Warstory: X Factor, The Finals: Celebi's Dream Comes True!
Hey there Smogonites! First a disclaimer to my opponent Quantumpencil: I’m sorry it took me so long to post this (almost two years!) I forgot about it when we first agreed to do it and only discovered it again recently. I lost your comments near the end so there’ll only be mine, but if you do spot this thread, feel free to PM me with anything you want to add!
This battle was fought in the DPP metagame when Salamence and Latias were still OU (B/W player thinks “Those two? But they’re not that great.”). They were. Which is why it’s pretty cool to see a match with neither Dragon-type.
Anyway onto the battle...
SkullCandy’s team:
Quantumpencil’s team:
I’m using a pretty odd team. As you can see it’s almost entirely specially based which can give me difficulties with that chubby pink blob Blissey. However my whole team is centred on taking her out and allowing Empoleon and Rotom-H to sweep. Tentacruel sets up Toxic Spikes so that Blissey can’t stay in for long, Scizor can pursuit her, Swampert gets Stealth Rock down so she keeps taking damage and Rotom-H can actually beat her 1 on 1 thanks to Substitute and Charge Beam. The main reason I made this team so specially based is because on offensive teams I like having a main attacking type (either Physical or Special) because most offensive teams only pack one physical/special wall. However, I decided to go for Special because hardly anyone ever uses more than one Special wall, even on stall (apart from maybe Tyranitar, but he isn’t a massive problem for this team).
Rules:
-Ladder Match
-Sleep Clause
-Freeze Clause
-OHKO Clause
-Evasion Clause
-Species Clause
-Strict Damage Clause
-Soul Dew Clause
Battle text will be bolded.
SkullCandi’s commentary will be like this.
Quantumpencil’s commentary will be like this.
Quantumpencil’s Pokémon, which are also on SkullCandi’s team, will have an asterisk next to them.
Leftovers recovery will be mentioned once, and then omitted.
Poison Heal recovery will be mentioned once, and then omitted.
SkullCandi sent out Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Quantumpencil sent out Metagross (lvl 100 Metagross).
Metagross leads are great for this team. Swampert 2HKO’s with Earthquake and can then set up Stealth Rock. Sometimes I go for the rocks first, but I really don’t want this thing to literally blow up in my face, so I go for the 2HKO.
Ok, I see Swampert; which is usually a very good sign for my team. It’s total set-up bait for Breloom, especially when it’s a lead, so I go ahead and make the switch, expecting Stealth Rock or *perhaps* Earthquake.
Quantumpencil switched in Breloom (lvl 100 Breloom ?).
Swampert used Earthquake.
It's not very effective...
Breloom lost 28% of its health.
Breloom was badly poisoned!
- 100%
- 100%
- 72% - Badly poisoned
Hm. That could have gone better. I’m definitely not staying in now. Breloom can play with Swampert like a kid with a rag doll so I’m switching to my 100% sure-fire Breloom counter. The one...the only...
Went pretty well; I don’t usually sleep Swampert unless there is a particular need, as I like to wait to activate sleep clause later, so I decided to go ahead and sub up.
SkullCandi switched in Celebi (lvl 100 Celebi).
Breloom used Substitute.
Breloom lost 25% of its health.
Breloom made a substitute!
Breloom's Poison Heal restored health!Breloom restored 12% of its health.
- 59% - Badly poisoned - Sub
- 100%
Perish Song Celebi! Stop laughing. This baby is a complete beast. She hard counters Breloom, CroCune, Calm Mind Jirachi, Baton Pass teams (lol) as well as last-Pokémon set-up sweepers. I’m running the standard set of Grass Knot/Recover/U-Turn/Perish Song with a Physical spread so I feel pretty safe that Breloom won’t be touching my team. I go ahead and use Perish Song to force it out, bring Swampert back in and set up rocks.
He sends in a Celebi; at this point, I know this is going to be annoying, since Celebi resists both of my attacks; but hey, I have a sub up, so I’m under no offensive threat, and I saved my Spore right? Who better to use it on.
Celebi used Perish Song.
Both Pokemon will faint in 3 turn(s)
Breloom used Spore.
Celebi fell asleep!Celebi's perish count fell to 3!
Breloom's perish count fell to 3!
