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G'day Pokécommunity, Beachy here!

Chya, so due to the recent addition of the Battle Logs Sub-forum, I decided to go fishing through my laptop to find some interesting battles to display to the PC public. Think I found a good one, so here goes...

About two weeks ago, I was yet again surfing around the forums. Also at the time taking a leave from shoddy, as battling became too much of an addiction. Though one late night... Kagami, otherwise known as Alex, stopped by my fan club and wondered wether I was up for a "BeachBrawl" over on shoddy. Which was quite surprising since in my Pokécommunity lifetime I had never seen him in the Pokémon Strategies & Movesets forum before. Accepting his request we both headed on shoddy to BEACHBRAWL!!11! battle.

I was eager to get in the swing of battling again, and my competitive fire began to fuel. Not only that, I had absolutely no clue how experienced Alex was. As far as I've seen, he's never in S&M, never heard him talk about competitive play, and somewhat rare to even see him outside of member fanclubs and misc. sections. So basically, assuming he isn't around S&M much, my fire raged with overwhelming confidence for the match. Which, for me, can usually be my worst enemy. XD

Before we get the ball rolling, I think it would be nice to know the team ahead of time to get you a better sense into my mind and play during the battle.

BeachBoy's Team
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As most of you know I'm an offensive kinda guy, full out berserker. So no surprise that this team settles with little walling and heavy powerhouse offense, pretty easy to see that just looking at this line up. ;D

Also, Kagami's team shall be secret here. So really, your viewing the battle just like me.

Ladder system rules apply in this battle, here's the quick run down.

• Evasion Clause
• Freeze Clause
• OHKO Clause
• Sleep Clause
• Species Clause
• Timed Battle (tick tock, the clock's runnin')

Also, I know how Blueberry has urged us to be creative with our logs, so I will try my best. I don't think I can do very well in that aspect of changing the log so much. But hey, I'm givin' it a whirl as one of my favorite things to do on forums is battle log posting. I'm glad this was established... I put some effort into this, so hope you all enjoy it. ;D

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Kagami sent out Gyarados!
BeachBoy sent out Gyarados!
Equally matched, both monsters fiercely rush their ability of force, intimidate, down upon each other.

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Okay, the match has begun, first off, it's even. Dos on Dos, meaning Kagami must have some skill in him to use one of the more effective leads in today's metagame. Mmmm, I don't like the chances of stone edges, and he may switch himself. So I'll go to swampert as gyarados can't touch him, and if he dragon dances, my mud puppy can rawr the beast. Plus, my team is relient on getting rocks in early, and especially in this match as I know he has a gyarados.
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BeachBoy switched in Swampert.
Gyarados used Stone Edge. (not very effective.)
Swampert lost 7% of its health.
A part of an apple heals Swampert a tad.
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Swampert .// 99%
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As expected, he sheers out the stones. Swampert, my only true wall, wasn't damaged much... So pert should easily get rocks in, Kagami will probably switch if he has skill, as he's at a disadvantage here. Knowing the switch is coming, rocks have the perfect set up, and so gyarados won't like his next entry against me.
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Kagami switched in Skarmory.
Swampert used Stealth Rock.
Dark stones cover around Kagumi's team.
Pert's apple heals it perfectly.

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Perfect! Have the rocks up and cover some security for his leviathan later on. Pert against Skarmory, usually hydro pump swamperts can 2HKO skarmory. Though my swampert is different. I have Ice beam & Earthquake for the best type coverage in the game. So can't harm skarmory much. Mine as well switch out... ice beam won't harm it, and earthquake would erupt an LOL party. I think I'll bring in Salamence as skarmory could be a stealth rock version, rare yes, though mine as well get mence in for superior destruction. >D
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BeachBoy switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate burns into Skarmory.
Skarmory used Spikes,
Spikes flew to the ground surrounding Salamence and the blue crew.
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Skarmory .// - 1 attack
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Well not stealth rock version of course, but I like that it's only a spiker. Half my team is immune to ground, so spikes don't cause much of a problem. I still don't know him well enough yet, so I'll contain myself and go full force meteor berserk on him. Still take a nice size out of skarm. And if he decides to switch I'll still leave some type of dent. Specsmence is a beast, so time to let it rip.
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Salamence used Draco Meteor. (not very effective.)
Skarmory lost 73% of its health.
Salamence's special attack was harshly lowered.
Skarmory used Whirlwind.
BeachBoy switched in Swampert.
Spikes scar into swampert exterior bites it's health away.
A leftover apple restores Skarm and Pert a little bit.
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Skarmory .// 33% .// - 1 attack
Swampert .// 94% .//
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Well instead, he whirled me away. Gah, I should've fire blast'd that metal bird to bits, but when you see a gyarados and skarmory don't ever be surprised a heatran is close by. Oh well, pert - skarm matchup once again. Last time I switched to mence, so maybe he'll switch to something to deal with it like a garchomp. Mmmm, I'll stay safe and ice beam. I'm still unsure of his tactics at this point.
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Skarmory fueled itself back to health with Roost.
Swampert used Ice Beam. (not very effective.)
Skarmory lost 13% of its health.
Both of their granysmith apples play a role in healing them.
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Skarmory .// 70% .// - 1 attack
Swampert .// 100%
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Well, at least it gave skarm a small amount of damage. Though roost didn't help. This turn didn't help me.... Time to get this metal bird outta here and scout his team. >]
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Skarmory used Spikes.
Spikes continue to layer swampert's side of the field.
Swampert used BGAAAHHHHHH (rawr) (roar)
Kagami switched in Jolteon.
Teeth like stones bite into Jolteon.
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Skarmory .// 64%
Jolteon .// 88%
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A jolteon ay? Dayum. Well jolteon spells hidden power grass all over it. Though... I still don't know Alex's play level yet. Losing swampert here wouldn't really hurt either, as I need to get these heavy hitters in here already. This stalling is bugging me deeply. Let's see some offense! >D Hmmmm.... he could predict I'm switching in fear of HP[grass] and then substitute. Mmmm, I'll earthquake this time. See where the dice rolls.
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Jolteon used Baton Pass.
Kagami switched in Skarmory.
Dark stones rip into Skarmory.
Swampert used Earthquake.
Skarmory laughs at the unaffected quake.
An apple refreshes Skarmory a small amount.
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Skarmory .// 76%
Jolteon .// 88%
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Another tough turn. Instead of a sub or hidden power grass, he baton passes. He probably was trying to scout me by predicting I would switch. Nice move. Also skarm is back and again I can't touch him. That bird is too annoying. He'll lay those spikes down a final time... So I should continue to phaze him and scout what other pokemon he has.
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Skarmory used Spikes.
A final layer of spikes scattered the field.
Swampert used RAWR!
Kagami switched in Gyarados.
Gyarados's presence glares into Swampert.
Black oynx rocks shred through his leviathan.
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Skarmory .// 64%
Gyarados .// 75%
Swampert .// 100% .// -1 attack
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Okay just fine. Mmmm yeah, I'll take a unwanted fourth of health everytime I enter with lucario, heatran and swampert from here on out. Good thing that stones came to huant Gyarados, though it unfortuantely doesn't let me know anymore members of his team. I only have seen his Gyarados, Jolteon, and Skarmory. What else is he holding in the wings..... Swampert has, more then enough, filled his roll in this battle. Mine as well keep at it with him until he goes. I need an easy switch in, freeze hax could be nice as well. ;P
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Kagami switched in Skarmory.
Black cold stones fly though Skarmory.
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Skarmory lost 26% of its health.
Leftovers come in favor for Skarmory.
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Skarmory .// 32%
Swampert .// 100% .// -1 attack
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Ice beam did well actually. Now skarmory is little in health, which is an excellent chance to get some heavy dose of offense hitter in.... or he could expect that and whirlwind. Argh, what the heck is he going to do! I'll roar... if he roosts he'll get a nice kudo but at least I can get in more scouting. Sheesh this is rare, I'm usually shreding people at this point... With all this offense I'm surprised I have yet to touch that score board.
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Skarmory lays down for a minute to recover with Roost.
Swampert used RAWR!
Kagami switched in Lucario.
Scard rocks barely bite into Lucario.
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Lucario .// 97%
Skarmory .// 82%
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Mmmmmm, a lucario and a healthy skarmory. Lucario is so unpredictable first time out of the gate. Could be specsluke, could be SDluke, could be Mixluke (hehe) for all I know. He has a gyarados already for a physical threat, and jolteon as somewhat of a special. Makes more sense if this was Specsluke then... Mmmm he could attack, hurt me some and I could get some nice damage in. I'll earthquake to see how things go. Though he does have skarmory.... But I can't Ice beam, it would hurt luke less. Argh fine, quake the fool!
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Kagami switched in Skarmory.
Sharp stones dug into Skarmory.
Swampert used Earthquake. (doesn't affect Skarmory)
Leftovers kick in for the bird.
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Skarmory .// 76%
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*headdesk* Gah, it's just not my day. Well outpredicted me there again. Well this swampert vs. skarmory match up doesn't boat well for me, so I mine as well switch to a powerhouse to get the ball rolling in my favor.
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BeachBoy switched in Salamence.
The dragons sheer image makes Skarmory scream. (like a chicken)
Skarmory used Whirlwind.
BeachBoy switched in Gengar.
Skarmory's leftovers refresh some health.
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Skarmory .// 82% .// -1 attack
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Exactly the reason half of this team is immune to ground, spikes. I'm okay with the wind to gengar instead. Though again things get a bit hectic here in my head. The scenarios run throughout it like wild fire. Of course my gengar has thunderbolt, but it also has choice scarf, and what pokemon did we see earlier in this match? Jolteon. If I lock on jolteon I give Kagami not only a free turn, but an excellent chance to start some trouble if it carries Hidden power grass. So I'll hypnosis to not worry about jolteon...
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Gengar used Hypnosis.
Skarmory fell asleep! Zzzzzz
Leftovers help out skarmory some.
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Skarmory .// 88% .// -1 attack .// sleep status
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Stayed in, garh.... Well skarm is asleep, so now time to switch in some firepower to get things rolling in my favor.
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Kagami switched in Blissey. :O
Piercing rocks run into Blissey.
BeachBoy switched in Salamence.
The deep red wings make the pink blob huddle in fear.
A leftover apple replenishes Blissey.
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Blissey .// 94% .// -1 attack
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This is where I wish I switched to lucario, mmm that would have been great. Anyway, Specsmence isn't a threat with that pink blob around, and I just changed from Mixmence to Specsmence too. =/ Blissey could stealth rock, ice beam, possibly thunderwave Mence. Swampert will take those just fine. So here comes mud puppy!
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BeachBoy switched in Swampert.
Spikes flew onto the mud beast inflicting pain.
Blissey used Aromatherapy.
Swampert's and Blissey's lunch restores their health.
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Swampert .// 81%
Blissey .// 100% .// -1 attack
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So he heals the team, simple enough. Now Skarmory is free of sleep status he'll want to make it a Skarm/Pert match up once more. Aha, not this time bro! I could switch to heatran or rawr. I like scouting over Tran who would be walled by blissey anyways, so rawr it is!
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Kagami switched in Skarmory.
Pointy rocks flew into the metal chicken.
Swampert used RAWR!
Kagami switched in Infernape.
Pointed stones curve into Infernape.
Leftover's boost pert's health a bit.
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Skarmory .// 76%
Swampert .// 87%
Infernape .// 88%
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Exactly expected. Though Infernape, yet another versatile wall breaker, isn't very welcome with swampert. So far he seems to be thinking one step ahead, so I'll stay in and watch the nasty plot, earthquaking nape to a early exit.
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Infernape used Close Combat.
Swampert lost 42% of its health.
Infernape's defence was lowered.
Infernape's special defence was lowered.
Infernape's life orb enters in pain for Infernape.
Swampert used Earthquake. (super effective.)
Infernape lost 78% of its health.
Kagami's Infernape fainted.
Leftover's rescue swampert's mediocre health.
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Swampert .// 51%
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(6-5) - BeachBoy

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Well didn't Nasty Plot, but instead close combat'd. Finally touch the score board, and hopefully stay on the blue side the rest of the way. Now that he can switch anyone in, I expect skarmory to hit the scene, he obviously like the match up of Pert vs. Skarm, which in turn, I dislike. >.>
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Kagami switched in Skarmory.
Stones swirled into skarmory's armor.
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Skarmory used Roost.
Skarmory restored 32% of its health.
Swampert used Ice Beam. (not very effective.)
Skarmory lost 14% of its health.
Leftovers heal Skarmory & Swampert.
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Skarmory .// 92%
Swampert .// 57%
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Yup, brought the metal chicken back. I ice beamd in hopes of a switch as he may have thought I would switch. Unfortunately he outpredicts me once more and skarmory is fully healthy. =/ He's fully healthy, has all spikes down, is against a physical wall by the name of Swampert.... So he'll whirlwind of course. MMmmmm, I'll roar & see who gets it.
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Skarmory used Whirlwind.
BeachBoy switched in Gengar.
Leftovers help out skarmory.
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Skarmory .// 98%---

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He gets the phaze, but I don't mind finally getting swampert out of that annoying match up. Gar's back, again, shouldn't thunderbolt... Jolteon will probably make the appearence here... So a good time to give it sleep.
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Gengar used Hypnosis.
Gengar's attack missed!
Skarmory used Drill Peck.
Gengar lost 47% of its health.
Leftovers refresh skarmory's health fully.
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Gengar .// 53%
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*Glares at hax god* >.> Mmm, gengar misses, but he didn't switch to Jolteon... interesting. Well some one has to hit the Zzzz.
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Gengar used Hypnosis.
Gengar's attack missed!
Skarmory used Drill Peck.
Gengar lost 47% of its health.
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Gengar .// 6%
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Ouch, that doesn't help in any way. Gengar's role in sleeping jolteon failed. COME ON GENGAR, LAND A HYPNOSIS! lol (Yes, commentary deleted in log where I cursed at the skies incredibly, well okay I didn't curse off but I said come on a lot :x)
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Gengar used Hypnosis.
Skarmory fell asleep!
Zzzzzzz
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Gengar .// 6%
Skarmory .// 100% .// sleep status
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Okay metal chicken go night night. Last time I did this he went to blissey, so he'll probably do it again, Mhm time for Gyarados to re-enter the scene and get it's groove on with blissey in. >]
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Kagami switched in Blissey.
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
BeachBoy switched in Gyarados.
Gyarados enters the area with such a confidence that blissey fears it.
The apple refreshes Blissey a tad.
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Blissey .// 94% .// -1 attack
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Perfect! Gyarados against blissey, shut down it's aroma and let the set up fun begin!
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Gyarados used Taunt. Bring it sista!
Blissey fell for the taunt!
Blissey used Aromatherapy.
Blissey can't use Aromatherapy after the taunt! (haha locked down)
Blissey's leftovers restored some health.
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Blissey .// 100% .// -1 attack .// Tuanted
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Now we're getting in that flow, just set up and Gyarados and wipe the floor with another team.
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Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Gyarados's attack was raised.
Gyarados's speed was raised.
Blissey used Thunderbolt. (super effective!)
Gyarados lost 74% of its health.
The leviathan's tiny apple recovers a small amount.
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Gyarados .// 32% .// +1 attack & speed
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Thunderbolt?! Gah, didn't see that coming. I expected seismic toss or ice beam, since jolteon fills some electric need, oh well. Well that ruins the hopeful flow of DDrage. Gah, he won't let me get in my flow of destruction. :/ Oh well, mine as well get a nice hit in, maybe some lucky flinch too.
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Gyarados used Waterfall.
Blissey lost 53% of its health.
Blissey used Thunderbolt. (super effective)
Gyarados lost 32% of its health.
BeachBoy's Gyarados fainted.
Leftovers help out blissey.
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Blissey .// 53%
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(5 all)

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I really didn't expect his blissey to carry thunderbolt judging by the make up of his team. Cost me my leviathan and the lead. =/ Well Blissey is half health, I should bring out mence for the meteor destruction and finish off the pink blob.
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BeachBoy switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Blissey's attack!

