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Tournament PMPL V - Week Three

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  • Schedule via Smogon VMs or in your team's war room in the Discord. It's easier for me to make decisions for activity calls when I can actually see what went down with scheduling.
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Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Semi-finals | Finals
Administrative Decisions | Commencement | Spreadsheet | Replays and Usage

:Furret:Fast & Furret (5) vs (3) Dave's Daschbuns:Dachsbun:
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs big tony 2014
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs hellom
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs LOOR
Paleomons Gen 9: Lyna vs Nashrock
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs mielke
Glacemons: solrock the great vs Runo
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs Monai
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs zxgzxg

:Torchic:Torchics RD (6) vs (2) Gladiator Gallades:Gallade:
Iron Fist: about15gals vs shreyashhy
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Tempo di anguria vs NoName6293
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: The Hisui Region vs EJ
Paleomons Gen 9: haxlolo vs jawabarat
Teramax: Clas vs LB
Glacemons: HydreigonTheChild vs presi
Blank Canvas Meta C: CoruptedUsername vs sheepie
Random Tandem (Bo3): eldids vs pixie909

:Tinkaton:Gigaton Spammers (0) vs (8) Workers Union of Gourgsokyo:Gourgeist:
Iron Fist: Iride vs anaconja
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Leroipolux vs Airi
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: volcaronavgc vs Mareep
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs ihbst
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs ElectraineHeart
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs Felilou
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs omar
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs Peum


Deadline for Week 3 is <t:1785729540:F>. GLHF!

Fast & Furret (0) vs (0) Dave's Daschbuns
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs big tony 2014
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs hellom
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs LOOR
Paleomons Gen 9: Lyna vs spell
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs mielke
Glacemons: solrock the great vs Runo
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs Monai
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs zxgzxg

Torchics RD (0) vs (0) Gladiator Gallades
Iron Fist: about15gals vs shreyashhy
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Tempo di anguria vs NoName6293
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: The Hisui Region vs EJ
Paleomons Gen 9: haxlolo vs jawabarat
Teramax: Clas vs LB
Glacemons: HydreigonTheChild vs presi
Blank Canvas Meta C: PixelBob vs Jojen
Random Tandem (Bo3): eldids vs pixie909

Gigaton Spammers (0) vs (0) Workers Union of Gourgsokyo
Iron Fist: Iride vs anaconja
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Leroipolux vs Airi
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Steam Buns vs Mareep
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs ihbst
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs ElectraineHeart
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs Felilou
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs omar
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs Peum
 
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Fast & Furret (3) vs (5) Dave's Daschbuns
Iron Fist: Tanny89k vs big tony 2014 - hard to say as both are the similar level, but tanny is coming from a win
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: 1yr vs hellom - hellom just cause daves win this match up i feel
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: NecasInTrouble vs LOOR - Necas tends to make blunders but can always claw back, but the LOOR seems to be on their element
Paleomons Gen 9: Lyna vs spell - The PMPL council has spoken, spell is the sacrifice to get Daves on finals
Teramax: Orangesodapop vs mielke - Always bet against osp
Glacemons: solrock the great vs Runo - Going for the OG council member.
Blank Canvas Meta C: TTTech vs Monai - TTTech has a higher chance of winning the earlier he play, unfortunately, dave are professionals at johning.
Random Tandem (Bo3): bekama vs zxgzxg - two people who let me down last week, bekama at least won a game

Torchics RD (4) vs (4) Gladiator Gallades
Iron Fist: about15gals vs shreyashhy - gals is not having a good season, shrey is
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Tempo di anguria vs NoName6293 - Going with the world champ
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: The Hisui Region vs EJ - Unsure, probably THR
Paleomons Gen 9: haxlolo vs jawabarat - lolo currently carrying the torchics
Teramax: Clas vs LB - Similar ability, going with LB since gallades probably tie the week
Glacemons: HydreigonTheChild vs presi - HTC will probably bring some bullshit on a non mainer
Blank Canvas Meta C: PixelBob vs Jojen - Similar level, Jojen i think got a better enviroment for prep
Random Tandem (Bo3): eldids vs pixie909 - pixie doing really good right now