- 71% - Badly poisoned
- Sub- 100% - Sleep
He decides to Spore. Can’t really see why... My best guess is that he wants to see how defensive my Celebi really is before formulating a plan for taking it out.
Well this is crap; Perish song Celebi... alright, it just means you’re going to have to predict around later, and put it to sleep before it gets a chance to sing you to death. I decide to go ahead and inflict some damage now, before I need to switch out, since my sub is still up.
Breloom is tightening its focus!
Celebi is fast asleep!
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It's not very effective...
Celebi lost 26% of its health.
Celebi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Celebi restored 6% of its health.
Celebi's perish count fell to 2!
Breloom's perish count fell to 2!
- 83% - Badly poisoned
- Sub- 80% - Sleep
Yes Celebi! Show that overgrown shroom that even a lil’ pixie can take his punches, focused or not! On a serious note he’s probably going to switch out now but I decide to stay in to get a bit of Leftovers recovery, he hasn’t go Stealth Rock up so it should be okay.
A week hit, but I expected as much. Celebi is still asleep, so I decide to send in Heatran to force a switch, as I’m pretty sure he’ll bring Swampert back in to deal with it, thus giving me another go-around with Breloom.
Quantumpencil switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Celebi is fast asleep!
Celebi's perish count fell to 1!
- 100%
- 86% - Sleep
I’m going to switch to Swampert now. I strongly doubt that he would predict the switch so early on and go for the Hidden Power [Grass] (or if he even has it) so I decide now is a good time to get those rocks up.
SkullCandi switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Heatran used Dragon Pulse.
Swampert lost 18% of its health.
Definitely a Scarf set. Probably Fire Blast/Earth Power/Explosion/Dragon Pulse. (Do any support sets run Dragon Pulse?)
Here comes Swampert; all is well at this point; so I go ahead and bring Breloom in.
- 100%
- 88%
Quantumpencil switched in Breloom (lvl 100 Breloom ?).
Swampert used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around the foe's team!
Good. I got rocks. Having seen half his team already I know that he isn’t too badly hit by Stealth Rock (or at all by Toxic Spikes, which is annoying) but I need to make sure Salamence can’t just come in for free. Now he’s got Breloom in again I’m going to switch to Celebi for another round of Master Chef: Onion vs. Mushroom.
He sets up rocks; which is fine, rocks don’t really hurt me too badly. I’m expecting a switch to Celebi the next turn, so I go ahead and use spore, hoping to put it out of business before it gets a chance to sing; I need to get pretty lucky, as I ideally need it to stay asleep for five turns or get a crit, but hey, I’m not really threatened, so why not.
- 95% - Badly poisoned
- 94%
SkullCandi switched in Celebi (lvl 100 Celebi).
Breloom used Spore.
Celebi fell asleep!
You know the drill. I sleep, wake up and Celebi goes for her X-Factor audition.
And there we go; everything worked according to plan.
- 100% - Badly poisoned
- 92% - Sleep
Celebi is fast asleep!
Breloom used Substitute.
Breloom lost 25% of its health.
Breloom made a substitute!
Still not really worried; everything on my team handles Breloom well, apart from Swampert and Empoleon. So even if he does get a crit I can always rely on Rotom-H or Scizor to take him out.
I go ahead and sub up; on second thoughts, I probably should’ve used Focus Punch here; but I wasn’t sure if he’d stay in or switch, so it seemed safer.
- 87% - Badly poisoned - Sub
- 98% - Sleep
Breloom is tightening its focus!
Celebi woke up!
Celebi used Perish Song.
Both Pokemon will faint in 3 turn(s)
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It's not very effective...
Celebi lost 26% of its health.
Celebi's perish count fell to 3!
Breloom's perish count fell to 3!
I get lucky with a one turn sleep. I go for the Perish Song again to force him out and rack up more damage for my eventual Empoleon sweep. Okay now I need to break that sub and start putting on some offensive pressure, so I U-Turn out of there.
Déjà vu? Oh well, whatever, I go for the Focus Punch
- 100% - Badly poisoned - Sub
- 78%
Breloom is tightening its focus!
Celebi used U-turn.
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Breloom!
Breloom's substitute faded!
SkullCandi switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It doesn't affect Rotom-h...
Breloom's perish count fell to 2!
