I think PL's "change your character after each lost match, and never fully settle on a main" strategy is not sustainable, and it held him back in Injustice as well.
Obviously he's a great player who can learn characters quickly and become good with them, so based on that alone he'll always be a contender to make top 8's. But part of the reason why he wasn't as consistent in Injustice as he was in MK9 is because he never just settled on one character as his main and learned his ins and outs, learned every match-up, etc... If you notice in Injustice, he had so many great sets, great comebacks, etc... but it seems like every set was a 3-2 struggle (or 2-1, depending on the format), where it's basically a toss up. That's also why he had so many 2-3 losses.
Basically, what he does is, after he loses one match he'll automatically switch characters and use that as a way to throw his opponent off. If the opponent can't make the adjustment immediately, PL will win the next match, then his opponent will adapt, and PL will switch characters again, and so on. You're not playing the percentages when you're doing that, and no matter how clutch you are, when every set boils down to a deciding game, one wrong read/input error/dropped combo/etc... can spell the end.
It looks to me like he's doing the same now in MKX. For instance, his Scorpion looked really good. But in top 8, he would pick him one match, win, lose the next, and just ditch him, instead of taking the positives, sticking with him, and adjusting. Likewise, when he picked Displacer Raider, he looked absolutely ridiculous. He lost that one match, but he should have stuck with him because he clearly was on to something.
I'm not criticizing PL or anything. He did great and it's good for the scene to see him do well. But for EVO, he should probably just focus on two characters at the most. I don't mean for this to come off as "random TYM'er telling 3 time EVO champ what to do," but from a distance, that's my observation. After all, what typically happens deep into a game's life is character specialists tend to shine. This tournament was a good example.
