I'd like to submit an ongoing streak of 49 wins for level 50 battle factory singles. This is the first time I've gotten the gold print, done on my soulsilver cart. I've included some scrambly notes on rounds 5 and 6, not much beyond the cursory notetaking I do to track what I was drafting/fighting/swapping and some vague memory of how the round went, but round 7 has a bit more thorough of a writeup.
I will continue this streak after a small break, been grinding for this print a ton recently, maybe too much. 69 wins would be my clear goal.
Open level gold on my list to get someday, pb in that is a pitiful 37 currently.
A '-' indicates no type spec
28/17 (wins/swaps)
draft:
milotic3 gengar2 granbull2 electrode2 slowking3 shiftry2
gen/gran/milo
- set2
tyranitar2 marowak2 forretress2
gen/ttar/milo
- set2
steelix2 muk2 blissey2
- set1
lopunny1 froslass1 victreebel1
- set1
absol1 exeggutor1 flygon1
water set1
shuckle1 gastrodon1 feraligatr1
ice set1
empoleon1 abomasnow1 glalie1
- set3
tangrowth3 politoed3 crobat3
Gengar2 clowned on a bunch of mons, with substitue being hilarious against smart AI and hypnosis hitting more often than I was expecting. Ttar2 and Milo3 in the back were amazing when they needed to be.
28/17 (wins/swaps)
draft:
milotic3 gengar2 granbull2 electrode2 slowking3 shiftry2
gen/gran/milo
- set2
tyranitar2 marowak2 forretress2
gen/ttar/milo
- set2
steelix2 muk2 blissey2
- set1
lopunny1 froslass1 victreebel1
- set1
absol1 exeggutor1 flygon1
water set1
shuckle1 gastrodon1 feraligatr1
ice set1
empoleon1 abomasnow1 glalie1
- set3
tangrowth3 politoed3 crobat3
Gengar2 clowned on a bunch of mons, with substitue being hilarious against smart AI and hypnosis hitting more often than I was expecting. Ttar2 and Milo3 in the back were amazing when they needed to be.
r6: 35/19
draft:
altaria3 armaldo4 hippowdon3 ursaring3guts glaceon3 lopunny4klutz
glac/ursa/arma kill me
- set3
pinsir3mold absol3 claydol3
glac/ursa/pin
- set3
abomasnow3 scizor3 nidoking3
glac/ursa/sciz
- set2
honchkrow2 floatzel2 nidoqueen2
- set3
infernape3 lopunny3 empoleon3
glac/infern/sciz
ground set3
dugrtio3 kingdra3 mamoswine3
kingd/infern/sciz
- set2
whiscash2 togekiss2 shuckle2
- set4
blaziken4 armaldo4 slowking4
I was terrified after seeing this draft, but glaceon3 almost behaved like a real pokemon. The swaps kept helping the team keep going and I didn't face any of the extremely threatening sets. I wanted to stay below 21 swaps but the draft had other plans.
draft:
altaria3 armaldo4 hippowdon3 ursaring3guts glaceon3 lopunny4klutz
glac/ursa/arma kill me
- set3
pinsir3mold absol3 claydol3
glac/ursa/pin
- set3
abomasnow3 scizor3 nidoking3
glac/ursa/sciz
- set2
honchkrow2 floatzel2 nidoqueen2
- set3
infernape3 lopunny3 empoleon3
glac/infern/sciz
ground set3
dugrtio3 kingdra3 mamoswine3
kingd/infern/sciz
- set2
whiscash2 togekiss2 shuckle2
- set4
blaziken4 armaldo4 slowking4
I was terrified after seeing this draft, but glaceon3 almost behaved like a real pokemon. The swaps kept helping the team keep going and I didn't face any of the extremely threatening sets. I wanted to stay below 21 swaps but the draft had other plans.
R7 draft: altaria4(24) milotic4(24) heracross4(24) infernape3 crobat4 wailord1
The round 7 draft looked decently strong, especially when I confirmed milo4. Wailord1 is never making the team and I don't trust altaria to do anything meaningful, so the choose 2 of 3 of crobat/infernape/heracross had me trusting the brave bat and endure/salac stuff over the monkey. Crobat4 seemed a good enough lead, it can at least guarantee a hit vs 99% of sets and non resisted brave bird is enough damage where milo/heracross can finish generally. This was only my second round 7 attempt, highest streak lost at 44 wins to a dragonite4 1v3ing my whole team with outrage (ramp4 missed head smash and dnite had a 3 turn outrage).
The round 7 draft looked decently strong, especially when I confirmed milo4. Wailord1 is never making the team and I don't trust altaria to do anything meaningful, so the choose 2 of 3 of crobat/infernape/heracross had me trusting the brave bat and endure/salac stuff over the monkey. Crobat4 seemed a good enough lead, it can at least guarantee a hit vs 99% of sets and non resisted brave bird is enough damage where milo/heracross can finish generally. This was only my second round 7 attempt, highest streak lost at 44 wins to a dragonite4 1v3ing my whole team with outrage (ramp4 missed head smash and dnite had a 3 turn outrage).
I didn't take notes on each turn for each game so going off of memory on how everything played out.
Team: Crobat4(31IVs) / Heracross4(24IVs, Swarm) / Milotic4(24IVs)
Match 1: - set3 trainer: ninetales3 honchkrow3 cradily3
The first game went smooth and I don't think there's anything to say other than "I clicked my best moves" and didn't have trouble with any of those 3.
Match 2: ground set3 trainer: donphan3 raichu3 whiscash3
Second game I pulled a double switch, heracross taking a tfang meant for crobat and then going to milo on the subsequent fire fang. Milo hit through lax incense thankfully. Raichu couldn't do enough to milo with tbolt before taking surf, then the AI threw with focus blast missing so I got a free 2 KOs with milo and even did about half to the incoming whiscash. Easy cleanup for the crobat and heracross.
Match 3: - set3 trainer: vaporeon3 charizard3 exeggutor3
Third game vaporeon3 lead, I was getting a bit scared of how little I could do to it but it didn't do much to milo. I crit the first dragon pulse, and should have realized to switch in something before aqua ring started to heal up, but chose to stay in until I saw yawn, probably a misplay but crit/frz/acc drop on heracross or crobat had me stunlocked. Ended up switching after yawn was used but vaporeon was back to about 98% health, heracross went in but was also hit with yawn (I didn't know the AI could do this). Went back to milotic and then went crobat to just brave bird this and clean up with heracross and then trust hera/milo to win a 2v2. Zard came in, crit when I switched in milo but easily died to a surf, and exeggutor3 used wood hammer after milotic brought it down to sash with ice beam.
Match 4: ground set4 trainer: torterra4 glalie4 whiscash4
Fourth match, torterra4 had me just hoping for the best, no quick claw happened and crobat actually hit the brave bird range (about a 32% chance to KO). Glalie went down to crobat+milotic and again I was 2v1ing a whiscash this round with milo and heracross, no trouble there.
Match 5: - set4 trainer: lanturn4 medicham4 umbreon4
Fifth match, lanturn4 is fairly threatening so I choose to get a cross poison off and revenge with heracross eq, again putting a lot of faith in hera4/milo4 2v2s (rightfully so perhaps). Medicham4 let me get a free salac boost and I didn't miss the megahorn, then reversal cleaned up umbreon4.
Match 6: ground set3 trainer: steelix3 flygon3 drifblim3
Sixth match, last one where I'm guaranteed to know each set, lead steelix was a nice sight. Switched in milo, it cursed, surf easily OHKOs. Flygon can't KO milo4 in one shot even with a crit, so it's a 3v1 against drifblim3 which loses to ice beam + brave bird.
Team: Crobat4(31IVs) / Heracross4(24IVs, Swarm) / Milotic4(24IVs)
Match 1: - set3 trainer: ninetales3 honchkrow3 cradily3
The first game went smooth and I don't think there's anything to say other than "I clicked my best moves" and didn't have trouble with any of those 3.
Match 2: ground set3 trainer: donphan3 raichu3 whiscash3
Second game I pulled a double switch, heracross taking a tfang meant for crobat and then going to milo on the subsequent fire fang. Milo hit through lax incense thankfully. Raichu couldn't do enough to milo with tbolt before taking surf, then the AI threw with focus blast missing so I got a free 2 KOs with milo and even did about half to the incoming whiscash. Easy cleanup for the crobat and heracross.
Match 3: - set3 trainer: vaporeon3 charizard3 exeggutor3
Third game vaporeon3 lead, I was getting a bit scared of how little I could do to it but it didn't do much to milo. I crit the first dragon pulse, and should have realized to switch in something before aqua ring started to heal up, but chose to stay in until I saw yawn, probably a misplay but crit/frz/acc drop on heracross or crobat had me stunlocked. Ended up switching after yawn was used but vaporeon was back to about 98% health, heracross went in but was also hit with yawn (I didn't know the AI could do this). Went back to milotic and then went crobat to just brave bird this and clean up with heracross and then trust hera/milo to win a 2v2. Zard came in, crit when I switched in milo but easily died to a surf, and exeggutor3 used wood hammer after milotic brought it down to sash with ice beam.
Match 4: ground set4 trainer: torterra4 glalie4 whiscash4
Fourth match, torterra4 had me just hoping for the best, no quick claw happened and crobat actually hit the brave bird range (about a 32% chance to KO). Glalie went down to crobat+milotic and again I was 2v1ing a whiscash this round with milo and heracross, no trouble there.
Match 5: - set4 trainer: lanturn4 medicham4 umbreon4
Fifth match, lanturn4 is fairly threatening so I choose to get a cross poison off and revenge with heracross eq, again putting a lot of faith in hera4/milo4 2v2s (rightfully so perhaps). Medicham4 let me get a free salac boost and I didn't miss the megahorn, then reversal cleaned up umbreon4.
Match 6: ground set3 trainer: steelix3 flygon3 drifblim3
Sixth match, last one where I'm guaranteed to know each set, lead steelix was a nice sight. Switched in milo, it cursed, surf easily OHKOs. Flygon can't KO milo4 in one shot even with a crit, so it's a 3v1 against drifblim3 which loses to ice beam + brave bird.
Match 7, gold print match:
Thorton2 had no type spec and I decided it was time to trade out the lead crobat. Flygon could be a downgrade in some ways (notably speed) but I wasn't sure the bat would be enough. Thorton sends out rhyperior4 (set4 high tiers in hgss) and I just want some damage on this so milotic can definitely kill with surf. EP damage reveals solid rock but surf easily revenges. HeatranX next, milotic4 at 24IVs outpseeds all heatran with 31IVs, so the only worry is quick claw heatran2 or missing heatran3 too much. Surf connects, does about 75%, stone edge connects but no crit. Had about 130hp on milotic, definitely within crit stone edge range, but it got off the second surf with no QC. Miltank4 is sent out. There was a notable chance I lose from here, but I click surf as it EQs. I know the AI won't use giga impact at full hp here, so I chose to get damage on it. This is perhaps a misplay, could have maybe recovered for a bit and switched in heracross. Heracross would need to endure an inaccurate zen headbutt after EQ damage to KO with reversal, but at least if it missed I had the switch to milotic to give heracross another chance later. I didn't fully think this through in the moment. From 130hp on milotic4, EQ is a pretty favorable 2 shot range for miltank4, and milotic goes down after doing about 60-65%. Heracross is outsped, and giga impact is a range to KO (81%). Now it CAN giga impact because of miltank's current health and because it is faster. I click endure, giga impact connects, and I reversal for the 49th win and my gold print.
Thorton2 had no type spec and I decided it was time to trade out the lead crobat. Flygon could be a downgrade in some ways (notably speed) but I wasn't sure the bat would be enough. Thorton sends out rhyperior4 (set4 high tiers in hgss) and I just want some damage on this so milotic can definitely kill with surf. EP damage reveals solid rock but surf easily revenges. HeatranX next, milotic4 at 24IVs outpseeds all heatran with 31IVs, so the only worry is quick claw heatran2 or missing heatran3 too much. Surf connects, does about 75%, stone edge connects but no crit. Had about 130hp on milotic, definitely within crit stone edge range, but it got off the second surf with no QC. Miltank4 is sent out. There was a notable chance I lose from here, but I click surf as it EQs. I know the AI won't use giga impact at full hp here, so I chose to get damage on it. This is perhaps a misplay, could have maybe recovered for a bit and switched in heracross. Heracross would need to endure an inaccurate zen headbutt after EQ damage to KO with reversal, but at least if it missed I had the switch to milotic to give heracross another chance later. I didn't fully think this through in the moment. From 130hp on milotic4, EQ is a pretty favorable 2 shot range for miltank4, and milotic goes down after doing about 60-65%. Heracross is outsped, and giga impact is a range to KO (81%). Now it CAN giga impact because of miltank's current health and because it is faster. I click endure, giga impact connects, and I reversal for the 49th win and my gold print.
Open level gold on my list to get someday, pb in that is a pitiful 37 currently.
