Really glad y'all are making these, makes it easier to teach new players and get new players in general
@dustinowen637725 күн бұрын
Great content! Big Itsuki (Quints) deck fan here. Do you think the deck will get better with the new premium booster set?
@nateotte3297Ай бұрын
I want to be a Guilty Gear underdog in Sacramento!
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
57:05 "This is a card game […] In card games, sometimes stuff happens" Words to live by (Half joking, half not :P)
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
56:36 The California regional last BCS was 282 players, so there's a decent chance we will in fact see a top 32, though hard to tell how much the 2nd California regional will affect that (my guess would be not too much given that they're almost 6 months apart)
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
28:41 I knew that SDS had good conversion to top 8, but hadn't realized it *also* had good conversion within top cut. So yeah, definitely something to watch out for, it seems
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
20:51 from what I've heard, the most important thing about Sokka might simply be that it's blue (specifically in the 4-color deck, which was already running the zuko riki as well)
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
One thing to watch out for with the representation data is that there's some amount of bias there, inherent in how it's collected (given that we don't have everything). It's easier to find information about a deck that won a regional than one that went 1-5, and easier to find information about that than a deck that went 0-2 drop, for example. So the overall representation numbers are likely a bit closer to the top cut numbers than they should be, at least; still, that bias presumably affects all series in the same way, and it can also only change the percentage by so much, so hopefully the numbers are still usable.
@diogoreis7946Ай бұрын
saying mio ban doesnt affect all that much is the same as saying you dont have alot of experiance with the deck, it was a super hard hit on the deck it self.
@ColeTrainStudioАй бұрын
So, the mio/luna hit was likely because of the 0/0 calliope in JP lists that lets you search your deck for a character and then discard any card for only the cost of accelerate 1 from waiting room at the START of CX phase. I think its pretty evident why this card is absurdly powerful. It's in a lot of JP standby lists and is a must-include in any hololive standby list when it comes to EN.
@spacecowboy225Ай бұрын
I'm as far B as possible, OVL hype feels like all copium, it's a fine deck but it hasn't shown and in my experience hasn't done anything to show that it's the end all be all of the meta.
@BrownandWeissАй бұрын
People will still cry because the only thing that matters to them is JP format :P
@BrownandWeissАй бұрын
Would nuking the meta really help? I feel like it's just a band-aid fix. And if they don't keep hard power lines, then it'll just power creep again. But if the meta becomes to samey the sets will just be boring and the game will become to stale... idk I feel like power creep is kinda nesssarcy since we don't rotate formats and are ip locked. How do you keep making the gameplay interesting without changing everything or adding mechanics that could break the game .
@Momentomori916Ай бұрын
Awesome video!!!! Looking at gettting a little more competitive. Would you recommend the Escanor build or would you prefer the Elizabeth/Hendrickson build that recently one a couple tournaments?
@TheClockTowerWeissSchwarzАй бұрын
Escanor's restriction has really brought it down a peg in competitive play. I think Brandon and I would both agree that Hendrickson is the better list right now. - Colton
@XpectHSАй бұрын
I'm a bit surprised you guys didn't call out the ridiculous reasoning they initially gave for the Luna/Mio restriction. They had only slightly adjusted the reasoning in the last couple days. 8SB HOL hit got shoehorned in with the Gura restriction. Notice that all other restrictions came with statistics for their respective decks. And like you guys mentioned, OVL/TSK had more tops than all 8SB HOL variants combined. After playing both formats, the Luna/Mio restriction feels WAY worse than JP's 4c1 restriction. Where JP removes a lot of power from the deck, EN deletes most of the consistency.
@linzymacmorganАй бұрын
I am testing Aki without the level 0 himeno combo and putting in the level zero Aki that allows me to mill 4 get a level 1 or higher card. I haven’t decided on my level 1 combo yet. Testing the pants level 1 Aki adding another level 3 red power and then two off finishers.
@chainfire9001Ай бұрын
Also a little surprised they decided to hit 8 standby HOL right now in EN. That said, I think their approach is kinda smart; Mio is the engine of that deck, it just does way too much, so this restriction forces players to innovate in order to replace that engine.
