International Wi-Fi Tournament - Autumn Friendly [OVER - Rankings Released Nov. 1st]

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Yeah, also fought that said Daniel this day when he had like 2057 points so I believe it's him. I also believe that guy to be Daniel Oakes aka danielacorn on various VGC servers. I'm pretty sure because of his style of battling and his behavior when he gets beaten on both PO and on this here tournament. Of course, if that Daniel isn't the Daniel I know the following just goes to whoever this guy is because sincerely, I don't care about him.

Daniel, if you even bother reading this:
Please, please, prettyplease don't think winning this charade will get you respect as a VGC battler when all you're able to do is abusing the system and disconnecting if you're about to lose.

Well, needed to get this off my chest.
I have stopped playing now, my final rating being 1939. Yay for year of beginning of WWII rating :pimp:

My team:

Thundurus @ Charti Berry
Bulky EV spread (BlueCookies's spread with minor changes)
- Thunderbolt
- HP Ice
- Thunder Wave
- Substitute

Amoonguss @ Coba Berry
Again some bulky EV spread with like 52 speed on it too
- Giga Drain
- Spore
- Rage Powder
- Protect

Tornadus @ Flying Gem
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe, jolly
- Acrobatics
- Tailwind
- Taunt
- Protect

Terrakion @ Chople Berry
212 HP / 252 Atk / 44 Speed, adamant
- Rock Slide
- Sacred Sword
- Quick Attack
- Protect

Jellicent @ Water Gem
4 HP / 252 SpAtk / 252 Speed, modest
- Water Spout
- Ice Beam
- Shadow Ball
- Protect

Hydreigon @ Dark Gem
uh I think it was 140 HP / 252 SpAtk / 116 Speed, modest
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Flamethrower
- Protect

Explanations:
Tailwind with Terrakion / Tornadus / Jellicent / Hydreigon was just the foolproof way to roll all over noobs or even (half-)decent players for that matter. I usually pick those 4 against opposing Tailwind teams but I have also used Amoonguss or Thundurus if the opposing team of 6 gave the opportunity to board these into my team. Against Tailwind I usually let them set up and proceed to induce my own Tailwind 2 or 3 turns after they induced theirs. There's really not that much strategy behind it other than to just damage rushing them and playing intelligently.
Then there's good teams where Tailwind isn't an option and this is where Amoonguss and Thundurus came in really handy as utility Pokémon against those players. Winning plans were improvised most of the time which is why basically the whole team consists of 6 MVPs.
Heavy Trick Room is usually my easiest match up with me just picking Amoonguss + Hydreigon and Jellicent + Tornadus in the back. I think the majority of you knows how this works out, if not, just ask for it and I can edit this post if you're interested in it.
 
The game does a lot of saving, including when you sign off... You'd think they'd be keeping track of who disconnects without closing off properly? Random disconnects do happen, but they shouldn't penalize both players when one ragequits.

I'm just derping around for fun with my in-game team that I turned into a makeshift trick room. I just beat a 1920 player fair and square (I had one crit but I would have won without it) and they d/c'd at the very last second. (As one example of many, many, many d/cs I've had in the last 80 matches). :/
 
I don't think I'll have chance to play any more today. I think my rating is 1730-something, which is not the highest it's been but oh well.

My team, if anyone is interested:

Terrakion @ Choice Scarf
252 Attack / 252 Speed / 6 HP - Adamant
-Close Combat
-Rock Slide
-Earthquake
-X-Scissor

Eelektross @ Flight Gem
252 HP / 252 Attack / 6 Defence - Adamant
-Wild Charge
-Crunch
-Rock Slide
-Acrobatics

Reuniclus @ Life Orb
252 HP / 252 Sp Attack / 6 Defence (Speed IV = 0) - Quiet
-Psychic
-Focus Blast
-Shadow Ball
-Trick Room

Amoonguss @ Coba Berry
252 HP / 252 Sp Defence / 6 Defence - Calm
-Giga Drain
-Spore
-Rage Powder
-Protect

Hydreigon @ Chople Berry
252 Sp Attack / 252 Speed / 6 HP - Modest
-Draco Meteor
-Dark Pulse
-Fire Blast
-U-turn

Mienshao @ Focus Sash
252 Attack / 252 Speed / 6 HP - Jolly
-Drain Punch
-Rock Slide
-Fake Out
-Taunt

...probably the least amount of Protect users in here, hahaha.
 
I played about a hundred matches with 9 losses and had a total of 6 or 7 disconnects and finished at somewhere around 1850. I had a lot of fun with my team and I kind of wished I had used this team for VGC11 instead of the team that I did use.

