This a war story not unlike most sports movies, were my misfit team of all normal pokemon overcomes the odds and wins the day. All thanks to the determination of one Snorlax.
I know what you're thinking: "all normals? why all normals?'
The reason for such a team stems from the fact that I like to challenge myself to make gimmicky teams around certain restrictions, like using all pokemon of one type. I decided to use normal because it seems to be the 'worst' type in the game, and to make a successful team of all normals felt like an accomplishment. Plus it was interesting to know that all shadowballs were rendered useless against my team.
--------------------------
kaick sent out Forretress (lvl 100 Forretress ?).
SuperAlan sent out Ambipom (lvl 100 Ambipom ?).
Ambipom used Fake Out.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 10% of its health.
Forretress flinched!
Ambipom used Knock Off.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 3% of its health.
Ambipom knocked off foe Forretress's Leftovers!
Forretress used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around your foe's team!
Ambipom used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 7% of its health.
This is my typical Ambipom opening. I decided to opt for a more supporting role running Fake out, knock off, U-turn, and thunder wave. Looking back, Life Orb was a bad choice of item on him, but you live and learn. Still, he left me with a slightly weakened forretress that had no leftovers. I started switching to one of my special attackers hoping too take down the defensive wall from the special side.
SuperAlan switched in Porygonz (lvl 100 Porygonz).
Pointed stones dug into Porygonz.
Porygonz lost 12% of its health.
Forretress used Gyro Ball.
Porygonz lost 78% of its health.
and was promptly met with a Gyro-ball to porygon-z's choicescarfed faced. Needless to say, it stung pretty badly. I was left with a severely weakened scarf-z. This was mistake number 1.
Porygonz used Thunderbolt.
Forretress lost 51% of its health.
Forretress is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
Forretress used Earthquake.
Porygonz lost 10% of its health.
SuperAlan's Porygonz fainted.
Mistake number 2: thinking an unstabbed thunder-bolt was powerful enough. this particular scarf-z was running tri-attack, bolt-beam, and trick. T-bolt was the only move that did neutral damage and I didn't want to switch out Z knowing he would die to stealth rocks coming in later (I wasn't running a rapid spinner, which was also poor planning on my part).
5-6 kaik
SuperAlan switched in Blissey (lvl 100 Blissey ?).
kaick switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
Blissey used Flamethrower.
It's not very effective...
Dragonite lost 9% of its health.
So I brought out blissey, hoping her flamethrower would be enough to take down the mighty forretress, only to be met with the powers of prediction. Dragonite brushed of blisseys flamethrower like it was nothing. I decided to keep her in, figuring I could toxic the mighty dragonite and wish-protect it to death.
---
Dragonite used Brick Break.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
Blissey lost 94% of its health.
SuperAlan's Blissey fainted.
Once again, intelligence and well thought out planning did not seem to be my strong point that day (I would think that would have been obvious by the fact that I was running an all-normal team.) The critical hit sure didn't help either. My wish passer was now dead and I was down two pokemon and facing a powerful dragonite that packed a SE move against almost all my pokemon (Togekiss takes neutral from fighting).
4-6 kaik
SuperAlan switched in Tauros (lvl 100 Tauros ?).
Tauros's intimidate cut Dragonite's attack!
Tauros used Outrage.
Tauros went on a rampage!
It's super effective!
Dragonite lost 91% of its health.
kaick's Dragonite fainted.
kaick: :O
Outrage tauros was something that I wanted to try despite knowing that Dragon had terrible type coverage and Stone-edge would hit 2 of the 3 OU Dragons for SE damage anyway. Still, it garnered a surprised emoticon from my opponent and at the very least took out the brick-breaker. No time to celebrate though, I was still down by one pokemon.
4-5 kaick
kaick switched in Cresselia (lvl 100 Cresselia ?).
Tauros used Outrage.
Cresselia lost 30% of its health.
Cresselia used Reflect.
A barrier was formed!
Tauros's rampage ended.
Tauros became confused!
