The Dark Horse Project IV - Page 14

Huntofthelion · Oct 15th, 2012, 11:34:30 PM

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So after losing due to a fire fang flinch for the 4th time I kinda give up on this team, I think it's cursed.

Anyways I chose Heracross because I used him for WCOP tryouts over the summer and he's always been one of my favorite pokemon. I used the choice band set and it was just ridiculously strong. Any time something slower was in and I could grab a switch to Heracross I pretty much got a KO or crippled something. Guts was a nice bonus to have since there is pretty much nothing that can live a guts + cb boosted close combat / megahorn. I teamed him up with kind of a patchwork team since I was in a little bit of a rush when I was working on the team. I knew I wanted spikes so I used deo-d, since he's the best spiker by far in my opinion, and in that vein I knew I wanted a ghost and the only offensive ghost I like is Gengar, so I used the sub-disable set to easier handle certain threats. From there I knew I wanted a scarfer, a physical sweeper, and a special sweeper. For those roles I went with scarf Latios to give me a fire / water resist, Rock Polish Expert Belt Genesect to take advantage of how torn up the other team would be from hazards+cb Heracross, and SD Lucario since Heracross and Lucario have similar counters and I knew anything switching into Heracross would be worn down by late game. Genesect and Lucario ended up being the stars of the team because they both loved seeing the other team have nothing at full health by the time they were ready to come in. They also both did a surprisingly good job playing in mid game scenarios, which was cool because for all of the good things Heracross did he did have matches where he didn't get to switch in as much as I'd like him to.

I honestly don't think using Heracross made laddering any harder or easier, just different. I don't think he should be below 5% usage at all because he's so powerful and really punches holes through teams if he gets the chance, but at the same time he's not a game breaker and he never took over a match where I was like "damn, good thing I had Heracross or I would have gotten raped."

Long story short Heracross is really cool and everyone should try him at least once in their life because it's not an experience you can function without.

Jobriq · Oct 16th, 2012, 12:07:15 AM

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Lady Alex · Oct 16th, 2012, 1:31:35 AM

Finished laddering with umbreon. updated my post. There should be a title for person who makes the most runs hahaha ;D

Oh. I also updated my zoroark post with its set and description

**Pocket** · Oct 16th, 2012, 1:40:52 AM

HuntoftheLion is MLG! I love Heracross, too, and I'm glad you're pimping it for DHP ;D Mind if you share the CB set with us? Also, why didn't you use Scarf Moxie Heracross? I know that it totally serves a different role, but it seems to be an overall better set to use in OU; as you have noted, Heracross's Speed is a letdown for OU, limiting the time it's active.

Thanks, Lady Alex, for updating your Zoroark and Umbreon posts ;) Was there any particular "Illusion partner" that benefited from Zoroark's trickery?

Lady Alex · Oct 16th, 2012, 1:43:36 AM

The closest thing I had to an "Illusion partner" for Zoroark was a suicide Mew set. Genesects always feel comfortable u-turning out against Mew, so, if I knew they would lead with it, I'd start with Zoroark for the free KO. Otherwise, I mostly used Zoroark to cripple something with trick or as a late game win condition.

Nothing shows up in the HIDE tags on the front page where my other dark horse pokemon are listed lol (aww, I don't get to take up more space on the page xD) EDIT: NVM

FastFlygon · Oct 16th, 2012, 3:44:00 AM

Wasn't going to do another mon but i used a couple in a team i'm in the process of building so i might as well sign up in case it does well:
Alt: FastFlygon (untouched since the reset)
Pokemon: Gothitelle, Scolipede, Empoleon

Peak so far

The Team

alkinesthetase · Oct 16th, 2012, 4:08:55 AM

lady alex thank you SO MUCH for updating your original posts and then dropping another post here - you're not the only one doing so, but it's especially important for you since i think you have like 6 alts in hof lol. i am totally going to make that an organizational requirement next month, lest we have more 2-hour registration update slogs like i had the other day >_> i'm sure pocket can sympathize as to how much vbulletin sucks at editing big posts (comparison of edit modes, like why the heck is the advanced one narrower than the inline one wtf) or having to fish through a 14 page thread every time we make a full update

also, props huntofthelion, it's about damn time someone hofed with hera seeing as several people have had it registered for a while now

jaredz99 · Oct 16th, 2012, 10:54:07 AM

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Lady Alex · Oct 16th, 2012, 12:35:24 PM

Your welcome xD. I figured it would be a terrible hassle to have to carefully look through each post to see if there was an update.

