[Gym Qualifiers] Rock: January 23rd, 2016

[Frosty]

Examiner's Pool:
Candidates are encouraged to look over the Pokemon in the pool. If you notice any errors, please let us know.

Izanami-no-Okami the Necturna (F)

Izanami-no-Okami (F)

Nature: Impish
+1 Def, -1 SpA

Type: Grass / Ghost

Abilities: Forewarn / Telepathy

Stats:
HP: 100
Atk: 5
Def: 5 [+]
SpA: 2 [-]
SpD: 5
Spe: 81
Size Class: 3
Weight Class: 3
Base Rank Total: 23

EC: 6/6
MC: 0
DC: 5/5

Attacks [72]:
Absorb
Attract
Bind
Calm Mind
Confide
Covet
Curse
Cut
Double Team
Dream Eater
Energy Ball
Facade
Flash
Forest's Curse
Frustation
Future Sight
Giga Drain
Giga Impact
Grass Knot
Gravity
Hex
Hidden Power Ice
Horn Leech
Hyper Beam
Infestation
Ingrain
Knock Off
Leaf Blade
Leaf Storm
Leer
Natural Gift
Nature Power
Nightmare
Ominous Wind
Pain Split
Payback
Poison Fang
Power Whip
Protect
Psych Up
Psychic
Rest
Return
Round
Seed Bomb
Shadow Ball
Shadow Claw
Shadow Sneak
Sketch (Wide Guard)
Skill Swap
Sleep Talk
Snatch
Snore
Solarbeam
Spite
Stone Edge
Substitute
Sunny Day
Super Fang
Swagger
Swift
Synthesis
Telekinesis
Thief
Thunder Fang
Torment
Toxic
Toxic Spikes
Trick
Vine Whip
Will-O-Wisp
Worry Seed

Teddie the Azumarill (M)

Teddie (M)

Nature: Adamant
+1 Atk, -1 SpA

Type: Water / Fairy

Abilities: Huge Power / Thick Fat / Sap Sipper [DW]

Stats:
HP: 110
Atk: 3 [6 Huge Power] [+]
Def: 3
SpA: 1 [-]
SpD: 3
Spe: 50
Size Class: 2
Weight Class: 3
Base Rank Total: 16 [19 Huge Power]

EC: 9/9
MC: 0
DC: 5/5

Attacks [70]:
Amnesia
Aqua Jet
Aqua Ring
Aqua Tail
Belly Drum
Bounce
Brick Break
Body Slam
Bubble
Bubblebeam
Bulldoze
Camouflage
Charm
Confide
Copycat
Covet
Defense Curl
Dig
Dive
Dizzy Punch
Double Team
Double-Edge
Dynamic Punch
Encore
Endure
Fling
Focus Punch
Foresight
Future Sight
Giga Impact
Grass Knot
Hail
Helping Hand
Hidden Power Ground
Hydro Pump
Hyper Beam
Ice Punch
Icy Wind
Iron Tail
Knock Off
Light Screen
Mimic
Natural Gift
Perish Song
Play Rough
Power Up Punch
Protect
Rain Dance
Refresh
Rest
Return
Rock Smash
Rollout
Scald
Sing
Sleep Talk
Snore
Soak
Splash
Substitute
Superpower
Surf
Swagger
Tackle
Tail Whip
Toxic
Water Gun
Water Sport
Waterfall
Whirlpool

Titania the Venusaur (F)

Titania (F)

Nature: Quiet
+1 SpA, Speed / 1.15, -10% Eva

Type: Grass / Poison

Abilities: Overgrow / Chlorophyll [DW]

Stats:
HP: 100
Atk: 3
Def: 3
SpA: 5 [+]
SpD: 4
Spe: 69 [-]
Size Class: 4
Weight Class: 4
Base Rank Total: 20

Mega Stats

Type: Grass / Poison

Abilities: Overgrow / Chlorophyll [DW] / Thick Fat

Stats:
HP: 100
Atk: 4
Def: 5
SpA: 6 [+]
SpD: 5
Spe: 69 [-]
Size Class: 5
Weight Class: 5
Base Rank Total: 25

