(Tournament) 2013 International Challenge -January- [RANKINGS RELEASED] - Page 3

The Knights of Wario Land · Jan 25th, 2013, 10:59:43 PM

At 1650 with about 20w-3l-6dc. Really hope that my DC rate stays low.

BlankZero · Jan 25th, 2013, 11:12:42 PM

At 35 games. About 1650ish. Had a bad streak this morning. :/

Still no DCs though. Thank god.

Zari · Jan 26th, 2013, 6:14:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Xeno598

Did you battle a Youngster named Joe, from North Carolina? I remember battling a Natsuki. Can't remember your team though. :/

Anyway, still going strong. 18 wins and 6 losses, along with 2 DCs. Rating fell behind a tad bit though, due to losing against some 1650+ players.

I also apologize to the Japanese dude that I just beat by getting a crit with -6 Scarfed Hydreigon's Draco Meteor, against Tyranitar under sand. I would've and should've lost that match. :(

I think I might have, though it's all been a blur to me, lol. I must say that my team has worked out surprisingly well; considering I couldn't play much yesterday I think 22W - 5L and 18 D/C (fail) is pretty good so far for my first time in one of these tourneys. :)

I just wish nintendo would think enough to check to see who's still connected when someone in a pair of battlers d/cs....that way I would have a chance at not being DQ'd :/

WaddleDuh · Jan 26th, 2013, 12:22:29 PM

If you saw a girl from Thailand, that's probably me :)
"Watch my BLASTOISE take care of JIGGLYPUFF!"

There are very few D/Cs so far too, a much nicer tournament than the past ^.^

Tenodera · Jan 26th, 2013, 1:07:16 PM

I'm not sure what I was thinking when I put this team together, but I don't ever want to think it again! XD

Sidfrid · Jan 26th, 2013, 2:05:53 PM

There should be an article about "How to predict Japanese players", seriously I found rather difficult to predict a Japanese opponent. They always have strange strategies, unusual pokemons and weird movesets. They always plays a single strategie that you only found out when is already too late.

Sabregirl · Jan 26th, 2013, 2:21:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Tenodera

I'm not sure what I was thinking when I put this team together, but I don't ever want to think it again! XD

I'm in a lot of the same boat, parts of my team are okay but I'm missing some harder hitters. My trick room team did a lot better last tournament. Also, if I see another Thundrus/cresselia/hydregion/garchomp/scizor/Metagross/rotom/ on a team I'm gonna scream. I met one very creative person that cleaned my clock (Japanese if I recall). I'm happy to lose to something that took some creativity.

Sorry to whoever that was I had a PP stall war with a little bit ago. My rating is so bad I didn't want to give up. :p

Plasma.EXE · Jan 26th, 2013, 2:29:51 PM

Finally broke 1701 after 76 battles (ok I'm taking a break lol, or might just stop there and see how I rank, I dunno). I kept hovering below and above 1650 for a really long time and kept going on a losing streak as soon as I hit 1680+. Maybe around 5% of my battles ended up in a D/C (sometimes before the match started) so overall, it was pretty good ><.

Thought I'd share this video: 23-05956-92881

Cybertron · Jan 26th, 2013, 4:14:30 PM

Streaming is live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kickataz

Xeno598 · Jan 26th, 2013, 4:17:25 PM

Still hovering around 1680. At around 50 battles. I'm coming for you, 1700!

Edit: Just broke 1700. Let's see if I can make it to 1800, which I haven't done in quite some time.

Here's a recent battle that I'll share. 85-99788-51057

Pokemasta77 · Jan 26th, 2013, 5:26:56 PM

I'm currently at 1650 with 20 battles. 16-4 which I am really happy about. Should be 20-4 because I had 4 people dc just as they lost. Definitely a lot less dc'ers than last tourney :) Btw Adri from New Jersey. If you were beaten by a Choice Scarf Jellicent then it was most likely me :P Good luck to all

Cybertron · Jan 26th, 2013, 8:04:26 PM

Streaming is live again! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kickataz

Brophlosion · Jan 26th, 2013, 11:54:52 PM

Been owning fools with Butterfree. ID is "Thatsa"

BlankZero · Jan 27th, 2013, 1:35:33 AM

Finally beat 1700 at 60 games :P Those early bad streaks make for a long road.

