T8R3M10 Jojolity Delibs

Judge CleverRuse -

T8:

Fantastic job here! Playing like an eight armed boneless creature is a bit of a steep ask, but T8 makes it seem like child's play. They pull from not only the capabilities of octopi as a whole but shout out specific species and their individual quirks as their inspiration for a huge array of tech on display. The expected stuff like smokescreen as ink or multitasking for the eight arms is done well, but more specific call outs like Coconut or Blanket octopi for defensive tech or the targeting of gills and, my personal favorite, using detritus to track the monster for offense offer a deeper dive to the prompt and are integrated flawlessly. The core philosophy of overwhelming the monster, sticking to it and never letting it escape, also reflects the hunting instinct of a cephalopod to a T. I love when real-world science and logic is apied to a strat in novel ways, and WW does phenomenally well in this regard for this prompt. An easy Nine for me!


WIS:

TD is the shark, and in true shark fashion goes for nothing but ruthless damage as an apex predator would. The stars of the show here are the Mako jet tech being leveraged in multiple ways nodding to the fastest of nature’s carnivorous fish, and the Jaw Formation that I don't think needs any clarification (the absolutely flooring GMod work does that for me, seriously insane work). TD insists on always being on the move much like the animal needs to be, and aims to tear the thing apart bit by bit with attention given to blood in the water for tracking. Some of the pieces do feel a bit tacked on instead of being fundamental to the plan (thresher whip which I still don't believe functions as intended, Angelshark camo) but the effort is there. Quite well done overall! Eight.

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Judge Flamechar:

Both players have animal themed Jojolity for this match: Wave Welder must “Fight like an Octopus!” while Technical Difficulties must “Fight like a Shark!”

Wave Welder truly leans into her Jojolity - so much thought and research has been put into fighting like an Octopus, from utilising their tactics like 3-D movement, jamming gills, jet propulsion with breaks, as well as some defenses inspired by the Coconut and Blanket octopus - even using knowledge of their eyesight and their tentacles operating themselves and applying it to how she fights the Lusca, and only using 8 fairies to top it off. A **9**!

As for TD, it too leans into shark tactics against shark weaknesses: camouflage of an Angelshark, constant forward momentum, Mako Bursts, the Thresher Shark’s tail whip, tracking the blood into the water, and finishing with a mighty jaw (formation). While I could argue this as an 8, I believe this has inched itself closer to the shore with a low **9**!

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Judge AtomicPeace:

T8:

I was very impressed by the depth of incorporation of your jojolity. The ways in which you incorporated “fighting like an octopus” into each facet of your strategy felt like they meaningfully informed the flow of your strategy, varied your tactics, and fundamentally elevated the performance of the strategy.

There were many ways to approach this jojolity, like implementing a similar style of hunting, or simply embodying the perceived tactical intelligence of the octopus, but I felt that you went above and beyond in tying almost all of your offensive and defensive tactics into the habits of different octopuses, and did so in a way didn’t really feel like you were making leaps in logic just to try to score some points.

You incorporate their 3 dimensional movement elegantly, constantly giving yourself methods of engagement and escaping from combat, and once you’re in the water, you incorporate their jet propulsion and seafloor crawling to greatly enhance your already great underwater capabilities.

I think it’s great whenever a strategy can teach me something, and some of the offensive and defensive tactics you implemented dug far deeper into the tactics an octopus uses to fight or survive than I would’ve imagined; I had no idea about the fact that they could potentially suffocate on their own ink, and exploiting that to drive the Lusca’s movement to your advantage was incredibly clever. The gill jam was also a great method of both escaping from a sticky situation, and doing some major damage to it that will reduce its capabilities over the course of the match.

In an incredibly concise strategy, you managed to let nearly every one of your tactics be informed by your jojolity, and managed to make each new facet you incorporated remain interesting in fresh.

The line between a 9 and a 10 can be a hard one to consider, and strategies tend to get pushed to a ten by a fairly subjective standard of presentation or flair; and while admittedly I don’t believe this is a strategy that goes over the top in terms of being particularly flashy, I personally feel as though you managed to pull off not only an incredibly airtight strategy, but did so while considering the jojolity every step of the way, and incorporated it with such clear care and effort.  In my eyes, that definitely pushes the strategy over the threshold into a 10/10!

WIS:

You had a solid array of shark-inspired tactics on display here, especially in your potent offensive options. The Mako Burst was your bread and butter, and serves as the core offense that much of your strategy was built around. To finish things off, the Jaw Formation serves as an incredibly clever and potent offensive option as well, utilizing your unique positioning capabilities with the clones to kill the Lusca with a solid bite.

I feel the rest of your named tactics were a bit less integral to the strategy, but still clever in their inspiration, the thresher shark whip and angelshark camo serving as fine supporting elements to the core of your plan. Overall, very solid execution here, 8/10!