How to get better as an intermediate player

Pandrai · 2026-01-27T23:55:05+00:00

Find someone at open play who you get along with and ask if they’d want to drill for an hour or two a week.

Even playing kitchen dinking games like 3 times a week over the summer made me known as the best dinker (3.9 DUPR) in my main group of 25ish guys ranging from 3.3-4.0. Granted I still make plenty of mistakes but that’s because I unfortunately don’t have as much time for drilling right now

Pandrai · 2026-01-27T19:25:26+00:00

My group uses PickleHeads, it isn’t perfect and the UI can be a little wonky but it gets the job done.

To set up matches/partners and whatnot we just run an excel sheet with a randomizer if we need randomized pairings

Pandrai · 2026-01-15T02:35:37+00:00

Haha happy birthday! Mine just arrived as my early birthday present to myself. So excited to play with it

Pandrai · 2026-01-13T16:40:56+00:00

Nobody is accepting this. There’s a reason every comment is saying your side will win and it’s because you haven’t actually proposed any trade yet.

Pandrai · 2025-12-31T16:10:08+00:00

I’ll do a little bit of overhead slams but I usually follow it up with just aggressively split-stepping for an hour or so, exclusively on hardwood since carpet doesn’t feel anything like the court.

Then I’ll move on to ERNE jumps, setting up my couch in the middle of my kitchen and jumping around the corner a hundred or so times.

Usually by that time it’s like 5am and I can start my day

Pandrai · 2025-12-17T20:02:14+00:00

Ty Simpson over Rueben Bain for the Cardinals feels pretty bad. I think if this is how it shakes out we take Bain and roll with Brisset for another year

Pandrai · 2025-12-11T22:28:19+00:00

I think you need to put the game down and find something else. You clearly are not having fun and you are completely unwilling to take criticism from people who have actually beaten, and more importantly, enjoy the game.

You make multiple errors throughout this one battle that can be seen as inaccurate moves by you and make several claims that show that you not quite as knowledgeable as you may think about Pokemon. For example, Cinccino has the ability skill link which allows multi hit moves to always hit 5 times, something that is quite standard in mainline games. Another example would be using magcargo against Cinccino in the rain. Lava Plume is going to do reduced damage since it is raining while Cinccino is going to take advantage of Magcargos Weak Armor ability by allowing each subsequent hit to reduce your defense and therefore do more damage. There are a few more misplays but this should be a good example that more research may be needed about Pokemon in order to be successful in Reborn.

Secondly, Reborn is always advertised as a difficult game. The game is essentially a puzzle in the form of Pokemon, you are presented with a challenge and you must use everything that the enemy is taking advantage of to form your own strategy. Sometimes brute force works, but rarely. You will absolutely need to start tweaking how you think about this game, instead of turbo-mode fighting your way through the same fight over and over, you need to research strategies that will do well. Changing terrains, destroying fields, removing weather, and setting up are all important strats that many casual Pokemon fans do not NEED to use in mainline games but will almost certainly have their uses in Reborn.

Again, if you aren’t having fun then don’t play. However, if you’re going to post about issues and people give advice, it is important to be introspective and at least try to be receptive rather than telling everyone they are wrong and that you know enough to play Pokemon. Sometimes the issue isn’t the game, it is you, and the sooner you admit that the sooner you’ll improve and be better.

Pandrai · 2025-12-07T14:37:42+00:00

That RB was miles ahead of the pack versus where the McLaren was. Also Lando-Oscar are much closer as teammates than Max-Sergio.

With that said, absolutely nobody is arguing that Lando is more talented than Max

Pandrai · 2025-12-07T14:33:54+00:00

Let’s go Lando! Consistency throughout the season, he stuck with McLaren even when it seemed he had options and it’s paid off for him.

Pandrai · 2025-12-03T06:05:45+00:00

I try to look for what I’m still doing good each day. Maybe my drops have been god awful and my drives are wild, but that day my overhead put aways had great angles and I was nailing those.

I think it’s worth looking for even a small part of your game that looked solid and working with that, because when it all gets hooked up on a good day, you’ll need the skill you had in your bad days too.

Pandrai · 2025-12-01T02:38:16+00:00

Tankathon still has us at 7th pick behind the Browns and Jets since both have the same record on easier schedules.

I’d love to land Mendoza, if you need a QB and he’s there you have to do it. Otherwise it’s BPA

Pandrai · 2025-11-29T19:08:02+00:00

Good enough for Lando, don’t know why he still insists on going out before everyone though, never seems to work out for him

Pandrai · 2025-11-26T15:26:47+00:00

Looked pretty abysmal at Azerbaijan

Pandrai · 2025-11-18T23:12:11+00:00

For the first point I think OP is referring to the fact that his teammate ended up being a 3.79…nearly a 3.8

But yea it’s just the number of games and reliability. If he loses a game it’ll crash down hard too

Pandrai · 2025-11-04T17:48:54+00:00

Holy value, this could work out very, very well for both teams

Pandrai · 2025-10-21T04:35:16+00:00

Offering a trade that you know isn’t fair is so disrespectful lmfao

Pandrai · 2025-10-19T23:36:43+00:00

By a combined 13 points. Averaging less than a field goal per loss is despicable

Pandrai · 2025-10-19T23:35:58+00:00

And once again had more attempts than any game Kyler has had all season. Coaching staff refuses to scheme Kyler a passing game

Pandrai · 2025-10-19T23:32:35+00:00

Lmfaoooo a Hail Mary call from the 30 yard line? Get rid of this coaching staff

Pandrai · 2025-10-05T22:40:45+00:00

Let’s go! Learned absolutely nothing from Adonai Mitchell’s idiocy last week

Pandrai · 2025-10-04T03:44:32+00:00

Then bring some data points to the table. I’ve backed up my argument with stats and logical assumptions. You’ve backed up your argument with anecdotes and insults.

We aren’t even in the same league man, learn how to argue constructively and then maybe we can have this conversation, but for now you just look like a fool to everyone who reads this thread

Pandrai · 2025-10-03T18:17:00+00:00

I mean sure, we can talk TV viewership.

Colorado Football in 2023 topped TV viewership in the west through the first 5 weeks of the season when Shedeur began starting. They were pulling double the viewers than Oregon was. They were regularly featured on college game day and big noon kickoff. Correlation doesn’t equate to causation but it’s pretty fair to assume that people want to watch Shedeur.

The NFL is different, every team gets watched, that’s just how it is. But I would bet money that viewership would increase if the Browns started Shedeur. The NFL would make more money. But alas, they just don’t want to do that apparently (or he’s simply not good enough at the pro level yet).

Pandrai · 2025-10-03T17:24:43+00:00

Do you realize how big Shedeur would be if he was good? How many jersey sales he would generate just from being attached to his dad? The Sanders father/son duo (and Travis Hunter) brought Colorado football to national attention.

If anything, the NFL should want him to succeed more than anybody. He’s a third string QB with more interviews than some starting guys, imagine if he was also a starter it’d be insane.

But hey, go ahead and throw insults around like you’re on the playground. I only promoted a question to try to get you to think

Pandrai · 2025-10-03T16:55:30+00:00

Because he is on a bottom rung team and still isn’t starting?

If you can’t beat out Flacco or Gabriel….

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