Till the Last Dragon Breath (HO vs. Sand Stall)

Oh hey it's a beautiful day, I've been climbing the ranks at blitzing speed, what could possibly go wrong at this stage?

*PRESS DA FIND BUTTON*

Battle between Schweinsteiger and X5Dragon started!

Oh snap. Da numba 1 ;_;

Variation: +23, -9

Ah hell naw.

A New Beginning is watching the battle

Da hell, I'm get my behind whooped and somebody is watching that shit happen? OK calm down, what's the worse that could happen? I lose, -9 points get thrown down the drain, he remembers the battle for 10 seconds, I make somebody laugh, it's all good.

*Pulls Helmet down*

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Preview:


Sand stall is probably the worst stall there is out there for my team. Sand storm for one makes 3 of my pokemon perform at less than 100%, 2 of them being sashes and one Nite. The good thing is that I have a spinner in my team, the best in OU and I could block toxic since 3 of my pokemon are either immune to it, use it to heal or has an item to cure the status. Over all my job is pretty obvious here, he must have a special-physical wall core or 2, I have to break it, remove any hazards, find an opportunity to set up and sweep. He is gonna attempt to scout at first and whose better to lead than Nite since he either scares them away or takes a hit and uses DD!

(After much thinking I decided not to list a preview of both teams at the beginning because I think they'd kind of ruin the suspense and I'll just each of us unravel their line up in time so you could both appreciate the decisions being made as well as the role of each pokemon more clearly. However I will include the line ups at the end of the battle :)



X5Dragon sent out Nobolite! (Dragonite)


Let's do this, Nite, I choose you!

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*Derp


Schweinsteiger sent out Gliscor!



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*I'll see your derp and raise you an annoying physical wall!


(Alright Gliscor is scouting pokemon. The temptation to use Ice Fang here is really strong for him to ignore, or at least that is what I thought, so I made an attempt to DD since I know how powerful Outrage is at +1 and I most probably will kill it or take a good chunk of whoever he attempts to switch in next. Also, it's a good time find out which moves he has for his Gargoyle.)



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Start of turn 1
The foe's Gliscor used Protect!
The foe's Gliscor protected itself!

Nobolite used Dragon Dance!
Nobolite's Attack rose!
Nobolite's Speed rose!


The foe's Gliscor's Toxic Orb activated!
The foe's Gliscor was poisoned!


(Standard scouting stuff here on his part well also activating his Poison Heal. Basically I thought what the hell, he Ice fangs, I manage a DD by using Multiscale and then go outrage on his sorry fangs, but he had other plans. At this point it was either attack and risk wasting a Lum Berry or DD once more then attempt an attack. Switching in would be useless if he decides to use Ice Fang....)

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Start of turn 2
Schweinsteiger called Gliscor back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Quagsire!


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Nobolite used Dragon Dance!
Nobolite's Attack rose!
Nobolite's Speed rose!



(I can hear you laughing now, stop it please ;_; Definitely gonna remove Nite since he's too valuable for me to waste so early in the game. Time to switch to loom and hope he doesn't Scald me. Having 2 DDs will also fool him into thinking that I'm gonna attempt an attack out of frustration)


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Start of turn 3
X5Dragon called Nobolite back!
X5Dragon sent out Wall-E! (Breloom)


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The foe's Quagsire used Recover!
But it failed!

Wall-E's Toxic Orb activated!
Wall-E was poisoned!


(HAHAHA, WHOSE LAUGHING NOW?! Also, this is the start of a beautiful stall game. I'm gonna go for a spore here although I had absolutely no reason to do so seeing that the obvious switch in for loom is Gliscor...maybe he could attack me with Ice beam or something similar?)


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Start of turn 4

Schweinsteiger called Quagsire back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Gliscor!



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Wall-E used Spore!
But it failed!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!