Absolete · Oct 16th, 2012, 12:38:47 PM

Siiince the ladder reset, I can use my old name again, yes? New Trick Room team is up and testing.

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Lady Alex · Oct 16th, 2012, 12:40:49 PM

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Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Zapdos
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Success

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Set

Zapdos @ Leftovers
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SDef
Calm Nature
- Substitute
- Thunderbolt
- Baton Pass
- Agility

Mostly used as a secondary speed booster and a check to Tornadus-T, who is a pretty big threat to baton pass

Lavos Spawn · Oct 16th, 2012, 2:48:23 PM

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**Pocket** · Oct 16th, 2012, 2:52:54 PM

lavos for the 2nd round :o

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Huntofthelion · Oct 16th, 2012, 3:01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Pocket

HuntoftheLion is MLG! I love Heracross, too, and I'm glad you're pimping it for DHP ;D Mind if you share the CB set with us? Also, why didn't you use Scarf Moxie Heracross? I know that it totally serves a different role, but it seems to be an overall better set to use in OU; as you have noted, Heracross's Speed is a letdown for OU, limiting the time it's active.

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For the CB set (in the hide tags) I ran Adamant 252 atk/HP and Megahorn / Close Combat / Stone Edge / Pursuit. Megahorn and Close Combat have really good coverage together and they're STAB so they're pretty obvious choices. Stone Edge is also pretty straightforward since Heracross lures in flying types and it's great to be able to OHKO them on the switch. Pursuit might seem a little out of place on something that doesn't particularly handle ghosts or most psychics (since psychics are generally faster and Hera usually can't take a stab psychic attack) but it was pretty great for coming in on scarf lati@s locked into -2 Draco Meteors or some other coverage move. Most of the time I just spammed Close Combat unless they had a ghost or a huge issue with bug attacks, in which case I spammed Megahorn.

I went with CB over scarf moxie for a few reasons. The first, and most important, is that as you said they play very different. Scarf Moxie is more of a late game option when the other team is weakened, but it lacks the immediate power that I wanted. Sure trading power for speed is a fair trade off in a metagame defined by speed, but honestly with all of the scarfers running around and the danger in giving up a free turn I just didn't feel like Heracross could do as well with it. As for Guts VS Moxie, Moxie is really only going to work on the scarf set so I didn't consider it for more then a second or two. Guts was great, especially against stall teams that ran toxic spikes, because it made it almost impossible for my opponents to switch in without sacrificing something.

The speed issue does limit Heracross a little bit, but he's fast enough to outrun enough to get good opportunities to switch in. The other cool thing is that he resists fighting attacks and has enough bulk to take at least one neutral attack and KO back. On paper he has a hard time getting in, but in practice he's not that difficult to bring in and he really only needs one or two chances to break the other team down.

**Pocket** · Oct 16th, 2012, 3:33:25 PM

Thanks, Huntofthelion, for your detailed explanation! It's interesting that you went with Max HP to make the most out of Heracross's usable bulk. I'd probably give it enough Speed EVs to outrun defensive Jirachi and Gliscor, but that may be taking away too much from its bulk.

SilentRevolver · Oct 16th, 2012, 3:52:16 PM

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Jolteon Bandit · Oct 16th, 2012, 6:27:20 PM

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**Molk** · Oct 16th, 2012, 6:43:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Molk

Darm was pretty good, but i suck at playing sun so changing again

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I had teambuilders block with bisharp, so trying a different steel-type!

