Hi smogon. In the time ive been on this site lurking around in the forums or simply just hiding away from the discussion. I’ve been trying to figure out a true way to actually give something to the community. I’ve read warstories and liked how the battle is portrayed and left with in depth commentary so that you could literally feel the tension happening in the battle. I wanted to try making one as well so I felt that would be a great way to give back to the community. Seeing that there is always OU battles on warstories, one challenge cup, 2 doubles, 1 triples, no lc, and a few ubers, I decided that making one that is not ou would interest the community the most, and with balance being the most important thing that everyone’s trying to achieve with the policy review, so why not use the balanced uber tier?
So while looking for a match on the ladder to write about after being on a losing streak thanks to watching HAX in 4D destroy my team. In a desperate attempt to stop watching hax (to think that’s cruel and unsusual punishment too), the living movie and to get a good battle in an incredibly hot summer, I turned on the computer and started searching. Little did I know that the match I was about to get was going to be full of the most intense mind games I’ve ever experienced.
Note: This piece/warstory was written by an amateur
Secondary note: Leftovers and passive healing like rain dish is omitted after their first mention to make the battle much shorter.
Another note: My comments are in dark red, log is bolded, and score + hp + status of pokes+ crucial predictions at the turn is located at the bottom of the comments in normal black font.
The team preview
Mr.lol’s team
Cheap_uber_battler’s team
I see my oppenents team and I make a few predictions before the battle. It’s obviously a sun team since it has groudon and since he has no dragon resist other then forry. I’m pretty confident that his arceus is holding the iron plate and has some special defense evs invested into it since dragons would be killer id not. Either that or im succumbing to the fact that just about every team has a dragon resist ._. Rayquaza can get an unsuspecting ohko into that groudon due to the fact its natures + evs were specifically designed to do that and since it’s a sun team chances are pretty high that he will lead with groudon so rayquaza it is. Also im pretty confident that palkia in there is designed to counter specsogre so its either scarf or an all out attacker. Regardless of the case, the fact that this team’s worst enemy, ho-oh is in there, means that im going to need to keep kyogre alive and get rid of groudon very quickly.
Battle between cheap_uber_battler and Mr.loltestgimmicks started!
Tier: Wifi Ubers
Variation: +23, -9
Rule: Rated
Rule: Sleep Clause
Rule: Species Clause
Rule: Wifi Battle
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Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Rayquaza!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Groudon!
Rayquaza has Air Lock!
The foe's Groudon's Drought intensified the sun's rays!
Groudon leads the other team off and since rayquaza's out, I can ohko it with a draco meteor if its the standard support groudon. Almost every groudon is confident enough to stone edge Rayquaza into oblivion and believe that it can take on a rayquaza and be at least 3hkoed by an outrage. I hope he doesn’t run some special groudon and that my meteors hit their target.
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Vs.
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Start of turn 1
Rayquaza used Draco Meteor!
The foe's Groudon lost 100% of its health!
The foe's Groudon fainted!
Rayquaza's Sp. Att. sharply fell!
Rayquaza is hurt by its Life Orb!
The sunlight is strong!
Groudon's gone and I’ve literally won the weather war meaning the downpours shall continue once they start… which may take a while. Ho-oh’s effectiveness as being the largest threat to this team just went down to something that can’t hurt a wrumple.
cheap_uber_battler sent out Ho-Oh!
The foe's Ho-Oh is exerting its Pressure!
He sends ho-oh out I guess to abuse the limited sun before it goes down. I know it has a pitiful base 90 defense stat and an amazing special defense base of 154. However its too risky outraging in front of ho-oh since he has forretress and I think he knows that too. I do know that extremespeed should do a decent chunk of damage and since almost every ho-oh runs sub I think he will be tempted to roost afterwards. If I manage to switch into him on the roost I know I can attempt to get this bird phased out of here and the next time he comes back hopefully can be when the downpour starts.
Rayquaza:90% - 2 Sp. Atk
Ho-oh: 100%
Score: 5-6
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Start of turn 2
Rayquaza used ExtremeSpeed!
The foe's Ho-Oh lost 28% of its health!
Rayquaza is hurt by its Life Orb!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Substitute!
The foe's Ho-Oh made a substitute!
The sunlight is strong!
The foe's Ho-Oh restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
Part 1 of my tiny two part plan is complete. Now time to get this phoenix out of here. I can switch to Arceus on what I think will be the roost. If Arceus can get in safely, he can use perish song to put pressure on him and give me time to a) think of my next moves, and b) make it rain.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-1
Cheap_uber_battler-0
Rayquaza: 80% -2 Sp. Atk
Ho-oh: 53% + sub
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Start of turn 3
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Rayquaza back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Arceus-Ghost!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Roost!
The foe's Ho-Oh landed on the ground!
The foe's Ho-Oh regained health!
My plan managed to get through perfectly. I managed to safely get arceus in, and in exchange Ho-oh gets a free sub. The sub should be useless after a perish song though. He did show me that he has sub and roost, which means he probably has sacred fire and brave bird as coverage moves. Regardless time to sing a depressing song D:.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-2
Cheap_uber_battler-0
Arceus-ghost: 100%
Ho-oh: 100% + sub
The sunlight is strong!
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Start of turn 4
Arceus-Ghost used Perish Song!
All Pokémon hearing the song will faint in three turns!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Sacred Fire!
Arceus-Ghost lost 228 HP! (51% of its health)
Arceus-Ghost was burned!
The sunlight is strong!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Arceus-Ghost's perish count fell to 3.
The foe's Ho-Oh's perish count fell to 3.