Gigaton Spammers (4) vs (4) Workers Union of Gourgsokyo
Iron Fist: Iride vs anaconja - bananaconja
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Leroipolux vs Airi - the Megas Rev pool is extremely competitive and equal, going with airi since gigatons keep nearly choking their weeks
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Steam Buns vs Mareep - why is buns here
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs ihbst - Chungling it
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs ElectraineHeart - Going with the super ayayin
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs Felilou - Spammy from Miami
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs omar - going to believe in don omar once more
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs Peum - high price tax
 
Gekokeso said:
Gigaton Spammers (4) vs (4) Workers Union of Gourgsokyo
Iron Fist: Iride vs anaconja - bananaconja
[Gen 6] Megas Revisited: Leroipolux vs Airi - the Megas Rev pool is extremely competitive and equal, going with airi since gigatons keep nearly choking their weeks
Fusion Evolution Gen 9: Steam Buns vs Mareep - why is buns here
Paleomons Gen 9: THE_CHUNGLER vs ihbst - Chungling it
Teramax: One Last Kiss vs ElectraineHeart - Going with the super ayayin
Glacemons: Spammernoob vs Felilou - Spammy from Miami
Blank Canvas Meta C: hi.naming is hard vs omar - going to believe in don omar once more
Random Tandem (Bo3): evakiyama! vs Peum - high price tax
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this is the mons equivalent of voting for cuomo bc of name recognition
:gardevoir-mega::muk::minun::silvally-grass::nihilego: Tanny89k vs Iride :metapod::groudon::zacian-crowned:
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tanny brings another strange-looking bulky balance vs iride's bulky offense (or balance depending on the zacc set). groudon is an interesting sight here since it sets sun for no clear abuser besides maybe bitter blade anarlvet/zacc, or maybe its just being used for wisp + sr + rock resist though collachet handles rocks fine. nedontrol throwing to the other two dh mons makes it so you could call it semi-dh but honestly i define the archetype by its access to madness counter so i probably wouldnt.
tanny rolls a bad lead mu with nihilego vs nedon so volts to grimace on a weak jurassic feast (this was a fine time for iride to sr here). grimace clicks a free incinerate removing nedon's recovery as it pivots to groudon to threaten it out, getting chunked by zestii's juice wave as it sets spikes. tanny pivots on the forced switch to metapod, bringing in lego to get another free volt on nedon but unfortunately not procing toxic chain. she gets princirang megad but nedon scouts focus blast with protect and goes to metapod as prince cms and smacks metapod as its forced to uturn into zacc. zacc seems to be an offensive set clicking looksmaxx on the zestii, who gets a lucky poison on nedon after metapod tries to chip it with uturn. grimace gets a kind of lucky crit on groudon finishing it off (0 SpA Grimace Incinerate (97.5 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Groudon in Sun: 125-148 (32.5 - 38.5%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO) which cuts off the spikes who wouldve otherwise chipped prince down. if you think about it the crit chance + the roll makes it a coinflip so its not tooo bad.
zacc comes into the grimace, which is an interesting choice considering its incinerate in sun is gonna do a billion. tanny, expecting something like pblades which wouldve 2hkod it, goes to sillyvally as it reveals its indeed bitter blade. iride is forced out to metapod as tanny removes the spikes as well as the healing that metapod wouldve gotten from gterrain. the problem is becoming clear with iride that they cannot break through the formidable def core of grimace/zestii/sillyvally with their 3 physical attackers, especially with no hazards (though theyre probably all hdb against no knock anyway). the main way of progress is zacc looksmaxxing the zestii to little avail as with the def boost from madness counter its able to tank the hits and click juice wave when iride lowers their guard. 38 turns in nedon finally sets rocks to no avail as grimace just facetanks all of zacc/anarlvet/zacc's attacks and chips them to death, sealing the game.
i think this was just a fault of poor building - grimace is a top tier mon and its a mistake to have your three wincons do nothing into it (esp since all of them can at least learn ground coverage)

