BattleCON G17 - KingdomAces (Adjenna) vs. Zorblag (Demitras)

Zorblag · Post Post #100 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:53 am

Right, pass.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #101 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:10 am

Soak 1

Zorblag · Post Post #102 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:49 pm

That doesn't bode well for what I think you played.

Pass.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #103 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:23 pm

Pass

Though that was just trying to bait out more force from you.

KingdomAces · Post Post #104 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:28 pm

So I could have won this turn if I used Irresistible Drive or Arresting Burst. Ugh.

Zorblag · Post Post #105 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:44 pm

For a long time I thought that Arresting Gaze was going to win it for you unless I clashed. Until I realized that range 4 bit on Darkside. Burst was always a problem for me, but I figured that Irresistable was probably too risky to want to use over arresting.

I do no damage, push you to 1 and end up at space 7 I think. You get to move a couple times.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #106 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:52 pm

Drive or Shot seemed like your only options to me. Especially Drive, since I couldn't even clash with it if I tried.

Move to space 4.

oooAooD

KingdomAces · Post Post #107 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:56 pm

oooAooD

Adjenna: 3/6
Arresting Drive
Alluring Dodge

Demitras: 12/3
Darkside Strike
Illusory Grasp
5 Petrification Counters
2 Crescendo Tokens

KingdomAces · Post Post #108 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:28 pm

Spoiler: Beat 11

Zorblag · Post Post #109 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 5:38 pm

Spoiler: Beat 11 Attack Pair

Spoiler: Opening Ante

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #110 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:53 pm

Priority +2

KingdomAces · Post Post #111 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:02 pm

Spoiler: For post-Beat

Zorblag · Post Post #112 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:02 pm

Pass.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #113 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:03 pm

Stun Guard

Zorblag · Post Post #114 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:03 pm

Pass.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #115 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:03 pm

Zorblag · Post Post #116 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:08 pm

Hmm, I don't think you realize how much I lived in fear of burst these past two beats.

Even with your finisher I have priority (though as jousting's move is start of beat and your finish has range 2 ~ 3 I'm actually safer than I think you think I am using Jousting?) I'll hit you, gain my third crescendo token and then spend all three to do 4 damage which should be enough.

That wasn't the game I expected at all. Well played, and if we played again with this matchup you'd destroy me.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #117 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:11 pm

...how did I completely forget about Deathblow?

Oh well, I think you kill me here.

And all you needed to do was Drive or Shot, and my Burst would be useless. I knew that Jousting would beat anything that I could do aside from Burst, but I thought that Burst wasn't anywhere near safe either.

Zorblag · Post Post #118 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:15 pm

Yeah, when you played dodge a couple beats ago I knew that I had to hold onto my drive as a threat against your burst for this beat. Last beat the best I could do was to set up a good beat this time around which meant that I had to gamble on you not killing me then. If I had one more force then I could have gone with the safer move of Jousting Drive (which counters burst) anteing one crescendo token and then priority +2 and power +1. I think that beats anything you could have played this beat, but, as I say, I was one force shy of it.

It was a nail biter of an ending. I couldn't let you hit me with gaze and I couldn't let you end a beat adjacent (as I can't stun you out of much of anything.)

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

Zorblag · Post Post #119 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:21 pm

In any case, good game! Assuming you're still interested, I'll set up a Joal vs. Tatsumi & Juto tomorrow probably. You should take a look at what you want to use as a setup as Joal definitely takes some thought. They're two characters I want to see played so I'm looking forward to it!

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #120 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:22 pm

Both of these last two beats, you picked a base that I wasn't even considering as an option. This time I was just being stupid, but I still think that last beat you had absolutely no reason to use Strike.

And in addition to the previous post, I think that Burst would have beaten my Burst as well. That was more than half your options.

Maybe I should have thought a little bit more about using Dodge, but if I didn't you wouldn't have gotten the fifth counter, so I don't think things would have been any easier for me. Maybe having three different ways to avoid damage could have allowed me to play safer, but it would also have forced me to maintain it longer, so that kind of evens out.

Zorblag · Post Post #121 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:31 pm

Hmm, with the strike last beat I guess that I started looking at it as a way to do enough damage to beat the soak from your Arresting style (which I assumed you'd use,) and stun you. I needed to go with a force special strike and ante both the crescendo token and power +1, but the problem was that you could handle that with just the stun guard +2. I mostly focused on Strike as the base from there on out as I needed to save drive for the last beat (and shot was too low priority to use for too many of my plans.) It had the added benefit that even if you did hit me I wouldn't be stunned and could hit back.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

KingdomAces · Post Post #122 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:44 pm

Riptide wrote:Start of Beat, Zone 2: Attacks at range 3 or greater do not hit you this beat.

I'm starting to see a pattern here.

KingdomAces · Post Post #123 (ISO) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:14 pm

Spoiler: Pregame (Game 18)

EDIT: Wait, I didn't actually intend to post this yet, seeing as it's the wrong topic. Leaving it though, because I know I'll probably forget otherwise.