http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou11328073
In this battle on the OU ladder, when Landorus wasn't banned, XVII and Cyborg 2.2 (Me) have a short (less than 25 turns) but intense battle.
Cyborg 2.2 use a rain offense team composed with powerful mid game sweepers like keldeo and latios alongside two late game sweeper with great synergy in the name of thundurus-t and toxicroak. Politoed is here for the rain and ferrothorn for the entry hazard and the defensive backbone.
XVII use a stall team with the FWG core of Heatran-Amoonguss-Starmie, with hippowdon in order to have a physical wall while providing sand. Stoutland is his late game sweeper, and landorus, well, I didn't know, he didn't do anything on this game ^^
Some mindgame and surprise will appear on this game, that's why it is an pleasant battle.
Turn 3, XVII makes a great play and goes for Toxic to nail the Politoed switch. This is going to help him win the weather war a lot.
Turn 4, Cyborg 2.2 makes a great play and switches to Latios, as this was a win/win situation (XVII was either going to Protect, or go to Amoonguss).
Turn 7, Cyborg 2.2 over predicts and goes for a Draco Meteor on the Heatran. Latios did a lot of work to XVII's team, so letting it take so much Toxic + LO recoil I think was a general bad play, but Cyborg 2.2 can still easily win without Latios, so maybe he didn't care too much for it.
Turn 11, I think this is an over predict, mainly because Psyshock does OHKO, but again, it wasn't really a bad play, he just wanted to hit everything for nice damage, and the risk of Starmie coming in on a Psyshock for little damage was too risky.
Okay, so at
turn 13, both players have one Pokemon down each, and both have SR. XVII is currently winning the weather war, and has status'd a lot more Pokemon in exchange for a low health Heatran. I'd say it's about even here so far, but my money is going with Cyborg 2.2 since the only thing XVII as to take hits from Keldeo is Starmie, after he let Amoonguss get KOd.
Turn 15, XVII over predicts hard here, allowing Cyborg 2.2 to get a free layer of Toxic Spikes. I generally think this was a bad play, as even if he did predict correctly to hit Politoed, it still wasn't doing too much.
Turn 17, Cyborg 2.2 makes a nice play and predicts the Protect, bringing Toxicroak in safely.
Turn 20, Cyborg 2.2 reveals the Normal Gem Explosion on Ferothorn, taking out Landorus-I!
Turn 22, although I don't think it matters too much, XVII makes a misplay of bringing Hippowdon in first, as Stoutland can easily revenge kill Keldeo. Turn 24, Keldeo finishes Stoutland off with a Secret Sword, GG.
Game analysis
So, I really liked this game, as it involved quite a lot of prediction, as well as a cool Normal Gem Ferrothorn, which took out a big threat very nicely. I think XVII may have played a bit predictable, but Cyborg 2.2 took advantage of this very nicely. Good game!