(OK seriously were doing this now? Switch until you fail? The hell with it! SD it is! I had a Jolly SD loom which is superior to Sub Focus and this battle will demonstrate why. I am beginning to rue the missed opportunity to use SD but hey, I'm gonna outspeed him, use SD and his Ice Fang will do a measly 45% which will be reduced by Poison heal and I'll have 700+ attack before he knows it!)



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Start of turn 5

The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's super effective!
Wall-E lost 118 HP! (45% of its health)

Wall-E used Swords Dance!
Wall-E's Attack sharply rose!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!


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(I wasn't expecting the Gliscor to outspeed me (Jolly Nature, max Speed EVs) to be quite honest, and I knew Ice Fang barely did 50% damage and I had poison Heal so in an arms race I would beat him with +2 SD. Meh that was disappointing, change of plans but not before I take advantage and take a good chunk of his health via Seed Bomb..)

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Start of turn 6

The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's super effective!
Wall-E lost 118 HP! (45% of its health)

Wall-E used Seed Bomb!
The foe's Gliscor lost 61% of its health!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!


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(I thought I might as well try my chances and take as much of his HP as possible and lure him into thinking I'm keeping my Loom and was willing to throw it away instead of switch it out. Also taking half his health would help me in later encounters I am sure of it...Now to bring up Cloyster since I succeeded into making him believe I'm throwing away my loom)


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Start of turn 7
X5Dragon called Wall-E back!
X5Dragon sent out OneManArmy! (Cloyster)

The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's not very effective...
OneManArmy lost 7 HP! (2% of its health)

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!


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(Setting up on Gliscor with SS is almost natural instinct with me. I also had hopes that Icicle spearing 2 times with a little bit of hax luck would finish Quagsire off. Oh who am I kidding? SS nao!)

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Start of turn 8
The foe's Gliscor used Protect!
The foe's Gliscor protected itself!

OneManArmy used Shell Smash!
OneManArmy's Defense fell!
OneManArmy's Sp. Def. fell!
OneManArmy's Attack sharply rose!
OneManArmy's Sp. Att. sharply rose!
OneManArmy's Speed sharply rose!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!

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(Aha, just as I planned, free SS and he...gets more health restored, Loom is raging I bet since his previous effort is being wasted <_< But at least I didn't get taunted so that helps the next time I decide to bring Loom or Nite in. Time to capitalize on my boosts here and starting attacking right away with Icicle Spear)


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Start of turn 9
Schweinsteiger called Gliscor back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Forretress!

OneManArmy used Icicle Spear!
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
The foe's Forretress lost 17% of its health!
The foe's Forretress lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Forretress lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Forretress lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Forretress lost 8% of its health!
Hit 5 times!

The foe's Forretress restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(WTF I didn't expect dat! </Metal Gear Awesome>

Oh man this is disappointing but very logical on his part. Why risk a Quag switch when you could throw away Forretress since I have no Hazard setters? You volt switching me? Well that's great and Imma let you finish but I have a focus sash and Razor Shell, eat this!)



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Start of turn 10
OneManArmy used Razor Shell!
The foe's Forretress lost 47% of its health!

The foe's Forretress used Toxic!
OneManArmy was poisoned!

OneManArmy is hurt by poison!
The foe's Forretress restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(Err, that wasn't supposed to happen. Got to look up what stall means in dictionary. Also, I dashed a little surprise myself, nobody expects Razor Shell! Although how he managed to survive is beyond me. At 600+ attack with STAB, he should be dead by now. Let's finish it off then.)


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Start of turn 11
OneManArmy used Icicle Spear!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Forretress lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Forretress lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Forretress fainted!
Hit 2 times!


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(DEAD.DEAD)


6 (X5D) - 5 (Sch)

OneManArmy is hurt by poison!
Schweinsteiger sent out Quagsire!



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(Good, we took out his only steel wall. Now Quag...err, let's try Icicle spear? Dunno I should have counted on the Defensive drop via Razor Shell but let's see what happens here and test how warm the water is...)

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Start of turn 12
OneManArmy used Icicle Spear!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 7% of its health!
Hit 5 times!