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im actually expecting durant to do pretty well, lets see!

Master of the Six Kings · Oct 16th, 2012, 9:38:21 PM

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Current Ladder Standing: ----

Sun team. Whoppidy do. xD Lets see how this goes.

Lavos Spawn · Oct 17th, 2012, 12:00:36 AM

I just want to make it clear that I've switched my Pokemon of choice now from Azumarill to Basculin, but both were on my team originally so I won't be switching to a different alt. The team was Politoed / Ferrothorn / Tornadus-T / Starmie / Basculin / Azumarill, and it sucked, but that's beside the point. Hopefully I'll be able to break my previous record with big boy Basculin.

**Pocket** · Oct 17th, 2012, 12:33:29 AM

Just to clarify, although the new ladder puts you in the leaderboard after a deviation of 100, we're sticking with the previous leaderboard deviation requirement of 80. So jaredz99, you still need a few more matches to lower your deviation by another 19.

Master of the Six Kings · Oct 17th, 2012, 2:26:24 AM

Well, that was the worst one yet. got to a bit under 2100 glicko but not quite on the ladder and watched crit after miss after miss after miss. I want a 100% accurate rock move stronger than Slide. Weaker than Edge is fine though. But, barely managed to get glicko up and under 80 deviation. First time getting 3 dark horses in one go though, so that was nice. Victreebell + Dugtrio = good shit.

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sets/remarks

Will prolly try for another one tonight while i have time, will edit when i do.

Valiant King · Oct 17th, 2012, 9:21:42 AM

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I guess this is how you register....

Ernesto · Oct 17th, 2012, 10:20:17 AM

I have to say my team turned out much cooler and much less gimmicky than I thought. I haven't played that much with it, 31 battles with the two ladder resets in the middle and a record of 21/10 (most losses were due to crits while I was prepping my Slowbro sweep, but you learn to live with them, even though they severely punish you from improving your defenses). Garchomp being unbanned was actually awesome for me, since Slowbro and Bronzong become suddenly much more used. I'm telling you, most of my matches ended with Slowbro taking on the opponent, beating Garchomp 1 on 1 or things like that.

I don't think I'll be able to take them to HoF but I'll keep on trying. Either way, after I'm done I'll post my team, since it's extremely fun to play with and quite obnoxious for the opponents (even those that use HaxRachi tend to forfeit on me). I could even do an RMT since I've had more success with it than with my main Slowbro OU team...

FastFlygon · Oct 17th, 2012, 1:17:08 PM

just a little update, all three dark horses are AWESOME so far. I'm 13-1-0, using Gothitelle with Thunder Wave to troll revenge killers and generally prepare things for Expert Belt Genesect to run through the opposing team. With spikes down and a couple of threatening Pokemon weakened or removed it's almost impossible to stop.

Scolipede has also been doing very well, Bug Gem Megahorn is really damn strong - it OHKOs lead Deoxys-D if it doesn't have a Tanga berry, Rotom-W is it isn't running bulk (may need SR), Tyranitar (most Tyranitar even without the Gem) kos Latios without, usually 252 HP Latias without too (Always with Stealth Rock) and in Swarm range puts a big hole in even neutral targets.

Empoleon was a bit of an oddball, I kinda threw it on because it could condense the roles I needed into one Pokemon (Flying+Water resists, SR) but with a simple 252/252 specially defensive spread it has awesome bulk. I had a Gothitelle try to trap me only for scarf Thunderbolt to fail to 3HKO while I set rocks and 2HKOd with Scald :D.

