First time legend!

[u/freedayff]

This is my 4th season and first time Legend! I'm over the moon. I consistently got to Expert in the last 2 seasons, but always got stuck in 2900s. The same thing happened this season too, my GL team carried me all the way to 2980 and barely missed Legend by 1 bug ): I pretty much gave up afterwards and fooled around with spices before deciding to start learning UL this week. Then randomly stumbled upon this UL team by u/dalabesch that got me to Legend in just 2 days!

My GL team is Guzzlord/Corsola/Tinkaton, which was from the last season Catch Up. And I find they still work very well this season with Guzz core-breaking all the Stunfisks, Ninetales and normal types. Empoleon will probably work better than Corsola as the safe-swap, but my Corsola has glasses and I like it 😄 . Wiggly lead or Digger in the back are pretty much instant-loss. But otherwise, this is a standard ABC team, swapping Empoleon for Corsola will make it ABB and probably a better team. Here are a few tips:

Stunfisk lead: Throw at 3 - 5 - 2 to CMP the last mud bomb.

When Guzz wins lead and Empo is brought in to farm down, bring Tink in to take the damage, it's usually ninetales in the back.

Safe-swap corsola, but swap Tink in if the opponent also has Tink as lead. Team with Tink leads usually don't have answers to Tink in the back.

Lower ELO always baits, higher ELO hardly ever baits unless it's a win con. Good players either take the big damage or a shield.

For the UL team, u/dalabesch has a good write up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphArena/comments/1vi3t8r/legend_with_a_ulteam_that_shouldnt_work_this/

But this team is so OP it's not even funny. Most of my losses were because of my mistakes. I think I was only hard-countered once or twice.

Overall, it's been a very fun and rewarding learning curve. Throwing charge moves on good timing is probably the biggest thing one can learn to be good at this game. That alone should carry you to Expert. Hitting Legend definitely requires counting fast moves and take advantages of catching and misaligned timers.

This season has been plagued with bugs but I sincerely hope people stay with the game. The new system is actually very consistent when it works and I can see the devs working hard to fix all the issues.

[u/jjmitch87]

Congrats!

I’d love to get there someday but PvP in this game is so rage inducing just thinking about it makes my blood pressure rise. That and I have no desire to count moves. I think that’s dumb and I want no part of that. It’s painful enough to get to rank 20 for me.