The foe's Quagsire used Recover!
The foe's Quagsire regained health!

OneManArmy is hurt by poison!

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(No critic hax for me, not that it would have done me any good. I also took more Toxic damage than I should have. Next turn however I do the right thing and get back on track....Wall-E come back and let's reset Cloyster's toxic counter! He is gonna attempt to recover again)


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Start of turn 13
X5Dragon called OneManArmy back!
X5Dragon sent out Wall-E! (Breloom)

The foe's Quagsire used Recover!
But it failed!

Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!


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A New Beginning
: <3 that quagsire lol
X5Dragon: just testing his defenses
X5Dragon: not many people use him these days


(Like I said half-jokingly, I was testing the his defenses, and this is one sturdy MF. I wasn't gonna embarrass myself by spamming icicle spear until I die a toxic death, so I pulled Loom in to end this nonsense. I feared that he might make a pretty damn good prediction and use Ice Beam on me while I sword dance or something, so I thought I'd either kill Quagsire or take a chunk out his most obvious switch in, Gliscor. )


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Start of turn 14
Schweinsteiger called Quagsire back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Gliscor!

Wall-E used Seed Bomb!
The foe's Gliscor lost 31% of its health!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!


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(Needless to say, KA-CHING! OK I'm still gonna lose if Loom stays in so time to bring Cloyster again to sponge his Ice Fang. In all honesty Cloyster at this point is damaged goods, the only thing he can do right now is reduce the health of one his pokemon and make an opportunity for the rest of his mates to finish the job. )



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Start of turn 15
X5Dragon called Wall-E back!
X5Dragon sent out OneManArmy! (Cloyster)

The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's not very effective...
OneManArmy lost 7 HP! (2% of its health)

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
OneManArmy is hurt by poison!


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(Gliscor is faster, he'd KO me before I'd do anything meaningful, and Cloyster was the most obvious switch in especially since he's damage goods now. I'm gonna go for a Icicle Spear and hopes he uses an attack instead of Protect seeing how I was at half health and he might think I was foolish enough to use Shell Smash again. Unfortunately with toxic stall comes Protect)


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Start of turn 16
The foe's Gliscor used Protect!
The foe's Gliscor protected itself!

OneManArmy used Icicle Spear!
The foe's Gliscor protected itself!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
OneManArmy is hurt by poison!


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(You can't spell stall with protect...actually you can, but you know what I mean <_< It's already too late for Cloyster, so I might as well just keep him in play. Also my hand has been exposed, though I was surprised he didn't attack my straight away and instead preferred a Quag switch??)


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Start of turn 17
Schweinsteiger called Gliscor back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Quagsire!

OneManArmy used Icicle Spear!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
Hit 5 times!

OneManArmy is hurt by poison!
The foe's Quagsire restored a little HP using its Leftovers!

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(Ya halo thar Spongebob. Plz Hax lady, smile on me now ;_; Hopefully at the end of this turn he still has 10% of HP missing)


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Start of turn 18
OneManArmy used Icicle Spear!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 7% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire lost 8% of its health!
Hit 5 times!

The foe's Quagsire used Recover!
The foe's Quagsire regained health!

OneManArmy is hurt by poison!
OneManArmy fainted!

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(DEAD.DEAD)



5 (X5D) - 5 (Sch)


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(He did a good job by taking Forettress out, but I had high hopes for and seeing him wasted like this was rage worthy. Alright, let's get back into the game, bring Loom in and restore more health for the eventual Gliscor show down!)


The foe's Quagsire restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
X5Dragon sent out Wall-E! (Breloom)

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( Same logic as last time I'm gonna attack it with Seed Bomb instead of using SD because if he has Ice Beam I'm screwed. I miss an opportunity but better safe then sorry.)


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Start of turn 19
Schweinsteiger called Quagsire back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Gliscor!

Wall-E used Seed Bomb!
The foe's Gliscor lost 30% of its health!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!

