i kept getting more confident. all of yall are so incredibly talented but also insanely hardworking and put the work in every single week. though most importantly, you all are amazing people and are so fun to talk to. the teamcord vibes were incredible and i had so much fun talking to all of yall. shoutouts may be a bit short since im not great with words but im truly thankful for all of you
pannu youre so good its insane. people we’re doubting the choice to get you for 13k but you proved them so so wrong. i know you didnt necessarily enjoy playing this season but tysm for giving it your all. you’re incredibly fun to talk to and call with and im so glad to be your friend. always fun being made fun of for being british despite not even being british or having you cry in my dms because you lost your 50/50. thank you for helping with almost every tier, i really admire and appreciate your work ethic despite your crippling gacha game addiction and im so glad i drafted you.
Betticus IV Kinetic its actually crazy how we got both of you for 3k each when youre both worth so much more than that and im sure thatll show next ompl. we were kinda stumped during draft on who to get for aaa since we could only spend 3k per player; i was a bit skeptical but we picked up kinetic and jrdn recommended betticus and my god was it worth it. kinetic great job pulling off an upset in bo3 one week that you got slotted in because i just had a sixth sense that you were goated at stab. im 100% sure both of you are gonna blossom into incredible players and kinetic youre gonna destroy circuit, if you ever need pic teams ill be here.
Redflix i didnt really know much about you going into the draft apart fron the fact that you were really good at mnm and i was right! 7-1 is insane and you carried us so hard, every week i was sure that we had a winning slot in you because youre just so consistent. im confident youll find success in whatever you do next.
Chessking345 you somehow managed to have more messages in the inh channel than the bh one and still performed incredibly. youre super intertaining and im so glad i drafted you. youre so so talented and i wish you nothing but the best.
Fissure before the tour when i was talking to cotta about draft plans he said "if you want a good stab slot draft fissure". he was right. having you, flix, chess, and cotta were a crazy core that i always knew would come out favourably. i always looked forward to seeing your teams each week and it was hilarious seeing you bratpost and racoonpost instead of prepping for finals.
Clas its such a shame we had to bench you since youre such an incredible player but thank you for taking it well and helping out nonetheless. i always have a heart attack every time i watch one of your games whether youre ghosting your opponent or liveposting the game in discord for some reason or throwing and then getting crazy hax and then potentially throwing again. if you do choose to give circuit another go this time around im sure youll kill it.
Schpoonman when we nommed you we didnt even expect to get you, iirc we were just like "lets nom schpoonman and if we get them for 3k then huge steal". and we were right, you were a huge steal. seeing you, cotta, and gary put in so much work every week was insane. you really deserved a win this season and its such a shame you couldnt get it, im confident youll do great next ompl.
Jrdn i cant even remember the thought process behind getting you, i think it was just "jrdn gud let get jrdn". your teams were so fire and its a shame they all got wasted on deadgames :sob: im still amazed that you managed to deadgame a game at 3am. regardless, youre super talented and thank you for putting up with bad metagame gg for the first 4 weeks.
Stories im so glad april begged us to buy you cause you were so worth it, getting a cracked clicker for 3k was incredible, thank you for stepping up to play gg when we need you.
NinjaSnapple youre literally always online for tests its insane. its also insane how many consecutive tours we've been in: hgpl, dpl, ndwc, and now this, youre a great friend and i look forward to teaming with you in the future
thank you to everyone who joined the server to help, i wont ping you all since nat already did but thank you guys. special shoutout to Ren for being the team mascot and Racool for having nearly 2000 lines in the teamcord despite only joining in playoffs wtf.
last but not least thank you to cat for managing with me, it was a ton of fun and im glad you could end on a win. love you so much <3
as for me, im not very happy with my season. i got outprepped and outplayed most weeks and it reflects on my record. i feel like i couldve done more to help the other slots although it turns out that yall are so good you dont even need it. i plan on sticking around for a while longer but i think after that a long break is due. ive been a bit burnt out and id also like to get off the internet in general. whether ill be around for next ompl, who knows. thank you to the whole mons community and especially the om community for being so nice and welcoming, yall are the reason i stay around.
pannu youre so good its insane. people we’re doubting the choice to get you for 13k but you proved them so so wrong. i know you didnt necessarily enjoy playing this season but tysm for giving it your all. you’re incredibly fun to talk to and call with and im so glad to be your friend. always fun being made fun of for being british despite not even being british or having you cry in my dms because you lost your 50/50. thank you for helping with almost every tier, i really admire and appreciate your work ethic despite your crippling gacha game addiction and im so glad i drafted you.
Betticus IV Kinetic its actually crazy how we got both of you for 3k each when youre both worth so much more than that and im sure thatll show next ompl. we were kinda stumped during draft on who to get for aaa since we could only spend 3k per player; i was a bit skeptical but we picked up kinetic and jrdn recommended betticus and my god was it worth it. kinetic great job pulling off an upset in bo3 one week that you got slotted in because i just had a sixth sense that you were goated at stab. im 100% sure both of you are gonna blossom into incredible players and kinetic youre gonna destroy circuit, if you ever need pic teams ill be here.
Redflix i didnt really know much about you going into the draft apart fron the fact that you were really good at mnm and i was right! 7-1 is insane and you carried us so hard, every week i was sure that we had a winning slot in you because youre just so consistent. im confident youll find success in whatever you do next.
Chessking345 you somehow managed to have more messages in the inh channel than the bh one and still performed incredibly. youre super intertaining and im so glad i drafted you. youre so so talented and i wish you nothing but the best.
Fissure before the tour when i was talking to cotta about draft plans he said "if you want a good stab slot draft fissure". he was right. having you, flix, chess, and cotta were a crazy core that i always knew would come out favourably. i always looked forward to seeing your teams each week and it was hilarious seeing you bratpost and racoonpost instead of prepping for finals.
Clas its such a shame we had to bench you since youre such an incredible player but thank you for taking it well and helping out nonetheless. i always have a heart attack every time i watch one of your games whether youre ghosting your opponent or liveposting the game in discord for some reason or throwing and then getting crazy hax and then potentially throwing again. if you do choose to give circuit another go this time around im sure youll kill it.
Schpoonman when we nommed you we didnt even expect to get you, iirc we were just like "lets nom schpoonman and if we get them for 3k then huge steal". and we were right, you were a huge steal. seeing you, cotta, and gary put in so much work every week was insane. you really deserved a win this season and its such a shame you couldnt get it, im confident youll do great next ompl.
Jrdn i cant even remember the thought process behind getting you, i think it was just "jrdn gud let get jrdn". your teams were so fire and its a shame they all got wasted on deadgames :sob: im still amazed that you managed to deadgame a game at 3am. regardless, youre super talented and thank you for putting up with bad metagame gg for the first 4 weeks.
Stories im so glad april begged us to buy you cause you were so worth it, getting a cracked clicker for 3k was incredible, thank you for stepping up to play gg when we need you.
NinjaSnapple youre literally always online for tests its insane. its also insane how many consecutive tours we've been in: hgpl, dpl, ndwc, and now this, youre a great friend and i look forward to teaming with you in the future
thank you to everyone who joined the server to help, i wont ping you all since nat already did but thank you guys. special shoutout to Ren for being the team mascot and Racool for having nearly 2000 lines in the teamcord despite only joining in playoffs wtf.
last but not least thank you to cat for managing with me, it was a ton of fun and im glad you could end on a win. love you so much <3
as for me, im not very happy with my season. i got outprepped and outplayed most weeks and it reflects on my record. i feel like i couldve done more to help the other slots although it turns out that yall are so good you dont even need it. i plan on sticking around for a while longer but i think after that a long break is due. ive been a bit burnt out and id also like to get off the internet in general. whether ill be around for next ompl, who knows. thank you to the whole mons community and especially the om community for being so nice and welcoming, yall are the reason i stay around.
Anyone remember THIS POST?
I challenged y'all to predict which teams would do the best in the regular season of OMPL. I got 6 responses.
The way the scoring works is I added all the predicted rankings together and divided by number of responses to get an average score. Lower is better obviously. Numbers are rounded to the third decimal place.
Prediction Scores
Black Diamond Kyurems - Predictions: Sum: 36, Average: 6 Actual: 8
Dubwool Entendres - Predictions: Sum: 29, Average: 4.833 Actual: 5
Heart Takers - Predictions: Sum: 20, Average: 3.333 Actual: 2
Malevolent Misdreavuses - Predictions: Sum: 29, Average: 4.833 Actual: 5
Rise Up Darkrais - Predictions: Sum: 22, Average: 3.667 Actual: 5
Soul-Stealing Seven Star Solgaeos - Predictions: Sum: 14, Average: 2.333 Actual: 3
Walking Wokes - Predictions: Sum: 29, Average: 4.833 Actual: 1
W Virizzions - Predictions: Sum: 31, Average: 5.1667 Actual: 4
Rank in predictions - Team Name - Actual Rankings
1 - Soul-Stealing Seven Star Solgaleos - 3
2 - Heart Takers - 2
3 - Rise Up Darkrais - 5
4 - Dubwool Entendres - 5
4 - Malevolent Misdreavuses - 5
4 - Walking Wokes - 1
7 - W Virizzions - 4
8 - Black Diamond Kyurems - 8
Closest Predictions...
Team Name - Average Prediction - Actual
Dubwool Entendres - 4.833 - 5
Malevolent Misdreavuses - 4.833 - 5
Now for individuals...
I promised top three but there's a tie so you get top four! The scoring format is as follows - You gain points for every place away from correct you are. I have calculated this for every person's predictions for every team. Lower points are, once again, superior.
1 - Chessking345 - 9 points
2 - berry - 17 points
2 - ojr - 17 points
2 - Greybaum - 17 points
Shoutouts Chessking345 for winning the game, and for the predictions format.
I challenged y'all to predict which teams would do the best in the regular season of OMPL. I got 6 responses.
The way the scoring works is I added all the predicted rankings together and divided by number of responses to get an average score. Lower is better obviously. Numbers are rounded to the third decimal place.
