I think inability to apply early pressure is indeed a problem for Tank. With perfect (and I mean *perfect*) play you can harass with Kodachi but a single misstep and the Scorchers eat you. Panther is kind of expensive, and kind of meh in terms of strength.

Also, unlike Scorcher, Glaive and Bandit (to name a few), Kodachi and Panther scale really terribly into the mid-game. (Yes, I know the aforementioned raiders start losing out to AoE and porc, but they retain utility for a lot longer than Kodachi with its terrible DPS and Panthers which stun each other on death.)

At the same time, considering much Godde excessed early on (and was floating a lot of metal in reserve for a very long time), this game could have been less one-sided I feel.

quote: the early game is where they have most problems in the matchup.

I agree with this but I think it is partly because most of the units Tank builds in the earlygame become dead weight later, and so one is disincentivised to build them.

i suspect we havent seen more games of this kind because either of the two would rather avoid playing the matchup as the tank player very often.

also look at the other games godde played in the matchup produced similar results.

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