Sigh arceus gets burned D: wouldn’t call that hax though since it’s a 50% chance of happening. Well the clock is ticking and I just put a lot of pressure on ho-oh. I run enough speed evs to outspeed all base 90s, so I do know I can recover the damage off before he can go for the sacred fire. I think going into kyogre would be a better choice though since he probably knows he can’t do anything to arceus with a brave bird. I don’t know though, I feel it’s too risky, and if ho-oh brave birds, kyogre will have only taken the weather away, and crippled himself for the rest of the match. I can't afford to have one of the two things on my team that can reliably damage ho-oh down, so Arceus can just stay in and stomach any attack.
Arceus-ghost: 37% + burn + 3 turn perish song count
Ho-oh: 100% + sub + 3 turn perish song count
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Vs.
Start of turn 5
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Brave Bird!
Arceus-Ghost lost 174 HP! (39% of its health)
The foe's Ho-Oh is hit with recoil!
The sunlight is strong!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Arceus-Ghost's perish count fell to 2.
The foe's Ho-Oh's perish count fell to 2.
Another perish song turn passes and the pressure put on ho-oh is magnified. Arceus can take 1 more sacred fire hit in the sun and then take advantage of the fact ho-oh is going to be forced to switch next turn. If he switches now I get free recovery, but then next turn I’ll be forced to switch. Still looks like recovering is the best move and arceus needs healing.
Arceus-ghost: 36%+ burn+ perish song count 2
Ho-oh:100%+sub+ perish song count 2
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Start of turn 6
cheap_uber_battler called Ho-Oh back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Giratina-O!
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
The sunlight is strong!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Arceus-Ghost's perish count fell to 1.
He decides to switch out this turn meaning all the pressure ho-oh had on him just got transfered to arceus. To make matters worse giratina-o can threaten most of the team with a STAB dragon type move and hp fire, the two moves that arceus can easily stomach. If arceus does stomach the blow, he'll die from his own depressing singing. He’s my only mixed wall and probably the only thing that can take hits from ho-oh. I think switching is obvious to my opponent, but right now the question is how will cheap_uber_battler react to my switch. Going for the dragon type move seems like the best option for hittting something unknown because of the incredible coverage it gets but that means switching in a steel type is the only way to get an advantage. If he predicts that and goes for the hp fire, ill lose a steel since the sun is shining. Hp fire can be taken by kyogre, and I don’t want my steels to go down yet.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-2
Cheap_uber_battler-1
Arceus-ghost: 74% + burn + perish song count 1
Giratina-o: 100%
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Start of turn 7
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Arceus-Ghost back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Kyogre!
Kyogre's Drizzle made it rain!
The foe's Giratina-O used Shadow Sneak!
Kyogre lost 100 HP! (29% of its health)
Rain continues to fall!
Or he could be sneaky with his shadows, but regardless I managed to make it rain and nothing can stop the rain now (except rayquaza). However, almost every giratina-o runs Hp fire, (especcialy if it’s a sun team), draco meteor, and shadow sneak. I think its safe to assume that the last move is outrage. Regardless I do have something that can take dragon hits from both sides of the spectrum. Since it’s so unused it can easily change the tempo of the match and I can take advantage of my opponent’s reaction. I probably am the only person that uses a dual screen rachi that abuses the fact that its common switch in’s to the hax maker set are destroyed by rayquaza.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-1
Kyogre: 71%
Giratina-o: 100%
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Start of turn 8
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Kyogre back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Jirachi!
The foe's Giratina-O used Draco Meteor!
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 105 HP! (25% of its health)
The foe's Giratina-O's Sp. Att. sharply fell!
Rain continues to fall!
Jirachi took the draco meteor nicely and i think its time to set up some screens. I expect cheap_uber_battler to send in forretress since that can take being paraflinched to death. My idea is completely different though. I’m going to cripple my opponents palkia that’s hiding in there with a light screen so that it cannot touch my ferrothorn and so that I can ease my prediction.
Crucial Predictions: Mr.lol- 4
Cheap_uber_battler- 1
Jirachi: 75%
Giratina-o: 100%
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Start of turn 9
cheap_uber_battler called Giratina-O back!SS
cheap_uber_battler sent out Ho-Oh!
The foe's Ho-Oh is exerting its Pressure!
Jirachi used Light Screen!
Light Screen raised Mr.loltestgimmicks's team special defense!
Rain continues to fall!
And he sends in ho-oh instead… I have absolutely no idea why. Fire types can take steel moves and he can pp stall me out of them is my best guess. I don't know what my opponent's reasoning is, but I do know that jirachi will take more from a sacred fire from ho-oh then a brave bird, and that ho-oh has no special moves. Setting up a reflect can help the rest of the team take all of ho-oh's hits, which looks like the best option, so that will be what jirachi will use.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-2
Jirachi: 75% + Light screen
Ho-oh: 100%
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Start of turn 10
The foe's Ho-Oh used Substitute!
The foe's Ho-Oh made a substitute!
Jirachi used Reflect!
Reflect raised Mr.loltestgimmicks's team defense!
Rain continues to fall!
I set up a reflect showing that phoenix it’s teddy bear in High definition while weakening any sacred fire’s/brave birds that he may use. I want to get a free switch to kyogre who can surf to threaten that bird out so I'm going to u-turn to scout and damage that teddy bear by a non-existent percentage.
Jirachi: 75% + light screen + reflect
Ho-oh: 81%%+substitute
: 80%
75%
100%
100%
71%
Known to be ghost: 74% + burn
Hazards:
Mr.lol: none
Cheap_uber_battler: none
Score: 6-5
Crucial Prediction count:
Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-2
Plan: Scout out what form his arceus is and get some hazards up to make arceus’s phasing of ho-oh useful. Prevent forry from setting up hazards at the same time to let me keep my switching.
