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Tournament PMPL V - Week Five

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Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Semifinals | Finals
Administrative Decisions | Commencement | Spreadsheet | Replays and Usage

:Gourgeist:Workers Union of Gourgsokyo (4) vs (4) Gladiator Gallades:Gallade:
Iron Fist: ihbst vs shreyashhy
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: White Atoq vs NoName6293
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs EJ
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs jawabarat
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs Slikkles
Glacemons: mrfraud vs presi
Blank Canvas Meta C: omar vs LB
Random Tandem (Bo3): Smudge vs pixie909

:Furret:Fast & Furret (4) vs (4) Torchics RD:Torchic:
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs about15gals
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs Tempo di anguria
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs pecha nerd
Paleomons Gen 9: solrock the great vs haxlolo
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs Clas
Glacemons: qtfox vs HydreigonTheChild
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs PixelBob
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs eldids

:Tinkaton:Gigaton Spammers (4) vs (4) Dave's Daschbuns:Dachsbun:
Iron Fist: swordisbored vs big tony 2014
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Steam Buns vs hellom
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Leroipolux vs LOOR
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs Nashrock
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs mielke
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs Runo
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs Monai
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs RoFnA

Tiebreak
:Dachsbun:Dave's Daschbuns (1) vs (2) Gladiator Gallades:Gallade:
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: hellom vs NoName6293
Blank Canvas Meta C: Monai vs shreyashhy
Random Tandem (Bo3): RoFnA vs pixie909


Deadline for Week 5 is <t:1786939140:F>. GLHF!

Workers Union of Gourgsokyo vs Gladiator Gallades
Iron Fist: anaconja vs shreyashhy
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: White Atoq vs NoName6293
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs EJ
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs jawabarat
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs Slikkles
Glacemons: mrfraud vs presi
Blank Canvas Meta C: omar vs LB
Random Tandem (Bo3): Smudge vs pixie909

Fast & Furret vs Torchics RD
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs about15gals
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs Tempo di anguria
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs pecha nerd
Paleomons Gen 9: solrock the great vs haxlolo
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs Clas
Glacemons: qtfox vs HydreigonTheChild
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs PixelBob
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs eldids

Gigaton Spammers vs Dave's Daschbuns
Iron Fist: swordisbored vs big tony 2014
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Steam Buns vs hellom
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Leroipolux vs LOOR
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs Nashrock
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs mielke
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs Runo
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs Monai
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs RoFnA

Ping one of the hosts if you spot an error, we are human after all!​
 
w4 review

:charjabug::iron-crown::chinchou::iron-boulder::silcoon: about15gals vs woo :chinchou::gulpin::silvally-steel::metapod:
about brings an eterrain team against woo's pretty standard balance. apples newest emoji is a relic of previous slates, extremely strong with its plot sets before various fat rocks like nedontrol and nihilego mostly forced it out of relevance. immediately about's boulder looks very strong because unless woo has a physdef groundvally he has no defensive switchin, but perhaps his chinchou can flip momentum.

about leads with charjabug to immediately set eterrain while woo attempts to counterlead with nedontrol. i think this is a mistake because leading with apple would immediately give him some strong momentum especially if he can predict a boulder switchin and clicks giga drain. nedontrol sets rocks but loses almost half hp off the bat, which would normally be very bad but it doesnt wall much in the first place. nedontrol hits a paltry 30 on charjabug as it uturns to furumo to remove hazards, and woo reveals steelvally meaning itll be an uphill battle against boulder unless he can get a good tera predict because steel beam can almost ohko it.

furumo flips to chinchou and steelvally goes back to nedontrol perhaps to attempt to click sr again, but metapod was a much better choice to wall chinchou, reset terrain, and possibly grab momentum by uturning on a charjabug/silcoon switch to apple. but nedontrol gets voltaged and metapod now comes in and attempts to seed bomb as about simply goes to charjabug. woo hits it with a funny tech of mewing to threaten uturn, but about switches to clown as metapod uturns to apple. unfortunately woo doesnt get the predict and also burns his bug on a guaranteed cleave ko. boulder then claims two more kills for clown to finish the rest of the team off.
i think woo could have taken the game if he was much more proactive with getting emoji and just clicking attacks (i dont think plot was necessary to kill anything on abouts team in fact) but because he didnt he lost pretty soundly

:kyogre::dracovish::terapagos-stellar::zacian-crowned::palpitoad::moltres: shreyashhy vs Tanny89k :glaceon::nihilego::throh::metapod::moltres::celesteela:
shrey finally builds for himself again with a rain team featuring new picks like awesome possum and palpitoad is so cool while tanny has a standard balance with glaceon. while lemon fish is theoretically p good with swift swim citrus rend its biggest problem is getting walled by metapod and having to click lunge to hit it. additionally by loading so many rain abusers shrey is lacking defensively, with a particular weakness to nihilego who threatens basically everything with its rock stab + lemon acid + volt.

double lead mega molt leads both of them to uturn. unfortunately for shrey he wins the speed tie so tanny can get an advantageous metapod switchin on his ogre, forcing him to zacc while tanny can uturn to molt and burn it. lemon fish comes in to threaten molt and flips on metapod to possum, presumably to surprise with hurricane. tanny sees through it though and walls it with celesteela, eating a z-awesomemove and generally being annoying with leech. shrey dissuades leech with molt and tanny tries to sponge an incoming wisp with pidown and remove hazards, but it reveals sands and hurricane which 2hkos it.

this helps to reset momentum for tanny though as shes able to get lego in safely and set rocks and force rocks on the burned mspin zacc. shrey evil uturns to palp to try to force it out but unfortunately rain ends so he has to go into ogre to reset it, eating a big volt in the process and allowing celesteela to sit on the team more. it scouts a citrus rend on banded lemon fish and walls it with pod, so shrey sacks it and brings in palp who is also walled by pod. the game is pretty sealed at this point - possum cant do enough dmg to celesteela, and after dispatching the palp glaceon cleans the team with shuriken.
shrey kinda mu fished here (no pun intended) but this was the wrong person to do so here - tanny builds very solid defensive cores so the rain abusers were simply unable to do their job.

