Did you know I had enough tp for a shield rush or was it More of a guess
As I was going back through the thread, I realized that I overlooked this question. Yes, I did know that you had enough TP for a Shield Rush. You only used your Protector once on Phase 5 where you and Pokechu coordinated an attack on Bard. You left the Protector dormant for a while until the end-endgame, where you realized that with my self-shots, you would need to find a way to pierce my reflection. Pokechu I knew already had enough, and I knew you were scrapping for TP to use for yourself. You two are smart players; you realized that only one Shield Rush would scare me into CPR-ing myself, so you had to finish the job all at once. I was surprised actually why it took you two so gosh darn long to actually Shield Rush and kill me.
But in the end, that was the way things had to go...
I'm tOtAlLy NoT ShOoTiNg SeLf...
By saying this, I managed to bait you both into shooting air so that I could shoot Pokechu for one damage. That way, his Royal Veil would be disabled so that I could actually start to chip his damage down. This phase, as well as the few phases surrounding it, went flawless for me, which is what got me so hyped up. But then I started to get cocky...
Oh yeah
Pokechu
I can hit you now.
I will say, the Stonard was a pretty good purchase.
This wasn't the cocky bit; this was me trying to play with you guys again. I was trying to make it seem like I was going to go all out on Pokechu without shooting-self. That this would be my "one big move". I even told Pokechu in DMs that I was going to "go out with a bang". By doing all this, I was trying to playfully punch you all, trying to get a reaction, get you two angry that I had a step up on you. Of course, the cocky bit was when I thought you were going to do the predictable. That you were going to shoot me normally. That is what I planned on, even though I wrote down that you both had a Shield Rush ready. So, I shot self, expecting a normal shot from at least Pokechu.
I couldn't have consciously CPRed and felt good about it; I realized that 3.5 HP would be the highest I'd have for the rest of the game. The CPR comes when I'm desperate, and I found myself to be in too good of a position to save myself (of course I got nervous and tried to switch, but it was too little too late; the action was already submitted)
If I wanted to win, I would need to have shot self on Phase 22. This would have inflicted 0.5 HP on Pokechu from the rebound if he shot me, which would put him at 2/9. Which is exactly where I needed him, because I could use either my Harbinger or my Dark Hunter to do the poisoning attack (I had TP for both classes). This would deal the 2 HP I needed, consume the nectar, and leave Pokechu with 1 HP remaining while poisoned.
And of course I had two more uses of CPR in case things went wonky. But "nothing could go wrong here", except for being teamed up on by every remaining player that could deal a guaranteed 4 damage whenever they wanted to. If Pokechu shot me on Phase 22, I am 95% sure I would have won the game if GLG wanted to.
And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids.
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