AuraRayquaza · Jan 27th, 2013, 9:14:36 AM

I'm at 1752 at 60 games. Had lots of losses around 1640 but managed a few big wins to take me over. I'm definitely seeing more docs than the winter battle. Mostly by the Japanese battlers who are 1700+. I'm at 45-15-11. I hope that's enough not to get me dqed

edit: the RNG hates me. I've been draco meteor critted which lost me a match, 2 rock slide flinches which cost me, and I've missed about 10 hydro pumps today

Forsety · Jan 27th, 2013, 9:45:33 AM

First time trying wifi tournament out and this is quite frustrating actually, I'm getting as many ragequit D/C's as I am getting wins. Flipside is I'm on a massive winning streak, only lost my first game mostly due to hax then won 20 in a row. Problem is half of them have ragequit and not registered so I've only actually got about 10 wins.

Enraikou · Jan 27th, 2013, 11:32:50 AM

Im sooo jealous of you guys. Lol thanks to me internet service here at home we can only use internet configurations that DS lite dont support now, and cant buy a 3DS . The only thing that i used to do in free time is now taken :(

**Expert Evan** · Jan 27th, 2013, 12:25:13 PM

I'm tempted to stop while the going is good and maintaining a ranking over 1710+. Nice to see pokecheck has the ability to post battle videos and watch over again even if it's not among the last 5 videos uploaded to GTS. I'm trying to figure out whom is Ignacio from Spain, a hard-fought annoying match that could've gone either way indeed. 51-76533-90375

Pokemasta77 · Jan 27th, 2013, 12:25:20 PM

This is my second tourney and I am now going downhill. No offense to anyone here but I hate the damn Japanese players. They are so hard to bring down. I'll have to make a new weatherless original team for the next tourney. For any of you using a rain team, I would recommend Choice Scarf Jellicent. It is sooo good!

TheLegend05 · Jan 27th, 2013, 12:37:00 PM

[QUOTE=Pokemasta77;4557291]This is my second tourney and I am now going downhill. No offense to anyone here but I hate the damn Japanese players. They are so hard to bring down. I'll have to make a new weatherless original team for the next tourney. For any of you using a rain team, I would recommend Choice Scarf Jellicent. It is sooo good![/QUOTE
I went from 1700+ to 1549 because of Japanese players. They are so good in Pokemon and predict your predictions of predictions :P.

Pokemasta77 · Jan 27th, 2013, 12:39:55 PM

[QUOTE=TheLegend05;4557307]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Pokemasta77

This is my second tourney and I am now going downhill. No offense to anyone here but I hate the damn Japanese players. They are so hard to bring down. I'll have to make a new weatherless original team for the next tourney. For any of you using a rain team, I would recommend Choice Scarf Jellicent. It is sooo good![/QUOTE
I went from 1700+ to 1549 because of Japanese players. They are so good in Pokemon and predict your predictions of predictions :P.

They are insane players. I only did so good in the beginning because they weren't on lol.

Xeno598 · Jan 27th, 2013, 2:35:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Pokemasta77

This is my second tourney and I am now going downhill. No offense to anyone here but I hate the damn Japanese players. They are so hard to bring down. I'll have to make a new weatherless original team for the next tourney. For any of you using a rain team, I would recommend Choice Scarf Jellicent. It is sooo good!

Guess it's just me, but I haven't had too much issues with Japanese players. I've only lost 3 matches to Japanese players so far, one of which used a lulzy, but effective team that I really didn't mind losing too. :P

Sitting around 1740+ right now. Kinda wondering if I should quit while ahead as well. How many of you guys have crossed into 1800+ territory?

Plasma.EXE · Jan 27th, 2013, 2:41:36 PM

They don't seem too much different from players here (with the occassional interesting strategy like Belly Drum Snorlax/Psyche up custap berry, which I screwed up on because I decided to use rock slide instead of earthquake while using Marowak >_<). I personally stopped at 1712, I don't want my motivation broken after 80+ battles and get randomed out lol. Though I'm sort of surprised I haven't seen the thundurus swagger/metagross lumberry combo too much.

Luckily, it has only happened to me once (with a swampert), but I want to smash my head against the wall whenever I see something like iron ball politoed outspeeding my pokemon in trickroom since I don't have perfect IV's all around, but in the stats that matter (besides speed, which I didn't go for 0 IV's in).

Brophlosion · Jan 27th, 2013, 2:42:44 PM

[QUOTE=TheLegend05;4557307]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Pokemasta77

This is my second tourney and I am now going downhill. No offense to anyone here but I hate the damn Japanese players. They are so hard to bring down. I'll have to make a new weatherless original team for the next tourney. For any of you using a rain team, I would recommend Choice Scarf Jellicent. It is sooo good![/QUOTE
I went from 1700+ to 1549 because of Japanese players. They are so good in Pokemon and predict your predictions of predictions :P.