:crabominable::metapod::kingler-gmax::muk::lickitung: anaconja vs big tony 2014 :marill::muk::hydrapple::archeops::metapod:
i have a crab semistall vs tonys balance. fat fuck is a unique bring with a pretty good typing but usually passed over for its lack of offensive presence, and deez nuts is not really known for giving good bulk to mons due to it not affecting hp. the rest of the team looks fairly straightforward though, with hydra being a good wallbreaker along with kurayami if its plot. its fortunate though that grimace is probably the only good switchin to my crab though so i just have to farm rage fist hits enough to beat it out; zestii should help it not take too much from stanky leg.

i lead grimace as it has a pretty decent mu against most of tonys mons and he brings out archeops, which is great bc unless its band eq i can throw out a free incinerate. evidently its not that as it uturns for 5 into his own grimace. i click tspikes and incinerate again as waiting moves since i dont have a good switchin to stanky leg at the moment and it reveals that its a curse set, which i can wall easily with my own grimace and kingler once it megas. i get kingler on a recover and set rocks but decide not to mega yet as i can always heal the toxic with zestii and carcinization is pretty useful to force it out eventually with lemon acid.

eventually tony sees hes getting nowhere and goes back to archeops to get its lunchly incinerated and then in a bit of switching also gets hydras specs removed. it predicts the metapod switch and uses release the bees which gets infestation, which is a little annoying since it chips me a significant amount. i uturn to zestii fsr (idr why) and it gets chunked by a second bees and forces metapod back in. grimace comes in on the third bees and forces it out as i double to metapod expecting a dragon stab, but kurayami switches in instead. grimace removes kurayamis life orb too, and i go to kingler ig on a predicted spin? (idr why either).

after a bunch of switching kurayami gets a plot as i switch in crab. i was scared of a moonblast which would good coverage for crab so i go to metapod but it just clicks wrath and kills it. thats kind of problematic because that was my main hydra check - even though i can still limit it p well with sr at least it can get pretty tough if it can regen enough. i send crab back in and tony goes fat fuck, forcing me to grimace expecting something like a looksmaxx knuckle but it reveals toxic stoss instead. i remove its nuts and finish it off with stanky leg but take a lot of chip in the process which is a little problematic as well if grimace needs to possibly hold back a set up kurayami.

hydra comes back in and 2hkos my lickilord (which was my mistake i could have terad bug and lived the hit to stanky leg it), so i have to go to crab and tera bug. i rack one fist on an incoming fickle beam and then mega kingler on the grimace switch, dipping to grimace and chipping hydra a bit before getting sent to hell by another fickle beam. zestii sends out a wish for crab while tony possibly sensing something wrong goes into metapod for safety. unfortunately that gives me free reign to get crab in on a spin, 1v1ing grimace though taking a toxic in the process. archeops attempts to revenge kill but i get zestii to heal the toxic and switch back to crab on the sr. then tony forgets that 1) bug is immune to lemon and 2) crab has justified and gets punched to death.
definitely a closer game than id like but uhh it worked out. ribbon crab takes hits like a champ
 
Workers Union of Gourgsokyo vs Gladiator Gallades
Iron Fist: anaconja vs shreyashhy - Shrey decided to lose the moment I bolded him so im doing it again and ana's fist posts are fucking up the replay and usage tools
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: White Atoq vs NoName6293 - Vaguely familiar with White and NoName is inconsistent
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs EJ - im still hating
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs jawabarat - Benji has been winning on life by having a family, jawabarat can barely win his games
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs Slikkles - Electraine has always been reliable on any tour
Glacemons: mrfraud vs presi - presi feels like a pretty upstanding fellow
Blank Canvas Meta C: omar vs LB - the bc slot from gallades has been dead as hell
Random Tandem (Bo3): Smudge vs pixie909 - the gallade carrier

Fast & Furret vs Torchics RD
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs about15gals - Going with the petmodder with most games played ever
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs Tempo di anguria - Latam's finest soldier
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs pecha nerd - Idt I have seen Necas do this good in ages
Paleomons Gen 9: solrock the great vs haxlolo - Solrock is the furret sacrifice slot
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs Clas - you know the deal by now
Glacemons: qtfox vs HydreigonTheChild - Have some weird vibe that qtfox may upset
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs PixelBob - This is the TTTech I remembered before the huge aura loss years prior
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs eldids - Oldhead ran out of the juiice he was operating on during the pandemic

Gigaton Spammers vs Dave's Daschbuns
Iron Fist: swordisbored vs big tony 2014 - sword is alright but tony has lost most of his aura this tour
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Steam Buns vs hellom - Steam Buns has had less time to warm up but I feel they can recover soon
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Leroipolux vs LOOR - Equal records, equal level, bolding the cheaper player
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs Nashrock - The only positive gigaton
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs mielke - bolding mielke since Spammers seem incapable of winning a week
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs Runo - My man spammer needs to lock in or else
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs Monai - Manager tax
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs RoFnA - price tax
 
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