Kagami switched in Lucario.
Stones scratch lucario a tad.
Salamence used Draco Meteor. (not very effective.)
Lucario lost 90% of its health.
Salamence's special attack was harshly lowered.
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Salamence .// 100 .// -2 Special attack
Lucario .// 5%
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Well... no hit for blissey, but instead severely weaken his Lucario. As mentioned before, I think it's a specsluke judging the build of his squad... So I'll go to swampert just in case it is Hidden power ice, or for some reason a swords dance lucario, whcih swampert could phaze.
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BeachBoy switched in Swampert.
Swampert was hurt by enraged Spikes! (-25%)
Lucario used Dragon Pulse.
Swampert lost 32% of its health.
BeachBoy's Swampert fainted.

(4 - 5) Kagami

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No swords dance, no hidden power ice, just the end of mud puppy. Who did an excellent job in this battle. Somewhat glad I no longer need to relie on it. I'll bring in gengar as I know I can then outspeed it, but gah jolteon yet again is still out there. Now I can't mess around with choice scarf and be locked into thunderbolt. Gengar's Hidden Power [ice] can finish lucario anyways.
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BeachBoy switched in Gengar.
Gengar used Hidden Power. (not very effective.)
Lucario lost 5% of its health.
Kagami's Lucario fainted.
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Gengar .// 6%
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(4 all)

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Good other threat out of the way, and not locked onto a jolteon. *phew* (small note: clock hits a number of seconds as I left the battle to go get a drink) :x
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Kagami switched in Jolteon.
Dark rocks ride into Jolteon.
Gengar used Hidden Power.
Jolteon lost 37% of its health.
Jolteon used & made a Substitute. (-25%)
Jolteon's Salac Berry raised its speed!
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Jolteon .// 12% .// Substitute .// +1 speed
Gengar .// 6%
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Well I got jolteon down to size, but just in aid by activating salac, and substitute is up. Only way I can break a sub without swampert at this point is sacrifice. Good job gengar.
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Jolteon used Thunderbolt.
Gengar lost 6% of its health.
BeachBoy's Gengar fainted.
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Jolteon .// 12% .// Substitute .// +1 speed
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(3 - 4) Kagami

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Has to bite the dust in order to get this dangerous sub out of the way. Heatran will become the next peice of meat. Salamence and Lucario have to stick around as long as Skarmory and Blissey are still able to battle.
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BeachBoy switched in Heatran.
Heatran was hurt a lot by Spikes!
Jolteon used Baton Pass.
Kagami switched in Gyarados.
Gyarados's intimidate cut Heatran's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Gyarados.
Heatran used Dragon Pulse.
The substitute took damage for Gyarados!
Gyarados's substitute ran off in horror.
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Heatran .// 75%
Gyarados .// 50%
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Gave the substitute to gyarados, probably thinking he can pull off a sweep here with dragon dance. Heatran did the job in saying bai bai to the substitute and now gyarados is forced to destroy heatran.
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Gyarados used Waterfall.
It's super effective!
Heatran lost 69% of its health.
Heatran used Dragon Pulse.
Gyarados lost 45% of its health.
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Heatran 7%
Gyarados 5%
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Heatran sacrficing itself once again, pulsing gyarados to exit, also putting gyarados in range for salamence's fireblast to KO.
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Gyarados used Waterfall.
It's super effective!
Heatran lost 6% of its health.
BeachBoy's Heatran fainted.
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Gyarados .// 5%
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(2 - 4) Kagami

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Okay good, heatran's down leaving the open switch in for salamence to intimidate. Then fireblast in case skarmory gets any crazy idea a dragon pulse/meteor would come.
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BeachBoy switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Gyarados's attack!
Gyarados used Stone Edge.
Gyarados's attack missed!
Salamence used Fire Blast. (not very effective)
Gyarados lost 5% of its health.
Kagami's Gyarados fainted.
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Salamence .// 100%
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(2 - 3) Kagami

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Salamence should have survived the stone edge anyways, as gyarados was intimidated as well. Getting the leviathan out of the way, around these turns I notice the plan... Salamence as Alex knows is specs version, meaning he has to bring out blissey next turn. When Blissey gets somewhat injured by fire blast when using aroma for skarmory, she'll leave the window flying right open for....
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Kagami switched in Blissey.
Stones charged upon the nurse.
Salamence used Fire Blast.
Blissey lost 22% of its health.
Blissey used Aromatherapy.
Blissey's leftovers restored its health a little! (+6%)
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Blissey .// 25%
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Alex fell right into the palm of my hands, did exactly what I expected. Now he has to softboil in order to survive.
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BeachBoy switched in Lucario.
Lucario was hurt by the three layers of Spikes!
Blissey used Softboiled. (+50%).
Leftovers activate for Blissey.
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Lucario .// 75%
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Check. Exactly what I was hoping for. Force blissey into a softboil to get Lucario in for all hail to break loose!
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Kagami switched in Skarmory.
Rip Rocks rushed across Skarmory's exterior.
Lucario used Close Combat. (A critical hit!)
Skarmory lost 88% of its health.
Kagami's Skarmory fainted.
Lucario's defence was lowered.
Lucario's special defence was lowered.
Lucario's orb burnt inside of him after his attack.
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Lucario .// 65%
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(2 all)

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Check. Even though it was a critical hit, I still would have 2HKO'd the annoying metal chicken. The window is open and the flow of this hurricane is at full force!
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Kagami switched in Jolteon.
Flying rocks carved Jolteon into submission.
Kagami's Jolteon fainted.

(2 - 1) BeachBoy

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Check. Also, this is a solid reason why it's very important for offensive teams to get Stealth Rocks in early. It really benefits as the match plays on, as shown here.
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Kagami switched in Blissey.
Stones rage the pink blob yet again.
Lucario used Close Combat. (super effective!)
Blissey lost 69% of its health.
Kagami's Blissey fainted.

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Checkmate.
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(2 - 0) BeachBoy wins!



Review...
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We'll that's the game, I did not play up to my best level, and somehow came out with a W. I tried to play around with various formats for this log, and I hope this one did okay for you all. Looking back on this game it shows one main thing... Keep your game play & thoughts simple, that and/or know your opponent. I over thought many plays and mispredicted sometimes, that and Kagami read me like a book. It's unfortunate to say hax played "somewhat" of a factor in this battle, I wish it never happened, but ay that's the game. :/ Only that little window of chance at the end gave me the win....where I waited the perfect opportunity for lucario to come in for the win. Setting up a strategy in today's metagame is vital, I must say. Mine is stealth rocks, get the team in a flow of destruction, and berserk the opponent into submission. Though Kagami was open with stealth rocks early, he ruptured my flow, except when he didn't see that tiny window of opportunity that lucario had to come in on blissey's softboil. I really enjoyed this game, and I believe he did as well. Another point, bulky waters (gyarados & swampert) are absolute beasts! Heatran for me, didn't do to well but that sacrifice was a key part in the battle. I could of put him in on various matchups on skarmory, but didn't, which is regretable. On the other side, dang that metal chicken, my biggest problem in the game. Consistently walled me, and set up spikes with ease....

Another thing is, don't go get a drink in the middle of a battle, I'll admit I did during this just for a second, but that shoddy time just seems to fly away. XD

As I said before, the main thing I hope you possibly learned is don't over analyze the situation. Usually keep things simple and you can do better, by hitting the pure basics I touched the score board for the first time in this battle. Though in the heat of battle, it is quite easy to runs many things from your head, I clearly did that here, and messed up my flow. Secondly, have a plan for skarmbliss in your team, yes it may be an overused and many could say it's a "bad" pair, but they are effective against certian teams, simple as that. Which is the reason my Specsmence is a Mixmence now. ;D This team is doing well, I don't use it much these days, it has flaws, but boy can it hit that high note in chaos when it gets rolling. (Team: 29-8)

So remember kids, sheer offense is a lot more fun than stalling. *anti-pop shott'd*

Credits & Thanks....
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- Alex, you were a great opponent, only one I recently faced that gave me consistent struggle to get in my offensive flow. Thank you & great game!
- Blueberry, you rock for getting this sub-forum in action!
- Sprites from the resource we all know, Pe2k.
- Rules button provided by my friend BJ & Myself. (he got the button image, I made it rules and border)
- Format Design, me of course ;P
- All of you readers too, I really hope you liked it as much as I did.
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Feel free to comment your opinion, rep it, whatever... I just hope you liked reading it after all the work that was put into it.

(small note: if you notice mistakes like spelling and what not, PM me, I'm tired so there should be mistakes here and there, anyways... I'll edit this later with more personalizaton of spikes/SR too~)

Hey Pokécommunity!

Okay, the past couple of days, I installed a new team and couldn't be happier playing with them. (even if they are getting shred to bits in the RMT) I've been on a nice streak against some of the PC guild, defeating clade. & Anti-pop (both 5-0) Hence, I feel pretty damn good, my prediction has caught fire, and things have gone extremely well. So last night, after proving Anti that I didn't have stall problems, the berserkers were pretty much done for the day, including myself. Time is about, oh' 1AM. So I scroll over to watch some battles (that I fall asleep from usually) and see a battle between sims796 vs. simple796. I decide to go in to see sims battling himself. o0 We talked for a bit, mainly on how Anti has been doing lately, some underused pokémon, etc etc.

So he wonders wether I was up for a battle. Of course I said yes, after all I was still high from the Anti battle, still tired though. x-x; Ever since I registered at PC, I've known sims for some time. He's probably the most adamant person I've ever met, not to mention he knows what he's talking about. He's known for his low tier game (as far as I know) so I was pretty intimidated by the surprises he had instore for me.

[enter period of time were I challenge him about 4 times]

He then goes on my profile saying he was going to kick my shoddy arse. (Hehe, not surprised) After finally challenging me, the battle begins!

BeachBoy's Berserkers

What? Were you expecting some balanced or stall team? Come on now. I'm the Azelf of the trio (Anti: Uxie, Bueberry: Mespirit, D_A: Arceus) Of course it's an offensive team. A small wall, and a bunch of pain. That's just how I role. >D Won't be showing sims team here, don't want to spoil surprise. ;D

• Evasion Clause
• Freeze Clause
• OHKO Clause
• Sleep Clause
• Species Clause
• Strict Damage Clause
• Timed Battle

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BeachBoy sent out Gyarados.
sims796 sent out Sceptile.
Gyarados's intimidate cut Sceptile's attack!
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Sceptile .// -1 attack
...

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Okay, let's get this party started! Mmm, sceptile is pretty unpredictable first glance, could be subseed, physical, or even specs. I've heard sims is a fan of Subseed though, not to mention Gyara has a choice scarf, so... I'll be conservative and ice fang to get a nice amount of damage.


sims796 switched in Dusknoir.
A strange pressure consumes the field.
Gyarados used Ice Fang.
Dusknoir lost 18% of its health.
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Dusknoir .// 88%
...

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Okay, well there goes that idea. >>; Might be a swordTile then. Well a small amount of pain for dusknoir, but Dusknoirs carry thunderpunch sometimes, and I'm not risking my leviathan this early. I'll bring in Metagross and see what we can get going.


BeachBoy switched in Metagross.
Dusknoir used Fire Punch.
It's super effective!
Metagross lost 24% of its health.
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Metagross .// 76%
Dusknoir .// 94%
...

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Wow, glad I didn't switch to Heracross. x-x; Hmm, probably send another one, so time for pursuit pain I guess.


Metagross used Pursuit. (super effective!) A critical hit! (1)
Dusknoir lost 73% of its health.
Dusknoir used Will-o-wisp.
Metagross was burned!
Metagross was hurt by its burn!
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Metagross .// 64% .// Burned
Dusknoir .// 27%
...

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D'oh! I should've switched to Heatran! Dangit T_T must be Anti battle hangover. That and probably because it's 1AM. I could've switched to Heracross too. Gah, I played dusknoir completely wrong, now I'm locked on pursuit with choice band, and burnt which really hurts the attack. Hmm, I really messed up these turns. =/ He'll probably Pain split, that or fire punch, so I shouldn't really switch to heatran. Mmmmm....

Metagross used Pursuit. (super effective!)
Dusknoir lost 17% of its health.
Dusknoir used Pain Split.
(Dusknoir restored 34% of its health.
Metagross lost 28% of its health.)
Metagross was hurt by its burn!
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Metagross .// 24% .// Burned .// Locked on pursuit.
Dusknoir .//50%
...

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Well this sucks. Pain splits and now I've basically made Metagross bite the dust. Now he'll probably fire punch seeing as he wants to finish off Metagross, so it's impossible to switch to Heracross now. However, he has no clue about Heatran. Tehehe, come here fire power. >D

BeachBoy switched in Heatran.
Dusknoir used Fire Punch.
Heatran's Flash Fire raised its fire power!
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Heatran .// +1 Boost fire power
Dusknoir .// 56%
...

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Here we go, this is the what I should've done earlier. Now Heatran has the boost, and time to kick out and see what damage this power can do.

Heatran used Lava Plume.
Dusknoir lost 53% of its health.
Dusknoir used Pain Split.
(Dusknoir restored 64% of its health.
Heatran lost 49% of its health.)
Heatran's leftovers restored its health a little!
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Heatran .// 57% .// +1 fire power boost
Ducknoir .// 73%
...

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Oh come on! Hung on by 3% to pain split me. >>; Gah... This is just not my day, where the heck did BeachBoy go. Well, he can't touch me really, let's send another!


sims796 switched in Grumpig
Heatran used Lava Plume.
Grumpig lost 23% of its health.
Grumpig was burned!
Heatran's & Grumpig's leftovers restored their health a tad!
Grumpig was scarred of a burn.
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Heatran .// 63% .// +1 fire power boost
Grumpig .// 71% .// burned.
...

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Grumpig!? What in the son of a biscuit. o0 Very rare to see that in competitive play, well for me anyway. Hmm, might think I'm gonna switch in fear of focus blast, so maybe he'll switch. I'll plume again expecting a possible switch.


Heatran used Lava Plume.
Grumpig lost 21% of its health.
Grumpig used Reflect.
A tall barrier was set up!
Heatran and Grumpigs Leftovers replenished some health.
Grumpig's burn began to hurt once more.
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Heatran .// 69% .// +1 fire power boost
Grumpig .// 65% .// burned.
...

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Okay overprediction + set up + thick fat = bad turn. T_T Wow I'm am just not into it. Well, has to try and take out heatran now, so I'll go to Salamence to take it and soon inflict some pain.


BeachBoy switched in Salamence.
Salamence's presence scares Grumpig.
Grumpig used Focus Blast. (not very effective) A critical hit! (2)
Salamence lost 39% of its health.
Grumpig's leftovers restored its health a little!
Grumpig was hurt by its burn!
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Salamence .// 61%
Grumpig .// 59% .// burned .// -1 Attack
...

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And now hax is against me, just peachy. At least the burn is playing affect in pain. Grumpig is annnnnooying. Time for Draco meteor it to it's piggy grave.

sims796 switched in Dusknoir.
Dusknoir is exerting its pressure!
Salamence used Draco Meteor.
Attack missed!
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Salamence .// 61%
Ducknoir .// 79%
...

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*sigh* that would have done a tole on Dusknoir as well. Hmm, he sees the life orb so I can possibly carry crunch in his head. I actually don't carry crunch, but that might be enough for him to w-o-w me. I'll switch to Hera to absorb it.

Convo...
BeachBoy: T_T
sims796: haha

BeachBoy switched in Heracross.
Dusknoir used Shadow Sneak.
Heracross lost 21% of its health.
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Heracross .// 79%
Ducknoir .// 85%
...

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*headdesk* what in the heck am I doing! Time to murder this fool with a pursuit. T_T


Dusknoir used Shadow Sneak.
Heracross lost 20% of its health.
Heracross used Pursuit. (super effective!)
Dusknoir lost 16% of its health.
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Heracross .// 59%
Dusknoir .// 75%
...

