Hipmonlee
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Old gens have plenty of depth. Managers arent drafting it.
For instance for RBY in the pool last year there were a bunch of no brainer picks with plenty of past SPL success: Nails, Amaranth, Metalgross, Kaz, Troller, Beds
Then you had a whole bunch of guys that could have been picked up:
Genesis7, HMLam, Sceptross, Er Peris, rozes, Alice, Exiline, Vileman, Ranshiin, Caetano, SadisticNarwhal I got bored going through the thread at this point. But there are plenty of others, I didnt even get half way.
But all of them would have put in a pretty solid performance. With some of them, you're taking a bit of a risk, and you might need to support them well. There is that danger that if they have a couple of bad games early on they will get burnt out and you'll need to sub them. So you probably want to make sure you have proper cover in your lineup.
A couple, like Caetano and rozes might be more valuable in other slots. So they might be good options to pair with one of the names with less experience.
But for a lot of teams their backup plan seems to just be try to teach someone RBY in a week, and that's where the bad games come from. You need specialists for RBY (and other early gens), and you'll need more than one of them.
And honestly I suspect that the quality of the RBY pool this year will be higher still. I've seen a lot of newer guys turning up and doing pretty well in RBY tournaments this year. Whether that actually results in an improvement in the quality of players who get drafted who knows (if RBY is included).
But I do agree that anyone arguing that the quality of older gens is inherently better than lower tiers is way off base.
[Edit] - Also, looking through it, I dont think there were really that many games this year that were all that poor. Sure, some of them could have been better, but overall the quality was pretty high. It's a bit disappointing as an RBY supporter to have a DPP main play in the final, but his play seemed solid enough.
For instance for RBY in the pool last year there were a bunch of no brainer picks with plenty of past SPL success: Nails, Amaranth, Metalgross, Kaz, Troller, Beds
Then you had a whole bunch of guys that could have been picked up:
Genesis7, HMLam, Sceptross, Er Peris, rozes, Alice, Exiline, Vileman, Ranshiin, Caetano, SadisticNarwhal I got bored going through the thread at this point. But there are plenty of others, I didnt even get half way.
But all of them would have put in a pretty solid performance. With some of them, you're taking a bit of a risk, and you might need to support them well. There is that danger that if they have a couple of bad games early on they will get burnt out and you'll need to sub them. So you probably want to make sure you have proper cover in your lineup.
A couple, like Caetano and rozes might be more valuable in other slots. So they might be good options to pair with one of the names with less experience.
But for a lot of teams their backup plan seems to just be try to teach someone RBY in a week, and that's where the bad games come from. You need specialists for RBY (and other early gens), and you'll need more than one of them.
And honestly I suspect that the quality of the RBY pool this year will be higher still. I've seen a lot of newer guys turning up and doing pretty well in RBY tournaments this year. Whether that actually results in an improvement in the quality of players who get drafted who knows (if RBY is included).
But I do agree that anyone arguing that the quality of older gens is inherently better than lower tiers is way off base.
[Edit] - Also, looking through it, I dont think there were really that many games this year that were all that poor. Sure, some of them could have been better, but overall the quality was pretty high. It's a bit disappointing as an RBY supporter to have a DPP main play in the final, but his play seemed solid enough.
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