Archerous' R2M17 Delib

Quality

We have a stealth match on our hands! Well, on paper anyways. With our players, Paranoia and Lucil Caravan from the Gallery of Wayward Reverie and Nojus Ipolitas and Raspberry Beret of the Willow Wisps, we bend the definition of stealth to “don’t get caught”. A good thing then, given the explosive strategies they’ve come up with.

Starting with the Gallery, Lucil goes into a crate, fishing out a kitchen knife. With this, she’s able to form a network between all crates that contain kitchen knives, thus creating the Kitchenware Network. This serves as a versatile means of getting Lucil around the map with relative ease while avoiding the scrutiny of patrolling guards. While Lucil is going after the contraband information, Paranoia takes a support role, throwing pens around the map to set up a network of her own, this one serving as surveillance. This allows Paranoia to keep an eye on not only patrolling guards, but the Willow Wisps, as well. Armed with this information, as well as a few shadow balls, Paranoia throws her shadows onto the Wisps, knowing that they’ll take effort to dispel all while sticking out to the guards as moving shadows, directing attention to the Wisps. This Reverse Spotlight is a particularly solid move, taking advantage of the heat generated from Paranoia using the shadows, as well as any time the Wisps are taking a breather to generate items and setup.

Beyond the setup, the Gallery employs their various networks to further escape attempts and cause mischief for guard and Wisp, alike. Once they destroy the contraband, it's time for the pair to escape. Since Paranoia doesn’t have the luxury of teleporting away, Lucil causes a distraction by throwing the guard she knocked out in the beginning into the air, using his fall to distract the guards long enough to let the pair get away.

Overall, I’m giving this strategy a 7. There’s solid setup and execution employed all around. If anything, I would’ve preferred if a little time was spent on contingencies for if Lucil were to lose her base item for teleporting, but the strategy ultimately works without it. Well done!

Onto the Willow Wisps, Nojus starts us off by selling his possessions and purchasing a gold necklace. He then hands this to Raspberry to create a rain of necklaces, allowing Nojus to sell those as well. This forms a money glitch, and allows the crew to be especially disruptive. Nojus then purchases a crate filled with Purple Rain smoke, then buys more crates, creating more than enough smoke to fuel their schemes.

They get right into the disruption by creating a Foam Storm, creating an environmental hazard that covers a lot of ground. The foam is used to cover pens, blind (and potentially poison) guards, and even follow footprints to know where their foes have been, while using the storm to cover their own. Combine this storm with Raspberry creating mini explosions throughout, and the guards are surely disoriented. As they use their fog to evade and conquer, they finally come across their contraband, which they devastated with a combined attack.

Overall, I’m going to give this strategy a 7. It starts out slow, with setup taking a minute. But once the storm is up and running, it's nigh impossible to stop, allowing the Wisps to make efficient use of their foamy environment. Well done!

Jojolity

Onto Jojolities, I don’t have much to say. The Gallery certainly made a solid effort to antagonize their opponents, with Paranoia going out of her way to target and direct patrols to the Wisps, and Lucil disorienting the guards with her teleport slams. For that, I’m going to give their Jojolity a 7. Well done!

As for the Wisps, they do an impressive job at keeping their antagonization up throughout the match. The Foam Storm is incredibly strong, though not their only feat. Explosive rain and fog helps to further confuse opponents. Their oppression of their foes is undeniable. For this, I’m going to give their Jojolity an 8. Well done!