Hello!
Last year, my gold print winning streak died to a Quick Claw Machamp at battle 94, just inches away from the triple digit achievement. I wasn't really aiming for it, I just kept playing to see how far the streak goes, and yet, losing this close to 100 was...sour. But now I got more time and motivation to come back to the Battle Tower and with a vengeance! Same team as before:
Garchomp (F) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Veil
Level: 50
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
IVs: 31/31/26/30/30/31
- Earthquake
- Outrage
- Fire Fang
- Swords Dance
Weavile (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
Level: 50
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
IVs: 31/31/31/23/23/31
- Ice Punch
- Night Slash
- Low Kick
- Fake Out
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Suicune @ Chesto Berry
Ability: Pressure
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 15/8/24/28/29/25
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Calm Mind
- Rest
All three complement each other fantastically: Garchomp is the lead and she tends to end the battle all by herself, few mons can outspeed it or are capable of taking a +2 STAB. Weavile has a higher speed tier, can take on resisted Ice attacks, and hit back with Fake Out+Low Kick. Plenty of mons faster than Garchomp are also Psychic or Ghost (like the dangerous Starmie), which Weavile can also resist and KO back. And Suicune, another Ice resist, physical wall and setup sweeper all at once. It does amazing against plenty of stallmons, since they lose PP quickly due to Pressure and Suicune can shrug off status and heal back to full.
I didn't have much trouble during most of the run, but I did run into some threats: Lapras2 (the quick claw Sheer Cold + Fissure one) appeared in battle 65 and took out Garchomp, but Weavile picked it off with a heavy Low Kick. Umbreon2 (the one with Double Team) showed up at battle 68, but Suicune is capable of handling it with Rest and Pressure, healing off the Toxic statuses while Umbreon runs out of Confuse Rays and Toxics and becomes a sitting duck until I eventually hit it. And then came Charizard1 at battle 89 and...ooh boy.
352 | Charizard | Modest | Petaya Berry | Flamethrower | Air Slash | SmokeScreen | Scary Face | SpA/Spe
932 | Latias | Timid | Brightpowder | Psychic | Ice Beam | Energy Ball | Shadow Ball | SpA/Spe
587 | Flygon | Jolly | Razor Fang | Fissure | Fire Punch | ThunderPunch | Aerial Ace | Atk/Spe
Yeah I didn't know what to do here. I didn't want to stay in and risk going for Outrage with reduced speed (which hardly mattered bc Latias outspeeds anyways...), so I switched to Suicune, which didn't fare any better. The relief I felt when I saw Flygon as the last mon, both Chomp and Weavile were capable of knocking it out. This was the closest match in this streak no doubt.
Now, at Battle 98 I thought I had to battle Palmer again (since it was 49 battles after the previous one), but I was wrong and I got another stall trainer who wasn't fun at all...
612 | Milotic | Impish | Leftovers | Toxic | Confuse Ray | Double Team | Aqua Ring | HP/Def
450 | Starmie | Timid | Lum Berry | Surf | Psychic | Confuse Ray | Thunder Wave | SpA/Spe
823 | Golduck | Modest | Wacan Berry | Hydro Pump | Psychic | Ice Beam | Signal Beam | HP/SpA
Garchomp was close to beat that Milotic but she could only land one EQ before going down to Toxic. So Milotic it was and just like Umbreon, it couldn't do much against Rest+Pressure, but unlike the Umbreon it had better staying power due to Aqua Ring. THANKFULLY Suicune lands the +6 Surf critical hit at the best timing and knocks out the Milotic. Good riddance. And then Starmie went for more confusion shenanigans, hopefully I knocked it out quick too. Golduck fortunately didn't have confuse ray like its teammates and Suicune took it out. Only two more wins to go.
Battle 99 started out with this Rhydon set.
532 | Rhydon | Adamant | Focus Sash | Earthquake | Fire Punch | ThunderPunch | Ice Punch | Atk/Def
I didn't want to set up in front of it bc of the possibility of sash or quick claw, so Garchomp went for the Earthquake 2HKO, taking the Ice Punch thanks to sash. Nidoking came next and went down quickly, Steelix took the EQ but Suicune finishes the job.
And finally...Battle 100:
455 | Espeon | Timid | Lum Berry | Psychic | Reflect | Calm Mind | Baton Pass | SpA/Spe
805 | Slowbro | Quiet | Leftovers | Psychic | Surf | Ice Beam | Trick Room | HP/SpA
933 | Latios | Timid | Brightpowder | Psychic | Thunderbolt | Ice Beam | Energy Ball | SpA/Spe
Espeon lead can potentionally outspeed Garchomp so I switched to Weavile and yup, it was the Calm Mind set. One Night Slash and down it goes. Slowbro was next and Weavile 2HKO it with Night Slash, bu went down too after a Surf and life orb recoil. With the sash still intact I sent out Garchomp against whatever mon it was left to win the fight and it was...
Latios. This guy has showed up at the most tense moments during my frontier runs, like the final Thorton fight. And watching him here again, at Battle 100 of the Tower, was a fitting choice. Garchomp can take it on but he strikes first, it's Latios3 with Timid nature and Ice Beam! I was hoping so hard that I don't get the freeze hax and I didn't! I land the Outrage (it had brightpowder, that could've gone wrong...) and finally I MADE IT TO 100 WINS!!! Looking back at the fight, if I got haxed there and lost Garchomp, it would've come down to Suicune, and with Tbolt on his set I would've been pretty susceptible to lose to a crit or parahax...
Unfortunately, I forgot to record this fight, I got caught up in the excitement. But I did record battle 105, it was pretty one sided
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That's Vileplume4, but I dunno about the others since they died so quickly...
792 | Vileplume | Modest | Wise Glasses | Sludge Bomb | Energy Ball | Hyper Beam | Synthesis | HP/SpA
And that's all for today, I'm so glad that I can check off this achievement after my frustrating previous defeat. I'll continue this streak to see how far I can get!
I never saw this many stars on my console before...
Also, my Battle Hall streak already died months ago to Weavile, but I forgot to post it, so here it is.
UPDATE: Lost the streak with 113 wins to Feraligatr4 getting a freeze on Suicune and managing to set up.