May 12, 2014

Today’s Team: Snap Drizzle Rip
B/B Lifeike Toad (Tongue Lash, Cleansing Rain, Frog Kiss)
H/H Spirit Crab (Snap, Whirlpool, Shell Shield)
H/P Snarly (Rip, Surge, Blood In The Water)

Rationale:
There was some talk on the forum today about the Lifelike Toad so I thought I’d give it a try. First of all let me say I’m not a fan a Frog Kiss, or any 25% CC move for that matter. It’s also a broken move in the sense that you can chain polymorph someone since Resilience doesn’t kick in until after the polymorph wears off. I hope this doesn’t happen, but I do really like having an anti-undead and anti-elemental move on the same pet, plus Repair on a slow pet is just useless. I threw the Spirit Crab and Snarly on the team to have some synergy with the weather.

Concerns:
This team is seriously lacking some speed.

The Opposing Team:
P/B Spawn Of G’Nathus
P/B Mr. Wiggles
B/B Gilnean Raven

The Battle:
I was afraid of starting with my mech or aquatic due to the the strong damage on the other team so I played it safe and started with the Spirit Crab. The Spawn Of G’Nathus was the first enemy pet so I was glad I didn’t start with my mech. The Spirit Crab easily won the head to head match-up. The Gilnean Raven came in to finish the crab then swapped to Mr. Wiggles for the crab’s undead round. I’m not sure why they did this but a strong Snap made the piggy pay for it. I brought Snarly in next. Even with Crouch up Snarly easily killed Mr. Wiggles. Last was the Gilnean Raven. There was no point in swapping out and losing a turn, I just had to take my licks until Snarly died. Snarly missed a Rip and hit one Surge before dying. I finally got to bring my Lifelike Toad out. It was able to take out the bird thanks to a polymorph landing. My mech was slower so I didn’t want to use Tongue Lash; I had to use Frog Kiss while the bird was polymorphed, hoping that it didn’t proc again. It didn’t, the win can be considered legit.