Prediction Scores
Black Diamond Kyurems - Predictions: Sum: 36, Average: 6 Actual: 8
Dubwool Entendres - Predictions: Sum: 29, Average: 4.833 Actual: 5
Heart Takers - Predictions: Sum: 20, Average: 3.333 Actual: 2
Malevolent Misdreavuses - Predictions: Sum: 29, Average: 4.833 Actual: 5
Rise Up Darkrais - Predictions: Sum: 22, Average: 3.667 Actual: 5
Soul-Stealing Seven Star Solgaeos - Predictions: Sum: 14, Average: 2.333 Actual: 3
Walking Wokes - Predictions: Sum: 29, Average: 4.833 Actual: 1
W Virizzions - Predictions: Sum: 31, Average: 5.1667 Actual: 4
Rank in predictions - Team Name - Actual Rankings
1 - Soul-Stealing Seven Star Solgaleos - 3
2 - Heart Takers - 2
3 - Rise Up Darkrais - 5
4 - Dubwool Entendres - 5
4 - Malevolent Misdreavuses - 5
4 - Walking Wokes - 1
7 - W Virizzions - 4
8 - Black Diamond Kyurems - 8
Closest Predictions...
Team Name - Average Prediction - Actual
Dubwool Entendres - 4.833 - 5
Malevolent Misdreavuses - 4.833 - 5
Now for individuals...
I promised top three but there's a tie so you get top four! The scoring format is as follows - You gain points for every place away from correct you are. I have calculated this for every person's predictions for every team. Lower points are, once again, superior.
1 - Chessking345 - 9 points
2 - berry - 17 points
2 - ojr - 17 points
2 - Greybaum - 17 points
Shoutouts Chessking345 for winning the game, and for the predictions format.
Week 1 vs Dr. Phd. BJ - W
https://pokepast.es/081cd7a085eb4992
No inh experience going into this, figured BJ didn't either and so I had no idea what to expect. Figured a comfy balance would work, so I set out to find a breaker that could abuse the top tiers; at-the-time S-tiers were Iron Hands (arc-h; rarely ran non-fight move) and Gholdengo (bramblin; rarely ran non-ghost move) which were both walled by Hisuian Zoroarl, so I found a set I liked with Toxtricity as donor and built. Goal was just to make sure I could regenerate enough turns for Zoroark to do shit with hazards and make sure I don't lose to regen mons in the process. Worked out pretty well, Zoroark killed everything as expected.
Week 2 vs anaconja - W
https://pokepast.es/b6d6a1245d8400ee
Garg donors are unfair and I figured I could use Curse Lando to beat basically any balance ana might throw at me. I wanted to pair it up with Sandy Shocks because that guy seemed broken and the best way to use it seemed to be alongside another bulkier Ground-type, Ghold + Prim is just a fantastic defensive core, and then Meow + Moth rounded it out by helping with the matchup against offense. A really cool Hisuian Goodra set caused me some issues but Prim is bullshit so I won anyway.
Week 3 vs DripLegend - W
https://pokepast.es/f6421a65995c63a5
Garg + SFLO Sandy remains unfair, so I just built something else around it this time. Also created LokixMoon with this which I don't think had been used yet. This Snorlax set ended up appearing on a few teams I'd build as a way to work around a sometimes-difficult offense matchup, I don't necessarily think it's good but ESpeeders are very underrated. Other than that there's not really anything fancy here, just some offensive dudes supporting some setup dudes and a big strong breaker tying it all together with a fat Ground.
Week 4 vs cscl - W
https://pokepast.es/cc08bd75181210dc
cscl had been bringing some weird stuff so I didn't wanna run balance again this week and get overrun by like Quiver Dance Archaludon or some shit. Figured that the HO route would work for taking the fight to them but didn't really have the time to build one, so astralydia cooked this up for me. Just a bunch of broken mons lol. Has issues with opposing Booster Lando but is otherwise a good team.
Week 5 vs Schpoonman - W
https://pokepast.es/f2bb3b96728627b3
Second verse same as the first, didn't know what Schpoonman would bring given this was their first venture into OMPL and I wanted to make sure I had outs to just about anything so I brought a comfortable balance that I had already used vs DripLegend and won with broken ass GargApe.
Week 6 vs zioziotrip - W
https://pokepast.es/4c19421e3c1d212c
Zio had been cooking everyone with random Quiver Dance mons up till now and I didn't want that shit to happen to me so I brought Unaware Gholdengo to make sure I could beat anything that wasn't Heatran, saw Heatran on preview, feared for my life, and then it was a Regen variant so gg. Regenvest Zarude is pretty sick but unfortunately it took a Focus Blast to the dome and exploded in this game so I didn't really get to show it off.
Week 7 vs Don Vascus - L
https://pokepast.es/96994f13016080e3
Don had been using some balance stuff up till now and I wanted to use something more offensive. Didn't really think about HO in prep and got goobed by a cool Screens team. Sneasler + Skewda is really oppressive and this team had the tools to back them up with Helmet Lando + Ursaring. This game was really close - if I managed to avoid the 3 FPs on Ursaring I think I'd have managed to take it but hey that's paraflinch for you.
Semifinals vs pannu - L
https://pokepast.es/1cf88103f0bb5ee5
Burnt out by this point so I just wanted to bring some Darkrai stuff since I hadn't all season and it seemed really good. Got my clicks wrong unfortunately, there were multiple points where if I just clicked the obvious STAB move I won this game on the spot but I didn't use my brain. Team's cool, Darkrai is really nice for the Speed tier and the combo of Iron Crown + Bax is really powerful if you get it going right. Went 15-0 on suspect ladder before deciding I don't want to subject myself to hour-long queues anymore. Sorry to whoever I ruined 3 suspect runs on.
Some bonus stuff I built but don't want to talk about. Not all fully tested.
Tier's incredibly flawed but it was fun enough. Thanks to Sylvi Greybaum for drafting me and giving me a chance to play something that wasn't GG, and to astralydia and ESPECIALLY pyu who put in countless hours to help me build teams. You guys were fantastic teammates and I really did enjoy this tour a lot.
o7
https://pokepast.es/081cd7a085eb4992
No inh experience going into this, figured BJ didn't either and so I had no idea what to expect. Figured a comfy balance would work, so I set out to find a breaker that could abuse the top tiers; at-the-time S-tiers were Iron Hands (arc-h; rarely ran non-fight move) and Gholdengo (bramblin; rarely ran non-ghost move) which were both walled by Hisuian Zoroarl, so I found a set I liked with Toxtricity as donor and built. Goal was just to make sure I could regenerate enough turns for Zoroark to do shit with hazards and make sure I don't lose to regen mons in the process. Worked out pretty well, Zoroark killed everything as expected.
Week 2 vs anaconja - W
https://pokepast.es/b6d6a1245d8400ee
Garg donors are unfair and I figured I could use Curse Lando to beat basically any balance ana might throw at me. I wanted to pair it up with Sandy Shocks because that guy seemed broken and the best way to use it seemed to be alongside another bulkier Ground-type, Ghold + Prim is just a fantastic defensive core, and then Meow + Moth rounded it out by helping with the matchup against offense. A really cool Hisuian Goodra set caused me some issues but Prim is bullshit so I won anyway.
Week 3 vs DripLegend - W
https://pokepast.es/f6421a65995c63a5
Garg + SFLO Sandy remains unfair, so I just built something else around it this time. Also created LokixMoon with this which I don't think had been used yet. This Snorlax set ended up appearing on a few teams I'd build as a way to work around a sometimes-difficult offense matchup, I don't necessarily think it's good but ESpeeders are very underrated. Other than that there's not really anything fancy here, just some offensive dudes supporting some setup dudes and a big strong breaker tying it all together with a fat Ground.
Week 4 vs cscl - W
https://pokepast.es/cc08bd75181210dc
cscl had been bringing some weird stuff so I didn't wanna run balance again this week and get overrun by like Quiver Dance Archaludon or some shit. Figured that the HO route would work for taking the fight to them but didn't really have the time to build one, so astralydia cooked this up for me. Just a bunch of broken mons lol. Has issues with opposing Booster Lando but is otherwise a good team.
Week 5 vs Schpoonman - W
https://pokepast.es/f2bb3b96728627b3
Second verse same as the first, didn't know what Schpoonman would bring given this was their first venture into OMPL and I wanted to make sure I had outs to just about anything so I brought a comfortable balance that I had already used vs DripLegend and won with broken ass GargApe.
Week 6 vs zioziotrip - W
https://pokepast.es/4c19421e3c1d212c
Zio had been cooking everyone with random Quiver Dance mons up till now and I didn't want that shit to happen to me so I brought Unaware Gholdengo to make sure I could beat anything that wasn't Heatran, saw Heatran on preview, feared for my life, and then it was a Regen variant so gg. Regenvest Zarude is pretty sick but unfortunately it took a Focus Blast to the dome and exploded in this game so I didn't really get to show it off.
Week 7 vs Don Vascus - L
https://pokepast.es/96994f13016080e3
Don had been using some balance stuff up till now and I wanted to use something more offensive. Didn't really think about HO in prep and got goobed by a cool Screens team. Sneasler + Skewda is really oppressive and this team had the tools to back them up with Helmet Lando + Ursaring. This game was really close - if I managed to avoid the 3 FPs on Ursaring I think I'd have managed to take it but hey that's paraflinch for you.
Semifinals vs pannu - L
https://pokepast.es/1cf88103f0bb5ee5
Burnt out by this point so I just wanted to bring some Darkrai stuff since I hadn't all season and it seemed really good. Got my clicks wrong unfortunately, there were multiple points where if I just clicked the obvious STAB move I won this game on the spot but I didn't use my brain. Team's cool, Darkrai is really nice for the Speed tier and the combo of Iron Crown + Bax is really powerful if you get it going right. Went 15-0 on suspect ladder before deciding I don't want to subject myself to hour-long queues anymore. Sorry to whoever I ruined 3 suspect runs on.
Some bonus stuff I built but don't want to talk about. Not all fully tested.
Tier's incredibly flawed but it was fun enough. Thanks to Sylvi Greybaum for drafting me and giving me a chance to play something that wasn't GG, and to astralydia and ESPECIALLY pyu who put in countless hours to help me build teams. You guys were fantastic teammates and I really did enjoy this tour a lot.
o7
I already team dumped here, gotta put the inh teams on the inh forum. These are my actual shout outs
Thank you BijouMode for being my partner in crime. Its always great to have a fellow tier expert to work with at all times. I hope your vacation from pokemans is going alright.
pannu eres un maldito, but you still deserve a shout out. You're a great player and funny, but somewhat annoying presence. Could not have gotten to where i got without your games. Hope you recover from your gatcha addiction
anaconja and Racool, thank you for letting me help on inh. Conja I hope you pick up the tier once again, and thanks both of you to inadvertently planting the seeds for what would result in some of the most fun i had with a gen 9 team and the undeniable effect it'll have on my Spotify wrapped
dreepy thank you for inviting me to help your team for inh. I feel like i couldve helped more with your game, even though i love to help. I bet next time you'll get to finals.
