WEEK 3 MATCHUPS, I'M ON TIME THIS TIME I SWEAR:
[Platoon] Scottie vs Hacker [Gibles]
[Dynamos] Fille vs tazz [Machines]
[Terrors] Lokifan vs tko [Breakers]
[Foxes] Starsama vs Colin [Islanders]
[Shoguns] Envy1 vs Éric [Spartans]
Week 2 Recap [Platoon] Scottie vs Hacker [Gibles]
[Dynamos] Fille vs tazz [Machines]
[Terrors] Lokifan vs tko [Breakers]
[Foxes] Starsama vs Colin [Islanders]
[Shoguns] Envy1 vs Éric [Spartans]
[TMS] tazz vs Colin [ISL]
Some say that tazz might be the unluckiest player to ever grace an LC official. They may be right.
Switching things up a bit, tazz brings a more balance heavy option of tink-foongus with the big 3 and wallbreaker Stunky. Colin's opted for the unsuccessful in SCL so far ttm core without Voltorb. Right off the bat, Colin's put in some unlucky turns with a few crits, Static paralysis and a Play Rough miss. By turn 34, it looks decidedly over for him...until tazz revealing Scarf Mienfoo with Close Combat thinking he's won, only for Colin to pull an uno reverse and throw out a rare Tera Ghost Toedscool, which with +1 speed, 2 layers of spikes and a crit on Tink manages to eke out a win from being completely behind. Granted, I'd say colin was unluckier in this game but some less confident turns almost did certainly cost him, but those thinking tazz may be unlucky....you might wanna take your odds elsewhere.
Switching things up a bit, tazz brings a more balance heavy option of tink-foongus with the big 3 and wallbreaker Stunky. Colin's opted for the unsuccessful in SCL so far ttm core without Voltorb. Right off the bat, Colin's put in some unlucky turns with a few crits, Static paralysis and a Play Rough miss. By turn 34, it looks decidedly over for him...until tazz revealing Scarf Mienfoo with Close Combat thinking he's won, only for Colin to pull an uno reverse and throw out a rare Tera Ghost Toedscool, which with +1 speed, 2 layers of spikes and a crit on Tink manages to eke out a win from being completely behind. Granted, I'd say colin was unluckier in this game but some less confident turns almost did certainly cost him, but those thinking tazz may be unlucky....you might wanna take your odds elsewhere.
[SPA] Éric vs Scottie [PLA]
Another big highlight game as two of the better LCers from last season duke it out. Eric fans will remember last season he was the closest to winning vs Scottie, robbed by a last turn crit. Scottie's coming off a 0-1 start to last place in PRs Envy after many ranked him high for good reason, so he's looking for the comeback here while Eric started off well this season with a big win over other PR favorite Lokifan.
Eric's team is fairly unique, with a birdspam build featuring Doduo and a defensive core of Tink-Foongus. Scottie's brought the fallen-out-of-favor during LCPL Shellder on a Glimmet-Toed-Foongus structure. Not risking a t1 scarf brave bird, eric rightly puts his tink into the fire of Scottie's Vullaby — which promptly misses two Heat Waves (not super game changing) into getting crit by Draining Kiss (super game changing). A couple of trades later, the Shellder reveals Icicle Spear before eventually being confirmed as Scarf. Eric eventually pulls through by saving his tera for Foongus, which with Tera Water puts the Shellder on a 50/50 of what to click and wins a speed tie over the opposing Foongus to pull the win, earning his revenge from last season. Great win for Eric, who's got a 2-0 start but many will be wondering how Scottie will fare if the rest of the season looks as unlucky as this 0-2 start for him.
Eric's team is fairly unique, with a birdspam build featuring Doduo and a defensive core of Tink-Foongus. Scottie's brought the fallen-out-of-favor during LCPL Shellder on a Glimmet-Toed-Foongus structure. Not risking a t1 scarf brave bird, eric rightly puts his tink into the fire of Scottie's Vullaby — which promptly misses two Heat Waves (not super game changing) into getting crit by Draining Kiss (super game changing). A couple of trades later, the Shellder reveals Icicle Spear before eventually being confirmed as Scarf. Eric eventually pulls through by saving his tera for Foongus, which with Tera Water puts the Shellder on a 50/50 of what to click and wins a speed tie over the opposing Foongus to pull the win, earning his revenge from last season. Great win for Eric, who's got a 2-0 start but many will be wondering how Scottie will fare if the rest of the season looks as unlucky as this 0-2 start for him.
[GIB] Hacker vs Lokifan [TER]
This matchup's players coming off a strong LCPL on the same team playing SV, into playing SCL after a weak w1 start of losses.
Hacker has switched things up by bringing a team he's brought before in a different tour with changed sets — featuring famed shitmon turned ok hazard setter Pineco. Unfortunately for him, he decides to use a Wisp Torchic, which misses immediately (one can count Hacker's many misses in the last few LC tours to painful dismay) and sets Lokifan up to get rid of it early, who lost his hazard setter turn 1 not realizing Hacker had switched up the Pineco's moves. Using a variant of SD Foo with Protect, hacker also burns his tera early to get rid of Vullaby and try and force the rest to be KO'd or weakened by Scarf Shellder, but Mudbray and Foongus prove too fat and continue to make progress. Ultimately Lokifan burns his tera on Voltorb and gets a para on the same turn on SD Foo, which misses High Jump Kick and means the game is essentially over from there in favor of Lokifan. Unfortunate week for Hacker who also starts 0-2 after being ranked high on the PR alongside Scottie. One will hope he's got more accurate moves in his next game....