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(We're back to switch/square one -_- Time to switch out yet again and bring Volca since I don't have much health yet, but this isn't over Gliscor, I'm gonna dance on your grave using Loom out of all pokemon!)


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Start of turn 20
X5Dragon called Wall-E back!
X5Dragon sent out Infernug! (Volcarona)

The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's not very effective...
Infernug lost 37 HP! (11% of its health)

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!

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(Who else can sponge an Ice Fang you say? Why Volca of course! I'm gonna QD here and take advantage of my near full health and use HP Water against it. Why HP Water? Well...hmmm good question. The Balloon Terrakions and Heatrans out there pissed me off.)


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Start of turn 21
Schweinsteiger called Gliscor back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Blissey!

Infernug used Quiver Dance!
Infernug's Sp. Att. rose!
Infernug's Sp. Def. rose!
Infernug's Speed rose!


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(Don't risk anything, smart move on his part. Let's set up on her a couple of times and take out his Special wall! If I do that, his Stall team falls apart!)

[Volca @ 1.5 SPA)


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Start of turn 22
Infernug used Quiver Dance!
Infernug's Sp. Att. rose!
Infernug's Sp. Def. rose!
Infernug's Speed rose!

The foe's Blissey used Toxic!
Infernug was poisoned!

Infernug is hurt by poison!


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(Arm's race.2, LETS.DO.THIS *w*. No Chesto Rest, this is a fully HO team and I really needed speed to kill lot's of threats such as Starmie and thelike.)

[Volca @ 2 SPA]

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Start of turn 23
Infernug used Quiver Dance!
Infernug's Sp. Att. rose!
Infernug's Sp. Def. rose!
Infernug's Speed rose!

The foe's Blissey used Stealth Rock!
Pointed stones float in the air around X5Dragon's team!

Infernug is hurt by poison!

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(Just great...OK it's time to strike, have at her! Yes I hit girls, problem? ^_^ More than 50% please!)


[Volca @ 2.5 SPA]


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Start of turn 24
Infernug used Bug Buzz!
The foe's Blissey lost 47% of its health!

The foe's Blissey used Softboiled!
The foe's Blissey regained health!

Infernug is hurt by poison!



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(Definitely not good :( but it's useless to try anything but hope for a critic or a sesmic toss which can burn it via flame body. Maybe he'll try to Soft Boil and I can pull off one more QD? Worth a shot!)


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Start of turn 25
Infernug used Quiver Dance!
Infernug's Sp. Att. rose!
Infernug's Sp. Def. rose!
Infernug's Speed rose!

The foe's Blissey used Seismic Toss!
Infernug lost 100 HP! (32% of its health)

Infernug is hurt by poison!
Infernug fainted!


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(DEAD.DEAD)


4 (X5D) - 5 (Sch)


(Nothing much to say here, it was a worth while effort and I regret nothing...)


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(Oh alright I should have QD once more before attacking. STOP IMPLYING THAT FACE PALM. Now, lady's and gentlemen, now is the time where Loom does his job)




X5Dragon sent out Wall-E! (Breloom)
Pointed stones dug into Wall-E!


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( Still lagging behind in body count against a stall team is never good, at all. However Loom now has enough Health and a good opportunity to use SD finally and kill that Gliscor. Let's finish this off!)





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Start of turn 26
Schweinsteiger called Blissey back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Gliscor!

Wall-E used Swords Dance!
Wall-E's Attack sharply rose!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!


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(This is bound to be sooo good. Especially since I didn't use my fighting move before otherwise he would have used Sesmic Toss and then brought out Gliscor. It will all come clear in the next turns...let's attack it while we have the chance!)

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Start of turn 27
The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's super effective!
Wall-E lost 114 HP! (43% of its health)

Wall-E used Seed Bomb!
The foe's Gliscor lost 62% of its health!

The foe's Gliscor restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!


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(Hell.Mother.Frakkin.YEAH! It's over for him!)