Thank you Dunfan, Inh's council most reliable man. I wish you would've signed up so that you can level up your game, but its very appreciated you helped me as well.
augustakira thank you for being a more reliable test game giver than pannu. Low bar, but still appreciated
Chessking345 thank you for compiling the usage stats for the entirety of ompl. I love watching at numbers, and I bet this work must be tedious, which is why i thank you for your service.
And of course I can't leave out my manaphantom thieves of hearts out! Shout outs to my managers ojr and Ivar57 for drafting me as well as another good inh player so that i don't get poor grades due to having to game too much. My omms buddies PociekMociek, Tranquility and the pic goat HiZo, and the rest of the team frankjosh Fraise hellom xdRudi.exe Glory Test Rex SpaceSpeakers SammyCe123 sorry for not interacting that much, but i hope you have enjoyed my frog posts as much as I enjoy making them.
Lastly, I must thank everyone who played inh or picked up the tier during ompl. This is the first time it has gotten such as spotlight, and the first time I have gotten to manage a tier in such a position. While I may not know whatever the future holds for the tier, I hope everyone who played has enjoyed it with all its strengths and flaws
Thank you BijouMode for being my partner in crime. Its always great to have a fellow tier expert to work with at all times. I hope your vacation from pokemans is going alright.
pannu eres un maldito, but you still deserve a shout out. You're a great player and funny, but somewhat annoying presence. Could not have gotten to where i got without your games. Hope you recover from your gatcha addiction
anaconja and Racool, thank you for letting me help on inh. Conja I hope you pick up the tier once again, and thanks both of you to inadvertently planting the seeds for what would result in some of the most fun i had with a gen 9 team and the undeniable effect it'll have on my Spotify wrapped
dreepy thank you for inviting me to help your team for inh. I feel like i couldve helped more with your game, even though i love to help. I bet next time you'll get to finals.
Thank you Dunfan, Inh's council most reliable man. I wish you would've signed up so that you can level up your game, but its very appreciated you helped me as well.
augustakira thank you for being a more reliable test game giver than pannu. Low bar, but still appreciated
Chessking345 thank you for compiling the usage stats for the entirety of ompl. I love watching at numbers, and I bet this work must be tedious, which is why i thank you for your service.
And of course I can't leave out my manaphantom thieves of hearts out! Shout outs to my managers ojr and Ivar57 for drafting me as well as another good inh player so that i don't get poor grades due to having to game too much. My omms buddies PociekMociek, Tranquility and the pic goat HiZo, and the rest of the team frankjosh Fraise hellom xdRudi.exe Glory Test Rex SpaceSpeakers SammyCe123 sorry for not interacting that much, but i hope you have enjoyed my frog posts as much as I enjoy making them.
Lastly, I must thank everyone who played inh or picked up the tier during ompl. This is the first time it has gotten such as spotlight, and the first time I have gotten to manage a tier in such a position. While I may not know whatever the future holds for the tier, I hope everyone who played has enjoyed it with all its strengths and flaws
wasnt in ompl but ty anyways for the support!! ❤
Feels good to win this tour finally. Obviously happy with my record and for the most part how i played. I mostly built my teams alone, tested like once or twice and ended up rolling with it. So most of these are just based on my understanding of my opponent and def can be improved for a more generalized ladder meta.
w1 : vs haydenn w1 (pokepast.es)
So beauts was coming back after a long time and i knew they would be a bit behind in meta knowledge. I just wanted to be good vs cheese since i know they liked fast paced games and ended up with a very strong defensive core - sable garg to annoy balance in general and check gouging fire + plenty of physical attackers, venu corvi for etern and somewhat pivot against red orb lando, the good old Arc-Ground and the broken mon red orb lugia (which wasnt used much then). I went with barra for fangs in case i fought screens but i was so fixated on deoxys as the screen setter that i completely forgot eleki could be one too, which i did end up facing so that idea went down the drain. Overall, my mu was still amazing and i ended up getting a confident dub.
w2 : week 2 vs tect (pokepast.es)
I was very confident in bringing ursa vs tect, as it was kind of anti-meta that could progress vs most basic balance that tect tends to bring since he doesnt innovate much. It was venusaurite lugia to check red orb lando but i think i changed it once red orb got banned. Rest i just added stuff to cover my weak pieces as i just needed to outplay and didnt wanted to innovate, solg at last so that i had something to hit garg with.
As for the game, i got HO'd again and had psychic fangs (again, but this time it worked). I think spectrier and ceru both had good mu vs me and were tect's only outs to win the game but some key turns that i got right in mandi vs etern interaction sealed the game for me.
w3 : original vs db week 3 (pokepast.es)
I basically dropped "i wanna use samu-h this week" and forgot all about it until i got pinged. After several failed structures that included pecharunt + shocks, i ended up going with pert as the main pivot.I am kinda really proud of this team, simply cuz while it looks basic it has a lot of element of surprise. Ended up facing a milo which kind of fucked my "win with pert teams faster" strat but db let me chip it with helmet lun and i got a lucky crit that helped me finish the game easier than it should've been.
w4 : Vs zastra (pokepast.es)
probably my worst week prep wise as i genuinely couldn't come to love this 6 and every changes i made made me hate this further. the idea was boulder looked great into kyurems and slowking offered a good slow pivot to let it come safely while venu mandi was for weavile + red orb lugia. I didnt like offensive etern last but never really got what to change it with and my over reliance on arc-ground as the sole physical wall was terrible. It showed in the game as neither did zastra had anything for boulder (other than lugia living 1 always) nor did i have much for his offensive core. I do think i played this game even worse - going for a super aggro switch of etern vs arc thinking he would go for rocks and then staying arc-ground vs mandi to not lose momentum. Overall this team was a mess and this was a week to forget for me.
w5 : vs pyuk (pokepast.es)
With red orb banned, i wanted to abuse zap in cuz broken stab hurricane + its good vs milo which was expected to see a rise. I went with a classic flix core of zap + fighting u-turn in form of skewda and covered the rest from there. Gyara mandi was for sable lugia + something to u-turn on samu-h for. My mu vs etern was p meh since hippo can get poisoned and after testing vs qt they suggested shocks over zap (which made a lot of sense) but my broken hurricane click tendency that week was very high so i ended up taking a chance.
Faced a weavile and treads (wtf) but skewda looked strong in the mu. Got a crucial para on solg which p much sealed the game for me then and there and honestly prob was a bit behind had that not happened and it wouldve came down to how i positioned my skewda and eleki in that mu but we move.
w7 : not weavile (pokepast.es)
With us qualified , this was a p chill week so i wasnt super serious. Ended up starting building like a day before the game and originally decided to use HO but 5 mins later discarded the idea cuz how solg ban messed up a lot of HO structures i used to like. Switched to a different idea in weavile until i was fed up with how much support i had to give it and ended up with chien pao. Team ended up ok, like honestly it can struggle with lot considering a sketchy defensive core and i knew i lost on the spot if i faced a lati mag but other than that my whole idea was win faster with chien-pao and shocks.
Had an amazing mu against what looked like a sketchy stall but almost bottled it since i wasnt paying attention too much and calc was acting weird but chien-pao and lun ended up getting the dub.
semis : vs pyuk (pokepast.es)
For semis, pannu told me beauts was helping virizzions so i just wanted to be good vs shifu and mag. Once again, i started building like a day before the game and went with a double -ate speed structure. I knew atleast a samu-h was coming considering my tendency to spam lunala so far. I made pecha faster and arc-ground foul play in case i faced a lunala. My mu was horrid, borderline unplayable cuz turns out, all my anti-lunala prep was always based on non boosted and it showed in game that i had nothing for +1 lun. Not only that but i also faced a glowking and gyara clod which meant only arc could make progress and it ended up dying p early. Thankfully, i got lucky enough to force an interaction with dnite that always won for me and ended up getting a dub. Id honestly change the arc and pecha to like lati or luc ceru and fairy defensive mon to make this team much better vs generalised stuff.
finals : finals ompl (pokepast.es)
I didnt bring a single shifu this tour, so i really wanted to bring ada aero vs ice since it could break through all its checks. Beauts used fast sub arc-ghost vs me in tests for garganacl and since ice was using a lot of clod and corvi, i ended up building around a defensive variant since i didnt wanna lose to shifu. Again, im not super confident in this teams defensive backbone and tbh aero shifu is p slow meta wise. Its zhb cuz pecharunt can be a pain for milo teams but i had to use milo incase ice brought wake again As for the game, i faced p much what i was expecting and arc ghost 6-0d.
Thanks to cat and Evie for drafting me and letting me do my own thing even tho i was so lazy in prepping lol. U guys were great managers and the team environment was great - from Kinetic and Betticus IV cooking in #aaa, Fissure winning weeks and then complaining about squirrels in garden, Clas malding about tiers and then coming to optimize evs for most of us to Stories coming out of nowhere that 1 week to dominate gg, Jrdn bringing back the anti-meta sets that terrified everyone in tests and pannu being a workhorse from day 1 (srsly dude u were insane this tour and the record is totally deserved). Gotta apologise to Chessking345 tho for that week 1 loss lol, thats one on me. Schpoonman NinjaSnapple i didnt interract with u guys but thanks for putting in work as well.
Obv huge s/o to people who joined us - racool, tttech and akira among many others and to mnm community for helping me test since i was always up in unholy hours yet i found a soul to send "up for a test?" message.
Just wanna say we had Ren and ponchlake in our cord since week 1 and we still managed to win the tour so miracles do come true.
