Thanks again for all the feedback guys! I'm certainly open to writing more warstories in the future if I get some nice battles.
I really enjoyed your warstory freakyvillian, it's really neat to see how you think things through before each turn, and it has given me reason to never assume that an opponent will have "the standard" moveset.
Heh, I've definitely learned that from this battle. However, it's an interesting conundrum since statistically they probably are using the standard set so you're at an advantage if you do guess it right. However, non-standard sets do exist and are often used just for the element of surprise so to win out in the long run, you need to use both statistical knowledge and circumstantial inferences when guessing at their movesets.
And obviously, you're still going to be wrong at least some of the time so there's always that element of chance involved.
If you were wondering, standard scarfape has thunderpunch as the last move.
Nice Warstory!
Ah, thanks! It's no surprise then that he didn't use it since Flygon can easily come in for free and pulverize him.
You'd be amazed as to how many opponents leave their Pokemon in your opponent doesn't expect Scarf Infernape.
Seeing as how that happened to me, no, I'm not at all amazed. :naughty:
hahahahaha this was amazing! I totally enjoyed the battle, though the Scarf Ape not CCing your Flygon put me off since he probably would have won.
Possibly, though not necessarily true. If he uses CC, I would be able to get Gengar in for free for an easy sub. His only chance then would be to sacrifice metagross for a Bullet Punch to break the sub, then send Scizor or Infernape in to finish Gengar off. However, he would have to predict very carefully at that point.
If it were Infernape he sent in, he would have to either predict a switch and U-Turn, predict me staying in and ThunderPunch, or use Flare Blitz to hit everything hard. But all three choices are very risky. Flare Blitz could possibly kill him with recoil while ThunderPunch doesn't do enough to Scizor. U-Turn is worthless against Gengar so if I'd stayed in, I would get an almost guarenteed kill one of his pokemon.
If he sent in Scizor, on the other hand, he would be able to either kill me with Bullet Punch or predict a switch with Swords Dance or possibly pursuit. This is risky as well since without a boost and without CB, he might not be able to kill Scizor in one hit but if he stayed in to try to SD, I might of left Gengar in to die as well and OHKO him with HP Fire when he doesn't priority me.
So either way, it would be a close game and either way, it would of been a lot of fun. :D
On the converse side, it was a match almost predated on the use of SR, but I won't complain.
SR certainly had a large influence on the outcome, but seeing as how the majority of pokemon on both sides are weak/neutral to SR, that's not very surprising. The outcome itself was somewhat surprising though because Scarfnape seemed to have exactly the right amount of HP left to die to SR (12%) which was very lucky and made for much more drama. However, and I didn't realize this at the time, even if he survied, he would not have many options since collectively my last two pokemon are immune to electric/fighting which means his only options are U-Turn and Flare Blitz. Using Flare Blitz would undoubtedly kill himself with the few percentage he has remaining which leaves U-Turn, a move that Gengar is 4x resistant to. That, is the problem of choice.
Brilliant game, but I noticed one mistake in your "alternate" ending. If Infernape had Close Combated (even without the stealth rocks), your Gengar would've came in and absorbed the Close Combat, meaning you would've still won.
Heh, yeah, I was hoping people would see the pessimism and dark prophecies I made before and forget the fact that I had a Gengar in the wings. At the time, I was thinking of nothing short of "Game Over" and in the actual story I hoped to capture some of that anticipation of doom. I guess it worked on some people at least. ;D