EC: 9/9
MC: 0
DC: 5/5

Attacks [72]:
Amnesia
AncientPower
Attract
Bide
Bind
Block
Body Slam
Bulldoze
Charm
Curse
Cut
Double Team
Double-Edge
Earthquake
Echoed Voice
Endure
Energy Ball
Facade
Flash
Frenzy Plant
Frustration
Fury Cutter
Giga Drain
Grass Knot
Grass Pledge
GrassWhistle
Grassy Terrain
Growl
Growth
Hidden Power [Ice]
Hyper Beam
Ingrain
Knock Off
Leaf Storm
Leech Seed
Light Screen
Magical Leaf
Mimic
Outrage
Petal Blizzard
Petal Dance
PoisonPowder
Power Whip
Protect
Razor Leaf
Razor Wind
Reflect
Rest
Return
Roar
Safeguard
Seed Bomb
Skull Bash
Sleep Powder
Sleep Talk
Sludge
Sludge Bomb
Snore
SolarBeam
String Shot
Substitute
Sunny Day
Swagger
Sweet Scent
Synthesis
Tackle
Take Down
Toxic
Venom Shock
Vine Whip
Weather Ball
Worry Seed

Suzuka-Gongen the Swampert (F)

Suzuka-Gongen (F)

Nature: Brave
+1 Atk, Speed / 1.15, -10% Eva

Type: Water / Ground

Abilities: Torrent / Damp [DW]

Stats:
HP: 110
Atk: 5 [+]
Def: 3
SpA: 3
SpD: 3
Spe: 52 [-]
Size Class: 4
Weight Class: 4
Base Rank Total: 19

Mega Stats

Type: Water / Ground

Abilities: Torrent / Damp [DW] / Swift Swim

Stats:
HP: 110
Atk: 7 [+]
Def: 4
SpA: 3
SpD: 4
Spe: 60 [-]
Size Class: 3
Weight Class: 5
Base Rank Total: 24

EC: 9/9
MC: 0
DC: 5/5

Attacks [60]:
Avalanche
Barrier
Bide
Bite
Blizzard
Brick Break
Bulldoze
Counter
Dig
Dive
Double Team
Earth Power
Earthquake
Endeavor
Endure
Facade
Focus Blast
Focus Punch
Foresight
Giga Impact
Growl
Hammer Arm
Hidden Power [Grass]
Hydro Cannon
Hydro Pump
Hyper Beam
Ice Ball
Ice Beam
Ice Punch
Iron Tail
Low Kick
Mirror Coat
Mud Bomb
Mud Shot
Mud Slap
Mud Sport
Outrage
Protect
Refresh
Rest
Roar
Rock Slide
Rock Throw
Rock Tomb
Scald
Sleep Talk
Sludge Wave
Stealth Rock
Stone Edge
Substitute
Superpower
Surf
Tackle
Toxic
Water Gun
Water Pledge
Waterfall
Whirlpool
Wide Guard
Yawn

Asura the Throh (M)

Asura (M)

Nature: Adamant
+1 Atk, -1 SpA

Type: Fighting

Abilities: Guts / Inner Focus / Mold Breaker [DW]

Stats:
HP: 120
Atk: 5 [+]
Def: 3
SpA: 1 [-]
SpD: 3
Spe: 45
Size Class: 3
Weight Class: 4
Base Rank Total: 19

EC: N/A
MC: 0
DC: 5/5

Attacks [41]:
Bide
Bind
Block
Body Slam
Brick Break
Bulldoze
Circle Throw
Dig
Earthquake
Endure
Facade
Fire Punch
Focus Energy
Focus Punch
Giga Impact
Helping Hand
Ice Punch
Knock Off
Leer
Low Kick
Pain Split
Payback
Poison Jab
Power-Up Punch
Protect
Rest
Revenge
Reversal
Rock Slide
Seismic Toss
Sleep Talk
Stone Edge
Storm Throw
Substitute
Superpower
Taunt
Thunder Punch
Toxic
Vital Throw
Wide Guard
Zen Headbutt

Kohryu the Steelix (M)

Kohryu (M)

Nature: Brave
+1 Atk, Speed / 1.15, -10% Eva

Type: Steel / Ground

Abilities: Rock Head / Sturdy / Sheer Force [DW]

Stats:
HP: 100
Atk: 4 [+]
Def: 9
SpA: 2
SpD: 3
Spe: 26 [-]
Size Class: 7
Weight Class: 8
Base Rank Total: 22