Finally s/o Osake for keeping me sane throughtout this tour, its criminal that we havent teamed up since 2021. hopefully, ur "retired" ass can play 1 more tour so we can change this.
w1 : vs haydenn w1 (pokepast.es)
So beauts was coming back after a long time and i knew they would be a bit behind in meta knowledge. I just wanted to be good vs cheese since i know they liked fast paced games and ended up with a very strong defensive core - sable garg to annoy balance in general and check gouging fire + plenty of physical attackers, venu corvi for etern and somewhat pivot against red orb lando, the good old Arc-Ground and the broken mon red orb lugia (which wasnt used much then). I went with barra for fangs in case i fought screens but i was so fixated on deoxys as the screen setter that i completely forgot eleki could be one too, which i did end up facing so that idea went down the drain. Overall, my mu was still amazing and i ended up getting a confident dub.
w2 : week 2 vs tect (pokepast.es)
I was very confident in bringing ursa vs tect, as it was kind of anti-meta that could progress vs most basic balance that tect tends to bring since he doesnt innovate much. It was venusaurite lugia to check red orb lando but i think i changed it once red orb got banned. Rest i just added stuff to cover my weak pieces as i just needed to outplay and didnt wanted to innovate, solg at last so that i had something to hit garg with.
As for the game, i got HO'd again and had psychic fangs (again, but this time it worked). I think spectrier and ceru both had good mu vs me and were tect's only outs to win the game but some key turns that i got right in mandi vs etern interaction sealed the game for me.
w3 : original vs db week 3 (pokepast.es)
I basically dropped "i wanna use samu-h this week" and forgot all about it until i got pinged. After several failed structures that included pecharunt + shocks, i ended up going with pert as the main pivot.I am kinda really proud of this team, simply cuz while it looks basic it has a lot of element of surprise. Ended up facing a milo which kind of fucked my "win with pert teams faster" strat but db let me chip it with helmet lun and i got a lucky crit that helped me finish the game easier than it should've been.
w4 : Vs zastra (pokepast.es)
probably my worst week prep wise as i genuinely couldn't come to love this 6 and every changes i made made me hate this further. the idea was boulder looked great into kyurems and slowking offered a good slow pivot to let it come safely while venu mandi was for weavile + red orb lugia. I didnt like offensive etern last but never really got what to change it with and my over reliance on arc-ground as the sole physical wall was terrible. It showed in the game as neither did zastra had anything for boulder (other than lugia living 1 always) nor did i have much for his offensive core. I do think i played this game even worse - going for a super aggro switch of etern vs arc thinking he would go for rocks and then staying arc-ground vs mandi to not lose momentum. Overall this team was a mess and this was a week to forget for me.
w5 : vs pyuk (pokepast.es)
With red orb banned, i wanted to abuse zap in cuz broken stab hurricane + its good vs milo which was expected to see a rise. I went with a classic flix core of zap + fighting u-turn in form of skewda and covered the rest from there. Gyara mandi was for sable lugia + something to u-turn on samu-h for. My mu vs etern was p meh since hippo can get poisoned and after testing vs qt they suggested shocks over zap (which made a lot of sense) but my broken hurricane click tendency that week was very high so i ended up taking a chance.
Faced a weavile and treads (wtf) but skewda looked strong in the mu. Got a crucial para on solg which p much sealed the game for me then and there and honestly prob was a bit behind had that not happened and it wouldve came down to how i positioned my skewda and eleki in that mu but we move.
w7 : not weavile (pokepast.es)
With us qualified , this was a p chill week so i wasnt super serious. Ended up starting building like a day before the game and originally decided to use HO but 5 mins later discarded the idea cuz how solg ban messed up a lot of HO structures i used to like. Switched to a different idea in weavile until i was fed up with how much support i had to give it and ended up with chien pao. Team ended up ok, like honestly it can struggle with lot considering a sketchy defensive core and i knew i lost on the spot if i faced a lati mag but other than that my whole idea was win faster with chien-pao and shocks.
Had an amazing mu against what looked like a sketchy stall but almost bottled it since i wasnt paying attention too much and calc was acting weird but chien-pao and lun ended up getting the dub.
semis : vs pyuk (pokepast.es)
For semis, pannu told me beauts was helping virizzions so i just wanted to be good vs shifu and mag. Once again, i started building like a day before the game and went with a double -ate speed structure. I knew atleast a samu-h was coming considering my tendency to spam lunala so far. I made pecha faster and arc-ground foul play in case i faced a lunala. My mu was horrid, borderline unplayable cuz turns out, all my anti-lunala prep was always based on non boosted and it showed in game that i had nothing for +1 lun. Not only that but i also faced a glowking and gyara clod which meant only arc could make progress and it ended up dying p early. Thankfully, i got lucky enough to force an interaction with dnite that always won for me and ended up getting a dub. Id honestly change the arc and pecha to like lati or luc ceru and fairy defensive mon to make this team much better vs generalised stuff.
finals : finals ompl (pokepast.es)
I didnt bring a single shifu this tour, so i really wanted to bring ada aero vs ice since it could break through all its checks. Beauts used fast sub arc-ghost vs me in tests for garganacl and since ice was using a lot of clod and corvi, i ended up building around a defensive variant since i didnt wanna lose to shifu. Again, im not super confident in this teams defensive backbone and tbh aero shifu is p slow meta wise. Its zhb cuz pecharunt can be a pain for milo teams but i had to use milo incase ice brought wake again As for the game, i faced p much what i was expecting and arc ghost 6-0d.
Thanks to cat and Evie for drafting me and letting me do my own thing even tho i was so lazy in prepping lol. U guys were great managers and the team environment was great - from Kinetic and Betticus IV cooking in #aaa, Fissure winning weeks and then complaining about squirrels in garden, Clas malding about tiers and then coming to optimize evs for most of us to Stories coming out of nowhere that 1 week to dominate gg, Jrdn bringing back the anti-meta sets that terrified everyone in tests and pannu being a workhorse from day 1 (srsly dude u were insane this tour and the record is totally deserved). Gotta apologise to Chessking345 tho for that week 1 loss lol, thats one on me. Schpoonman NinjaSnapple i didnt interract with u guys but thanks for putting in work as well.
Obv huge s/o to people who joined us - racool, tttech and akira among many others and to mnm community for helping me test since i was always up in unholy hours yet i found a soul to send "up for a test?" message.
Just wanna say we had Ren and ponchlake in our cord since week 1 and we still managed to win the tour so miracles do come true.
Finally s/o Osake for keeping me sane throughtout this tour, its criminal that we havent teamed up since 2021. hopefully, ur "retired" ass can play 1 more tour so we can change this.
I did what I could.
This was actually my first time playing BH at the tournament level and I'm pretty happy with how I did, having Fc as my only support (stresh didn't do shit) until week 7 and having basically no experience with Gen 8-9's new viable mons (Arceus formes, base Eternatus, Ting-Lu, etc.) and broken moves (Thunder Cage, Take Heart, Gigaton Hammer, Victory Dance, etc.) in a BH setting. I disliked how Freeceus stifled slower breakers (too fast, bulky and defensively reliable for those), just how strong hazard stack is, and the consequent slow-but-fast pacing of the format; I played around 15 test games total and didn't touch ladder for the entire tour. To be honest I didn't find my wins past week 1 rewarding since most of them were either due to good matchup or otherwise didn't feel engaging to actually play, while the losses felt pretty bad afterwards since either hax or matchup from me building carelessly. I found that good building was rewarded to an extent but the meta still felt incredibly matchup based and that prep contributed the most to winning.
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Week 1 (W) -
- GameI honestly hadn't played a game of BH since Shell Smash Calyrex-S + Rage Fist Slaking hell, so I had no clue where to begin. My first instinct was to build band/specs breaker balance, something that's had success in ORAS Pure Hackmons and I figured faced fewer obstacles in BH, but it was awful – in test games, hazard stack would wear me down if I didn't simultaneously have a favorable matchup and outplay hard. That's why I switched to 2 Magic Guard fat balance. What I had at this point was reasonably effective against everything without Magic Guard Blissey, though in that Eternatus/Miraidon couldn't really make progress and I would consequently lose before the opponent did. Secret Sword is insanely garbage so that wasn't an option either. So, I swapped to Magic Guard Ultra Necrozma. Even though I didn't think city would bring 2 blobs I felt it was safe to change to a mixed set just in case, with the added benefit of running Ice Scales guys out of PP much more effectively, which is what happened in the actual game. I debated between Volt Tackle and Gigaton Hammer for the 2nd slot, but (thankfully) decided on the former because that meant Necrozma fared much better into Ho-Oh and Regenerator Primal Kyogre. SD Swampert was so special Strength Sap foes wouldn't just sit on whatever defensive check I decided to run, though it didn't really do anything in tests or in the actual game. This team struggles against MGLO Sceptile, SNR Ghostceus, Normalize Flutter Mane, etc. but again I didn't think any of those would be coming.
Week 2 (W) -
- GameI really liked how my W1 team meshed together while being resilient to residual chip, but I also wanted to switch it around a bit so my matchups against the threats listed at the end of the previous paragraph were significantly better. Fortunately a few of Rex's games were public, and (with all due respect) I deduced that I could build something more effective overall while also covering the majority of cheese – particularly Simple Ghostceus and Normalize stuff). Para and heavy pivoting support for UNecro sounded cool to me, and this was my first coherent team draft. Despite not being a strictly Superman-style team I tried to maximize longevity with Regenerator Slowbro (one of the only mons that doesn't need Fur Coat to blanket check physical attackers) and Leftovers Scales Groundceus. I tested like an hour before the game and struggled against LOTC Garchomp with Electro Drift though, so I swapped Yveltal with Mega Audino. Para support was also not as useful as I thought it'd be, so I swapped Glare/Nuzzle out for Topsy-Turvy, which lets Blissey handle stuff like Torch Song Eternatus and Speed Boost Palkia-O more handily and made Audino a much more secure Ghostceus check. In the actual game, triple Teleport allowed me to maintain momentum while scouting opposing sets in addition to safely bringing Necrozma in to click buttons.