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Start of turn 28
The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's super effective!
Wall-E lost 116 HP! (44% of its health)

Wall-E used Seed Bomb!
The foe's Gliscor lost 38% of its health!
The foe's Gliscor fainted!




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(DEAD.DEAD)

4 (X5D) - 4 (Sch)


(>'-')> <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) (>'-')>


Wall-E restored HP using its Poison Heal!
Schweinsteiger sent out Latias!


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(Loom's job is finished. We know took out 2 Physical walls with Nite still at full health. Nothing much Loom can do here but use this move which completes the SD Jolly Loom set:

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Start of turn 29
Wall-E used Mach Punch!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Latias lost 26% of its health!

The foe's Latias used Dragon Pulse!
Wall-E lost 36 HP! (13% of its health)
Wall-E fainted!

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(DEAD.DEAD)

3 (X5D) - 4 (Sch)


(Mach punch?! Wait! I can explain, before you kids hit puberty there was this thing called Exc...)


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(What's faster than a Latias? Why Latios of course!)


The foe's Latias restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
X5Dragon sent out Latte! (Latios)
Pointed stones dug into Latte!


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(Mach punch served me well, now my Dragon Pulse is a guranteed, 100% OHKO, no question about it. Too bad he's gonna do what I think he's gonna do, and bring in the TTar and along with it it's annoying sa...)

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Start of turn 30
Schweinsteiger called Latias back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Blissey!

Latte used Dragon Pulse!
The foe's Blissey lost 24% of its health!
Latte is hurt by its Life Orb!

The foe's Blissey restored a little HP using its Leftovers!



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(Erm, no. He's not gonna bring TTar, maybe there's something I don't know about it...All's good here, I did some residual damage on Blissey, which would help me immensely the next two turns. Hopefully Psyshock does over 50%...)


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Start of turn 31
Latte used Psyshock!
The foe's Blissey lost 56% of its health!
Latte is hurt by its Life Orb!

The foe's Blissey used Toxic!
Latte was poisoned!

Latte is hurt by poison!
The foe's Blissey restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(This is the part of the match where misprediction can kill you. He either thought that I didn't have psyshock or that it wouldn't do much damage. In all honesty he could have just recovered while I was my health via life orb damage but hey, I'm sure he took all of this into consideration. I'm immensly joyful right now, I took out what is the one of the most annoying walls in Pokemon Land)

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Start of turn 32
Latte used Psyshock!
The foe's Blissey lost 31% of its health!
The foe's Blissey fainted!


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(DEAD.DEAD)

3 (X5D) - 3 (Sch)


(Count with me here, Gliscor, Forrettress gone, no more Physical walls. Blissey is down, so that leaves Latias and I'm free to celebrate a grand victory! The thing with HO teams is, I can't afford to switch out my pokemon in and out alot, once there switched in it's hard to to switch them out unless they're using non attacking or not effective moves. So I put Latios in play as is, since I can do some more damage and then pave the way for others to clean up)


Latte is hurt by its Life Orb!

Latte is hurt by poison!
Schweinsteiger sent out Tyranitar!

The foe's Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
Darren_Test is watching the battle.


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(Alright Latte, you've done an excellent job taking out the mother of all special walls, now die in peace :3 )

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Start of turn 33
Latte used Dragon Pulse!
The foe's Tyranitar lost 42% of its health!
Latte is hurt by its Life Orb!

The foe's Tyranitar used Pursuit!
It's super effective!
Latte lost 90 HP! (29% of its health)
Latte fainted!

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(DEAD.DEAD)

2 (X5D) - 3 (Sch)


(42% w.t.F. Now here's the situation, sand is finally up, I have SR around my team and he has a TTar. whats the answer to all of this? Excadrill ^_^)


The sandstorm rages!
X5Dragon sent out Drillz! (Excadrill)
Pointed stones dug into Drillz!

Drillz is floating on a balloon!


