05-06-2013, 02:49 PM | #301 |
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05-06-2013, 02:50 PM | #302 |
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Damn Talon, where did you get that impatient? Looks pretty good for winning battles.
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05-06-2013, 04:01 PM | #303 |
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That does seem to be a pretty useful impatient.
Of course, all these forfeits make me less than enthusiastic about PS |
05-06-2013, 04:02 PM | #304 |
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It tends to only happen on randbats. If you play a tier, forfeits happen far less often. But they do happen.
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05-06-2013, 04:13 PM | #305 | |
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Sorry, but PS is a POS when it comes to the community's crybaby attitude about many things. People jet constantly, people give up left and right, ... it's pretty bad. Yes, Random Battles is the worst, but I've seen it happen quite a few times in NU too.
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05-06-2013, 04:20 PM | #306 |
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This reminds me of when I did Wi-Fi comp battles and you'd be winning and then all of a sudden you'd lose the connection. Then the opponent comes on the chat and says 'sorry I lost signal' even though the difference between a legit DC and someone just shutting their DS off is really fucking obvious.
Also Phoopes has tempted me toward PS for 4th Gen battles. Might do that since I've got all of my 'mon from there backed up. |
05-06-2013, 04:42 PM | #307 |
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I think I like P-O more still (we'll see), but if you're interested in exporting all those Pokemon you created in P-O, you can. You export them to puretext (P-O has a way to do this) and then you copy and paste that text into PS. It's how I got my OU team over with as little hassle as possible.
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05-06-2013, 04:57 PM | #308 |
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'geet, no snarky commentary on how badly I play at three in the morning?
Am disappoint. EDIT: I haven't really seen any quitters in UU. Other than one person who bonafide forfeited because they thought I had the game, which was odd because I thought I was gonna lose. |
05-06-2013, 06:21 PM | #309 |
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A stall on stall match
I won this one, but it was through the thaw hax on freeze. all things said, Talon would have won if it wasn't for that. Anyways, GOGO TURN BY TURN RECAP BECAUSE WYNAUT! Spoiler: show
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05-06-2013, 08:48 PM | #310 | |
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The team I used in this match was not my team. Rather, it was a team I pulled from a RMT article in The Smog, Smogon's digital periodical. I thought it would be fun to take it for a test spin. Sort of like a man who owns a Honda taking a Mercedes or a Ferrari for a test spin. Sort of a guilty lil' pleasure, what with its abuse of weather and legendaries and such. So yeah. Any credit you may wish to give the team for their moves, chemistry, and so forth should go to the team's creator, not me. Blaze may not have made this apparent to you, but he was actually battling at a slight disadvantage. Putting aside that he was pitting his homebrew team against a published Smogon team, this was also not the first time I'd seen his team. In fact, we had just fought a previous match (which I lost by some margin I've forgotten, something like 0-2 or 0-3, I can't be sure) and we had discussed -- or I had discussed, he just sort of politely listened -- some modifications I might make to the team to better deal with some of the shortcomings his own team had exposed in mine. Long story short, I added HP Fighting to Zapdos specifically because of Heatran and other non-Psychic Steels, replacing Toxic (which, as you might imagine, was shit worthless). And I swapped out Jellicent's Will-o-Wisp for Giga Drain because, frankly, I feel like 75%acc Will-o-Wisp is almost a waste of a move if you're going to run Scald anyway, and I definitely needed some more punch on the set. Not to mention I wanted a way to do something to his Jellicent and Politoed besides Taunt them to death. What's funny about this is, I had just given Blaze a stern lecture about the evils of counter-teaming. And yet what I did (which I swear to God wasn't intended as counter-teaming -- our second match was genuinely to discover whether these changes were an improvement or not!) ended up sort of playing out as such. So yeah, that has to be said. So now ... let's rewatch this video and I'll point out the majorly questionable decisions Blaze went with which resulted in me being completely screwed. Spoiler: show So yeah. Not nearly as bad as I thought it was. Not until towards the end, anyway, when you made those blunders I've indicated with bold red text. But those were quite few considering this was a 59-turn match. You battled well, you were a great sport, and that's really all one can ask for.
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05-07-2013, 04:06 AM | #311 |
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So I decided to play a little UU... because when I try OU I get curbstomped.
My opponent was not smart... Fire Blast misses a lot. I make really horrible calls... shinies are cool I guess. I make bad calls that cost me the game... knowing when to Recover is your friend. I fight the same person I did all of ten minutes ago... fuck Pory. This guy's friend proceeded to try to heckle me... I put the smack down on him shortly thereafter. Last one for now... THE BIGGER THE RISK THE BIGGER THE PAYOUT BIATCH. Feel free to point out the things I am doing horribly wrong, as that's the large majority of the reason I've posted so many games instead of just the interesting ones. Last edited by Sneaze; 05-07-2013 at 02:09 PM. |
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Wherein PTSD nightmares of Goldenrod Gym are triggered for someone.
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Spoiler: show Regarding the second battle: Spoiler: show Skipping ahead to the fifth one since these things take le time and I am le tired and want to move on to other things right now ^^; ... Regarding the fifth match: Spoiler: show I missed it, but apparently his friend abandoned him on Turn 16. Writes "r u serus" and leaves. Some friend.
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05-07-2013, 03:30 PM | #313 |
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Just note that Sigi would not have been able to beat Houndoom, so he had that match anyways. Mixed Houndoom is actually pretty viable and I used it on one team as a Chandy counter / check.
