Quick thoughts on games from Week 1:
Team wise, undisputed used a tried and true Physical Offense featuring SubSailak Cross while dekzeh went for something quite unconventionnal between Moltres and the Umbreon/Perish Song Celebi combo. Moltres immediately reveals to be quite the clutch choice as it's a pain to deal with for Physical Offenses (as showcasted in the last WCoP in the CyberOdin - reyscarface game). The combination of Stab Fire Blast, HP Grass coverage and WoW puts everything undisputed has at risk.
undisputed plays well with his Heracross to punch some holes in dekzeh's defense mid-game by doubling on dekzeh's Tyranitar. Much like Moltres, Heracross has a field day against dekzeh's team, threatening everything with his Bug/Rock coverage. In the end game situation, undisputed's playing with sand damages to bring Heracross in Sailak range and hopefully clean with it and Salamence, but dekzeh reveals his trump card: Agility Moltres. The game seemed won at this point but Fire Blast didn't connect and Magneton disposed of the phoenix. dekzeh probably could have recovered on Salamence on turn 24, forcing Heracross to Megahorn the turn after, which would have given him a chance to win if it missed.
Fakes is using here a pretty old offensive team revolving around a core of DDers and Magneton/Endeavor Pert to remove their checks. Floppy on the other hand has a tendency for unusual builds and it shows here with the usage of Umbreon in an otherwise offensive team. If I had to guess, I'd say that the goal is to clean with Starmie backed up by Spikes while you can abuse special sponges with Lax and Metagross. Umbreon pursuits Gengar to help Forretress in its spinning task.
The game is pretty straightforward. Fakes goes for the blind read early game and weaken Metagross to the point of putting him in Magneton's range. Floppy has nothing to safely handle SubPert (his Umbreon could but Fakes is clearly going for the freeze, which would pretty much give him the win if he got it). This forces Floppy to get his Snorlax weakened to the point of no return. With Snorlax and Metagross out of the way, nothing can deal with CurseLax which has free set-ups on Forretress and Umbreon. As demonstrated here, Counter Forretress is not a good Snorlax answer since +6 Shadow Ball is denting it without Counter doing enough back.
Something I like about Triangles is his proficiency in going off the beaten track in his builds. His take on Special Spam here is quite unique: no Dug, no Porygon2, a lot of Boomers (with Regice and Gengar to bait Blissey/Lax), and even brought some Spikes to the party in the form of Cloyster. There is a great synergy in the team: the Special Sweepers attract Blissey which in turn allow Regice and Gengar to punch holes due to the threat of Boom and Spikes. On the other hand, all the Booms bring in the Physical walls that Suicune/Jirachi loves to abuse (such as Pert or Skarmory). My favorite team of this first week without any doubt.
panamaxis's team is more standard but it does showcase Hariyama as a mixed sponge that can take on Gengar to help Blissey while removing some Leftovers with Knock Off, an interesting option for his Stall team.
Triangles plays the game very well by Booming at the right times, which is extremely important in that match-up. He catches Hariyama and Blissey early allowing him to pressure panamaxis with the special armada of Rachi/Gar/Cune. He puts himself in a good position where Suicune is likely going to win, which is cemented when Claydol disposes of Starmie.
There were some doubts whether or not Jabba would shake the rust off for Week 1 and this game shows he still has work to do regarding teambuilding. The team was awfully weak to the combination of Skarmory/Gengar, especially when backed up by Blissey.
There isn't really much to say here: GS gets his spikes up, spinblocks Forretress for days with Gengar putting more and more pressure on Jabba's team as the game goes on since Jabba has no pursuiter/Magneton and a bunch of Pokemons that hate Spikes damages. SkarmBliss pretty much walls all options at Jabba's disposal and GS reveals his final asset in the form of Offensive Starmie to clean.
I think Jabba should have gone for the Lax/Cune finish as soon as possible (keeping one of them at 100% and awoken) but even then, GS had BoomGar + Starmie/Ttar to play around these threats (CurseLax could have still been an issue if Gengar had to boom when it was at +1 since Tyranitar revealed to not be DD or Band).
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I'm particulary glad to see all the "innovations" this year. We're only in the second week and we already got 5 BLs used (Donphan/Umbreon*2/Moltres/Cloyster/Hariyama) and this time, it's coming from the majority of players. I'm looking forward the next games