I didn't really have any other option this turn, as outrage literally locked me in. I was thanful the outrage only lasted two turns and I didn't have to keep tauros in rampaging against a Cresselia with reflect up. Considering I hate opposing leftovers recovery, I decided it was time to bring out Ambipom again.
kaick switched in Mamoswine (lvl 100 Mamoswine ?).
SuperAlan switched in Ambipom (lvl 100 Ambipom ?).
Ambipom used Fake Out.
Mamoswine lost 17% of its health.
Mamoswine flinched!
Ambipom used Knock Off.
Mamoswine lost 5% of its health.
Ambipom knocked off foe Mamoswine's Leftovers!
Mamoswine used Curse.
Ambipom used U-turn.
Mamoswine lost 9% of its health.
SuperAlan switched in Tauros (lvl 100 Tauros ?).
Tauros's intimidate cut Mamoswine's attack!
Even though he'd already switched out cresselia I decided I could keep Ambipom in. His maneuver was just as good against mamoswine as it would have been against cresselia anyways. However, I should have been paying a little more attention to those curse boosts. I decided it was good a time as any to bring tauros back. Thankfully the intimidate neutrilized the attack boosts he was garnering from those curses.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Tauros lost 44% of its health.
Tauros used Return.
Mamoswine lost 17% of its health.
Mamoswine's reflect wore off!
Dang! with Mamoswine's natural bulkyness, the defensive boosts from curse, and the reflect a stabbed choice band max attack return on tauros barely scratched his skin. That ice shard did a nasty number on tauros also. I guess I wasn't fully aware of how strong mamoswine was even without the curse attack boosts.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Tauros lost 31% of its health.
SuperAlan's Tauros fainted.
I guess I figured he'd predict a switch and try and curse and I'd get a free return in without the reflect up, but I was wrong. Tauros kicked the bucket and I found myself being backed into a corner. Down by two pokemon, I decided to continue and press my luck.
3-5 kiack
SuperAlan switched in Togekiss (lvl 100 Togekiss ?).
Pointed stones dug into Togekiss.
Togekiss lost 25% of its health.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
It's super effective!
Togekiss lost 60% of its health.
Togekiss used Air Slash.
Mamoswine lost 34% of its health.
Stealth rocks, I always forget about stealth rocks! Togekiss was weak coming in and I was lucky the ice shard didn't destroy him outright. I'm not really sure what drove me to send out Paraflinch Togekiss against a pokemon that was immune to thunderwave and had a priority. If I were to guess, it was probably the fact that it was my own special-attacking pokemon left and I figured He was strong enough, but no dice. If you wondering why I didn't use Aura-sphere, it's because I was trying out running signal beam on Togekiss to combo with serence grace and form a rudimentary "para-confuse-flinch" combo. In this cause I wish I had the aura-sphere
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
It's super effective!
Togekiss lost 21% of its health.
SuperAlan's Togekiss fainted.
Bam, togekiss is out for the count and I'm down by 3 pokemon. I'm not sure why I didn't just quit outright. Maybe it's because I knew in my heart that I had the power to win? I don't know, but I pressed on regardless.
2-5 kaick
SuperAlan switched in Snorlax (lvl 100 Snorlax ?).
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Snorlax lost 15% of its health.
Snorlax used Curse.
I decide that curseing is my best option. Mamoswine was packing Ice shard, so the speed debuffs wouldn't have mattered much anyway.
Snorlax used Curse.
Mamoswine used Roar.
SuperAlan switched in Ambipom (lvl 100 Ambipom ?).
Pointed stones dug into Ambipom.
Ambipom lost 12% of its health.
and my dreams of curseing up were momentarily crushed by a roar, causing me to do a little bit of my own cursing (privatley of course, I don't like to be rude over shoddy).
Ambipom used Fake Out.
Mamoswine lost 18% of its health.
Ambipom lost 10% of its health.
Mamoswine flinched!
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Ambipom lost 6% of its health.
SuperAlan's Ambipom fainted.
Ambipom is too weak at this point to bother switching out, so I go for one last fake out before mamoswine's ice shard takes him down. I was down by 4 pokemon and he was still packing poke's I hadn't even seen yet. My chances were slim, but I pressed on hoping for a "Mighty Ducks" miracle.