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Start of turn 11
The foe's Ho-Oh used Sacred Fire!
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 84 HP! (20% of its health)
Jirachi was burned!
Jirachi used U-turn!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Ho-Oh's substitute took the damage!
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Jirachi back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Kyogre!
Rain continues to fall!
Jirachi gets burned too but he shouldn’t care about it. I can actually use kyogre now since he’s shielded by a reflect, and not 2hkoed by the brave bird. Drowning that bird with surf can do some damage to this monster with a base 154 sp def. I know he’s going to use the sub to his advantage and use it just to see what move I use. He can then check whether I'm choiced by sending in a pokemon that resist's the move. Sadly I am choiced so I have to fall victim to this, but I can chose whether surfing or thundering is a better idea. Locking myself into a surf will make him want to switch in to palkia, while locking myself into thunder … I don’t want some arceus who might be grass to come in and set up calm mind's from a thunder. If its ground… oh no swords dance sweep D:.
Kyogre: 71% + light screen + reflect
Ho-oh: 87% + sub
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Start of turn 12
Kyogre used Surf!
It's super effective!
The foe's Ho-Oh's substitute faded!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Brave Bird!
Kyogre lost 135 HP! (39% of its health)
The foe's Ho-Oh is hit with recoil!
Rain continues to fall!
I know he doesn’t want to be drowned so it’s obvious he’s going to switch to palkia. Wait what if he knows I know he’s going to switch something into a favorable match-up against palkia? That might be the case and if it is the case then surfing is the best way to get damage on something even if it is a palkia.
Kyogre: 32%+ light screen+ reflect
Ho-oh: 93%
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Start of turn 13
cheap_uber_battler called Ho-Oh back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Palkia!
The foe's Palkia is exerting its Pressure!
Kyogre used Surf!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Palkia lost 19% of its health!
Rain continues to fall!
Well cheap_uber_battler didn't expect me to switch or he see I’m still at a disadvantage in this case, and I’m pretty sure he will go for the thunder since all palkia carry it, and im tempted to switch into ferrothorn to resist the blow. Palkia also learns fire blast though, and he could be predicting that. Tentacruel can take any hit from that thing behind a light screen including a thunder so switching to tentacruel seems like the best option.
Kyogre: 32%+ light screen+ reflect
Palkia: 81%
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Start of turn 14
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Kyogre back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Tentacruel!
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's super effective!
Tentacruel lost 104 HP! (28% of its health)
Rain continues to fall!
Tentacruel's Rain Dish heals it!
Tentacruel restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
Gee, I wonder how stall and to a greater extent trickroom works behind all this prediction madness <.<. Trickroom if you are reading this please kindly comment on how you do it. Now back to the story, Tentacruel takes the thunder nicely and I do know that it can take quite a few more so I’m going to set up my toxic spikes now to attempt to poison arceus, and palkia whenever he comes back.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-3
Tentacruel: 84%+ light screen + reflect
Palkia: 81%
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Start of turn 15
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's super effective!
Tentacruel lost 102 HP! (28% of its health)
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes!
Poison spikes were scattered all around the feet of cheap_uber_battler's team!
Rain continues to fall!
Tentacruel takes another thunder wonderfully, (looks at forry and asks him to take a flamethrower). Now all the phasing that arceus will be doing will actually have something coming in return.
Tentacruel: 68% +light screen + reflect
Palkia: 81% + 1 layer of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 16
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's super effective!
Tentacruel lost 100 HP! (27% of its health)
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes!
Poison spikes were scattered all around the feet of cheap_uber_battler's team!
Mr.loltestgimmicks's light screen wore off!
Rain continues to fall!
Light screen wore off last turn, so I can’t take another thunder nearly as nicely as earlier. I’m going to protect to get some free recovery and enjoy my rain. I’m almost certain he won’t take advantage of my want for recovery and switch on the protect. It’s like that urge you have to hit ferrothorn with a flamethrower when the rain finally goes away, except you don't know it has protect. Of course if that situation happened I’d use rayquaza since he could care less about that but that’s beyond the point.
Tentacruel: 52% + reflect
Palkia: 81% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 17
Tentacruel used Protect!
Tentacruel protected itself!
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
Tentacruel protected itself!
Mr.loltestgimmicks's reflect wore off!
Rain continues to fall!
All right now I need to figure out if this thing really is scarfed or just something holding a lustrous orb bluffing the scarf. I’ll switch to ferrothorn to resist the thunder, get some spike support, and check palkia’s item.
Tentacruel: 64%
Palkia: 81% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 18
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Tentacruel back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Ferrothorn!
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's not very effective...
Ferrothorn lost 74 HP! (21% of its health)
Rain continues to fall!
Ferrothorn restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
Actually since I’m in safely why not just turn palkia with a purpose to palkia useless? If I manage to paralyze palkia whether he’s scarf or an all out attacker he will have to become useless. Anything else that comes in also won’t like being paralyzed or poisoned so it’s a win-win situation.
Ferrothorn: 85%
Palkia: 81% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 19
cheap_uber_battler called Palkia back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Forretress!
Ferrothorn used Thunder Wave!
The foe's Forretress is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!
Rain continues to fall!
Remember when I said earlier nothing would like being either paralyzed or poisoned? I admit I was wrong. If forretress has gyro ball I just amplified its power. I don’t want forretress to spin tentacruel’s hard earned hazards away so I’m going to go to my arceus-ghost to spin block, because I need that palkia to be poisoned since cheap_uber_battler obviously is not going to bring it into its doom. Still I figured one thing out for sure, palkia was definetly scarfed since he switched out at the sight of the word its not very effective.
