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Tournament PMPL V - Week Four

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Hosted by Gekokeso, Horii, and Murphy Lawden.​

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Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Semi-finals | Finals
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:Gourgeist:Workers Union of Gourgsokyo (6) vs (2) Dave's Daschbuns:Dachsbun:
Iron Fist: anaconja vs big tony 2014
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Airi vs hellom
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs LOOR
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs spell
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs mielke
Glacemons: Felilou vs Runo
Blank Canvas Meta C:: omar vs Monai
Random Tandem (Bo3): Peum vs zxgzxg

:Gallade:Gladiator Gallades (4) vs (4) Fast & Furret:Furret:
Iron Fist: shreyashhy vs Tanny89k
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: NoName6293 vs 1yr
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: EJ vs NecasInTrouble
Paleomons Gen 9: jawabarat vs solrock the great
Teramax: presi vs Orangesodapop
Glacemons: Jojen vs qtfox
Blank Canvas Meta C: sheepie vs TTTech
Random Tandem (Bo3): pixie909 vs bekama

:tinkatuff::Tinkaton:Gigaton Spammers (4) vs (4) Torchics RD:Torchic:
Iron Fist: woo vs about15gals
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Steam Buns vs Tempo di anguria
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Leroipolux vs Ainzcrad
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs haxlolo
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs Clas
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs HydreigonTheChild
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs CoruptedUsername
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs hxmo


Deadline for Week 3 is <t:1786334400:F>. GLHF!


:Gourgeist:Workers Union of Gourgsokyo vs Dave's Daschbuns:Dachsbun:
Iron fist: anaconja vs big tony 2014
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Airi vs hellom
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs LOOR
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs spell
Teramax: ElectraineHeart vs mielke
Glacemons: Felilou vs Runo
Blank Canvas Meta C:: omar vs Monai
Random Tandem (Bo3): Peum vs zxgzxg


:Gallade:Gladiator Gallades vs Fast & Furret:Furret:
Iron Fist: shreyashhy vs Tanny89k
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: NoName6293 vs1yr
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: EJ vs NecasInTrouble
Paleomons Gen 9: jawabarat vs solrock the great
Teramax: presi vs Orangesodapop
Glacemons: rarh2 vs qtfox
Blank Canvas Meta C: Joaf vs TTTech
Random Tandem (Bo3): pixie909 vs bekama

:tinkatuff::Tinkaton:Gigaton Spammers vs Torchics RD:Torchic:
Iron Fist: woo vs about15gals
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Steam Buns vs Tempo di anguria
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Leroipolux vs Ainzcrad
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs haxlolo
Teramax: One Last Kiss[/USER] vs Clas
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs HydreigonTheChild
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs CoruptedUsername
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs hxmo
 
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w3 review

:kingler-gmax::celesteela::ogerpon-cornerstone::talonflame::metapod::iron-boulder: Tanny89k vs big tony 2014 :talonflame::rayquaza::zacian-crowned::exploud::raboot::iron-valiant:
tanny brings a v normal looking balance, with a standard defensive core of kingler-celesteela-metapod. talonflame is an interesting anti-offense pick, having gen 6 gale wings and wisp + roost to cripple physical attackers. tony's team, on the other hand, kinda just looks like 6 offensive mons smashed together. theres a talonflame too and with rayquaza it can form a birdspam core, though its a tough mu against tannys kingler, celesteela, and boulder. if zacc is a utility set it shapes up to be some kind of setup spam ho but itd be a dubious choice bc stall and identity crisis kind of screw over its ability to set hazards.

tanny leads boogerpon against talonflame and immediately has to switch to kingler, who takes a billion from bravest bird and also gets 10% burned. it dips to boogerpon as zacc comes in and misses saxe, revealing that its indeed utility zacc. this gives booger the opportunity to tera and ohko it, revealing that tony doesnt really have good recourse around it other than revenging it with talonflame or outspeeding it after setting up already. tony predicts a switch and 2hkos celesteela with blitz, letting boulder in to set rocks. tyler reveals its tr which might pose a problem to tanny, but she uses good switches to stall it out and take another kill with booger.

at this point it should be lost for tony bc talonflame is probably band so it cant switch in anymore and booger should outspeed and ohko everything, but it turns out the stat calc is bugged so valiant manages to revenge it. oops. fortunately boulder cleans up the team with zen headbutt and cleave so i dont have to feel bad about a forced replay. i think overall tony got a bad mu but tannys running standard stuff so like the building has to kinda blow too ngl.