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(Alright this is the final stretch of the match, let's keep our focus and I might make a historic win here! Also am I the only one who was surprised and how much Dragon Pulse did to TTar? OK first things first, time to get rid of SR. He can't do anything in return, not until he pops my balloon which he does right away)

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Start of turn 34
Drillz used Rapid Spin!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Tyranitar lost 3% of its health!
Drillz blew away Stealth Rock!

The foe's Tyranitar used Pursuit!
It's not very effective...
Drillz lost 97 HP! (26% of its health)
Drillz's Air Balloon popped!

The sandstorm rages!
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(I shamelessly take advantage of my balloon to spin away the rocks and keep the by damage to sandstorm. And he's...scarfed? THAT'S why he's been keeping it stashed all this time. Let's kill this thing before it switches in later and does irreversible damage to my less speedy friends. EQ is a sure kill...)


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Start of turn 35
Schweinsteiger called Tyranitar back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Latias!

Drillz used Earthquake!
It had no effect!

The sandstorm rages!
The foe's Latias is buffeted by the sandstorm!
The foe's Latias restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(70%) VS
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(80%)

(Smart, but it's not enough. I'm gonna bug him now if you catch my drift)

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Start of turn 36
Drillz used X-Scissor!
It's super effective!
The foe's Latias lost 67% of its health!

The foe's Latias used Calm Mind!
The foe's Latias's Sp. Att. rose!
The foe's Latias's Sp. Def. rose!

The sandstorm rages!
The foe's Latias is buffeted by the sandstorm!
The foe's Latias restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(70%) VS
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(13%)


(What is this I don't even O_O. He most of thought since I had no LO, I have SD instead of X-Scizzor, when in reality Adamant Excadrill has an insane attack base stat right off the bat so why bother? Let's X-Scizzor him again)


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Start of turn 37
Schweinsteiger called Latias back!
Schweinsteiger sent out Tyranitar!

Drillz used X-Scissor!
It's super effective!
The foe's Tyranitar lost 54% of its health!
The foe's Tyranitar fainted!


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(DEAD.DEAD)

2 (X5D) - 2 (Sch)

(He must have thought his Latias was more important than his weather inducer, and the Ttar can actually take a hit and dish back some scarfed pain. How glorious this is, win is at reach...)



The sandstorm rages!
Schweinsteiger sent out Quagsire!


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(100%)


(oh Quag, gg then. Let's see how EQ does to it before making any hasty moves)

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Start of turn 38
Drillz used Earthquake!
The foe's Quagsire lost 38% of its health!

The foe's Quagsire used Recover!
The foe's Quagsire regained health!

The sandstorm rages!
The foe's Quagsire restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(70%) VS
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(100%)


(So my STAB is worth crap. Yay me -_- How about flinching it? Yeah I'm desperate, the only pokemon I have left are Physical...in hindsight I should have just spammed EQ until he got bored and attacked me. But since Flich with rock slide has a high probability of happening, I could use it and THEN use EQ!)


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Start of turn 39
Drillz used Rock Slide!
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
The foe's Quagsire lost 21% of its health!

The foe's Quagsire flinched!

The sandstorm rages!
The foe's Quagsire restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(70%) VS
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(85%)


(Double Hax FTW! Yes! Yes! Let's EQ it now!)

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Start of turn 40
Drillz used Earthquake!
A New Beginning: >_>
The foe's Quagsire lost 44% of its health!

The foe's Quagsire used Recover!
The foe's Quagsire regained health!

The sandstorm rages!
The foe's Quagsire restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
nbrgv is watching the battle.


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(70%) VS
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(97%)


(Beginning to look very bleak here. I know eventually he will have to attack so that's what's keeping me sane but I do a very stupid brain fart here and use Rock slide out of all the moves and try to repeat what didn't work before. Well what can I do except wait for him to attack instead of recover...)


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Start of turn 41
Drillz used Rock Slide!
The foe's Quagsire avoided the attack!

The foe's Quagsire used Recover!
The foe's Quagsire regained health!

The sandstorm rages!


