The flick lesson belongs to the rally modes, and gore's opener is not one

The gate said `G.mode === 'tennis' || G.match`, and mode 'tennis' is two
different things: classic, and the single prologue game a gore run plays before
the court turns. Placement is not the skill that prologue is asking for.
rallyFeel() already draws exactly the line wanted — classic and zombie tennis,
the two modes that ARE rallies — so the hint rides that instead of a mode
string. Verified both ways on a phone-sized preview: the lesson beside the
player in zombie tennis, and gone under gore-opener conditions with everything
else identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/render.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import { cv, ctx } from './dom.js';
 import { BENCH, BENCH_STAGES, ZFAMS, famFrames, racketStage, TUNE, UI, EATEN_BURST, EATEN_SUMMARY, EATEN_RESTART, DONE_RESTART, COURT, P_BOUNDS, PLAYER_H, BOY_H, UMP_H, UMP_X, MACH_H, BOSS_ART, ZWOUND, woundStage, BOUNCE_IDLE, SPRITE_H, zombieH , WEAPONS, RACK_ROW, TOSS, HEAD_CROP, CUP_ROUNDS, TINT } from './config.js';
 import { P, O, ball, score, crowd, G, court, tour, kit, skin } from './state.js';
-import { predictLanding, previewServe, slotId, slotStock, serveApexY } from './gameplay.js';
+import { predictLanding, previewServe, slotId, slotStock, serveApexY, rallyFeel } from './gameplay.js';
 import { drillQueue, drillLegal, drillMult } from './drill.js';
 import { zombies, gore, piles, parts, pellets, extras, shots, pops } from './zombies.js';
 
@@ -2731,12 +2731,17 @@ export function render() {
   }
   // the tennis struggle hints: both ride the exact failure they answer, and only one at a time —
   // teaching the flick to someone who cannot get a racket on the ball is the wrong lesson, so the
-  // tap always wins. The flick lesson also runs in the MATCH (G.match plays under splatter's
-  // permanent interlude, not mode 'tennis') and on touch only: on a keyboard the aim is held keys,
-  // and 'SWIPE' would be an instruction for a gesture that does not exist there.
+  // tap always wins.
+  // THE FLICK LESSON BELONGS TO THE RALLY MODES, which is what rallyFeel() already means: CLASSIC
+  // and ZOMBIE TENNIS. Not the gore mode, and not gore's OPENER either — that tennis is a prologue
+  // you play for one game before the court turns, and placement is not the skill it is asking for.
+  // (`G.mode === 'tennis'` covered classic AND that prologue, which is exactly the wrong seam; the
+  // match itself is not mode 'tennis' at all, it plays under splatter's permanent interlude.)
+  // Touch only: on a keyboard the aim is held keys and 'SWIPE' would name a gesture that does not
+  // exist there.
   const inRally = G.phase === 'rally' && ball.active && ball.lastHit === 'O';
   if (G.mode === 'tennis' && inRally && G.passStreak >= 2) drawHitHint();
-  else if (IS_TOUCH && inRally && (G.mode === 'tennis' || G.match) && G.flatStreak >= TUNE.flickHintAfter)
+  else if (IS_TOUCH && inRally && rallyFeel() && G.flatStreak >= TUNE.flickHintAfter)
     drawFlickHint();
   // The free-floating register: no panel, one fixed slot, shouted. PERFECT, GAME N, DOUBLE KILL,
   // RETURNED, CHANGEOVER, weapon labels — everything that used to be plain white 12px text sitting