original idea and some of the OP from the OU forum
approved by Eevee General and The Immortal
Welcome to the OM Better Battler Project!
One of the biggest struggles new players face when starting out in any game is improving how they play. In most strategy games it is encouraged to review games afterwards in order to gain an understanding of what to improve on. However, how can a new player truly improve if they aren't fully aware of what they did right or wrong? Not to mention the frustration of losing often prevents people from analyzing their games regardless of experience.
This is where the Better Battler Project comes in.
This thread has two purposes, for newer players to receive assistance on how to play matches and for experienced players to go through their own thought processes during a match, allowing both newer and more experienced users alike improve the way they play.
Also, I'll periodically post a printscreen from a team matchup and ask players to assess how they would approach the match.
The Basic Idea
approved by Eevee General and The Immortal
One of the biggest struggles new players face when starting out in any game is improving how they play. In most strategy games it is encouraged to review games afterwards in order to gain an understanding of what to improve on. However, how can a new player truly improve if they aren't fully aware of what they did right or wrong? Not to mention the frustration of losing often prevents people from analyzing their games regardless of experience.
This is where the Better Battler Project comes in.
This thread has two purposes, for newer players to receive assistance on how to play matches and for experienced players to go through their own thought processes during a match, allowing both newer and more experienced users alike improve the way they play.
Also, I'll periodically post a printscreen from a team matchup and ask players to assess how they would approach the match.
The Basic Idea
- Any player can post a replay of a recent match they had, an importable of their team and a summary of the match, explaining their goal for the match and key plays made.
- Experienced members of the community can also help out as they wish. The goal is to analyze games and give tips.
- Tournament players and other experienced users are also encouraged to post replays of good matches they've had recently to demonstrate what sort of thought process a good player will have during a match (OMGS replays!). These will likely not be analysed by the team and are there for the benefit of all.
- Be civil, the aim of this thread is to help people, not scare them off. Like my mom always used to say, If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. Any flaming of other users WILL NOT be tolerated.
- Make sure to use Hide tags in your post to prevent cluttering (for those that don't know it's [ hide ] what you want to say [ /hide ] (remove the spaces inside the square brackets)).
- This is for any of the OMs supported on PS! main.
- Do not help people if you yourself are not experienced. Doing that will only serve to clutter the thread.
- Upload matches you felt were close and weren't swayed one way or another because of hax. It's hard to help someone get better if the match was just a jirachi paraflinching everything in its path.
- Giving some context to what the team(s) you are using are trying to accomplish will help people write better reviews.
- If you have further questions you want to ask a reviewer, PM them privately to avoid cluttering the thread.
- First ones pretty simple, don't give the person shit because they're not at the same skill level as you, thats just going against all the stuff this thread is trying to promote. Being thorough with criticism, however, is encouraged.
- Try to focus on improving the players thought process rather than criticising poor move choices. If those move choices reflect a poor thought process then go ahead and comment on them but if the person switched in a Bisharp on a potential Defog from a Latios and the opponent used HP Fire instead then dont berate them for it.
- Do not give a play-by-play commentary rather than actually attempting to improve the way the person plays. Some things to get you started:
- What do you view as the wincon in this matchup?
- What is your biggest threat to your opponents team?
- What are ways you can bring it in safely?
- What is the biggest threat to your team on the opponents team?
- How can said threat get a free switch?
- How would you lead vs. this person? (assume you don't already know what they lead!)
- Pick 2-3 turns where you would have made a different play and clearly explain why. Please don't chose turns that were just mis-predictions on something close to a 50/50.
Code:
Battle: Put your battle link(s) here
[HIDE=Team]copy and paste your team into here[/HIDE]
Username: Put your username for the battle(s) here
Summary: Put the summary of the match(es) and a description of your team's strategy here
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