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(70%) VS
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(100%)


(LOL.LOL.LOL this turn is hilarious. Again I don't know what's gotten into me and I use Rock Slide instead of EQ when I knew he was gonna attack eventually -_-)

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Start of turn 42
Drillz used Rock Slide!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Quagsire lost 10% of its health!

The foe's Quagsire used Earthquake!
It's super effective!
Drillz lost 254 HP! (70% of its health)
Drillz fainted!
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(DEAD.DEAD)

1 (X5D) - 2 (Sch)

(Damn, 1HKO. Oh well, I went the distance with the best... That was inexcusable. Trying to flinch and EQ once was fine, but it didn't work. Trying it the second time was my loss really, and Nite has to face a full health Quagsire. At least I was smart enough to keep it at full health AND with a Lum Berry. Hopefully Nite's natural attack and STAB Outrage will take him the distance.)


The sandstorm rages!
The foe's Quagsire restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
X5Dragon sent out Nobolite! (Dragonite)


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(100%) VS
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(96%)


(OK not much to do here except use Outrage and do more than 50%.)


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Start of turn 43
Nobolite used Outrage!
The foe's Quagsire lost 51% of its health!

The foe's Quagsire used Toxic!
Nobolite was poisoned!
Nobolite ate its Lum Berry!
Nobolite's status cleared!

The sandstorm rages!
Nobolite is buffeted by the sandstorm!
The foe's Quagsire restored a little HP using its Leftovers!


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(93%) VS
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(51%)

(I did it. He either forgot about the lum berry, didn't think I had it or that I lost it at some point of the match. That or he had too much faith in his defenses. OK, I'm not an expert in Damage Calculating and doing it now is completely useless since I'm locked.)

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Start of turn 44
Nobolite used Outrage!
The foe's Quagsire lost 50% of its health!
The foe's Quagsire fainted!


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(DEAD.DEAD)

1 (X5D) - 1 (Sch)


(What an amazing play for me, not so much for him. I would be moon walking right now if it weren't for his last pokemon, Latias. Having 110 SpA and Nite losing his MS getting buffeted by sandstorm even more...)


The sandstorm rages!
Nobolite is buffeted by the sandstorm!
Schweinsteiger sent out Latias!


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(87%) VS
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(13%)


(Damn, Nite is definitely slower and his MS is broken. It all comes down to the SPA Latias is packing. Well better this than rely on using ES speed with a confused Nite...I played well, I deserve to have my head held high!)


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Start of turn 45
The foe's Latias used Dragon Pulse!
It's super effective!


And...well, that's the end of the log. You see Sch hit the X button the moment Latias attacked, thinking it was a sure win. Actually, Nite survived by 3% and KO'd Latias via Outrage.


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(DEAD.DEAD)

1 (X5D) - 0 (Sch)



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----(3%)----

X5DRAGON VICTOR!


http://pokemon.aesoft.org/replay-X5Dragon-vs-Schweinsteiger--2011-08-19


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MVP

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For taking out TTar, crippling Latias and doing that little but all important damage to Quag that made this victory possible. Also spinning SR saved my Nite.



Props:

1) Quagsire, such a beast it's not even funny.

2) Excadrill proving he's status as the number 1 OU pokemon

3) SD Loom is a great set with or without Technician

4) Rapid Spin is essential, without it this war story would never have been made

5) Keeping your head into the game matters a lot and could turn premature forfeits into outstanding victories


Slops:

1) Trying to poison a very strong sweeper when you could just Recovery Stall, twice actually.

2) Using a non stab, low power physical move on Quagsire, wtf?

3) Using Spore when Gliscor was the obvious switch in

4) You should always lead with your weather inducer or at least bring it out early wheb your running weather stall.

