With Battle Factory out of the way, here's another record:
Bronzong @ Lum Berry
Trait: Heatproof
Nature: Brave (+Atk, -Speed)
EVs: 252 HP, 252 Atk, 6 Sp.Def
-Trick Room
-Iron Head
-Earthquake
-Explosion
Lv2 Togekiss @ Focus Sash
Trait: Serene Grace
Nature: Naughty (+Atk, -SpDef)
EVs: ~50 Vitamins for Happiness in not-HP
-Protect
-Endeavor
-Follow Me
-Foresight
Snorlax @ Life Orb
Trait: Thick Fat
Nature: Brave (+Atk, -Speed)
EVs: 100 HP, 252 Atk, 160 Def
-Double-Edge
-Crunch
-Earthquake
-Selfdestruct
These 3 remain unchanged.
Dusknoir @ Iron Ball
Trait: Pressure
Nature: Relaxed (+Def, -Spd)
EVs: 252 HP, 120 Def, 136 Sp. Def
-Gravity
-Night Shade
-Protect
-Sucker Punch
Dusknoir on the other hand now runs Gravity, but at a cost. It lost Will-o-wisp and Leftovers, which causes it to lose out in 1 vs 1 situations a lot more. Fortunately, Gravity makes them happen a lot less often.
The deal here is to use Gravity to remove the chances of missing with Explosion or SelfDestruct by the various forms of evade hax the CPU can try. Gravity cuts out all the BrightPowder/Lax Incense/Snow Cloak/Sand Veil/Double Team hax the CPU has, allowing me to go with trigger happy explosions when Togekiss leaves play. The Iron Ball is required since Dusknoir needs to move before Bronzong/Snorlax to get off the Gravity. Now if only I could remove the threat of OHKOs and Quick Claws.
I was playing this whole run on a trip so I didn't have access to any lists or damage calculators. Thus the whole run was done with what I had memorized of the Battle Frontier Pokemon, and what I had loosely memorized from some notes of damage calculations I made for myself a while back that tells me what Pokemon are guaranteed to be taken out by an Explosion/SelfDestruct which goes as follows:
100% chance KO with Bronzong Explosion 75% (152 Atk, 375 power)
Abomasnow 1,3,4
Absol
Alakazam
Altaria
Ambipom
Ampharos
Arcanine
Articuno 1,4
Blastoise 4 (IV 21)
Blaziken
Blissey
Breloom 2,3,4
Charizard
Claydol
Crobat
Dewgong 1,2,4
Dragonite 1,4
Drapion 3,4
Drifblim (Requires Forsight)
Dugtrio
Electivire
Electrode 1,2,3
Entei
Espeon
Exeggutor 1,2,4
Exploud
Flareon
Floatzel
Flygon
Froslass (Requires Forsight)
Gallade
Garchomp 1,2,4
Gardevoir
Gastrodon 2,3,4
Gengar (Requires Forsight)
Glaceon 1,2
Glaceon 4 (IV 21)
Glalie
Golduck
Granbull
Hariyama
Heracross
Honchkrow
Houndoom 3,4
Hypno
Infernape
Jolteon 2,3,4
Jynx
Kangaskhan
Kingdra
Kingler
Lanturn
Latias
Latios
Leafeon 1,2
Lopunny
Ludicolo 1,3,4
Luxray
Machamp 1,3,4
Magmortar
Mamoswine 4 (IV 21)
Manectric
Marowak 4 (IV 21)
Medicham
Meganium 4 (IV 21)
Milotic 1,3,4
Miltank 2,4
Mismagius 1,2,3 (Requires Forsight)
Moltres 1,3,4
Mr. Mime
Muk
Nidoking 2,3,4
Nidoqueen
Ninetales
Pinsir
Politoed
Poliwrath 4 (IV 21)
Porygon2
Porygon-Z
Quagsire 1,3,4
Raichu
Raikou
Rapidash
Regice 1,4
Roserade
Sceptile
Shiftry
Skuntank
Slowking 2,3,3
Snorlax 2,3
Staraptor 4 (IV 21)
Starmie
Tauros
Tentacruel 1,2,4
Togekiss 1,3,4
Toxicroak
Typhlosion
Ursaring 2,3,4
Vaporeon
Venusaur 1,3,4
Vespiquen 4 (IV 21)
Victreebel
Vileplume 1,3,4
Wailord 1,3,4
Weavile 1,2,4
Weezing 3
Whiscash
Yanmega
Zapdos
100% chance KO with Bronzong Explosion 100% (152 Atk, 500 power)
Abomasnow 2
Aerodactyl
Arcanine (if Intimidated)
Articuno 2,3
Blastoise
Dewgong 3
Donphan 2,3,4
Dragonite 2,3
Drapion 1,2
Dusknoir (Requires Forsight)
Feraligatr
Glaceon 4
Gliscor 1,2,4
Granbull (if Intimidated)
Gyarados
Hippowdon 3,4
Lapras
Leafeon 3.4
Lickilicky
Lucario
Ludicolo 2
Luxray (if Intimidated)
Mamoswine
Marowak
Meganium
Miltank 3
Moltres 2
Nidoking 1
Poliwrath
Quagsire 2
Regice 3
Regigigas 3,4
Rampardos 4
Salamence
Slaking 3
Slowbro 2,3,4
Slowking 1
Snorlax 1,4
Staraptor
Suicune 2,4
Swampert
Tauros (if Intimidated)
Togekiss 2
Torterra
Umbreon 1
Venusaur 2
Vespiquen
Vileplume 2
Wailord 2
Walrein
Weezing 1,2,4
100% chance KO with Snorlax Selfdestruct 75% (178 Atk, 300 power STAB + Life Orb)
Armaldo 1,2
Cresselia