IMO they aren't that great, ALL of my opponentts that D/C have been from Japan. I guess losing to Butterfree is too much for them to handle :)

Tenodera · Jan 27th, 2013, 3:37:37 PM

I haven't had very many battles worth recording, and a couple of the ones that would've been ended in D/Cs. These two were pretty great though!
57-53007-13784
37-83434-37968

Jan 25th, 2013, 10:59:43 PM	#51
The Knights of Wario Land Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 818 Philadelphia	At 1650 with about 20w-3l-6dc. Really hope that my DC rate stays low. __________________ Newark VGC 2011: First round loss Philadelphia VGC 2012: 3-4 74th place Philadelphia VGC 2013: 5-3 29th place Art Thread

Jan 25th, 2013, 11:12:42 PM	#52
BlankZero Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 550 East Coast, USA	At 35 games. About 1650ish. Had a bad streak this morning. :/ Still no DCs though. Thank god. __________________ A forum post should be like a skirt; long enough to cover the important bits, yet short enough to keep things interesting. Most posts on Smogon are like Pantsuits.

Jan 26th, 2013, 12:22:29 PM	#54
WaddleDuh Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 5	If you saw a girl from Thailand, that's probably me :) "Watch my BLASTOISE take care of JIGGLYPUFF!" There are very few D/Cs so far too, a much nicer tournament than the past ^.^ __________________ Ohaitherekthxbai!

Jan 26th, 2013, 1:07:16 PM	#55
Tenodera Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 390 Ambassador for the Most High.	I'm not sure what I was thinking when I put this team together, but I don't ever want to think it again! XD __________________ John 14:6 REGIGIGAS is so CUTE. My wifi occasionally acts up, but that's the only reason you'll see me disconnect. ;)

Jan 26th, 2013, 2:05:53 PM	#56
Sidfrid Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 195 Dominican Republic	There should be an article about "How to predict Japanese players", seriously I found rather difficult to predict a Japanese opponent. They always have strange strategies, unusual pokemons and weird movesets. They always plays a single strategie that you only found out when is already too late. __________________ ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ I rum man Smogon's Hot 350 List

Jan 26th, 2013, 2:29:51 PM	#58
Plasma.EXE Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 81	Finally broke 1701 after 76 battles (ok I'm taking a break lol, or might just stop there and see how I rank, I dunno). I kept hovering below and above 1650 for a really long time and kept going on a losing streak as soon as I hit 1680+. Maybe around 5% of my battles ended up in a D/C (sometimes before the match started) so overall, it was pretty good ><. Thought I'd share this video: 23-05956-92881 Last edited by Plasma.EXE; Jan 26th, 2013 at 2:40:38 PM.

Jan 26th, 2013, 4:14:30 PM	#59
Cybertron Stay classy. Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,922	Streaming is live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kickataz

Jan 26th, 2013, 4:17:25 PM	#60
Xeno598 Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 91	Still hovering around 1680. At around 50 battles. I'm coming for you, 1700! Edit: Just broke 1700. Let's see if I can make it to 1800, which I haven't done in quite some time. Here's a recent battle that I'll share. 85-99788-51057 Last edited by Xeno598; Jan 26th, 2013 at 4:54:47 PM.

Jan 26th, 2013, 5:26:56 PM	#61
Pokemasta77 Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 364 United States	I'm currently at 1650 with 20 battles. 16-4 which I am really happy about. Should be 20-4 because I had 4 people dc just as they lost. Definitely a lot less dc'ers than last tourney :) Btw Adri from New Jersey. If you were beaten by a Choice Scarf Jellicent then it was most likely me :P Good luck to all __________________ My Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/RaginRiolu?feature=mhee "I'm Gonna Pop Some Tags Only Got Twenty Dollars In My Pocket I-I-I'm Huntin' Looking For A Come Up This Is Fucking Awesome."

Jan 26th, 2013, 8:04:26 PM	#62
Cybertron Stay classy. Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,922	Streaming is live again! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kickataz

Jan 26th, 2013, 11:54:52 PM	#63
Brophlosion Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 170 California	Been owning fools with Butterfree. ID is "Thatsa" __________________ B/W2 FC 0476 5871 7060 I try to upload every game I play, whether I win or lose. My Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/THATSAplusONE?feature=mhum My Twitchhttp://www.twitch.tv/eye_shine

Jan 27th, 2013, 1:35:33 AM	#64
BlankZero Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 550 East Coast, USA	Finally beat 1700 at 60 games :P Those early bad streaks make for a long road. __________________ A forum post should be like a skirt; long enough to cover the important bits, yet short enough to keep things interesting. Most posts on Smogon are like Pantsuits.