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
28:35 "if I subscribed to all of you I would have 10 tote bags" that's going to be me at the end of BCS season lol (ok maybe not quite 10)
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
14:50 Really, for Sokka/Ayame/Grodd, I think errata would be better than banning, though at this point I can understand the position that they've missed the window for that for Sokka I do think it feels really bad that this card is no longer available to any other builds that would have wanted to use it normally (in particular, I've heard that there aren't a lot of good blue cards for the 4-color deck), which is why I think it would have been better to have some sort of choice list (Sokka + 2/2 Azula + 3/2 Azula is what I heard suggested; could replace 3/2 Azula with the standby if you want to eliminate almost all options to abuse Sokka with minimal collateral damage, I think)
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
9:26 Huh, I'd say Aki is in much the same boat of reduced consistency but still plenty playable (though Aki to 2 is definitely more impactful than Gura to 2) Strong disagree with moving off stocksoul; I don't think the event bond is that important. You're probably not getting 4 easy revenges but that's fine; 2-3 still gets you a large portion of the benefit That said I was already having doubts about Aki at full power, so I think there's a good chance that the deck dies simply because CSM has better options for the topend. I don't think the issue is the ceiling, though, in the sense that 2 Akis can still highroll someone into dying from mid lv2 if enough cxs are on the bottom. It's more just the average result, that on balance there are more games where you fail to kill.
@TheClockTowerWeissSchwarzАй бұрын
The thing that always gets me about Aki's ceiling is that it requires CXs on the bottom, which is a position basically every other top end benefits from as well. If an opponent is six out of 25 and they've got four CXs in the bottom 10 cards, it wouldn't really matter which top end you played. Any conventional top end can take advantage of that clean damage at the top that with similar damage output. - Colton
@alexandermccabe4461Ай бұрын
The difference I suppose is that those cxs on the bottom give Aki more burns, which then have the potential to ping off cxs on the top; there's also the case where the deck is small enough that other topends would run into those cxs on the bottom as cancels (though the thing there is that more often than not, there's some decompression tool that other topends can use to deal with it if necessary) Though my point there was just that the ceiling doesn't change too much with 2 Akis instead of 3, since there's already a high amount of variance in whether the cxs are burns or cancels; 2 Akis just means there's less chance of the former, but not hugely so. Though I'm also not entirely sure if we mean the same thing by "ceiling"; I'm thinking it's something like "how much damage you can do when things go well and you highroll, within reason"; maybe something like the most damage you'd expect to do over the course of a tournament or two
@rinshoragnarshid6162Ай бұрын
sokka shoulda just been locked away from being used with standby/azula. so choose either sokka or standby/azula cards. not both.
@rinshoragnarshid6162Ай бұрын
woulda at least let atla have a okay riki.
@user-lh6bm6lo7eАй бұрын
Hi it's Zabuton/Ken I've played a little with post ban CSM and I don't like it but I think it's still functional, and much more threatening than Sokka-less ATLA. I think the focus of the deck has to shift towards the 2-turn-kill play pattern because you can't triple though.
@BrownandWeissАй бұрын
As much as a I hate unique promos.... if bushi is going to complete gut a deck... I think we should get peomos to help fill the void, by either helping other strategies or printing something generic... like a sokka aqua profile or something to get us a clock plus back into the set...
@IVIisterFisterАй бұрын
Figured CSM was coming, I got enough play with it at locals that I’m good with building something new with all the other cards I ignored, but I’ve been on my Bocchi grind anyway so CSM is shelved for now.
@camf1991Ай бұрын
I disagree that Sokka needed to be banned with the current ATLA lists. I think you could use a choice to hit Azula without hitting the other ATLA decks which are T3 at best already. You're right they dont get much worse (only because they cant go much lower), but we still shouldn't be nerfing bad decks. The collateral was way too big there. That being said, if they are thinking an ATLA set 2 or Korra set, the sokka ban makes sense. It is very limiting to the design space, and every single card would have to be designed with Sokka in mind.
