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Improve your Battling: Replay Critique Revived
Credits to Anti who was the creator of this thread originally! I've just decided to take over it.
Anywho, to those who don't know what this thread is about, the goal of this thread is to improve your battle execution. While you may have a decent or solid team at your hands, the next step that separates a good player, from a great player, is how they execute the place style of said team. So here, all you need to do is post a replay of yours where you feel like you could have played better. Coming from a loss, could there have something that you could of done that would of secured you the win, but you weren't sure how? Perhaps you want to learn why a battle was one-sided against your favor? That sort of thing! I will help you improve your overall gameplay, but if anyone wants to chip in, you're more than free to do so! Now, feel free to post away. c: |
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/oususpecttest-300709706
vs stall, won with luck + some **** talk at the end. |
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your play was mostly fine, you probably want hyperspace fury on hoopa so slowbro doesn't 6-0 you. |
Figure I might as well make use of this thread again.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-306651133 I mean I won, but probably could've done better than that, y'know? btw the Toxicroak/Mega Altaria/Reuniclus bit is just something I pulled from here |
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I think your only major mistake in that match was staying in with Mega-Altaria to Roost while he had a Sylveon. Maaaaybe could of had a much better time against his Skarmory, having Fire Blast and all. (unless he decides to go for a Roosting-stall play, but that still left him with very little options in the end). Anyway, M-Altaria against Sylveon, even if you were expecting Heal Bell, it still waaaaas pretty risky and he had nothing much to lose, going for a Hyper Voice. If that was the case, just remember to weigh in risk vs. reward. |
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I'd say you did pretty well exploiting it's habits and what not, but, just a small thing I'd recommend, against a Volt-Turn team, I'd be best to set up rocks right away, and then reveal your hand to deal with in-coming bulky water pokemon like Rotom-W. Gives them more pressure earlier than later! vs. Dark Azelf, kinda straight forward, I'd say the general rule of thumb battling against a Mega-Sableye is to not go for any status or residual field damage moves until you find a good way to neutralize it, or know for sure they wouldn't risk switching in to it. (or by the off chance on having a Mold Breaker user that knows Stealth Rock). One turn in particular you did was to go for Toxic against Zapdos, which you already knew his Chansey had Heal Bell, thus leaving you open to his Dugtrio. I'd say, it'd be much safer to go for Lava Plume. Better in that regard because for one, even if he stayed in, he still ran the risk of a burn and you could maybe predict an incoming switch or a roost from there. Or maybe try to burn an incoming pokemon. Either or. Well, that's how I see it; maybe someone else thinks the same way, but, yeah, happy to be some of assistance! |
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-306834834
Was doing so well until the very end. What do you guys think I should have switched in on his Latios? |
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Anyway, yeah, I guess you were sorta tilting towards the end there and not doing the best of options (ie, you could of just finished off his Azumarill, and you didn't need to keep U-turning with Scizor when you could of just Bullet Punched for a guaranteed KO or 2HKO on something coming in). I'd say just take your time next time. Especially during mid-game which is where you start to figure out your opponent's play style. Remember to weigh in risk vs. reward, and you'll do fine next time! |
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-ou-200219
made a **** team (w/ druddigon lol) vs dark azelf, probably won with luck but w/e http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-ou-197754 another match vs elf |
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PS. Mega Pidgeot has No Guard, so. Don't worry about missing Hurricanes. |
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-311262817
wanted to try hail in OU, not as bad as i expected lol. |
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http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/vgc2016-309948378
I almost made a full comeback on this but Id like to know how I couldve played this better. |
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-ou-203030
Anti murdering me for anyone else who wants to chime in xD |
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-ou-202801
Loss against R.F. I feel like I could've won this battle if I had played a bit differently, don't want to make the same mistakes anymore :/ |
Can I get a little bit of input on that battle as well? Because I know I made a ton of stupid plays.
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http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/po...nity-ou-204298
beat zek in the tourney. p sure i could have made better plays |
^Really I should be the one asking what I could've done better there
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http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-ou-204568
This was really bad. I know I was walled by that Cresselia, but once I realized I was walled I sorta flailed around in search of the best course of action, and I may have made a few poor decisions as a result. Also, there might be some other factors that walled me, Cresselia being the most obvious, but was there more to it than that...? |
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Other than that, not much to say.. I guess it was more of a matter of me catching you by surprise by those uncommon pokemon in OU. c: |
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-322306731
So, I was unsure about how good or bad I am at the game and according to this game I am VERY BAD. This is really starting to piss me off and even makes me question if competitive pokemon is even my thing. I end up rage quitung in the end cause his last pokemon survived on 1HP. I don't know if I suck, my team sucks, I got haxed , all of the above or what. Btw I am the person with the sableye cause I really wanted to use Specially Defensive Talonflame. |
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Second thing I saw, you should have switched to Hippowdon instead of sacking your Starmie. It resists everything Magnezone is most likely to throw at you (even being immune to electricity so it can't pull a Volt Switch on you and mess you up) and then either takes Magnezone out fairly easily or forces a switch. Once you lost Amoongus you were always going to have issues with Azumarill since half your team was hit super-effectively by it and the only other pokemon you have that resists it doesn't have great defence. Generally speaking though, you didn't do that badly and probably shouldn't get so upset. You'll get better with practice. Anyway, my turn. http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-ou-204906 I actually ended up winning the game, but I'd still like to improve further. One thing I'm definitely wondering is if I could have done something better to deal with Thundurus since I ended up having to just let it kill whatever I needed the least until its Life Orb did most of the work. |
Bleh, any thoughts on this one? I feel like our teams were pretty well matched in terms of counters/checks, but maybe not? Feels like this could have gone much better haha.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-326308479 Warning: turn 3 through 12 is nothing but Jirachi Iron Head spammage :P |
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