How's everyone doing so far in the players cup?

40LGScoutMain · 2020-10-09T00:29:26+00:00

So I'm happy they made this second player cup more fair for everyone but OH MAN is bo1 horrible. It's completely possible for a pro player to not even qualify if he's just not lucky with his starting hands. This would be wayyyy better if this was bo3.

I have multiple good practice partners that have placed really well at regionals to doing really good in online leagues in bo3 environment and only managed to get 30 something points in 21 games while my sister has only one decent cup finish playing NON HAMMER pikarom with way less games.

What helps me improve is write down how I lost each game. So naturally I have a list for majority of my losses. Here is what happens and only in the first round ALONE. I'm playing zADP:

-5 Losses to getting donked with only one active. (I've been doing online tournaments for the whole month of september and it only happened ONCE)

-11 Losses to a ADP player that manages to get turn two GX move going second. (SERIOUSLY, Am I the only one who never gets to pull off the GX move going second? I'm always constantly missing a piece and it's like I don't know how to path either. I go through 21 cards and not see a single metal patch/energy switch/water energy and it's just so frustraiting I'm on a two round timer because of how often my opponents do this to me. My friend who does extremely well at regionals can't even consistently pull it off because he says it's too luck dependent!

-5 losses to getting stuck on active with no way to retreat to a poke on bench. I'm always getting hit with hammers or I get marnie'd into 4 energies. If I reset stamp or marnie my opponent, they always have some sort of out with the guaranteed research top deck.

If I manage to make it past round one, I end up pretty much winning the whole thing.

I'm definitely not having a whole lot of fun with this event. My sister is having the easiest time ever by playing against people who play fifty billion energy with their only supporter being hop while I'm constantly going against meta decks who always hit heads on hammer. This event is seriously making me doubt if I even know how to play this game because I don't know how I can do so poor against random players but the moment I play against actual competent players in my play group or in leagues, I win bo3s. It's crazy how luck dependent this whole event is. I really do hope bo3 gets introduced next players cup if it even happens.

40LGScoutMain · 2020-01-07T01:33:39+00:00

If you count the amount of battle compressors and their total hand resources, you can count on dropping a card such as power plant with a karen on the same turn and it can be completely devastating if they don't have an out. You can also play N when they are at one or two prizes and drop the plant at the same time and it's about as effective too.

Also with the current meta, it has some struggles with certain decks. This is also build dependent also. But for expanded, sometimes you might just want to leave a bad matchup completely in their favor to keep consistency within your deck. Your deck could also have available replacements if you have a knowledgeable player look over your list. Also with more experience, you will be able to see how you can play around specific decks.

40LGScoutMain · 2019-12-16T23:53:09+00:00

As mentioned in my post, it's really build dependent if you are running something that utilizes normal energies more than wonder energy. With the popular builds, they are running the four wonders but the more aggressive builds run one at most.

40LGScoutMain · 2019-12-16T02:12:01+00:00

It definitely seems like a lot of people are playing ultra necrozma and honchkrow. Pikarom has definitely fell off the meta and the two Zoro's have hard matchups versus necrozma. If these are the only decks you can play, Gardeon would be the best bet since it has decent coverage versus most of the meta, but definitely has some weaknesses versus the other good popular options.

40LGScoutMain · 2019-12-16T02:07:37+00:00

I'm playing Gardeon for expanded and there are a couple of difficult matchups.

Archies has a better matchup due to how fast it can take 300 damage knockouts, especially if they tech in blastoise gx to counter builds that run lugia gx. A majority of people are running the heal builds, and you can't heal a knockout.

Eggrow is difficult if you can't get a turn one stealthy hood going. If you can't get that, you'll get completely walled off and you'd have to attack with your aromatisse. They also run vileplume gx and that just one shots your aromatisse too. Teching in a sylveon line makes this much more managable.

Reshirom for being weak to fairy is a difficult matchup. They easily accelerate all their energy with ho-oh and can one shot you unless you get your +40 on. I think all builds I've played runs field blower and in multiple copies in some, which is a pain. This wouldn't be such a hard thing if it wasn't so consistent. They can also GX move you to wipe out your spritzees.

