UPL XI Journal – LouisIX / Manly Melmetal

[LouisIX]

Shuwri vs ox04
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-702980
I have told shuwri to use Scarf koraidon against ox and look how scarf koraidon just fking owns him just on the preview… lmao
Looking at the preview, kyogre looks way too big for ox04 if the orge is using the right set, namely bulky cm orge. Although ox is using some balance core such as waterceus and eternatus, it is still very clear ox04’s team is a HO with samurott in the team.

With some pivoting from ox04 side, he managed to make samurott to the field safely against ting lu, making its maximum use to chip shuwri’s fairyceus down to 47% and ox decided to go waterceus after almost 4 mins of thinking. I don’t really like shuwri decision in this turn as it stayed and clicked recover. It is absolutely disrespect to opponent if you think he would hard choke after thinking for 4 mins, he must have some reasons to go waterceus against a -1 def and 47%HP fairyceus. Though It is a waterceus, shuwri still should need to think a bit on what ox is going waterceus when he has a full eternatus at the back. In a HO team like ox used, the probability of ceus running DD/SD, no matter what type it is, is above 90%. With ox team basically has no weakness to fairyceus it really doesn’t have the necessity to recover here because it this is really a dd waterceus, shuwri team has barely any resistance to it and early damage on waterceus will be appreciated. Shuwri further sacrifice eternatus hp as the result of his unawareness on the fairyceus being very useless in the match up, and as the result basically giving its full eternatus for a single toxic on dd waterceus. You can see the contradicting play of shuwri here: at one point, he didn’t play aggressively with the useless fairyceus to the big threat of waterceus after ox reveal it’s dd set; on the other hand, he sacked a full hp eternatus just for putting toxic on waterceus, and that’s quite common on player who didn’t give enough respect to the game and thus lacking a proper plan of the game. This type of inconsistent play seldom appears to be a big choke in a turn, but when you review afterwards, those plays contradicting itself are shameful to watch. With waterceus taking out eternatus and iron treads surprise ice spinner to lando pretty much set the game. (I won’t stay lando in front of treads when you know you can’t stop it from rocking. Knock and icespinner are both unbearable). While shuwri still overlooking fairyceus value, ox04 managed to set flamecharge+nastyplot on chiyu, tera flying dodging the wrong move from ting lu being the last straw of shuwri’s lost as the flinch actually didn’t matter as flame charge from koraidon/agility from eternatus still clean even if orge clicked ice beam.
Overall, Ox04 is the better side of the game in terms of gameplay and gameplan, and shuwri was ever chasing and the wrongly valuation of its own fairyceus cost him the game.

我這周比較忙，所以在周一的時侯就事先寫好了組隊思路給entro和shuwri兩個隊友因為我比較熟taka和ox, 但最後他們都沒聽我的。具體到shuwri對ox04這對，我是強烈建議shuwri帶圍巾朱的，而你看replay也看得出來圍巾朱打這種抽象HO (龍舞水創…)除了暴打還是暴打…攤手。
從開局對陣來看，如果這個海皇是個冥想物耐的，OX應該會非常頭疼。OX這邊雖然你看到一些平衡隊常客諸如毒龍和水創，但大劍鬼的存在直接就定性了他必然是個HO。
開局經過一些反讀首發和少許輪轉之後，ox成功地讓大劍鬼免費上場對位鼎鹿，並且出了一層釘的情況下還干了仙劍半條血，然後在思考了將近4分鐘之後上了水創。這裡shuwri秒點再生我是非常不滿意的。在比賽中一個玩家思考了這麼久之後做的決定必然有其正確性在，shuwri這裡直接假定對方是特攻創貪再生是一個既不尊重對手，更沒有對對局情況有清楚認識的決定。首先，對手是個大劍鬼HO無容置疑; 這種HO的創無論屬性多麼奇怪，是龍舞的可能性都高達95%，哪個是個仙創都有可能是個太仙龍舞太晶爆發的。沒錯，特攻水創對shuwri的隊伍能造成的破壞有限，但一旦是個龍舞，隊伍裡物攻強化對策土貓是個弱水的，仙創又已經是個殘廢，這裡面對一個不知道類型的水創實際上shuwri應該激進攻擊而不是貪再生。Ox04一個水流裂破草了-1防的仙創過半。雖然shuwri成功挑撥了龍舞，但他直接換毒龍導致ox04這邊一個賭狗地震讓shuwri直接被迫賣掉毒龍。這裡為什麼ox敢點地震? 因為他看出來shuwri這邊不想放棄仙創，而這是大錯特錯的。仙創對毒龍，潛在的太火朱，鐵轍跡和古玉魚都沒有對位優勢，過份保留仙創實際上還不如保留毒龍更好的配合紫。而shuwri這裡先是保守地保留仙創而又激進地賣掉毒龍這種前後矛盾的操作反映了shuwri直到這裡都沒有嚴謹思考過對局計劃。一般來講這種前後矛盾的操作多見於天梯局，當你放棄思考的時侯就容易出現這種傻逼操作。一般來說這種失誤不是單回合要命性的失誤，但你事後來看的時侯就會覺得”這人不帶腦子的嗎怎麼前後操作矛盾的?”。
毒龍一死，仙創血量也回不上來，其實shuwri這裡基本上已經打不了。唯一有突破希望的紫是個鞋子沒帶火招被鐵轍跡看死，這個鐵轍跡甚至是個頭巾直接一個冰旋A殘了土貓。反正你已經組止不了人家出釘子，為什麼還要浪費土貓珍貴的血量呢? 威嚇一下趁早出海皇搶節奏不好嗎? 再說了，你紫一天還在，他一天都不敢白給鐵轍跡，ox要麼換人，要麼是個能打土貓的，土貓無論如何留場地震都說不上是個好選擇。
後面ox再次抓住shuwri完全不敢賣仙創的心理讓古玉魚小雞沖峰再陰謀，然後太晶飛完全搞到了shuwri點地震的鼎鹿，到這裡遊戲已經結束了。就算後面海皇沒有被惡波hax, 哪怕海點的是冰光，朱一個小雞沖鋒或者趕脆就圍巾點火推也已經打完了。
總得來說，shuwri這把操作上被ox04完爆。隊伍嘛…不聽老人言.jpg
 
LBN vs Nael222
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-703112
Nael was using a very low competitiveness team towards lbn simple broken spam, thus it should be easy lbn win.
The web team used by nael didn’t have very strong inner logic. Physical attacker in the team, ekiller caly I and urshifu doesn’t have strong synergy as they really doesn’t share same check. Landours I is a fraud in the current meta and you just want to use groundy for a ground type attacker compare to the ballcutting movepool of landorus. The landorus also gives free defog to giratina so effectively nael is playing 4 vs 6 and as nael was not able to out-trading a boots miraidon, he quickly forfeited when he finally needs to go landorus and invited giratina’s defog.
I hope I have this kind of mu every week lmao.
Nael這邊用了一個非常菜逼的網隊。攻擊手之間毫無配合，土云完全不如地創之餘更打不動鬼龍送除霧，一開始就是個4打6的局面，然後nael這邊換血甚至還沒換贏一個鞋子紫神，於是鬼龍一除霧就光速點投GG。
我也希望我每周都是打這種傻逼
 