Week 3 (W) -
- GameBy now I'd realized that Sheer Force Ultra Necrozma's just more consistent than physically/specialIy biased attackers, even close to 2HKOing +Def Ice Scales Mega Audino (+SpD takes 50 from Bolt Strike, as demonstrated in the game), and so I wanted to keep spamming the mon. However, as some guy in the Week 3 thread pointed out I couldn't keep using Ho-Oh + Ice Scales Ground defensive cores since I'd then be prone to getting counterteamed. I initially tried building around this core, with Mountain Gale allowing Necrozma to break through Scales Groundceus/most Ting-Lu and Earth Power hitting Primordial Sea Steel-types in conjunction with Bolt Strike. My first draft felt pretty wonky to use, with hazard control being really shitty since hazards cut into Regenerator's effectiveness, so I switched Dialga-O for Celesteela, which also complement Fairyceus well, and Primal Kyogre for HDB Scales Audino with Knock Off. Nuzzle Celesteela to deal with most special guys with Chansey once they're paralyzed, and Knock Off on Audino over the RegenVest if opposing Imposter isn't paralyzed (and if they are, I'm most likely winning the game soon enough anyway). Blue Flare swapped for Luster Purge because the latter deals allows Necrozma to 2HKO non-Scales neutral nature Arceus/Audino, and Earth Power + Bolt Strike hits most of what you'd want Fire coverage for anyway. Fairyceus swapped with Eleceus since I HATE BEING SUNSTEEL STRIKE WEAK. Also comes in pretty much scot free against Impostered Celesteela. The finished team had issues with longevity (as any non-Bounceless non-Superman teams would) and I didn't really feel comfortable with it even after testing, but it worked so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think it was this week I committed to bringing UNECRO every week, not sure though.
Week 4 (L) -
- GameThe team I was originally planning on using apparently got leaked the night before my game, so...
I thought Grass coverage (hits Primal Kyogre/Ting-Lu) V-create (hits Celesteela) Necrozma would be good into someone consistently running 1-2 Regenerator mons every game. Covert Cloak Imposter was also to punish that trend,, so I could Mortal Spin any RegenVests on the turn it gets Knocked. QT also seemed to run special breakers more frequently than physical ones, Scales Audino + MG Blissey with a generic PhysDef Arceus forme sounded like a good idea. Sounded solid enough to me, and it probably was until Blissey got crit by Sceptile then Fairyceus KOed it on a (62.5%) roll. Such is mons, not much to say there.
Week 5 (L) -
- GameI forgot to write this part but what I remember's that I wanted to prep most for Knockless RegenVest, TH Arceus, Shackle Victory Dance stuff, and PrimSea Steels since those tended to show up on TTTech's scout. Looking back, there were 3 mistakes I made while building: making the team Superman-esque despite my opponent not really using Spikes to make progress, making other stuff harder to cover; relying on fucking Aegislash to block the spins, and thinking Wisp + Salt Cure were enough to prevent VD bs from setting up and sweeping. Pretty sad for me since I could've just ran Haze, but didn't because that move's normally ass. A harder-to-wall UNECRO set would've also helped.
I also made our GG team for this week. Forgot Valiant's SpA was increased to 150 so BE increased that instead of Speed LOL
Week 6 (W) -
- GameSo 2 things: (1) after getting goobed last week I wondered if any goofy cheese was legal and (2) don't take this the wrong way but I was starting to get bored of this whole Pure Hackmons With Bans thing. I also lowkey wanted to get Simple banned, only makes it more of a headache to prep for everything. LO Hoopa-U apparently OHKOed Scales Audino after Clangorous Soul/No Retreat and could offensively Improof with actual (Bug) coverage so it seemed cool. Obviously I wanted paralysis support for Imposter (and UNecro appreciates para as well) so RegenVest Nuzzle seemed like the obvious choice. Paradoxically, I also wanted to bring something consistent since Akira's a diverse builder so it ended up being this quasi-Superman balance with 1 Simple mon. Couple early versions here (YEAH, I WAS GOING TO RUN NO UNECRO BEFORE I CHANGED MY MIND. GOOD THING I DIDN'T). Timid Audino to outspeed Sceptile, AshGren etc. after para, and Imp Blissey over Chansey since Boots are getting revealed anyway. Felt somewhat behind for most of the actual game but on the flipside UNECRO #2 showcased its power so I'm pretty content with how this turned out.
Week 7 (W) -
- GameWe were already locked into playoffs so I didn't really care this week. Brought SOR UNECRO because I wanted to see how scary it was (didn't feel like playing test games) and I wanted to diversify my scout. Regen Slowbro because it's like the only mon that acts like a Fur Coat 'mon without actually needing the Ability (kinda like WG Slowbro in Gen 7 PH acting as a Huge Power MMX check). TCage + Mortal Eleceus since that actually fully Improofs with Leftovers (and still does without if you don't get unlucky with speed ties as shown in the game) and Boots Blissey since at this point I thought it's at least as good as Eviolite Imp. Scales Dialga-O since I wanted a Steel badly and what does hit it SE specially generally bounces off (ex. Secret Sword, unboosted Ground RevDance). Pretty funny how 3 people brought Scales Dialga separately this week. Please don't judge my playing, the week didn't matter and I was half asleep/ate too much just before so I wasn't thinking straight. For CAMOVE I just took a random team from my builder and Simple will probably be banned soon.
Semis (L) -
- GameWanted to build with Sniper UNecro since I remember hearing about that being basically unwallable. Ran through some calcs and apparently most midgrounds to unscouted Necro just drop once you get Focus Energy up (Dialga dies to V-create after rocks, non-AV Ting dies to Draco, non-Scales Arceus dies to neutral Psycho Boost at 95, etc.) Only problems were being vulnerable to hazards, requiring a turn to set up, and Imposter copying the boost (and therefore being nearly unwallable itself). Pivoted to MG Headlong since I expected someone to bring PrimSea sooner or later and Thunder Cage is busted. Ghostceus since I hadn't brought a ghost besides Aegislash w4 and everything else was hard to fit in. Ran Mortal Ghostceus for the poison but that really cost me in the actual game on top of the other building choices that led to an unwinnable mu. Definitely my worst loss since I just got outprepped hard, as opposed to getting haxed or mu'ed vs. borderline broken fishes.
Finals (L) -
- GameAfter semis I was actually banned from using UNECRO since my team thought Chessking would bring faster wallbreakers/defensive 'mons to prevent it from wreaking havoc. Additionally, I was annoyed since my opponent the previous week brought 6-0ed by Lucario, which, fair enough, I wasn't going to bring, but was annoying nonetheless. Therefore, I wanted to bring speed control that still packed a punch and could apply immediate offensive pressure against almost anything. PHEROMOSA came to mind. When I tested an early version of this team it seemed to do well. Not much else to say, Knock Sceptile theoretically helped against basically any defensive check (MG Blissey, Scales Audino, non-MG Ho-Oh, etc.) to make them easier to wear down. I changed the Dialga set to TCage last minute since I realized my opponent often just didn't run Steels. Therefore, they'd likely be forced to hard Imposter to block Mortal Spin, which is just about the only thing that actually went right in the game. I think I played pretty terribly but it's still unfortunate that the game turned out how it did, sometimes it just do be like that.
Also built some other stuff for finals that I was either unsatisfied with or didn't test enough to find minor flaws or to feel comfortable enough bringing.
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BH builder post-tour since I don't intend to play SV BH again for a while, if ever. Unfortunately my builder was wiped week 3 or so so I don't have teams/team drafts from before then.
UNECRO SETS
Binacle Pinnacle for being the moldiest fkn ROTTER I've ever had the privilege of teaming with.
Icemaster for being really helpful all around, willing to run test games for everyone and being fun to be around. BH tests are painful dude
Fc same thing, but you also had to prep and play the worst fucking meta I've ever seen every single week.
DeepFriedMagikarp Definitely worked the hardest out of everyone this tour, you deserve your record and more. Can't believe this was your first OMPL
Lana for creating scouts for everyone without asking + being willing to help everyone out beyond that. Your record doesn't show how hard you to prepped for as much as possible in a matchup fest meta
Dr. Phd. BJ for killing everyone no matter the meta you played. Didn't expect any less from The Doctor though
tier temp PrimalKyogre BlackKnight_Gawain for enthusiastically being sent to the GG abyss. Even outside of GK yall were really fun to be around, whether it was through having a great sense of humor or yapping a bit too much.
xavgb for being the goat and posting a peculiar GIF toward the end of the tour. The rotting process is nearly complete
Axzel Chromate byulharang pdt Part The Strap RoFnA HiZo baconeatinassassin clean entrocefalo Maybca☆〜ゝ。∂ whoever else was around to help or for the vibes
Tea Guzzler Test Rex for being super helpful week 7 onwards and finals respectively
whichever BH sucker I robbed a starter slot from. im a sorry
BH community for being mostly very nice and welcoming
Guard
Icemaster for being really helpful all around, willing to run test games for everyone and being fun to be around. BH tests are painful dude
Fc same thing, but you also had to prep and play the worst fucking meta I've ever seen every single week.
DeepFriedMagikarp Definitely worked the hardest out of everyone this tour, you deserve your record and more. Can't believe this was your first OMPL
Lana for creating scouts for everyone without asking + being willing to help everyone out beyond that. Your record doesn't show how hard you to prepped for as much as possible in a matchup fest meta
Dr. Phd. BJ for killing everyone no matter the meta you played. Didn't expect any less from The Doctor though
tier temp PrimalKyogre BlackKnight_Gawain for enthusiastically being sent to the GG abyss. Even outside of GK yall were really fun to be around, whether it was through having a great sense of humor or yapping a bit too much.
xavgb for being the goat and posting a peculiar GIF toward the end of the tour. The rotting process is nearly complete
Axzel Chromate byulharang pdt Part The Strap RoFnA HiZo baconeatinassassin clean entrocefalo Maybca☆〜ゝ。∂ whoever else was around to help or for the vibes
Tea Guzzler Test Rex for being super helpful week 7 onwards and finals respectively
whichever BH sucker I robbed a starter slot from. im a sorry
BH community for being mostly very nice and welcoming
Guard
I can't exactly say that I was super motivated for the full extent of this OMPL, maybe at the beginning but due to a variety of reasons that never continued. I'm happy with the record I ended up with but I don't think the teams I built were of high quality, they are just cheesy teams that got the right matchup in the right games. Some might call it prep or CT but outside of maybe 2 max they were just "I think this one set probably seems good and heres some other sets that might work and lets pray that this works". Because of this, a good amount of the games were probably lame for both viewers and my opponent, apologies for this. Team dump post here.
That being said, I still had a blast this tour, I think this was the first time I tried understanding the other tiers and it was a great time being in vc watching the games with great knowledgeable players providing commentary. And ofc, wouldn't have been remotely the same experience without the amazing teammates I had. Still abysmal at shoutouts so these will be pretty short.
cat Evie For drafting me into this incredible team and letting me get by with my suspicious commitment.
pannu Truly "the strongest Inh player of today", the consistent energy and dedication you had throughout the tour was incredible despite your commitment to like 50 gacha games. Thank you for your support (how do you have more than half my messages in the bh channel) and helping sub in week 5, and apologies for spamming you with suspicious tests and shitting on your unviable sets (they are still bad).
