Arena battle videos and discussion

[Elmdork]

Holy crap i still get matches! Thanks, andrew! Just got my net hooked up on sunday, new house and stuff. i'll have to sift through everything when i have the chance, but i'm back.

[fallenstarz101]

thanks Andrew for recording the matches in your free time!!

[twistedmime009]

thanks for the matches!

[Barren]

FFT Arena 1.39c - Barren (Let's Squish!) vs silentkaster (Shakers, but Not Movers)

[silentkaster]

Thanks for recording the team, Barren.

spoiler

I wanted to do a Don't Move team that would be somewhat effective and I thought they might be. I gave the Mime Summon Magic which I guess was a mistake. The Geo and Scholar bounce off each other by using spells and having worst compat so that way they trigger the saves with the Priest having Distribute to keep them healthy. I'll make some changes and hopefully get to see it in the stream on Thursday to see if it does any better. GG.

[fallenstarz101]

lol the team names are fun

[CT5Holy]

Yesterday's stream now on youtube

[Corosar]

Yesterday's stream now on youtube

spoiler: my match

First attempt at a high speed team failed.. hmmm gonna need to fix up that bard definately. the haste was a very bad idea for him... might have to put angel song and remove a couple songs from the bard and dancer... the bard i know time is not gonna work right... may chance to something like... Drawout... i wanna make use of that MA if i can it be a shame if it went to waste after he is done singing. Though its kinda upsetting for me that he didn't use cheer song... and the dancer didn't use slow dance... i will want to dedicate that i feel... ahh well i live and learn... good game

[Shintroy]

spoiler: vs DW(Store Wars)

Didn't think the team would get 2-0'd, and I definitely didn't think it'd be that dominating. Charm was a huge factor of course, but the reason I lost in round 2 was most likely due to the Archer wasting turns on head break instead of going for turn wasting abilities like Hawk's eye or Arm Aim.

[silentkaster]

Requesting a match for CTT5's newest teams if anyone can...(does not have to be against me. Just curious to see a couple concepts in action.)

[Barren]

I should be able to make time today

[Barren]

And here you go. Enjoy. Now its live!

FFT Arena 1.39c - The CT5Holy Triple Threat

[silentkaster]

Thanks Barren.

spoiler: CT5Holy

interesting teams. I know you don't often edit your teams but might want to fix the undead archer. Sweet cherry really had RNG hating him on his R3. I felt for him there.

spoiler: Mime MP

Barren, what I was saying is that the Mime can't use things from his secondary without MP. So, in the match you saw, the mime couldn't cast "Wall" until he ate a crystal. Stuff like mimicking isn't effected whatsoever unless by status. It is similar to when a Move-Mp Up user would have enough MP after the move to cast a spell, but still won't cast it until the next turn. The Mime must start the turn with enough MP to use their secondary if said secondary requires MP.

[CT5Holy]

Thanks Barren!

Good call on Golden Hairpin over Green Beret. I very done goofed with the Undead Archer. Going to give Wall of Random a vacation for now... it's a pretty big mess atm XD

[Heroebal]

Got some catching up to do here

spoiler: Me(paladins from hell) vs Dol(Heretic)

I think this was actually one of the initial/"rough draft" versions of paladins from hell, no matter though. As you can see chaos blade & damage split just wasn't cutting the mustard there so I opted to go with moonlight/dragon spirit+flee setup instead on both paladins. They should have lost both those round, but somehow they still managed to pull through though, gg.

spoiler: Me(Holiday Stories vs Andrew(Eh)--ct5stream

That was a fun watch (a little drawn out in parts, silly squire...). You kind of have to quickly take them out or quickening stacks up too much. Headhunters/Biebes have beaten them as a reference (they do not like flare or chiri). And the quickening can actually go higher than that b/c chemist/mime have ether or get more mp from crystals. What's weird is in a lot of my practice the chemist/mime will throw an ether to each other but not on themselves that much. Andrew that was a nice match, gg. 

PS. My headphones broke so when I record more matches they will be w/o commentary for the time being....

[Shintroy]

Didn't know I had a match recorded until recently. Good stuff Barren.

spoiler: vs CT5Holy

Mime Boosting vs Defensive Mime
Mime on Mime violence. No one wins these.

R1 - Didn't get to see much of CT5's team in action. AoE shut it down at the start.
R2 - CT5's has the addvantage here since his mime team isn't as crippled by map size and vertical. Plus he gets quickening at the start. Brutal match for me since the team got seperated pretty badly. Wall mime looks preddy decent though.
R3 - CT5's favor again due to the map. Really close game that really all came down to my team getting seperated and charm.

GG.

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Thanks for the marathon Truelight

spoiler: Third World vs Heroebal(Holy Matters)

Wind vs Holy
R1 - 4v2, still lost. GG Hawk's Eye.
R2 - 400+ Damage AoE. No coming back from that with just a Paladin.
R3 - Highlight of the match is  around 1:36:00. Turns into another 4v2 and still lost. RIP.

GG. Geomancy Mime is so bad.

[TrueLight]

FFT Arena 1.39C - Mini Marathon Edition

[dw6561]

spoiler: vs. SweetCherry

Cover Fire really did a number on me there...Thief has high evasion? Nope, cover fire gets right through. Also my squire not being able to reach anyone didn't help either. I'll have to check to see if he has 4 move or not. A Charm landing would have helped immensely, however the RNG had different plans apparently. GG.

[fallenstarz101]

Me Vs twistedmime009

spoiler

It seems as though our wizards are very similar (glass cannons)
But in all seriousness your team was more for to the occasion as your team had two "healers" while my own had only one (monk) making your team's sandbagging more Effective GG

[Heroebal]

spoiler: Me vs Shintroy (Third World)

I got lucky in the last round with the paladin making the right call this time in reviving the monk, it bought time for archers to get up and allowed the team to recuperate just enough to retake the round.  The 2nd round and part of the 3rd round makes me wonder If I should try and give the archers basic skill again to revive the monk/paladin if needed. I'd lose out on regen but move-hp up should at least keep them active. I like leaving them as undead so the monk/paladin don't have to worry about reviving/healing them I'd rather they concentrate on grand cross/self healing.

GG Shintroy I hear you on the Geomime. Before I made Holiday Stories I was attempting to make a team consisting of two geo users combined with 2 mimes to maximize the smart targeting/procing geomancy skills. The damage/procing from it just didn't have enough consistency or umph to finish teams off.