Mimikyu Stardust vs Sanv (Qiyu5)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ubers-702709
typical sanv team with extra dark for calyrex and full twave team kek. Mimikyu’s team is solely trying to mu fish sanv as you can see later, which it is almost a lost for sanv just looking at the preview but the game ended up in a speedtie.
Nothing special at the lead shuckle is just doing the shuckle thing, and then the 6-0 incoming weavile comes into the position. I told mimikyu thousands of time do not use sash weavile on shuckle web but unfortunately no one listened. This is basically because shuckle’s ability to prevent hazard is zero, making sash is a complete fraud item in shuckle’s web. It sd on the dark pulse locked yveltal, and kills tyranitar on switch with low kick, a specific move just for sanv for its high tyranitar and ferrothorn usage. But because of weavile’s sash, it is a roll for weavile 0HKO standard ndm with one knock. If mimikyu have life orb or expert belt for example, given triple axel all lands, sanv is basically getting 6-0 by weavile. Nonetheless mimikyu decided to switch out (where I think I definitely stay, 50% is not bad at all) and decided to give yvetal’s hp to eat a move from ndm, and also allowing rocks from sanv. This is ultra big choke from mimikyu side as now he is risking scarf calyrex speed crapping all of his team. He managed to flinch sanv’s yveltal with rockside, killing yveltal to free the route for his own calyrex. Sanv however, make another choke on the turn both yveltal go down as he decided to go his scarf calyrex. Please be noted that calyrex cant 0HKO any of the mon mimikyu has except caly, and it is even a speedtie if mimikyu do decide to go caly, as the result mimikyu weavile was able to drain another sack from sanv. The triple axel miss leaves the last hope for sanv to win the speedtie, but fortunately this time my teammate won that tie and also the game.
TBH, although this is a win, it is really a shame for mimikyu that he was forced to gamble on the tie with this kind of mu advantage. but personally I think it is understandable as mimikyu is not ubers main and maybe it is just too harsh for him to be able to illustrate a full picture of a uber game.
典型光頭paraspam隊mk雙惡頂鬼馬版本。Mimikyu這邊的隊伍基本上就是奔著針對死光頭去的，而比賽的對局你光看對陣就幾乎能肯定mimikyu只要運氣正常光頭完全打不了，但最終這把最後打成了一個鬼馬拼速，攤手。
首發沒什麼特別，壺壺就做了壺壺該做的事情然後死下場，瑪狃拉成功對著鎖了惡波的Y上場=免費劍舞。如果mimikyu這邊是個命玉或者達腰光頭已經當場被6-0了，而我賽前一直強烈勸喻別在壺壺網隊用腰帶瑪狃拉，因為壺壺根本沒有防釘能力。不帶威力加成道具讓mimikyu後面犯了個致命錯誤，就是下踢收掉班之後對著滿血騾子跑了，因為+2打落只有5成機率秒掉常規騾子。換我來打，我是覺得這個50%完全可以拼一下。首先拼到了直接60, 就算拼不掉，光頭那邊已經嚴重少人頭，只要後面操作不出大問題，換人頭也是很簡單就能贏了。回到對局，mimikyu保留瑪狃拉然後不單賣了Y的血量還給了一把釘子，導致光頭這邊圍巾鬼馬有清場的威脅。雖然這裡Y通過岩崩害怕成功一換二，但其實對有圍巾鬼馬的隊伍來講，只要你Y死了，給多少人頭給你其實都沒什麼所謂了。不過光頭在兩邊Y雙死的回合上鬼馬就是個純渣操了。你鬼馬除了對上對面鬼馬有個拼速之外，打另外三個都秒不掉而且那三個都有秒掉鬼馬的能力，在你已經只能靠鬼馬拼速拼贏的局勢中這樣出鬼馬是真的不太行，而mimikyu也通過上瑪狃拉最大限度地懲罰了光頭這回合上鬼馬，導致光頭再白給一個人頭。三旋機沒打中古拉算是給了光頭最後圍巾鬼馬拼速的機會，但光頭最後沒拼贏所以寄。

老實說，就算這把是W，我也很難對mimikyu的操作說什麼好話。不聽我的勸，打的又完全沒計劃，靠拼速贏這種10-0開MU真的是貽笑大方。不過其實也可以理解，mimikyu不是主打uber，要他打Uber描繪出一個完整可行的贏球路線可能是真的太勉強。
 
Oras
Skimmythegod vs robjr
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen6ubers-703591
After last week heart breaking lost, skimmy finally found this timer and was able to plan the play like an expert.
On preview it is a zong balance vs dual primal balance, generally speaking it should be an advantageous mu to skimmy but probably the lead is not very optimal. oras rule: when you can lead porge, lead it. Same as ss rule no1, it forced at certain mon to be up against you and you just naturally gain advantages by doing so. On top of that, as primal orge generally is more unstoppable, it is more favourable to porge to come in early, unlike pdon, who basically always want stay behind until the team needs him, and forcing it out early game is definitely fruitful.
Nonetheless, robjr didn’t go dark void immediately, instead it went for a substitute and miss dark void on the scarf xerneas switchin, and skimmy beautifully read the zone and put his giratina in the position. (though I am in doubt here as doubling orge maybe a better choice tbh as I said above.) skimmy spammed some twave luring the rocks and the switch, and he clicked a goat draco to remove the biggest threat namely darkrai. With iron defense steelceus, the earthquake-less ekiller from robjr became a deadweight. After giratina managed to defog the rocks, skimmy successfully make mence into the position safely. However, as skimmy still didn’t put its rock, the double intimidate is quite annoying to face for skimmy as it may end giving robjr mence free DD. The game actually did went that way, but as robjr was greedy to dd again, skimmy managed to phase mence and successfully put rocks limiting robjr mence, so that scarf xerneas was able to clean the pathway for the iron defence steelceus to win the remaining ground-attacker-missing team. The early draco pretty much set the tone of the game, but skiimmy may have done better on the double intimidate play by robjr, such as attacking mence instead of attacking lando as mence definitely placed a larger threat than landorus-T.
在上周點太快輸掉之後，這周skimmy終於找到timer了，可喜可賀
隊伍MU來看，鋼鐘攻vs 雙原始，一般來說是雙原始這邊MU比較好，不過skimmy的首發並不是很好，給了robjr開局操作的機會。6代守則: 如果你可以首海皇，那就首海皇
為什麼要這麼說呢 因為海皇古拉互相克制，但古拉對海皇一般不想先上場，因為海皇後上場對古拉後上場通常要造成更多的傷害和破壞。那麼你首海皇幾乎就逼迫對手馬上換古拉的情況下，你後排有人應對古拉的話首海皇一般都非常有效。Robjr首發惡夢後決定對著鬼龍替身，這邊上圍巾X送催，然後robjr第二回合黑洞水炮把首發優勢丟光，由於海皇在不敢上古拉唯有上鋼鐘，skimmy讀換上了鬼龍但我不是很同意這裡，但他漂亮地讀換了惡夢一個龍星砸死我就不說什麼了。之後就是robjr沒帶地震的普創完全動不了鐵壁鋼創，加上skimmy這邊除釘之後安全上了暴飛龍，形勢比較樂觀。由於對面雙威嚇而且skimmy還沒出釘，這個暴飛龍還是推不了隊，如果換我我會選擇攻擊對方的暴飛龍而不是土貓，skimmy選擇了攻擊土貓，給了對方暴飛龍推隊的機會，不過robjr貪龍舞直接被古拉吼走，加上被出釘子和鋼鐘為了一把釘子被古拉一下打殘，可以說圍巾X鹿上場收人頭之後鐵壁創就可以殺光光了。打得不錯。

