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Project PU Battle of the Week [Week 10 voting phase]
- Thread starter DripLegend
- Start date
thanks again for all the voters for this week's edition, this project wouldn't be possible without you!
with a whopping 11 votes this week we have the man, the myth, the legend... big tony 2014 ! a newer face still looking to make a name for himself in PU but word has it he was a support god during pupl. his challenger this week is none other than sufys more known for being a jack of all trades I would say but he has definitely taken root/taken a liking to PU more than other tiers. post times when you get them and good luck to both of our amazing competitors this week ^_^
with a whopping 11 votes this week we have the man, the myth, the legend... big tony 2014 ! a newer face still looking to make a name for himself in PU but word has it he was a support god during pupl. his challenger this week is none other than sufys more known for being a jack of all trades I would say but he has definitely taken root/taken a liking to PU more than other tiers. post times when you get them and good luck to both of our amazing competitors this week ^_^
MY GOATSSSSSS
Damn who do I root for 
SUNDAY 2:00PM -7 ME AND SUFYS WILL FINALLY SETTLE OUR VERY REAL BEEF WITH ONE OF US BEING CROWNED THE KING OF POPSICLE USED 
BIG TONY LANDSLIDE VICTORY INCOMINGSUNDAY 2:00PM -7 ME AND SUFYS WILL FINALLY SETTLE OUR VERY REAL BEEF WITH ONE OF US BEING CROWNED THE KING OF POPSICLE USED
THE MATCH HAS BEEN MOVED TO MONDAY 2:00PM -7 FOR THOSE WHO HAVE REARRANGED THEIR ENTIRE DAY TO WATCH THE BIG TONY VS SUFYS MATCH OF THE CENTURY JUST KNOW ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY, IT WAS BUILT IN 2 DAYS SO SEE YOU TOMORROWSUNDAY 2:00PM -7 ME AND SUFYS WILL FINALLY SETTLE OUR VERY REAL BEEF WITH ONE OF US BEING CROWNED THE KING OF POPSICLE USED
got a well deserved ass whooping for my luck recently ggs to sufys
Game 1 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801099 (loss)
Game 2 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801102 (loss)
Game 3 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801110 (win)
Game 1: off rip I'm terrified I made all 3 teams I had planned to use vs sufys with shaymin and game 1 I see goodra and scyther (local shaymin haters) as well this team doesn't have a good answer for scyther in general (flash fire arcanine is not worth it) despite this I see the out in the form of golurk just killing everything but unfortunately I foolishly try to make progress with shaymin that does nothing to scyther and have to sac too much of my team to deal with it some bad luck here and there I'm not able to pull off the tailwind on my tornadus to make golurk that scariest man alive and lose game 1
Game 2: I'm under full panic mode as I now don't want to use shaymin again so I instead load up a team I used in swiss featuring veluza unfortunately sufys (probably) recognizes this team and leads uturn decid (probably expecting the final gambit demon to try and click the button) pivoting back and forth between decid and bruxish leading out my houndstone to make progress eventually leading sufys to throw down a bunch of hazards as coal has a hard time getting rid of them and through good predicting and me expecting some weird choiced decid, packs this game up pretty easily for sufys causing me to lose series
Game 3: I had already lost at this point so I decided to go back to my guns and run a different shaymin team fortunately this game goes a lot better for me with scarf melo having almost nothing to stop her from girlbossing her way through sufys team after I chip it down while shaymin drops the ball a bit (HIT YOUR DAMN SEED FLARES) and getting even more scared when it hits and gives a defiant boost to tornadus, I eventually get sufys to burn tera letting melo unleash hyper voice spam and win the game
Overall while my original plan was to build around shaymin I kinda regret it seeing as it didn't do much in either of the games (I'm sorry my goat) but I still had fun overall and I'm glad I was nommed for BOTW (I had no idea this existed till I got nommed) gl to whoever plays in the next week
Game 1 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801099 (loss)
Game 2 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801102 (loss)
Game 3 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801110 (win)
Game 1: off rip I'm terrified I made all 3 teams I had planned to use vs sufys with shaymin and game 1 I see goodra and scyther (local shaymin haters) as well this team doesn't have a good answer for scyther in general (flash fire arcanine is not worth it) despite this I see the out in the form of golurk just killing everything but unfortunately I foolishly try to make progress with shaymin that does nothing to scyther and have to sac too much of my team to deal with it some bad luck here and there I'm not able to pull off the tailwind on my tornadus to make golurk that scariest man alive and lose game 1
Game 2: I'm under full panic mode as I now don't want to use shaymin again so I instead load up a team I used in swiss featuring veluza unfortunately sufys (probably) recognizes this team and leads uturn decid (probably expecting the final gambit demon to try and click the button) pivoting back and forth between decid and bruxish leading out my houndstone to make progress eventually leading sufys to throw down a bunch of hazards as coal has a hard time getting rid of them and through good predicting and me expecting some weird choiced decid, packs this game up pretty easily for sufys causing me to lose series
Game 3: I had already lost at this point so I decided to go back to my guns and run a different shaymin team fortunately this game goes a lot better for me with scarf melo having almost nothing to stop her from girlbossing her way through sufys team after I chip it down while shaymin drops the ball a bit (HIT YOUR DAMN SEED FLARES) and getting even more scared when it hits and gives a defiant boost to tornadus, I eventually get sufys to burn tera letting melo unleash hyper voice spam and win the game
Overall while my original plan was to build around shaymin I kinda regret it seeing as it didn't do much in either of the games (I'm sorry my goat
) but I still had fun overall and I'm glad I was nommed for BOTW (I had no idea this existed till I got nommed) gl to whoever plays in the next week
game 1: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801099
https://pokepast.es/846e0fa525138ac2
inspired by this game i played last week, wanted to use something that can larp as specs duraludon, and goodra fit the bill... obviously in the real game tony didn't have a dragon resist or a scyther answer (flash fire arc is a bit of a fraud... standard curse arc with intimidate would've done pretty well here, especially since i changed goodra tera from ghost to dragon last minute...) + he got crit a bunch so didn't stand much of a chance & i took g1
game 2: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801102
https://pokepast.es/d639e91ad9793642
made this team immediately after g1 ended, wanted to use custap endeavor muds cos I thought it'd be funny, didn't get to show off endeavor though. ingame was fairly simple, was familiar with his team from pu swiss, got the calls right for the most part with with bruxish/decid vs coal's spin/flame which allowed me to keep up hazards and slowly whittle down his stuff & win the set.