1-5 kaick
---
SuperAlan switched in Snorlax (lvl 100 Snorlax ?).
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Snorlax lost 15% of its health.
Snorlax used Curse.
No longer threatened by roar, I began cursing up snorlax again. I suspected he'd switch to cresselia and set up a reflect, so I needed all the attack boosts I could get.
kaick switched in Cresselia (lvl 100 Cresselia ?).
Snorlax used Curse.
Sure enough he switches to cresselia and I get a free curse boost. I figure two boosts is enough and start going to town.
Cresselia used Reflect.
A barrier was formed!
Snorlax used Crunch.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 23% of its health.
Cresselia's defence was lowered.
Crunch didn't deal nearly as much damage as I was hoping for, but the lowered defence was a saving grace.
Cresselia used Calm Mind.
Snorlax used Curse.
no attacking from either of us, moving along.
Cresselia used Psychic.
Snorlax lost 16% of its health.
Snorlax used Crunch.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 37% of its health.
Cresselia's defence was lowered.
At this point we were both employing a "buff then strike" system. Even a calm-minded stab psychic was not enough to hurt Snorlax from the special side. And with the curse boosts Snorlax was well gaurded on all sides, which he'd need to be if He was going to bring home the gold. I also got ANOTHER lucky defence de-buff from crunch. It seemed fortune had begun to smile on me.
Cresselia used Calm Mind.
Snorlax used Crunch.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 41% of its health.
kaick's Cresselia fainted.
Now had been good a time as ever to break the pattern and strike. The final hit put his cresselia to rest, but I wasn't safe yet. He still had 4 pokemon left, 2 of which I hadn't seen yet, and Snorlax wasn't in the best of shape. I pressed on anyway.
1-4 kaick
kaick switched in Vaporeon (lvl 100 Vaporeon ?).
Vaporeon used Acid Armor.
Vaporeon's defence was sharply raised.
Snorlax used Curse.
I had mixed feelings about the acid armor. On one end, it meant Vaporeon was short an attacking move, on the other end it meant it could have defense boosts to match my attack boosts. I continued on attack and cursing anyway. Maybe if was lucky I could paralyze it or get a critical hit. Anything was possible at this point.
Vaporeon used Acid Armor.
Vaporeon's defence was sharply raised.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 16% of its health.
Vaporeon's reflect wore off!
I breathed a sigh of releif as the reflect wore off. Even with an acid armor boost and reflect Snorlax was still able to take out a small sized chunk of it's Hp, enough to be note-worthy. I began to have hope.
Vaporeon used Acid Armor.
Vaporeon's defence was sharply raised.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 24% of its health.
At this point I'm body slamming and hoping for that lucky critical or paralysis to kick in.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 23% of its health.
oh noes, wish! I really needed that paralysis now. If Vaporeon kept wishing I'd run out of body-slam PP and possible attack PP all together. Things began to look grim again.
Vaporeon used Toxic.
Vaporeon's attack missed!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 23% of its health.
The wish came true!
Vaporeon restored 50% of its health.
A lucky miss on the toxic, but the wish set me back a few turns. I was hard pressed for some luck.
Vaporeon used Toxic.
Snorlax was badly poisoned!
Snorlax used Curse..
Snorlax is hurt by poison!
Snorlax lost 6% of its health.
With all the wishing that would be going on anyway, I decided it was as good an idea as ever to max out the curse boosts. If i was going to have any hope of curshing the opposition then Snorlax would need to be at peak levels. Unfortunatley the bad poison not threatened to ruin me.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax used Curse.
Still cursing aginst wishes and poison, my luck seemed like it was finally at it's end.
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 19% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 32% of its health.
The wish came true!
Vaporeon restored 50% of its health.
The damage of two body-slams being more than the wish recovery was a saving grace, as I hadn't seen vaporeon use protect yet. But the surf and posion damage was wearing snorlax thing. I wasn't sure how much longer he'd last.