I got lucky again with that crit. But then again Rotom-H isn’t exactly threatened by Breloom so it didn’t matter in the long run. Here I’m going to go with the sub to start accumulating some boosts and maybe sweep. From what I’ve seen, his team is quite sub Rotom-H weak.
Rotom eh? This happens to be the way I always stop Breloom, Scizor/Rotom/Heatran, something breaks the sub (usually Scizor with U-Turn), Rotom comes in on the Focus Punch, threatens OHKO... alright, I can deal with that. He still hasn’t seen my Heatran, so I decide to go ahead to bring it in to absorb the Overheat; The only other option I’m considering for him at this point is Tricking me a scarf; which I don’t mind, since my Heatran’s Scarfed anyway.
- 100% - Badly poisoned
- 100%
Quantumpencil switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heatran.
Heatran lost 12% of its health.
Rotom-h used Substitute.
Rotom-h lost 25% of its health.
Rotom-h made a substitute!
Predictably, he brings in Heatran (an excellent Rotom-H counter for all you B/W players out there). Now I don’t want to get a Charge Beam boost for nothing so I go for the Hidden Power [Fighting] to get some solid damage, then I’ll switch to Tentacruel when he’s locked into Fire Blast to set up Toxic Spikes.
He uses Substitute.... alright, that’s not quite what I expected, but I can deal with it. I need to break his sub in order to threaten him, but I don’t want Heatran to take a big dent from Rotom’s Thunderbolt, as I’ve a feeling he’s going to be very important to me if I’m going to bring down that Celebi; so I decide to switch out, expecting a Thunderbolt, I send in Flygon.
- 87%
- 81% - Sub
Quantumpencil switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Rotom-h used Hidden Power.
Flygon lost 28% of its health.
He switches in Flygon. I can see that he wanted to intercept the Thunderbolt but I don’t actually run it. I’m going to hit it with Shadow Ball and then KO with Scizor when it’s locked into Outrage (what other attack is he going to use?)
At this point, I wasn’t quite sure what to do.... I didn’t have a good enough idea of the rest of my opponents team; were he not behind a sub, I would’ve given Earthquake some more consideration, since the standard Rotom can’t do much to Flygon; as it is though, I decide to go for Outrage to break his sub, and pull his steel out. I figured I’d probably be able to take the hit he dished out, even if it was Shadow Ball, hit his switch in, and then switch out, as today’s been a pretty good day for me luck wise.
- 66%
- 87% - Sub
Flygon used Outrage.
Flygon went on a rampage!
The substitute took damage for Rotom-h!
Rotom-h's substitute faded!
Rotom-h used Shadow Ball.
Flygon lost 48% of its health.
That did decent damage. Now I need to get out of there and go to the omnipresent locust that is Scizor.
Broke his sub; he used Shadow Ball, but that’s alright; I knew he wouldn’t stay in next turn, and I’d get to see which steel he was running.
- 18%
- 94%
SkullCandi switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Flygon used Outrage.
It's not very effective...
Scizor lost 25% of its health.
Scizor is in and ready for action. I get a lucky two turn Outrage, meaning that it’s ‘bye-bye’ fly-fly. I hate Bullet Punching early game but there’s not much else I can do, seen as Scizor is the only one who can take an Outrage comfortably.
Ah... Outrage did last three turns. Dammit -_-. Oh well, not a big deal. He’s gonna kill me with Bullet Punch, I’ll switch in one of my fires and force Scizor out, and probably get a bulky water on which Breloom can set up.
- 18%
- 75%
Scizor used Bullet Punch.
Flygon lost 18% of its health.
Quantumpencil's Flygon fainted.
- Fainted
- 75%
SkullCandi: 6 Quantumpencil: 5
Quantumpencil switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heatran.
Heatran lost 12% of its health.
SkullCandi switched in Tentacruel (lvl 100 Tentacruel ?).
Heatran used Fire Blast.
Heatran's attack missed!
He brings Heatran in, and I switch to Tentacruel to take the blast. It misses but I doubt it would have done much anyway. I go ahead and get those all important Toxic Spikes down incase of Blissey (only later do I realise how fucking pointless this was!)
He switches to Tentacruel; Fire Blast missed but oh well; I’m sure he knows I’ll switch so he probably wasn’t going to go for a surf, so I could either bring in Rotom and threaten with Thunderbolt, or give operation Breloom another shot. I choose the latter.
