Role: Mentee
Time zone: -6 GMT. Mainly free on Monday evenings.
Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes
Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise:
I am an intermediate player who started playing earlier this Spring. My best results have been going 7-3 at the Icebreaker tournament at FFG Worlds 2015 (enough to get 8th Place), Top 8 at an ANRPC GLC Qualifier event and 2nd at my last LGS league.
My approach to the game is fairly ass backwards, to put it bluntly, even though I only play regular decks. I would like to learn how to play both sides normally so that when I pick up a new deck I can play those decks in accordance to how the community constructs their decks as a form of reference. I donāt plan on discarding my style of play anytime soon but would love to expand my horizons.
I can only play concrete runner decks like Apocalypse MaxX well mainly because the decision the tree is narrower, thus heavily pushed. I do perform better with PPVP Kate which is somewhat similar to the Apocalypse MaxX deck but still allows a greater scope for creativity (or more forgiving of mistakes in this case) which is probably why I would do better with that deck than the mentioned MaxX deck. I am much worse with dynamic decks like Andy Sucker and Reg Ass Anarch but have a strong affinity for those decks.
My Corp is more free form which I assume stems from the fact that I probably made mistakes earlier therefore must justify them over the course of that game. I was told I handle Corp better than I handle Runner but I think I can only play Kate somewhat competently as well as NEH and RP which have so much upside when scoring an agenda that mistakes I have made are immediately made up.
The areas in which I am experienced in are Corp decks that utilize concrete processes. So decks that usually win via checkmate such as HB FA and RP Glacier or rush-down decks like NEH FA. Have some experience with kill decks like Supermodernism BS, Jinteki PE and NEH Butchershop but can further continue this study on my own. Played many forms of Glacier decks but am still inexperienced in identifying board states when not playing decks that contain both Caprice and TFP.
For the runner side I have heavily played PPVP Kate, Reg Ass MaxX, Apocalypse MaxX and Andy Sucker. Have some experience with Noise, other forms of Reg Ass Anarch, and Kit.
Areas in which I would like to improve on are handling poor mulligans when playing Corp, identifying scoring options as NEH FA, mindful Ice placement (especially in NEH), breaking out of R&D lock and finally learning how to play non-RP Glacier. HB Foodcoats is a deck I do not care for but feel that it is academic for my understanding.
As runner I would like to seek improvements for playing non-concrete styled decks such as Apocalypse MaxX. I would like to further my study on PPVP Kate mainly because it feels to me to hold the most promise for my development as a player. My style of play with Kate is observed by me as being a bit looser than other Kates I have observed irl or in archived footage. I tend to favor single access central play against Glacier decks (which might be accurate) and FA (which might be straight up wrong); treating my Sure Gambles as mini-Stimhacks in non-Glacier and Scorch MUs; and inability to conserve econ over the course of a game.
P.S. I only use Jinteki.net.