Clas Thanks and sorry for having you sub in for me in week 7 despite not particularly enjoying the meta and preferring to play another tier. It was really fun being in the vc and watching you build for metas while simultaneously talk about how xxx is so stupid, then convincingly winning against the opponent like a few hours later in signature Clas style.
Schpoonman It was a great time in the inh channel watching you cook up crazy ideas constantly and making sure pannu isn't being bad, while also not being bad like pannu and instantly rejecting my dumb af ideas that probably should be dismissed LOL.
Betticus IV The amount of work you went into prepping each week is crazy, from scouting to building to testing a seemingly endless number of games. rocks tusk bad lol.
Kinetic Incredible that you got slotted into Bo3 with tiers you weren't the most familiar with and then still perform extraordinarily. Also appreciate the :concern:s on the frequent occasion I slack off prep until hours before game.
Fissure Absolutely the experience watching you play "what berry do I want to load this week on '(Copy of)*n Untitled 1209' and easily win with" for the entire tour in one of the most chaotic tiers.
Redflix I didn't look at mnm channel often but after reading your post turns out you also were a last min prep enjoyer yet still dominated the pool. btw that first week was 100% on me lol, was bound to get punished by trying too hard to mu fish.
Jrdn Really inspiring to see you cook up the craziest ideas across metas and then have those ideas work out in the games.
Stories Very funny for you to appear suddenly, no john the game, deliver a game of all time, and then say "gonna go back to sleep" lol. bh isn't that bad btw D:
NinjaSnapple Didn't interact much but was great seeing you pull a super clean win.
Also s/os to
augustakira I mean...
XxLazzerpenguinxX For being insanely clutch a few weeks when I was doing the usual prep 1 hour before and needed someone to sanity check during unholy hours. Was incredibly fun bouncing ideas during test games.
Ren For the fun presence and also the valuable testing help + moral support
CoolTrainerGary For the super inspirational inh sets/ideas/team and for being another person to make sure pannu isn't being bad.
DeepFriedMagikarp For being in vc when basically no one else and providing great commentary esp for aaa and pic.
TTTech For big moral support, expect you to get your CA from championships. Stop bringing mono-lose to cloak imp though.
All the opponents for trying to make the games interesting despite my strongest counter-efforts.
Also all the other people that joined to help.
That being said, I still had a blast this tour, I think this was the first time I tried understanding the other tiers and it was a great time being in vc watching the games with great knowledgeable players providing commentary. And ofc, wouldn't have been remotely the same experience without the amazing teammates I had. Still abysmal at shoutouts so these will be pretty short.
cat Evie For drafting me into this incredible team and letting me get by with my suspicious commitment.
pannu Truly "the strongest Inh player of today", the consistent energy and dedication you had throughout the tour was incredible despite your commitment to like 50 gacha games. Thank you for your support (how do you have more than half my messages in the bh channel) and helping sub in week 5, and apologies for spamming you with suspicious tests and shitting on your unviable sets (they are still bad).
Clas Thanks and sorry for having you sub in for me in week 7 despite not particularly enjoying the meta and preferring to play another tier. It was really fun being in the vc and watching you build for metas while simultaneously talk about how xxx is so stupid, then convincingly winning against the opponent like a few hours later in signature Clas style.
Schpoonman It was a great time in the inh channel watching you cook up crazy ideas constantly and making sure pannu isn't being bad, while also not being bad like pannu and instantly rejecting my dumb af ideas that probably should be dismissed LOL.
Betticus IV The amount of work you went into prepping each week is crazy, from scouting to building to testing a seemingly endless number of games. rocks tusk bad lol.
Kinetic Incredible that you got slotted into Bo3 with tiers you weren't the most familiar with and then still perform extraordinarily. Also appreciate the :concern:s on the frequent occasion I slack off prep until hours before game.
Fissure Absolutely the experience watching you play "what berry do I want to load this week on '(Copy of)*n Untitled 1209' and easily win with" for the entire tour in one of the most chaotic tiers.
Redflix I didn't look at mnm channel often but after reading your post turns out you also were a last min prep enjoyer yet still dominated the pool. btw that first week was 100% on me lol, was bound to get punished by trying too hard to mu fish.
Jrdn Really inspiring to see you cook up the craziest ideas across metas and then have those ideas work out in the games.
Stories Very funny for you to appear suddenly, no john the game, deliver a game of all time, and then say "gonna go back to sleep" lol. bh isn't that bad btw D:
NinjaSnapple Didn't interact much but was great seeing you pull a super clean win.
Also s/os to
augustakira I mean...
XxLazzerpenguinxX For being insanely clutch a few weeks when I was doing the usual prep 1 hour before and needed someone to sanity check during unholy hours. Was incredibly fun bouncing ideas during test games.
Ren For the fun presence and also the valuable testing help + moral support
CoolTrainerGary For the super inspirational inh sets/ideas/team and for being another person to make sure pannu isn't being bad.
DeepFriedMagikarp For being in vc when basically no one else and providing great commentary esp for aaa and pic.
TTTech For big moral support, expect you to get your CA from championships. Stop bringing mono-lose to cloak imp though.
All the opponents for trying to make the games interesting despite my strongest counter-efforts.
Also all the other people that joined to help.
Since apparently this hasn't reached the ears of the tour playerbase, there's an inheritance survey going on. If you aren't an inh player tell your inh slot to fill it
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i promised my team i would do this, here we go.
the takers eulogy
hello everyone, i write this eulogy starting on the 30th of july lets see what day i will actually post this.
my ride:
to start off i will go back to last years ompl. I was having my best ompl record-wise to date and felt absolutely great as a player and builder with NFE. my team, the wiggly family, was in finals and it was my 2nd time being on this team in ompl. you would say it would be all the reason to feel good about your finals. it was not the case. our team massively overperformed, we got lucky in our semifinals vs the virizzions at the time, even i didnt play so well in my semis and i was absolutely expecting nothing in the finals. in the end we got curbstomped in the finals, not to my surprise at least. it was my 3rd ompl and the 2nd time i lost in finals. the year before i also lost in finals with the mavericks, a similar story of overperforming only to just lose to a straight-up better team in finals. it was at this time last year i decided, i am managing next year to draft a team that deserves to make finals and can win it.
however, NFE got nuked from ompl, what was i supposed to do now. i decided to pick up aaa with the aaapl and it went pretty well. i think if i didnt get drafted on a broken team i probs wouldnt have had the will to keep playing aaa and would ultimately not play much om's again. kinda funny how these timelines are possible. after enjoying aaa further in omwc and aaalt, i think it was p safe to say i was confident enough to say i know at least a single om for ompl.
next up i needed a co-manager, while i was p active participating in ompl i didnt actually know many ppl but thankfully i got to know Ivar57 . ivar u are an actual fucking goat for how much u know and well u play all of these tiers. i really appreciate u as a player and as a manager to want to take this opportunity with me since we both have p little experience managing. couldnt have asked for a better co.
now i will just go by each member by how the draft went
holy shit i made the post also like shoutouts to everyone who joined it is a lot of ppl and i dont think i have the permission to tag many people ur goated tho :)
this post was super scuffed lmao hopefully u enjoyed reading it
see you guys next year in ompl :D
the takers eulogy
hello everyone, i write this eulogy starting on the 30th of july lets see what day i will actually post this.
my ride:
to start off i will go back to last years ompl. I was having my best ompl record-wise to date and felt absolutely great as a player and builder with NFE. my team, the wiggly family, was in finals and it was my 2nd time being on this team in ompl. you would say it would be all the reason to feel good about your finals. it was not the case. our team massively overperformed, we got lucky in our semifinals vs the virizzions at the time, even i didnt play so well in my semis and i was absolutely expecting nothing in the finals. in the end we got curbstomped in the finals, not to my surprise at least. it was my 3rd ompl and the 2nd time i lost in finals. the year before i also lost in finals with the mavericks, a similar story of overperforming only to just lose to a straight-up better team in finals. it was at this time last year i decided, i am managing next year to draft a team that deserves to make finals and can win it.
however, NFE got nuked from ompl, what was i supposed to do now. i decided to pick up aaa with the aaapl and it went pretty well. i think if i didnt get drafted on a broken team i probs wouldnt have had the will to keep playing aaa and would ultimately not play much om's again. kinda funny how these timelines are possible. after enjoying aaa further in omwc and aaalt, i think it was p safe to say i was confident enough to say i know at least a single om for ompl.
next up i needed a co-manager, while i was p active participating in ompl i didnt actually know many ppl but thankfully i got to know Ivar57 . ivar u are an actual fucking goat for how much u know and well u play all of these tiers. i really appreciate u as a player and as a manager to want to take this opportunity with me since we both have p little experience managing. couldnt have asked for a better co.
now i will just go by each member by how the draft went
SammyCe123 me and ivar tried "planning" our draft beforehand and mostly what we got to was we draft sammy and then focus on inh and pic. at some point during the planning i asked ivar "what if we dont get sammy" "we will". that is about the extent of how sure we were of getting this guy lmao. and man u actually delivered. ur record may not be what u want but u made our life so much easier. literal cheatcode of a player to have in the prep department, worth every single penny. i always had confidence in u and i think everyone on our team always had confidence in u too. thanks a lot for your contribution
frankjosh so as the draft went on we were just pretty keen on not letting anything slip and then we randomly got you for a very low price for a player of your caliber. I personally enjoyed working with you and our aaa mightve not been the most winning slot i never really felt like you were a slot i couldnt depend on. i always felt like u were a safe bet regardless of what happens. I didnt really know you much before this tournament but had a hunch you would be a great teammate nonetheless. even though you said you didnt build you were vocal about what you did like and did not like. some might find this to be picky but i find it great that you involved yourself still in the building and in the end you built yourself too lol. u are a great player hopefully we team again sometime.
PociekMociek the 2023 beast triple winner placuuuuuuu. like how did we get you so easily baffled me you were a great mnm and also thank you for joining draft call. sometimes during the draft i panicd for literally no reason scared that we wont get like bh but u were calm (also a bit too calm sometimes, shoutouts your internet connection xd). but you had mnm completely locked, i even considered u for tiebreak options in semis tbh.