- 75%
- 100%
Quantumpencil switched in Breloom (lvl 100 Breloom ?).
Pointed stones dug into Breloom.
Breloom lost 6% of its health.
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes.
Toxic Spikes were scattered around the foe's team!
(Tentacruel thought to himself as he chucked highly venomous barbs at his opponent’s team’s feet “Why don’t people ever just jump over the spikes? I mean what am I doing? Coating the whole field? I don’t think so. My own team would get killed. And for that matter why doesn’t Celebi get poisoned when she uses something like U-Turn? Surely she goes over to the other side to hit the Pokémon?”)
Toxic Spikes; Meh, I don’t care, they really don’t hamper my team at all, as they’re all immune. Surely, knowing I can’t KO him, he’ll try and get a second layer up, as he unfortunately doesn’t know how useless Toxic Spikes are against these Pokemon. I decide to attack. I’m sure he’ll switch in his Celebi soon, but this time I’ve got a plan; instead of trying to outstall it, I’m going to trap it and kill it with Scizor after Spore (Which I should’ve done to begin with, but eh, Hindsight is 20/20)
- 100% - Badly poisoned
- 100%
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes.
Toxic Spikes were scattered around the foe's team!
Breloom used Seed Bomb.
Tentacruel lost 49% of its health.
OK now I need to get out. Two more hits and I’m toast. I switch to Celebi to wall his Breloom again.
Ok, two layers of Spikes are up... this would be the most logical time to switch. I go ahead and use Spore.
- 100% - Badly poisoned
- 57%
SkullCandi switched in Celebi (lvl 100 Celebi).
Breloom used Spore.
Celebi fell asleep!
Celebi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Celebi restored 6% of its health.
Breloom's Poison Heal restored health!
Blah blah blah Perish Song blah blah blah Spore blah blah blah Substititute blah blah blah Focus Punch.
And out comes Celebi! Life is good. I go ahead and switch in Scizor.
- 100% - Badly poisoned
- 80% - Sleep
Quantumpencil switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Pointed stones dug into Scizor.
Scizor lost 12% of its health.
Celebi is fast asleep!
- 87%*
- 86% - Sleep
Fuck. That’s what happens when you get lazy kids! I am in trouble here. His Scizor can Pursuit for heavy damage or U-Turn to scout. Either way, I’m going to Empoleon now. U-Turn won’t hurt too much (it does 33.7% - 39.4%) and I can start sweeping with that sweet, sweet Petaya boost.
Scizor used Pursuit.
It's super effective!
Celebi lost 56% of its health.
SkullCandi switched in Empoleon (lvl 100 Empoleon ?).
I’m actually glad he Pursued me. I still have enough bulk to take a Focus Punch without rocks and Empoleon can easily set up on Scizor’s Pursuit.
Wow, bulky Celebi is bulky. One more iteration though, and I could have him. Plus he’s much weaker now, so if I can predict and spore once more, it’s much more feasible for me to beat him with Breloom. He brings out Empoleon; obviously I’m not staying in, I send in Rotom to take whatever and threaten back with Thunderbolt.
- 87%*
- 29%
- 100%
Go you gorgeous penguin, go!
Quantumpencil switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Pointed stones dug into Rotom-h.
Rotom-h lost 12% of its health.
Empoleon used Substitute.
Empoleon lost 25% of its health.
Empoleon made a substitute!
Now I have a sub up I’m going to use Agility and then keep subbing until Torrent and Petaya kick in.
He subbed... him. Probably Agility Sub-Petaya Empy. I hate these. Well, the sub has to be broken, so I go ahead and use Thunderbolt; seeing no better options, as switching to Flygon on the Agility would not be a good idea.
- 94%*
- 75% - Sub
Rotom-h used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
The substitute took damage for Empoleon!
Empoleon's substitute faded!
Empoleon used Agility.
Empoleon's speed was sharply raised.
(Yes that is a trident on my face. Who are you to talk? What are you anyway? The illegitimate offspring of a Poltergeist DVD raping a Transformers DVD?)
Ok.... I’m still not too threatened. Unfortunately, my team has issues with this poke; at this point I’m trying to get it weak enough that I can kill it with Metagross and Scizor’s Priority moves, so the Thunderbolt-Sub war continues.
