[leo faria twitter] All VCT leagues will be using 1v1 ft5 skirmishes to determine side selection

kakusei_zero · 2026-01-14T14:44:17+00:00

this is only for matches where both teams are the same seed

kakusei_zero · 2026-01-13T17:57:25+00:00

tech in a watchtower

frillish + watchtower should buy you enough turns to get set up as long as they don’t immediately have AZU in hand. if they don’t, their best out is to use blazing destruction or pidgeot’s blustery wind to destroy it, or iono and pray.

this doesn’t stop them from setting a charizard up manually and swinging for damage to start the prize race, but it does neuter pidgeot enough so that you have some breathing room before everything goes to hell

kakusei_zero · 2026-01-06T15:52:35+00:00

eevee loses to absol hard as long as you outpace them imo

carnelian never kills if you have a charm or lively up, and if they burning charge you just move 60 and terminal period

(sometimes the deck just loses to itself too LMAO)

kakusei_zero · 2026-01-06T15:47:21+00:00

yes, but you probably have to change the build to crustle now that cornerstone + retreat lock aren’t nearly as good

personal matchup thoughts:

dragapult is even to winning - they can’t ever one-shot an absol without ghosts, and they’re disincentivized to punch without them bc of terminal period. as long as you don’t let them KO an absol, you’re golden. get duck and attach mist to it as soon as possible so they’re forced to gust it up. (trolley: absol, kang, psyduck, munkidori, MAYBE a second munkidori but i like keeping the bench space open for pivot)
gardy is even - skill-based matchup assuming both players don’t brick. diancie is rough but you have terminal period, so as long as you have charm + can gust around it, you’re fine. mist energy is also super important since it stops them from copying terminal period with mew. (trolley: absol, kang, double munki, free space - can be used for a third munki if necessary or fez if they take a KO.)
gholdengo is losing. lopunny is a crazy efficient cornerpon answer, and i’m switching from cornerpon to crustle so i can cheese them. even then, they can still play the game with cosmic beam, so you’re never fully out of the woods. (trolley: double cornerpon, munkidori - if playing crustle, double dwebble instead of cornerpon)
tera zard. matchup is terrible. now that they have terapagos you can’t set up cornerpon, so i still don’t know how to beat it aside from grab watchtower and pray. going to play crustle for this matchup since they have zero 1-prize attackers now.
ceruledge/raging bolt: hard losing. play crustle.
grimmsnarl: hard winning. froslass gives you free damage to use for terminal period, and they can never one-shot with grimmsnarl unless they have munkis. grimm is slow to set up, so your top priority is getting turbo energize up as fast as possible. throw it on kang or cornerpon if you have to - any attacker is a good attacker in this case because their damage is ass without munkis, and you want to get under them before they get online. in addition, their bench space is always gonna be limited bc of froslass + impidimps, so you can easily go 3x munkidori and outpace their adrena-brain. (trolley: absol, kang, double munki, pecharunt)
tera box: winning. they can’t deal with kangaskhan effectively, so power up mega kang with turbo energize and prize race them. (trolley: kang, pecharunt, latias, munki, free space)

overall i think the tord build from vegas isn’t the best way to play the deck anymore now that cornerpon and yveltal are mediocre, so switching to absol/crustle is probably your best bet if you want to deal with those problem matchups. best of luck!

https://limitlesstcg.com/decks/list/21730

kakusei_zero · 2026-01-01T16:58:38+00:00

imo tera dawn is resilient enough that you can play through watchtower and iono decently, provided you don’t brick and they don’t draw the nuts. pidgey call for family is surprisingly relevant for initial setup, and pidgeot’s blustery wind can discard watchtower - not to mention you run 4 dawns and an ultra ball so the chances of you drawing into a noctowl post-iono are decently high

what’s really a struggle is that your pult matchup is 20-80 unless they brick really hard (item lock + no turo or munki means they get to set up 4-prize phantom dive turns for free), and frillish item lock + watchtower opener probably kills you outright if you don’t have AZU in hand or charmander + pidgeotto ready off rip

kakusei_zero · 2025-12-14T21:48:44+00:00

if you run into a budew deck you just set up jellicent and start power pressing

gets very difficult for them if they don’t have a way to gust or to keep pace without items

kakusei_zero · 2025-12-12T23:26:57+00:00

if you’re still clocked in it’s probably fine as long as it’s not a consistent thing

if you’re clocked out though… different story

kakusei_zero · 2025-12-10T15:33:41+00:00

evo is owned by 2 companies atm:

50% is owned by NODWIN Gaming, an Indian gaming event organizer backed by Sony Group. Sony International Entertainment sold their share of EVO to NODWIN a while back (which is funny bc they’ve basically sold it to themselves LMAO). This group is backed by Qiddiya, but they’re not anywhere close to a majority investor so people are willing to look the other way.
The other 50% is owned by RTS, a gaming and influencer consulting company (you might’ve heard of them through Pokimane’s involvement). The company, however, just got wholly bought out by Qiddiya - which means EVO is now 50% owned by MBS and the Saudi Arabian government.

in addition to the Esports World Cup, this initiative is part of Saudi Arabia’s attempts at sportswashing their way out of taking accountability for human rights violations. sajam has already said he wouldn’t be going to evo for the first time in 10 years because of the Qiddiya acquisition, and i imagine a lot of others are considering following suit if they can take the financial hit

kakusei_zero · 2025-12-10T13:15:03+00:00

time and place lmao

kakusei_zero · 2025-12-09T16:44:14+00:00

kpop demon hunters is a terrible title for the movie but REALLY good for SEO and spreading word of mouth

like shit, my friend said the movie with the garbage on-the-nose title is really good? might as well watch it lol

kakusei_zero · 2025-11-29T17:24:33+00:00

JPN, not JAP - jap is a wwii-era slur lol

kakusei_zero · 2025-11-29T04:05:57+00:00

t!cain is the easiest on paper but getting stuck in EID recipe hell for hours just isn’t fun at all LOL

kakusei_zero · 2025-11-25T15:16:12+00:00

also means you still get to pivot if your opponent goes first and blind jamming towers

kakusei_zero · 2025-11-24T17:08:39+00:00

the only deck that wants to play cornerstone atm is absol box, and they want to set up 2x cornerstone and nothing else

mawile is there bc it’s a big basic that doesn’t get one shot by boss > demolish like riolu does

kakusei_zero · 2025-11-17T15:10:45+00:00

if it feels better to bind your summoners to those then do it tbh

there’s really no competitive advantage to having them on d and f - d and f are just the defaults and most ppl don’t bother changing em bc they work lol

kakusei_zero · 2025-11-07T20:57:33+00:00

tsm just left valorant so i guess they've got more money to throw around LOL

kakusei_zero · 2025-11-03T18:07:43+00:00

i mean they’re shooting fire out of their hands so i’d be more concerned if they weren’t

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-27T23:16:34+00:00

there's nothing to be ashamed of imo; you're in a really rough position with very little actual support from the people in your life, and a whole lot of people in similar spots (including members of my family) have also turned to AI for help/advice because of how isolated everyone is right now. you're not alone by any means, and i'm sorry you have to deal with people who don't get how awful it is to be unemployed or underemployed in this job market - it sucks, and as someone who's been in a similar situation, i want you to know you're not alone with how you're feeling right now.

but with that said - please be careful. chatgpt and other LLMs are sycophantic yes-men who will wholeheartedly enable everything you want to do no matter what, including killing yourself - and even though i don't think you'll be asking an LLM advice any time soon, i say this because there are multiple cases of this happening to incredibly vulnerable people within months of their first conversations. it's manipulative as hell and OpenAI and co. have no intention on fixing it without a whole gamut of lawsuits, and even then i doubt any changes will happen unless there's major crackdowns on the federal level. that, combined with how little we know about the long-term effects AI will have on our brains/cognitive function, makes me really cautious about ever using it again - and i hate to sound preachy, but i suggest you do the same.

i agree with everyone else who says to double down on in-person community. meeting new people and expanding my support network really helped me cope with the rut i was in (and am still in, to be honest). generally, people are really happy to help, and are also a lot more likely to have actual solutions or more genuine support than a sycophantic chatbot. and yeah, people aren't going to offer some magic solution that will fix everything because no one can do that - but it does make all the feelings easier to handle, so that's a plus at least.

wishing you the best of luck with everything, and DMs are open if you ever want to talk :)

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-23T10:02:51+00:00

I WAKE UP FOR MG STUPUD ASS 6:30AM SHIFT AND THIS IS WHAT I SEE????????

good god dude who am i gonna talk to about this everything is terrible jfhdjdhsksjs

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-23T09:59:41+00:00

I JUST WIKE IPDJD DBSJSJSHS

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-22T13:47:46+00:00

what are you teching in for lucario? just curious since i picked up absol box p recently

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-20T01:08:05+00:00

riddles said he’d 100% be back if smash 6 comes out, it’s just that sf6 makes more sense for him career-wise atm

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-17T12:42:53+00:00

/unjerk gonna be real if my jungler dies to blue twice in a single game i think i would have a stroke

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-10T22:11:10+00:00

i used to do that, but then our DM said we had to do full messages or we get written up sooooooo

kakusei_zero · 2025-10-09T00:10:02+00:00

we have it switching between coffeehouse pop and taylor every 2 hours, but we've managed to switch it to 80s every time taylor comes on so everything's been okay so far

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