Jan 27th, 2013, 9:14:36 AM	#65
AuraRayquaza Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 313 London, England	I'm at 1752 at 60 games. Had lots of losses around 1640 but managed a few big wins to take me over. I'm definitely seeing more docs than the winter battle. Mostly by the Japanese battlers who are 1700+. I'm at 45-15-11. I hope that's enough not to get me dqed edit: the RNG hates me. I've been draco meteor critted which lost me a match, 2 rock slide flinches which cost me, and I've missed about 10 hydro pumps today __________________ My UU RMT My OU RMT My Youtube Channel Last edited by AuraRayquaza; Jan 27th, 2013 at 9:48:11 AM.

Jan 27th, 2013, 9:45:33 AM	#66
Forsety Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,490	First time trying wifi tournament out and this is quite frustrating actually, I'm getting as many ragequit D/C's as I am getting wins. Flipside is I'm on a massive winning streak, only lost my first game mostly due to hax then won 20 in a row. Problem is half of them have ragequit and not registered so I've only actually got about 10 wins. __________________ "I don't mind betting on tough odds!"

Jan 27th, 2013, 11:32:50 AM	#67
Enraikou Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 85 Brazil	Im sooo jealous of you guys. Lol thanks to me internet service here at home we can only use internet configurations that DS lite dont support now, and cant buy a 3DS . The only thing that i used to do in free time is now taken :( __________________ Sceptile...At the top of the food chain...No Hail, Sandstorm, Sunny day, or Rain can stop this being. It has well been selected on nature...with good movepool by the way :P

Jan 27th, 2013, 12:25:13 PM	#68
Expert Evan every battle has a smell! Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,789 Southwestern Connecticut	I'm tempted to stop while the going is good and maintaining a ranking over 1710+. Nice to see pokecheck has the ability to post battle videos and watch over again even if it's not among the last 5 videos uploaded to GTS. I'm trying to figure out whom is Ignacio from Spain, a hard-fought annoying match that could've gone either way indeed. 51-76533-90375 __________________ EE's Official trade thread: G.O.A.T. EE - Mark 2 4th gen trade = 4383-6929-7278 \| 5th gen trade = 2493-9641-2031 \| 5th gen battle = 4126-7225-2545 Also be sure to join #smogonwifi on IRC for faster communication If you want to be cool, read and obey the rules especially the ones for WiFi.

Jan 27th, 2013, 12:25:20 PM	#69
Pokemasta77 Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 364 United States	This is my second tourney and I am now going downhill. No offense to anyone here but I hate the damn Japanese players. They are so hard to bring down. I'll have to make a new weatherless original team for the next tourney. For any of you using a rain team, I would recommend Choice Scarf Jellicent. It is sooo good! __________________ My Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/RaginRiolu?feature=mhee "I'm Gonna Pop Some Tags Only Got Twenty Dollars In My Pocket I-I-I'm Huntin' Looking For A Come Up This Is Fucking Awesome."

Jan 27th, 2013, 12:37:00 PM	#70
TheLegend05 Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 17 Los Angeles California	[QUOTE=Pokemasta77;4557291]This is my second tourney and I am now going downhill. No offense to anyone here but I hate the damn Japanese players. They are so hard to bring down. I'll have to make a new weatherless original team for the next tourney. For any of you using a rain team, I would recommend Choice Scarf Jellicent. It is sooo good![/QUOTE I went from 1700+ to 1549 because of Japanese players. They are so good in Pokemon and predict your predictions of predictions :P.

Jan 27th, 2013, 2:41:36 PM	#73
Plasma.EXE Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 81	They don't seem too much different from players here (with the occassional interesting strategy like Belly Drum Snorlax/Psyche up custap berry, which I screwed up on because I decided to use rock slide instead of earthquake while using Marowak >_<). I personally stopped at 1712, I don't want my motivation broken after 80+ battles and get randomed out lol. Though I'm sort of surprised I haven't seen the thundurus swagger/metagross lumberry combo too much. Luckily, it has only happened to me once (with a swampert), but I want to smash my head against the wall whenever I see something like iron ball politoed outspeeding my pokemon in trickroom since I don't have perfect IV's all around, but in the stats that matter (besides speed, which I didn't go for 0 IV's in). Last edited by Plasma.EXE; Jan 27th, 2013 at 2:54:02 PM.

Jan 27th, 2013, 3:37:37 PM	#75
Tenodera Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 390 Ambassador for the Most High.	I haven't had very many battles worth recording, and a couple of the ones that would've been ended in D/Cs. These two were pretty great though! 57-53007-13784 37-83434-37968 __________________ John 14:6 REGIGIGAS is so CUTE. My wifi occasionally acts up, but that's the only reason you'll see me disconnect. ;)