R1M12 Jojolity Delibs

Judge Prince (Yuri)

Pluto first! I think you do a pretty good job using your environment, but that wasn’t the whole jojolity. The goal was to make the environment work to you... Did you pull that off?

God. Yes. Oh my god.

Pluto’s strategy makes excellent use of the environment to do a strategy you couldn’t have pulled off anywhere else. From using the moving nature of the train to make the entire map cold with the golfing move to using the narrow nature of the map for the finisher, it feels like your entire plan was tailored to this environment in particular. Not to mention the fact that you do all of this while taking a leisurely stroll to the front of the train. I think you could’ve done a little more, sure, but you gave us is fantastic. Easy **9**.

For Yankee I have similar praise. The environment quite literally becomes a weapon with the metal mule, your main play, and it is used very very while as the backbone of your strategy. I have to give similar praise to using the environment for your melee. Throwing Pluto into chairs is gonna hurt like hell. Not to mention the pop cans and your similar use of the confined space to make entire cars dangerous for Pluto to be in. In general, you do a similarly great job with your jojolity here, and thus I’m giving you a similarly great score: a **9!**.

Judge Ladybug (Arch)

As for Jojolities, I don’t have many notes. I think both teams made great use of the environment, allowing for some creative, yet robust plays. Yankee's Metal Mule gives him not only good cover, but an opportunity to deal some ram damage as well. The Pop Cans also allowed him to make use of his slugs for surprises, while also giving him options for slug play without his shotgun.

Pluto made good use of the mass of chairs for the Death Engine, and his Big Hammer plays involved various stools and countertops. His use of water bottles to effectively give Yankee a hypothermia timer was also very fun. I’m giving both teams an 8! Well done to both sides!

Judge White Death (Ceep)

I'll not waste time and say both did stellar. Yankees various traps turn the train into hell for Pluto, both use the narrow space exceptionally, and both stay on their preferred way of fighting. Both were excellent, Yankee gets an 8/10.

I have more commentary with Pluto. He gets a 10/10, and I want to go through my thought process of how integration works for me.

Every single thing he does fits the environment working for him. He uses his ability in myriad ways to handle CQC, have nasty midrange attacks, set himself up for success, have executes, etc. So far we're at an 8, he did excellently, nothings out of place. Building to such a nasty finisher and smaller character moments like the golf balls and getting something to drink… he's still at an 8! 8 is 'basically perfect' or 'essentially flawless', it's a great score. Equivalent in my mind to an A Grade, A- or A+ if on the edge, and Yankee is at an A+ to be clear.

What pushes this up to a 9 is integration. There isn't the heaps of flavor that I'd see in other strats, but what's there links in with a very personal view of 'leisure', framing Pluto's efforts (or lack of them) as a revolutionary act that recontextualizes his character.

What pushes this up to a 10? That every single play in the strategy supports this. Makes me feel Pluto truly believes this. The music ref of Back of the Bus to Rosa Parks. His co-option of traditionally 'white' luxury leisure activities like golfing and drinking fine spirits. The references to John Henry in his character coming to bear with him being the one to crush the opponent under the power of a train, and ALL IN 16K CHARACTERS truly elevates this to a 10. It absolutely smashed me out of the park.

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