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The Finnish Phoenix -> RE: =OS= Seventh PvP Tournament Feedback Thread (1/9/2015 12:50:49)
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Originally I had 3 Corruptions and 1 Defend, but after my 2-0 loss to Signeous in our first match I switched to 2 Corruption and 2 Defends.
I thought that with 3 Corruptions I'd still only use 2 per deck rotation but I'd have 1 on hand more often to time around Iron Hide, but Defends on top of Iron Hides are enough to deal with Corruption. Although it takes 11 energy to negate a Corruption through 2 Defends and an Iron Hide, Defends can be used to play around an opponent's Iron Hide, 3 Corruptions meant having to either discard a Corruption that could've been better as a Defend or use too much energy on them and risk an Iron Hide absorbing two at once. I also ended up not having as much defence as he did, and I contemplated 2 Corruptions and 3 Defends but Darkbanex lost to Skurge with those CC's (the empty slot helps draw the ever-important Iron Hides and Neutralizes faster) so I ended up using the same set as Signeous and Skurge because it just happened to be doing that well.
Sometimes, especially in double elimination where you've got that second chance, "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" is the way to go. In the energy tournament I lost to clinton but stuck to the same CC's (1 Neutral 525, 2 Chargeds, 2 Energy-525s on my Hex) while The Jop adopted clinton's character and CC's (1 Neutral-515/525 and 1 Charged on Volt Engineer) after his first loss. The result: The Jop beat me and went on to also beat clinton in two consecutive matches using his own CC against him. Was a bit of a learning experience for me. [:D]
But hey, I've been shamelessly leeching off the good ideas of other players since the Shadow tournament when I just happened to notice that Tally had levelled a Poison Drake to 20 and that its Iron Hides (1 would be CC'd) were a great counter to other Shadow characters, most of which relied on DoT's extensively which were cannon fodder for IH. Tally ended up not showing up but Beck also happened to have caught on to the Poison Drake thing (before me I might add) and the final ended up being Poison Drake vs. Poison Drake.
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