Ferrothorn: 91%
Forretress: 100% + paralysis + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 20
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Ferrothorn back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Arceus-Ghost!
The foe's Forretress used Volt Switch!
Arceus-Ghost lost 26 HP! (5% of its health)
cheap_uber_battler called Forretress back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Giratina-O!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Forretress didn’t spin but predicted a switch and used volt switch to take some momentum. Since most forretress run rapid spin + 2 hazards + extra move or rapid spin + hazard + pain split + extra, I beleive he doesn't have gyro ball. He sends out the dragon spin blocker that I probably could ko with judgment. I think I have enough hp to live a shadow sneak, and draco meteor can't ohko me because of my sp def investment so I’m going to get some health back.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_Uber_battler-4
Arceus-ghost: 62% + burn
Giratina-o: 100% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
: 80%
55% + burn
91%
64%
32%
Known to be ghost: 62% + burn
Hazards:
Mr.lol: 2 layers of Toxic spikes
Cheap_uber_battler: none
Score: 6-5
Crucial Prediction count:
Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-4
Plan: Scout out what form his arceus is and poison palkia. Prevent forry from setting up hazards at the same time to let me keep my switching.
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Start of turn 21
The foe's Giratina-O used Shadow Sneak!
It's super effective!
Arceus-Ghost lost 138 HP! (31% of its health)
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
All right so I can take a shadow sneak so that means I can recover until I get to decent hp and ko with a judgment. So just keep on recovering. Also I think I doubt it has outrage now for his last move since shadow sneak did such a low number. Whatever that move is though is beyond my sight right now so I’ll just have to wait. I might not even need to know what it is if I manage to kill it first.
Arceus-Ghost: 69% + burn
Giratina-o: 100%+ 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 22
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
The foe's Giratina-O used Dragon Tail!
Arceus-Ghost lost 105 HP! (23% of its health)
Rayquaza was dragged out!
Rayquaza has Air Lock!
Rain continues to fall!
He uses his last move, dragon tail, revealing to me giratina-o's move pool. Thankfully half the team doesn’t care about being phazed at the moment since there’s no spikes. Still I’ve been dragon tailed into something that ohkoes that living/dead dragon with some meteors. Forry won’t enjoy them and that living dead dragon must cease to break the laws of physics. Something’s going to get hurt here.
Rayquaza: 80%
Giratina-o: 100% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 23
cheap_uber_battler called Giratina-O back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Arceus-Steel!
Rayquaza used Draco Meteor!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Arceus-Steel lost 39% of its health!
Rayquaza's Sp. Att. sharply fell!
Rayquaza is hurt by its Life Orb!
Rain continues to fall!
Cheap_uber_battler sends in arceus-steel revealing to me his arceus form. The damage a resisted meteor did to Arceus was a bit odd though. Draco Meteor should have done something around 25% if he invested in a decent chunk of special defense. I feared this arceus and it’s a steel type without much Sp def investment. This means I can pull off a kyogre clean if I manage to get kyogre in safely, if I get rid of palkia, and destroy giratina-o. My end game plan is about to be formed mid game lol. Im going to need some hazards though in order to pull this clean off though and arceus-steel shouldn’t be able to touch ferrothorn, and I want to seed that thing.
Rayquaza: 70%
Arceus-Steel: 61% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 24
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Rayquaza back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Ferrothorn!
The foe's Arceus-Steel used Recover!
The foe's Arceus-Steel regained health!
Rain continues to fall!
I want some recovery and right now arceus should be a big large sitting duck, and ferrothorn should be able to get some recovery and set up at the same time. Since nothings a grass type on the other team I don’t have to worry too much about switches either. Ferrothorn doesn’t mind being burned either since his whole team pretty much resists power whip.
Ferrothorn: 91%
Arceus-Steel: 100% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 25
cheap_uber_battler called Arceus-Steel back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Forretress!
Ferrothorn used Leech Seed!
The foe's Forretress was seeded!
Rain continues to fall!
The foe's Forretress's health is sapped by leech seed.
With a clean in the middle of my mind I need to make sure that Forretress does not spin my hazards away. Cheap_uber_battler also only knows three of arceus’s moves, meaning I can still bluff that I have focus miss or fire blast with me for coverage.
Ferrothorn: 100%
Forretress: 90% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 26
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Ferrothorn back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Arceus-Ghost!
The foe's Forretress used Spikes!
Spikes were scattered all around the feet of Mr.loltestgimmicks's team!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
The foe's Forretress restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
The foe's Forretress's health is sapped by leech seed.
Forry comes in and predicts my ghostly switch in. I have the urge to use focus miss on him, when I really don’t have it, but he doesn’t know that. Since judgment and focus miss get perfect coverage im going to judge that forry because I predict a switch into something that resists fire blast or focus miss. Since ghost, fighting get perfect coverage, forry's switch in should be hit neutrally or SE wise from a judgment, if forry switches.
Forretress: 86% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
Arceus-Ghost: 88%ish+ 1 layer of spikes
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Start of turn 27
cheap_uber_battler called Forretress back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Giratina-O!
Arceus-Ghost used Judgment!
It's super effective!
The foe's Giratina-O lost 79% of its health!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
The focus miss threat was enough for him to send giratina into my trap. My end game clean is slowly turning into a threat that cheap_uber_battler doesn’t know of. He should send palkia to revenge this thing which will finally be poisoned and crippled. It doesn’t matter if arceus dies in the process, nothing else can be poisoned anyway by toxic spikes.
