My most glorious moment in competitive video games was in the card game designed like a fighting game,
Yomi.
My main in Yomi is Midori, a man who is also a dragon. Midori is a stance change grappler. He's not the best grappler in Yomi, and grapplers (outside of the best one, Troq, a bull who is also a man) are already pretty disadvantaged. Especially against a horrible creature named Bal-Bas-Beta, a robot who is also a Dhalsim.
The amount of time I spent labbing against Bal-Bas-Beta as Midori has put the digital client of Yomi into the rank of second-most played game on Steam for me, at 318 hours. I played in the tiny competitive scene for Yomi for a few months, generally putting up zero wins but having a good time. There was a match where I managed to win a game in a first-to-three set, and my opponent very wisely counter-picked into BBB.
Based on the historical match-up data, I had a 30% chance in general to win this game in this matchup.
Based on my OWN tournament data, I had basically zero chance to win this game.
Reader: I played a perfect game. The robot did not touch me once. I never let him get to long range, I never lost an exchange, I walked into and out of that game with the same amount of health. I managed to flawlessly defeat the anti-grappler with the middlest grappler in the game.
My opponent pivoted to their main and ended up taking the set back from me. But I landed an unthinkable victory for all of my Yomi grappler brethren by slaying the monster through sheer force of will.