Otherwise, here is what I have to say: With Swampert: If in doubt, use Waterfall. Stop using Stone Edge when you predict a flier. :P God forbid you face a Flygon and you do that. With Froslass: Not sure why you only put up two layers of Spikes. Every match! You can do three. With Sableye: I personally don't like this mon because of the plethora of noobs who use Confuse Ray on it, but is there a reason you run physically defensive? Or is it specially and Chandy just a boss? With Houndoom: Can't access Smogon at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the mixed runs Dark Pulse. You play him well for a Pokemon that is more meh in UU than anything else. With Kingdra: Nothing to say here, you use it pretty good. Try out the Rain Dance LO set though, it is a monster and gives you some more special ground. With Gligar: No complaints here either. But Gligar is really easy to use. These were more general comments than anything else. I've played UU a couple of times(and actually have a fairly successful RMT for it too), and it is nice tier to get started in if you don't like weather but need a better time getting into the game. And fuck people who use Quick Claw.
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05-07-2013, 06:51 PM | #314 |
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>And fuck people who use Quick Claw.
THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS >Swampert Yeah, he's Choiced mostly due to building him bulky, so I can still OHKO a 'Lax after SR. The main reason I go with Stone Edge in a lot of those matches instead of Waterfall or his other non-STAB of Ice Punch is due to wanting to force them into switching in certain 'mon that I can take out with one of my other sweepers easily, as I can almost always switch Swampert back in due to his bulky build. >Houndoom ...yeah seeing as I have Pursuit I'm just going to switch out Sucker Punch for Dark Pulse and see what happens, making his full set Pursuit / Dark Pulse / Fire Blast / Hidden Power Grass. KINGDRA SWEEP FOR THE TURNAROUND LOL. The poor guy ragequit. Last edited by Sneaze; 05-07-2013 at 06:59 PM. |
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I mean, the thing is, Sucker Punch can be very good 1) when used with remarkable accuracy and 2) in times of need for a priority attack. That's why people like it. But until you get a better handle on calling switches and on calling non-direct damaging attacks, I think the move is going to be doing you more harm than good. Give Dark Pulse a go and see how you like it. If you start encountering losses left and right where a priority move would've saved you, then you can revert to Sucker Punch. If on the other hand you feel that Houndoom is already plenty speedy enough and you want to capitalize on a good thing, I'd say go for Dark Pulse.
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05-07-2013, 08:31 PM | #317 |
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Now see kids, this is why Beat Up is bad. You lose the effective as time goes on. Then again, all of that applies to Awfulpom. >.<
If you EVER find yourself wanting to lure out Ghost types, Rock types, and Steel types with a 40 BP attack, you are better off using Mienshao, because it can actually defeat the latter two types with HJK, and can BP out of Ghost types. Plus, it has Regenerator. Nicely played on the last one sneezy. Other than Xatu(which takes huge damage from Foul Play for some bizarre reason(other than it is a Psychic type, since most Xatu are physically defensive) On the first match, that was pretty freakin great predicting. The kid ragequitting was pretty gay, but at least you proved your out thunk him on numerous occasions. The second match...why did you use HP Grass in that match? I don't remember it hitting anything SE, which is the only reason anyone would want to run a HP(for example, Amoonguss uses it to hit Landorus). The Dark Pulsing was fine since I figured a switch in to Chandy as well(though Chandy has no real way to beat Houndoom without taking ridiculous damage.)
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05-07-2013, 09:01 PM | #318 |
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>HP Grass
...I have no idea. My brain sprung a leak. Decided to switch Houndoom to NP w/ HP Fighting... paid off first match due to taking down a Walrein that otherwise would have caused a lot of problems. Now I just feel bad... pretty sure this poor person has never played comp before in their life. Last edited by Sneaze; 05-07-2013 at 10:28 PM. |
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Today:
Wherein a gimmick costs me two Pokémon right off the bat. (OU) Spoiler: show Yesterday: Uploaded mostly for Blaze so he can see how this one went. (This is the one you waltzed into at the very end.) Spoiler: show Random Battle battle with Tdos. My first time using the Smogon OU RMT team "Pocketman" against the public. My second time using the Pocketman team against the public. Hippowdon vs. Skarmory: the 103-turn battle! A Challenge Cup battle where Solrock and Mightyena do good jobs, so check it out, fans of those two lines.
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05-07-2013, 11:06 PM | #320 |
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Could someone link me to the Monotype Tourney thread?
I can't find it. .__. |
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05-07-2013, 11:43 PM | #322 |
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I forgot who made the thread! ;___;
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05-07-2013, 11:50 PM | #323 |
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You don't need to remember who made the thread. All you need to do is search the entire forum for all threads containing the words "monotype" and "tournament". I just gave you what came to my mind instinctively as the way to find it quickly. (And find it quickly I did.) Here's the result for searching the entire board for all threads in which the words "monotype" and "tournament" came up. A grand total of seven threads.
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05-08-2013, 01:03 AM | #324 |
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"Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES! " ... I mean, Talon, when someone offers you a chance to set up both screens and not just one, you TAKE IT!
Spoiler: show Yeah, Turn 6 was very stupid of me. Spoiler: show FUCK YES, I LOVE LIGHT CLAY JIRACHI! T_T As ashamed as I am to admit it. I must find a non-legendary equivalent! Spoiler: show Long story short, Light Clay Jirachi is very much so doing his job.
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>Hippowdon v Skarmory
...why you didn't just start spamming EQ when he got below 50% health earlier on we will never know. |
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