Crucial preditions: Mr.lol-4
Cheap_uber_battler-4
Ghost-Arceus: 76% + 1 layer of spikes
Giratina-o: 21% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
--- Because of smogon's image limit the rest of the warstory will be moved to the next post
So while looking for a match on the ladder to write about after being on a losing streak thanks to watching HAX in 4D destroy my team. In a desperate attempt to stop watching hax (to think that’s cruel and unsusual punishment too), the living movie and to get a good battle in an incredibly hot summer, I turned on the computer and started searching. Little did I know that the match I was about to get was going to be full of the most intense mind games I’ve ever experienced.
Note: This piece/warstory was written by an amateur
Secondary note: Leftovers and passive healing like rain dish is omitted after their first mention to make the battle much shorter.
Another note: My comments are in dark red, log is bolded, and score + hp + status of pokes+ crucial predictions at the turn is located at the bottom of the comments in normal black font.
The team preview
Mr.lol’s team
Cheap_uber_battler’s team
I see my oppenents team and I make a few predictions before the battle. It’s obviously a sun team since it has groudon and since he has no dragon resist other then forry. I’m pretty confident that his arceus is holding the iron plate and has some special defense evs invested into it since dragons would be killer id not. Either that or im succumbing to the fact that just about every team has a dragon resist ._. Rayquaza can get an unsuspecting ohko into that groudon due to the fact its natures + evs were specifically designed to do that and since it’s a sun team chances are pretty high that he will lead with groudon so rayquaza it is. Also im pretty confident that palkia in there is designed to counter specsogre so its either scarf or an all out attacker. Regardless of the case, the fact that this team’s worst enemy, ho-oh is in there, means that im going to need to keep kyogre alive and get rid of groudon very quickly.
Battle between cheap_uber_battler and Mr.loltestgimmicks started!
Tier: Wifi Ubers
Variation: +23, -9
Rule: Rated
Rule: Sleep Clause
Rule: Species Clause
Rule: Wifi Battle
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Rayquaza!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Groudon!
Rayquaza has Air Lock!
The foe's Groudon's Drought intensified the sun's rays!
Groudon leads the other team off and since rayquaza's out, I can ohko it with a draco meteor if its the standard support groudon. Almost every groudon is confident enough to stone edge Rayquaza into oblivion and believe that it can take on a rayquaza and be at least 3hkoed by an outrage. I hope he doesn’t run some special groudon and that my meteors hit their target.
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Start of turn 1
Rayquaza used Draco Meteor!
The foe's Groudon lost 100% of its health!
The foe's Groudon fainted!
Rayquaza's Sp. Att. sharply fell!
Rayquaza is hurt by its Life Orb!
The sunlight is strong!
Groudon's gone and I’ve literally won the weather war meaning the downpours shall continue once they start… which may take a while. Ho-oh’s effectiveness as being the largest threat to this team just went down to something that can’t hurt a wrumple.
cheap_uber_battler sent out Ho-Oh!
The foe's Ho-Oh is exerting its Pressure!
He sends ho-oh out I guess to abuse the limited sun before it goes down. I know it has a pitiful base 90 defense stat and an amazing special defense base of 154. However its too risky outraging in front of ho-oh since he has forretress and I think he knows that too. I do know that extremespeed should do a decent chunk of damage and since almost every ho-oh runs sub I think he will be tempted to roost afterwards. If I manage to switch into him on the roost I know I can attempt to get this bird phased out of here and the next time he comes back hopefully can be when the downpour starts.
Rayquaza:90% - 2 Sp. Atk
Ho-oh: 100%
Score: 5-6
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Start of turn 2
Rayquaza used ExtremeSpeed!
The foe's Ho-Oh lost 28% of its health!
Rayquaza is hurt by its Life Orb!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Substitute!
The foe's Ho-Oh made a substitute!
The sunlight is strong!
The foe's Ho-Oh restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
Part 1 of my tiny two part plan is complete. Now time to get this phoenix out of here. I can switch to Arceus on what I think will be the roost. If Arceus can get in safely, he can use perish song to put pressure on him and give me time to a) think of my next moves, and b) make it rain.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-1
Cheap_uber_battler-0
Rayquaza: 80% -2 Sp. Atk
Ho-oh: 53% + sub
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Start of turn 3
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Rayquaza back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Arceus-Ghost!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Roost!
The foe's Ho-Oh landed on the ground!
The foe's Ho-Oh regained health!
My plan managed to get through perfectly. I managed to safely get arceus in, and in exchange Ho-oh gets a free sub. The sub should be useless after a perish song though. He did show me that he has sub and roost, which means he probably has sacred fire and brave bird as coverage moves. Regardless time to sing a depressing song D:.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-2
Cheap_uber_battler-0
Arceus-ghost: 100%
Ho-oh: 100% + sub
The sunlight is strong!
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Start of turn 4
Arceus-Ghost used Perish Song!
All Pokémon hearing the song will faint in three turns!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Sacred Fire!
Arceus-Ghost lost 228 HP! (51% of its health)
Arceus-Ghost was burned!
The sunlight is strong!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Arceus-Ghost's perish count fell to 3.
The foe's Ho-Oh's perish count fell to 3.
Sigh arceus gets burned D: wouldn’t call that hax though since it’s a 50% chance of happening. Well the clock is ticking and I just put a lot of pressure on ho-oh. I run enough speed evs to outspeed all base 90s, so I do know I can recover the damage off before he can go for the sacred fire. I think going into kyogre would be a better choice though since he probably knows he can’t do anything to arceus with a brave bird. I don’t know though, I feel it’s too risky, and if ho-oh brave birds, kyogre will have only taken the weather away, and crippled himself for the rest of the match. I can't afford to have one of the two things on my team that can reliably damage ho-oh down, so Arceus can just stay in and stomach any attack.