HiZo as i said before in the sammy part, we were gonna focus on pic and inh. well with you we knew we would get a top end player for sure and you were very entertaining to watch, shoutouts numel. Im not gonna pretend i know much about pic but i can tell you did very well. im sorry we didnt get you a back up pic mainer but we thought sammy would be enough help and the pic pool didnt seem very deep to my limited knowledge. hope you had fun either way.
Don Vascus its almost wednesday dude. great performance, very reliable, great chat presence. i really liked u and bijou alternating like that. we got you for a cheap ass price too allowing us to get bijou too LOL. what a ridiculous combo. while we are at it in the inh camp BijouMode you are amazing too i really liked u as a person during aaalt and i knew i wanted to get u in ompl. i hope you had fun and enjoyed your time during ompl. hopefully we get to duke it out again each other during aaa sometime... u getting smoked bro...
Fraise dude i owe u an apology without u even knowing. when we drafted u i thought we threw cuz i thought we spent too much credits on a player we didnt need cuz i was stressing over bh slot lol. we did need u, u helped with the sauce in gg and i think we worked p nicely together in gg, that psy terrain team was peak lmfao. i like that you sometimes give more depth to building otherwise sammy was gonna use like the same team every week. in the end you got to start too and i think it was a good choice, you did pretty well man. hopefully we team again to cook up some evil teams.
hellom LOL hello. this is our uh 5th? attempt at winning a teamtour together? we will get there someday bro. knew i wanted to get u in this tour before the tour even started. u only got to play 1 week but at least AAA was fun right? appreciate u dude hopefully we get the teamtour win someday, lets not fall off like ninja kamui LMAOOO\
Glory my dude im sorry we didnt get to field you enough this ompl. you were a very important player in our prep in aaa and a great chat presence. hopefully you still enjoyed this ompl in spite of your role as more of a helper. venturing off to stab in w7 was pretty funny how that turned out lol. hope to see u again here next year and that you actually get to start man.
Tranquility this is a pretty similar story to glory, i only had 1 week for u to start sorry but u were pretty busy u said yourself i think? it didnt feel like that for me though, you were very helpful with your insight in aaa and often giving us a lead on what to work on. thanks a lot for your contributions.
Test Rex maybe not the tournament you hoped for, but u were another one of those preplanned picks we knew we wanted to get. ivar put me onto u predraft and was very confident in u. i still am confident in u to this day but at some point we had to try a new route with our lineup. you seemed pretty chill though, i hope you stick around till next ompl next year and dont quit again. u were very entertaining for us and i hope you had fun.
xdRudi.exe u are fucking fire man. i knew i wanted to try to get u for stab pre-draft when i saw that you signed up. i knew most ppl in the draft wouldnt know u and i saw you play before in that wcop game vs mcmeghan so i was p sold on you as a player. besides that you were drafted for the germany team so u had to be good, otherwise u dont make that lineup lmao. so im glad we stole u from sylvi and it worked very well. you worked pretty well with sammy im glad that turned out great. thank you for joining man hopefully u play this tour again next year.
SpaceSpeakers last but certainly not least dude. when u have the last pick of your draft its usually very tough to make a choice but we knew we wanted someone to help out placu in mnm to not leave him stranded. i knew we had to pick u and look how it turned out. ur very knowledgeable and good at building in stab, amazing support slot bro. see u next year.
frankjosh so as the draft went on we were just pretty keen on not letting anything slip and then we randomly got you for a very low price for a player of your caliber. I personally enjoyed working with you and our aaa mightve not been the most winning slot i never really felt like you were a slot i couldnt depend on. i always felt like u were a safe bet regardless of what happens. I didnt really know you much before this tournament but had a hunch you would be a great teammate nonetheless. even though you said you didnt build you were vocal about what you did like and did not like. some might find this to be picky but i find it great that you involved yourself still in the building and in the end you built yourself too lol. u are a great player hopefully we team again sometime.
PociekMociek the 2023 beast triple winner placuuuuuuu. like how did we get you so easily baffled me you were a great mnm and also thank you for joining draft call. sometimes during the draft i panicd for literally no reason scared that we wont get like bh but u were calm (also a bit too calm sometimes, shoutouts your internet connection xd). but you had mnm completely locked, i even considered u for tiebreak options in semis tbh.
HiZo as i said before in the sammy part, we were gonna focus on pic and inh. well with you we knew we would get a top end player for sure and you were very entertaining to watch, shoutouts numel. Im not gonna pretend i know much about pic but i can tell you did very well. im sorry we didnt get you a back up pic mainer but we thought sammy would be enough help and the pic pool didnt seem very deep to my limited knowledge. hope you had fun either way.
Don Vascus its almost wednesday dude. great performance, very reliable, great chat presence. i really liked u and bijou alternating like that. we got you for a cheap ass price too allowing us to get bijou too LOL. what a ridiculous combo. while we are at it in the inh camp BijouMode you are amazing too i really liked u as a person during aaalt and i knew i wanted to get u in ompl. i hope you had fun and enjoyed your time during ompl. hopefully we get to duke it out again each other during aaa sometime... u getting smoked bro...
Fraise dude i owe u an apology without u even knowing. when we drafted u i thought we threw cuz i thought we spent too much credits on a player we didnt need cuz i was stressing over bh slot lol. we did need u, u helped with the sauce in gg and i think we worked p nicely together in gg, that psy terrain team was peak lmfao. i like that you sometimes give more depth to building otherwise sammy was gonna use like the same team every week. in the end you got to start too and i think it was a good choice, you did pretty well man. hopefully we team again to cook up some evil teams.
hellom LOL hello. this is our uh 5th? attempt at winning a teamtour together? we will get there someday bro. knew i wanted to get u in this tour before the tour even started. u only got to play 1 week but at least AAA was fun right? appreciate u dude hopefully we get the teamtour win someday, lets not fall off like ninja kamui LMAOOO\
Glory my dude im sorry we didnt get to field you enough this ompl. you were a very important player in our prep in aaa and a great chat presence. hopefully you still enjoyed this ompl in spite of your role as more of a helper. venturing off to stab in w7 was pretty funny how that turned out lol. hope to see u again here next year and that you actually get to start man.
Tranquility this is a pretty similar story to glory, i only had 1 week for u to start sorry but u were pretty busy u said yourself i think? it didnt feel like that for me though, you were very helpful with your insight in aaa and often giving us a lead on what to work on. thanks a lot for your contributions.
Test Rex maybe not the tournament you hoped for, but u were another one of those preplanned picks we knew we wanted to get. ivar put me onto u predraft and was very confident in u. i still am confident in u to this day but at some point we had to try a new route with our lineup. you seemed pretty chill though, i hope you stick around till next ompl next year and dont quit again. u were very entertaining for us and i hope you had fun.
xdRudi.exe u are fucking fire man. i knew i wanted to try to get u for stab pre-draft when i saw that you signed up. i knew most ppl in the draft wouldnt know u and i saw you play before in that wcop game vs mcmeghan so i was p sold on you as a player. besides that you were drafted for the germany team so u had to be good, otherwise u dont make that lineup lmao. so im glad we stole u from sylvi and it worked very well. you worked pretty well with sammy im glad that turned out great. thank you for joining man hopefully u play this tour again next year.
SpaceSpeakers last but certainly not least dude. when u have the last pick of your draft its usually very tough to make a choice but we knew we wanted someone to help out placu in mnm to not leave him stranded. i knew we had to pick u and look how it turned out. ur very knowledgeable and good at building in stab, amazing support slot bro. see u next year.
holy shit i made the post also like shoutouts to everyone who joined it is a lot of ppl and i dont think i have the permission to tag many people ur goated tho :)
this post was super scuffed lmao hopefully u enjoyed reading it
see you guys next year in ompl :D
Survey results!
Not gonna do much analysis on this since I don't really want to make a bunch of statements from a position of authority and have them misquoted as facts next year during pre-ompl discussion, but this should be a decent reference point for anyone that does want to give immediate commentary. Moving on, the survey got 59 responses, which is pretty decent!
- If you're really dying for it, you can also view all of the individual responses in the spreadsheet (with usernames redacted for obvious reasons).
Demographics
Even though we had enough PIC signups to field all the slots--and even if you account for the fact that not every single possible respondent filled out the survey--it doesn't look like that many people were actively supporting the tier (6 isn't even enough to run OMPL).
Enjoyment/Competitiveness of each tier
| Total responses: 27 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 4.67 | /7 |
| Average player/support competitiveness: | 5.04 | /7 | |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 47 | General average enjoyment: | 4.30 | /7 |
| General average competitiveness: | 4.85 | /7 |
| Total responses: 15 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 5.13 | /7 |
| Average player/support competitiveness: | 5 | /7 | |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 33 | General average enjoyment: | 4.30 | /7 |
| Total responses: 32 | General average competitiveness: | 4.53 | /7 |
| Total responses: 22 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 4.95 | /7 |
| Total responses: 21 | Average player/support competitiveness: | 3.81 | /7 |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 37 | General average enjoyment: | 4.70 | /7 |
| Total responses: 36 | General average competitiveness: | 3.97 | /7 |
| Total responses: 16 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 4.94 | /7 |
| Total responses: 15 | Average player/support competitiveness: | 3.87 | /7 |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 34 | General average enjoyment: | 4.59 | /7 |
| Total responses: 33 | General average competitiveness: | 3.76 | /7 |
| Total responses: 18 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 4.94 | /7 |
| Average player/support competitiveness: | 5.06 | /7 | |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 33 | General average enjoyment: | 4.73 | /7 |
| Total responses: 32 | General average competitiveness: | 4.81 | /7 |
| Total responses: 6 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 6.50 | /7 |
| Average player/support competitiveness: | 6.17 | /7 | |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 31 | General average enjoyment: | 5.55 | /7 |
| Total responses: 30 | General average competitiveness: | 4.90 | /7 |
| Total responses: 15 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 4.33 | /7 |
| Average player/support competitiveness: | 3.73 | /7 | |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 36 | General average enjoyment: | 3.94 | /7 |
| General average competitiveness: | 3.28 | /7 |
| Total responses: 21 | Average player/support enjoyment: | 5.14 | /7 |
| Total responses: 20 | Average player/support competitiveness: | 5.30 | /7 |
| vs | |||
| Total responses: 37 | General average enjoyment: | 5.19 | /7 |
| Total responses: 36 | General average competitiveness: | 5.17 | /7 |
Returning slot votes
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so i/we been out for like 5 weeks and tour over for like 3 since then so im mad late lmao. i wrote shoutouts a week or so after we got knocked but was too lazy to organize my teams since then. in fact i never organized so ill just post a big dump here before any more time goes past.