:meganium-mega::muk::ogerpon-cornerstone::nihilego::zacian-crowned: anaconja vs about15gals :nosepass::ludicolo::minun::absol::silcoon:
i bring bo vs about's hoenn balance. its quite bulky with the only big threats being like clangsoul ludicolo and sd absol, but it could be sd silcoon as well. smelmetal from the great slate 2 returns even though imo it fell off hard with the rises of zacc and other steels who have better utility/recovery. i have a pretty good mu considering this then because grimace handles absol just fine, though ludicolo might pose a problem with hoenn lover. worst case i have zacc tera bug.
i lead lemon to mega as fast as possible considering the only switchin is nosepass/minun who cant really touch me. i knock the incoming nosepass's hdb and go to zacc to spike as it uses its own spikes and pivots around to silcoon. silcoon reveals its lefties uturn so thats one less attacker i have to worry about. kurayami comes in on nosepass since its only bug move is leech life which is hard to click, which allows me to spin the spikes that got racked up. i reveal a big ep on smelmetal, basically killing it since it gets knocked to 11% with a spike up. minun comes in and i go to zacc since it doesnt care too much about getting paralyzed. unfortunately i somehow forget that it can use counter and uturn to grimace showing how ridiculous counter is:
火花 used U-turn!
(The opposing COPY AND PASTIME lost 20% of its health!)

火花 went back to anaconja!
Go! ヴィオレッタ (Grimace)!

The opposing COPY AND PASTIME used Counter!
(ヴィオレッタ lost 43% of its health!)
(ヴィオレッタ lost 43% of its health!)
The Pokémon was hit 2 times!
this is actually really bad because i lose my absol check unless i can get a heal on nosepass. in retrospect you want fun!? was clearly the correct choice to scout this, but i think i expected a switch to silcoon so i wanted to pivot to like lemonganium to force more chip on nosepass. either way i accept my fate on zacc and get another spike up before dying to counter, sending out lemon to play out the situation described above. incinerate unfortunately does peanuts thanks to hoenn sniffer but getting toxicd is actually pretty good for me since that means i can keep my speed against defensive silcoon and ludicolo. silcoon comes in on my booger switch, threatening uturn, so i have to go back to lemonganium. fortunately minun comes in and clicks tect allowing me to heal up and then force it to wishtect with ep while i go to lego and set rocks.
about resets momentum by sacking nosepass while i heal back up and then they send out ludicolo. i thought at first it was hoenn lover since it didnt proc anything, but learning later that i had erroneously coded nosepass to not be hoenn it mustve been hoenn stan, making it too slow and thus kod easily by lemon.
minun comes back in and teras to evade lemon acid/ep but i go into lego to save poison chip. this is great for me since this is no longer a good lego check, but it gets a para on me which forces me to start switching around with lemon and lego. about resets momentum again sacking smelmetal and then gets a lucky para on lego clicking sd with absol. i try to check it with lemon expecting knock/cc/sucker like what tony used, but it reveals stone edge and kills me (not sure what this was for in retrospect it doesnt hit like anything relevant except lemon). fortunately i luck out with about forgetting silly resists knock so i beat it that way, and then lego closes out the game.
even though i had a great mu i made a huge mistake with the zacc uturn which shouldve cost me the game had about remembered type mus. My bad!