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So frustration at my bad play I completely fergot about reflect. So... now I've caused Heracross to get owned as well. I could switch to Heatran but basically no point as I just cycle the process and could cause future problems, I'll just let heracross go. v-v; Wow I need to find myself, this battle isn't looking good at all.

Convo...
BeachBoy: o0
sims796: not that dumb
sims796: Relfect?
BeachBoy: oh xD
sims796: *wink*
BeachBoy: Bad match for me, not into it. xD
sims796: dumb luck for me

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I've learned my lesson, never play at 1AM, and wait a while after playing Anti, but I'm not going to ram on about excuses, I'm just playing really bad.


Heracross used Pursuit. (super effective!)
Dusknoir lost 15% of its health.
Dusknoir used Fire Punch. (super effective!) A critical hit! (3)
Heracross lost 59% of its health.
BeachBoy's Heracross fainted.
Dusknoir's reflect wore off!
Dusknoir's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Dusknoir .// 66%
...

(5 - 6) sims796

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I'm frustrated, not playing well, and just... just bad. Since Salamence missed the first time, now I can give it a second try.

BeachBoy switched in Salamence.
Intimidation from the dragon sheers through the ghost.
Salamence used Draco Meteor. (-2 special attack kicks in afterwards)
Dusknoir lost 66% of its health.
sims796's Dusknoir fainted.
Life orb burns in the beast.
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Salamence .// 51% .// -2 special attack
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(5 - 5) All

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Wish that hit the first time. Oh well, that's the game. ;D Okay now to roll in form and start berserking.

sims796 switched in Sceptile.

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I don't want dragon claw or dragon pulse, so I'll bring in metagross to sacrifice so an intimidator like Gyarados and come in once more.

BeachBoy switched in Metagross.
Sceptile used Dragon Claw. (not very effective)
Metagross lost 9% of its health.
Life orb inflicts pain upon Sceptile.
Metagross was hurt by its burn!
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Metagross .// 2%
Sceptile .// 90%
...

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Hmmm. Here's a tricky sitchu. Okay, he could think I'll switch to Gyarados and swords dance (as it's definitly a physical Sceptile by D-claw) So I could blow up and really hurt sceptile. OR he could attack and I'll die, but I should bullet punch to faint with at least some damage. Mmm, judging by the match so far, I need to blow up... I can't allow him to go set up city on me.


Sceptile used Thunderpunch.
Metagross lost 2% of its health.
BeachBoy's Metagross fainted.
Like orb claws into Sceptile.
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Sceptile .// 80%
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(4 - 5) sims796


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Mmm. Attacked and finished me off instead. However, now I know he has thunderpunch, okay. Still doesn't know Gyarados is scarfed yet. (I think) So I'll bring in Gyarados to rip the tree frog to bits.

BeachBoy switched in Gyarados.
The leviathan intimidates Sceptile.

sims796 switched in Hitmontop.
Gyarados used Ice Fang.
Hitmontop lost 24% of its health.
A small apple heals the Hitmon.
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Hitmontop .// 82%
...

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Okay so he has a Hitmontop in store. Has leftovers, so probably not the priority version, though it doesn't have the intimidate, it has tech here. Hmm. I'll bring in Salamence, as hitmontop can't touch it and intimidate fun. ;D

BeachBoy switched in Salamence
Salamence's fierce entry strikes into Hitmontop.
Hitmontop used Toxic.
Salamence was badly poisoned!
Poison seeps into the dragon.
Leftover apple heals the fighter.
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Hitmontop .// 88% .// -1 attack
Salamence .// 45% .// Badly poisoned
...

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Well, Salamence won't really mnd poison that much anyway, it's gotta charge up ring meteor damage though. Should switch since Hitmontop is useless in this situation.

sims796 switched in Grumpig.
Salamence used Draco Meteor. A critical hit! (4)
Grumpig lost 37% of its health.
sims796's Grumpig fainted.
Salamence's special attack was harshly lowered.
The life orb and poison inflict heavy pain on the dragon.
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Salamence .// 23% .// Badly poisoned
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(4 - 4) All

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Good, even and grumpig is out of the way. Though what does he have waiting in the wings?

sims796 switched in Vileplume.

sims796: good.

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Mmm... he was ranting about Vileplume the other day, wonder what he's up to.

Salamence used Fire Blast. (super effective!)
Vileplume lost 42% of its health.
Life orb burns into Salamence.
Vileplume used Hidden Power. (super effective!) A critical hit! (5)
Salamence lost 13% of its health.
BeachBoy's Salamence fainted.
Vileplume's Black Sludge restored a little health!
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Vileplume .// 64%
...

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Salamence is down and out, but at least got a nice piece out of Vile from fireblast. Being HP[ice] it won't be able to touch heatran, if it has sleep pwder, well... hehe Restalk Heatran would mind that either.


(3 - 4) sims796

sims796: I wanted it to hit
(ORLY?)


BeachBoy switched in Gyarados
Gyarados's intimidating entry cut Vileplume's attack.
sims796 switched in Hitmontop
Gyarados used Ice Fang.
Hitmontop lost 25% of its health.
Letftovers healed hitmontop.
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Hitmontop .// 69%
...

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Okay, well not getting anything done with Gyarados vs. hitmontop. I'll switch to Celebi as hitmontop really can't do anything to it.

BeachBoy switched in Celebi.
Hitmontop used Toxic.
Celebi was badly poisoned!
The poison digs in Celebi.
Hitmontop's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Hitmontop .// 75% .// -1 attack
Celebi .// 94% .// Badly poisoned
...

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Well, I have natural cure so not much to worry about. Can't touch me, so Vileplume will probably come out. I'll just leech seed and see where that takes me.

sims796 switched in Vileplume.
Celebi used Leech Seed.
Celebi's leftovers restore, yet the poison takes it's toll.
Black sludge replenished Vileplume's health.
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Vileplume .// 70%
Celebi .// 88% .// Badly poisoned
...

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Okay, I can't stay in on this, and Vileplume can't touch Heatran seeing as it has HP [ice]. So I'll go to Heatran and take whatever.

BeachBoy switched in Heatran
Vileplume used Sleep Powder.
Vileplume's attack missed!
Leftovers & Black sludge heal Heatran & Vileplume.
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Vileplume .// 76%
Heatran .// 75%

...

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Haha, he has no clue. Even if it hit, Heatran is the restalk varient. So... he can sleep powder all he wants he's going to EAT IT! >D (Part of battle I feel the best)

Heatran used Lava Plume. (super effective!) (Burns)
Vileplume lost 65% of its health.
Vileplume used Sleep Powder.
Heatran fell... Zzzzzz
A bite of an apple heals Heatran a tad.
The oil helped out Vileplume.
The flames burn and hurt Vileplume.
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Vileplume .// 6% .// Burned
Heatran .// 81%

...

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Haha, he has no idea what's comin'. Hopefully it won't sleeptalk rest and then spoil the surprise. =/ Here we go!

Zzzzzzz....
Heatran used Sleep Talk!
Heatran used Earth Power. (-6%)
sims796's Vileplume fainted.
Leftover apples heal Heatran.
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Heatran .// 87%
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(3 - 3)

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That felt really really good.

sims796 switched in Hitmontop.
BeachBoy switched in Celebi.
Hitmontop used Close Combat. (not very effective.)
Celebi lost 14% of its health.
Hitmontop's defence & special defence was lowered.
Leftovers heal Celebi & Hitmontop.
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Hitmontop .// 81% .// -1 defense & special defense
Celebi .// 80%
....

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Okay another Celebi vs. Hitmontop matchup. He can't stay in, so mine as well just throw seeds out there for more walling.


sims796 switched in Sceptile.
Celebi used Leech Seed.
Celebi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Celebi restored 6% of its health.
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Celebi .// 86%
....

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Well I can't touch sceptile, so I'll go to Heatran, sceptile shouldn't be able to harm much with Tran in.


BeachBoy switched in Heatran.
Sceptile used Swords Dance.
Sceptile's attack was sharply raised!
Heatran's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Heatran .// 93% .// Sleep
Sceptile .// 80% .// +2 attack
...

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Well Heatran can take a hit, time to blast it with lava!

Sceptile used Thunderpunch.
Heatran lost 40% of its health.
Life orb seeps in Sceptile.
Heatran is .. Zzzzz
Heatran's leftovers restored health.
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Heatran .// 59% .// Sleep
Sceptile .// 70% .// +2 attack
...

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;-; Wow. How in the heck did I forget it was asleep. *facepalm* Gah, well... He'll wake up this turn. So time to blast now!

Sceptile used Thunderpunch.
Heatran lost 43% of its health.
Life orb carves into Sceptile.
Heatran woke up!
Heatran used Lava Plume. (super effective!)
Sceptile lost 60% of its health.
sims796's Sceptile fainted.
Leftovers helped out Heatan.
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Heatran .// 22%
...

(3 - 2) BeachBoy

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Okay good, now Gyarados doesn't have a threat. Except he's hiding something. Mmm... What is it!

sims796: I win!
sims796 switched in Raichu.
sims796: you know, Tbolt is an OHKO, right?

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He wants me to switch. Heck no, I'm stayin and blasting with Earth power, your not fooling me sims!

Raichu used Nasty Plot.
Raichu's special attack was sharply raised.
Heatran used Earth Power. (super effective!)
Raichu lost 92% of its health.
Heatran's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Heatran .// 28%
Raichu .// 8% .// +2 Special Attack
...

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Knew it, your not foolin' me. It may be 2AM but your not taking advantage from that. >D Okay now Raichu is weak, perfect for Gyarados to finish off with it's choice scarf. Gonna have to let heatran bite it here though. =/


Raichu used Thunderbolt.
Heatran lost 30% of its health.
BeachBoy's Heatran fainted.
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Raichu .// 8% .// +2 Special Attack
...

(2 - 2)

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Great. Okay we have Gyarados and Celebi vs. Hitmontop and Raichu. Hmmm. If I don't screw up switching I should have it.

BeachBoy switched in Gyarados.
Gyarados's intimidate sliced Raichu's attack.
sims796 switched in Hitmontop.
Gyarados used Earthquake.
Hitmontop lost 33% of its health.
Leftovers healed Hitmontop.
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Hitmontop .// 54%
...

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Have to get that thing in range. Gah, Keep up the Celebi vs. Hitmontop then. Can't stand to have Gyarados fall yet, I need it for Raichu.


BeachBoy switched in Celebi.
Hitmontop used Toxic.
Hitmontop's attack missed!
Leftovers healed Celebi & Hitmontop.
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Celebi .// 92%
Hitmontop .// 60%
...

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Okay just need to Grass knot it down to KO range for Gyarados, then I lock this battle up.

Celebi used Grass Knot.
Hitmontop lost 23% of its health.
Hitmontop used Toxic.
Celebi was badly poisoned!
Leftovers heal Celebi, yet a weak poison kicks in.
Hitmontop's leftovers restored its health a little!
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Celebi .// 92%
Hitmontop .// 43%
...

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It's not enough have to keep pushing it.


Celebi used Grass Knot.
Hitmontop lost 22% of its health.
Hitmontop used Pursuit. (super effective!)
Celebi lost 19% of its health.
Leftovers heal Hitmontop and Celebi.
A stronger poison hurts Celebi.

...
Celebi .// 67%
Hitmontop .// 27%
...

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I'm just going to shut up and let you watch. :x

Celebi used Grass Knot.
Hitmontop lost 22% of its health.
Hitmontop used Pursuit. (super effective!)
Celebi lost 20% of its health.
Celebi is hurt badly by poison!
Leftovers heal Hitmontop and Celebi.
...
Celebi .// 34%
Hitmontop .// 11%
...

Celebi used Grass Knot.
Hitmontop lost 14% of its health.
sims796's Hitmontop fainted.
Celebi's leftovers restore.
Celebi is hurt badly by posion.
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Celebi .// 16%
...

(2 - 1) BeachBoy


...........
Wow, how in the heck did I pull this out.


sims796 switched in Raichu.
Raichu used Thunderbolt. (not very effective)
Celebi lost 15% of its health.
Celebi used Grass Knot. (-8%)
sims796's Sparks fainted.

BeachBoy wins!



What a game. I messed up countless time in the beginning and still won, sheeesh. I'm just speechless on this match. I thought messing up so bad in the start it wouldn't work out. However, just kept at it and pulled it out. Good game sims. What did I learn from this match? Don't play when your sleepy. Don't play right after a battle with Anti (Haha) Dusknoir is a great wall. Learn the UU tier better. Seriously, I need to improve in that area, I almost got raped a UU/BL team. That's just insane looking at the all my overused. This battle showed UU and BL can hang with the big boys. Another thing, the bluffing, okay kids, when you feel you need to bluff, DO EEEEETTTT. ;P Just kidding, I don't spreach to talk to mess up an opponents play, but do what you wish. Also, showed thunder wave is a better option on Celebi. Heatran, Salamence, and Celebi did a great job. Kicking myself for messing up Metagross and Heracross.

Great battle sims. Hope you all enjoyed it. Thanks for reading!

In the past, I had always frowned upon Baton Pass Chain teams. However, I had recently decided to attempt one myself. One of the larger conundrums of a BPChain team is who is the final recipient. Some go with Octillery or Cradily due to their abilities. Others go with Blissey or Skarmory for irony. I decided to go with the only Uber Pokemon allowed in OU (allegedly): Clamperl. Yes yes. I know. Clamperl. Well some of you know of the little secret behind Clamperl. What is that secret you may ask. I'll tell you. It's Deepseatooth. With that baby attached, Clamperl's Special Attack can reach 524. That's higher than Deoxys-Attack form. However, I go with a Timid natured Clamperl, but his Special Attack still manages to reach 494. I spent about two days experimenting with various Baton Passers and found a good combination of Pokemon to pass off to Clamperl. Below is an example of a perfect Baton Pass chain. There'll be no commentary as the battle itself is entertaining enough (and it's two in the morning). Remember, this team isn't meant for anything serious. I wouldn't expect this to work in a true environment and I know the majority of it relies on luck. This is meant as a fun, goofy team that leads to a sweep by an unexpected Pokemon.




