I have a very funny story lol (sorry, i didn't save the video):
Gyarados is locked in DD
Garchomp SD +6
Fire Fang (I don't have lum berry)
AI switches to ninetales (flash fire ftw)
Garchomp Earthquake
...
AI switches to Gyarados o_o
After that it was easy, fire fang, Outrage and GG!
that kind of thing will happen to you many many times with this kind of team!
Yet again I survived a battle that placed me in mortal danger...
I still don't want to reveal my team members apart from the obvious Registeel, but here's what I'll say for now (until I post the final record streak and also upload the video of this battle):
Basically, lead Armaldo got 5 crits in 10 turns against Registeel with X-Scissor, including my second incident of 3 crits in a row with the standard CH rate >_>. This involved breaking several Subs and thus leaving Steel with red-zone HP upon defeating it, then Skuntank4 comes out next. Sounds pretty safe since Steel resists all its moves, but it also has Explosion and Night Slash's high crit rate, which at my low HP would've been fatal. Therefore, I impulsively chose Iron Head (+6) rather than trying to stall it until Leftover recovered enough HP... it has Aftermath so Registeel dies too. Oops. I wonder if Peterko or Jumpman ever made a mistake that bad during their 2000+ streaks... anyway, I sent out my weakened lead (taken one X-Scissor) and out came Mismagius4 (Timid, Focus Sash)... crap. But due to the wonder of RNG abuse and the flawless IVs it brings, I survived with 5 HP and Thunder Waved it... then Tricked my item to it, thus stealing its precious Focus Sash. Lead dies, then my powerful sweeper comes out and ends it easily.
Moral of the story: Don't forget about abilities.
I really didn't deserve to win that battle... or did I? After all, 5 crits in 10 turns is somewhat unfair.
That was my closest call since the time Registeel had to finish off 1 HP Guillotine Gliscor without a Sub. These battles are no good for my heart rate!
yeah, you deserved to win that one. 5/10 crits is really just not fair. looking forward to seeing this battle.
Yeah, I'm beginning to see that, but I'm also beginning to see that while forcing struggle is a great tool, it's far from my only one. There are plenty of cases, for example, where a resisted attack does less than struggle so I won't bother, and let's not forget wonderful enemy first turn moves like any stat up, twave (chomp), toxic (scizor) that have no effect at all. While I'll probably end up losing to powerful unresisted attacks (of which struggle could be one given a sufficiently high attack) I'm hoping on being able to reach 100 before that happens. This is also part of why I'm considering switching scizor's spdef to def, as while specs can rock me by stopping me from easily forcing struggle, non-specs/sticky hold/etc special sweepers do next to nothing when stuck on struggle anyways so I don't seem to need the boost there. It was originally in case something went wrong and it had to face an unexpected stray flamethrower or whatever, but now that I've gotten some play in it seems like in any situation where that could actually happen I've already lost the match, so it seems a waste when it could be doing more good in def.
like you say, charming CB leads is better than tricking them. theire attack is lower after one turn, and you have the ability to keep lowering it.
also, scizor is really not meant to be switching in to stuff. you probably could have just sacrificed your lead. the tauros will now outspeed you, so either:
- it KO's you that turn, and scizor comes in next at full hp.
- it doesn't KO you, you retrick, but now youre faster (you have scarf, it has band) so you can trick the scarf back next turn.
still yeah, its
great to learn that at an early battle (i learnt something about yanmega at 459 last time and lost my streak lol). good luck next time you try.
you wouldn't be the first one who uses it as I did it multiple times
don't worry about using pokemon (or strategies) other people have used, or else you'll soon be restricted to magikarp soon lol :) my tower team is very similar to peterko's - i switched garchomp for salamence not because i thought it would "make me different", but because i thought it had a use. both our teams are extremely similar to Garo's anyway, and this kind of trick team (based on resistences) is very difficult to do without registeel and a dragon.
QUESTION
Is your streak considered illegal if you use legit hacks in the tower?
I ask this as I have theorymonned a prety perfect team, but I would need 1 SAV'd Pokémon for it.
i'd be interested to hear what some other people say about that one. what is the pokemon you're wanting to use? personally, i think it's a bit of a shame to hack a pokemon to use - getting on the list against others who use only what is available to them without cheating, you're putting yourself at an advantage. but then again if its just to get a tutor move on something that most people could do easy enough, i dont know. guess it depends on the pokemon......
Ah, yes... I have an announcement to make....
I lost at 647 in the Tower.
Anyone who has seen my previous record posts (eg. 313) and the videos that accompany them will know that it will be a while before my official record post is finished. For now, I'll just say that the chance of losing was 1 in 5851, or even lower if you count the choice of team members by the opponent.
I'm 99.9999% sure I won't be returning to the Tower in D/P/Pt. As for HG/SS, that depends on whether the Tower pokes have different movesets... doesn't anyone know about that?
ah crap - i was sure you'd get to 1001 :( well, you certainly make it to #3 (or is it #2 lol - maybe we could get jumpman to remove himself too - afterall his streak is unfinished, and therefore unimpressive).
sucks about the 1/5851 thing - i'll wait to read/watch it and see how terrible it was.
well, at least there is a 0.00001% chance you'll be back!
Lol, I just had THE funniest battle ever in the doubles arcade with my new team (not revealing it yet). Basically, earlier in the round I had gotten that gay lagging tail for all my pokes and had a board speed up. Then on like the sixth battle I landed on the switch panel! I was pretty pissed, but I actually won a very close game because the team that my opponent got all had lagging tail.
ah that
is funny - my best streak (sub-100 i think) was ended by the switch-team panel. makes you realise how awesome your team is when "their" lead OHKO's every single one of "your" pokemon before it can move lol.....
seriously, if the opponents in the battle tower really are people with feelings, it must hurt them to be like "go roserade :) oh crap, what is that thing? salamence used aerial ace. roseade suffers a horrible death. oh :( well..... go breloom :) salamence used aerial ace...............". yeah.....
197 in the single hall with a pokémon noone has used before (as far as I can tell) and I lost to umby lol, I did a mistake turn one, my poké hurt itself 3 out of 4 and last turn umby survived my attack with like 2% and finished my poké off :/
umby killed me too -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypE3AV1kJlE
look forward to hearing what you're using.....
A funny thing happened in one of the early rounds, my opponent had out a Hitmontop, it used Detect, then my opponent switched to Crawdaunt, who resisted the type of move I had just used. I was like: "Did the AI just scout my team and make a smart switch? O_O". That really made me laugh.
they do sometimes switch, generally when something resists your move
and has a supereffective move to use against you. and things with protect/detect almost always use it on turn 1. but yeah, that looked like a bit of a strategy! once i came up against a team which totally looked "well created" - lead choice scarf tyranitar, choice band rhyperior, and i think one of the garchomps".
Finally, I'm working on a new team after this one, improving Jumpman's team in a similar way that Bozo sought to improve Peterko's...
look forward to hearing about that. i've been thinking about tinkering with it too. prob will just switch garchomp for salamence, and think about a lead (prob cant use latias).