u/CRSN-Atomic

Some thoughts after this CM, this was by far my highest win rate CM sitting at 84%. I ran Summer Maru/V Bourbon and had a backup complete gamble Xmas Oguri.

First thought, Xcap wasn’t the problem. It was the content creators pushing the narrative of double dominator + whatever else you wanted. This lead to a lot of lobbies with 4 dominators in it and was such a slop fest. I ran one card with xcap double dom and there was only one race that had fronts in it, the other 4 races were all double dom + something. This just leads to such a shit show where people don’t get the positions they built for and everyone’s speed gets NUKED on the final stretch basically nullifying any midgame you built and encouraging people to go full velocity bomb for late game which is bad practice.

Second thought, folks you gotta start running fronts if you hate losing to gambly things like lobby composition and hitting accels too late like NSM or on your left. I’m aware that fronts are scary to build and take a lot to make work but they don’t care about lobby comp (with the exception of runaways) because it’s just a fight for first and nothing else matters. Yes it takes a lot of work to build a good front but the work you put in you feel immediately. They are so consistent when you get a good one. I personally made what I would consider a 8/10 summer maru and it was incredibly rare that she was not in contention for first and if she was first it was even rarer for her to lose. My only struggles were to lobbies with 4 dominators and occasionally a better front runner.

Third thought, please play whatever you want man. This game will burn you out so fast if you just chase the meta. Play oshi - play meme comps like “all satsuki show winners” or BNW. Have fun ya’ll. It’s a game.