Brock's Song *warstory*

[umbarsc]

This is Brock here. I'm about to bring you a battle of mine, from about a month ago, taking place in a place called Shoddy. After constantly tagging along Ash for seasons, making sure he brushed his teeth and kept his fork out of the toaster, I was going crazy. So I loaded up my best Pokes, training and evolving a few, and went to make my battling debut!

Here is my battle against someone named Dark Android. It was a pretty short battle, but you can see why from his team.


Brock's (Blaziken's) Team:

-Crobat
-Blissey
-Swampert
-Toxicroak
-Forretress
-Ninetales

Dark Android's Team:

-Azelf
-Gyarados
-Gengar
-Bronzong
-Garchomp
-Electivire

His team is very offensive. VERY offensive. (Note: Both teams are listed by order of appearence)

Rules: Evasion Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Sleep Clause

Dark Android sent out Azelf (“Naruto”).
Blaziken_57 sent out Crobat.

An excellent match-up for me. Since I'm not entirely sure that Choice Banded Brave Bird will kill, I'll U-Turn the heck outta here, which actually really dents fragile Psychic- and Dark-types.

Crobat used U-turn.
It's super effective!
(84% Damage)
Blaziken_57 switched in Blissey.
Azelf used Psychic.
(22% Damage)
Azelf lost 10% from Life Orb.
Blissey's leftovers restored HP.

I'm glad it was holding a Life Orb, meaning that it had just one turn left in it before it snuffed it. Looking back, Softboiled should have been the smartest move, but for whatever reason I thought it would switch, and I used Thunder Wave. Azelf stayed in to smack Bliss with a Critical Hit Psychic, causing 47% damage and killing itself in the process, and I Thunder Wave'd thin air. Blissey was left with 43%. 5-6 Blaziken

Dark Android switched in Gyarados ("Scary d00d").
Gyarados's intimidate cut Blissey's attack!
Blaziken_57 switched in Swampert.
Gyarados used Taunt.

Swampert didn’t mind Taunt, as it lacked Roar anyways. The downside, however, was that it also lacked Stone Edge, or anything that could immediately threaten Gyara, for that matter. This was not looking good, as my team lacked any solid Gyara counter, which is a major drawback to running theme teams.

Gyarados used Dragon Dance.
Gyarados's attack rose.
Gyarados's speed rose.
Swampert used Avalanche.
A critical hit!
(26% Damage)
Gyarados's leftovers restored HP.

I got lucky, but that Avalanche did so little that it hardly matters. Since I have nothing that can really switch into and threaten Gyarados, I'll wear it out with Avalanches so Sucker Punch from Toxicroak KOs.

After several turns of Dragon Dancing and Avalanches, Gyarados was at +6 Att and +6 Speed, and had around 40% of its health.

Gyarados used Waterfall.
(99% Damage)
Swampert flinched!

GAH! Bad time for flinch hax. Basically Gyarados gets free Leftovers recovery. A full power Avalanche does like 25% to Gyarados, so that would have helped a lot. Oh well. At this point I assume I can kill it with Toxicroak to hopefully sweep.

Gyarados used Ice Fang.
(1% Damage)
Blaziken_57's Swampert fainted.
Gyarados's leftovers restored HP.
Blaziken_57 switched in Toxicroak.

5-5

Toxicroak is a pretty obscure threat, I hope he doesn't know about Dry Skin so I can get two Swords Dances.

Gyarados used Ice Fang.
(99% Damage)
Toxicroak hung on using its Focus Sash!
Toxicroak used Swords Dance.
Toxicroak's attack was sharply raised.
Gyarados's leftovers restored HP.

I guess he did, but I got a SD anyways. At this point I still assume I can finish it off with one Swords Dance-boosted Sucker Punch. I was about to see how bulky Gyarados can be.

Toxicroak used Sucker Punch.
(45% Damage... SHIT...)
Gyarados used Ice Fang.
A critical hit! (lol)
Toxicroak lost 1% of its health.
Blaziken_57's Toxicroak fainted.
Gyarados's leftovers restored HP.
Blaziken_57 switched in Forretress.

5-4 Dark Android

Dammit! I always assumed that Gyarados was pretty frail without Intimidate first. Now I have to sacrifice my Forretress to Explode. This is a tip kids, never leave home without a Gyarados counter even on theme teams. Just stick HP Electric on something if you have to! (Which I did right after the battle)

Gyarados used Waterfall.
(88% Damage)
Forretress used Explosion.
(12% Damage)
Dark Android's Gyarados fainted.
Blaziken_57's Forretress fainted.
Dark Android switched in Gengar ("Spookshire").
Blaziken_57 switched in Crobat.