Arceus-ghost: 37% + burn + 3 turn perish song count
Ho-oh: 100% + sub + 3 turn perish song count
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Start of turn 5
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Brave Bird!
Arceus-Ghost lost 174 HP! (39% of its health)
The foe's Ho-Oh is hit with recoil!
The sunlight is strong!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Arceus-Ghost's perish count fell to 2.
The foe's Ho-Oh's perish count fell to 2.
Another perish song turn passes and the pressure put on ho-oh is magnified. Arceus can take 1 more sacred fire hit in the sun and then take advantage of the fact ho-oh is going to be forced to switch next turn. If he switches now I get free recovery, but then next turn I’ll be forced to switch. Still looks like recovering is the best move and arceus needs healing.
Arceus-ghost: 36%+ burn+ perish song count 2
Ho-oh:100%+sub+ perish song count 2
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Start of turn 6
cheap_uber_battler called Ho-Oh back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Giratina-O!
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
The sunlight is strong!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Arceus-Ghost's perish count fell to 1.
He decides to switch out this turn meaning all the pressure ho-oh had on him just got transfered to arceus. To make matters worse giratina-o can threaten most of the team with a STAB dragon type move and hp fire, the two moves that arceus can easily stomach. If arceus does stomach the blow, he'll die from his own depressing singing. He’s my only mixed wall and probably the only thing that can take hits from ho-oh. I think switching is obvious to my opponent, but right now the question is how will cheap_uber_battler react to my switch. Going for the dragon type move seems like the best option for hittting something unknown because of the incredible coverage it gets but that means switching in a steel type is the only way to get an advantage. If he predicts that and goes for the hp fire, ill lose a steel since the sun is shining. Hp fire can be taken by kyogre, and I don’t want my steels to go down yet.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-2
Cheap_uber_battler-1
Arceus-ghost: 74% + burn + perish song count 1
Giratina-o: 100%
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Start of turn 7
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Arceus-Ghost back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Kyogre!
Kyogre's Drizzle made it rain!
The foe's Giratina-O used Shadow Sneak!
Kyogre lost 100 HP! (29% of its health)
Rain continues to fall!
Or he could be sneaky with his shadows, but regardless I managed to make it rain and nothing can stop the rain now (except rayquaza). However, almost every giratina-o runs Hp fire, (especcialy if it’s a sun team), draco meteor, and shadow sneak. I think its safe to assume that the last move is outrage. Regardless I do have something that can take dragon hits from both sides of the spectrum. Since it’s so unused it can easily change the tempo of the match and I can take advantage of my opponent’s reaction. I probably am the only person that uses a dual screen rachi that abuses the fact that its common switch in’s to the hax maker set are destroyed by rayquaza.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-1
Kyogre: 71%
Giratina-o: 100%
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Start of turn 8
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Kyogre back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Jirachi!
The foe's Giratina-O used Draco Meteor!
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 105 HP! (25% of its health)
The foe's Giratina-O's Sp. Att. sharply fell!
Rain continues to fall!
Jirachi took the draco meteor nicely and i think its time to set up some screens. I expect cheap_uber_battler to send in forretress since that can take being paraflinched to death. My idea is completely different though. I’m going to cripple my opponents palkia that’s hiding in there with a light screen so that it cannot touch my ferrothorn and so that I can ease my prediction.
Crucial Predictions: Mr.lol- 4
Cheap_uber_battler- 1
Jirachi: 75%
Giratina-o: 100%
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Start of turn 9
cheap_uber_battler called Giratina-O back!SS
cheap_uber_battler sent out Ho-Oh!
The foe's Ho-Oh is exerting its Pressure!
Jirachi used Light Screen!
Light Screen raised Mr.loltestgimmicks's team special defense!
Rain continues to fall!
And he sends in ho-oh instead… I have absolutely no idea why. Fire types can take steel moves and he can pp stall me out of them is my best guess. I don't know what my opponent's reasoning is, but I do know that jirachi will take more from a sacred fire from ho-oh then a brave bird, and that ho-oh has no special moves. Setting up a reflect can help the rest of the team take all of ho-oh's hits, which looks like the best option, so that will be what jirachi will use.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-2
Jirachi: 75% + Light screen
Ho-oh: 100%
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Start of turn 10
The foe's Ho-Oh used Substitute!
The foe's Ho-Oh made a substitute!
Jirachi used Reflect!
Reflect raised Mr.loltestgimmicks's team defense!
Rain continues to fall!
I set up a reflect showing that phoenix it’s teddy bear in High definition while weakening any sacred fire’s/brave birds that he may use. I want to get a free switch to kyogre who can surf to threaten that bird out so I'm going to u-turn to scout and damage that teddy bear by a non-existent percentage.
Jirachi: 75% + light screen + reflect
Ho-oh: 81%%+substitute
Hazards:
Mr.lol: none
Cheap_uber_battler: none
Score: 6-5
Crucial Prediction count:
Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-2
Plan: Scout out what form his arceus is and get some hazards up to make arceus’s phasing of ho-oh useful. Prevent forry from setting up hazards at the same time to let me keep my switching.
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Start of turn 11
The foe's Ho-Oh used Sacred Fire!
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 84 HP! (20% of its health)
Jirachi was burned!
Jirachi used U-turn!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Ho-Oh's substitute took the damage!
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Jirachi back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Kyogre!
Rain continues to fall!