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 19% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 33% of its health.
Vaporeon is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
Vaporeon's Lum Berry cured its Paralysis!.
My dreams of a lucky paralysis were crushed by his Lum berry and I had all but given up hope, at this point snorlax was at a mere 19% hp and ready to kick the bucket.
kaick: gg
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 17% of its health.
Snorlax used Rest.
Snorlax fell asleep!
Snorlax restored 98% of its health.
kaick: or not
kaick thought he had won, and to be honest I thought he might have too. the use of rest was a long-shot at best. For all I knew he had a SD lucario waiting in the last unknown slot that would eleminate any chance of survival.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax is fast asleep!
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 18% of its health.
Snorlax is fast asleep!
The wish came true!
Vaporeon restored 50% of its health.
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 18% of its health.
Snorlax woke up!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 28% of its health.
Snorlax awoke from his sleep angry. Little did me or kaick know, we wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Vaporeon used Toxic.
Vaporeon's attack missed!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 29% of its health.
A miss from toxic, I couldn't beleive it. At this point I had no idea why he hadn't switched out vaporeon, but I was thankful for not having to be dragged down by poison again.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 30% of its health.
Vaporeon is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
My lucky paralysis I had been praying for ten turns ago finally came and I soon began to realize that this was no ordinary snorlax
kaick switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
Heatran lost 66% of its health.
The wish came true!
Heatran restored 50% of its health.
At first I thought "oh noes, heatran" because steel resisted both of Snorlax's attack moves. But when I saw that 66% damage from an NFE hit, I was shocked. What kind of pocket had this snorlax become?
Heatran used Earth Power.
Snorlax lost 15% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
Heatran lost 60% of its health.
Heatran's earthpower did little but make Snorlax angrier. He was tearing through this steel-fire legend like it was tissue paper.
Heatran used Earth Power.
Snorlax lost 14% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
Heatran lost 24% of its health.
kaick's Heatran fainted.
The unnecesary critical sealed the steel legends fate and a bloodlust began to come over me. I could do it, I had a chance to destroy him. I had no idea what to call this creature I was using. He was no mere snorlax; was this the true power of curselax?
1-3 kaick
kaick switched in Forretress (lvl 100 Forretress ?).
SuperAlan: RAWR
kaick: :O
I let out a curse-lax battle cry as his forretress came in. I could almost see the terror on his face
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 34% of its health.
kaick's Forretress fainted.
even the mighty defenses of forretress were no match for this creature, this curse-lax? I was unsure about the name curse lax. It didn't seem to accuratley represent the mightiness he had acheived.
1-2 kaick
kaick switched in Vaporeon (lvl 100 Vaporeon ?).
SuperAlan: SNORLAX SMASH!
After taking down the forretress I realized what this creature was. this was no curse-lax, this was HULK!-lax. I let out a HULK!-battle cry and pictures a snorlax becoming big and green and muscular like the incredible hulk (props to anyone who draws this.)
Vaporeon is paralysed! It can't move!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 11% of its health.
kaick's Vaporeon fainted.
Even vaporeon, who had once been a worthy foe, cowered at the terrible might that was HULK!-lax. there would be no poison anymore, HULK-Lax was free te destroy all who stood in his path.
1-1
---
kaick switched in Mamoswine (lvl 100 Mamoswine ?).
Mamoswine used Earthquake.
Snorlax lost 11% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Mamoswine lost 7% of its health.
kaick's Mamoswine fainted.
SuperAlan wins!
All it took was one final blow. The power of Mamoswine's earthquake was no match for the raw anger and strength that was HULK-lax. at this point I had done it, HULK!-lax had ripped through five pokemon to acheive I victory I thought was all but impossible. At this point I only had one thing to say
SuperAlan: wow
SuperAlan: gg
kaick: gg
kaick has left the room.
-------------------------------
Was I the best player? probably not. Did I deserve the win? who knows. did I make mistakes? plenty. But all were moot as I was save by the power of the Incredible HULK!-Lax
I know what you're thinking: "all normals? why all normals?'