Bonus:
Bo3
Inder (Captain ICVR) vs Lunala (Aniki)
SV: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-702807
Again, as the author had some built-in trust with inder, I didn’t involve much into his SV preparation and eventually leaded to this disaster where inder brought no SV Box legends with a modest fluttermane, leaving his team open against miraidon and chienpao once zacian gone, and his team is overall passive which also means inder is heavily relying on zacian to revenge as well. But on the other hand, as lunala also lacking speak control besides chien-pao’s priority, lunala is also super weak to zacian. No poison type was brought by both side so the toxic spikes mu was negligible.
Inder was super aggressive at the beginning of the game, forcing lunala’s tera on ting lu on turn 4 to try to phase zacian. I don’t really agree with inder clicking playrough here as lunala was just too obvious to tera in this turn as he literally bring ting lu on corvi’s ut after seeing zacian sd. Lunala was lucky to see a giratina dragged out, so that ting lu was able to put a layer of spikes which is huge to inder’s team as chien-pao started looking very scary for inder given zacian’s first attempt was gone. Inder trying to switch aggressively with zacian but failing to do so and basically sack waterceus for free by doing so. Without waterceus and zacian being too low thanks to aggressive switching, a sweep to inder is basically one sd away from chienpao, let alone the unstoppable fairyceus as well. With all set up mon, speed control and intimitater are all gone, inder quickly forfeited the game 1 which probably was unexpected to everyone of us.

一般來說我是不過問inder的SV，一來我懶，二來我對他也算比較信任，三來他也不常來問我…然後他就掏出這個一隊全靠大劍控速的隊伍。沒有朱紫，振翼發他媽氣球保守的，lunala這邊紫和劍豹真是只要隨便過勞一下大劍就能亂殺了。但另一方面lunala這邊隊伍速控也是沒有，inder的大劍其實也可以亂殺，但總得來說因為inder隊速度不夠，導致仙創紫劍豹這些全都要大劍來管的話，操作壓力依然是在inder這邊。

開局inder打的非常激進，在短短三個回合就嘗試用大劍推隊，結果因為隊伍沒有能得益於鼎鹿太晶的隊友，導致lunala放心地太毒鼎鹿直接把大劍吹了還把inder其中一個最差的選擇鬼龍給吹出來了，免費出了層釘子，因為inder這邊要靠水創來管劍豹所以這層釘子其實很要命，加上大劍特性沒了，inder其實差不多進入倒計時了。他在中段嘗試激進讀換上大劍但不成功反而白給了自家冥想水創，還讓大劍多踩了釘子，水創一死劍豹差不多可以直接宣告勝利了，沒了水創大劍甚至還有打不過仙創的問題，總之在所有推隊人都死完之後inder很快就投降了。應該說沒人預料到SV inder打lunala會是這種脆敗。
G2: SS https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ubers-702810
I don’t know what to say, lunala just got 6-0 by specs orge
Lunala’s team is like stallish, but also lacking an instant powerhouse with the structure of yen. I mean if you decide to play passive or stall, you really should drop yen and go for the traditional blissey/tyranitar/pex core instead of yen, or audino shedinja to name a variation.
Trying to stall with a yen structure basically is asking get fucked by groudon / kyorge and you see what inder brought in the team.
我能說什麼呢? Lunala拿了一隊三巨頭受隊毫無反擊能力直接被古海加起來蹂躪至死
在8隊玩受隊就別玩三巨頭了說真的，你要麼選大蛋/班/超壞，要麼就操不動鬼蟬。三巨頭之所以泛用不是因為他能受，而是因為帶三巨頭的隊伍結構是可以兼容最多的進攻手段。三巨頭本身是不太抗揍的，所以拿三巨頭組受隊是真的找死…
G3: USM https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ubers-702812
I bearly know anything of USM and I don’t want to comment inder’s meme team.
我不會7代
但我也知道inder這隊HO完全就是樂子隊
不想評價

[LouisIX]