Jirachi gets burned too but he shouldn’t care about it. I can actually use kyogre now since he’s shielded by a reflect, and not 2hkoed by the brave bird. Drowning that bird with surf can do some damage to this monster with a base 154 sp def. I know he’s going to use the sub to his advantage and use it just to see what move I use. He can then check whether I'm choiced by sending in a pokemon that resist's the move. Sadly I am choiced so I have to fall victim to this, but I can chose whether surfing or thundering is a better idea. Locking myself into a surf will make him want to switch in to palkia, while locking myself into thunder … I don’t want some arceus who might be grass to come in and set up calm mind's from a thunder. If its ground… oh no swords dance sweep D:.
Kyogre: 71% + light screen + reflect
Ho-oh: 87% + sub
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Start of turn 12
Kyogre used Surf!
It's super effective!
The foe's Ho-Oh's substitute faded!
The foe's Ho-Oh used Brave Bird!
Kyogre lost 135 HP! (39% of its health)
The foe's Ho-Oh is hit with recoil!
Rain continues to fall!
I know he doesn’t want to be drowned so it’s obvious he’s going to switch to palkia. Wait what if he knows I know he’s going to switch something into a favorable match-up against palkia? That might be the case and if it is the case then surfing is the best way to get damage on something even if it is a palkia.
Kyogre: 32%+ light screen+ reflect
Ho-oh: 93%
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Start of turn 13
cheap_uber_battler called Ho-Oh back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Palkia!
The foe's Palkia is exerting its Pressure!
Kyogre used Surf!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Palkia lost 19% of its health!
Rain continues to fall!
Well cheap_uber_battler didn't expect me to switch or he see I’m still at a disadvantage in this case, and I’m pretty sure he will go for the thunder since all palkia carry it, and im tempted to switch into ferrothorn to resist the blow. Palkia also learns fire blast though, and he could be predicting that. Tentacruel can take any hit from that thing behind a light screen including a thunder so switching to tentacruel seems like the best option.
Kyogre: 32%+ light screen+ reflect
Palkia: 81%
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Start of turn 14
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Kyogre back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Tentacruel!
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's super effective!
Tentacruel lost 104 HP! (28% of its health)
Rain continues to fall!
Tentacruel's Rain Dish heals it!
Tentacruel restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
Gee, I wonder how stall and to a greater extent trickroom works behind all this prediction madness <.<. Trickroom if you are reading this please kindly comment on how you do it. Now back to the story, Tentacruel takes the thunder nicely and I do know that it can take quite a few more so I’m going to set up my toxic spikes now to attempt to poison arceus, and palkia whenever he comes back.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-3
Tentacruel: 84%+ light screen + reflect
Palkia: 81%
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Start of turn 15
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's super effective!
Tentacruel lost 102 HP! (28% of its health)
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes!
Poison spikes were scattered all around the feet of cheap_uber_battler's team!
Rain continues to fall!
Tentacruel takes another thunder wonderfully, (looks at forry and asks him to take a flamethrower). Now all the phasing that arceus will be doing will actually have something coming in return.
Tentacruel: 68% +light screen + reflect
Palkia: 81% + 1 layer of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 16
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's super effective!
Tentacruel lost 100 HP! (27% of its health)
Tentacruel used Toxic Spikes!
Poison spikes were scattered all around the feet of cheap_uber_battler's team!
Mr.loltestgimmicks's light screen wore off!
Rain continues to fall!
Light screen wore off last turn, so I can’t take another thunder nearly as nicely as earlier. I’m going to protect to get some free recovery and enjoy my rain. I’m almost certain he won’t take advantage of my want for recovery and switch on the protect. It’s like that urge you have to hit ferrothorn with a flamethrower when the rain finally goes away, except you don't know it has protect. Of course if that situation happened I’d use rayquaza since he could care less about that but that’s beyond the point.
Tentacruel: 52% + reflect
Palkia: 81% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 17
Tentacruel used Protect!
Tentacruel protected itself!
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
Tentacruel protected itself!
Mr.loltestgimmicks's reflect wore off!
Rain continues to fall!
All right now I need to figure out if this thing really is scarfed or just something holding a lustrous orb bluffing the scarf. I’ll switch to ferrothorn to resist the thunder, get some spike support, and check palkia’s item.
Tentacruel: 64%
Palkia: 81% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 18
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Tentacruel back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Ferrothorn!
The foe's Palkia used Thunder!
It's not very effective...
Ferrothorn lost 74 HP! (21% of its health)
Rain continues to fall!
Ferrothorn restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
Actually since I’m in safely why not just turn palkia with a purpose to palkia useless? If I manage to paralyze palkia whether he’s scarf or an all out attacker he will have to become useless. Anything else that comes in also won’t like being paralyzed or poisoned so it’s a win-win situation.
Ferrothorn: 85%
Palkia: 81% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 19
cheap_uber_battler called Palkia back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Forretress!
Ferrothorn used Thunder Wave!
The foe's Forretress is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!
Rain continues to fall!
Remember when I said earlier nothing would like being either paralyzed or poisoned? I admit I was wrong. If forretress has gyro ball I just amplified its power. I don’t want forretress to spin tentacruel’s hard earned hazards away so I’m going to go to my arceus-ghost to spin block, because I need that palkia to be poisoned since cheap_uber_battler obviously is not going to bring it into its doom. Still I figured one thing out for sure, palkia was definetly scarfed since he switched out at the sight of the word its not very effective.
Ferrothorn: 91%
Forretress: 100% + paralysis + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 20
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Ferrothorn back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Arceus-Ghost!
The foe's Forretress used Volt Switch!
