You didn't "fail yourself" by losing in the crucial moment. You lost because you weren't good enough at the game.
The resulting pain is simply your brain processing the difference between imagined and lived reality. It hurts to find out you aren't as good as you thought.
@josdabayona This means you can deal unscaled damage and usually route into SA1 for a good chunk
For JP it’s a bit gimmicky and he doesn’t really have a way to favorably shimmy, so this setup is a one time trick. Usually just better to use the SA2 to side switch
People keep calling Ingrid backthrow into SA2 scaling a bug, but it’s just how throw scaling works. The back throw does damage when they hit the ground which is when scaling kicks in. SA2 hits before then. JP has a similar but more niche setup with portals and back throw.
@josdabayona I’m not at home to record it but to my knowledge the setup I’m thinking of still works
It requires you to do a combo into SA2 with your back to the corner, set up a light portal, dash forward, then reset into back throw. The portal hits them before they hit the ground