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• Ladder Match
• Sleep Clause
• Freeze Clause
• OHKO Clause
• Evasion Clause
• Species Clause
• Strict Damage Clause

1nvincible sent out Gengar.
Blueberry sent out Vaporeon.

oooooooo

Blueberry switched in Togekiss.
Gengar used Hypnosis.
Togekiss fell asleep!
ooo
Togekiss ~ Sleep status
ooo


oooooooo

1nvincible switched in Gliscor.
Blueberry switched in Umbreon.

oooooooo

Gliscor used Stealth Rock.
Stealth like rock surrounded the field.
Umbreon used Mean Look.
Gliscor was under the glare of Umbreon.
ooo
Gliscor ~ Trapped
ooo


oooooooo

Gliscor used Earthquake.
A critical hit!
Umbreon lost 49% of its health.
Umbreon used Baton Pass.
Blueberry switched in Solrock.
Stones scarred into Solrock.
Leftoves healed Solrock a tad.
ooo
Umbreon ~ 51%
Solrock ~ 94%
Gliscor ~ Trapped
ooo


oooooooo

Solrock used Cosmic Power.
Solrock's defence was raised.
Solrock's special defence was raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang.
Solrock lost 11% of its health.
Solrock's leftovers replenished it's health some.
ooo
Solrock ~ 89% ~ +1 defense/special defense
ooo

oooooooo

Solrock used Cosmic Power.
Solrock's defence was raised.
Solrock's special defence was raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang.
Solrock lost 8% of its health.
Leftovers healed Solrock.
ooo
Solrock ~ 87% ~ +2 defense/special defense
ooo

oooooooo



Solrock used Cosmic Power.
Solrock's defence was raised.
Solrock's special defence was raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang.
Solrock lost 7% of its health.
Leftovers helped out Solrock.
ooo
Solrock ~ 86% ~ +3 defense/special defense
ooo

oooooooo



Solrock used Cosmic Power.
Solrock's defence was raised.
Solrock's special defence was raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang.
Solrock lost 5% of its health.
Recovery from leftovers come into effect for Solrock.
ooo
Solrock ~ 87% ~ +4 defense/special defense
ooo

oooooooo



Solrock used Cosmic Power.
Solrock's defence was raised.
Solrock's special defence was raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang.
Solrock lost 5% of its health.
An apple heals the sunny pokemon.
ooo
Solrock ~ 87% ~ +5 defense/special defense
ooo

oooooooo



Solrock used Baton Pass.
Blueberry switched in Togekiss.
Sharp stones dug into Togekiss.
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (super effective!)
Togekiss lost 9% of its health.
Leftover apple heals Togekiss.
ooo
Togekiss ~ 72% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ Sleep status
ooo


oooooooo



Togekiss is- Zzzzz.
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (super effective!)
Togekiss lost 8% of its health.
Leftovers heal Togekiss.
ooo
Togekiss ~ 70% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ Sleep status
ooo

oooooooo



Togekiss is fast asleep!
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (super effective!)
Togekiss lost 8% of its health.
An apple healed Togekiss.
ooo
Togekiss ~ 68% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ Sleep status
ooo

oooooooo



Togekiss woke up!
Togekiss used Nasty Plot.
Togekiss's special attack was sharply raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (super effective!)
Togekiss lost 9% of its health.
Togeliss's leftovers healed it.
ooo
Togekiss ~ 65% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~+2 Special Attack
ooo

oooooooo



Togekiss used Nasty Plot.
Togekiss's special attack was sharply raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (super effective!)
Togekiss lost 8% of its health.
Leftovers healed Togekiss.
ooo
Togekiss ~ 63% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack
ooo

oooooooo



Togekiss used Baton Pass.
Blueberry switched in Vaporeon.
Ripping rocks carved into Vaporeon.
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (not very effective.)
Vaporeon lost 2% of its health.
Vaporeon's leftovers restored its health a little!
ooo
Vaporeon ~ 94% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack
ooo

oooooooo



Gliscor used Earthquake.
Vaporeon lost 9% of its health.
Vaporeon used Substitute.
Vaporeon lost 25% of its health.
Vaporeon made a substitute!
Leftovers healed Vaporeon.
ooo
Vaporeon ~ 61% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ Substitute
ooo

oooooooo



Gliscor used Earthquake.
The substitute took damage for Vaporeon!
Vaporeon used Baton Pass.
Blueberry switched in Gliscor.
Dark rocks rip into Gliscor.
Leftover apple heals Gliscor!
ooo
Gliscor ~ 94% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ Substitute
ooo

oooooooo



Gliscor used Ice Fang. (super effective!)
The substitute took damage for Gliscor!
Gliscor used Agility.
Gliscor's speed was sharply raised.
Leftovers help out Gliscor.
ooo
Gliscor ~ 94% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ +2 Speed ~ Substitute
ooo

oooooooo



Gliscor used Agility.
Gliscor's speed was sharply raised.
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (super effective!)
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Gliscor!
Gliscor's substitute faded!
Leftovers help out Gliscor.
ooo
Gliscor ~ 94% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ +4 Speed ~
ooo

oooooooo



Gliscor used Baton Pass~
Blueberry switched in Vaporeon.
Rocks ripped into Vaporeon.
Gliscor used Ice Fang. (not very effective.)
Vaporeon lost 2% of its health.
Leftovers restored Vaporeon
ooo
Vaporeon ~ 53% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ +4 Speed ~
ooo

oooooooo


Vaporeon used Substitute.
Vaporeon lost 25% of its health.
Vaporeon made a substitute!
Gliscor used Earthquake.
The substitute took damage for Vaporeon!
Leftovers healed Vaporeon.
ooo
Vaporeon ~ 28% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ +4 Speed ~ Substitute
ooo

oooooooo


Vaporeon used Baton Pass.
Blueberry switched in Clamperl.
Pointed stones dug into Clamperl.
Clamperl lost 12% of its health.
Gliscor used Earthquake.
The substitute took damage for Clamperl!
ooo
Clamperl ~ 88% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ +4 Speed ~ Substitute
ooo

oooooooo


Clamperl used Surf. (super effective!)
A critical hit!
Gliscor lost 100% of its health.
1nvincible's Gliscor fainted.

(6 - 5)

1nvincible switched in Snorlax.
Clamperl used Surf.
Snorlax lost 92% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
The substitute took damage for Clamperl!
Clamperl's substitute faded!
Leftovers healed Snorlax.
ooo
Clamperl ~ 88% ~ +5 defense/special defense ~ +4 Special Attack ~ +4 Speed ~ Substitute
Snorlax ~ 14%
ooo

oooooooo

Clamperl used Surf.
Snorlax lost 14% of its health.
1nvincible's Snorlax fainted.


(6 - 4)


1nvincible switched in Gengar.
Clamperl used Surf.
Gengar lost 100% of its health.
1nvincible's Gengar fainted.

(6 - 3)

1nvincible switched in Floatzel.
Clamperl used Hidden Power. (super effective!)
Floatzel lost 100% of its health.
1nvincible's Floatzel fainted.

(6 - 2)


1nvincible switched in Heatran.
Clamperl used Surf. (super effective!)
Heatran lost 100% of its health.
1nvincible's Heatran fainted.

(6 - 1)

1nvincible switched in Metagross.
Clamperl used Surf.
A critical hit!
Metagross lost 100% of its health.
1nvincible's Metagross fainted.

Blueberry wins!


Thanks to BeachBoy for the lovely formatting.

[Azonic vs. ROFLCOPTER1]

Azonic vs. ROFLCOPTER1

At least I didn't completely steal BeachBoy's format. Okay, this battle was a fun one. In case you didn't know, this guy with the n00bish username ROFLCOPTER1 is Dark_Azelf. So I'm sueing him for typing his username in capital letters. This team had been working pretty well for me before, except I need to take Choice Scarf off of Heatran. I decided to use it against the oh so holy god of competetive battling: D_A. :O

Azzy's Team

Da Rulez

✖Evasion Clause
✖Freeze Clause
✖OHKO Clause
✖Sleep Clause
✖Species Clause
✖Timed Battle

Begin Battle!

●
Azonic sent out Gyarados.
ROFLCOPTER1 sent out Salamence.
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Weezing (lvl 100 Weezing ?).
Gyarados used Thunder Wave.
Weezing is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
Weezing ~ Paralyzed
I love how unpredictable Thunder Wave is. I rarely use it, but I love it. <3
●
Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Weezing is paralysed! It can't move!
Weezing ~ Paralyzed
Gyarados ~ +1 Attack / Speed
Yay for setting up. :O
●
Gyarados used Waterfall.
Weezing lost 31% of its health.
Weezing is paralysed! It can't move!
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 75% HP
Gyarados ~ +2 Attack / Speed
I love how haxy paralyze can get.
●
Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Weezing used Will-o-wisp.
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 81% HP
Gyarados ~ +3 Attack / Speed // 94% HP[/size=1]
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Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Weezing is paralysed! It can't move!
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 87% HP
Gyarados ~ +4 Attack / Speed // 88% HP
Which about sums up how much I love Thunderwave.
●
Gyarados used Waterfall.
A critical hit!
Weezing lost 58% of its health.
Weezing used Thunderbolt.
A critical hit!
Gyarados lost 161% of its health.
Azonic's Gyarados fainted.
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 35% HP
Gyarados ~ Faint
Stupid critical hits. I would have done more damage if Gyarados didn't get a critical hit on Weezing, and if Weezing didn't get any critical hits on Gyarados. XD
●
(5-6) - ROFLCOPTER1
Azonic switched in Breloom.
Breloom used Substitute.
Weezing used Flamethrower.
Breloom's substitute faded!
Breloom was badly poisoned!
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 41% HP
Breloom ~ Poisoned // 25% HP
At this point I forgot that Weezing was paralyzed. XD
●
Azonic switched in Cresselia.
Weezing used Flamethrower.
Cresselia lost 12% of its health.
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 47% HP
Cresselia ~ 94% HP
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Celebi.
Cresselia used Psychic.
Celebi lost 11% of its health.
Celebi ~ 95% HP
Cresselia ~ 100% HP
I HATE U. >:(
●
Celebi used Substitute.
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
It's super effective!
Celebi's substitute faded!
Celebi ~ 81% HP
Cresselia ~ 100% HP
:P
●
Celebi used Leech Seed.
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
It's super effective!
Celebi lost 28% of its health.
Celebi ~ 53% Health
Cresselia ~ 94% Health // Leech Seed
I hate subseeders.
●
Celebi used Substitute.
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
It's super effective!
Celebi's substitute faded!
Celebi ~ 46% HP
Cresselia ~ 88% HP // Leech Seed
●
Celebi used Recover.
Celebi restored 50% of its health.
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
Celebi lost 58% of its health.
Celebi ~ 56% HP
Cresselia ~ 82% HP // Leech Seed
●
Celebi used Recover.
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
It's super effective!
Celebi lost 31% of its health.
Celebi ~ 87% Health
Cresselia ~ 76% HP // Leech Seed
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Tyranitar.
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
Tyranitar lost 11% of its health.
Tyranitar ~ 100% HP
Cresselia ~ 64% HP // Leech Seed
Bleh. ;-;
●
Azonic switched in Gliscor.
Tyranitar used Taunt.
Tyranitar ~ 100% HP
Gliscor ~ 100% HP // Taunt
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Hariyama.
Gliscor used Earthquake.
Hariyama lost 37% of its health.
Hariyama ~ 63% HP
Gliscor ~ 100% HP // Taunt
●
Gliscor used Aerial Ace.
It's super effective!
Hariyama lost 43% of its health.
Hariyama used Knock Off.
Hariyama knocked off foe Gliscor's Leftovers!
Gliscor lost 4% of its health.
Hariyama ~ 20% HP
Gliscor ~ 96% HP // Taunt
;-; I liked that item. >:(
●
Gliscor used Aerial Ace.
It's super effective!
Hariyama lost 44% of its health.
ROFLCOPTER1's Hariyama fainted.
Gliscor's taunt wore off!
Hariyama ~ Fainted
Gliscor ~ 96% HP
Eh, all Hariyama did was knock off my item. <_<
●
(5-5)
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Salamence.
Azonic switched in Cresselia.
Hahaaha used Draco Meteor.
Cresselia lost 56% of its health.
Hahaaha's special attack was harshly lowered.
Hahaaha lost 10% of its health.
Azonic's Cresselia fainted.
Salamence ~ 84% HP // -2 Special Attack
Cresselia ~ Fainted
●
(4-5) ROFLCOPTER1
Azonic switched in Gliscor.
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Weezing .
Gliscor used Stealth Rock.
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 47% HP
Gliscor ~ 96% HP
●
Gliscor used Aerial Ace.
Weezing lost 19% of its health.
Weezing used Pain Split.
Weezing restored 34% of its health.
Gliscor lost 34% of its health.
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 32% HP
Gliscor ~ 62% HP
●
Azonic switched in Sceptile.
Weezing is paralysed! It can't move!
Weezing ~ Paralyzed // 32% HP
Sceptile ~ 94% HP
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Blissey.
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Sceptile used Dragon Pulse.
Blissey lost 13% of its health.
Blissey ~ 75% HP
Sceptile ~ 88% HP
●
Azonic switched in Breloom.
Blissey used Aromatherapy.
Blissey ~ 75% HP
Breloom ~ 100% HP // Poison
●
Breloom used Spore.
Blissey is fast asleep!
Blissey ~ 75% HP // Sleep
Breloom ~ 100% HP // Poison
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Weezing.
Pointed stones dug into Weezing.
Weezing lost 12% of its health.
Breloom used Substitute.
Weezing ~ 32% HP
Breloom ~ 81% HP // Substitute // Poison
●
Breloom is tightening its focus!
Weezing used Flamethrower.
It's super effective!
Breloom's substitute faded!
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It's not very effective...
Weezing lost 27% of its health.
Weezing ~ 5% HP
Breloom ~ 87% HP // Poison
●
Breloom used Spore.
Weezing is fast asleep!
Weezing ~ 5% HP // Sleep
Breloom ~ 93% HP // Poison
●
Breloom is tightening its focus!
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Celebi.
Pointed stones dug into Celebi.
Celebi lost 12% of its health.
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It's not very effective...
Celebi lost 35% of its health.
Celebi ~ 40% HP
Breloom ~ 99% HP // Poison
●
Azonic switched in Heatran.
Celebi used Recover.
Celebi restored 50% of its health.
Celebi ~ 90% HP
Heatran ~ 100% HP
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Blissey.
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Heatran used Hidden Power.
Blissey lost 8% of its health.
Blissey ~ 67% HP
Heatran ~ 100% HP
This is Scarf Heatran. I had this when I was new. XD
●
Azonic switched in Gliscor (lvl 100 Gliscor ?).
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Gliscor lost 30% of its health.
Blissey ~ 67% HP
Gliscor ~ 66% HP
●
Gliscor used Aerial Ace.
Blissey lost 31% of its health.
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Gliscor lost 30% of its health.
Blissey ~ 36% HP
Gliscor ~ 36% HP
●
Gliscor used Aerial Ace.
Blissey lost 30% of its health.
ROFLCOPTER1's Blissey fainted.
Blissey ~ Fainted
Gliscor ~ 36% HP
●
(4-4)
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Hahaaha.
Hahaaha's intimidate cut Gliscor's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Hahaaha.
Hahaaha lost 25% of its health.
Hahaaha used Fire Blast.
A critical hit!
Gliscor lost 147% of its health.
Azonic's Gliscor fainted.
Hahaaha lost 10% of its health.
Salamence ~ 38% HP
Gliscor ~ Fainted
●
(3-4) ROFLCOPTER1
Azonic switched in Sceptile.
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Weezing.
Pointed stones dug into Weezing.
Weezing lost 12% of its health.
Sceptile used Dragon Pulse.
A critical hit!
Weezing lost 117% of its health.
ROFLCOPTER1's Weezing fainted.
Weezing ~ Fainted
Sceptile ~ 82%
●
(3-3)
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Celebi.
Pointed stones dug into Celebi.
Celebi lost 12% of its health.
Sceptile used Dragon Pulse.
Celebi lost 38% of its health.
Celebi used Psychic.
Sceptile lost 43% of its health.
Celebi ~ 40% HP
Sceptile ~ 39% HP
●
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Tyranitar.
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
Pointed stones dug into Tyranitar.
Tyranitar lost 12% of its health.
Sceptile used Dragon Pulse.
Tyranitar lost 31% of its health.
Tyranitar ~ 63% HP
Sceptile ~ 33% HP
●
Azonic switched in Heatran.
Tyranitar used Dragon Dance.
Tyranitar's attack was raised.
Tyranitar's speed was raised.
The sandstorm rages.
Tyranitar's leftovers restored its health a little!
Tyranitar restored 6% of its health.
Tyranitar ~ 69% HP
Heatran ~ 100% HP
●
Tyranitar used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
Heatran lost 200% of its health.
Azonic's Heatran fainted.
Tyranitar ~ 75% HP
Heatran ~ Fainted
YAY FOR WASTING POKEMON. <3
●
(2-3) ROFLCOPTER1
Azonic switched in Sceptile.
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Sceptile's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Salamence.
Salamence lost 25% of its health.
Sceptile used Energy Ball.
It's not very effective...
Salamence lost 28% of its health.
ROFLCOPTER1's Hahaaha fainted.
Salamence ~ fainted
Sceptile ~ 27% HP
●
(2-2)
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Tyranitar.
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
Pointed stones dug into Tyranitar.
Sceptile used Energy Ball.
It's super effective!
Tyranitar lost 115% of its health.
ROFLCOPTER1's Tyranitar fainted.
Tyranitar ~ Fainted
Sceptile ~ 21% HP
●
(2-1) Azonic
ROFLCOPTER1 switched in Celebi.
Pointed stones dug into Celebi.
Celebi lost 12% of its health.
Sceptile used Energy Ball.
It's not very effective...
Celebi lost 34% of its health.
ROFLCOPTER1's Celebi fainted.

