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The Highlander Tournament III [Round 1]
- Thread starter Perry
- Start date
Won GG
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-533536688
My thought process if anyone cares, I know it took me a bit of time to prep for this haha
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-533536688
My thought process if anyone cares, I know it took me a bit of time to prep for this haha
When picking my opponent's Pokémon, I decided that Infernape and Empoleon could blow through Tapu Bulu and Moltres, so I decided Clefable would be the best for any of my three Pokémon to defeat. When I found out I had to use Cresselia, a predicament came upon me. I thought sub CM would be the easiest choice to beat a MGuard Clef, but I forgot about the possibility of Unaware. I switched Moonlight to Toxic a few seconds before the match based off that fear, but I got blessed with the MGuard matchup which made things a lot easier to deal with.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7customgame-533542504 lost
opp had 5 chances to crit me and not miss and got it, such was the risk I guess gg
Edit: Thought process.
Three possible sets from weavile: Band, lo, sash.
Good moves on weavile: Poison jab, icicle crash, ice shard, fake out, sub, swords dance, feint
Good moves on whim: Sub, protect, leech seed, cotton guard, moonblast, encore, giga drain
Against band/lo, protect+sash+moonblast 252+ wins. Against sash, it doesn't work cause ice shard+jab. I figured a middle option of cotton guard+moonblast would work fine as it lives enough hits from weavile to beat lo/sash variants if I dont get critted. Put rest in there as well in case ice shard critted or high rolls+poison forced me to rest, at +4 you live 3 hits anyway. put charm in cause im an idiot.
For an item I could put ice resist berry/poison resist berry/lefties. I went for poison resist as poison jab is far scarier than icicle crash with poison chance+doing more damage.
opp had 5 chances to crit me and not miss and got it, such was the risk I guess gg
Edit: Thought process.
Three possible sets from weavile: Band, lo, sash.
Good moves on weavile: Poison jab, icicle crash, ice shard, fake out, sub, swords dance, feint
Good moves on whim: Sub, protect, leech seed, cotton guard, moonblast, encore, giga drain
Against band/lo, protect+sash+moonblast 252+ wins. Against sash, it doesn't work cause ice shard+jab. I figured a middle option of cotton guard+moonblast would work fine as it lives enough hits from weavile to beat lo/sash variants if I dont get critted. Put rest in there as well in case ice shard critted or high rolls+poison forced me to rest, at +4 you live 3 hits anyway. put charm in cause im an idiot.
For an item I could put ice resist berry/poison resist berry/lefties. I went for poison resist as poison jab is far scarier than icicle crash with poison chance+doing more damage.
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Opp game me the win
Hi! I have received 8 PMs with Pokemon choices and I'm going to update this as soon as I eat something aaand shower.
MATCHUPS:
sugarhigh [Tapu Fini] vs. [Mew] Arifeen
Umen Berker [Gourgheist XL] vs. [Clefable] HQuaze
more:
blunder [Kyurem-B] vs. [Heatran] Hax the Gam3
knkb [Kyurem-B] vs. [Chansey] groudon518
HANTSUKI [Arcanine] vs. [Mamoswine] jas61292
Quantum Tesseract [Whimsicott] vs. [Landorus-T] darksylvion
MATCHUPS:
sugarhigh [Tapu Fini] vs. [Mew] Arifeen
Umen Berker [Gourgheist XL] vs. [Clefable] HQuaze
more:
blunder [Kyurem-B] vs. [Heatran] Hax the Gam3
knkb [Kyurem-B] vs. [Chansey] groudon518
HANTSUKI [Arcanine] vs. [Mamoswine] jas61292
Quantum Tesseract [Whimsicott] vs. [Landorus-T] darksylvion
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So I was just alerted that tags do not work when you edit a post, just to be sure I'm tagging these from last posts:
sugarhigh [Tapu Fini] vs. [Mew] Arifeen
Umen Berker [Gourgheist XL] vs. [Clefable] HQuaze
blunder [Kyurem-B] vs. [Heatran] Hax the Gam3
knkb [Kyurem-B] vs. [Chansey] groudon518
HANTSUKI [Arcanine] vs. [Mamoswine] jas61292
Quantum Tesseract [Whimsicott] vs. [Landorus-T] darksylvion
I have 3 PMs in standby that I will soon get to them, I'm not at home rn so I cannot announce those matchups just yet
sugarhigh [Tapu Fini] vs. [Mew] Arifeen
Umen Berker [Gourgheist XL] vs. [Clefable] HQuaze
blunder [Kyurem-B] vs. [Heatran] Hax the Gam3
knkb [Kyurem-B] vs. [Chansey] groudon518
HANTSUKI [Arcanine] vs. [Mamoswine] jas61292
Quantum Tesseract [Whimsicott] vs. [Landorus-T] darksylvion
I have 3 PMs in standby that I will soon get to them, I'm not at home rn so I cannot announce those matchups just yet
Also worth noting is that you can only tag 3 people per post, so everyone after blunder got nothing.