w6 vs Defiant Durians
Kekkker vs TPP
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-704721
So the kekkker vs the almighty overuse lord tpp
Don’t question me about the team choice. I told inder not to start me and he started me so I assume I was granted the power to cheese and here you go the trick room basculegion.
https://pokepast.es/5ee0d1315bd2c28e
^ team and I won’t use it again anyway so whatever.
The match up was pretty disaster. TPP is using a stall so basculegion is too fast that ting lu, dondozo toxapex and NACL are all faster than it in trick room. But if this fairyceus has wisp, I will need trick room for basculegion to not get wisp which contradicting the thing I said above. I spent 3 mins and I finally decided to lead ape. Several reasons for that, one is I may get a rock. Second, maybe I can try to establish a rage fist sweep instead. Third, if I see fairyceus I am going to gambit the shit out of it to make basculegion free. And I was happily clicking final gambit instantly and I don’t really care what makes TPP clicked recover there.
I went to caly-I and TPP instantly went dondozo which was kind of expected but that also implied that this fairyceus didn’t have wisp which was a great news to me. I was doubling with cresselia and caly-I to try to illude TPP that I was trying to break with caly-I and I somehow get a turn where caly-I vs NACL in turn 5 and I was more than happy to immediately tera ground chipping NACL into aqua jet range. He went back to dondozo and clicked rest. everything is working from my perspective because now 2 of its slower mons were basically disabled. I didn’t expect hatterene got owned by an assault vest toxapex at all ( turn out that didn’t matter) but anyone now 150 bp last respect was approaching. Here TPP made the worst choke of this game which was staying ting-lu and let wave crash landed in its face. He probably didn’t know that basculegion is faster than ting-lu even in minimal speed and he basically inherently thought that a trick room team should be slower than every normal mons. He’s wrong and he paid huge price for the misjudgment. With the biggest threat was gone, the rest of the game was just clicking. I went cress, set TR and revive basculegion health, claim two heads in Trick room, take a judgment to kill fairyceus, TPP sleep talk picking the wrong move and the game is basically over.
What tpp can do better? Besides “not choke tinglu”, maybe it should keep dondozo at the end because when I eventually need to trick room to prevent giratina wisp, dondozo will be in advantage to punish me under trick room by cursing faster. Anyway gg.
國外知名華人選手Kekkker對戰OU世界級大佬TPP!
Kekkker這邊使用空間鬼魚對戰TPP受隊，MU來講可以說非常不利kekkker因為TPP有4個東西在空間下比鬼魚快，意味著Kek這邊空間可能沒什麼用，但是如果這個仙創是帶了鬼火的，你又不得不開空間來限制仙創的鬼火機會，總而言之操作難度非常大。我們看到kekkker思考近三分鐘之後首發了圍巾棄世猴，我猜原因有三個:
1, 他想先出岩釘再說
2, 他可能在考慮疊憤怒之拳贏的路線
3, 如果對到首發仙創他可以馬上搏命搏殘仙創
結果還真讓他賭到了首發仙創想都沒想直接就搏命了，TPP這裡開掛似的點了再生但從結果來看其實沒所謂了。Kekkker這邊上冰馬居然直接逼退了仙創，或多或少讓kekkker這邊輕鬆了不少，因為這多半意味著這個仙創沒有鬼火。Kek之後通過月神冰馬雙換成功對位對到了鹽哥，然後他又想都沒想直接太晶地了。我猜這通操作應該是想騙TPP他要用冰馬突破引誘他賣血來換冰馬，然後還真成功了把鬼抗打到水噴收割範圍，更讓吃吼霸當場睡覺，4個比鬼魚慢的寶裡面已經有兩個被kek成功殘疾化。之後kek的帽子居然打不過超壞星，但這個時侯帽子可能已經無關緊要，因為鬼魚現在150威力的掃墓已經可以開始2HKO除了鼎鹿之外所有人了。TPP這裡估計是忘了鼎鹿真的很慢，直接被Kek一個波動沖沖死了鼎鹿。鼎鹿一死，TPP就沒人接掃墓了，於是後面就相當的例行公事，香草美夢空間新月舞回滿鬼魚，鬼魚空間下連收兩個人頭再對攻死仙創，然後TPP決定先上吃吼霸拼夢話沒拼成，gg。他也許最後應該先上鬼龍嘗試把我鬼火燒了，然後一來龍尾可以阻止我開空間，二來如果我想開空間他也可以直接上吃吼霸先手詛咒，但可能他的隊伍已經早早出局了TPP也無心戀戰了，就成全了我空間隊。Gg。

Shuwri vs Cam
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-704972
gothitelle vs vert HO so 5 vs 6 basically …or not
truth to be told, cam did a great job against this horrible mu. He successfully break balloon on miraidon in the early game and thus was maintaining the pace in the early game, forced shuwri to trade rocks and give up sneasler, making annihilape best value out of it. Shuwri was way behind Cam and he probably noticed that and trying to gain back some pace by staying lando in front of eternatus, which he may thought this etern was coming for tspikes but that result in a free draco claiming lando’s life. But this also gives a free DD for shuwri’s groundy as well, which lead to a forced tera from Cam side on Goth to trade groundy. For some reasons, after shuwri killed goth with its miraidon, Cam decided to go landorus instead of Zacian (though it still need to win speed tie anyway but the chance would be better) and killing miraidon with Earthquake, giving the room for shuwri’s Zacian to tera flying and SD. Cam sacked eternatus and trying to chip zacian by giga impact but that missed, which means Cam Zacian can’t even go for a speedtie now and if Shuwri’s zacian hits all he wins. Well the luck is balanced out here as Shuwri also missed playrough against miraidon, and the game come down to fallen:5 gambit vs electric seed miraidon and turnout that’s a slightly favourable roll for shuwri with 1 kowtow+1 sucker.
Shuwri was basically doing no brain mode in the early turns and wasted the advantage of balloon against landorus in very early game, which I think that’s almost costed Shuwri game if Cam did not make the choke on going landorus instead of Zacian. I would say both side did bad and make the game down to complete RNG but overall Cam was the one who play better. It is just one choke from Cam and tera just make that choke into critical. Sad story.
哥德打HO，那跟5打6也差不多了…吧
老實說, cam這把在面對哥德幾乎完全沒用的情況下打的非常不錯。Cam早期成功安全地破掉紫的氣球然後把棄世猴成功出釘+搏命換死大狃拉，圍巾土貓一直保持著節奏毒龍直接對上了土貓。Shuwri這邊可能一來心急著搶回節奏二來覺得這毒龍大費周章上來應該是想撒毒釘限制地創於是自信留場被龍星砸了個稀巴爛，不過這個人頭也不是完全白給，因為cam這邊是避離背包上了土貓，讓shuwri有機會後手上地創規避威嚇來龍舞。Cam這邊無奈交了哥德太晶，shuwri上紫收掉哥德之後Cam上了圍巾土貓，在我看來這是個失誤，應該上大劍比較穩妥，因為土貓已經殘血還要管大劍應該盡量待在場下才對，而上大劍的話雖然最後大概率也是個拼速，但拼贏的話場面會比實戰好打非常多。Shuwri抓住土貓鎖地震太晶飛大劍，基本宣告cam已經很接近GG了，而且土貓的億萬沖擊居然還miss了(不是岩封?什麼鬼)，讓cam最後一個讓土貓蹭血後大劍拼速的希望都沒有了。索性一報還一報，這邊miss億萬沖那邊miss玩脫最後進入fallen:5大將單挑電場種子紫，僕刀+偷襲是個稍微傾向大將的隨機數，最後大將僕刀出了個最低隨，然後偷襲出了個最高隨贏了
這把shuwri前期基本就是在看啥點啥完全沒帶腦子，讓氣球紫的優勢在開局直接白給，在我看來這差點就讓shuwri直接交代了。如果Cam這邊在紫收掉哥德的回合沒有上土貓而是上大劍，這把可能還是cam贏。我會說這把兩邊都犯了失誤導致局面最終全看隨機數，但綜合來講cam這把是打得更好的那一方，只是太晶把一個小失誤變成致命失誤。被上的故事。
LBN vs Nyx
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-704798
heatran into… no koraidon and no eternatus
the game was pretty robbing from LBN side. Nyx trying to chip groudon early which is understandable and reasonable as well as you will see later, but lbn’s mystical lava almost put himself into zacian 6-0. Luckily nyx somehow clicked close combat for maybe a possible heatran switch in or maybe a tera from groudon(his team doesn’t care about heatran at all so I don’t know) which makes chien-pao able to finish zacian with band ice shard. Palkia then showed what it is capable of doing which is 2hko arceus and somehow nyx did not trust hydro pump accuracy or maybe he didn’t bring it at all, decided to go miraidon instead of hydro killing hatterene which was also fine. But then with hatterene still alive, nyx somehow went to tinglu and clicked spikes… is he ok? Nonetheless nyx advantage was pretty big even with the spikes because he has swordsdance groudon which basically just force trading and eventually this poisonceus would have won the game, and unfortunately nyx missed the pblade on etern and now nyx paid his price on clicking spikes because now eternatus Dcannon and hatterene with tera were pretty sweeping with etern ate specs draco with the help of haban berry and put miraidon basically dead meat. Nyx then allowing hatterene to calm mind twice, leading to a uncontrollable scenario for him , as tinglu actually may win the endgame if he switched to poisonceus immediately when LBN went hat. Notheless, the poisonceus revealed to be DD physical, and for some reason lbn did not just kill it directly, instead using nuzzle, which was very dangerous as if nyx clicked dd and land gunk shot afterwards, LBN would have to sac eternatus to chip it and try to finish DD poisonceus with chien-pao, where even if lbn successfully do so, a correct tera from palkia would have end the game. Nyx luckily did not click DD as well, so all good and eternatus just sweep after chien-pao chipped poisonceus into Dcannon range.
Another braindamaging game to watch ngl.
火鋼…然後朱和毒龍都沒抓著笑死
這把LBN可以說非常hax狗了。Nyx這邊早早交了大劍去磨古拉的血量的操作是合理的，原因後面你就會看到，但搞笑的是LBN這邊古拉居然點了噴煙而不是地本收掉，搞的nyx場上這個+3大劍突然就要推隊了，就是nyx這邊不知怎麼顧慮火鋼(他全隊都完全不鳥火鋼)還是古拉會這麼早交太晶，點了近戰降防被劍豹頭巾冰飛收掉了。起源珍珠上來直接干了草創一半還打了帽子33%，通過簡單的計算可得知這裡水炮能殺掉帽子，但nyx又不知道在求什麼穩又換上了紫，老實說這個操作其實也不是完全錯就是了，不過後面他對著毒龍上鼎鹿之後對著明的帽子點了地釘就有點…