Importable if anyone wants to try the team

Oct 15th, 2012, 11:34:30 PM	#326
Huntofthelion Live for the nights you can't remember Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 858 Mentor	... http://www.iaza.com/zpages/displayimage.html?CURRENTFILE=/work/121016C/iaza12486550408600.jpg Hope that works, I'm a little bad at computer related things so if that link doesn't go to a screen shot of my ladder standing then idk. That was pre reset for what it's worth. So after losing due to a fire fang flinch for the 4th time I kinda give up on this team, I think it's cursed. Anyways I chose Heracross because I used him for WCOP tryouts over the summer and he's always been one of my favorite pokemon. I used the choice band set and it was just ridiculously strong. Any time something slower was in and I could grab a switch to Heracross I pretty much got a KO or crippled something. Guts was a nice bonus to have since there is pretty much nothing that can live a guts + cb boosted close combat / megahorn. I teamed him up with kind of a patchwork team since I was in a little bit of a rush when I was working on the team. I knew I wanted spikes so I used deo-d, since he's the best spiker by far in my opinion, and in that vein I knew I wanted a ghost and the only offensive ghost I like is Gengar, so I used the sub-disable set to easier handle certain threats. From there I knew I wanted a scarfer, a physical sweeper, and a special sweeper. For those roles I went with scarf Latios to give me a fire / water resist, Rock Polish Expert Belt Genesect to take advantage of how torn up the other team would be from hazards+cb Heracross, and SD Lucario since Heracross and Lucario have similar counters and I knew anything switching into Heracross would be worn down by late game. Genesect and Lucario ended up being the stars of the team because they both loved seeing the other team have nothing at full health by the time they were ready to come in. They also both did a surprisingly good job playing in mid game scenarios, which was cool because for all of the good things Heracross did he did have matches where he didn't get to switch in as much as I'd like him to. I honestly don't think using Heracross made laddering any harder or easier, just different. I don't think he should be below 5% usage at all because he's so powerful and really punches holes through teams if he gets the chance, but at the same time he's not a game breaker and he never took over a match where I was like "damn, good thing I had Heracross or I would have gotten raped." Long story short Heracross is really cool and everyone should try him at least once in their life because it's not an experience you can function without.

Oct 16th, 2012, 12:07:15 AM	#327
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Oct 16th, 2012, 1:31:35 AM	#328
Lady Alex Because I'm Yuno. fucking. Gasai. Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 453	Finished laddering with umbreon. updated my post. There should be a title for person who makes the most runs hahaha ;D Oh. I also updated my zoroark post with its set and description __________________

Oct 16th, 2012, 1:40:52 AM	#329
Pocket Talonflame :D Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,305 Bergenfield	HuntoftheLion is MLG! I love Heracross, too, and I'm glad you're pimping it for DHP ;D Mind if you share the CB set with us? Also, why didn't you use Scarf Moxie Heracross? I know that it totally serves a different role, but it seems to be an overall better set to use in OU; as you have noted, Heracross's Speed is a letdown for OU, limiting the time it's active. Thanks, Lady Alex, for updating your Zoroark and Umbreon posts ;) Was there any particular "Illusion partner" that benefited from Zoroark's trickery? __________________ Dark Horse Project: Conquer the Ladder! \| Word of Wisdom for Trainers \| Smogon Doubles: Let's Make It Official!

Oct 16th, 2012, 1:43:36 AM	#330
Lady Alex Because I'm Yuno. fucking. Gasai. Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 453	The closest thing I had to an "Illusion partner" for Zoroark was a suicide Mew set. Genesects always feel comfortable u-turning out against Mew, so, if I knew they would lead with it, I'd start with Zoroark for the free KO. Otherwise, I mostly used Zoroark to cripple something with trick or as a late game win condition. Nothing shows up in the HIDE tags on the front page where my other dark horse pokemon are listed lol (aww, I don't get to take up more space on the page xD) EDIT: NVM __________________ Last edited by Lady Alex; Oct 16th, 2012 at 2:06:08 AM.