The reason for such a team stems from the fact that I like to challenge myself to make gimmicky teams around certain restrictions, like using all pokemon of one type. I decided to use normal because it seems to be the 'worst' type in the game, and to make a successful team of all normals felt like an accomplishment. Plus it was interesting to know that all shadowballs were rendered useless against my team.
--------------------------
kaick sent out Forretress (lvl 100 Forretress ?).
SuperAlan sent out Ambipom (lvl 100 Ambipom ?).
Ambipom used Fake Out.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 10% of its health.
Forretress flinched!
Ambipom used Knock Off.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 3% of its health.
Ambipom knocked off foe Forretress's Leftovers!
Forretress used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around your foe's team!
Ambipom used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 7% of its health.
This is my typical Ambipom opening. I decided to opt for a more supporting role running Fake out, knock off, U-turn, and thunder wave. Looking back, Life Orb was a bad choice of item on him, but you live and learn. Still, he left me with a slightly weakened forretress that had no leftovers. I started switching to one of my special attackers hoping too take down the defensive wall from the special side.
SuperAlan switched in Porygonz (lvl 100 Porygonz).
Pointed stones dug into Porygonz.
Porygonz lost 12% of its health.
Forretress used Gyro Ball.
Porygonz lost 78% of its health.
and was promptly met with a Gyro-ball to porygon-z's choicescarfed faced. Needless to say, it stung pretty badly. I was left with a severely weakened scarf-z. This was mistake number 1.
Porygonz used Thunderbolt.
Forretress lost 51% of its health.
Forretress is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
Forretress used Earthquake.
Porygonz lost 10% of its health.
SuperAlan's Porygonz fainted.
Mistake number 2: thinking an unstabbed thunder-bolt was powerful enough. this particular scarf-z was running tri-attack, bolt-beam, and trick. T-bolt was the only move that did neutral damage and I didn't want to switch out Z knowing he would die to stealth rocks coming in later (I wasn't running a rapid spinner, which was also poor planning on my part).
5-6 kaik
SuperAlan switched in Blissey (lvl 100 Blissey ?).
kaick switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
Blissey used Flamethrower.
It's not very effective...
Dragonite lost 9% of its health.
So I brought out blissey, hoping her flamethrower would be enough to take down the mighty forretress, only to be met with the powers of prediction. Dragonite brushed of blisseys flamethrower like it was nothing. I decided to keep her in, figuring I could toxic the mighty dragonite and wish-protect it to death.
---
Dragonite used Brick Break.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
Blissey lost 94% of its health.
SuperAlan's Blissey fainted.
Once again, intelligence and well thought out planning did not seem to be my strong point that day (I would think that would have been obvious by the fact that I was running an all-normal team.) The critical hit sure didn't help either. My wish passer was now dead and I was down two pokemon and facing a powerful dragonite that packed a SE move against almost all my pokemon (Togekiss takes neutral from fighting).
4-6 kaik
SuperAlan switched in Tauros (lvl 100 Tauros ?).
Tauros's intimidate cut Dragonite's attack!
Tauros used Outrage.
Tauros went on a rampage!
It's super effective!
Dragonite lost 91% of its health.
kaick's Dragonite fainted.
kaick: :O
Outrage tauros was something that I wanted to try despite knowing that Dragon had terrible type coverage and Stone-edge would hit 2 of the 3 OU Dragons for SE damage anyway. Still, it garnered a surprised emoticon from my opponent and at the very least took out the brick-breaker. No time to celebrate though, I was still down by one pokemon.
4-5 kaick
kaick switched in Cresselia (lvl 100 Cresselia ?).
Tauros used Outrage.
Cresselia lost 30% of its health.
Cresselia used Reflect.
A barrier was formed!
Tauros's rampage ended.
Tauros became confused!
I didn't really have any other option this turn, as outrage literally locked me in. I was thanful the outrage only lasted two turns and I didn't have to keep tauros in rampaging against a Cresselia with reflect up. Considering I hate opposing leftovers recovery, I decided it was time to bring out Ambipom again.
kaick switched in Mamoswine (lvl 100 Mamoswine ?).