但!是! 到這裡即使nyx連續失誤他還是處於絕對優勢，因為他有古拉，而鼎鹿自己吹自己又正好把古拉吹出來了，LBN上了草劍結果古拉當場劍舞太火殺掉草創(為什麼不直接火拳呢? 草創一死崖劍都一下一個了)，LBN當場風中凌亂。眼看古拉馬上推隊，LBN當仁不讓直接躲了崖劍然後2HKO了古拉，局勢瞬間又扭轉了笑死。然後nyx這個地釘就開始發生問題了，紫眼鏡龍星被抗龍果毒龍接下順便被一個巨龍炮打成踩釘死的血量，加上nyx鼎鹿對帽子莫名其妙留場而不是馬上上毒創打壓制白給了帽子冥想，場面開始變得不可收拾，但是LBN這邊又在演，對著毒龍居然是交太晶水再一個蹭臉而不是直接用超本殺掉，如果nyx這裡點的是龍舞，被蹭臉還是被你帽子快，只要垃圾桶打中，LBN就要再炮灰一個毒龍磨血再讓頭巾劍豹收殘，這樣只要珍珠有正確的太晶比如太火或者太鋼，LBN就還是要寄，甚至如果這個毒創是龍舞再生，你上毒龍磨血結果白送3段龍舞也會是推隊。總之nyx能犯的錯全犯了，最後劍豹打殘毒創毒龍巨龍炮清場。
看的我腦殼疼這把
 
Skimmy vs ninjadog

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen6ubers-705047
Skimmy prep was perfect this round. All mon from ninjadog skimmy has a counter to it lol. Ninja try to catch hazard lead with magic coat ceus and that result in a free gengar mega turn and he went to yveltal on gengar which was immediately getting punished by rockceus from skimmy and let its magic coat ekiller ate wisp. Ninja’s double to ditto was aiming for a scout probably but that also got punished by skimmy going to gengar where a protect ruins ditto’s life and allowing skimmy’s pdon to set rocks and the game was pretty done at this point. Ninija trying to overload skimmy’s latios by doubling but ninja eventually outplayed himself and allowed klefki to be free and clicked toxic which landed ninja’s pdon. The rest of the game was just routine to skimmy as skimmy team just 1v1 everything against ninja’s team and yeah not much more need to say.

Skimmy賽前準備非常漂亮，ninjadog全隊基本就被skimmy 1v1看死。Ninja他這個魔反普創估計是想抓一下自殺釘，結果免費給了耿鬼mega的機會，上Y鳥又被岩創狠狠制裁，雖然下了毒但也被岩創反手鬼火廢掉了普創。Ninja這邊普創吃了鬼火後雙換百變估計是想看看配置，結果又被skimmy一手耿鬼保護坑死白送特耐古拉一岩釘，到這裡我覺得ninja已經gg了。之後ninja盡最後的努力頂著岩創拉雙換嘗試過勞哥哥，結果他還是自己讀自己被skimmy耿直換人抓住機會成功出到鑰匙，在地釘的威脅下成功毒到古拉，也就GG了。後面就是基操沒什麼好說的了。

[神奇名字]

IX你怎么知道Kekkkker在比赛时想什么？你以为你是他吗？！

[Nihilslave]

IX你怎么知道Kekkkker在比赛时想什么？你以为你是他吗？！

[Hans]

“但可能他的隊伍已經早早出局了TPP也無心戀戰了，就成全了我空間隊”破案了，kekkker竟然就是LouisIX

[神奇名字]

@Hans 不准诋毁我的偶像kekkker大人！

[绯绯殿下]

恭喜夺冠，Lazy old man

[LouisIX]

W7 vs Alolan Mukkers
Entrocefalo vs Terra the creator (Terracotta)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-706061

這周相當關鍵，因為總排名第二的我們居然還是不能輸，一輸就進不了半決賽了，同時我又剛剛新冠康復，於是我跟entro就在瘋狂備戰，剛好對手又是entro比較熟的知道他很喜歡玩針對。上周的時侯entro同時打了ubers公開個人賽的決賽，也因此出了名因為他經常玩一些神奇的地創配置直接1V6(對，什麼重力地創和拉特攻的冰光龍舞地創那都是我給他的)。我們因此預期Tera會用草創或者水創，加上entro很少用破受的朱，我們也試了很多不同配置的朱，最後我們二選一: 斷尾摩托蜥破受，或者冰馬戲法做球給朱，我們選了冰馬，然後效果如下圖:
This week was quite a critical week as if we lost we may not get to finals. I was also recovered from COVID as well so we did quite an extensive preparation against tera, who was known as a super cteaming addiction. As around week 6 entro just finished his ubers open finals where he was famed about spamming groundy a lot (yes my fault), we were expecting a grassceus and as entro low usage on breaker koraidon, we were also trying out possibilities on koraidon sets as well, and we finally come up with a idea of either 1. cyclizar stall breaker or 2. Surprise caly I trick breaker and we finally chose the second idea, and here is what happened:

I mean by preview the MU looks absolutely fine to tera as mane looks good late game and grassceus on groundy pex on korai caly as well, but that trick basically sets the tone of the game where tera had close to zero chance to win if entro played carefully. Too many way for entro to win with toxapex get tricked, but entro was not focusing so he played a bit risky, and end up in a CM war on both ceus, which entro freezed grassceus and cleaned the rest. The prep went way too perfect which left nothing to say about the game lol.
基本上這把冰馬頭巾一套就結束了，太多方法可以贏加上entro他打的時侯不是很專心，最後變成了冥想大戰然後entro一個冰凍結束了戰斗。我覺得我們這把備戰實在太過完美導致對局本身完全沒有什麼營養所以這把就短一點吧。

Shuwri vs Xrn
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-706126

Grassceus balance again from mukkers. Shuwri was using a zero zacian resist and xrn was using ekiller/gambit weak team as well, but luckily they did not meet what they were weak for. And both team did not switch into band chien pao as well so basically the game would be foreseeably a race on pace, but in general xrn will be a little bit better because of corviknight pivoting fairyceus better than shuwri pivoting grassknot.
Though being said, xrn seems to be not very consistent on the positioning and put skeledirge too early in front of fairyceus, allowing rocks and inviting an early orge+pao combo from shuwri side, invalidating corviknight, the mu advantage of xrn, in very early game, and was somehow forced to trade hp and hazard with ting-lu, which open up shuwri’s miraidon in late game. As you can see, a mistake from xrn really tune the game heavily against him within the first 5 turns. What he could do better is to play in a utilitarianism way. Yes skeledirge can pivot fairyceus most of the time, but what you want to pivot it is to minimize the damage it could make, and while skeledirge can stop fairyceus it can’t really do much back to shuwri by the mu, especially in a early game, you don’t really want to be conservative given the mu is heavily based on chien-pao performance of both side. Anyway, xrn gave up his hazard controller and hazard setter as well, and xrn paid so many price but he couldn’t save a layer of spikes by the turn he switched out ting, and again xrn did not trying to revive corviknight on fairyceus switch into grassceus basically set the game as now shuwri would win chienpao trading war as he set rocks and it was basically impossible for xrn to defog from the moment, and the game was pretty much done by the moment xrn allowed free rocks.
SV is a relatively heavy hazard environment that is very close to BW imo. Yes both meta has hazard removal options but that’s with a huge price of losing a lot of rhythm and the game often down to rhythm control assuming hazards is unremovable, so xrn paid his price on this game to be way too conservative in the early stage.

又一個草創平衡。我親愛的shuwri使用了一隊沒人擋大劍的隊伍，而xrn則用一隊被普創或者大將輕鬆清場的隊伍然後兩邊都沒有見到各自的弱點。(普創劍狗自不多論，大將也已經重新迎回home前榮光)
看preview可以看到雙方對頭巾劍豹都沒什麼抗性，所以也可以預見這把將會很著重於雙方對於劍豹出場時機的管理，也就是兩邊爭節奏。Shuwri這邊多一個潛在的專圍使用者和海皇天然的mu限制，而xrn這邊草創mu雖然看上去不錯但還是被海皇限制出場，加上鼎鹿對鬼龍出釘，鋼鴉應對仙創土王都屬於不錯的優勢，光看mu應該是個55開shuwri略有主動的局面。不過很明顯xrn沒有分析的那麼細，開場首發紫見到仙創沒有直接打也沒有直接上鋼鴉而是上火主就是明顯的緩手，shuwri這邊直接一套釘子+海皇+劍豹的組合拳就把xrn打的鋼鴉直接進入白給寸前，早早的丟了釘子控制，而為了限制對手劍豹又強賣鼎鹿血量去撒釘和換鬼龍的血，而到頭來釘子留不住鼎鹿換血換了個寂寞。最後草創打草結威脅逼shuwri上仙創又沒有馬上上鋼鴉回復，強行讀土王讀到個圍巾海讓劍豹白踩了一嘴岩釘，之後就相當例行公事了，圍巾海換了兩個人頭，xrn不得已太晶草創去接劍豹還沒打死劍豹，一個冰光CT不幸地加速了shuwri這邊劍豹開換的節奏，草創一死xrn全隊沒有仙創換入，被高移紫推隊也是板上定釘之事了。

[LouisIX]

Kekkker vs Manaphy
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-706252

by smogon user Mr. Manaphy
Me after reading: 100% TRIGGERRED

Yes this is basically Giannis HO he mainly using during opens final. I know manaphy loves fat besides his HO usage during upl, and I also know how I am rated as a player so I am 100% sure manaphy would just play fat team as that’s fitting the most of his style. I started band korai as Giannis always did, dclawing scarf lando for 71% for rocks was absolutely fine as I really don’t care about rocks against a passive team like this, and then I just confidently switched to ek and forced him to trade hp with me from Turn 3, and I successfully shut down his skeledirge completely which open up my tera flying zacian chance. The mid game flareblitz was a roll depends on his eternatus evs so I will take the roll anyway as I am playing zacy sweep if not then kingambit sweep already at this stage. I played wrong by keeping lando off the field on turn 15, which ALMOST costed me the game because manaphy’s fairyceus is a 307 speed one which means this is super bulky ceus, and my miraidon wouldn’t be able to go pass it as the tera type of it didn’t resist judgment. So I go for the only route to win which was zacian outsmart him completely by teraflying dodging both earth power and tera steel from fairyceus, behemoth first then wildcharge to prevent recoil damage and maximize damage output, and then forced his miraidon on field clicking either draco or overheat, and my kingambit just sweep the entire team of his with a very favourable roll to me on ting lu.
Again the prep was pretty perfect but I could have done better to win the game much more cleaner. This is my issue on game play and you will see it again in my semi vs ox as well.

大家都知道kekkker其實不太喜歡manaphy，於是kekkker看見這人居然把大將盾狗排到D之後就下定決心一定要大將他
事實上kekkker也真的大將死他了
這隊基本上是抄自entro公開賽決賽的對手giannis，雖然kekkker的對手upl期間用了兩三次HO，但kekkker估計也是深知他這種人打kekkker這種名不經傳的典型娛樂玩家肯定只會用他最順手的平衡受，而giannis這隊HO打平衡受就我自己個人感受而言也是相當主動乃至運氣正常甚至輸不了平衡受的程度。Kekkker開場就一個頭巾朱龍爪把圍巾土貓拍成殘廢，代價只是一把岩釘，而你也看到kekkker這隊是根本不鳥岩釘的所以第一回合就血賺了，然後kekkker用普創通過一系列讀心很快成功地把manaphy的火主壓成17%血量的廢物， 兩下頭巾火推推死毒龍再推殘紫，這時不論大劍或者大將都已經非常推隊了，不過kekkker這裡緩了一手選擇讓土貓留在場下讓紫收掉火主這一點非常值得商榷，事實上他的土云在對方土云已經是個死人的情況下基本沒用，全速推節奏其實早就贏了，結果對方仙創是個超級硬的307速創讓kekkker有點措手不及，但他及時換下紫和交大劍太晶壓殘對方太鋼仙創也實在是令人拍案叫絕。之後土貓威脅鼎鹿同時逼迫manaphy用降特攻的技能收掉土貓之後，大將通過一個非常有利於他的隨機數收掉了78%血鼎鹿，突襲騙飯撐過大地力斬殺線之後成功推隊。可喜可賀可喜可賀。
Kekkker這把針對非常好，不過也能看出來他操作上有些硬傷，這在他半決賽對陣ox04的時侯也能體現出來，我們下回再細析。