4-3 Dark Android

Thank god he didn't switch to Gengar to take the Explosion. Since he probably knows I'm Choice Banded, I bet he'll switch.

Crobat used Pursuit.
It's super effective!
(65% Damage)
Gengar used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
(82% Damage)
Gengar's Black Sludge restored HP.

Nope, I guess not. Damn, Brave Bird would have had a decent shot of OHKO'ing it. Oh well, Crobat's 85/80/80 defenses saved the day.

Crobat used Pursuit.
It's super effective!
(41% Damage)
Dark Android's Gengar fainted.
Dark Android switched in Bronzong ("The John").

3-3

Oh come on, he's not a freakin' toilet. Anyways, I'm locked into Pursuit, so fearing Hypnosis, I turn to my only reasonable status-absorber.

Blaziken_57 switched in Blissey.
Bronzong used Gyro Ball.
(26% Damage)
Blissey's leftovers restored HP.

Despite 10 Base Defense, Blissey can take physical hits reasonably well. Thunder Wave is obvious, so I'll just heal a little HP and see who he brings out. I thought that rather casually, but what he brought out scared the hell out of me.

Dark Android switched in Garchomp ("Checkmate").
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 50% of its health.
Blissey's leftovers restored HP.

Yikes! Both my Garchomp counters are dead, so his nickname seemed quite appropriate. PLEASE be a Swords Dancer!

Garchomp used Swords Dance.
Garchomp's attack was sharply raised.
Blissey used Ice Beam.
It's super effective!
(88% Damage)
Blissey's leftovers restored HP.

YES, I can't believe that worked out. If it was a Choice Bander, no one else on my team could have killed it before it destroyed me with Outrage, and if it were a Scarfer, I'd only get one Ice Beam against it before it swept me. Now I can sacrifice Blissey to kill it off with Crobat. 3-2 Dark Android I should note that it took Life Orb recoil so it wasn't staying around long anyways.

I think he's going to switch, so I'll U-Turn.

Crobat used U-turn.
(27% Damage)
Dark Android's Garchomp fainted.
Blaziken_57 switched in Ninetales.
Dark Android switched in Electivire ("Yellow Sub")

2-2

I run a double-status Ninetails, and I'm max speed Timid, so unless this is one of those rare Scarf 'Vires (which would actually destroy me), I can Will-o-wisp it before it can kill me with EQ.

Ninetales used Will-o-wisp.
Electivire was burned!
Electivire used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
(67% Damage)
Ninetales's leftovers restored HP.
Electivire was hurt by its burn.

Now it's time for Crobat's re-appearance.

Blaziken_57 switched in Crobat.
Electivire used Earthquake.
It doesn't affect Crobat...
Electivire was hurt by its burn.

He's switching to Bronzong so I'm U-Turning to Ninetails.

Dark Android switched in Bronzong.
Crobat used U-turn.
(23% Damage)
Blaziken_57 switched in Ninetales.
Ninetales's leftovers restored HP.
Bronzong's leftovers restored HP

Can a max SpAtt Flamethrower be enough to OHKO? I hope so, but I'm not too sure. I hope it's not Heatproof.

Ninetales used Flamethrower.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
(100% Damage)
Dark Android's Bronzong fainted.
Ninetales's leftovers restored HP.
Dark Android switched in Electivire.

1-2 Blaziken

That was lucky. Steel-types utterly wall my Crobat, so I'm glad my Ninetales put it away. Now victory is assured.

Ninetales used Flamethrower.
(56% Damage)
Electivire used Thunderbolt.
(40% Damage)
Ninetales's leftovers restored HP.
Electivire was hurt by its burn.

Heh I guess he predicted another Crobat switch. Time to finish him off with a...

OH SHIT PLOT TWIST

Dark Android has left the room.
Blaziken_57 wins!

Wow. >.>

Props:
-Swampert and Forry for taking +6 hits from Gyarados O.O
-Ninetales for burning 'Vire and killing Bronzong
-Crobat for killing Gengar and Garchomp, and U-Turning stuff
-Blissey for walling Azelf and crippling Garchomp
-Roy the moderator for approving this warstory!

