replay
VS
Teampreview analysis:
In this one p2 is using a team pretty similar to the RMT he posted during the SM era (
Bastard) which revolve around a solid defensive core (scizor, chansey, toxapex) partnered by 2 strong wallbreakers backed up by a Healing wish chansey and a ditto doing ditto things lol.
On the other hand BTB (yo your name is way too long man) came up with a balance involving a tyranitar that could be either a DD mega (in pair with scarf latios as the team looks kinda slow) or a choice band one (can be paired either with a scarftios or a mega latios i guess), he add a jirachi that could do a lot of things here (supporting tyranitar and landorus with wish or healing wish or maybe setting up SR, it could be scarf as like I already stated i feel like BTB's team is somewhat short in speed control), last but not least the obvious lando who could be a Scarf or a rock setter. This team is somewhat interesting as pretty much all of BTB's mon could be different sets. To me at first glance i'd have expected something like MegaLatios, Band Tyranitar, Standard Toxapex, Scarf Healing Wish Jirachi, either 3 attacks or defog zapdos with HP ice and a leftovers defensive Landorus.
The first thing that come to mind in this match up is how Band zygarde can be threatening as it can come on a lot of things and basically destroys everything bar Landorus (hence why i first thought it was a leftovers lando). BTB also lacks real chansey answer which will be really problematic as he won't be able to abuse chansey's passivity as much as he wanted in this game. However if Tyranitar reveal itself to be a choice banded it may causes some huge problem for p2.
Game analysis: (in this part I'll detail the key turns and how they weighted in the favor of one)
Turn 1:
BTB opted for a lead zapdos whereas p2 started with tornadus, probably hoping to get momentum thanks to its high speed and u turn. But BTB revealed his zapdos wasn't pressure but static (just a reminder that in USM static + defog is legal). Hence p2 didn't take the paralysis risk for doing negative damage to zapdos and hard switched chansey on the discharge.
Turn 2:
BTB then switched to his toxapex while p2 used Stealth Rock, giving him a huge advantage really early in the game.
NOTE: as zapdos was static he couldn't pp stall chansey's stealth rock which is actually really HUGE.
Turn 3:
Very interesting turn; p2 brought his zygarde on a toxic, which means the number 1 threat life is now on a timer. However p2 is now in a pretty good position as it can freely fire some thousand arrows with the stealth rock on the enemy field. Oh and zygarde isn't threatened by scald burn anymore.
Turn 4:
BTB went by the most logic play and brought his Landorus. the band zygarde did 39% which gave him the information on the landorus spread which is max HP without a defense investisment. Hence BTB's rocker is probably this landorus.
Turn 5:
p2 withdrew his big snake and brought the tornadus while landorus used u-turn, granting him the momentum with a switch on zapdos).
Turn 6, 7 & 8:
BTB predicted the chansey switch and brought Tyranitar which threaten p2's team a lot. He then went for a stone edge that die a little more than 50% on toxapex (revealing the choice band). p2 decided to save his toxapex and brought zygarde instead which got critted by stone edge (the move did 54%). BTB knowing that his best win condition was his ttar, he couldn't afford to let it die on a 1k arrows and brought his landorus on a thousand arrows. With the stealth rock damage landorus died but after the poison damage zygarde fell to a 9% HP meaning he won't be able to spam his thousand arrows much anymore.
Turn 10 & 11:
BTB decided to revenge kill p2's zygarde with his latios. p2 probably fearing a trick on chansey brought scizor on the psychic. But seeing Latios mega-evolving he obviously knew that trick wasn't an issue anymore and brought chansey in order to scout a possible HP fire from Latios. He did well as BTB's Latios effectively used HP fire.
Turn 12-14:
Chansey used Seismic toss on the incoming Jirachi, which revealed itself to be a leftovers Jirachi. p2 brought tornadus in an attempt to knock off jirachi's item. But jirachi used protect and then hard switched on toxapex. We now know 3/4 of jirachi's moves (iron head and protect + the obvious wish paired with protect, last move could be either u-turn, body slam or even stealth rock if landorus doesn't have it but i really doubt it).
Turn 15-32:
BTB brought toxapex that then lost his item because of tornadus, p2 used some hurricane fishing for confusion while the infamous toxapex recovered. p2 then brought his own toxapex for an epic pex vs pex 1V1 (actually he just wanted a burn). BTB decided to bring his Latios on a scald. p2 brought tornadus in order to tank the psychic. However psychic did 75% on the tornadus (revealing it wasn't wearing an assault vest; maybe a Z move torna with defog ??). p2 then brought his chansey as latios can't do a shit against it.
BTB went to his jirachi and revealed the two last move (aka u-turn and wish). => another pex war. P2's pex used toxic spikes. BTB brought his latios but p2 switched on chansey the same turn.
Nothing relevant will happens in this span of time outside of jirachi healing latios and zapdos from SR damage.
Turn 33-34:
BTB brought his zapdos on a scald from p2's toxapex which resulted in a burn and used defog, getting rid of these so painful stealth rock.
Turn 35:
p2 played this turn very well in my opinion. He went with ditto on a zapdos defog. as zapdos carries defog it lacks either heat wave or hp ice. meaning it can be abused by either scizor or zygarde depending of the move it didnt have.
Turn 38: Chansey used stealth rock again.
Turn 39: Chansey used healing wish on zygarde, giving him back all his health. allowing him to threaten BTB's team again. He even got a free hit right off the bat as BTB's toxapex was on the field at this moment.
Turn 40:
BTB knowing that toxapex could take a 1k arrows with a decent damage roll stayed on the 1k arrows probably fishing for a burn or a toxic.
Unluckily for BTB, p2 got the roll and killed toxapex.
Turn 41:
BTB brought Zapdos to threaten Zygarde with HP ice. However p2 knowing that zapdos didn't have heat wave brought his scizor, and proceeded to set up some sword dance on the zapdos while BTB defogged.
Turn 47:
BTB went with his Latios fishing a for a paralysis to HP fire the scizor. Thanksfully for p2 he didn't got it but got OHKO'ed by a +4 bullet punch.
Turn 48:
BTB then went for bandtar, got the paralysis and killed scizor with fire punch.
Turn 49-63:
p2 killed tyranitar with his zygarde, then he started a pp stall process on the enemy zapdos with his ditto + toxapex as ditto could afford to lock itself on roost without fearing a pursuit from ttar.
On turn 60, p2's tornadus got rid of zapdos'es leftovers thanks to knock off.
On turn 61, zygarde swallowed an HP ice from zapdos and killed it with 1k arrows.
On turn 63, he ended the game with a thousand arrows on Jirachi.
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p2 drew the first blood of this year SPL for the tigers. He played this game really well, killing landorus early really was the key of his success as BTB couldn't put Stealth rock on p2s field and therefore couldn't put any pressure on his chansey (which won the hazard war against zapdos as the latter didn't have pressure but static).
Band zygarde was just too much to handle for BTB's team with the healing wish support.