ORAS
Skimmy vs szns (Seasons)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen6ubers-705848
I feel like this is a typical outplay by skimmy because the whole game just looked like an experienced player outplaying a newcomer to the tier lol. And you can see in this game again how important of the hp of klefki is in ORAS, as skimmy just read one EQ correctly and Seasons completely lost his momentum of the game which is basically lethal to a ORAS HO team user. The game is basically over when Seasons allowed rocks and did not kill ferrothorn immediately (no one knows why he clicked psyshock on T17), and the dark voiding xerneas eventually makes harm to him as Xerneas has a landed two moonblast safely without cost and at the end because of the sleep Seasons is not able to paralyse scarf xerneas and be sweeped as well.

我覺得這把就是老手暴打新人…
這把你也能看出鑰匙的血量在ORAS是多麼的重要，skimmy只是讀中一次地震Season那邊已經幾乎完全打不了，因為在ORAS用HO一丟節奏就是致命的，之後Seasons為了推節奏無奈用地釘換岩釘，然後又沒有立刻打死草鋼 (T17我不知道為什麼他點了精沖)，導致局面瞬間崩壞，skimmy這邊的圍巾X又足夠好運睡夠兩回合兩夢話打死古拉，之後也因為這個睡眠導致Seasons的鑰匙麻不住圍巾X被X推隊。
你看這不是暴打什麼是暴打.jpg

[LouisIX]

Semi vs gambler suqard
Kekkker vs ox04
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-707671
Overall, ox style is pretty much very predictable. His team often run unnecessary amount of scarfer mon, that’s why by preview I am almost certain this is scarf eternatus and he will most likely lead it. The mu is not bad too. Besides Ox bringing too much speed control, my tusk and gambit are both in good shape against his physical overloading, and support groundy may also clean the late game as well. Based on that, I lead koraidon purposely for two reasons. One, is to counter lead possible samu (just for safe measure). Second is, I can “scout” immediately his eternatus item and give ox hints “this is a slow koraidon” if he lead eternatus, then I can do outsmart things, and that’s how turn 1 goes:

The game is pretty much settled from this turn. Ox is doing all these early prediction because he has this habit to abuse others habit on playing “safe” on the early stage. But again, habit is always harmful as I said before especially against player knowing you very very well. Reasonably speaking, when you know a lot of your opponent due to you played a lot against your opp before, it should be the same vice versa. But ox basically doesn’t show any so he paid his price for his disrespect on opponent preparation. But on the other hand, I played way too conservative after the huge start. I carelessly clicked 2nd judgment on turn 4 which missed me a free kill on his doubling lando if I click ice beam to take out samu. On turn 7, as my +spe great tusk with bulk up is very close to sweeping, I didn’t tera fire immediately against zacian and missed an early chance to settle the game because by great tusk can bulk up and ox will need at least 2 mons sacking against it and I just cant lose with scarf korai still alive. At the end, I make a prediction on switch on turn 15 as this is 0% a scarf korai, teraing and SD in front of lando, and was lucky enough to sweep ox with a high enough roll on Ox’s landorus. I could have play the game in a more professional way to win much cleaner but oh well habit is hard to overcome lol. Big advantage = play conservative is a habit we all have and will need to overcome lol.
Kekkker大神打ox04這把可能屬於是典型的拿捏局。開局明知朱比毒龍慢，一個反讀直接把ox的速控打死，就後面kekkker的配置來說基本上毒龍一死遊戲就結束了。不過也是能看到kekkker也有其他大神都有的通病，那就是大優勢容易打的太保守，導致ox04激進操作之下還是換到了一線生機。不過kekkker一個起草再配合太晶劍舞，隨機數也roll的足夠高+1玩脫殺掉79%血土貓就順利清場了。
就我的角度而言，Ox04這種超級激進的玩法其實只要你研究和做好準備了就沒什麼好怕的。因為無論是激進，還是穩建，一旦過度就容易養成習慣，而習慣是比賽最大的敵人。像Ox這種雖然反常態但其實還是很規律的操作，只要你有所準備，很容易就能模擬他的心態猜到他的操作，這把kekkker大神雖然中局打的保守，但關鍵的開局和殘局都幾乎拿死了Ox04，挺精彩的一把。

Entrocefalo vs Darkshion
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-708133

Counter Gren lead HO vs sunnyday balance
The counter gren is pretty much a known tech so entro just flamecharge T1 which if it doesn’t crit, +1 speed koraidon could probably just sweep the game. But all in all, darkshion still almost throw his lead completely and also make its only ground type down to fartable and he just did not have any sense of keeping it, which directly lead to getting outtraded by scarf miraidon in the late game. Nothing more to say, the lead situation basically set the tone of the game completely. Darkshion should be seriously consider counter lead this game, instead of leading regularly.
反擊忍蛙自殺釘其實是個挺明牌的配置，所以entro開局小雞沖鋒其實差不多能殺爆shion半隊了，但不幸地在不該CT的地方CT導致朱被反擊了72%血(本來應該只反48%血)，失去了對攻能力，不過shion這邊始終還是白給了一個首發還要再賣隊裡唯一地面系地創，導致後期換子完全換不贏圍巾紫，屬於沒什麼好說的白給局。這把起碼shion應該積極考慮counterlead才對，對面畢竟是entrocefalo, 你玩定式隊還走定式打法那是嫌死得不夠快嗎?

Inder vs Taka
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-707347

This is the game where inder has the biggest argue with me throughout the whole upl. Looking at the mu, boots orge and agility bascu are looking really good but early hazard is need to disable ting lu.
Inder again showed how good he is on play in the early turns, which basically demonished taka’s half team by just leading orge and clicking all the correct move. However, on turn 5 he get a super robbing freeze which just lifted all pressure of orge to taka’s team. Inder’s quickly change the plan to hazard stacking with ting and lando, but at the time inder decided to trying sweep with tera fairy enamorus which I was disagreeing with him. But ngl, inder’s plan to win with scarf enamorus was also reasonable because what he need is just a choice miraidon miraidon. If I am inder, I wont even kill fluttermane there. I will probably healing wish there and revive kyorge, and then basculegion with tera is still extremely winnable there as taka’s koraidon cant come back anymore. Again inder take a reasonable path to gamble and unfortunately he met the worse case scenario.

這把是我事後分析跟inder吵的最厲害的一把。MU來看，鞋子海和高移鬼魚看上去都很不錯，早期鋪鋪釘應該很快就能殺完
然後Inder再一次展示了他超凡的前期技巧，通過每回合都點對技能直接重創了taka半隊和最重要的反雨手段圍巾朱，但第五回合一個不講理的冰凍凍住海皇導致inder的選擇肢被砍掉了8成，本來是可以靠鞋子海穩扎穩打拿下的變成必須提速堆釘打推隊。當然他也很成功，通過賣掉土貓成功讓taka一把釘子出不來+直接堆滿4層釘。不過inder這裡選擇簡單太仙眷戀云試圖清場，因為只要taka的紫不是高移紫/鞋子紫，inder基本上就殺完了，而老實說這個確實看上去不像是高移紫的隊伍，這這麼賭也無可厚非，只是賭就會有賭輸，這把taka就是個高移紫，直接反推了inder. 換作是我，我肯定會眷戀云治癒願望拉起海皇，就靠海皇和鬼魚加釘子打了，而且這樣打還保留了太晶，高移鬼魚要推隊的機會還是非常大的。隊是好隊，可惜運氣不太好。

[LouisIX]

Finals vs Choice bandits
DAHLI vs Shuwri
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-710865

DAHLI wins with ease in this game by using superior and modern sets comparing to shuwri. Speedy taunt tinglu is a huge pain for shuwri’s team as his defogger is giratina-O, which I said in the past weeks it is never winning hazard war against ting. Besides, shuwri team is weak to calm mind fairyceus by the preview as well. Throughout the game dahli is just super free to setup as many hazard as he wanted and all sets including solarbeam mirai and taunt cm fairyceus just beat shuwri completely on the supposing mu. honestly speaking, at the point dahli entered miraidon the game should be long gone for shuwri if this is agility miraidon (which I think this should be the only way of using solar beam miraidon). Anyway this is basically a superior prep from Dahli side and shuwri just lose by default.

Frito vs Inder
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-710547

Before the game I am strongly opposed to flutter mane. This mon is good against offense but generally not doing good against a make-sense balance. In SV ubers, when you decide to use a special attacker not named miraidon, you should have 100 solid reasons for that. You can see frito’s team is completely open for miraidon (especially electric seed DD or solar beam). I assume frito brought this team because inder really don’t like miraidon lol. The game was pretty expected: inder want to make use of his specs mane given frito whole team has no fairy resist but well… this is final man. You should be more careful and easily deduced that either kyogre or groudon will be spdef lmao, anyway he gave his mane on turn 2 for 70% of groudon’s hp. (calculate the damage of UT you should know this don bulk too.) same for frito, while also giving his mane on turn 5 just to chip steelceus. Though both flutter mane die in the first 5 turns of the game, I doubted that frito’s play is not very reasonable there. Your entire team is matchup steelceus supereffectively, why just waste flutter mane here? Moonblast is doing 19% (951.5/2 ~=70bp) so you can quickly workout mystical fire (752*1.5=225bp ~ 3 times of moonblast damage ~ 60% hp) damage is not killing there.
Given how frito team is so one-way orientated, inder’s scarf korai is likely to be sweeping. Unfortunately inder makes a mistake of clicking toxic on frito’s switch to rayquaza. If he calmly click recover then toxic, frito will have much less chance in this game, and the toxic caused inder to throw his toxapex too. Now the situation is very hard to inder on turn 9, where he has no dragon resist if not tera, and what frito needs to do is just putting koraidon as fast as possible and chip inder’s koraidon as fast as possible too. Frito makes an error on turn 10 where he clicked CM, (should just judgment /icebeam instead), and not going into koraidon immediately after inder switched into tinglu. Allowing inder to set up spikes means now frito loses the advantage on number of heads, and inder’s perfect rotation makes the game revert to his side after turn 17 where frito simply let groudon die (why not just hard groundy as you eventually need to do so to save groudon for later use??). Now frito has to aim for groundy cm trying to icebeam through a tera steel giratinaO before recover ran out, and inder’s crit eventually speed up the process and finally with inder’s extra evs on koraidon he lives a lowkick and revenge the standard jolly koraidon.
I am not very fine on the team choice of both side tbh. On frito side, he is using a groundy but no support to chip giratina or to make use of it besides flutter mane and he throw it at T5. No stealth rock as well in the team too. If I am frito, I would probably make use of orge (if this is a choice orge) at the beginning of the game instead of sending it in the very late game where he just lose hazard control after all his tinglu-threatening mon are gone.
On inder side, the toxic is really idk and I am sure he is awared of that too after the game. The fluttermane gift on turn 2 is basically unaware atall. Other than that, he played very very well in the late game and his play is the only reason he could win the disaster situation in late game. GG.

[LouisIX]

Entrocefalo vs guard
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-711247

Another entro out-preping opponent game lol. Guard using a traditional 3+3 team vs entro bulky offense. The mu is looking fine for both side but probably guard will face more pressure as entro possible triple physical overlord may outrun lando+steelceus quickly and kyorge generally mu well against most of guards team. btw guards team is ultra weak to ice beam / gravity groundy so I think this is also part of the strategy as they may bet entro wont bring the same trick again.
The lead is lando vs orge. Guard make a little choke there as by the ability time lando is faster so he should click UT. Anyway, he directly goes to koraidon and take a huge hit from ice beam. The damage probably gave guard an illusion on kyogre’s item as this is a full spa ice beam damage, so on turn 3 when both side doubles, guard thinks entro is impossible to bring two scarf, and stayed mirai infront of scarf lando. To this point entro is basically winning because all breaking mons from guard is down to fartable and not hazard control from guard side means eventually ekiller and orge will win the game. Guard thought he has chance and successfully set all layers of hazard but at the point entro reveals boots on orge the game is over. With the threat of scarf lando guard are forced to click outrage, but stealth rock makes its korai can only come once more and that means guard loses weather control. With entro keeping scarf lando for steelceus and tera fairy to lock koraidon, entro secure his win beautifully. Gg

Gondra vs Aberforth
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ubers-711407

… no fairyceus switchin, are you serious aber you are one step away from getting 6-0 by cm stored power fairyceus
Notheless the typical ting vs gira happens again. But gondra is a super player he knows the mu is bad and go straight to tusk which is a very good play. Aber doesn’t have a spin blocker as well so at this point the situation is superhard for him and aber decided to make a gamble position with miraidon vs koraidon just clicked dclaw instead of going fairyceus. He succeed to click a CM and then tera grass solarbeam…
Again gondra is somehow aware of that and correctly sack giraO , what a god play there, and with aber did not aware of scarf tusk, mirai just die to scarf CC which pretty much set the tone of the game. Tbh , with gondra still have a toxapex, miraidon still has chances to do more instead of dying for a possible scarf but oh well I am commenting on a kibitzer aspect too so yeah won’t go too deep on the stay. Without tera, taunt cm fairyceus cant even outlast toxapex and with fairyceus+tusk+pex+katekeeper korai, aberforth can never breaks at the point miraidon is down, gg.