Slops:
-My opponent for D/C'ing without a GG or whatever
-Me for my "plot twist" I 'borrowed' from one of Firestorm's warstories
-Gyarados for running through my team and flinch-haxing my Swampert
-Toxicroak for not quite killing Gyara
-On an unrelated note I recently saw Indiana Jones and it was a good movie, but the ending was too gruesome, I mean come on, the guy's friggen head explodes

Morals:
-Study Smogon, learn more about BL and UU Pokemon such as Toxicroak, it could save your Gyarados one day
-Whoever says "Gyara 6-0's you with one DD" never carried a Forretress with them
-Never leave home without a Gyara counter, or else it will run through your team
-Theme teams can work, dammit!

 

[rokuta]

nice battle, but I missed the episode where Brock caught a blissey. Other than that, I was suprised you could make a workable team. This kind of reminds me of the Shiney Oddish and Ash theme warstories... anyway, good job.

 

[zeige]

What if a ditto Brock caught in his dreams came to life and permenately transformed into Blissey?

k

Nice war story.

Another Moral:
Never Earthquake someone who used Crobat and has Ninetails out. Just no.

 

[umbarsc]

He got a Happiny. He evolved it into Blissey. In fact, the reason I first thought of using a Brock-themed team was when I realized he was just about the only character in the anime not including the nurses that had one. =P

 

[tdub13]

nice battle, but I missed the episode where Brock caught a blissey. Other than that, I was suprised you could make a workable team. This kind of reminds me of the Shiney Oddish and Ash theme warstories... anyway, good job.

doesn't brock have a happiny? nice battle btw

edit: beaten...

 

[zeige]

Oh try a security type team next

Blissey, Arcanine, and someothers used by the Police and Rangers and Nurses.

xD.

Or a May team?

 

[umbarsc]

Oh try a security type team next

Blissey, Arcanine, and someothers used by the Police and Rangers and Nurses.

xD.

Or a May team?

I actually considered it. Blaziken (which is the only reason I would use a May team), Beautifly (SPECS Bug Buzz ftw!), Delcatty (Thunder Wave'ing ground-types is priceless), Blastoise (full of win, spinner), Venosaur (also full of win, annoyer), and Espeon (it seems like what Eevee's going to evolve to). Awesome.

 

[Bologo]

Heh, awesome warstory, I don't usually post comments for warstories, but this one was actually quite cool. Brock is an awesome character, and you used some solid prediction in this battle.

Good job on stopping the Gyarados when it had 6 dragon dances, heh Forretress is awesome.

I honestly never realized how awesome Crobat was, what an awesome revenge killer. Plus, you're right, the 85/80/80 defenses are actually very nice on something with such good offensive capabilities as well.

Heh, I'll admit, you were quite lucky with Ninetales OHKOing Bronzong since 76 base special attack isn't awfully high without a Nasty Plot since most Bronzong's run lots of special defense, but it did the job.

Overall, awesome job on beating a completely standard team with 3 UU/BL pokemon on your team with Brock's theme. He really needs to start battling more in the show though...

It is a pity that your opponent couldn't take the loss and left, but oh well, for what was shown, it was pretty awesome.

Awesome job. I loved how you put more than one line of commentary for each round and didn't show the unimportant turns, that's something I need to start doing for my warstories.

:]

 

[CasMat]

nice battle, but I missed the episode where Brock caught a blissey. Other than that, I was suprised you could make a workable team. This kind of reminds me of the Shiney Oddish and Ash theme warstories... anyway, good job.

he catches a happiny or something.. I'm not sure... I'm surprised you didn't go for steelix, but then I see that it'd give you three ground weaks... nice theme team. BTW what did you put HP Electric on?... I'm having trouble seeing who it would go on...

 

[umbarsc]

he catches a happiny or something.. I'm not sure... I'm surprised you didn't go for steelix, but then I see that it'd give you three ground weaks... nice theme team. BTW what did you put HP Electric on?... I'm having trouble seeing who it would go on...

Swampert. I turned it into a mixpert with HP electric where Ice Beam normally goes.

 

[TaiwaneseDude]

That was a really great match, and yuo dominated as "Brock."

This makes me want to do a "Misty" shoddy team, hahaha. :D

Great match and great read; congrats on the win, well-dseerved.

 

[umbarsc]

Heh, awesome warstory, I don't usually post comments for warstories, but this one was actually quite cool. Brock is an awesome character, and you used some solid prediction in this battle.

Good job on stopping the Gyarados when it had 6 dragon dances, heh Forretress is awesome.