Oct 16th, 2012, 3:44:00 AM	#331
FastFlygon Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 404	Wasn't going to do another mon but i used a couple in a team i'm in the process of building so i might as well sign up in case it does well: Alt: FastFlygon (untouched since the reset) Pokemon: Gothitelle, Scolipede, Empoleon Peak so far The Team Singularity (Genesect) @ Expert Belt Trait: Download Shiny: Yes EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature - U-turn - Flamethrower - Ice Beam - Thunderbolt Event Horizon (Gothitelle) (F) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Shadow Tag EVs: 16 HP / 240 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Thunderbolt - Trick - Thunder Wave - Psyshock Accretion Disc (Garchomp) (F) @ Choice Band Trait: Rough Skin EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 SDef Jolly Nature - Outrage - Earthquake - Dragon Claw - Sleep Talk Quark Star (Scolipede) (F) @ Bug Gem Trait: Swarm EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP Jolly Nature - Megahorn - Spikes - Earthquake - Rock Slide Supernova (Alakazam) (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Magic Guard EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP Timid Nature - Psyshock - Focus Blast - Thunder Wave - Hidden Power [Ice] Rogue Planet (Empoleon) (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Torrent EVs: 252 HP / 252 SDef / 4 Def Calm Nature - Stealth Rock - Grass Knot - Scald - Roar __________________ From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee Last edited by FastFlygon; Oct 17th, 2012 at 6:09:01 PM.

Oct 16th, 2012, 4:08:55 AM	#332
alkinesthetase <~aldarOFF> ill be imagining your face in my toilet alkines Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 714 <ala> canadabros is the strongest bros you can be Mentor	lady alex thank you SO MUCH for updating your original posts and then dropping another post here - you're not the only one doing so, but it's especially important for you since i think you have like 6 alts in hof lol. i am totally going to make that an organizational requirement next month, lest we have more 2-hour registration update slogs like i had the other day >_> i'm sure pocket can sympathize as to how much vbulletin sucks at editing big posts (comparison of edit modes, like why the heck is the advanced one narrower than the inline one wtf) or having to fish through a 14 page thread every time we make a full update also, props huntofthelion, it's about damn time someone hofed with hera seeing as several people have had it registered for a while now __________________ <~aldarOFF> alkines is gay <&Theorymon> aldaron you've done it <&Theorymon> now everyone in this channel has been insulted by you at least once my massive mafia roles list

Oct 16th, 2012, 10:54:07 AM	#333
jaredz99 Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 59	Pokemon Showdown! Username: hailteamrising Hall of Fame Standing: nuh-uh Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: WALREIN SON Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown!: Working on it

Oct 16th, 2012, 12:35:24 PM	#334
Lady Alex Because I'm Yuno. fucking. Gasai. Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 453	Your welcome xD. I figured it would be a terrible hassle to have to carefully look through each post to see if there was an update. __________________

Oct 16th, 2012, 12:38:47 PM	#335
Absolete Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 59	Siiince the ladder reset, I can use my old name again, yes? New Trick Room team is up and testing. Pokemon Showdown! Username: Obsolute Hall of Fame Standing: N/A Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Druddigon, Bronzong, Sableye Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown!: None __________________ Trick Room is where it's at, you bitches. Trick Room all day, e'eryday. Fuckin' up your sweepers since generation 4.

Oct 16th, 2012, 12:40:49 PM	#336
Lady Alex Because I'm Yuno. fucking. Gasai. Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 453	Pokemon Showdown! Username: Lady Alex Hall of Fame Standing: Platinum Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Zapdos Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown!: None Success ... Set Zapdos @ Leftovers Trait: Pressure EVs: 252 HP / 252 SDef Calm Nature - Substitute - Thunderbolt - Baton Pass - Agility Mostly used as a secondary speed booster and a check to Tornadus-T, who is a pretty big threat to baton pass __________________ Last edited by Lady Alex; Oct 20th, 2012 at 4:18:26 PM.