Mega Stats

Type: Steel / Ground

Abilities: Rock Head / Sturdy / Sheer Force [DW] / Sand Force

Stats:
HP: 100
Atk: 6 [+]
Def: 10
SpA: 2
SpD: 3
Spe: 26 [-]
Size Class: 7
Weight Class: 10
Base Rank Total: 25

EC: 6/6
MC: 0
DC: 5/5

Attacks [91]:
Ancient Power
Aqua Tail
Attract
Autotomise
Bide
Bind
Block
Body Slam
Bulldoze
Captivate
Confide
Constrict
Crunch
Curse
Cut
Dark Pulse
Defence Curl
Dig
Double Team
Double-Edge
Dragon Pulse
Dragon Tail
Dragonbreath
Earth Power
Earthquake
Endure
Explosion
Facade
Fire Fang
Fissure
Flail
Flash Cannon
Frustration
Giga Impact
Gyro Ball
Harden
Headbutt
Heavy Slam
Hidden Power (Grass)
Hyper Beam
Ice Fang
Iron Head
Iron Tail
Magnet Rise
Mimic
Mud Sport
Mud-Slap
Natural Gift
Nature Power
Payback
Protect
Psych Up
Rage
Rest
Return
Roar
Rock Blast
Rock Climb
Rock Polish
Rock Slide
Rock Smash
Rock Throw
Rock Tomb
Rollout
Rototiller
Round
Sand Tomb
Sandstorm
Screech
Secret Power
Self Destruct
Sharpen
Skull Bash
Slam
Sleep Talk
Smack Down
Snore
Stealth Rock
Stone Edge
Strength
Substitute
Sunny Day
Swagger
Tackle
Take Down
Taunt
Thunder Fang
Torment
Toxic
Twister
Wrap

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Rock Qualifiers

This thread is for the qualifiers for the Rock gym. The date for the start of the qualifiers is January 23rd, 2016. The format for the qualifiers will be doubles. The examiner will be dogfish44.

Each candidate for the gym will fight against the examiner, a user chosen by the gym committee. After the battles end, the candidate that the committee judges played best will become the new leader.

• 4v4 doubles
  • Gym candidates may bring up to 3 extra Pokemon.
  • The examiner's Pokemon will be chosen from their pool. The same Pokemon will be brought to each match in the qualifiers.
• The examiner will send out first.
• 2 recoveries / 5 Chills per Pokemon
• Items = On
• Abilities = All
• Switch = OK
• Megas = 1
• Subs = 3
• ASB Arena
• Soft DQ: 3 Days

Signups will be ongoing until the start of the qualifiers. Tagging Leethoof and ZhengTann , who have all expressed interest in the role.

Candidates:
Leethoof
ZhengTann

 

[Leethoof]

l g i

 

[ZhengTann]

Was hoping for no Water-mons :( So this means I have to train an extra Cradily. Oh well, he shall be Gogmagog then.

Translated Lyrics

Midsummer Lightyear - Mayday

Lyrics / Composing: Ashin
Performed by: 陈冰
Translation: Zt

(verse 1)

The destruction I'm proud of,
The banality I hate,
Reminded me which were the ones I love the most.

Let the midsummer frolic,
As the cruel future is banished,
Beyond the lightyears.

Now, let us

(chorus)

Abolish the rules,
Love without restraint,
Hold nothing back from ourselves,
And leave the future blank.

I won't turn back,
I won't turn aside,
I won't turn around,
I won't turn ever.

(verse 2)

Let the laws simplify
Let the order chaotify
These are the only youth times that I'd like

Let the midsummer frolic,
As the future is banished,
Beyond the lightyears.

Now let us

(chorus)

(bridge)

I desired, I raved, I wanted, I loved, and then,
I'll desire, I'll rave, I'll want, I'll love, but now,
A million MP3s,
And a million crazy lovers,
Can't diminish such an insignificant loneliness,

I desired, I raved, I wanted, I loved, and then,
I'll desire, I'll rave, I'll want, I'll love, but now,
When the midsummer's carnage,
Has reached beyond the lightyears,
Does growing up really means that our souls always rot?!

(chorus)

 

[Fort Colorcastle]

is it bad if ive watched that episode of VoC before kek

edit at below: i was originally planning to ref this, but then I somehow ended up reffing all of fairy quals lol.

tbh ill probably end up doing the same here given who is reffing :^)

 

[Frosty]

anyone feel like reffing? It seems we will need 2 refs here.

 

[Geodude6]

sure

 

[Someoneelse]

Yeah, I can ref one.

 

[Dogfish44]

Alrighty then!

Matches are as follows;

1) Leethoof vs Dogfish44
Ref: Someoneelse

2) ZhengTann vs Dogfish44
Ref: Geodude6

IMPORTANT: The examiner will PM both refs in a single conversation, which will contain the examiner's team. When you have received the candidate's team, please respond as such in the PM. Once both teams are in, only then can you post threads.

ZhengTann and Leethoof, you have 1 week (That is, until this time on the 30th UTC) to send teams in - although we would rather have teams in as soon as is possible.

 

[ZhengTann]

 

[Someoneelse]

Candidate Leethoof vs Examiner Dogfish44 is here.

 

[Frosty]

ZhengTann
Dogfish44

Did you send?

If yes, then send to me. We are behind schedule and I don't want to have too much of a gap between both matches.

 

[Dogfish44]

Leethoof got DQed.

Okay, a summing up of my thoughts with Frosty, for ZhengTann.

• Aerodactyl was played poorly, and came out on it's worse matchup. Power Herb Sky Attack can be very powerful - but you were against slow Knock Off mons. Much better here would've been either Mega Aerodactyl spamming Fly & Sky Drop (Sky Drop in particular might've been enough to let Omastar in safely), or Tyrantrum, who could do Aero's job (Necturna handler), but would also be slow and heavy enough to not be mauled by Heavy Slam / Gyro Ball. I also didn't understand your subs round 1 - I was very close to having Necturna use Protect A1 to waste a Taunt.
• Lunatone blindisded me - you played it well, and it was the main contributor to the two KOs you scored, thanks to Icy Wind and Pain Split. You might've been wise to use Blizzard over Ice Beam, as to ping Steelix, but then I'm not sure if you were overly worried by Wide Guard? Still, I'd have rather had Blizzard and a sub for Wide Guard than an Ice Beam with a P/E sub. To be honest, even though it caught me, I'm not sure if it should've came out so early, when I had an active ghost type and a benched Throh?
• Cradily being switched in was appropriate - you needed Cradily in to prevent Lunatone being OHKOd before it could act (Although Luna could use Helping Hand regardless). That said, the biggest thing I don't understand is why you went for LO - at the time, I'd have argued that EBelt letting you Endure would've been stronger.
• Tyrantrum should've been in earlier for my tastes - it handles all bar Steelix reasonably well, and Steelix doesn't actually do that much damage to it. The biggest thing I noticed was Draco Meteor - you had a more damaging Fire Fang, which also had Burn + Flinch chance. If you'd got either of those, then Azumarill would have to combo to KO Lunatone.
• In general, ordering first I felt very little pressure. That's a big problem, because Rock Types are the masters of spamming Rock Slide and watching people cry - they're all about that first-order pressure. This resulted in your first orders feeling like you'd left gaping holes in then - no pressure gives me freedom to do evil things.
• I note that you didn't use Omastar/Stratagem, both of whom are fast special attackers who can deal damage to Steelix (Itemless Stratagem's Fire Blast hits for 21.75, whilst Helix Fossil's Hydro Pump hits for 24). Both of these mons - especially if you supported them by disrupting Necturna - could've done a lot more work.

Okay, so there's a lot there. But I will also say that your second orders were usually effective, and Rock on a non-arena is generally going to suffer on a miraculous day.

Having talked with the resident Frosty, we've both agreed - we think you're good enough, and we think your mons are ready, but we also think you don't know what your rock types are capable of.

As such, we're going to say create an arena, get it approved from us, and then do a couple of practice matches. 2 or 3, just so you can get used to the mons you'll be using an awful lot in your future. After that you can Consider yourself the Rock Gym Leader and open your gym to distribute badges to the poors.

 

[Leethoof]

Congrats ZhengTann !!

 

[ZhengTann]

Go get 'em in Flying Leet - I will train a Bastiodon and name it after the Stratons (speaking of, what are SDS and akela's sigmons?). Also,

.... open your gym to distribute badges to the poors.

If that was my job, why can't we just start already? :(

EDIT: The line above is kind of a joke, in case people think of me as the kind of guy who only cracks mature jokes on IRC and is a totally serious person on forums.