- 100%*
- 75% - +2 Speed
Empoleon used Substitute.
Empoleon lost 25% of its health.
Empoleon made a substitute!
Rotom-h used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Empoleon!
Empoleon's substitute faded!
At this point I’m thinking “I’ve won.” There was nothing on his team that could kill me and a +1 Surf or Ice Beam annihilated everything he had to offer. All I need is for Empoleon to survive 2 Bullet Punches and it’s gg.
More Thunderbolt sub.
- 100%*
- 50% - +2 Speed
Hey there Smogonites! First a disclaimer to my opponent Quantumpencil: I’m sorry it took me so long to post this (almost two years!) I forgot about it when we first agreed to do it and only discovered it again recently. I lost your comments near the end so there’ll only be mine, but if you do spot this thread, feel free to PM me with anything you want to add!
This battle was fought in the DPP metagame when Salamence and Latias were still OU (B/W player thinks “Those two? But they’re not that great.”). They were. Which is why it’s pretty cool to see a match with neither Dragon-type.
Anyway onto the battle...
SkullCandy’s team:
Quantumpencil’s team:
I’m using a pretty odd team. As you can see it’s almost entirely specially based which can give me difficulties with that chubby pink blob Blissey. However my whole team is centred on taking her out and allowing Empoleon and Rotom-H to sweep. Tentacruel sets up Toxic Spikes so that Blissey can’t stay in for long, Scizor can pursuit her, Swampert gets Stealth Rock down so she keeps taking damage and Rotom-H can actually beat her 1 on 1 thanks to Substitute and Charge Beam. The main reason I made this team so specially based is because on offensive teams I like having a main attacking type (either Physical or Special) because most offensive teams only pack one physical/special wall. However, I decided to go for Special because hardly anyone ever uses more than one Special wall, even on stall (apart from maybe Tyranitar, but he isn’t a massive problem for this team).
Rules:
-Ladder Match
-Sleep Clause
-Freeze Clause
-OHKO Clause
-Evasion Clause
-Species Clause
-Strict Damage Clause
-Soul Dew Clause
Battle text will be bolded.
SkullCandi’s commentary will be like this.
Quantumpencil’s commentary will be like this.
Quantumpencil’s Pokémon, which are also on SkullCandi’s team, will have an asterisk next to them.
Leftovers recovery will be mentioned once, and then omitted.
Poison Heal recovery will be mentioned once, and then omitted.
SkullCandi sent out Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Quantumpencil sent out Metagross (lvl 100 Metagross).
Metagross leads are great for this team. Swampert 2HKO’s with Earthquake and can then set up Stealth Rock. Sometimes I go for the rocks first, but I really don’t want this thing to literally blow up in my face, so I go for the 2HKO.
Ok, I see Swampert; which is usually a very good sign for my team. It’s total set-up bait for Breloom, especially when it’s a lead, so I go ahead and make the switch, expecting Stealth Rock or *perhaps* Earthquake.
Quantumpencil switched in Breloom (lvl 100 Breloom ?).
Swampert used Earthquake.
It's not very effective...
Breloom lost 28% of its health.
Breloom was badly poisoned!
Hm. That could have gone better. I’m definitely not staying in now. Breloom can play with Swampert like a kid with a rag doll so I’m switching to my 100% sure-fire Breloom counter. The one...the only...
Went pretty well; I don’t usually sleep Swampert unless there is a particular need, as I like to wait to activate sleep clause later, so I decided to go ahead and sub up.
SkullCandi switched in Celebi (lvl 100 Celebi).
Breloom used Substitute.
Breloom lost 25% of its health.
Breloom made a substitute!
Breloom's Poison Heal restored health!Breloom restored 12% of its health.
Perish Song Celebi! Stop laughing. This baby is a complete beast. She hard counters Breloom, CroCune, Calm Mind Jirachi, Baton Pass teams (lol) as well as last-Pokémon set-up sweepers. I’m running the standard set of Grass Knot/Recover/U-Turn/Perish Song with a Physical spread so I feel pretty safe that Breloom won’t be touching my team. I go ahead and use Perish Song to force it out, bring Swampert back in and set up rocks.