Cincinno @ Focus Sash
-Bullet Seed
-Rock Blast
-Encore
-Protect

Carracosta @ Starf Berry
-Shell Smash
-Rock Slide
-Waterfall
-Protect

Accelgor @ Bug Gem
-Bug Buzz
-Final Gambit
-Encore
-Protect

Conkeldurr @ Leftovers
-Bulk Up
-Mach Punch
-Drain Punch
-Payback

Mandibuzz @ Sitrus Berry
-Toxic
-Roost
-Brave Bird
-Tailwind

Amoonguss @ Black Sludge
-Rage Powder
-Spore
-Substitute
-Giga Drain

I had a lot of fun! My MVP was definitely Accelgor. I realize that the team has a lot of weaknesses but with Bug Buzz/Final Gambit, Accelgor effectively trades itself for the biggest threat on the other team. This paves the way for an easy Cincinno/Carracosta clean up. The way this team was designed never nets me blowout victories, but that kept it fun. Playing down 1 or 2 Pokemon at the beginning of the match made me play for the comeback even against less competitive teams.
 
aqualta said:
Oh. My. Word.

gg Greysong...no, scratch that, super mega awesome amazing 22-minute epic hax-free (iirc) game that has to go down as the best battle I've ever played.

Thank you so much for a great match. (And ty for not dc'ing =] ) 77-63332-77046
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Yep! Good game! No shed skin was starting to screw with me towards the end of the battle. xD That had to have been the longest match I've had this tournament. lol Good game again! :)
 
You shoul check better your team members, because a while ago I battled against "PUGalactico - Aioros from Mexico", and it was indeed a tough battle, in which I was going to win. And at the last moment, when it was the final attack, this guy turned off his DS to avoid to lose his points. If this is the way Smogon plays, well it is a shame. This kind of people is making you to look worse before the world's eyes.
Bass from Perú.
 
BassExe said:
You shoul check better your team members, because a while ago I battled against "PUGalactico - Aioros from Mexico", and it was indeed a tough battle, in which I was going to win. And at the last moment, when it was the final attack, this guy turned off his DS to avoid to lose his points. If this is the way Smogon plays, well it is a shame. This kind of people is making you to look worse before the world's eyes.
Bass from Perú.
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If you would have looked around the forum, you would realize that the entirety of this forum is just as frustrated with disconnectors as you are.
 
Yeah, what a coincidence for ALL of them to disconnect at the last moment, it is really obvious that they turn off their DS to avoid the lose of points. What is really frustrating me is that he was one of Smogon's participants. Well, I just wanted to inform you about your participant, good luck in everything :)
 
BassExe said:
Yeah, what a coincidence for ALL of them to disconnect at the last moment, it is really obvious that they turn off their DS to avoid the lose of points. What is really frustrating me is that he was one of Smogon's participants. Well, I just wanted to inform you about your participant, good luck in everything :)
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yeah we were aware that he was disconnecting, as he has d/c'd on many of our own players here
 
BassExe said:
Yeah, what a coincidence for ALL of them to disconnect at the last moment, it is really obvious that they turn off their DS to avoid the lose of points. What is really frustrating me is that he was one of Smogon's participants. Well, I just wanted to inform you about your participant, good luck in everything :)
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The very reason I gave up. I got around 12 DCs yesterday. (I'm not kidding.) And only won 5 matches and lost 2.

I'm just satisfied I helped someone get himself all the way to 20xx.
 
Ok, I'm almost to the point of raging hard enough to get banned from every corner of the internet, WHY DOES EVERY %/&%$$ THAT HAS MORE THAN 1800 POINTS USES ALL 3 GENIES, LOSES MISERABLY TO AN EXTREMELY OBVIOUS TAILWIND SWEEP AND THEN DISCONNECTS BEFORE THE LAST OF THEIR LAMP DWELLER /&/(%/# DIES??!!?
/Imadbro

Seriously, it's impossible to break 1800 unless you bear with a thousand disconnects, every time I lose I have to deal with 20 points or so lost and every time I win I have to deal with an aqua-colored screen of death.

I hope trollfreak finds a way to deal with these assholes soon. Though for me, I'm stopping at 1724, I don't have the patience nor the time to do 100 battles where 78 are disconnects.

Edit: Yeah, Scarf Hydreigon with Draco Meteor is everywhere.
 
Wish I could have had just one more win to get into the 1600's (at 1594 w 8W/2L) but when the tournament falls apart, the tournament falls apart. It was a fun experience while it still functioned for me and I hope they run more tournaments.
 
Jackos said:
Ok, I'm almost to the point of raging hard enough to get banned from every corner of the internet, WHY DOES EVERY %/&%$$ THAT HAS MORE THAN 1800 POINTS USES ALL 3 GENIES, LOSES MISERABLY TO AN EXTREMELY OBVIOUS TAILWIND SWEEP AND THEN DISCONNECTS BEFORE THE LAST OF THEIR LAMP DWELLER /&/(%/# DIES??!!?
/Imadbro

Seriously, it's impossible to break 1800 unless you bear with a thousand disconnects, every time I lose I have to deal with 20 points or so lost and every time I win I have to deal with an aqua-colored screen of death.

I hope trollfreak finds a way to deal with these assholes soon. Though for me, I'm stopping at 1724, I don't have the patience nor the time to do 100 battles where 78 are disconnects.