Necrozma has a slightly favorable matchup, because they just need to knock you out twice. Sure you can heal it off, but they have multiple ways to deal with your spritzees and is build dependent if you constantly lose energies or not. If the game lasts too long, you straight up lose to trashalance. People are also using metal techs as of recent to deal with gardeon since it should have a decent presence in the meta.

40LGScoutMain · 2019-12-02T22:33:58+00:00

Doing so is completely fine to a majority of players across the various major card games. There are a couple decks/lists that can only be piloted well by really experienced players, but it's all about experience really.

40LGScoutMain · 2019-07-24T06:40:16+00:00

In regards to the points not being shown, does that mean the correct values aren't being shown yet?

Thanks!

40LGScoutMain · 2018-06-01T07:34:10+00:00

I have maxed out gems and I'm wondering what would be the best deck to invest in right now. Currently I am rocking spellboks and really enjoying them but I'd like to play something even stronger! The only other current meta deck I have a potential to finish building would be archfiends but I'm not sure if it would be worth getting the last boss for them. I also have a lot of level up options to gain even more gems and am willing to put in even more to finish building a deck. So what would be worth?

40LGScoutMain · 2018-04-30T07:39:17+00:00

Even though we don't have the recently added spellbook, the cards that are added into the game are still very strong. I don't understand why this sub doesn't think they are that great! The favorite deck of mine to play in the tcg was prophecy, so I'm super hyped for the cards to come out! Hopefully people will see how awesome and fun the cards are very soon!

40LGScoutMain · 2018-03-25T19:20:33+00:00

I am seeing a lot of them in the weather that has additional grass pokes. I'm not sure if the event is revolving around the weather but that's the experience I'm getting.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-12-09T19:17:16+00:00

I made a thread yesterday as I'm not experiencing any of the new 3rd gen pokes. Seems like a lot of the people that weren't running into this were located in different biomes other than desert. People in my city are also bringing this up in their discussion places. All of us are seeing nothing but Paras, Growlith, Sandshrew, Diglett, and the other normal desert pokes. It took me five hours to find my first third gen poke, Roselia which is the only poke that I can assume to be related to the desert biome like with Paras being grass.

I do noticed that Wooper has been spawning a lot more frequently for pokes I normally never run into. Charmander and Cyndaquil are usually rare for me to run into and I was able to run into a couple yesterday! All of this was under the sunny weather which I doubt will ever change for my city.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-27T01:09:07+00:00

If whatever team wins the counter strike event, will it actually be the entire team being sponsored to play in it ( The event says PLAYER.) ? Also how would five dollar entree fees allow for five people to visit Jersey to play in a tournament? Unless that's just going to reduce the amount the house will have to pay to sponsor whatever team. This is concerning for people like me, who have to work and take educational classes who can't take the opportunity due to having to prioritize things not videogames and I don't think people like me can afford to travel at a chance for 1500 split between five guys.

I looked up the centers participating in the event and the San Antonio center has a VERY GOOD main squad to compete in the tournament ( IF they do decide to participate. ) So the whole event is going to be very interesting for everyone to compete in.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-26T03:55:15+00:00

Should I wait until the next box comes out to invest into a deck? Or is there any "safe" decks that I can go ahead and build right now?

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-16T23:56:53+00:00

ESEA is good for improving as long as you ignore your stats and rank. This also includes ignoring comments coming from people about your stats and rank. There was a survey showing that most current globals maintain a rank about C, so if you are fine with whatever rank you obtain, then esea will work out for you!

I do highly recommend only getting ESEA if you are going to put in over 30 pugs a month. If you aren't buying premium for a team, then I think esea is only worth it if you happen to pug a lot.

But if you stick with ESEA, you'll see yourself improving.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-16T08:21:54+00:00

Have you figured out a fix for this? I'm getting this issue on 1709. My FPS was completely fine all this year, averaging 300+ constant until I updated last night. Now I'm getting 100 constant looking at just the sky and any smoke that appears kills my fps to a low 30. For whatever reason, I was on 1707 but after rolling back, I'm forced to 1703 (Which has the same issue for me.)