He sends in a Celebi; at this point, I know this is going to be annoying, since Celebi resists both of my attacks; but hey, I have a sub up, so I’m under no offensive threat, and I saved my Spore right? Who better to use it on.
Celebi used Perish Song.
Both Pokemon will faint in 3 turn(s)
Breloom used Spore.
Celebi fell asleep!Celebi's perish count fell to 3!
Breloom's perish count fell to 3!
He decides to Spore. Can’t really see why... My best guess is that he wants to see how defensive my Celebi really is before formulating a plan for taking it out.
Well this is crap; Perish song Celebi... alright, it just means you’re going to have to predict around later, and put it to sleep before it gets a chance to sing you to death. I decide to go ahead and inflict some damage now, before I need to switch out, since my sub is still up.
Breloom is tightening its focus!
Celebi is fast asleep!
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It's not very effective...
Celebi lost 26% of its health.
Celebi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Celebi restored 6% of its health.
Celebi's perish count fell to 2!
Breloom's perish count fell to 2!
Yes Celebi! Show that overgrown shroom that even a lil’ pixie can take his punches, focused or not! On a serious note he’s probably going to switch out now but I decide to stay in to get a bit of Leftovers recovery, he hasn’t go Stealth Rock up so it should be okay.
A week hit, but I expected as much. Celebi is still asleep, so I decide to send in Heatran to force a switch, as I’m pretty sure he’ll bring Swampert back in to deal with it, thus giving me another go-around with Breloom.
Quantumpencil switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Celebi is fast asleep!
Celebi's perish count fell to 1!
I’m going to switch to Swampert now. I strongly doubt that he would predict the switch so early on and go for the Hidden Power [Grass] (or if he even has it) so I decide now is a good time to get those rocks up.
SkullCandi switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Heatran used Dragon Pulse.
Swampert lost 18% of its health.
Definitely a Scarf set. Probably Fire Blast/Earth Power/Explosion/Dragon Pulse. (Do any support sets run Dragon Pulse?)
Here comes Swampert; all is well at this point; so I go ahead and bring Breloom in.
Quantumpencil switched in Breloom (lvl 100 Breloom ?).
Swampert used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around the foe's team!
Good. I got rocks. Having seen half his team already I know that he isn’t too badly hit by Stealth Rock (or at all by Toxic Spikes, which is annoying) but I need to make sure Salamence can’t just come in for free. Now he’s got Breloom in again I’m going to switch to Celebi for another round of Master Chef: Onion vs. Mushroom.
He sets up rocks; which is fine, rocks don’t really hurt me too badly. I’m expecting a switch to Celebi the next turn, so I go ahead and use spore, hoping to put it out of business before it gets a chance to sing; I need to get pretty lucky, as I ideally need it to stay asleep for five turns or get a crit, but hey, I’m not really threatened, so why not.
SkullCandi switched in Celebi (lvl 100 Celebi).
Breloom used Spore.
Celebi fell asleep!
You know the drill. I sleep, wake up and Celebi goes for her X-Factor audition.
And there we go; everything worked according to plan.
Celebi is fast asleep!
Breloom used Substitute.
Breloom lost 25% of its health.
Breloom made a substitute!
Still not really worried; everything on my team handles Breloom well, apart from Swampert and Empoleon. So even if he does get a crit I can always rely on Rotom-H or Scizor to take him out.
I go ahead and sub up; on second thoughts, I probably should’ve used Focus Punch here; but I wasn’t sure if he’d stay in or switch, so it seemed safer.
Breloom is tightening its focus!
Celebi woke up!
Celebi used Perish Song.
Both Pokemon will faint in 3 turn(s)
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It's not very effective...
Celebi lost 26% of its health.
Celebi's perish count fell to 3!
Breloom's perish count fell to 3!
I get lucky with a one turn sleep. I go for the Perish Song again to force him out and rack up more damage for my eventual Empoleon sweep. Okay now I need to break that sub and start putting on some offensive pressure, so I U-Turn out of there.
Déjà vu? Oh well, whatever, I go for the Focus Punch
Breloom is tightening its focus!
Celebi used U-turn.
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Breloom!
Breloom's substitute faded!
SkullCandi switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Breloom used Focus Punch.
It doesn't affect Rotom-h...
Breloom's perish count fell to 2!