(2-0) Azonic
Azonic wins!
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I'm not the only one surprised by the outcome. Dark_Azelf would eat me if we battled again. XD I won by pure luck... and the numerous times that Weezing was paralyzed. :D


Layout credited to BeachBoy. :3

I was testing out my new team on Shoddy, which was (hopefully) not Bulky Water weak like the rest of my teams were. I was pretty angry after getting screwed over by luck on the ladder, a lot of freezes and critical hits from my opponents. So I clicked on the "Find Match" button, hoping for a decent battle...

Key:

Anything black and bolded is the battle log.
Anything green and bolded has to do with me (corper)
Anything blue and bolded has to do with my opponent (for the purposes of this log, I shall refer to him as "Opponent")
Anything purple and bolded is an instance of the opponent's pokemon being the same as mine, to avoid confusion the opponent's pokemon would be labelled as such.
Anything red is my commentary on the match
Anything black is to do with the main chat, people entering or leaving

Rules:

Ladder Match
Sleep Clause
Freeze Clause
OHKO Clause
Evasion Clause
Strict Damage Clause

My team: (In order of appearance)



My opponent's team will be revealed at the end.
All Leftovers/Sandstorm will be mentioned only once then they will be omitted.



v.

Opponent sent out Gyarados (lvl 100 Gyarados ?).
corper sent out Zapdos (lvl 100 Zapdos).
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Gyarados's intimidate cut Zapdos's attack!
Opponent switched in Cresselia (lvl 100 Cresselia ?).
Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Cresselia lost 24% of its health.
Cresselia's leftovers restored its health a little!
Cresselia restored 6% of its health.

I clicked on the "Find Match" button, only to recieve a battle with one of Shoddy's highest ranked players (currently in the top 5). I was intimidated by the prospect of facing such a good player, and I hastily composed myself and turned my attention to the battle on the screen.

I decided to go with the obvious move, and Thunderbolted Gyarados, as the opponent switched to Cresselia.

v.

corper switched in Metagross (lvl 100 Metagross).
Cresselia used Charge Beam.
Metagross lost 9% of its health.
Cresselia's special attack was raised.


I switch to my CB Metagross to absorb anything Cresselia would throw at Zapdos. Cresselia is going to eat a CBed, STABed Meteor Mash off 601 Attack. I input the move, then...

v.

Opponent switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Metagross used Meteor Mash.
It's not very effective...
Heatran lost 23% of its health.
Heatran's leftovers restored its health a little!
Heatran restored 6% of its health.

.. Heatran comes in to take the Meteor Mash. Now I know it is not a Choiced Heatran, and either a RestTalk version or a defensive Heatran. I decide to make the switch to Swampert to get rocks down.


v.

corper switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Heatran used Fire Blast.
It's not very effective...
Swampert lost 33% of its health.
Swampert's leftovers restored its health a little!
Swampert restored 6% of its health.


Good, now Heatran will switch for fear of Earthquake, while I can get Rocks down.

v.

Opponent switched in Gyarados (lvl 100 Gyarados ?).
Gyarados's intimidate cut Swampert's attack!
Swampert used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around your foe's team!

Got Rocks down, which means Gyara's days are numbered. I hastily make the switch to my Gyara counter..



v. ,

corper switched in Vaporeon (lvl 100 Vaporeon ?).
Gyarados used Waterfall.

Opponent switched in Cresselia (lvl 100 Cresselia ?).
Pointed stones dug into Cresselia.
Cresselia lost 12% of its health.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!

Vaporeon takes the Waterfall. I decide to Wish, predicting a switch, in case Gyarados stays in and DD's it would eat HP Electric. My opponent made the switch to Cresselia, so it's just asking CBGross to come in again...



v.

corper switched in Metagross (lvl 100 Metagross).
Cresselia used Charge Beam.
Metagross lost 10% of its health.
Cresselia's special attack was raised.
The wish came true!
Metagross restored 19% of its health.

Cresselia used Charge Beam.
Metagross lost 13% of its health.
Metagross used Thunderpunch.
Cresselia lost 23% of its health.

I predicted a switch to Gyarados/Heatran, and Thunderpunch to scout for the switch. Unfortunately Cresselia decides to stay in, and at this point Metagross can't take Cress locked into Thunderpunch. I make a switch to Heracross to take down Cresselia...


v. ,

corper switched in Heracross (lvl 100 Heracross ?).
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
Heracross lost 28% of its health.

Opponent switched in Heracross (lvl 100 Heracross ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.
Heracross used Stone Edge.
Heracross lost 44% of its health.
Heracross's leftovers restored its health a little!
Heracross restored 6% of its health.

I predicted a switch to Gyara, and decided to Stone Edge, only to be met with an opposing Heracross. At least I know its not Life Orbed, Choiced or Burn Orbed. I switch to my Heracross counter as I couldn't risk leaving Heracross in, as it was one of my only weapons against Cresselia.




v.

corper switched in Salamence (lvl 100 Salamence ?).
Salamence's intimidate cut Heracross's attack!
Heracross used Rest.
Heracross fell asleep!
Heracross restored 51% of its health.

A Rest/Talk Heracross? With Salamence in, it won't be hurting me much, so I expect the opponent to bring in Cresselia for Salamence, and switch accordingly...

v.

Opponent switched in Cresselia (lvl 100 Cresselia ?).
Pointed stones dug into Cresselia.
Cresselia lost 12% of its health.
corper switched in Heracross (lvl 100 Heracross ?).

Score!

Heracross used Megahorn.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 68% of its health.
Cresselia used Ice Beam.
Heracross lost 19% of its health.
Cresselia's leftovers restored its health a little!
Cresselia restored 6% of its health.

fbaby has entered the room.
Heracross used Megahorn.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 9% of its health.
Opponent's Cresselia fainted.

My opponent predicted a switch, and thought I would Stone Edge (rendering me useless against Cresselia), but I decided to Megahorn as I was predicted he would think that way. Cresselia is down for the count.

6-5 corper


, v.

Opponent switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heatran.
Heatran lost 12% of its health.
corper switched in Vaporeon (lvl 100 Vaporeon ?).
Heatran used Stealth Rock.

My opponent brings in Heatran, who 4x resists Megahorn. I decide to switch to Vaporeon as it is risky to stay in. Heatran sets up Stealth Rock, so it shows that it is a TankTran.


, v.

Opponent switched in Heracross (lvl 100 Heracross ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!

corper switched in Metagross (lvl 100 Metagross).
Pointed stones dug into Metagross.
Metagross lost 6% of its health.
Heracross is fast asleep!
Heracross used Sleep Talk.
Heracross used Rest.
But it failed!
The wish came true!
Metagross restored 20% of its health.

Heracross is fast asleep!
Heracross used Sleep Talk.
Heracross used Megahorn.
Metagross lost 60% of its health.
Metagross used Thunderpunch.
Heracross lost 55% of its health.

I Wishpassed to Metagross, and Thunderpunch expecting Gyara/Heatran to come in again. I underestimated the power of Rest/Talk Heracross and ended up eating a Megahorn to the face. I can't risk staying in, so I switched to my Heracross counter, Salamence again.


v. ,

corper switched in Salamence (lvl 100 Salamence ?).
Salamence's intimidate cut Heracross's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Salamence.
Salamence lost 25% of its health.
Heracross woke up!
Heracross used Megahorn.
It's not very effective...
Salamence lost 16% of its health.

Opponent switched in Tyranitar (lvl 100 Tyranitar ?).
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
A sandstorm brewed!
Pointed stones dug into Tyranitar.
Tyranitar lost 12% of its health.
Salamence used Roost.
Salamence restored 41% of its health.
The sandstorm rages.
Salamence is buffetted by the sandstorm!
Salamence lost 6% of its health.

Tyranitar used Ice Beam.
It's super effective!
Salamence lost 92% of its health.
Salamence used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
Tyranitar lost 88% of its health.
Opponent's Tyranitar fainted.
Salamence lost 1% of its health.
corper's Salamence fainted.

I switched in Salamence to deal with Heracross, and my opponent makes a switch to Tyranitar. I was confused at this point, and decided to go for the obvious move and Earthquake'd Tyranitar, not expecting a Scarf'd Ice Beam in the face. Fortunately, Salamence survived by the skin of its teeth, and launched a Critical Earthquake which downed the dinosaur.
*hugs defensive EVs*

5-4 corper



, v.

Opponent switched in Gyarados (lvl 100 Gyarados ?).
corper switched in Heracross (lvl 100 Heracross ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.
Gyarados's intimidate cut Heracross's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Gyarados.
Gyarados lost 25% of its health.
corper switched in Vaporeon (lvl 100 Vaporeon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Vaporeon.
Vaporeon lost 12% of its health.
Gyarados used Waterfall.
Vaporeon's Water Absorb absorbed damage!
Vaporeon restored 13% of its health.
Vaporeon's leftovers restored its health a little!
Vaporeon restored 6% of its health.


Gyarados obviously has the advantage here, I make the switch to Vaporeon. The lack of Leftovers somehow tells me that this isn't a BulkyGyara.



Lone Star has entered the room.
(My good friend MS, too bad he doesn't say anything for the entire match)

Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Gyarados's attack was raised.
Gyarados's speed was raised.
Vaporeon used Surf.
It's not very effective...
Gyarados lost 17% of its health.


Predicted a switch to Heatran or something else to take the HP Electric, so I Surfed. Gyarados DD'ed on my face, and probably is going to stay in, so I can snare it with HP Electric.

Gyarados used Stone Edge.
Vaporeon lost 57% of its health.
Gyarados lost 10% of its health.
Vaporeon used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Gyarados lost 36% of its health.
Opponent's Gyarados fainted.

Sweeper Gyarados. Should have known, but Gyarados is now down.


5-3 corper


, v.

Opponent switched in Lucario (lvl 100 Lucario ?).
Pointed stones dug into Lucario.
Lucario lost 3% of its health.
Lucario used Close Combat.
Vaporeon lost 43% of its health.
corper's Vaporeon fainted.
Lucario's defence was lowered.
Lucario's special defence was lowered.
Lucario lost 10% of its health.

corper switched in Heracross (lvl 100 Heracross ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.
Lucario used Extremespeed.
Heracross lost 28% of its health.
corper's Heracross fainted.
Lucario lost 10% of its health.


I sacrificed Vaporeon to scout Lucario's variant, and it appears to be the Swords Dance variant. I switch to my ScarfHeracross to revenge kill it, but I forgot about Extremespeed, which cost me Heracross.

3-3 tie

v. ,

corper switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Opponent switched in Heracross (lvl 100 Heracross ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.
Swampert used Earthquake.
It's not very effective...
Heracross lost 21% of its health.
The sandstorm rages.

Heracross used Rest.
Heracross fell asleep!
Heracross restored 77% of its health.
Swampert used Hydro Pump.
Heracross lost 32% of its health.



I didn't have anything left on my team that could take down SDLuke, so I switched to Swampert to scare it away. I Earthquake, and Heracross comes in.
I completely forgot about Rest at this point, and so I used Hydro Pump, only for Heracross to Rest. I have to switch to save Swampert...


v.

corper switched in Zapdos (lvl 100 Zapdos).
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Pointed stones dug into Zapdos.
Zapdos lost 25% of its health.
Heracross is fast asleep!
Heracross used Sleep Talk.
Heracross used Rest.
But it failed!

Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Heracross lost 35% of its health.
Heracross is fast asleep!
Heracross used Sleep Talk.
Heracross used Close Combat.
It's not very effective...
Zapdos lost 41% of its health.
Heracross's defence was lowered.
Heracross's special defence was lowered.

Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Heracross lost 34% of its health.
Opponent's Heracross fainted.

I switch to Zapdos, hoping it didn't have Stone Edge. I got a little lucky with Sleep Talk selecting Rest, and I Thunderbolted Heracross into oblivion.

3-2 corper

v.

Opponent switched in Lucario (lvl 100 Lucario ?).
Pointed stones dug into Lucario.
Lucario lost 3% of its health.
Lucario used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Zapdos lost 32% of its health.
Lucario lost 10% of its health.
Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Lucario lost 60% of its health.
The sandstorm rages.
Zapdos is buffetted by the sandstorm!
Zapdos lost 2% of its health.
corper's Zapdos fainted.

I decided to sacrifice Zapdos to bring in Swampert safely. Lucario used Hidden Power [Ice] on Zapdos, and Zapdos survived by the skin of its teeth and Thunderbolted Lucario, fainting to the Sandstorm.
Zapdos was Calm and Sdef EV'd, which helped it survive the HP Ice from Lucario. If Lucario had used Swords Dance, it would have prevailed against Zapdos.

2-2 corper

At this point, I relooked at my team and my opponent's team. My opponent had a Lucario at 4% and a Heatran at 100%. I had a Metagross at 40% and a Swampert at 73%. I decided to send out Swampert...

, v.

corper switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
corper switched in Metagross (lvl 100 Metagross).
Pointed stones dug into Metagross.
Metagross lost 6% of its health.
Lucario used Close Combat.
Metagross lost 34% of its health.
corper's Metagross fainted.
Lucario's defence was lowered.
Lucario's special defence was lowered.
Lucario lost 4% of its health.
Opponent's Lucario fainted.
The sandstorm rages.

And lured in a Close Combat from Lucario, sacrificed Metagross to KO Lucario with the Life Orb recoil.


1-1 tie


v.

Opponent switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
corper switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heatran.
Heatran lost 12% of its health.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Heatran used Fire Blast.
It's not very effective...
Swampert lost 31% of its health.
Swampert used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
Heatran lost 71% of its health.
Opponent's Heatran fainted.
corper wins!
corper: gg
Opponent: gg
Opponent has left the room.
Lone Star has left the room.



Swampert took down Heatran with an Earthquake, netting me the win!

1-0 corper



Overall, it was a close match, and a great game.

Props:

• The ladder for creating such a wonderful opportunity
• My opponent for the great match and making a Heraweak team =D
• The close win at the end
• I got a fair amount of hax =P

Slops:

• A few bad predictions from me here and there
• No commentary from the spectators =(

Things I learnt:

• Heracross is great no matter what the variant (as long is its not Specs =X )
• RestTalk Heracross should have Megahorn and Stone Edge >.>
• I need a backup Lucario counter

Opponent's team in order of appearance:

Am I truly a hax god? ABYAY vs. Hero

Over shoddy, lalapizzame has always called me "The hax god", because every match we do, I get a hax at some point to win the game. Sometimes, it's his lack of hax against me, or I just get an overdose of it on him.

Here's a match that well proves that shoddy has some sort of association with me and hax. This was against Hero on Doug's Create-a-Pokemon server, where I'm trying to get Draceon approved for it since I can't seem to get my server to be able to connect with others.

This match should teach you all one thing...no matter how bad things look, you should never give up or give in. Fight until the very end.

Rules: Evasion Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Sleep Clause, Species Clause, Timed Battle

ABYAY sent out Capn Bones, the swift and hard-hiting Weavile to start things.
Hero sent out Hippowdon, the sand hippo that loves to play in the sand.
Capn Bones is exerting its pressure on the huge sand hippo!
Hippowdon's body whipped up a constant stream of flies...er, I mean sand!
ABYAY withdrew the silent assassin and switched in Matt, the walling Forretress.
Hippowdon used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones began to float around Matt and its team!
The sandstorm rages with ferocity.

Hippowdon is one of this team's Achille's Heels ever since I removed Swampert.
---
Hippowdon created a tremor in the ground (Earthquake).
Matt lost only 21% of its health.
Matt used Stealth Rock.
Rocks began to float around the sand leviathan.
The sandstorm rages.
Matt's apple restored its health a tad, as well as Hippowdon's.

Sure, we'll play with rocks. I tend to remove them a lot, so my team support is pretty good.
---
Hero switched in Tentacruel.
Pointed stones dug into the evil jellyfish, cutting away 1/8 of its health.
Matt started to spin rapidly, creating a a wind current that blew away the spikes. Tentacruel lost 5% of its health in the process.
The sandstorm continues to rage.
Tentacruel is smacked around by the sandstorm, causing some minor damage.
Tentacruel's Black Sludge was absorbed to recover a little bit of health.
Matt's apple gave it back a little HP.