I honestly never realized how awesome Crobat was, what an awesome revenge killer. Plus, you're right, the 85/80/80 defenses are actually very nice on something with such good offensive capabilities as well.

Heh, I'll admit, you were quite lucky with Ninetales OHKOing Bronzong since 76 base special attack isn't awfully high without a Nasty Plot since most Bronzong's run lots of special defense, but it did the job.

Overall, awesome job on beating a completely standard team with 3 UU/BL pokemon on your team with Brock's theme. He really needs to start battling more in the show though...

It is a pity that your opponent couldn't take the loss and left, but oh well, for what was shown, it was pretty awesome.

Awesome job. I loved how you put more than one line of commentary for each round and didn't show the unimportant turns, that's something I need to start doing for my warstories.

:]

Crobat really is, quite simply awesome. He makes for an awesome lead with the ability to OHKO Weavile with CB U-Turn, he spites Ambipom with Inner Focus, he can Hypnosis or Taunt set-up starters like Swampert, he obviously handles Infernape well, etc. He has a lot of variety too, with bulky sleep-inducer, Nasty Plot, and CB sets. Hr can also trap things with Mean Look + Hypnosis + U-turn to set up stuff like Bellyzard. In short, <3 the Crobat.

Thanks for the comments, I'm glad you liked it. =]

 

[sarunibi]

Nice. I was really expecting a Golem, Steelix, or Sudowoodo to represent Brock though since he is "technically" a former rock gym leader.

But I like your style of the warstory. Simple and to the point. Your warstory also shows that it doesn't matter if a poke is OU/UU/BL, if the team has unity, then they can work together.

 

[Chou Toshio]

What? No Steelicks? Even if he left it at home (along with crobat mind you) Brock without Steelicks = -_-

If I wanted to just pick the most possible OU pokemon Ash had available to him, my theme team would have looked different (and not contained pikachu . . . >_>).

Still props on brock team. I still feel like you got damn lucky in some places and Gyarados wiped through way more than it should have, especially considering how well you started the battle off.

Also depending on someone not knowing about dry skin is just dumb. Always assume your opponent knows at least the pokedex entry. Assuming such a high level of stupidity on the opponent's part is stupidity on your part.

 

[umbarsc]

Nice. I was really expecting a Golem, Steelix, or Sudowoodo to represent Brock though since he is "technically" a former rock gym leader.

But I like your style of the warstory. Simple and to the point. Your warstory also shows that it doesn't matter if a poke is OU/UU/BL, if the team has unity, then they can work together.

I considered them, but decided that Forretress would be better. I really don't need another Earthquake weak lol.

 

[umbarsc]

What? No Steelicks? Even if he left it at home (along with crobat mind you) Brock without Steelicks = -_-

If I wanted to just pick the most possible OU pokemon Ash had available to him, my theme team would have looked different (and not contained pikachu . . . >_>).

Still props on brock team. I still feel like you got damn lucky in some places and Gyarados wiped through way more than it should have, especially considering how well you started the battle off.

Also depending on someone not knowing about dry skin is just dumb. Always assume your opponent knows at least the pokedex entry. Assuming such a high level of stupidity on the opponent's part is stupidity on your part.

I didn't rely on him not knowing. It would have been helpful, but at that point I still assumed that one SD Sucker Punch would have KO'd. And it would have, had flinch-hax not acted on my Swampert.

And Brock gave Forrest Steelix. He also gave him Crobat, but Forrest loved the Steelix especially.

 

[Chou Toshio]

. . . There's ludicolo to cover earthquake weak, and toxicroak or swamp would also benefit . . . >_>

edit: Especially? That makes for a difference in how you pick pokes for a theme team? Whether the one brock gave it to especially likes it or not? And If I recall correctly, he also gave ninetales back as well . . . Consistency on criteria is nice . . .

On criteria that flimsey, I should put Tyranitar on my Ash team next time . . .

 

[umbarsc]

. . . There's ludicolo to cover earthquake weak, and toxicroak or swamp would also benefit . . . >_>

I already have an immunity, so I'm particularly worried about covering it.

It's just that having many common weaks, well, isn't very good, no matter how well they are covered.

 

[Chou Toshio]

Especially when said immunity is also weak to rock and doesn't do much to a good number of Earthquake users. >_>

No one ever said you couldn't carry multiple pokes to cover one weak. With one as common as earthquake, that'd even be a good idea.