I got lucky again with that crit. But then again Rotom-H isn’t exactly threatened by Breloom so it didn’t matter in the long run. Here I’m going to go with the sub to start accumulating some boosts and maybe sweep. From what I’ve seen, his team is quite sub Rotom-H weak.
Rotom eh? This happens to be the way I always stop Breloom, Scizor/Rotom/Heatran, something breaks the sub (usually Scizor with U-Turn), Rotom comes in on the Focus Punch, threatens OHKO... alright, I can deal with that. He still hasn’t seen my Heatran, so I decide to go ahead to bring it in to absorb the Overheat; The only other option I’m considering for him at this point is Tricking me a scarf; which I don’t mind, since my Heatran’s Scarfed anyway.
Quantumpencil switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heatran.
Heatran lost 12% of its health.
Rotom-h used Substitute.
Rotom-h lost 25% of its health.
Rotom-h made a substitute!
Predictably, he brings in Heatran (an excellent Rotom-H counter for all you B/W players out there). Now I don’t want to get a Charge Beam boost for nothing so I go for the Hidden Power [Fighting] to get some solid damage, then I’ll switch to Tentacruel when he’s locked into Fire Blast to set up Toxic Spikes.
He uses Substitute.... alright, that’s not quite what I expected, but I can deal with it. I need to break his sub in order to threaten him, but I don’t want Heatran to take a big dent from Rotom’s Thunderbolt, as I’ve a feeling he’s going to be very important to me if I’m going to bring down that Celebi; so I decide to switch out, expecting a Thunderbolt, I send in Flygon.
Quantumpencil switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Rotom-h used Hidden Power.
Flygon lost 28% of its health.
He switches in Flygon. I can see that he wanted to intercept the Thunderbolt but I don’t actually run it. I’m going to hit it with Shadow Ball and then KO with Scizor when it’s locked into Outrage (what other attack is he going to use?)
At this point, I wasn’t quite sure what to do.... I didn’t have a good enough idea of the rest of my opponents team; were he not behind a sub, I would’ve given Earthquake some more consideration, since the standard Rotom can’t do much to Flygon; as it is though, I decide to go for Outrage to break his sub, and pull his steel out. I figured I’d probably be able to take the hit he dished out, even if it was Shadow Ball, hit his switch in, and then switch out, as today’s been a pretty good day for me luck wise.
Flygon used Outrage.
Flygon went on a rampage!
The substitute took damage for Rotom-h!
Rotom-h's substitute faded!
Rotom-h used Shadow Ball.
Flygon lost 48% of its health.
That did decent damage. Now I need to get out of there and go to the omnipresent locust that is Scizor.
Broke his sub; he used Shadow Ball, but that’s alright; I knew he wouldn’t stay in next turn, and I’d get to see which steel he was running.
SkullCandi switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Flygon used Outrage.
It's not very effective...
Scizor lost 25% of its health.
Scizor is in and ready for action. I get a lucky two turn Outrage, meaning that it’s ‘bye-bye’ fly-fly. I hate Bullet Punching early game but there’s not much else I can do, seen as Scizor is the only one who can take an Outrage comfortably.
Ah... Outrage did last three turns. Dammit -_-. Oh well, not a big deal. He’s gonna kill me with Bullet Punch, I’ll switch in one of my fires and force Scizor out, and probably get a bulky water on which Breloom can set up.
Scizor used Bullet Punch.
Flygon lost 18% of its health.
Quantumpencil's Flygon fainted.
SkullCandi: 6 Quantumpencil: 5
Quantumpencil switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Pointed stones dug into Heatran.
Heatran lost 12% of its health.
SkullCandi switched in Tentacruel (lvl 100 Tentacruel ?).
Heatran used Fire Blast.
Heatran's attack missed!
He brings Heatran in, and I switch to Tentacruel to take the blast. It misses but I doubt it would have done much anyway. I go ahead and get those all important Toxic Spikes down incase of Blissey (only later do I realise how fucking pointless this was!)
He switches to Tentacruel; Fire Blast missed but oh well; I’m sure he knows I’ll switch so he probably wasn’t going to go for a surf, so I could either bring in Rotom and threaten with Thunderbolt, or give operation Breloom another shot. I choose the latter.
Quantumpencil switched in Breloom (lvl 100 Breloom ?).
Pointed stones dug into Breloom.