Mixape counter...too bad I don't have one. Also, there's my obvious removal of SR from my side of the field.
---
Tentacruel used its tentacles and smacked away Matt's apple, which it can't seem to pick back up. (Knock Off)
Matt slammed on the ground, causing it to shake underneath Tentacruel.
Tentacruel lost 42% of its health, but holds somewhat strong.
The sandstorm continues, smacking around Tentacruel some more. Its Black Sludge nullified the damage, however.
Matt's apple is too far away for him to reach.

Meh...getting my item removed for some major damage on Tenta. I can deal with that.
---
Hero switched in Regirock to keep Tentacruel safe from another horrifying tremor.
Pointed stones dug into Regirock, cutting off some of its health.
Matt slammed the ground again, causing it to shake.
Regirock almost laughs at the weak attempt, losing only 16% of its health.
The sandstorm rages.
Regirock's apple, which it somehow eats without a mouth, gives back Regirock a little bit of health.

Regi in the sand = amazing wall. WutsaWall? is a good name for them.
---
ABYAY switched in Sowards, the physical attacking physical wall breaker (Machamp)
Regirock tried to Counter, but it had nothing to Counter.
The sandstorm continues, hitting Machamp for a little bit of damage.
Regirock's apple replenished a tad of health!

At this point, I was slightly frightened. I knew that something was going to die here.
---
Sowards got into close quarters with Regirock and started pounding it with fists of fury. (Close Combat)
It's super effective!
Regirock lost 86% of its health.
Hero's Regirock fell to the ground in pieces and fainted!
Sowards's close quarters combat left it with defenses weakened.
The sandstorm continues to hit Machamp around.

You don't mess with CBChamp. He was really surprised at the damage there.
---

ABYAY: 6 - Hero: 5

---
Hero switched in Tentacruel, already weakened from earlier battering.
Pointed stones dug into the jellyfish once again.
Tentacruel rides a huge wave at Machamp (Surf)
Sowards lost 44% of its health, over half of its current amount of HP.
Sowards began to pummel Tentacruel with fists of fury.
Although resisted, Tentacruel is battered with too many bruises to stay and fight.
Tentacruel lost 52% of its health.
Hero's Tentacruel fainted!
Sowards's is left with even less of defense than before.
The sandstorm hits Machamp slightly.

That's what I'm talkin about! another one bites the dust.
---

ABYAY: 6 - Hero: 4

---
Hero switched in Dusknoir, an evil ghost to get in the way of.
Dusknoir is exerting its pressure on Machamp.
Pointed stones dug into the ghost, cutting away 1/8 of its health.
ABYAY switched in a ticked off jellyfish that hates being nerfed from its first generation days (Tentacruel)
Dusknoir hits the ground, causing it to shake ravenously.
It's super effective!
I got nerf'd from R/B/Y! lost 115% of its health.
ABYAY's jellyfish is calmed with a horrible fainting.
The sandstorm continues, hitting Dusknoir slightly.

Choice Banded Dusknoir...this threw me off rather badly. I was planning to Toxic Spikes the field on its switch out, but didn't get the time.
---

ABYAY: 5 - Hero: 4

---
ABYAY switched in Sean, the joyful, yet spooky Mismagius.
Hero switched in Tyranitar, which whipped up the sandstorm, even though it didn't need to.
Pointed stones dug into the rocky monster.
Sean focused its mind to increase its special stats.
The sandstorm persists and hits the ghost, but Sean's leftovers restored the damage.
Tyranitar eats a little of its apple to restore health.

CM on its switch, expecting a Blissey, but Tyranitar is so much worse for mismag.
---
Sean used a mystical, fighting style Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Tyranitar lost 82% of its health from the extreme weakness, but stands and continues to fight.
Tyranitar used a mystical Dragon Dance to heighten its speed and attack.
The sandstorm rages, hitting Sean for minor damage. The apple restores his health back.
Tyranitar's apple also heals a little bit of the sting.

Okay, DDTar is bad...I didn't want to swap out because it have had "plans" for Forretress in the name of Flamethrower or something.
---
Tyranitar crunches Sean with razor sharp fangs.
It's super effective!
Sean lost 218% of its health.
Sean fell apart into pieces from the tearing of its body and fainted.
The sandstorm rages.
Tyranitar's apple heals it a little.

Ah well, Tyranitar is nearly dead, so I can clean it up.
---

ABYAY: 4 - Hero: 4

---
ABYAY switched in Matt, somewhat damaged from earlier on.
Tyranitar created a tremor, wishing it was a ground type.
Matt lost 28% of its health.
Matt began to spin and then tackled Tyranitar with much force.(Gyro Ball)
It's super effective!
Tyranitar lost 51% of its health.
Hero's Tyranitar took too much and collapsed to the ground.
The sandstorm continues.

I expected a switch, but that's favor for me that he didn't.
---

ABYAY: 4 - Hero: 3

---
Hero switched in Dusknoir, still pleased from its earlier kill.
Dusknoir is exerting its pressure on Matt.
Pointed stones dug into Dusknoir, causing a little more damage.
Dusknoir's hand became wrapped in a fiery cloak and hit Matt in the "face". (Fire Punch)
It's super effective!
Matt lost 75% of its health.
ABYAY's Matt melted from the intense heat and fainted.
The sandstorm rages on, hitting Dusknoir for another round.

I didn't have a safe switch in, so Forry had to bite it.
---

ABYAY: 3 - Hero: 3

---
ABYAY switched in Sowards, who is weak from the earlier damage.
Sowards gathered its rage and revenged Dusknoir for a weakened amount (Payback).
It's super effective!
Dusknoir lost 51% of its health.
Dusknoir cloaked its hand in fire again, and punched Sowards with it.
Sowards lost 39% of its health, just about as much health as it had.
ABYAY's Sowards fell to the ground, taking more punishment than it could handle.
The sandstorm rages, hitting Dusknoir again.

Weavile would've been a better switch in here with Pursuit, but it was too late.
---

ABYAY: 2 - Hero: 3

---
ABYAY switched in Capn Bones, who hasn't been on the field since the beginning of the match.
Capn Bones is exerting its pressure on Dusknoir.
Capn Bones pursued Dusknoir, although it stood around.
It's super effective!
Dusknoir lost 95% of its health.
Hero's Dusknoir fainted, but died happily, racking 3 kills for its team.
The sandstorm pummels Capn Bones.

Revenge!
---

ABYAY: 2 - Hero: 2

---
Hero switched in Jirachi, the thing I hate.
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi, but the steel body is only scratched.
ABYAY switched in Bruce, the pink blob that we all seem to love to sponge special attacks.
Jirachi used an electrified punch.
Bruce lost 18% of its health.
The sandstorm continues, hitting Blissey for a little bit of damage. Its 38 apples finally restore its health a little.
Jirachi's leftovers restored its health a little as well.

Dang...Jirachi. It's another team weakness I have aside from Forry covering it. Prepare for stall warz!
---
Jirachi focused its mind and slammed into Blissey with its head (Zen Headbutt).
Bruce lost 28% of its health.
Bruce tossed Jirachi by using the force of gravity (Seismic Toss).
Jirachi lost 25% of its health.
The sandstorm rages, hitting Bruce, but it has all of those apples to replenish its health. Good thing Bruce has yet to get Diabetes. Jirachi takes a quick snack as well.

Physical Jirachi and not CM...good thing too.
---
Jirachi used Zen Headbutt.
Bruce lost 28% of its health.
Bruce created an electrical jolt and fired it at Jirachi's metal body (Thunder Wave).
Jirachi is paralysed, crippling it and having a chance of not being able to move.
The sandstorm persists, doing its normal damage. Bruce's apples and Jirachi's leftovers are there yet again.

If I didn't avoid hax there, then it would've been over. Therefore, hax 1.
---
Bruce created an egg of energy to restore half of its health (Softboiled).
Bruce restored 50% of its health.
Jirachi used Zen Headbutt.
Bruce lost 28% of its health.
The sandstorm rages. The usual exchange of leftovers occurs.

Now to stall and toss.
---
Bruce used Softboiled.
Bruce restored 50% of its health.
Jirachi used Zen Headbutt.
Bruce lost 32% of its health.
The sandstorm continues, hitting Bruce as both her and Jirachi have their snacks.
---
Bruce used Seismic Toss.
Jirachi lost 25% of its health.
Jirachi threw an icy punch at Bruce.
Bruce lost 18% of its health.
The sandstorm rages. Both Bruce and Jirachi are getting tired of their leftovers, but continue to eat anyway.

His tactics change to try and freeze me with Serene Grace.
---
Bruce used Softboiled.
Bruce restored 50% of its health.
Jirachi used Ice Punch.
Bruce lost 17% of its health.
The sandstorm buffets Bruce again, but the apples restore the damage. Jirachi snacks as well.
---
Bruce used Seismic Toss.
Jirachi lost 25% of its health.
Jirachi used Ice Punch.
Bruce lost 17% of its health.
The sandstorm rages. The usual happens again.
---
Bruce used Seismic Toss.
Jirachi lost 25% of its health.
Jirachi used Ice Punch.
Bruce lost 20% of its health.
Bruce was encased in a huge block of ice!
The sandstorm continues. Bruce somehow gets hit by the sandstorm, and then miraculously eats its apples.

Natural Cure please?
---
ABYAY switched in Capn Bones (Weavile), ready to take the blow for the frozen Bruce.
Bruce's Natural Cure removed the block of ice around it.
Capn Bones exerts its pressure on Jirachi.
Jirachi used Zen Headbutt.
You can't use mind powerz on a dark type!
The sandstorm rages. Capn bones is buffeted while Jirachi restores health.

Thunderpunch was expected there, but I guess he thought I was gonna let Blissey die.
---
ABYAY switched in Bruce, unfrozen and ready to go.
Jirachi made a wish to the skies for a safe life ahead.
The sandstorm rages.

As if I didn't know what was to come.
---
Hero switched in Hippowdon, who hasn't been around for a while.
Hippowdon's Sand Stream continued the sandstorm.
Pointed stones dug into the sandy hippo, doing a little damage.
Bruce created another egg of health-replenishing.
Bruce restored 50% of its health.
Jirachi's wish came true, giving Hippowdon a thankful restoration of health.
The sandstorm continues. Bruce is hit, but its apples restore its health. Hippowdon is restored a little by its leftovers as well.

Blissey's trapped now. If I swap, then Weavile basically dies. I best do all the damage I can.
---
Bruce used Seismic Toss.
Hippowdon lost 24% of its health.
Hippowdon made the ground shake.
Bruce lost 41% of its health.
The sandstorm rages. Bruce is hit, but restores its health back with leftovers. Hippowdon also restores a little HP.
---
Bruce used another gravity toss.
Hippowdon lost 24% of its health.
Hippowdon used Earthquake.
Bruce lost 40% of its health.
The sandstorm rages and the usual happens.
---
Bruce used Seismic Toss.
Hippowdon lost 24% of its health.
Hippowdon used Earthquake.
Bruce lost 41% of its health.
ABYAY's Bruce stressed out from the punishment and suffered a stroke!
The sandstorm rages. Hippowdon snacks on the apples that Bruce dropped, recovering a little health.

You can tell I was getting bored with the sandstorm part. Anyway, now I'm down 2v1.
---

ABYAY: 1 - Hero: 2

---
ABYAY switched in Capn Bones, the last of ABYAY's team.
Capn Bones is exerting its pressure!
Capn Bones used a real icy punch, much better than Jirachi's.
It's super effective on the ground hippo.
Hippowdon lost 51% of its health.
Hero's Hippowdon couldn't live any more.
The sandstorm rages, hitting Capn Bones for some minor damage.

I thought it was over, but that damage was rather excessive. I guess he's lacking some defense or HP EVs...
---

ABYAY: 1 - Hero: 1
Hero switched in Jirachi, the last of Hero's team.
Pointed stones scratch Jirachi's metal body.
Capn Bones slammed its fist down on Jirachi (Brick Break).
Jirachi lost 19% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It can't move!
The sandstorm continues. Capn Bones is buffeted while Jirachi plays in the sand with leftovers at hand.

Hax 2
---
Capn Bones used Brick Break.
Jirachi lost 22% of its health.
Jirachi wished to the skies yet again.
The sandstorm rages and the same as last turn happens.

All I can do is Brick Break away.
---
Capn Bones used Brick Break.
Jirachi lost 22% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It can't move!
The wish came true, aiding Jirachi's torn body.
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
The sandstorm rages and the usual happens.

Hax 3
---
Capn Bones used Brick Break.
Jirachi lost 22% of its health.
Jirachi can't move from the paralysis.
The sandstorm persists to cause me to write out the usual of things.

Hax 4
---
Capn Bones used Brick Break.
Jirachi lost 20% of its health.
Jirachi got hax'd! It can't move!
The sandstorm rages, and this is the last time I have to say this.

Hax 5
---
Capn Bones used Brick Break.
A crucial blow!
Jirachi lost 42% of its health.
Hero's Jirachi died from the hax it was given.
ABYAY wins!

...Hax 6

He deserved to win this more than myself thanks to my horrid playing, but as a person that has hax luck, I can only accept it.

I apologize if it's sorta cluttered, but give me some critique about writing it out, and I'll fix it for the next one.

Risk ~ Reward - Aquilae vs. Dark_Azelf

So I was bored one Saturday night. I logged in to ABYAY's server to lurk and hopefully have a couple of decent battles. I knew my prayers were answered when Dark_Azelf logged in to the server, so I decided to challenge him....

Rules:

Evasion Clause
Freeze Clause
OHKO Clause
Sleep Clause
Species Clause

Key:

Anything black and bolded is the battle log.
Anything green and bolded has to do with me (Aquilae) and my pokemon
Anything blue and bolded has to do with Dark_Azelf and his pokemon
Anything dark blue is my commentary on the match
Anything black is to do with the main chat, people entering or leaving

My team: (in order of appearance)



Note: Dark_Azelf's team would not be revealed at the start, to add to the suspense.

All Leftovers recovery will be mentioned initially, then omitted. Similarly, all Sandstorm damage will be mentioned first when the Sandstorm comes into play, then omitted. All nicknames will be omitted.


Aquilae sent out Zapdos.
Dark_Azelf sent out Zapdos.
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!

Dark_Azelf: >_<
Ambient has entered the room.
Aquilae: Oh wow
Ambient: Same Lead XD
Aquilae: Epic Showdown
Dark_Azelf: =p

Epic commenting!

Both of us open up with the same pokemon, Zapdos. Obviously both of us are never going to beat each other one-on-one, so I switched to a definite Zapdos counter...

Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Zapdos used Discharge.
It doesn't affect Swampert...

I'm wary here as Zapdos can easily outstall Swampert given that it does not have Roar. Hopefully Dark_Azelf would switch out giving me time to setup Stealth Rock which would hinder Zapdos' walling capabilities.

Syaoran has entered the room.
Dark_Azelf switched in Bronzong.
Swampert used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around Dark_Azelf's team!

Bronzong is definitely carrying Hypnosis - Swampert would beat it one-on-one otherwise. Predicting the Hypnosis, I go to Zapdos, which has Sleep Talk...


Aquilae switched in Zapdos.
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Bronzong used Hypnosis.
Zapdos fell asleep!

Syaoran: free stealth rock anyone?
Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Bronzong used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around Aquilae's team!

Bronzong would manage to get Stealth Rock up which means my two SR weak pokemon - Salamence and Zapdos, won't live too long due to my lack of a spinner.

At this point I started thinking - Why would D_A (Dark_Azelf) switchin Bronzong into Swampert just for Hypnosis? Wouldn't there be better options to deal with it? It should be that Swampert walls some if not all of his pokemon - he has no ways of efficiently dealing with it.

Dark_Azelf switched in Starmie.
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
Swampert used Hydro Pump.
Swampert's attack missed!
Starmie's leftovers restored its health a little!
Starmie restored 6% of its health.