Donphan 1
Empoleon
Hippowdon 1,2
Lapras 2
Milotic 2
Miltank 1
Rampardos 1,2,3
Regice 2
Regigigas 1,2
Scizor 2,3
Slaking 2,4
Slowbro 1
Suicune 3
Tangrowth
Umbreon 2,3,4
100% chance KO with Snorlax Selfdestruct 100% (178 Atk, 400 power STAB + Life Orb)
Armaldo 3,4
Bronzong
Cradily 3,4
Heatran 1,2,3
Magnezone 3,4
Scizor 1,4
Slaking 1
Tyranitar 1,2
Not Killable with 100% Snorlax Selfdestruct
Aggron
Bronzong 1 (15/16 chance KO)
Bastiodon
Cradily 1,2 (11/16 chance KO)
Forretress (7/16 chance KO)
Golem 1 (survives with 25HP at most)
Golem 2,3,4 (9/16 chance KO)
Magnezone 1,2 (15/16 chance KO)
Metagross (9/16 chance KO)
Probopass
Regirock 1 (Survives with 61 HP at most, 60.6~71.6%)
Regirock 2,3 (Survives with 69 HP at most, 63.1~74.9%)
Regirock 4 (Survives with 37 HP at most, 76~90%)
Registeel 1,3 (Survives with 34 HP at most, 81.2~96.3%)
Registeel 2,4 (Survives with 30 HP at most, 77.2~91.5%)
Rhydon 1,2 (Survives with 28HP at most, 84.4~99.4%)
Rhydon 3,4 (1/4 chance KO)
Rhyperior 1,2 (survives with 46HP at most, 75.8~88.9%)
Rhyperior 3 (Survives with 92 HP at most)
Rhyperior 4 (Survives with 48 HP at most, 78.4~91.9%)
Shuckle 1,3 (Survives with 28 HP at most, 75.9~89.7%)
Shuckle 2,4 (Survives with 19 HP at most, 83.6~98.3%)
Skarmory 1,3 (5/16 chance KO)
Skarmory 2 (3/8 chance KO)
Skarmory 4 (13/16 chance KO)
Steelix 1,3 (Survives with 56 HP at most, 62.7~74%)
Steelix 2,4 (Survives with 47 HP at most, 68.7~81.3%)
Tyranitar 3 (1/2 chance KO)
Tyranitar 4 (13/16 chance KO)
Things that Have Focus Sash
-Aggron 4
-Bastiodon 4
-Breloom 1
-Electrode 4
-Exeggutor 3
-Garchomp 3
-Gastrodon 1
-Glaceon 3
-Gliscor 3
-Heatran 4
-Houndoom 1,2
-Jolteon 1
-Machamp 2
-Mismagius 4
-Rhydon 2
-Rhyperior 3
-Suicune 1
-Tentacruel 3
-Ursaring 1
-Weavile 3
My loss was against a Pokefan leading with Abomasnow 4 and Empoleon 4. Empoleon manages to go on a Quick Claw rampage KOing Togekiss before it got to use Endeavor, and Bronzong with a Torrent Hydro Cannon. I could have salvaged the battle, but misjudged how much damage Double-Edge did to the Golduck that came after. I thought it would OHKO easily, but it's actually a 50/50 chance. Golduck survived the attack, and both the opponent's Pokemon focused on Snorlax (who was at full HP before Double-Edge) instead of my Dusknoir at half health who used Protect. It became a 3 vs 1 and there was no way to win. Their last was Armaldo 4. I sort of panicked in the end and that costed me, since I could pretty much feel the Quick Claw spam coming from that Empoleon at the time.
SoulSilver Double Battle Tower
Team Rocket Elite (955) - Bronzong, Togekiss, Dusknoir, Snorlax
http://members.shaw.ca/teamrocketelite/TREBattleFrontier955.JPG
I was about 2 hours of gameplay off the 4 digits mark record mark, which would have made this picture way more awesome. But the run could have easily ended at a much lower number as there were a number of close calls in the run. I could have died when I wasn't paying attention and explosion missed against Walrein 3, and I had to stall out OHKOs. It's a bit unsettling when you see the "Dusknoir protected itself" message when they use OHKOs since that means that they would have hit you with it if you didn't block. Another time my opponent started with Rampardos 4 and Aerodactyl 1 which would have ended me if I got flinched. Or Tyranitar 1 and Aerodactyl 1 with Bronzong losing over half its health to Rock Slides before getting off Trick Room. Or that time a Golem Critical'd Snorlax, then tried to finish Dusknoir with a Quick Claw Stone Edge. The list goes on.
I didn't record any battle vids this time, as I could have only recorded one during the trip, and was in a slight state of shock and forgot to save my loss battle. It's a bit difficult to say if I'll be able to get another run in before 5th Gen release in Japan. If I get a chance, I'll probably be replacing Crunch on Snorlax for either Seed Bomb or Superpower.