Breloom lost 6% of its health.
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes.
Toxic Spikes were scattered around the foe's team!
(Tentacruel thought to himself as he chucked highly venomous barbs at his opponent’s team’s feet “Why don’t people ever just jump over the spikes? I mean what am I doing? Coating the whole field? I don’t think so. My own team would get killed. And for that matter why doesn’t Celebi get poisoned when she uses something like U-Turn? Surely she goes over to the other side to hit the Pokémon?”)
Toxic Spikes; Meh, I don’t care, they really don’t hamper my team at all, as they’re all immune. Surely, knowing I can’t KO him, he’ll try and get a second layer up, as he unfortunately doesn’t know how useless Toxic Spikes are against these Pokemon. I decide to attack. I’m sure he’ll switch in his Celebi soon, but this time I’ve got a plan; instead of trying to outstall it, I’m going to trap it and kill it with Scizor after Spore (Which I should’ve done to begin with, but eh, Hindsight is 20/20)
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes.
Toxic Spikes were scattered around the foe's team!
Breloom used Seed Bomb.
Tentacruel lost 49% of its health.
OK now I need to get out. Two more hits and I’m toast. I switch to Celebi to wall his Breloom again.
Ok, two layers of Spikes are up... this would be the most logical time to switch. I go ahead and use Spore.
SkullCandi switched in Celebi (lvl 100 Celebi).
Breloom used Spore.
Celebi fell asleep!
Celebi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Celebi restored 6% of its health.
Breloom's Poison Heal restored health!
Blah blah blah Perish Song blah blah blah Spore blah blah blah Substititute blah blah blah Focus Punch.
And out comes Celebi! Life is good. I go ahead and switch in Scizor.
Quantumpencil switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Pointed stones dug into Scizor.
Scizor lost 12% of its health.
Celebi is fast asleep!
Fuck. That’s what happens when you get lazy kids! I am in trouble here. His Scizor can Pursuit for heavy damage or U-Turn to scout. Either way, I’m going to Empoleon now. U-Turn won’t hurt too much (it does 33.7% - 39.4%) and I can start sweeping with that sweet, sweet Petaya boost.
Scizor used Pursuit.
It's super effective!
Celebi lost 56% of its health.
SkullCandi switched in Empoleon (lvl 100 Empoleon ?).
I’m actually glad he Pursued me. I still have enough bulk to take a Focus Punch without rocks and Empoleon can easily set up on Scizor’s Pursuit.
Wow, bulky Celebi is bulky. One more iteration though, and I could have him. Plus he’s much weaker now, so if I can predict and spore once more, it’s much more feasible for me to beat him with Breloom. He brings out Empoleon; obviously I’m not staying in, I send in Rotom to take whatever and threaten back with Thunderbolt.
Go you gorgeous penguin, go!
Quantumpencil switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Pointed stones dug into Rotom-h.
Rotom-h lost 12% of its health.
Empoleon used Substitute.
Empoleon lost 25% of its health.
Empoleon made a substitute!
Now I have a sub up I’m going to use Agility and then keep subbing until Torrent and Petaya kick in.
He subbed... him. Probably Agility Sub-Petaya Empy. I hate these. Well, the sub has to be broken, so I go ahead and use Thunderbolt; seeing no better options, as switching to Flygon on the Agility would not be a good idea.
Rotom-h used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
The substitute took damage for Empoleon!
Empoleon's substitute faded!
Empoleon used Agility.
Empoleon's speed was sharply raised.
(Yes that is a trident on my face. Who are you to talk? What are you anyway? The illegitimate offspring of a Poltergeist DVD raping a Transformers DVD?)
Ok.... I’m still not too threatened. Unfortunately, my team has issues with this poke; at this point I’m trying to get it weak enough that I can kill it with Metagross and Scizor’s Priority moves, so the Thunderbolt-Sub war continues.
Empoleon used Substitute.
Empoleon lost 25% of its health.
Empoleon made a substitute!
Rotom-h used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Empoleon!
Empoleon's substitute faded!
At this point I’m thinking “I’ve won.” There was nothing on his team that could kill me and a +1 Surf or Ice Beam annihilated everything he had to offer. All I need is for Empoleon to survive 2 Bullet Punches and it’s gg.
More Thunderbolt sub.