Starmie used Rapid Spin.
Starmie blew away the spikes!
Swampert lost 2% of its health.
Swampert used Earthquake.
Starmie lost 51% of its health.
Swampert's leftovers restored its health a little!
Swampert restored 6% of its health.

Dark_Azelf: Ouch..
Syaoran: noob

Don't you just love Syaoran's enlightening comments?

I just went with the move that would be most damaging to Bronzong.

Here Starmie cannot harm Swampert sufficiently unless it carries Grass Knot which is mostly not considered due to its poor type coverage.

At this point my impulsiveness kicks in, I Earthquake expecting a Surf or an Ice Beam, both which Swampert can take. Earthquake is a 2HKO so it would be forced to Recover giving me a free turn.

To my surprise, D_A used Rapid Spin only to get hit in the face by a STAB Earthquake. Since Starmie is unlikely to stay in, or if it would it would Recover, I decide to set the Rocks up again.

Dark_Azelf switched in Bronzong.
Swampert used Stealth Rock.

Swampert used Hydro Pump.
Bronzong lost 30% of its health.
Bronzong used Reflect.
A barrier was formed!
Bronzong's leftovers restored its health a little!
Bronzong restored 6% of its health.

Ambient: XD
Ambient: SR Again
Aquilae switched in Zapdos.
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Pointed stones dug into Zapdos.
Zapdos lost 25% of its health.
Dark_Azelf switched in Starmie.
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
Zapdos's leftovers restored its health a little!
Zapdos restored 6% of its health.

D_A switched to Bronzong, allowing me to get Rocks up again. I sensed an opportunity to wear Bronzong down further, due to its lack of recovery, so I used Hydro Pump.

Bronzong set up Reflect, which I was certain was for Starmie, cushioning the blow from Swampert's Earthquake to stand a chance of defeating it. I predicted a switch to Starmie, so I switched to Zapdos which would tank Starmie.

Dark_Azelf switched in Tyranitar.
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
A sandstorm brewed!
Pointed stones dug into Tyranitar.
Tyranitar lost 12% of its health.
Zapdos is fast asleep!
Zapdos used Sleep Talk.
Zapdos used Hidden Power.
Tyranitar lost 11% of its health.

Arrgh, Tyranitar. This basically locks me into a deadly mindgame, either Zapdos stays in and risks Stone Edge/Earthquake (after Roost), or it switches out and gets hit by Pursuit.

I remember my previous battles with D_A, the times where he Pursuited Zapdos rendering it useless for the rest of the game. I decided to stay in and hopefully tank Pursuit with Roost.

There has been many instances like this when the randomness of Sleep Talk has let me down, so I decided to just wait for Zapdos to awake and Roost.

Zapdos is fast asleep!
Tyranitar used Pursuit.
Zapdos lost 39% of its health.

Zapdos is fast asleep!
Tyranitar used Pursuit.
Zapdos lost 36% of its health.

Syaoran: no ice beam? no grass knot? NOOB
Dark_Azelf: eww

Zapdos woke up!
Zapdos used Roost.
Zapdos restored 50% of its health.
Tyranitar used Pursuit.
Zapdos lost 34% of its health.
Tyranitar's reflect wore off!

Syaoran: hahahah
Aquilae: =D
Dark_Azelf: fail...

Actually Zapdos is Calm and SDef EVs so Ice Beam wouldn't scratch it off Tyranitar's sad base 95 SpA.

Anyway I stayed in to tank Pursuit, looking at the damage it is clear that this is a Choice Banded Tyranitar D_A is using. Zapdos awakes at just the right moment allowing it to Roost off the Pursuits.

Dark_Azelf switched in Bronzong.
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.
Zapdos used Roost.
Zapdos restored 50% of its health.

Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Bronzong lost 32% of its health.
Bronzong used Hypnosis.
Zapdos fell asleep!

Bronzong switches in, and I wear it down further with Thunderbolt knowing that it can't hurt Zapdos, Zapdos can absorb Sleep and Reflect does not bother Zapdos in the least.

Dark_Azelf switched in Tyranitar.
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
Pointed stones dug into Tyranitar.
Tyranitar lost 12% of its health.
Zapdos is fast asleep!
Zapdos used Sleep Talk.
Zapdos used Hidden Power.
Tyranitar lost 13% of its health.

Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Tyranitar used Crunch.
Swampert lost 47% of its health.

The big dino comes in and threatens Zapdos again. Seeing as D_A is unlikely to repeat Pursuit earlier, I switch to Swampert. Swampert takes 47% from Crunch, leaving it at a position where the next Crunch would stand a chance to KO it.

In desperation, I switch to my only Dark resist:

Aquilae switched in Heracross.
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.
Dark_Azelf switched in Bronzong (lvl 100 Bronzong).
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.

Aquilae switched in Vaporeon.
Pointed stones dug into Vaporeon.
Vaporeon lost 12% of its health.
Dark_Azelf switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Vaporeon's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Salamence.
Salamence lost 25% of its health.
Salamence's leftovers restored its health a little!
Salamence restored 6% of its health.
Vaporeon's leftovers restored its health a little!
Vaporeon restored 6% of its health.

Dark_Azelf: =/

Yeah, so for some reason he runs away from Swampert, back to Bronzong to put up Reflect I think. Considering that I use a ScarfCross - Bronzong's Gyro Ball would hurt a lot and it would be potentially fatal to Heracross banking on its high speed.
Not to mention Megahorn wouldn't stand a chance of KOing Bronzong, according to the EV spread that D_A uses (Impish with Def and HP EVs).

I switch out to Vaporeon to scout for counters to Heracross, as it beats common physical walls one-on-one. Except Salamence.

Judging by the nature of its switchin, and the fact that it held Leftovers, it is most probably a BulkyMence, either the DD variant or the Toxic/Draco Meteor variant.

It most probably won't stay in Vaporeon with the threat of Ice Beam, so I Wish on the predicted switch and try to heal Swampert and Heracross.

Dark_Azelf switched in Starmie.
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
The sandstorm rages.
Vaporeon's leftovers restored its health a little!
Vaporeon restored 6% of its health.

Starmie used Rapid Spin.
Starmie blew away the spikes!
Vaporeon lost 3% of its health.
Vaporeon used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Starmie lost 51% of its health.
Dark_Azelf's Starmie fainted.
The wish came true!
Vaporeon restored 50% of its health.

Syaoran: wish bliss illegal DA you can no longer protect on my Explosion
Syaoran: =D
Dark_Azelf: edkfnrgdv
Aquilae: You can still use it on this server
Dark_Azelf: fail prediction =[
Syaoran: this server sucks then

Starmie comes in after a Wish. Since switching to Zapdos means that Tyranitar gets a free turn to deal more damage, I decide to leave Vaporeon in - it can take an UnSTABed Thunderbolt from standard Spinner Starmie and recover off the damage with Wish.

To my surprise Starmie stays in to.. Rapid Spin while it is down with HP Electric.

D_A makes a very intelligent comment here, I am in agreement about edkfnrgdv.

Dark_Azelf switched in Zapdos.
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Zapdos used Metal Sound.
Swampert's special defence was harshly lowered.

Aquilae: eww
Aquilae switched in Vaporeon.
Pointed stones dug into Vaporeon.
Vaporeon lost 12% of its health.
Zapdos used Hidden Power.
It's not very effective...
Vaporeon lost 10% of its health.

Aquilae: MS-Dos sucks IMO
Aquilae: =/
Dark_Azelf: >=[

MS-Dos! (Metal Sound Zapdos)

I kinda agree that MS-Dos sucks as it can't hit its counters hard even with Metal Sound, and it is easily nullified by switching. Zapdos won't use Discharge on Swampert so I switch to Vaporeon to take the Hidden Power [Ice].

Actually I was threatened by MS-Dos as it could beat Swampert and I would be forced to switch in Heracross or Metagross to deal with it.

Zapdos used Metal Sound.
Vaporeon's special defence was harshly lowered.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!

Syaoran: shut up and die
Aquilae: fail prediction
Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Zapdos used Hidden Power.
Swampert lost 23% of its health.
The wish came true!
Swampert restored 50% of its health.

Syaoran: smashed
Ambient has left the room.

I take the predicted Metal Sound, Wishing and passing to Swampert which is healed by the Wish, which could force Zapdos to Roost allowing for a KO from Earthquake, or take HP Ice and Avalanche back.

Dark_Azelf switched in Blissey .
Swampert used Stealth Rock.
The sandstorm rages.
Blissey's leftovers restored its health a little!
Blissey restored 6% of its health.

Aquilae switched in Heracross.
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Heracross lost 32% of its health.

Dark_Azelf switched in Bronzong.
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.
Heracross used Stone Edge.
It's not very effective...
Bronzong lost 12% of its health.

Blissey switches in while I get Rocks up. Mixpert cannot deal with Blissey so I switch to Heracross to take the Seismic Toss seeing as Blissey probably won't use Thunder Wave.

A good move on D_A's part, using Bronzong to take the predicted Stone Edge; now Heracross takes a hard hit - it cannot afford to come in anymore given that residual damage is adding up.

Ambient has entered the room.
Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Bronzong used Reflect.
A barrier was formed!

I switchin Swampert to scare off Bronzong and force a switch to Blissey. I hastily switch to Zapdos in the hope that it could PP stall Blissey with Pressure and Roost.

Aquilae switched in Zapdos.
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Pointed stones dug into Zapdos.
Zapdos lost 25% of its health.
Dark_Azelf switched in Blissey.
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.

Zapdos is fast asleep!
Zapdos used Sleep Talk.
Zapdos used Hidden Power.
Blissey lost 6% of its health.
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Zapdos lost 26% of its health.

PICK ROOST NOW

Zapdos is fast asleep!
Zapdos used Sleep Talk.
Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Zapdos lost 26% of its health.
Aquilae's Zapdos fainted.

Ouch, so Zapdos didn't pick Roost after all, a 4/9th chance. Well, Zapdos couldn't do much right now considering that it can't stop any of D_A's pokemon except Bronzong, which 2 remaning members of my team can do.

I switch in my last reliable physical attacker...

Aquilae switched in Metagross.
Pointed stones dug into Metagross.
Metagross lost 6% of its health.
Ambient: Revenge :O
Syaoran: OU IS BORING

Listen to Syaoran people!

I predict a switch to Zapdos or Bronzong, two pokemon that resist Meteor Mash, I send out Swampert to do more damage.

Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Dark_Azelf switched in Zapdos.
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Pointed stones dug into Zapdos.
Zapdos lost 25% of its health.

Aquilae: lose faster

The battle is taking its toll on me, I'm sure Zapdos would be beaten by Avalanche from Swampert, taking down a crucial part of D_A's defence.

Dark_Azelf switched in Blissey.
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Swampert used Avalanche.
Blissey lost 7% of its health.
Blissey's reflect wore off!

Aquilae switched in Metagross.
Pointed stones dug into Metagross.
Metagross lost 6% of its health.
Blissey used Thunder Wave.
Metagross is paralysed! It may be unable to move!

Dark_Azelf: =p

Blissey. Bait for Metagross which doesn't mind paralysis (its as slow as molasses either way), both Zapdos and Bronzong are at critical health. I pick my move, Choice Band boosted STAB Meteor Mash...

Dark_Azelf switched in Bronzong.
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.
Metagross used Meteor Mash.
It's not very effective...
Bronzong lost 32% of its health.

Bronzong used Reflect.
A barrier was formed!
Metagross used Meteor Mash.
It's not very effective...
Bronzong lost 16% of its health.
Dark_Azelf's Bronzong fainted.
Metagross's attack was raised.

I Meteor Mash, leaving Bronzong at critical health after Leftovers recovery. One more Meteor Mash should do it...

And Bronzong outspeeds me and sets up Reflect greatly limiting Metagross' sweeping capabilities, even with the attack boost.

Ambient has left the room.
Dark_Azelf switched in Salamence.
Pointed stones dug into Salamence.
Salamence lost 25% of its health.
Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Salamence used Roost.
Salamence restored 50% of its health.

I switch in Swampert to sponge Salamence's attacks, but D_A Roosts instead of Earthquaking. I predict a switch to Blissey...

Dark_Azelf switched in Blissey.
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Swampert used Earthquake.
Blissey lost 20% of its health.

Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 50% of its health.
Swampert used Earthquake.
A critical hit!
Blissey lost 42% of its health.

Aquilae: I should stop using -speed
Aquilae: and run SwampBoah
Dark_Azelf: =p
Dark_Azelf: swampboah pwns lol
Syaoran: pwns itself
Dark_Azelf: X

Arrgh, Blissey outspeeds Swampert due to Swampert's Relaxed nature (-Speed +Def). The critical hit didn't matter honestly, I make another switch to Metagross in an effort to down Blissey...

Aquilae switched in Metagross.
Pointed stones dug into Metagross.
Metagross lost 6% of its health.
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 50% of its health.

Dark_Azelf switched in Zapdos.
Zapdos is exerting its pressure!
Pointed stones dug into Zapdos.
Zapdos lost 25% of its health.
Metagross used Meteor Mash.
It's not very effective...
Zapdos lost 28% of its health.
Zapdos's reflect wore off!

Zapdos is hanging on by the skin of its teeth now, Reflect saved it from an untimely demise. It is most probably going to Roost, so I send out Swampert...

Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Zapdos used Roost.
Zapdos restored 50% of its health.

Aquilae switched in Metagross.
Pointed stones dug into Metagross.
Metagross lost 6% of its health.
Zapdos used Metal Sound.
Zapdos's attack missed!

Zapdos used Roost.
Zapdos restored 50% of its health.
Metagross is paralysed! It can't move!

Ahhh! I predicted a HP Ice and went straight to Metagross, Zapdos' Metal Sound missed so it was going to Roost since it couldn't afford to take another Meteor Mash. Earthquake might seem the obvious move here but I really couldn't afford giving Zapdos free hits on Metagross and Salamence coming in. I Meteor Mash hoping to do at least respectable damage to Zapdos, but Paralysis strikes =(

Zapdos used Discharge.
Metagross lost 43% of its health.
Metagross used Meteor Mash.
It's not very effective...
Zapdos lost 52% of its health.

Can't afford to sacrifice my only Blissey counter can I?

Syaoran has left the room.
Aquilae switched in Swampert.
Pointed stones dug into Swampert.
Swampert lost 6% of its health.
Zapdos used Discharge.
It doesn't affect Swampert...

Zapdos should stop running Electric attacks to get walled by Swampert =P

The only move I have that would remotely hurt Zapdos was Avalanche, so I went along with it...

Zapdos used Metal Sound.
Swampert's special defence was harshly lowered.
Swampert used Avalanche.
It's super effective!
Zapdos lost 38% of its health.

Now Zapdos is sitting at 9% health, so its going to Roost allowing me to Earthquake for the KO...

Zapdos used Hidden Power.
Swampert lost 46% of its health.
Swampert used Earthquake.
It doesn't affect Zapdos...

Desperate, I select Avalanche again only to be met up with...

Zapdos used Hidden Power.
A critical hit!
Swampert lost 93% of its health.
Aquilae's Swampert fainted.

Dark_Azelf: =O
Dark_Azelf: hax

=(

Aquilae switched in Heracross.
Pointed stones dug into Heracross.
Heracross lost 12% of its health.

Heracross outspeeds Zapdos basically meaning it can't Roost and any attack that Hera throws at it, sans Pursuit, will KO it.
I might Stone Edge but it is an obvious move opening up the field for Blissey and Tyranitar to mess with me. I use Close Combat to nail them both but guess what comes in...

Dark_Azelf switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Heracross's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Salamence.
Salamence lost 25% of its health.
Heracross used Close Combat.
It's not very effective...
Salamence lost 19% of its health.
Heracross's defence and special defence was lowered.

Heracross used Close Combat.
It's not very effective...
Salamence lost 20% of its health.
Heracross's defence and special defence was lowered.
Salamence used Dragon Claw.
Heracross lost 104% of its health.
Aquilae's Heracross fainted.

Okay.. I get met up with Salamence. Either:

1. D_A knew that I knew he wasn't going to switch to Salamence and thus played at face value
2. D_A for some reason thinks that BulkyMence can take on ScarfCross with Stealth Rock up (it can't, due to Hera outspeeding and doing ~40% average damage, landing 2 hits, one on the switchin)
3. D_A made a completely random move

In retrospect it would be beneficial for Zapdos to stay in and scout for Hera's move, switching out basically gurantees a KO since Stealth Rock is up.

I just sacrificed Hera to allow my Salamence "counter" to come in unharmed...


Aquilae switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Salamence's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Salamence.
Salamence lost 25% of its health.

I EV'd my BulkyDDMence to outspeed base 125s after one Dragon Dance, which basically means it handily outspeeds and beats standard BulkyMence by a few points.
Intimidate also works in my favor allowing me to take a Dragon Claw from D_A's Salamence.

Salamence used Dragon Claw.
It's super effective!
Salamence lost 86% of its health.
Dark_Azelf's Salamence fainted.
Salamence lost 10% of its health.

I score a KO on Salamence.

Dark_Azelf switched in Blissey.
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.

Salamence can't take Blissey on due to Ice Beam being present on Blissey, and without a prior boost from Dragon Dance and significant Attack EV investment, as well as good physical attacks, Salamence would be hard-pressed to deal more than 50% to Blissey.

I can't send in Metagross now as Blissey outspeeds and KOs it with Seismic Toss. I switch to my remaning team supporter...

Aquilae switched in Vaporeon.
Pointed stones dug into Vaporeon.
Vaporeon lost 12% of its health.
Blissey used Thunder Wave.
Vaporeon is paralysed! It may be unable to move!

Dark_Azelf has cornered my team. I cannot get off a Wishpass to Metagross or Salamence due to both of them being slaughtered by Blissey. I decide to Wish and Roar shuffle to get Tyranitar/Zapdos on the field and take down Tyranitar, but it is quite doubtful.

Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Vaporeon lost 22% of its health.
Vaporeon is paralysed! It can't move!

With that untimely paralysis, Vaporeon can't get in a Wish enough to save itself. I try to get in a Wish to pass to Salamence in the hopes that I get a critical hit on Blissey (unlikely)

This is probably the turning point of the whole battle, Dark_Azelf is now almost guranteed of winning.

Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Vaporeon lost 22% of its health.
Vaporeon is paralysed! It can't move!

Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Vaporeon lost 22% of its health.
Aquilae's Vaporeon fainted.

Dark_Azelf: =/

I agree Dark_Azelf, =/

The second paralysis secures D_A's victory. It was just like rubbing salt into my wound, now I would have to count on Salamence and Metagross to finish the game which is unlikely.


Aquilae switched in Metagross.
Pointed stones dug into Metagross.
Metagross lost 6% of its health.
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Metagross lost 27% of its health.
Aquilae's Metagross fainted.

Forgetting Metagross was in KO range and slower I stupidly sacrifice it. If Salamence could just pull off a critical hit....

Aquilae switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Blissey's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Salamence.
Salamence lost 25% of its health.
Salamence used Dragon Claw.
Blissey lost 51% of its health.
Salamence lost 10% of its health.
Blissey used Thunder Wave.
Salamence is paralysed! It may be unable to move!

Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Salamence lost 26% of its health.
Aquilae's Salamence fainted.

Dark_Azelf wins!

So it didn't have Ice Beam after all... =(



Not a really close match but it was a great game from Dark_Azelf.

Props:

• Dark_Azelf for the great game
• Syaoran for having such wonderful commentary that I had to censor part of it

Slops:

• The parahax and crithax aaaaa
• A few off predictions from me

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading this!

Dark_Azelf's team:

Mamo Weak Team Go Go Go !!!!!!!!!

Introduction

This is a battle I had a good month or so ago. It was when my "joke" of an offensive team was made and it started spewing out victories like mad. Before I finalized the team (the final version is 22-0, and many of you have battled it), I went through a lot of testing to make it a serious team due to its initial success. This was one of these experiment battles, using a Metal Sound Lucario to see if it was any good. It is no longer on the team actually (Sub/CM Suicune is the new Jefferson), but it sure served me well in this battle. BeachBoy and I both tested this team BTW.

Anyways, the joke theme it was meant to have was actually a president theme. The first six presidents of the United States of America are the nicknames of my pokemon. Because we all know that 5' 3" John Adams TOTALLY looked like Machamp. George Washongton must have been with me in spirit as I battled with this team, because as SpecsMence, the old general of the Continental Army was leading the other 5 troops to victory. Enough with the historical metaphors, let's move on to the battle!

I wanted to see just how good this team and MS Lucario could be, so I was trying to battle Top 100 Shoddy Battle players. No one would accept my challenges even though they had that horrible Timed Battle Rule (which I like to blame for my mistakes as well :P), but hitmonfan (in the top 100 at the time) finally accepted my challenge. I prepared myself for what would be a hard-fought battle, but nothing could have prepared me for this...

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My Team

Here's my team. It might be a little different than the one you all are used to. In random order it is:



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Rules

- Evasion Clause
- Extended Game
- Freeze Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Strict Damage Clause
- Timed Battle

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Legend

Black and Bold Text - Anything in the log not a different color
Orange and Bold Text - Anything that has to do with me (War of 1812)
Green and Bold Text - Anything that has to do with hitmonfan
Red and Bold Text - Scores during the battle
Purple Text - Commentary after each turn
Black Text - Everything before and after the battle

NOTE - All recovery/damage from Leftovers, Leech Seed, Sandstorm, etc. will be mentioned only once then they will be omitted.

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Battle [War of 1812 vs. hitmonfan]

hitmonfan sent out Heracles (Heracross).
War of 1812 sent out George Washington (Salamence).
Salamence's intimidate cut Heracross's attack!
hitmonfan switched in Heatran.
War of 1812 switched in Thomas Jefferson (Lucario).

Interesting start here. I wanted to avoid Stone Edge and Lucario is great at that, but Heatran comes in. Oh well, I have an advantage (unless it is scarfed, but that never crossed my mind during the battle as you're about to see).

Heatran used Fire Blast.
Heatran's attack missed!
Lucario used Aura Sphere.
It's super effective!
Heatran lost 100% of its health.
hitmonfan's Heatran fainted.

Scarf Tran! I got quite lucky on this play, but it would have been smarter on hitmonfan's part to use Earth Power so that wouldn't have happened.

6 - 5 [War of 1812]

hitmonfan switched in Heracross.
Lucario used Shadow Ball.
Heracross lost 34% of its health.
Heracross's special defence was lowered.
Heracross used Stone Edge.
It's not very effective...
Lucario lost 21% of its health.

This move might look crazy, as you might ask why in the world I kept Lucario in on Heracross. I did this because I knew hitmonfan had already seen Salamence, and that would be a predictable switch. I decided to keep my 4x rock resist in to easily shrug off the hit.

hitmonfan switched in Gliscor.
Lucario used Shadow Ball.
Gliscor lost 36% of its health.
Gliscor's leftovers restored its health a little!
Gliscor restored 6% of its health.

Gliscor! In case you haven't noticed, this special Lucario doesn't have Choice Specs. I was actually experimenting with Metal Sound Lucario when I fought in this battle. The experiment really didn't go so well in case you're wondering, but Lucario was certainly helpful. After all, Thomas Jefferson was freaking awesome.

hitmonfan switched in Starmie.
Lucario used Hidden Power.
It's not very effective...
Starmie lost 15% of its health.
Starmie's leftovers restored its health a little!
Starmie restored 6% of its health.

I should have seen that coming. HP Ice was obvious on Gliscor, and I should have used Shadow Ball. Still, I don't like to take ricsks early, and I figured that losing Lucario could prove to hurt a lot later.

Starmie used Surf.
Lucario lost 60% of its health.
Lucario used Shadow Ball.
It's super effective!
Starmie lost 73% of its health.

Ouch. I thought it would have enough power to KO, but it didn't. Now Lucario is at weak health and it won't be able to do much for me, which is a shame.

Starmie used Surf.
Lucario lost 20% of its health.
War of 1812's Lucario fainted.

I figure I could just let it die. I would normally save it to be a death fodder later, but I didn't want to sacrifice what I was switching in if hitmonfan were to outpredit me.

5 - 5

War of 1812 switched in John Quincy Adams (Gyarados).
Gyarados's intimidate cut Starmie's attack!
Starmie used Recover.
Starmie restored 50% of its health.
Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Gyarados's attack was raised.
Gyarados's speed was raised.

Gyarados has a Wacan Berry, so I get a free DD. I was hoping it would recover.

Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Gyarados's attack was raised.
Gyarados's speed was raised.
Starmie used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
Gyarados lost 49% of its health.
The Wacan Berry weakened Thunderbolt's power!

Gah! I should have used Earthquake. A +2 Earthquake still won't OHKO Starmie, and I just realize this after making this move. Another mistake on my part.

Gyarados used Earthquake.
Starmie lost 91% of its health.
Starmie used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
Gyarados lost 51% of its health.
War of 1812's Gyarados fainted.

Yeah. At least it really dented Starmie, who my team always seemed to have trouble with.

4 - 5 [hitmonfan]

War of 1812 switched in James Monroe (Mamoswine).
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
It's not very effective...
Starmie lost 8% of its health.
hitmonfan's Starmie fainted.
Mamoswine lost 10% of its health.

The Monroe Doctrine clearly states that any European country that wants MY land in America can't have it. Starmie tried to disobey, so I decided to give it a taste of Ice Shard. Gotta love history references. But yeah, I finished it off, lol.

4 - 4

hitmonfan switched in Breloom.
Mamoswine used Ice Fang.
Mamoswine's attack missed!
Breloom used Spore.
Mamoswine fell asleep!
Breloom was badly poisoned!

That hurts a lot. I was hoping to deal it a big blow, but that didn't really work out.

War of 1812 switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Breloom's attack!
Breloom used Substitute.
Breloom lost 25% of its health.
Breloom made a substitute!
Breloom's Poison Heal restored health!
Breloom restored 12% of its health.

Do I really have a choice? Mence is all I've got to beat it.

Salamence used Dragon Pulse.
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Breloom!
Breloom's substitute faded!
Breloom used Leech Seed.
Salamence was seeded!
Salamence's health was sapped by leech seed!
Salamence lost 12% of its health.
Breloom regained health!

Haha, I figured with Heatran gone, nothing could really take Dragon Pulse. I thought he'd switch, but I used Pulse >>> Meteor just to be safe, and it paid off.

Salamence used Dragon Pulse.
Breloom lost 100% of its health.
hitmonfan's Breloom fainted.

Finally that thing is dead. I always have trouble with Breloom, even with a team full of Breloom counters. It's so annoying.

4 - 3 [War of 1812]

hitmonfan switched in Mamoswine.
War of 1812 switched in James Madison (lvl 100 Heatran).
Mamoswine used Substitute.
Mamoswine lost 25% of its health.
Mamoswine made a substitute!
Mamoswine's leftovers restored its health a little!
Mamoswine restored 6% of its health.

Substitute? That's not good! I am pretty hopeless here.

Mamoswine used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
Heatran lost 100% of its health.
War of 1812's Heatran fainted.

Mamoswine has 80 base speed and my Heatran is a special tank with no speed EVs. I honestly don't know what I was thinking. Earthquake was so predictable so a Mence switch probably would have been smart. Knowing that predicting a switch like that would kill off Mamo if my Heatran happened to be Scarfed, hitmonfan probably wouldn't have taken that chance anyways.

But really, Madison got us into The War of 1812, so I guess what goes around comes around lol.

3 - 3

War of 1812 switched in John Adams (Machamp).
Mamoswine used Earthquake.
Machamp lost 68% of its health.
Machamp used Ice Punch.
The substitute took damage for Mamoswine!
Mamoswine's substitute faded!

lol, I'm totally desparate now. Like about every other team in existance, this one is Mamoswine weak.

War of 1812: gg
hitmonfan: gg

Yes, we both think the game is over. I have fought okay though, especially against one of the better Shoddy battlers, so I'm pretty proud.

Mamoswine used Substitute.
Mamoswine lost 25% of its health.
Mamoswine made a substitute!
Machamp used Ice Punch.
The substitute took damage for Mamoswine!
Mamoswine's substitute faded!

Yeah, so why doesn't he just kill Machamp? Oh well, that's 25% less health for Mamoswine. If I can kill it, SpecsMence can sweep with Dragon Pulse, but I won't be able to kill it. Nothing I have left can compete. This is where I needed Lucario back from the dead.

War of 1812 switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Mamoswine's attack!
Mamoswine used Earthquake.
It doesn't affect Salamence...

I knew Earthquake was coming, so I made up for some bad predictions earlier. I'm sure he'll switch, as Ice Shard won't be able to KO with Intimidate. Dragon Pulse will do here.

hitmonfan switched in Gliscor.
Salamence used Dragon Pulse.
Gliscor lost 70% of its health.
hitmonfan's Gliscor fainted.

Bam. All of a sudden I have a sliver of hope.

3 - 2 [War of 1812]

hitmonfan switched in Mamoswine.
War of 1812 switched in Machamp.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Machamp lost 25% of its health.

I can't let Salamence die, or the game is over. It's my only hope against Mamoswine (as ironic as that might seem), so it has to keep on fighting.

Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Machamp lost 8% of its health.
War of 1812's John Adams fainted.

And yeah, my death fodder is gone. No biggy.

I must say that John Adams with the build of Machamp makes me laugh a bit. The guy was pretty chubby and was 5' 3". Machamp has four arms!

2 - 2

War of 1812 switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Mamoswine's attack!
hitmonfan switched in Heracross.
Salamence used Draco Meteor.
Heracross lost 66% of its health.
hitmonfan's Heracross fainted.
Salamence's special attack was harshly lowered.

I knew that Mamoswine would stop any Dragon Pulse sweep I'd try to pull off anyways, so I might as well launch a Draco Meteor. Turns out it paid off, as Heracross has good special defense.

2 - 1 [War of 1812]

hitmonfan switched in Mamoswine.
War of 1812 switched in Mamoswine.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Mamoswine lost 28% of its health.

My sleepy Mamoswine will be my next death fodder.

Mamoswine is fast asleep!
Mamoswine used Earthquake.
A critical hit!
Mamoswine lost 62% of its health.
War of 1812's Mamoswine fainted.

Um, okay lol. Now it's down to Salamence and Mamoswine.

1 - 1

War of 1812 switched in Salamence.
Salamence's intimidate cut Mamoswine's attack!
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
It's super effective!
Salamence lost 82% of its health.
Salamence used Draco Meteor.
Mamoswine lost 100% of its health.
hitmonfan's Mamoswine fainted.

I survived Ice Shard to win the game! Talk about a miracle.

1 - 0 [War of 1812]

Wait, did I seriously win that game? Intimidate seriously won that for me, that and figuring out I was doomed when I really wasn't?

Either way, it was a fantastic battle I really can't believe I won. Salamence had all but 3% health left after taking that Ice Shard. It remains the closest battle I've ever had DP battling.

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Props and Slops

Props:

- hitmonfan, for an outstanding battle
- Lucario, for putting quite the dent in the opposing team
- Specs Salamence, for being my savior
- Aquilae and BeachBoy, for ideas on the format that helped this log not look like a total disaster (I hope :P)

Slops:

- Me, for making several mistakes (DDing twice with Gyarados especially)
- Heatran, who was totally useless (though obviously it was me misplaying it in the first pklace that killed it lol)

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Final Thoughts

I learned a lot from this battle. I especially wanted to post this one because I played horribly, but I managed to hang in there and win, even when all hope seemed lost. I'm glad I didn't give up, since I learned a lot about playing with these all-out offense teams.

Oh, in case you might want to know my opponent's team in case you forgot or something, here it is in the spoiler (in order of appearance):



So go ahead and tear this apart. Usually my battles aren't close and I always forget to save the close ones, so this is what I came up with :P Tear it apart *waits for Dark_Azelf and Aquilae to point out my many mistakes*