Oct 16th, 2012, 2:48:23 PM	#337
Lavos Spawn Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 2,323 wild west Mentor	Pokemon Showdown! Username: Lavos Spawn (ladder was reset so I can do this now) Hall of Fame Standing: Grandmaster Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: BASCULIN-BLUE Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown!: 2284 (provisional) __________________ Last edited by Lavos Spawn; Oct 18th, 2012 at 11:15:41 PM. Reason: more points etc

Oct 16th, 2012, 2:52:54 PM	#338
Pocket Talonflame :D Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,305 Bergenfield	lavos for the 2nd round :o Pokemon Showdown! Username: Dark Pocket Hall of Fame Standing: ;-; Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Moltres (look out, alexwolf!) Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown!: 1660 +/- 157 Dark Phoenix was taken, so I'm just going to use my old DH account that was wiped from ladder reset __________________ Dark Horse Project: Conquer the Ladder! \| Word of Wisdom for Trainers \| Smogon Doubles: Let's Make It Official! Last edited by Pocket; Oct 17th, 2012 at 5:32:24 AM.

Oct 16th, 2012, 3:33:25 PM	#340
Pocket Talonflame :D Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,305 Bergenfield	Thanks, Huntofthelion, for your detailed explanation! It's interesting that you went with Max HP to make the most out of Heracross's usable bulk. I'd probably give it enough Speed EVs to outrun defensive Jirachi and Gliscor, but that may be taking away too much from its bulk. __________________ Dark Horse Project: Conquer the Ladder! \| Word of Wisdom for Trainers \| Smogon Doubles: Let's Make It Official!

Oct 16th, 2012, 3:52:16 PM	#341
SilentRevolver Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 143	Pokemon Showdown! Username:R-Evolve Hall of Fame Standing: None as of yet Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Metagross and Tangrowth Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown!: None

Oct 16th, 2012, 6:27:20 PM	#342
Jolteon Bandit Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 111 Texas	Pokemon Showdown! Username: Dancing Lobster Hall of Fame Standing:- Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Blastoise Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown! 1000 __________________ † I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior and am proud of it! Copy and paste this if you are too.† I wonder how many people will do what I'm doing, and choose Fennekin as their starter just to name it Mozilla.

Oct 16th, 2012, 9:38:21 PM	#344
Master of the Six Kings Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 791 Where soccer is the correct terminology and bacon isn't dishonest	Pokemon Showdown! Username: Johhny's Sunshine Hall of Fame Standing: Gold Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Victreebell, Charizard, Hitmontop Current Ladder Standing: ---- Sun team. Whoppidy do. xD Lets see how this goes.

Oct 17th, 2012, 12:00:36 AM	#345
Lavos Spawn Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 2,323 wild west Mentor	I just want to make it clear that I've switched my Pokemon of choice now from Azumarill to Basculin, but both were on my team originally so I won't be switching to a different alt. The team was Politoed / Ferrothorn / Tornadus-T / Starmie / Basculin / Azumarill, and it sucked, but that's beside the point. Hopefully I'll be able to break my previous record with big boy Basculin. __________________

Oct 17th, 2012, 12:33:29 AM	#346
Pocket Talonflame :D Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,305 Bergenfield	Just to clarify, although the new ladder puts you in the leaderboard after a deviation of 100, we're sticking with the previous leaderboard deviation requirement of 80. So jaredz99, you still need a few more matches to lower your deviation by another 19. __________________ Dark Horse Project: Conquer the Ladder! \| Word of Wisdom for Trainers \| Smogon Doubles: Let's Make It Official!

Oct 17th, 2012, 2:26:24 AM	#347
Master of the Six Kings Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 791 Where soccer is the correct terminology and bacon isn't dishonest	Well, that was the worst one yet. got to a bit under 2100 glicko but not quite on the ladder and watched crit after miss after miss after miss. I want a 100% accurate rock move stronger than Slide. Weaker than Edge is fine though. But, barely managed to get glicko up and under 80 deviation. First time getting 3 dark horses in one go though, so that was nice. Victreebell + Dugtrio = good shit. ... sets/remarks Victreebel @ Expert Belt Trait: Chlorophyll EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP Timid Nature - Weather Ball - SolarBeam - Hidden Power [Ice] - Sleep Powder Charizard @ Choice Scarf Trait: Solar Power EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP Timid Nature - Flamethrower - Dragon Pulse - Hidden Power [Grass] - Focus Blast Hitmontop (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Intimidate EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef Adamant Nature - Close Combat - Sucker Punch - Rapid Spin - Foresight Charizard and Hitmontop had their moments and their purpose. Victreebell absolutely ripped teams to shreds once their three counters (Mamo, Poli and Hetran) are removed by other members. I have no idea how James could not still Pikachu wth this beast by his side. Will prolly try for another one tonight while i have time, will edit when i do.