SuperAlan switched in Ambipom (lvl 100 Ambipom ?).
Ambipom used Fake Out.
Mamoswine lost 17% of its health.
Mamoswine flinched!
Ambipom used Knock Off.
Mamoswine lost 5% of its health.
Ambipom knocked off foe Mamoswine's Leftovers!
Mamoswine used Curse.
Ambipom used U-turn.
Mamoswine lost 9% of its health.
SuperAlan switched in Tauros (lvl 100 Tauros ?).
Tauros's intimidate cut Mamoswine's attack!
Even though he'd already switched out cresselia I decided I could keep Ambipom in. His maneuver was just as good against mamoswine as it would have been against cresselia anyways. However, I should have been paying a little more attention to those curse boosts. I decided it was good a time as any to bring tauros back. Thankfully the intimidate neutrilized the attack boosts he was garnering from those curses.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Tauros lost 44% of its health.
Tauros used Return.
Mamoswine lost 17% of its health.
Mamoswine's reflect wore off!
Dang! with Mamoswine's natural bulkyness, the defensive boosts from curse, and the reflect a stabbed choice band max attack return on tauros barely scratched his skin. That ice shard did a nasty number on tauros also. I guess I wasn't fully aware of how strong mamoswine was even without the curse attack boosts.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Tauros lost 31% of its health.
SuperAlan's Tauros fainted.
I guess I figured he'd predict a switch and try and curse and I'd get a free return in without the reflect up, but I was wrong. Tauros kicked the bucket and I found myself being backed into a corner. Down by two pokemon, I decided to continue and press my luck.
3-5 kiack
SuperAlan switched in Togekiss (lvl 100 Togekiss ?).
Pointed stones dug into Togekiss.
Togekiss lost 25% of its health.
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
It's super effective!
Togekiss lost 60% of its health.
Togekiss used Air Slash.
Mamoswine lost 34% of its health.
Stealth rocks, I always forget about stealth rocks! Togekiss was weak coming in and I was lucky the ice shard didn't destroy him outright. I'm not really sure what drove me to send out Paraflinch Togekiss against a pokemon that was immune to thunderwave and had a priority. If I were to guess, it was probably the fact that it was my own special-attacking pokemon left and I figured He was strong enough, but no dice. If you wondering why I didn't use Aura-sphere, it's because I was trying out running signal beam on Togekiss to combo with serence grace and form a rudimentary "para-confuse-flinch" combo. In this cause I wish I had the aura-sphere
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
It's super effective!
Togekiss lost 21% of its health.
SuperAlan's Togekiss fainted.
Bam, togekiss is out for the count and I'm down by 3 pokemon. I'm not sure why I didn't just quit outright. Maybe it's because I knew in my heart that I had the power to win? I don't know, but I pressed on regardless.
2-5 kaick
SuperAlan switched in Snorlax (lvl 100 Snorlax ?).
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Snorlax lost 15% of its health.
Snorlax used Curse.
I decide that curseing is my best option. Mamoswine was packing Ice shard, so the speed debuffs wouldn't have mattered much anyway.
Snorlax used Curse.
Mamoswine used Roar.
SuperAlan switched in Ambipom (lvl 100 Ambipom ?).
Pointed stones dug into Ambipom.
Ambipom lost 12% of its health.
and my dreams of curseing up were momentarily crushed by a roar, causing me to do a little bit of my own cursing (privatley of course, I don't like to be rude over shoddy).
Ambipom used Fake Out.
Mamoswine lost 18% of its health.
Ambipom lost 10% of its health.
Mamoswine flinched!
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Ambipom lost 6% of its health.
SuperAlan's Ambipom fainted.
Ambipom is too weak at this point to bother switching out, so I go for one last fake out before mamoswine's ice shard takes him down. I was down by 4 pokemon and he was still packing poke's I hadn't even seen yet. My chances were slim, but I pressed on hoping for a "Mighty Ducks" miracle.
1-5 kaick
---
SuperAlan switched in Snorlax (lvl 100 Snorlax ?).