 

[umbarsc]

. . . There's ludicolo to cover earthquake weak, and toxicroak or swamp would also benefit . . . >_>

edit: Especially? That makes for a difference in how you pick pokes for a theme team? Whether the one brock gave it to especially likes it or not? And If I recall correctly, he also gave ninetales back as well . . .

On criteria that flimsey, I should put Tyranitar on my Ash team next time . . .

Brock is not sentimental like Ash. He picks his best Pokes, whatever works. He wants to win, and isn't all "any Pokemon are good if you use strategy" like Ash is. So if he decides that Forretress or whatever is better on his battling team, it's on there. End of story.

 

[Chou Toshio]

Brock is not sentimental like Ash. He picks his best Pokes, whatever works. He wants to win, and isn't all "any Pokemon are good if you use strategy" like Ash is. So if he decides that Forretress or whatever is better on his battling team, it's on there. End of story.

Wait, the non-competitive pokemon BREEDER cares about winning? All he cares about is combing vulpi's fur and cooking poke snacks. If that's your idea of a competitive battler (who gets barely any battle screen time) . . . lol

I'd say Ash is more of a competitive battler just on merit that he's actually trying to be a pokemon champion. >_>

Don't get me wrong, I love Brock. I just think you're disillusioned as to what Brock cares about if the above quote is your opinion.

 

[umbarsc]

Especially when said immunity is also weak to rock and doesn't do much to a good number of Earthquake users. >_>

No one ever said you couldn't carry multiple pokes to cover one weak. With one as common as earthquake, that'd even be a good idea.

The problem is, what role would Ludicolo fill otherwise that would make it work over one of my current party members? Nintetails inflicts status, Ludicolo can't say that much. Forretress is an awesome wall that sets up Spikes, Ludicolo can't. Ludicolo obviously can't touch Blissey's usefulness, Swampert hits with STAB water attacks and walls more things, and Crobat is just better overall. I don't see what could be replaced.

Please, could you stop with the "that's not a true theme team!" and focus on the battle?

 

[umbarsc]

Wait, the non-competitive pokemon BREEDER cares about winning? All he cares about is combing vulpi's fur and cooking poke snacks. If that's your idea of a competitive battler (who gets barely any battle screen time) . . . lol

I'd say Ash is more of a competitive battler just on merit that he's actually trying to be a pokemon champion. >_>

Don't get me wrong, I love Brock. I just think you're disillusioned as to what Brock cares about if the above quote is your opinion.

The original paragraph stated that he gave up with the passive sidekick career to make a battling debut, and he's serious about winning.

 

[Chou Toshio]

Ok, just battlewise then.

Battle-wise, how can anyone take a team seriously when it has basically nothing to handle Gyara. Even then, you made a lot of mistakes. You should have planned on sacking Forry from the start, optimally right after swamp went down. Sure using 2 pokes to bring down 1 is stupid, but so is not having a Gyara counter. I feel like 1 of those 3 (probably Toxicroak) was just a waste.

Also, you seriously underestimated Gyara by thinking it was "frail." LOL 79 base is about average, and you ought to know just how many HP and DEF evs most run on their bulky Gyara.

Not to mention that you SAW taunt. He KNOWS your only chance is sucker punch. He should have taunted you, then killed you. More stupidity on both parts.

In any case, Gyara should only have made it through 2, not 3 of your pokemon.

Next, why the hell is Blissey being left in on an almost dead azelf? I don't know what that guy was running but most azelf users would be overjoyed to explode on blissey when they have only 12% health left. In any case, your actions were just reckless. At the very least you should have switched forry in instead of leaving blissey, especially knowing he's got only 1 more turn because of life orb.

Next of all WHEN crobat is choicebanded, as you mentioned he knew, why the hell would he switch when he knows you probably have pursuit-- especially when he most definitely has thunderbolt or HP ice. Big chunk of crobat's health wasted there. Not to mention he could have used . . . hypnosis?

Overall lots of mistakes on both sides . . .

The original paragraph stated that he gave up with the passive sidekick career to make a battling debut, and he's serious about winning.

therefore:

Brock is not sentimental like Ash. He picks his best Pokes, whatever works. He wants to win, and isn't all "any Pokemon are good if you use strategy" like Ash is. So if he decides that Forretress or whatever is better on his battling team, it's on there. End of story.

Sore wa dareyanen? (Who the hell is that?) You've just made your own character. Aho ka?

Congrats on making a "theme team" based on a made up character. Wait, what the heck is that?

And no need to be so touchy-- initially, I was complimenting you overall.

 

[Blitzee]

nice :naughty: