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10-07-2014, 08:49 PM | #3428 |
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You're taking an awfully superior tone for someone whose Elo is less than mine, GXE only three points higher than mine, and Glicko only twenty points higher. Much of your assessment is incorrect. Much of your advice is, frankly, invalid nine times out of ten and only valid here with the expertness of hindsight. I welcome constructive feedback, but your entire post reads as one enormous, "You played poorly. I don't play poorly. Let me tell you what you should have done. And let's have you thank me for my advice" self-aggrandizing post. Maybe it would fly coming from a 1550. But not from a 1324.
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10-07-2014, 09:30 PM | #3429 |
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Well no I never said I don't play poorly because frankly I play very bad at times. Also realize that I don't have much time to play anymore and with VGC season 15 coming up I'm reluctant to continue playing in VGC 14, not to mention that after a while I stopped playing on Showdown and started playing VGC matches in-game, so my account has probably suffered ladder decay like crazy. I speak not from ELO but from experience which is something Showdown ELOs can't always describe. And blaming the end result of a game based on a hax chance that could've been avoided is not saying I play good but that you really cannot blame hax all the time when it happens and you should take a second look over your battle to see what you did wrong instead of "reconsidering your faithfulness". This is constructive criticism and analysis of your battles, not me claiming superiority over playstyles.
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10-07-2014, 10:06 PM | #3430 |
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As Talon explained in his wall of text which you may not have read, Turn 2 was the big power move in this match and the one that granted the opponent all of the momentum and field control. Politoed was switched out for Mega Manectric, and Talonflame was switched out for Politoed using Talonflame's U-Turn. Essentially, the opponent considered a range of possibilities and came up with:
1. Politoed and Talonflame under threat from 2 damage sources - Charizard's Solarbeam (predicted mega evo) and Rotom's either Volt Switch or Thunderbolt. 2. To thwart the electric attack, he switched in Manectric, which was not Mega Evolved and thus still had Lightningrod 3. To thwart the Solarbeam, he switched in Politoed, which then proceeded to lock Charizard into the Solarbeam on Manectric's slot. Talon, who was expecting anything but a full shuffle of the opponent's mon to counter any possible method of attack from his current team, was immediately trapped into a massively unfavorable situation with no way out. There was nothing he could have done to salvage this situation - nothing is tanky enough to survive a switch-in on anything the enemies toss towards them (as we see, the remaining members of his team are Salamence and Talonflame), and he doesn't have the offensive power to slay either of his opponent's beatsticks, plus the enemy debuffer (who is dealing constant and consistent damage), in time to regain control of the match. It was a very tidy power play, and if the opponent hadn't acted as he did, it's possible that Talon could have gained a lot of momentum by springing a sudden Sun + Solarbeam on the enemy's rainmaker. What he wasn't expecting was Talonflame's purpose: rather than being run as a beatstick, Talonflame was actually a fast field manager to get Politoed in and out to refresh Rain after Sun had gone up. So instead of replying with some asinine comment about how Talon "doubled up too much (Remember that Lightningrod drew the Thunderbolt from Politoed to Manectric, so the only instance of doubling up came on the one turn Manectric used Protect)," try to understand why the events of the battle happened the way they did and keep yer tone civil.
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10-07-2014, 10:17 PM | #3431 |
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I don't think you're being uncivil, Roto. I just don't think you understand the two battles given some of the criticisms you're voicing.
Let's start with the Tyranitar + Aegislash one. You keep saying that I got greedy and that I could have played it safe and guaranteed won. That's night and day opposite of what I feel actually took place, knowing my team's stats, moves, and the state of the field at that time. Please explain what this surefire path to victory was that you saw for my team.
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10-08-2014, 02:54 PM | #3432 |
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10-08-2014, 03:52 PM | #3433 |
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The difference between winning and losing is 0.4%
A few matches I've been in recently I've lost to a scarfed Typhlosion with scarily accurate Fire Blasts, but today I emerge triumphant \o/ |
10-08-2014, 04:21 PM | #3434 |
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Double posting because I'm really glad I won this one!
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10-08-2014, 04:44 PM | #3435 | |
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10-08-2014, 07:10 PM | #3437 |
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Yeah, my opponent should have stayed in with the second game, but oh well, his loss X3
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10-08-2014, 08:08 PM | #3439 |
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While I appreciate the reply, you've offered an enormous Hindsight Goggles answer. Not much to say to that except "I'll try to get better so that I can call in foresight what we all can call in hindsight."
Don't blame your low scores on decay either. To my knowledge, only the Elo score is subject to decay. The GXE, the Glicko, and of course the W:L ratio are not. Your W:L ratio is where you best beat me, boasting a net win tally of twenty-one to my pitiful five. But your GXE and Glicko scores suggest that we're pretty much at the same point in our VGC careers. I'm cheering you on every step of the way, Roto, and I acknowledge that you are my senior in the format. But I think I've come a ways since six months ago where I could only dream of eclipsing a score of 1200. With a personal best somewhere around 1450, I'm basically where you and so many other players are: the pre-1500 hurdle. Hopefully we will both surpass it soon. Until then, we're cabin mates at Camp Mediocrity. ^^; EDIT: Whoops. Though I did forget about the part where you mentioned having switched over to more in-game battling. Well, I guess all I can say there is, I won't know how good you are now unless you ladder up a bit on PS. So show me! Let us applaud you for your growth.
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10-08-2014, 09:11 PM | #3440 |
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The trick to success. (Random Battle, 31 turns)
Spoiler: show Wherein I defy the gods. (Random Battle, 26 turns) Spoiler: show
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10-11-2014, 07:51 AM | #3441 |
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Pretty sure you meant to put Defiant there, guys. Not only because you've listed zero non-damaging moves in primary positions (Thunder Wave is relegated to alternative status) but because even your essay talks about things that would only matter with Defiant and explores Prankster as the alternative solution.
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10-11-2014, 07:56 AM | #3442 |
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Someone should really tell Smogon to change that to Defiant / Prankster.
Phoopes?
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10-11-2014, 07:58 AM | #3443 |
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For the record, this is from the latest issue of The Smog. No idea how the Dex page looks. Fix it wherever it's broken, regardless.
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10-11-2014, 08:04 AM | #3444 |
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Huh the dex page is actually correct. That's really odd.
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10-11-2014, 09:40 AM | #3445 |
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With Juisho currently sitting at 1782 and Zuisho at 1777 (Random Battle scores), I decided to hop back over to Suisho. The account had claimed "1750" for Suisho's Elo, but I knew it had surely decayed. One battle revealed just how much it had decayed by: a whopping 250 points. So off and on I've done some random battles on Suisho, working my way back up into the mid-to-upper 1700s. I'm currently at 1600 even, so it'll probably be a day or three yet before I get there. In the meantime ...
Wherein Tailwind proves useful even in Singles. (Random Battle, 23 turns) Spoiler: show
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10-11-2014, 12:52 PM | #3447 |
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Breed Rain Dish in XY and it should be okay. As long as the egg is hatched in Kalos its legal
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10-12-2014, 10:37 AM | #3449 |
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So during one of my Black runs that I never finished I ended up getting an Impish Tepig. Rather than throw it away and try to go for an Adamant or Jolly Tepig, I decided "Hey, maybe it might have a viable defensive set!"
It does exist! Third set I mean I get why it exists pretty clearly: Fuck you Escavalier and Durant and fuck you Stealth Rock. It's just funny because I normally would have discounted a defensive Emboar had it not been for my "luck" with that Tepig. Lo and behold, it does exist. EDIT: Emboar has a 38% chance of surviving Durant's +1 Superpower AND the Flare Blitz recoil from killing it. I'm beside myself from the giggles.
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