Arceus-Ghost lost 26 HP! (5% of its health)
cheap_uber_battler called Forretress back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Giratina-O!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
Forretress didn’t spin but predicted a switch and used volt switch to take some momentum. Since most forretress run rapid spin + 2 hazards + extra move or rapid spin + hazard + pain split + extra, I beleive he doesn't have gyro ball. He sends out the dragon spin blocker that I probably could ko with judgment. I think I have enough hp to live a shadow sneak, and draco meteor can't ohko me because of my sp def investment so I’m going to get some health back.
Crucial predictions: Mr.lol-3
Cheap_Uber_battler-4
Arceus-ghost: 62% + burn
Giratina-o: 100% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
Hazards:
Mr.lol: 2 layers of Toxic spikes
Cheap_uber_battler: none
Score: 6-5
Crucial Prediction count:
Mr.lol-3
Cheap_uber_battler-4
Plan: Scout out what form his arceus is and poison palkia. Prevent forry from setting up hazards at the same time to let me keep my switching.
Start of turn 21
The foe's Giratina-O used Shadow Sneak!
It's super effective!
Arceus-Ghost lost 138 HP! (31% of its health)
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
All right so I can take a shadow sneak so that means I can recover until I get to decent hp and ko with a judgment. So just keep on recovering. Also I think I doubt it has outrage now for his last move since shadow sneak did such a low number. Whatever that move is though is beyond my sight right now so I’ll just have to wait. I might not even need to know what it is if I manage to kill it first.
Arceus-Ghost: 69% + burn
Giratina-o: 100%+ 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 22
Arceus-Ghost used Recover!
Arceus-Ghost regained health!
The foe's Giratina-O used Dragon Tail!
Arceus-Ghost lost 105 HP! (23% of its health)
Rayquaza was dragged out!
Rayquaza has Air Lock!
Rain continues to fall!
He uses his last move, dragon tail, revealing to me giratina-o's move pool. Thankfully half the team doesn’t care about being phazed at the moment since there’s no spikes. Still I’ve been dragon tailed into something that ohkoes that living/dead dragon with some meteors. Forry won’t enjoy them and that living dead dragon must cease to break the laws of physics. Something’s going to get hurt here.
Rayquaza: 80%
Giratina-o: 100% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 23
cheap_uber_battler called Giratina-O back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Arceus-Steel!
Rayquaza used Draco Meteor!
It's not very effective...
The foe's Arceus-Steel lost 39% of its health!
Rayquaza's Sp. Att. sharply fell!
Rayquaza is hurt by its Life Orb!
Rain continues to fall!
Cheap_uber_battler sends in arceus-steel revealing to me his arceus form. The damage a resisted meteor did to Arceus was a bit odd though. Draco Meteor should have done something around 25% if he invested in a decent chunk of special defense. I feared this arceus and it’s a steel type without much Sp def investment. This means I can pull off a kyogre clean if I manage to get kyogre in safely, if I get rid of palkia, and destroy giratina-o. My end game plan is about to be formed mid game lol. Im going to need some hazards though in order to pull this clean off though and arceus-steel shouldn’t be able to touch ferrothorn, and I want to seed that thing.
Rayquaza: 70%
Arceus-Steel: 61% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 24
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Rayquaza back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Ferrothorn!
The foe's Arceus-Steel used Recover!
The foe's Arceus-Steel regained health!
Rain continues to fall!
I want some recovery and right now arceus should be a big large sitting duck, and ferrothorn should be able to get some recovery and set up at the same time. Since nothings a grass type on the other team I don’t have to worry too much about switches either. Ferrothorn doesn’t mind being burned either since his whole team pretty much resists power whip.
Ferrothorn: 91%
Arceus-Steel: 100% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 25
cheap_uber_battler called Arceus-Steel back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Forretress!
Ferrothorn used Leech Seed!
The foe's Forretress was seeded!
Rain continues to fall!
The foe's Forretress's health is sapped by leech seed.
With a clean in the middle of my mind I need to make sure that Forretress does not spin my hazards away. Cheap_uber_battler also only knows three of arceus’s moves, meaning I can still bluff that I have focus miss or fire blast with me for coverage.
Ferrothorn: 100%
Forretress: 90% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
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Start of turn 26
Mr.loltestgimmicks called Ferrothorn back!
Mr.loltestgimmicks sent out Arceus-Ghost!
The foe's Forretress used Spikes!
Spikes were scattered all around the feet of Mr.loltestgimmicks's team!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
The foe's Forretress restored a little HP using its Leftovers!
The foe's Forretress's health is sapped by leech seed.
Forry comes in and predicts my ghostly switch in. I have the urge to use focus miss on him, when I really don’t have it, but he doesn’t know that. Since judgment and focus miss get perfect coverage im going to judge that forry because I predict a switch into something that resists fire blast or focus miss. Since ghost, fighting get perfect coverage, forry's switch in should be hit neutrally or SE wise from a judgment, if forry switches.
Forretress: 86% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
Arceus-Ghost: 88%ish+ 1 layer of spikes
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Start of turn 27
cheap_uber_battler called Forretress back!
cheap_uber_battler sent out Giratina-O!
Arceus-Ghost used Judgment!
It's super effective!
The foe's Giratina-O lost 79% of its health!
Rain continues to fall!
Arceus-Ghost is hurt by its burn!
The focus miss threat was enough for him to send giratina into my trap. My end game clean is slowly turning into a threat that cheap_uber_battler doesn’t know of. He should send palkia to revenge this thing which will finally be poisoned and crippled. It doesn’t matter if arceus dies in the process, nothing else can be poisoned anyway by toxic spikes.
Crucial preditions: Mr.lol-4
Cheap_uber_battler-4
Ghost-Arceus: 76% + 1 layer of spikes
Giratina-o: 21% + 2 layers of toxic spikes
--- Because of smogon's image limit the rest of the warstory will be moved to the next post
