Cody James

Just made this to stay up on pokestuff.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

I'm not on here much anymore, SO season update: I got my third cup win tonight! That makes 2 with @StecherCro Dragazard variants (best metafy purchase I'll ever make) and 1 with Spewtwo. S/O @TheTopTables for their support. It's been a fun season, time for a final push to Indy.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

2nd cup win with... Spidops Mewtwo??

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Funny, we get temu Entei/Valiant back next set with wonder patch, hear me out:
- mystery garden with bench of mew, valiant, and Lillie's Clefairy for draw
- wonder patch to replace magma basin
- air balloon replaces booster capsule
- maybe lillie's pearl?

Seems fun?

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

$20 for 8 packs from my significant other that joined in on 2 pods. Would bother me if I didn't fix the math. $60 total for 34 DRI is more lucrative than any finish I would've realistically gotten on day 2, for less effort. Which is both weird and said to come to terms with.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Last MKE thing: went 7-1-"2" in 8 man pods (splitting the pot with my playing partner when we made finals) meaning I spent $40 on entries and got 34 DRI packs off the prize wall. Flipped them for $200+ store credit at my LCS. Might be the move to just get a spec pass next time💰

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Evo into noctowl, get a trainer and cipher. Use cipher. Draw with Kanga. You've Noctowl'd for any 3 cards from your deck and that STILL SUCKS because Owl decks need to play Crispin or Sada every turn. Maybe a trumpet deck with mega latias? Armarouge Noctowl? Bleh. Back to cookin.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

@TopTinkTrainer Someone used absol to discard an Ethan's Adventure and I have to assume they did it for the lols

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Playing Typhlosion at 1700+ elo is so funny rn because i need to tech in a jamming tower to OHKO the absol but have stadium bumps so I can OHKO Kanga with the bangle and Tord's deck is literally every other match.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Welp. Not my best work. Hit some quality opps that had top 16s and top 8s, @Taxi__cabbage, and got crustled by mama schemanske too. But the games were good, the opps were chill, and I had fun. No serious tournies until Indy, so it's time to get back to cooking the fun stuff again

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

@TopTinkTrainer Also, y'know, "what I saw on Twitter one weekend" isn't a data point lol

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Almost every "won a league cup" post I've seen today is a Dragapult Dusknoir, which implies SOMETHING about the relationship between Gardy and the caliber of players that do well with it at regionals as opposed to locals, but I don't have the right words for it

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

@TopTinkTrainer Yes but high skill players play in cups too, unless we're saying gardy's win rate is exclusive to the highest skilled players at the largest events. A gear above "local legend." But I dunno 🤷‍♂️ variance is variance

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Decided to play typhlosion for the lols and my path to the invitational championship finals at my store turned into bolt>turbo miraidon>bolt. The finals will be held on Thursday. My finals opp? Bolt. This wasn't supposed to happen

[Muta 🔜 New Orleans @itsMutaTV]

When asked how I did after the cup.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

@Decay_VR @mattsPoKeTweets Fun playing you in R2 boss, i remember being really thrown off when you said "I'm a bit of a rogue deck Andy" and then you flipped over a mander!

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

@TheVoIDJordon @TheTopTables Some serious scalps in those matchups! Congrats on the run!

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

@Weiss_On_Ice Effectively all regional day 1s are 8 rounds now, 5-2-1 gets into phase 2.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

A day later and I still can't tell you if making day 2 indicates progress or not when I've gone 5-3-1 through 9 rounds twice before and 5-2-1 through 8 rounds at Louisville for T256 but no day 2 🤷‍♂️ guess it doesn't matter too much, still going to try my best and play when I can.

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Monday after a regional got me like:

[Cody James @Cody4Pokemon]

Damn. Day 2 got hands. But no, really, coin bonus in 7 of my 14 rounds got a little old.
Still had fun, still proud to have picked up points in day 2. It's something to build on.