Mamoswine used Ice Shard.
Snorlax lost 15% of its health.
Snorlax used Curse.
No longer threatened by roar, I began cursing up snorlax again. I suspected he'd switch to cresselia and set up a reflect, so I needed all the attack boosts I could get.
kaick switched in Cresselia (lvl 100 Cresselia ?).
Snorlax used Curse.
Sure enough he switches to cresselia and I get a free curse boost. I figure two boosts is enough and start going to town.
Cresselia used Reflect.
A barrier was formed!
Snorlax used Crunch.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 23% of its health.
Cresselia's defence was lowered.
Crunch didn't deal nearly as much damage as I was hoping for, but the lowered defence was a saving grace.
Cresselia used Calm Mind.
Snorlax used Curse.
no attacking from either of us, moving along.
Cresselia used Psychic.
Snorlax lost 16% of its health.
Snorlax used Crunch.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 37% of its health.
Cresselia's defence was lowered.
At this point we were both employing a "buff then strike" system. Even a calm-minded stab psychic was not enough to hurt Snorlax from the special side. And with the curse boosts Snorlax was well gaurded on all sides, which he'd need to be if He was going to bring home the gold. I also got ANOTHER lucky defence de-buff from crunch. It seemed fortune had begun to smile on me.
Cresselia used Calm Mind.
Snorlax used Crunch.
It's super effective!
Cresselia lost 41% of its health.
kaick's Cresselia fainted.
Now had been good a time as ever to break the pattern and strike. The final hit put his cresselia to rest, but I wasn't safe yet. He still had 4 pokemon left, 2 of which I hadn't seen yet, and Snorlax wasn't in the best of shape. I pressed on anyway.
1-4 kaick
kaick switched in Vaporeon (lvl 100 Vaporeon ?).
Vaporeon used Acid Armor.
Vaporeon's defence was sharply raised.
Snorlax used Curse.
I had mixed feelings about the acid armor. On one end, it meant Vaporeon was short an attacking move, on the other end it meant it could have defense boosts to match my attack boosts. I continued on attack and cursing anyway. Maybe if was lucky I could paralyze it or get a critical hit. Anything was possible at this point.
Vaporeon used Acid Armor.
Vaporeon's defence was sharply raised.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 16% of its health.
Vaporeon's reflect wore off!
I breathed a sigh of releif as the reflect wore off. Even with an acid armor boost and reflect Snorlax was still able to take out a small sized chunk of it's Hp, enough to be note-worthy. I began to have hope.
Vaporeon used Acid Armor.
Vaporeon's defence was sharply raised.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 24% of its health.
At this point I'm body slamming and hoping for that lucky critical or paralysis to kick in.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 23% of its health.
oh noes, wish! I really needed that paralysis now. If Vaporeon kept wishing I'd run out of body-slam PP and possible attack PP all together. Things began to look grim again.
Vaporeon used Toxic.
Vaporeon's attack missed!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 23% of its health.
The wish came true!
Vaporeon restored 50% of its health.
A lucky miss on the toxic, but the wish set me back a few turns. I was hard pressed for some luck.
Vaporeon used Toxic.
Snorlax was badly poisoned!
Snorlax used Curse..
Snorlax is hurt by poison!
Snorlax lost 6% of its health.
With all the wishing that would be going on anyway, I decided it was as good an idea as ever to max out the curse boosts. If i was going to have any hope of curshing the opposition then Snorlax would need to be at peak levels. Unfortunatley the bad poison not threatened to ruin me.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax used Curse.
Still cursing aginst wishes and poison, my luck seemed like it was finally at it's end.
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 19% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 32% of its health.
The wish came true!
Vaporeon restored 50% of its health.
The damage of two body-slams being more than the wish recovery was a saving grace, as I hadn't seen vaporeon use protect yet. But the surf and posion damage was wearing snorlax thing. I wasn't sure how much longer he'd last.
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 19% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 33% of its health.
Vaporeon is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
Vaporeon's Lum Berry cured its Paralysis!.