:victreebel-mega::pheromosa::throh::hydrapple::celesteela::zacian-crowned: shreyashhy vs big tony 2014 :girafarig::minun::vanilluxe::metapod::celesteela:
shrey comes in with a team that looks strikingly like one ive used, just replacing everhal with hydralemon. a pretty good call considering hydralemon offers better resistances + regen, i dont remember actually why i was using everhal (probably being a fat dragon who can ohko metapod with flare blitz idk). big tony brings a bulky looking team but im not sure what it is yet. goddease is a pretty gimmicky mon who can use jtb with hazard stack, but fridgile being the sr setter is a little suspicious. maybe pressure? fridgile is also usually used as a veil or sand setter but theres like 2 setup mons and no cowboy so its definitely very strange looking.
shrey leads pidown against minun and immediately we get the answer when minun reveals trump card. best friends + trump card is a devious combo but initially flew under the radar because it had nerfed stats at the time. anyway pidown chunks it so it has to go into metapod as pidown then throws it out to girafarig and then goes to celesteela. unfortunately this gives tony the opportunity to heal minun back up. shrey at least seeds it and goes to zacc, who is surprisingly identity crisis. i suppose its an option to sometimes be faster than the opponent, but the variance makes it hard to justify in a tour match esp the second to last one of the week when the team was 2-4 at the time. it doesnt matter too much here tbf as even though zacc is now a simisage minun is actually quite weak so it can stay in and roll mons.
shrey gets pretty lucky getting mons that arent lcs as he sets hazards and paralyzes the metapod who spins them away, but in the process allows tony to stack more trump cards - hes at 15 by the time he uses his final trump card on minun on victreebelmega. tony brings in metapod to spin again but forgets fly eater and eats a +2 sludge bomb, having to sack fridge to bring out qd goddease. turns out its in fact jtb but with no hazards since fridge didnt get the opportunity to set it, though tbf half of the team resists it so its not too much of a loss. shrey checks goddease with celesteela but is not strong enough to prevent it from getting an extra 3 trump cards before dying to hydra's fickle beam. finally the balatro blaster comes in and ohkos celesteela before getting forced out by zacc threatening a fast nuzzle. tony sacks metapod to get girafarig back in safely and set an esper wing up to outspeed zacc, but not before eating a lemon acid.
it seems lost for shrey - this is a 400 bp move hes facing after all - but then a miracle occurs:

Turn 40​

Hydralemon has Terastallized into the Bug-type!

Hydralemon used Swift Squirt!
A critical hit!
(The opposing Girafarig lost 76% of its health!)

The opposing Girafarig fainted!
☆TONY FRESH: bru
now this is actually not too much of a miracle; in fact, its the same calc as the crit from tanny (252+ SpA Choice Specs Hydralemon Swift Squirt vs. -1 0 HP / 0 SpD Girafarig-Mega: 195-229 (69.3 - 81.4%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO) so shrey effectively won a coinflip. and with tonys wincon dead it isnt long until victreebel finishes the last mons off, clinching a close win for gaboswampert.
Victreebel used Lemon Acid!
(The opposing minun and plusle : lost 39% of its health!)

The opposing minun and plusle : fainted!

Gaboswampert won the battle!
☆shreyashhy: gg
☆TONY FRESH: gg
☆shreyashhy: who the fuck is gaboswampert???
so err there was actually a bug that was making minun set 3 trump cards each time it was used when it shouldve been 2. that means tony shouldve had 4 less at the end of it though tbf it doesnt make the calc that much better:
252 SpA Parental Bond 18 trump cards Girafarig-Mega Balatro Blast (400 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Hydralemon: 490-577 (117.7 - 138.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Parental Bond 14 trump cards Girafarig-Mega Balatro Blast (320 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Hydralemon: 392-462 (94.2 - 111%) -- 68.4% chance to OHKO
(assuming timid girafarig and max hp hydra)
but yeah i mentioned last year about how balatro blast is limited by it being resisted by bug, but this shows its other weakness in that if the main abuser dies you kinda just lose the game if you hinge your gameplan too much on it. it was due to a coinflip but yeah yknow.
 
Predictions:
Orangesodapop vs mielke - I only make negative aura by predicting OSP. If OSP wins, I'll stop doing these cause I'm just bad :p
Plus I trust mielke.

Clas vs LB - I was gonna give this one to Slikkles, but since they don't play this round, I'm gonna go with Clas since I know them. The reason why I was gonna bet on Slikkles is, while I do believe Clas is a good player, they can get ahead of themselves and this can cost them the game at one point. Still, I don't know LB, so I'm going with Clas.

One Last Kiss vs ElectraineHeart - I think this could go either way. Both are good players and it really depends on the team. If EH has another situation where their opponent has a mon they cannot reasonably deal with longterm, they loose but the same applies to OLK.



 
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