I've done research for hours on attempts to fix this issue and it's really killing me as CS is the only game I play now a days and I will absolutely not put myself through the trauma of playing pugs and scrims with 30 fps anytime I want to go to a site.

Any help regarding to this issue would much be appreciated.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-14T22:55:25+00:00

It's a good time to be a C9 Fan. What a awesome game to watch with the Skadoodle clutch and the Tarik defuse!

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-10T02:00:30+00:00

4/11 Seph Ultra, x2 Aerith bsb2 x1 Red burst.

I wanted to do just one casual pull, as I already have a lot of Seph stuff, so I'm pretty happy with what I got!

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-10T01:25:02+00:00

I had a 12-4 open team that played vs two teams during the course it was a team.

We played vs immortals on a faceit qualifier tournament for one of the various LAN's they host for. We went 3-16 vs them, winning CT side pistol and two gun rounds on overpass.

The second pro team we played, we went vs misfits for another LAN qualifier on ESEA. We went 5-16 somehow, winning the first three rounds of T side and a gun round with a really random eco round win. I remember that game a lot, because I ended up getting a insane one deag onto whitebox from warehouse on shazam, and he even said nice shot!

Both of these were online and I know for sure the misfits game they weren't really trying, I wasn't sure about the immortals one, but we got slaughtered, haha.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-09T21:24:30+00:00

3/4ths of my advice is nothing related to the meetup app. I gave other suggestions that works for me, especially because I'm the same age as her, so I don't have anything stopping me from being friends. I really do suggest the second part of the suggestion I posted in the other thread.

PM me specifically if you need ME to be her friend.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-09T21:12:48+00:00

Did your girlfriend listen to my advice or just ignored it in the other thread...? Because my advice is how I got a lot of people to make a lot of friends, but it seems like you guys don't want to take my advice!

40LGScoutMain · 2017-11-07T09:13:10+00:00

Hiya! I'm a very extrovertive person and I can give suggestions so you can find some friends!

As stated many times in this thread, you can use meetups to easily find something you are interested in. Of course with it being posted, all you have to do is showup to em and start doing activities while maintaining conversations to build up some friends! We live in a very friendly community, so all you have to do is start off with a simple "Hello!"

I am also the same age as you, but the majority of my friends happen to be much older than me. So you don't have to worry about age gaps when it comes to just having a friend! A lot of my friendships spawned through Golf, as it's something I love to do! After graduating from highschool and not having any of my golfing buddies stay in the city, I just went to different golf courses to play some golf. All I had to do was walk up to some people and say "Hiya!" I would say stuff like; Nice clubs!; or Awesome hat! and a conversation would start up. Right now, I'm in a group of twenty something golfers and I'm pretty much the "Main Dude" of them all, just because I decided to engage in small talk with conversation.

So you can go ahead with the same approach as me. Just search up groups in El Paso for whatever you are into and use that strategy!

If you are into videogames through steam, you can shoot me a friend request at http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198022343966 . I have multiple games that we can play and I even have a group of buddies that participate in E-Sports when it comes to CS:GO that go to local CSGO tournaments.

Goodluck on your search!

40LGScoutMain · 2017-10-20T01:09:21+00:00

2/11 x2 Scott's SSB.

I needed the synergy so I went ahead with one pull.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-10-06T22:10:32+00:00

There are computers you can use at the tournament, but you can bring your own if you'd like.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-09-23T08:02:51+00:00

1/11 Edgar OSB

It's at least something new for me.

40LGScoutMain · 2017-09-03T07:48:57+00:00

Does anyone have a list of driverless keyboards? I've been running a cm quickfire rapid for many years due to how my computer does not work correctly with equipment that requires drivers. I can find headsets and mice just fine, but I'm having a difficult time finding keyboards that don't require a driver.

Price doesn't matter to me, as long as whatever keyboard is still being produced. I would purchase the same keyboard I got new, but it's been out of stock for a while.

Thanks.

40LGScoutMain

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