My dreams of a lucky paralysis were crushed by his Lum berry and I had all but given up hope, at this point snorlax was at a mere 19% hp and ready to kick the bucket.
kaick: gg
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 17% of its health.
Snorlax used Rest.
Snorlax fell asleep!
Snorlax restored 98% of its health.
kaick: or not
kaick thought he had won, and to be honest I thought he might have too. the use of rest was a long-shot at best. For all I knew he had a SD lucario waiting in the last unknown slot that would eleminate any chance of survival.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax is fast asleep!
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 18% of its health.
Snorlax is fast asleep!
The wish came true!
Vaporeon restored 50% of its health.
Vaporeon used Surf.
Snorlax lost 18% of its health.
Snorlax woke up!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 28% of its health.
Snorlax awoke from his sleep angry. Little did me or kaick know, we wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Vaporeon used Toxic.
Vaporeon's attack missed!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 29% of its health.
A miss from toxic, I couldn't beleive it. At this point I had no idea why he hadn't switched out vaporeon, but I was thankful for not having to be dragged down by poison again.
Vaporeon used Wish.
Vaporeon made a wish!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 30% of its health.
Vaporeon is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
My lucky paralysis I had been praying for ten turns ago finally came and I soon began to realize that this was no ordinary snorlax
kaick switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
Heatran lost 66% of its health.
The wish came true!
Heatran restored 50% of its health.
At first I thought "oh noes, heatran" because steel resisted both of Snorlax's attack moves. But when I saw that 66% damage from an NFE hit, I was shocked. What kind of pocket had this snorlax become?
Heatran used Earth Power.
Snorlax lost 15% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
Heatran lost 60% of its health.
Heatran's earthpower did little but make Snorlax angrier. He was tearing through this steel-fire legend like it was tissue paper.
Heatran used Earth Power.
Snorlax lost 14% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
Heatran lost 24% of its health.
kaick's Heatran fainted.
The unnecesary critical sealed the steel legends fate and a bloodlust began to come over me. I could do it, I had a chance to destroy him. I had no idea what to call this creature I was using. He was no mere snorlax; was this the true power of curselax?
1-3 kaick
kaick switched in Forretress (lvl 100 Forretress ?).
SuperAlan: RAWR
kaick: :O
I let out a curse-lax battle cry as his forretress came in. I could almost see the terror on his face
Snorlax used Body Slam.
It's not very effective...
Forretress lost 34% of its health.
kaick's Forretress fainted.
even the mighty defenses of forretress were no match for this creature, this curse-lax? I was unsure about the name curse lax. It didn't seem to accuratley represent the mightiness he had acheived.
1-2 kaick
kaick switched in Vaporeon (lvl 100 Vaporeon ?).
SuperAlan: SNORLAX SMASH!
After taking down the forretress I realized what this creature was. this was no curse-lax, this was HULK!-lax. I let out a HULK!-battle cry and pictures a snorlax becoming big and green and muscular like the incredible hulk (props to anyone who draws this.)
Vaporeon is paralysed! It can't move!
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Vaporeon lost 11% of its health.
kaick's Vaporeon fainted.
Even vaporeon, who had once been a worthy foe, cowered at the terrible might that was HULK!-lax. there would be no poison anymore, HULK-Lax was free te destroy all who stood in his path.
1-1
---
kaick switched in Mamoswine (lvl 100 Mamoswine ?).
Mamoswine used Earthquake.
Snorlax lost 11% of its health.
Snorlax used Body Slam.
Mamoswine lost 7% of its health.
kaick's Mamoswine fainted.
SuperAlan wins!
All it took was one final blow. The power of Mamoswine's earthquake was no match for the raw anger and strength that was HULK-lax. at this point I had done it, HULK!-lax had ripped through five pokemon to acheive I victory I thought was all but impossible. At this point I only had one thing to say
SuperAlan: wow
SuperAlan: gg
kaick: gg
kaick has left the room.
-------------------------------
Was I the best player? probably not. Did I deserve the win? who knows. did I make mistakes? plenty. But all were moot as I was save by the power of the Incredible HULK!-Lax