Oct 17th, 2012, 9:21:42 AM	#348
Valiant King Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 14 Roaming the Death Canyon	Registration Pokemon Showdown! Username: Master Tricky Hall of Fame Standing: none yet Dark Horse Pokemon Currently Working With: Weavile Current Ladder Standing on Pokemon Showdown!: none yet I guess this is how you register.... __________________ Half the people on this forum are extremely rude in-game. If you believe in politeness both in-battle and outside it, put this in your signature. Be sure to join Pokemon Team Raters Group !

Oct 17th, 2012, 10:20:17 AM	#349
Ernesto Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 254 Santa Fe, Argentina	I have to say my team turned out much cooler and much less gimmicky than I thought. I haven't played that much with it, 31 battles with the two ladder resets in the middle and a record of 21/10 (most losses were due to crits while I was prepping my Slowbro sweep, but you learn to live with them, even though they severely punish you from improving your defenses). Garchomp being unbanned was actually awesome for me, since Slowbro and Bronzong become suddenly much more used. I'm telling you, most of my matches ended with Slowbro taking on the opponent, beating Garchomp 1 on 1 or things like that. I don't think I'll be able to take them to HoF but I'll keep on trying. Either way, after I'm done I'll post my team, since it's extremely fun to play with and quite obnoxious for the opponents (even those that use HaxRachi tend to forfeit on me). I could even do an RMT since I've had more success with it than with my main Slowbro OU team...

Oct 17th, 2012, 1:17:08 PM	#350
FastFlygon Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 404	just a little update, all three dark horses are AWESOME so far. I'm 13-1-0, using Gothitelle with Thunder Wave to troll revenge killers and generally prepare things for Expert Belt Genesect to run through the opposing team. With spikes down and a couple of threatening Pokemon weakened or removed it's almost impossible to stop. Scolipede has also been doing very well, Bug Gem Megahorn is really damn strong - it OHKOs lead Deoxys-D if it doesn't have a Tanga berry, Rotom-W is it isn't running bulk (may need SR), Tyranitar (most Tyranitar even without the Gem) kos Latios without, usually 252 HP Latias without too (Always with Stealth Rock) and in Swarm range puts a big hole in even neutral targets. Empoleon was a bit of an oddball, I kinda threw it on because it could condense the roles I needed into one Pokemon (Flying+Water resists, SR) but with a simple 252/252 specially defensive spread it has awesome bulk. I had a Gothitelle try to trap me only for scarf Thunderbolt to fail to 3HKO while I set rocks and 2HKOd with Scald :D. Importable if anyone wants to try the team Singularity (Genesect) @ Expert Belt Trait: Download Shiny: Yes EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature - U-turn - Flamethrower - Ice Beam - Thunderbolt Event Horizon (Gothitelle) (F) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Shadow Tag EVs: 16 HP / 240 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Thunderbolt - Trick - Thunder Wave - Psyshock Accretion Disc (Garchomp) (F) @ Choice Band Trait: Rough Skin EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 SDef Jolly Nature - Outrage - Earthquake - Dragon Claw - Sleep Talk Quark Star (Scolipede) (F) @ Bug Gem Trait: Swarm EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP Jolly Nature - Megahorn - Spikes - Earthquake - Rock Slide Supernova (Alakazam) (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Magic Guard EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP Timid Nature - Psyshock - Focus Blast - Thunder Wave - Hidden Power [Ice] Rogue Planet (Empoleon) (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Torrent EVs: 252 HP / 252 SDef / 4 Def Calm Nature - Stealth Rock - Grass Knot - Scald - Roar __________________ From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee