Blew my randoms streak on battle
113 through a multitude of bad calls and a touch of bad luck in terms of AI decisions which possibly could have ended the battle in my favor. It didn't help that a key component in my failure, Staraptor4, had Reckless instead of Intimidate which really fluffed up its Brave Birds.
Dusclops/Staraptor/M-Swampert/Scizor/Absol/Goodra
(VS)
Mr. Mime/Staraptor/Slowbro/Cradily/Tyrantrum/Hawlucha - Set4, Socialite (F)
The battle began pretty uneventfully; Slowbro opted to Blizzard instead of TR, and failed to freeze Dusclops, enemy Staraptor targeted my own (under Protect) and Mime hit Swampert with Psychic for a moderate sum and fell to Waterfall.
Slowbro would reset TR on its next turn, but this didn't concern me much as Cradily had plopped down opposite Swampert. Without running calcs I was certain that Giga Drain would KO Swampert at that HP (this would eventually be confirmed) and so I brought in Goodra to set off Sap Sipper. This wound up being a waste of a turn as Cradily used Protect and not Giga Drain; little did I know that things had already begun rolling downhill fast.
The same turn that Slowbro would deactivate TR and Cradily would tempt me to switch but not attack, enemy Staraptor would KO my own with Double-Edge. Scizor is brought in and takes down Slowbro easily while Staraptor nearly kills Goodra with Brave Bird, leaving it at 17 HP. With no viable target, Cradily of course is going to use Stockpile. My Goodra uses Curse, an option which seals its fate.
Now I start getting particularly stupid. With TR in play I don't need to use Bullet Punch on Tyrantrum4, which isn't a OHKO with a Life Orb; Superpower would have done the job, but Scizor will pay the ultimate price and be Head Smashed. Further, while I intended to use Gravity to allow Iron Tail to hit, I didn't calculate that -1 Brave Goodra with an Iron Ball outspeeds the amazingly slow Dusclops under TR, and whiff Iron Tail. From this point on I am convinced I am hopelessly checkmated, but running is against my nature. Tyrantrum has Rock Head, so its recoil didn't finish it, either.
Still, I can try. With TR in play I can at least take a shot at Cradily and attempt to crit (spoilers: I do not crit.) Disclops KOs Tyrantrum, Cradily outspeeds and easily slaughters Swampert, Absol pecks at Cradily with Superpower and is easily killed by that goddamn Reckless Staraptor which is basically inferior to mine in every way. Dusclops would Brick Break Staraptor for the finish and pretty much waste turns bringing Hawlucha to a sliver of health with Nightshade before Sky Attack finished it. I wondered if a miss would occur, but there was none. A miss would have at least let me have the pleasure of losing to a 1v1 with Cradily, who spent its turns maxing Stockpile and setting up an Ingrain.
Well shit. Had I not sacked Scizor, I could have switched out of that -1/-1 and had a valuable priority spammer for the remaining opponents. I really shot myself in the foot with that Iron Tail, though. Amusingly, any other physical attack would have been shittier in that battle- Earthquake would have done nothing to Staraptor before Gravity, which I would not have (and would ensure Tyrantrum kills Scizor) and Aqua Tail for all I know would have been absorbed by that shithead Cradily.
Might as well chronicle my merry band of murderers who got me to this point!
Battles 1-10: Carbink/M-Camerupt/Torterra/Vaporeon/Eelektross/Hydreigon
Battles 11-20: Aromatisse/M-Tyranitar/Carracosta/Marowak/Absol/Empoleon
Battles 21-30: Cofagrigus/M-Camerupt/Shuckle/Golem/Porygon2/Goodra
Battles 31-40: Slowbro/M-Heracross/Regirock/Heatran/Dragalge/Sylveon
Battles 41-50: Slowbro/M-Heracross/Regirock/Heatran/Dragalge/Sylveon
Battles 51-60: Hypno/M-Mawile/Regice/Vileplume/Porygon2/Lickilicky
Battles 61-70: Claydol/M-Slowbro/Carracosta/Emboar/Chesnaught/Thundurus-T
Battles 71-80: Dusclops/M-Abomasnow/Bouffalant/Quagsire/Torterra/Chandelure
Battles 81-90: Dusclops/M-Camerupt/Hariyama/Feraligatr/Tangrowth/Carracosta
Battles 91-100: Quagsire/Cresselia/M-Aggron/Donphan/Beheeyem/Tyrantrum
Battles 101-110: M-Audino/Musharna/Golem/Nidoqueen/Blissey/Thundurus-T
Battles 111-113: Dusclops/Staraptor/M-Swampert/Scizor/Absol/Goodra
Most of these teams were a real blast to use and made me feel as though I hadn't been screwed much, though I often get initially nervous when I see three weaknesses to one type or most teammates sharing a common weakness with another, with no viable switches.
- Actually, this is the sort of confirmation I needed to hone in on that niche: the fact even a couple of people have read my posts so far means that there is some intrigue there; that this subject has been brought up before in this thread shows that I simply need the right folks to show up, and suddenly I won't be the only doing it.
I'll be the last one to rain on your parade, but I do think you overstate the eagerness of people to try it, especially to the extent that you have. It was brought up before a very long time ago, yes, and you'll notice it never got off the ground; you'll also notice that in spite of certain pokes being prominent "threats" there is little to no desire to actually use them, especially in the same fashion, as they lack most of the positive traits of your more commonly seen streak-holding pokes. Most people that attempt some unorthodox teams spent a long time running numbers to gauge viability and other factors, whereas you are keen to PokeGen six Maison sets and slap 'em together. But it's better if that remains your "thing" as the more individuality in this topic, the better.
Edit:
NoCheese, the second of my randoms streaks on the leaderboard- the 236- has always bugged me for a number of reasons, namely that I never properly chronicled the team and didn't lavish it with much polish upon its end; I just made a lengthy post about the bitter demise. If you wouldn't mind removing it and just leaving Team Aron and the Random 315, I'd appreciate that immensely.