I actually got tagged
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Note that you are before Blunder.
Not everyone was tagged by the OP either; I, for one, only found this because I have the subforum followed. I know that most of your most recent post didn't tag everyone because I was not tagged.
It seems weird, however I'm now aware that I may only post pairings in new posts so I can do that in the following rounds. Also, those not tagged were, hopefully, reminded of the tour by their opponents so it shouldn't be thaaat big of a problem, but If anything happens (and there are still 4 days left) I may think of an 1d extension.
Winnered vs babs, gg (Venu v d nite)
my mother has had a rough day so I had to keep up with her, sorry for the delay :/
JakeMoran12 [Mew] vs. [Greninja] Rare Poison
Skipkan [Kangaskhan] vs. [Chansey] We Three Kings
atomicllamas [Dragonite] vs. [Venusaur] babidi1998 < this is just to help me update OP
Brammi [Machamp] vs. [Celesteela] Bedschibaer
Baloor [Ampibom] vs. [Dragonite] Malekith
ps: in the future pls refrain from battling w/out the matchup being posted, today was a particularly bad day and I hope this delay won't happen again
edit: Adam the first, Lycanyte, Vai Lusa, voltix31, RedEmptionMc, Haruno, Ralof101, and Get this Money haven't sent me the Pokémon and, as opposed to my PM i sent yesterday which I just noticed isn't right because there are still 24 hours left duh, still have one day to do so. If any of them do not PM me they are disqualified [i have PMd them, this is just in case their opponents see this]
edit: the doc and OP have been fully updated as of now!
some matchup that isn't being tagged:
Haruno [Cresselia] vs. [Kyurem-B] FlamingVictini < i asked haruno to vm him anyways o,o
JakeMoran12 [Mew] vs. [Greninja] Rare Poison
Skipkan [Kangaskhan] vs. [Chansey] We Three Kings
atomicllamas [Dragonite] vs. [Venusaur] babidi1998 < this is just to help me update OP
Brammi [Machamp] vs. [Celesteela] Bedschibaer
Baloor [Ampibom] vs. [Dragonite] Malekith
ps: in the future pls refrain from battling w/out the matchup being posted, today was a particularly bad day and I hope this delay won't happen again
edit: Adam the first, Lycanyte, Vai Lusa, voltix31, RedEmptionMc, Haruno, Ralof101, and Get this Money haven't sent me the Pokémon and, as opposed to my PM i sent yesterday which I just noticed isn't right because there are still 24 hours left duh, still have one day to do so. If any of them do not PM me they are disqualified [i have PMd them, this is just in case their opponents see this]
edit: the doc and OP have been fully updated as of now!
some matchup that isn't being tagged:
Haruno [Cresselia] vs. [Kyurem-B] FlamingVictini < i asked haruno to vm him anyways o,o
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RedEmptionMc [Magearna] vs. [Tapu Lele] Whammerist