So fast comments on some replays :
1)Halcyon's replay : sun vs rain ; sun win weather war thanks to sunny day trapping tran ; gg ? I know it may be exagerated, but instead of Venusaur destroying things, it's Cress stalling/killing things and Saswbuck the other things.
2)MCBarret's replay : I agree with Shurtugal's comment about it, so I won't insist.
3)Shootinstarmie's replay : Interesting. In order, your opponent misplay by attacking Rotom with tar (he say himself he would have cancelled but it was too late). Sending Latios after that was risky but his options were limited. After, Mamoswine against Heatran would have seem to be a coinflip in first place, but seeing that besides tran, absolutely all Shootin's mon were not affraid of earthquake, risk-reward was more to do something else. After that, the surviving of Celebi is... Special ? According to calcs, there was a little more than 50% chance of KOing Bi right here, so it was all on luck for this move. After that, a very good baton pass followed by a little bit surprising HP Ice of Tran. Even Fire Blast would have done a huge chunck but Heatran would have been KOed. Some turns later, good play of Kushalos seeing the Gengar coming. The unlucky Icicle spear of Mammoswine followed by Rest of Rotom was another important moment. Breloom came, win momentum, and... Spore ? I would have bullet seed instead, or killing Rotom, or doing some damage to Latios/Bi, since Heatran will not switch in. All in all, after sporing bi, I feel than switching out was definitely losing the momentum he had. The switch in Tar was cool, but seeing his low HP it ended to be useless. After, I just wonder : WHY ? Why 2 SD ? Even after that, he don't OHKO Latios most of time, but he took the risk of what happened : Celebi getting out of sleep pretty fast, killing him, before he could kill, even with his great bullet seed roll. Finally, some switch-in, attacks and risky lategame predicting, ending to Latios winning the match for Starmie.
IMO, this is the best of the 5 first replays posted, but Kushalos was really hindered by bad luck (I can easily guess he would have win otherwise). Still, it's interesting in all the process of which decision take, and risk-reward blabla.
4)Scotti's replay : Skarmory as a lead was a little bit dumb. (Seriously, Rotom is VERY often choose as a lead, at least when there is not Breloom in the opposing team) After that, Scarf had the upper hand on all the match, stacking hazards, until that CM Latias which wasn't very well handled (Scarf had still what needed for, with 2 phazers) and got lucky. Agree with X5's about Mence, damn it would have been a scarf, Scarf (>_>) would have won easily. Knowing it wasn't, Scarf should probably have searched setup opportunity for him. IMO, one-sided on his first part, and one-sided on the other, not bad but I won't call it good.
I'll look at the others later, and also post mine.
1)Halcyon's replay : sun vs rain ; sun win weather war thanks to sunny day trapping tran ; gg ? I know it may be exagerated, but instead of Venusaur destroying things, it's Cress stalling/killing things and Saswbuck the other things.
2)MCBarret's replay : I agree with Shurtugal's comment about it, so I won't insist.
3)Shootinstarmie's replay : Interesting. In order, your opponent misplay by attacking Rotom with tar (he say himself he would have cancelled but it was too late). Sending Latios after that was risky but his options were limited. After, Mamoswine against Heatran would have seem to be a coinflip in first place, but seeing that besides tran, absolutely all Shootin's mon were not affraid of earthquake, risk-reward was more to do something else. After that, the surviving of Celebi is... Special ? According to calcs, there was a little more than 50% chance of KOing Bi right here, so it was all on luck for this move. After that, a very good baton pass followed by a little bit surprising HP Ice of Tran. Even Fire Blast would have done a huge chunck but Heatran would have been KOed. Some turns later, good play of Kushalos seeing the Gengar coming. The unlucky Icicle spear of Mammoswine followed by Rest of Rotom was another important moment. Breloom came, win momentum, and... Spore ? I would have bullet seed instead, or killing Rotom, or doing some damage to Latios/Bi, since Heatran will not switch in. All in all, after sporing bi, I feel than switching out was definitely losing the momentum he had. The switch in Tar was cool, but seeing his low HP it ended to be useless. After, I just wonder : WHY ? Why 2 SD ? Even after that, he don't OHKO Latios most of time, but he took the risk of what happened : Celebi getting out of sleep pretty fast, killing him, before he could kill, even with his great bullet seed roll. Finally, some switch-in, attacks and risky lategame predicting, ending to Latios winning the match for Starmie.
IMO, this is the best of the 5 first replays posted, but Kushalos was really hindered by bad luck (I can easily guess he would have win otherwise). Still, it's interesting in all the process of which decision take, and risk-reward blabla.
4)Scotti's replay : Skarmory as a lead was a little bit dumb. (Seriously, Rotom is VERY often choose as a lead, at least when there is not Breloom in the opposing team) After that, Scarf had the upper hand on all the match, stacking hazards, until that CM Latias which wasn't very well handled (Scarf had still what needed for, with 2 phazers) and got lucky. Agree with X5's about Mence, damn it would have been a scarf, Scarf (>_>) would have won easily. Knowing it wasn't, Scarf should probably have searched setup opportunity for him. IMO, one-sided on his first part, and one-sided on the other, not bad but I won't call it good.
I'll look at the others later, and also post mine.