Hacker has switched things up by bringing a team he's brought before in a different tour with changed sets — featuring famed shitmon turned ok hazard setter Pineco. Unfortunately for him, he decides to use a Wisp Torchic, which misses immediately (one can count Hacker's many misses in the last few LC tours to painful dismay) and sets Lokifan up to get rid of it early, who lost his hazard setter turn 1 not realizing Hacker had switched up the Pineco's moves. Using a variant of SD Foo with Protect, hacker also burns his tera early to get rid of Vullaby and try and force the rest to be KO'd or weakened by Scarf Shellder, but Mudbray and Foongus prove too fat and continue to make progress. Ultimately Lokifan burns his tera on Voltorb and gets a para on the same turn on SD Foo, which misses High Jump Kick and means the game is essentially over from there in favor of Lokifan. Unfortunate week for Hacker who also starts 0-2 after being ranked high on the PR alongside Scottie. One will hope he's got more accurate moves in his next game....
Another 1-0 starter matchup, both come off wins last week looking to further prove that people had unfairly ruled them out compared to the others on the PR. Fille's opted for a triple poison ttm core, while tko brings another unique team this week featuring threatening sweepers in Torchic and Gible, the latter of which looks strong into this triple poison ttm team.
Both players trade early on the Spore war, but tko has the upper hand as he gets quite nearly every turn right early to mid game, trading his torchic to force progress. Fille also brings out a Mud Shot Mareanie, a tech presumably to win a 1v1 mirror without resorting to Acid Spray while simultaneously beating other poisons like tko's Glimmet. Fille using up his tera to tank a Brave Bird from Vullaby but dying to poison anyway means it just comes down to the Foongus sporing the Stunky as Gible comes in, sets up in spite of Scarf Glimmet and a Sucker Punch hit to sweep the remaining poisons.
Both players trade early on the Spore war, but tko has the upper hand as he gets quite nearly every turn right early to mid game, trading his torchic to force progress. Fille also brings out a Mud Shot Mareanie, a tech presumably to win a 1v1 mirror without resorting to Acid Spray while simultaneously beating other poisons like tko's Glimmet. Fille using up his tera to tank a Brave Bird from Vullaby but dying to poison anyway means it just comes down to the Foongus sporing the Stunky as Gible comes in, sets up in spite of Scarf Glimmet and a Sucker Punch hit to sweep the remaining poisons.
[SHO] Envy1 vs Starsama [FOX]
Another battle of newcomers to officials, Envy and Starsama both come in as promising talent. Envy's coming off a huge win in being the first person to beat Osh in 12 games of official LC, so momentum's with him here. Starsama was hyped up over tazz last week, but failed to translate the audience's faith in him to success.
Both sides bring probably the most normal teams of the week, at least on paper. Envy opts for a double poison with Stunky and Foongus, with a Mudbray and Big 3. Starsama also does the same, but with a Gothita over Voltorb. Gotta love how identical SV LC gets huh...well at least as long as you ignore the rest of the week's games.
The first real surprise of the game after some standard opening turns comes with Envy using Bulldoze Mudbray when Starsama clicks SD on his Mienfoo. Clever tech, although it doesn't matter much as a few turns later the Mienfoo misses a HJK into getting KO'd anyway. Despite this setback, having a resttalk Mudbray up his sleeve means Starsama mounts a good comeback, even if Envy's Voltorb teras ice on the Mudbray's Tera Dragon and almost ends the game, but a poison and a well timed Sleep Talk Heavy Slam means the game comes down to the Stunky trying to 1v1 the Foongus which it barely falls short of doing.
Both sides bring probably the most normal teams of the week, at least on paper. Envy opts for a double poison with Stunky and Foongus, with a Mudbray and Big 3. Starsama also does the same, but with a Gothita over Voltorb. Gotta love how identical SV LC gets huh...well at least as long as you ignore the rest of the week's games.
The first real surprise of the game after some standard opening turns comes with Envy using Bulldoze Mudbray when Starsama clicks SD on his Mienfoo. Clever tech, although it doesn't matter much as a few turns later the Mienfoo misses a HJK into getting KO'd anyway. Despite this setback, having a resttalk Mudbray up his sleeve means Starsama mounts a good comeback, even if Envy's Voltorb teras ice on the Mudbray's Tera Dragon and almost ends the game, but a poison and a well timed Sleep Talk Heavy Slam means the game comes down to the Stunky trying to 1v1 the Foongus which it barely falls short of doing.
That's all for this week folks! Lots of interesting trends this week as more people opt for spicing up the generic ttm cores or double poison structures, with many bringing uncommon mons like Pineco and Gible, and even more uncommon sets and surprise techs like Bulldoze Mudbray and Mud Shot Mareanie. Very excited to see where next week goes, so tune in to find out who's Norwood status is in jeopardy next week!
ps. LilyAC i am 4/4 on predicts for last week pls retroactively add me into the sheet

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