it's never over until it's over

Описание: I told darKnez in earnest that I thought that a weird hybrid of Martyr's Inquisition and Shep Stress has potential to be really strong currently so that's why I'm playing the abomination (the team, not the guy) you see in this video.

0:00 Biotoxic (theme from Metal Slug 6)
3:18 Heihachi Mishima's theme (from Tekken 3)
6:45 Johnny Vincent's theme (from Bully)

Considering Goliath usually destroys Shep Stress and puts Martyr's in a really awkward RNG game I think this does a fine job doing both at once LMFAO. 100% an RNG win but I also think I played it well so that's why I'm fine with it. I've got more respect for raid boss Crimson Hook Flag these days than I did in the past even if I think it has to work really, really hard to show itself as being actually better than CoT+Reclaim. You see as much in this video where it could only justify the entire team dying because it melted the enemy backline into soup lmao (and even then it still had to get lucky). Still I think it's better positioned now than it has been in years. The way forward could be Crimson Hook + Reclaim + RoS w/o Punish. Needs more experimentation. I've also tried the inverse of this hybrid (CoT+Reclaim Flag with Net Abom and Crimson Hook HM), it's also fine, but multiple hours of victorious Darkest matches didn't produce any good YouTube games sorry lol.

I'll say this about Crimson Hook Flag and HM: they're pretty fun for how simplistic their actions are LOL. Very often I've found myself in positions where I'm just like "well, these actions are simplistic and have no dynamic play... I guess they need to go before MAA unless they have a pending heal to wait on" and that is a very interesting departure from the 24/7 vigilance Reclaim/Guard Dog where if you aren't careful you risk getting nuked all because you messed up. The Shep Stress mindset simply gets nuked and rolls dice to see if it wins anyway. Disgusting. I will keep playing to see its merits