Edit: Yeah, Scarf Hydreigon with Draco Meteor is everywhere.
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ikr? I just had a pretty epic match with this one person. I seriously thought I was going to lose at the end, but you'd have to see it to believe it. No DCing, even though I could've sworn she would after I hit with my last Sucker Punch. GG! 55-41110-55816

I also have an epic battle with Cybertron, but I've been asked not to show it until the tourney is done.
 
Jackos said:
Ok, I'm almost to the point of raging hard enough to get banned from every corner of the internet, WHY DOES EVERY %/&%$$ THAT HAS MORE THAN 1800 POINTS USES ALL 3 GENIES, LOSES MISERABLY TO AN EXTREMELY OBVIOUS TAILWIND SWEEP AND THEN DISCONNECTS BEFORE THE LAST OF THEIR LAMP DWELLER /&/(%/# DIES??!!?
/Imadbro

Seriously, it's impossible to break 1800 unless you bear with a thousand disconnects, every time I lose I have to deal with 20 points or so lost and every time I win I have to deal with an aqua-colored screen of death.

I hope trollfreak finds a way to deal with these assholes soon. Though for me, I'm stopping at 1724, I don't have the patience nor the time to do 100 battles where 78 are disconnects.

Edit: Yeah, Scarf Hydreigon with Draco Meteor is everywhere.
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I had the exact same problem with is why I stopped at 1700 exactly.
And I have a scarfed Hydreigon to it's awsome.
 
Lol just saying, in case anyone doesn't know, Shiro* is actually the default name given to someone playing on black version with a name that's censored for some reason. Like if it's swearing or something. So there are actually loads of Shiro*s.

Cause on my brother's white version his name's Weedle, but it gets turned into Kuro* when you play him on the random wifi. Not sure if that's the "wee" part of his name (lol) or the fact it's a pokémon's name. Pretty weird though, cause as a lot of you will know shiro and kuro are Japanese for white and black, and the wrong colour gets used as the name.

Also drugduck, sick team that is exactly the best kind of thing for VGC 2011. A little different to my preferences but, good team I like <3.
 
Well as thee time draws near, all I can say is congrats in advance to the true and honest winner(s) of the autumn friendly.

I wished I had more time to play, out of 18 games I played, around 7 losses and 9 wins and 2 DC's

My 'last moment'team (which I'm proud of despite not thinking too deeply in terms of synergy)

Excavalier @ Quick Claw
-X-Scissor
-Iron Head
-Sword Dance
- Cross Poison

Eelecktross @ Leftovers
-Flamethrower
-T-bolt
-Grass knot
-Acid spray

Landorus @ Soft sand ( don't ask, I had no crucial items and not enough BP)
-Earthquake
-Sword Dance
-U-Turn
-Stone Edge

Golurk @ Ghost gem (my personal favourite poke-player of the team\0
-Shadow Punch
-Protect
-Hammer Arm
-Earthquake

Cobalion @ Fighting gem
-Thunderwave
-Sword Dance
-Iron Head
-Sacred Sword

Volcarona @ Silverpowder
-Butterfly Dance
-Flamethrower
-Psychic
-Bug Buzz


AZ
 
Things are wrapping up, and I'm definitely not going to be getting in any last-minute matches. So, here goes my team as well:

Amoonguss @ Black Sludge
"Bella"
- Giga Drain
- Rage Powder
- Synthesis
- Spore

Reuniclus @ Life Orb
"Jellybuddy"
- Shadow Ball
- Psychic
- Protect
- Trick Room

Conkeldurr @ Flame Orb
"Punchinelo" (Mario RPG, anyone? No?)
- Protect
- Rock Slide
- Mach Punch
- Drain Punch

Krookodile @ Ground Gem
"Ada" (Bitch in the red dress. Well, red skin, but whatever.)
- Stone Edge
- Bulk Up
- Crunch
- Earthquake

Whimsicott @ Mental Herb
"Fergison" (Uh. A friend and I worked on identical teams, and our Whimsicotts were Plessy and Fergison for reasons I'm sure we thought were hilarious at the time?)
- Substitute
- Worry Seed
- Encore
- Taunt

Vanilluxe @ Choice Scarf
"Sorbet"
- Ice Beam
- Flash Cannon
- Frost Breath
- Uproar

Yeah, I know, that's pretty much your basic Trick Room team. Except almost literally everyone had the reaction of, 'Oh God, Vanilluxe, if I send out anything Ice weak and he predicts that, it'll obliterate me." And they were right. Plus, it made a great cleaner for after Trick Room ran out. Everything was almost down by then anyway.

Additionally, Whimsicott hardly saw any use, and Krookodile saw literally none. In fact, Krookodile was never made for this tournament, I swapped him out for the Volcarona that originally had its place. Volcarona never saw much use in the actual VGC, so I decided to try something different. Considering I never used Krookodile, but never really missed having Volcarona, it doesn't really matter too much overall.

For the sake of interest, the Volcarona was this:

Volcarona @ Focus Sash
"Caldera"
- Fiery Dance
- Quiver Dance
- Bug Buzz
- Psychic

Eeyup. Nice tournament, all. It was fun being here. Maybe I'll hang around and have a few matches here and there.
 
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