:zigzagoon::sylveon::wishiwashi::electrode::wyrdeer::throh: about15gals vs shreyashhy :girafarig::minun::vanilluxe::metapod::chinchou:
about brings some kind of token team judging from milf sylveon + wishiwashi along with presumably a dual screener in electrodemega and a token generator in buy fish wyrdeer. this leaves pidown as the spinner and raccoon as the wincon, but how?
its shrine of the silver monkey, which gives it +1 atk/def/spa/spd every other turn in exchange for a token
meanwhile shrey shamelessly steals tonys team that he beat last week, changing celesteela to chinchou presumably to shore up the trump card generation that my bugfix wouldve decreased.
shrey leads goddease into electrode and chooses to switch to minun, possibly not knowing that its only use is dual screens since any atk it does causes it to die instantly. personally i wouldve stayed in and spammed qd to force 5 trump cards but minun is an ok safe option. electrode clicks reflect interestingly - i suppose goddease has high atk and trump card couldve been physical but with the better coverage being on the special side light screen was a better option.
minun takes the time to click trump card on the dual screens and swap to wyrdeer and then goes to chinchou and phazes it out as about starts racking up her tokens in return while shrey gets sr and veil with fridgile.
after more setup and positioning stuff pidown comes aiming to spin away the rocks, and shrey reveals cloak goddease. about reveals mirror herb sylveon in return on the qd but this is actually a big mistake as goddease just qds again and explodes both sylveon and raccoon (turns out about didnt have it tera bug). wyrdeer stops it at least but unnecessarily teras bug since psychic resists silly already, and then gets revenged by the second blaster girafarig.
surprisingly abouts not totally lost yet due to wishiwashi forcing girafarig out, but because its special minun easily walls. shes able to get electrode in and set dual screens again but is forced to switch to pidown on metapods uturn, allowing shrey to pick up another ko at the cost of getting poisoned by mspin. if it was plot girafarig shrey couldve instantly won but because he didnt click it wishi is able to live behind screens and kill with bug buzz. however wishiwashi cant break through the rest of the team and gets finished off by metapod. it was really the raccoon switch on the goddease that wouldve sealed the game but unfortunately about's fatigue prevented her from seeing it which you cant fault.

:wishiwashi::kingler-gmax::crabominable::silcoon::silvally-steel::chinchou: anaconja vs Iride :silvally-dark::muk::moltres::kyogre::nihilego:
i bring a fishspam balance team against iride's semistall-ish looking team. grimace + smelmetal + moltmega is a lot of physdef mons with the spd mons being ogre and nihilego. the silvally is kinda superfluous in this regard so im guessing its some kind of offensive piece like plot groundvally or something. regardless though chinchou has a v good mu into this due to the lack of good voltblocker and the spd walls being weak to either of its stabs.
i lead wishiwashi to get a cheeky flip on smelmetal and then pivot around a bit more to position my chinchou against the molt. fsr iride just lets me have it which removes one of the possible obstacles to crab who couldve burned it.
darkvally is revealed which is v interesting - its like kurayami but lacking spin, sr, and 40 spa, so im not sure whats the upside to using silvally over it. they mustve thought i would get forced out so they double to kyogre which just allows me to get a big volt on it. i go to steelvally and consider defogging but am concerned about something like specs opulse or something so i uturn back into chinchou as it clicks cm so its forced back to darkvally who takes 24 from volt, making it spd in retrospect (+2 252+ SpA Chinchou Volt Switch vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Silvally-Dark: 88-105 (22.3 - 26.6%) -- 19.1% chance to 4HKO). i kinda expected some type of plot set with like flamethrower to beat metapod so this raises more questions lol.
i take the time to defog with steelvally as they go back to kyogre and scald on the chinchou switch. smelmetal tanks the volt as i go to crab to block the sr with taunt, but they go to grimace to threaten stanky leg so i have to go back to steelvally as they double smelmetal.
i click a waiting move (and forget about iron nose) as they predict a switch and fail toxic lol. unfortunately i uturn and get caught by the second toxic but i still slow switch on the grimace to bring in chinchou and get some more chip with volt as it tries to stanky leg. i dont fall for the second stanky leg (though even if i had clicked pivoting i wouldve undersped anyway) and set rocks and dip back to crab to spam taunt and wisp to rack up rage fist hits. iride tries to roll a toxic chain psn with nihilego but doesnt get it so i get up to 150 bp. they also forget justified so i also get an atk boost and by then its basically game over.
i dont think my opp was very aware of some of the iron fist mechanics/overall meta so brought a mediocre team that couldnt handle my offensive mons. spammernoob please carry them
 
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:Gallade:Gladiator Gallades (2) vs (6) Fast & Furret:Furret:
Iron Fist: shreyashhy vs Tanny89k - shrey is on a generational run but they haven't played either of the greats yet
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: NoName6293 vs 1yr - bolding the former gourg
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: EJ vs NecasInTrouble - this one writes itself
Paleomons Gen 9: jawabarat vs solrock the great - solrock in paleo??? what the fuck????? qtfox and rarre haven't even hit the field yet but we're putting the 0-3 glace mainer in paleo. someone make it make sense
Teramax: presi vs Orangesodapop - i've heard presi has been thrown to the wolves so far when it comes to support, and unfortunately OSP feeds on the misery of others
Glacemons: rarh2 vs qtfox - ok qtfox HAS in fact hit the field. bolding the player i've heard of before
Blank Canvas Meta C: Joaf vs TTTech - bolding the 3-0 player
Random Tandem (Bo3): pixie909 vs bekama - pixie has racked up some great wins so far, and THE lucker will be hard pressed to mu fish now that kingambit has been axed

:tinkatuff::Tinkaton:Gigaton Spammers (5) vs (3) Torchics RD:Torchic:
Iron Fist: woo vs about15gals - i know woo
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Steam Buns vs Tempo di anguria - tempo is warmed up, while buns is only just hitting the field
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Leroipolux vs Ainzcrad - neither player has touched the tier before, but i have more faith in leroi
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs haxlolo - highlight match. bolding THE_CHUNGLER for old times' sake
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs Clas - pretty hype match as well. i think clas takes it here
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs HydreigonTheChild - hydrei's only been able to win against unprepared players so far, so i think spammer takes the upset here
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs CoruptedUsername - naming's season hasn't been too hot so far, but i think they're about to mount a comeback
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs hxmo - eva's had some tough matchups so far, while hxmo has been benched before now
 
Late with electraine match so im skipping it
Iron fist: anaconja vs big tony 2014 - ana probably wins most times but its payback for the chillion iron fist bug fixes notifs
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Airi vs hellom - airi has better record
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Mareep vs LOOR - believe more in the loor
Paleomons Gen 9: BenjiTho vs spell - Benji shares a lot with Red from the angry birds movie
Glacemons: Felilou vs Runo - I have seen runo be ruder on other tiers than glace
Blank Canvas Meta C:: omar vs Monai - Better wins from Monai
Random Tandem (Bo3): Peum vs zxgzxg - If I don't bold in favor of gourgs they tend to do better, i'll keep bolding like this to see if they finally break the curse.

:Gallade:Gladiator Gallades vs Fast & Furret:Furret:
Iron Fist: shreyashhy vs Tanny89k - Highlight match, shrey is having a crazy run
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: NoName6293 vs 1yr noname has yet to make a name for himself here
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: EJ vs NecasInTrouble - Necas doing well this season
Paleomons Gen 9: jawabarat vs solrock the great - why is solrock here
Teramax: presi vs Orangesodapop - Always bet against osp even when he stops frauding for a week
Glacemons: rarh2 vs qtfox - i'll be fr i was not aware rarh2 was a real person I thought it was a random bot account, let alone that he was drafted
Blank Canvas Meta C: Joaf vs TTTech - Going with the Tinder Master
Random Tandem (Bo3): pixie909 vs bekama - Pixie hard carrying the gallades

:tinkatuff::Tinkaton:Gigaton Spammers vs Torchics RD:Torchic:
Iron Fist: woo vs about15gals - Mod tax im sorry my brother
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Steam Buns vs Tempo di anguria - Gigatons not slotting John Oras in Megas Rev from week 1 is probably why they sixth seed currently
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Leroipolux vs Ainzcrad - Ainz has my nepotism favoritism
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs haxlolo - Lolo the strongest Torchic while CHUNGLER has been running out of steam
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs Clas - olk played weird last week
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs HydreigonTheChild - something is getting banned this week
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs CoruptedUsername - Going with the dave killer
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs hxmo - more trust in evakiyama
 
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