5) Should have used Razor shell more, 50% in defense drops does wonders infront of Quagsire and I could have forced a switch many times

6) Spin blockers are always a welcome addition to any stall team



Teams:

Sch

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X5d



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Fixing that right now. Also I don't see the Hax unless you consider a 3 turn Outrage to be hax >_>

Edit: Done with adding the extra commentary needed, thanks for the advice ^_^

Edit 2: Added Pros/Slops section.
 
haha what a trolly rapid spin + four attacks excadrill
if it had had SD you had no shot of winning

Anyways, you kind of did a lot of floundering around and it felt like the reason you won was because you surprised him with your sets.
(good teambuilding then)

I'd also like to see a lot of the thought process behind your decisions because it... well it kind of felt like you were moving at random.

I can tell this is a good battle, though, so if you'd add even MORE commentary this could be a great warstory.
 
Yeah Rapid Spin really saved me there. SD Jolly Loom is something I've used from the very beginning since I wasn't impressed by the Sub Focus set and more power allowed me to do surprise maneuvers, such as actually take on Gliscors 1 on 1 without flinching (one of the downsides of standard set is that they become too predictable and well, Ice Fang EQ is Gliscor's bread and butter).

I don't know if you read this warstory before or after nld advised me to add how I made the decisions for the moves, but if you have another place for me to add more commentary than I'd welcome that advice.

It was one of my most cherished victories seeing how back then reaching 1300 was my ultimate dream (I've peaked 5th since then).
 
Well I think you repeated Turn 44. Other than that I think this is a good warstory. Also why do you think that your opponent thinks(lol) a scarfed Ttar could ever outspeed your Excadrill?

Edit: Derp, ignore my question above =_=''
 
Well it had to be before the banning of Drill, so...

anyway good warstory, i agree in the most part with Woodchuck though. Also I love your taste in men reading newspapers.
 
Commentary was a bit shoddy. Kinda felt like you were stating the obvious, and while it might be your style of writing, many moves seemed to be lacking in reasoning. A few instances of "let's do what we did last time" is fine, but this seemed chock-full of them. And the commentary didn't really give much to think about, it seemed to rely on the images for comedy rather than actually being an insight into the thought process behind each move.

Also, gimmicky sets at best. And the repeated instances of hoping for a crit and actually relying on a crit (regardless whether you got them or not) really annoyed me. Sorry, just my 2 cents.
 
Thanks guys for the ratings, appreciate the love for men reading news paper especially :)
I'm gonna go and add lots more comments and will state an edit as soon as I'm done.

I didn't rely on critics, I just welcomed them seeing how Icicle Spear hit five team and critics were more probable and could have helped me. But in hindsight razor shell was the superior option until I got a defensive drop then Icicle Spear.

All of my sets were standard with the exception of HP water on Volca which was good but not great and SD Jolly Loom, which I have proven to be a worthwhile and superior set to sub focus and lots of people are starting to use it as well.


EDIT: COMMENTS ADDED BEFORE AND AFTER ATTACK AND IN BETWEEN KILLS.

EDIT.2: Team Line-Ups appear at the end of the match
 
Nice battle :D not to haxy which I liked but your sets were so surprising O_O overall good commentary, try to not use too many oversize pictures though, and all the random ones are kind distracting. Everyone else said what needed to be said. 7.5/10
 
This warstory was very nice, the way your team was built is very nice. It had very nice commentary, although I think it could be improved more but that's just my personal opinion.
 
I took some of the pictures that didn't mean anything out and kept the funny ones in place. I'm gonna read some warstories in the archive and learn some more, but I'll be doing more warstories soon and will keep on it, thanks for the encouragement ^_^
 
This is a decent battle, X5Dragon. I think Schweinsteiger was playing way too defensively, and you could've exploited this more (ie setting up SDance with Breloom). Also, Quagsire is like the bane of team full of Set-Up sweepers, such as your team, so letting Quagsire to stick around till the end of the match was unfortunate. Luckily DDNite somehow 2HKOed Quagsire, which was a surprise. You should've kept Breloom around to harass Quagsire, and Quagsire almost never packs Ice Beam (Scald, EQ, Toxic, Recover is pretty much standard).
 
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