@ColeTrainStudioАй бұрын
24:00 2/1 Alice to 2x really makes zero sense. 2/1 Alice is just worse than Mjurran. 1/0 Alice is the problem. We should have the JP restriction here.
@spacecowboy225Ай бұрын
Standby/Bar Aki incoming
@speaksincirclesАй бұрын
so I built this just a couple days ago. and play tested against current slime and mushoko this deck slaps! my friend literally said “why is AoT not meta?”
@speaksincirclesАй бұрын
algo comment
@JuanCarlos-bp6hbАй бұрын
Time stamps..?
@BranOtakuАй бұрын
Does anti-dmg at the start of the video refer to effects that stops certain amount of dmg going through? It doesn't include 'money' anti dmg counters?
@TheClockTowerWeissSchwarzАй бұрын
It’s suppose to include money counters. As someone who’s slowly forgetting how to read, I missed the set 1 Maidens card. Thanks for that catch! - Brandon
@J0k3573rАй бұрын
How has this build worked for you? I’d personally run 2 of the Ruby Rose, perhaps 3, with 3 Ruby:Determined, and 2 of the Ruby: Vytal(sp?) Festival from set 1. She’s a pay 2, pitch 2 at end of attack burn 2. She’s an on play salvage and can be a good off lane for the other Rubys. The Salem 1of and tryrians are good calls. I’m still suspicious of the penny combo but go slay queen! Im working on 8 SB rn myself and looking for my 8 door build(it got put away somewhere, unsleeved). Speaking of which, door/choice seems solid too.
@TheClockTowerWeissSchwarzАй бұрын
In testing with this build it plays better than it reads. I do really like that off finisher paring with the top end. It gives that extra instance I think the deck could really benefit from. (I know I lean a bit too hard into Pyrrha) Tbf: the penny combo is more a side effect of running bar and maybe a touch more mill early. It just felt better than empty bar. Oh! I really like the idea of door/choice. That seems like a fun build! Would love to hear how the deck building goes! - Brandon
@BrownandWeiss2 ай бұрын
I'm ready for re zero reprints!!!
@revolution911562 ай бұрын
Wish u had text to say what the cards r
@earthweebfire14042 ай бұрын
In the set features slide, you have no marks for free fresh when the set has a 3/2 nijika EP that freefreshes, and a 1/1 ryo backup that discards the 3/2 kita EP to freefresh
@TheClockTowerWeissSchwarz2 ай бұрын
But is it really free? 🤔 You’re right, it should be marked. Thanks for the catch! - Brandon
@jacobcruz31212 ай бұрын
It was a pleasure to play against yall in top 4. I was really happy seeing a DAL deck in the top. It was funny seeing the judges react to my ARI deck and his DAL being in the top. We had a good game but it was tough with you denying my memory Yue so i couldn't combo early.
@alexandermccabe44612 ай бұрын
15:58 Standby/Bar Overlord? Brayden didn't talk about the non-Ainz combo, so were they doing something spicy there, or was that just a typo?
@TheClockTowerWeissSchwarz2 ай бұрын
Typo. It’s the standard list. - Brandon
@DaSubtleOne2 ай бұрын
France BSF is postponed. That wasnt mentioned in the video.
@ColeTrainStudio2 ай бұрын
Congrats on the top 8! My buddies and I were there too, but we washed out at 2-3. I was on HOL Rushia/Mumei, with my teammates on RSL Hikari/Karen and SPY Anya/Fiona.
@jakferrik78782 ай бұрын
Is the 8 pants slime list a misprint. Cuz the shizu top end ur talking about is on book not pants
@TheClockTowerWeissSchwarz2 ай бұрын
Yes. The deck was Pants/Book, my mistake. - Colton
@Flaregamesz2 ай бұрын
Yeeaahh...don't play this out loud while at the airport...
@camf19912 ай бұрын
It's such a good playset, but I really hate 2 or less climax EPs.
@Lazy_Dog_Mike2 ай бұрын
Love the "set features" slide. Please make one for all english sets😂
@tbatrics2 ай бұрын
Almost all my decks are rated D here lol. KNK for life!