I won't plug the AAA stuffs since my army did most of the work there. i made some funny choices like not rocking wbb kg into stresh and greenlighting some other goofyness here and there. GG was funky and i was kind of locked in building it in different weeks, but then there was the time we loaded lose to spectrier speedrun when the spatk roaring moon sun id be running around with in tests all week would have ultra cooked. Inh is hilarious and maybe not a great fit for a long team tournament setting, imo. im not going to bash it, as i loved playing it on ladder but man prepping this tier was just a massive headache, the sandboxy nature is way limited compared to bh and its not as rewarding either. most of the "creative stuff" you throw here is defensive or utility in nature as all the broken stuff has been loaded already, so you're really just loading it hoping the other guy forgot about it. I posted a lot of my thoughts about Mnm in the MnM thread already, so ill skip that. STAB banning tera and then using the tournament as a suspect test feeding grounds for broken shit might not have been the best idea, but i don't have much to complain about because i loaded attack invested pex and lost a couple weeks because prepping an additional stab team per week was out of my paygrade.
GG: https://pokepast.es/6a63eb619848556a
Inh: https://pokepast.es/3dee2e05db4080c2
MnM: https://pokepast.es/e303cb966fccbfaa
STAB: https://pokepast.es/181bff710e6391de
next go round i don't think ill try to take on this much. id like to manage again but its not an easy task, so maybe ill just signup as a player. I did screw up our draft a bit, i think a more concrete plan wouldve lent itself better, but live n learn ig, i was pretty happy with our loadout after the fact. anyway this tournament was fun, thanks again to everyone who made it entertaining in one way or another.
I won't plug the AAA stuffs since my army did most of the work there. i made some funny choices like not rocking wbb kg into stresh and greenlighting some other goofyness here and there. GG was funky and i was kind of locked in building it in different weeks, but then there was the time we loaded lose to spectrier speedrun when the spatk roaring moon sun id be running around with in tests all week would have ultra cooked. Inh is hilarious and maybe not a great fit for a long team tournament setting, imo. im not going to bash it, as i loved playing it on ladder but man prepping this tier was just a massive headache, the sandboxy nature is way limited compared to bh and its not as rewarding either. most of the "creative stuff" you throw here is defensive or utility in nature as all the broken stuff has been loaded already, so you're really just loading it hoping the other guy forgot about it. I posted a lot of my thoughts about Mnm in the MnM thread already, so ill skip that. STAB banning tera and then using the tournament as a suspect test feeding grounds for broken shit might not have been the best idea, but i don't have much to complain about because i loaded attack invested pex and lost a couple weeks because prepping an additional stab team per week was out of my paygrade.
GG: https://pokepast.es/6a63eb619848556a
Inh: https://pokepast.es/3dee2e05db4080c2
MnM: https://pokepast.es/e303cb966fccbfaa
STAB: https://pokepast.es/181bff710e6391de
next go round i don't think ill try to take on this much. id like to manage again but its not an easy task, so maybe ill just signup as a player. I did screw up our draft a bit, i think a more concrete plan wouldve lent itself better, but live n learn ig, i was pretty happy with our loadout after the fact. anyway this tournament was fun, thanks again to everyone who made it entertaining in one way or another.
TTTech thanks for being a great co-man, you were awesome i got no notes. thx for being goated at submitted lineups and stomaching my rants. carrying bh slot is something i don't know how you do but u did well, sucks that we didnt make playoffs but is what it is. still had a load of fun this season, thanks for the assist
Kaif man u finished 3-4 what gives. not your fault stab council banned tera week b4 into letting dumb shits run loose all tour. improvement gonna come when we team, can only go up from here. ps hope you're safe and sound, ik home is probably haywire so take care
LordBox you are the aaa goat, glad they gave you tl. fuck there are soooo many builds in our aaa channel it put my mind at ease knowing we were covered on that front every week. hope you're doing good lb
Chris32156 no regrets drafting you man, you might think your record couldve been better, but you had a couple unlucky breaks into a tough schedule. you're still a certified gangster numbers in yo name and im looking forward to seeing you slot in whatever doubles format to come in the future. ggs
shiloh man i didn't think preseason i was gonna put you thru the bo3 ringer for as many weeks as i did, wasn't fair to you. thanks for toughing it out, and even pulling some great wins off, not to mention retain the aaa goat title. we've had a couple go rounds now and you're always real and decisive and i appreciate that, hope we can pull off a win next time.
DripLegend well inh gonna inh. you're honestly a legend for seeing thru 5 weeks of that hot mess, i couldnt stomach more than 1. wish you couldve focused tf up in some games, you def had some of us pulling out our hair. but at the end of the day you secured the blue so you don't need to listen to a word of what i say, cheers
Frixel grats again on your orange, and thanks for helping the PiC prep all the way and finishing strong for that slot, you're an absolute beaut
Osake sacre bleu mon frere we've been bamboozled again. you were awesome across multiple slots, thanks for all the games you ran with us. in hindsight id wish id thrown you to the fire more in inh or mnm, im confused how we only got you in on 1 week mbmb
TectonicDestroyer you were a unit this season, sorry we didnt get you in on that last week, ik you were aiming to finish above .500. my mnm focus wasnt there all season but you still stuck thru
Ainzcrad pretty cool of you to come in and just take over the gg slot in turmoil like you did. the losses both were schizo nothing to be done too (my fault probably) so thanks for being clutch
GlalieGoesBoom yea if we were allowed to rock 2 aaa slots, we mightve been the best team in the tournament. sorry our team comp ended up w/ you on bench so many weeks when all you did was win, i mean only loss to atha (pulled a pretty tuff mu too iirc) you played your heart out absolute legend
matte im so glad i hit the 3.5 in auction, the best takeaway in draft by far. your activity was spectacular, got only good things to say bout you. committed to the team and actively looking for ways to help, thanks for your effort this season
TPP sorry we got off on the wrong foot this season, i threw you (and ponch) to the wolves during ur debut week and then didnt put you back in once ainz got rolling. you were still active in teamchat and willing to sub in tho, so wanna thank you for sticking with it
Axzel hope you doing good man, ik this season wasn't great for you but i was glad to have you on the team either way
Bouff haha another darkrai i owe an apology to, man i totally goofed tiers up in signup. im glad we got you in for a game anyway, just wish we couldve gotten you more acquainted, since you played pretty well (outside of the fact that i sabotaged you pre game telling you to not mega dnite right away in a scenario and then having that come up during the game lmao)
Exotic64 (tiers not played) is what it is man, wish you couldve had a few more lines or given a few more tests in an ou adjacent channel like gg or stab but i can't blame you when you knew you couldn't even sub in if needed. sorry to shadowrealm you this tour at any rate.
ponchlake thanks for nothing (something) hope you good but bro u sold im ngl
Hugo thanks for joining up and helping the PiC lads here and there, preciate it
Kaif man u finished 3-4 what gives. not your fault stab council banned tera week b4 into letting dumb shits run loose all tour. improvement gonna come when we team, can only go up from here. ps hope you're safe and sound, ik home is probably haywire so take care
LordBox you are the aaa goat, glad they gave you tl. fuck there are soooo many builds in our aaa channel it put my mind at ease knowing we were covered on that front every week. hope you're doing good lb
Chris32156 no regrets drafting you man, you might think your record couldve been better, but you had a couple unlucky breaks into a tough schedule. you're still a certified gangster numbers in yo name and im looking forward to seeing you slot in whatever doubles format to come in the future. ggs
shiloh man i didn't think preseason i was gonna put you thru the bo3 ringer for as many weeks as i did, wasn't fair to you. thanks for toughing it out, and even pulling some great wins off, not to mention retain the aaa goat title. we've had a couple go rounds now and you're always real and decisive and i appreciate that, hope we can pull off a win next time.
DripLegend well inh gonna inh. you're honestly a legend for seeing thru 5 weeks of that hot mess, i couldnt stomach more than 1. wish you couldve focused tf up in some games, you def had some of us pulling out our hair. but at the end of the day you secured the blue so you don't need to listen to a word of what i say, cheers
Frixel grats again on your orange, and thanks for helping the PiC prep all the way and finishing strong for that slot, you're an absolute beaut
Osake sacre bleu mon frere we've been bamboozled again. you were awesome across multiple slots, thanks for all the games you ran with us. in hindsight id wish id thrown you to the fire more in inh or mnm, im confused how we only got you in on 1 week mbmb
TectonicDestroyer you were a unit this season, sorry we didnt get you in on that last week, ik you were aiming to finish above .500. my mnm focus wasnt there all season but you still stuck thru
Ainzcrad pretty cool of you to come in and just take over the gg slot in turmoil like you did. the losses both were schizo nothing to be done too (my fault probably) so thanks for being clutch
GlalieGoesBoom yea if we were allowed to rock 2 aaa slots, we mightve been the best team in the tournament. sorry our team comp ended up w/ you on bench so many weeks when all you did was win, i mean only loss to atha (pulled a pretty tuff mu too iirc) you played your heart out absolute legend
matte im so glad i hit the 3.5 in auction, the best takeaway in draft by far. your activity was spectacular, got only good things to say bout you. committed to the team and actively looking for ways to help, thanks for your effort this season
TPP sorry we got off on the wrong foot this season, i threw you (and ponch) to the wolves during ur debut week and then didnt put you back in once ainz got rolling. you were still active in teamchat and willing to sub in tho, so wanna thank you for sticking with it
Axzel hope you doing good man, ik this season wasn't great for you but i was glad to have you on the team either way
Bouff haha another darkrai i owe an apology to, man i totally goofed tiers up in signup. im glad we got you in for a game anyway, just wish we couldve gotten you more acquainted, since you played pretty well (outside of the fact that i sabotaged you pre game telling you to not mega dnite right away in a scenario and then having that come up during the game lmao)
Exotic64 (tiers not played) is what it is man, wish you couldve had a few more lines or given a few more tests in an ou adjacent channel like gg or stab but i can't blame you when you knew you couldn't even sub in if needed. sorry to shadowrealm you this tour at any rate.
ponchlake thanks for nothing (something) hope you good but bro u sold im ngl
Hugo thanks for joining up and helping the PiC lads here and there, preciate it
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