game 3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801110
https://pokepast.es/fb612e70bb3de8bb
another impromptu build, except this time it was actually horrendous... i wanted to use band grimmsnarl because its quite strong + prankster trick is cool, but it's pretty damn bad in practice... normally i never forget to include a normal resist / (real) fairy resist but this time it happened & i got owned by scarf melo lmao. not sure if there was too much i could've done in game, definitely lost that one in the builder lmao
ggs, was definitely a lot of fun
https://pokepast.es/846e0fa525138ac2
inspired by this game i played last week, wanted to use something that can larp as specs duraludon, and goodra fit the bill... obviously in the real game tony didn't have a dragon resist or a scyther answer (flash fire arc is a bit of a fraud... standard curse arc with intimidate would've done pretty well here, especially since i changed goodra tera from ghost to dragon last minute...) + he got crit a bunch so didn't stand much of a chance & i took g1
game 2: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801102
https://pokepast.es/d639e91ad9793642
made this team immediately after g1 ended, wanted to use custap endeavor muds cos I thought it'd be funny, didn't get to show off endeavor though. ingame was fairly simple, was familiar with his team from pu swiss, got the calls right for the most part with with bruxish/decid vs coal's spin/flame which allowed me to keep up hazards and slowly whittle down his stuff & win the set.
game 3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9pu-801110
https://pokepast.es/fb612e70bb3de8bb
another impromptu build, except this time it was actually horrendous... i wanted to use band grimmsnarl because its quite strong + prankster trick is cool, but it's pretty damn bad in practice... normally i never forget to include a normal resist / (real) fairy resist but this time it happened & i got owned by scarf melo lmao. not sure if there was too much i could've done in game, definitely lost that one in the builder lmao
ggs, was definitely a lot of fun
new year new botw,
my votes:
akeras
tom holland
obb
LET THIS YEAR BE FULL OF MORE BLOODSHED.
my votes:
akeras
tom holland
obb
LET THIS YEAR BE FULL OF MORE BLOODSHED.
tom holland
OBB
Phil
OBB
Phil
excal
SPHZ
danny
SPHZ
danny
tom holland
excal
ming549
excal
ming549
For this week we have….
tom holland vs OranBerryBlissey10
Will the holdovers champ be able to keep up the momentum? Or will the berry holding blissey get the best of him?
tom holland vs OranBerryBlissey10
Will the holdovers champ be able to keep up the momentum? Or will the berry holding blissey get the best of him?
BOTW: tom holland vs OBB
We were able to complete our game today, and they were some fun ones! After all was said and done, I won the set 2-1 playing from behind, but every game was pretty close and predictions had to be made for me to claw back into the set.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2286335483 Loss
vs 
This game started out fairly even, with some damage being traded back and forth, and rocks going up on both sides. However, the tides turn in OBB's favor quickly when he reveals offensive NP Uxie. It is able to get boosts up and bust a hole through my team, and OBB wins over time with good resource management, preserving his tera to counter my Pawmot CC sweep and saving his copperajah for my florges lategame. Very well played by my opponent with a great bring in Nasty Plot Uxie vs this team. I knew I would need to bounce back next game so I brought a team I'm very comfortable using at this point.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2286343918 Win
vs 
This game, I brought my Band Tauros+Lurantis team, and managed to make some poggers clicks with Band Tauros in the midgame. This allowed me to snipe the cramorant out of the picture early. I also knew that if I had an opportunity, I could set up my Lurantis and force out a tera from the wo-chien,, and if I was lucky it would be poison or steel. It was indeed poison, and this allowed me to cleanly end the game with tera ground eq from redbull. The other interesting note of this game is that I am relatively salazzle weak with this team, and was very worried about OBB getting too much value out of the salazzle early. Thankfully I do know how to play to my weakness pretty well at this point, so once I saw lefties I made sure to get rocks up and never click leaf storm into it. Probably my best game play-wise.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2286350549 Win
vs 
This game, I brought I fairly standard team that showcases Band Arcanine, and I got to showcase it right away at turn 1. I lead Arc and OBB led Goodra, and for a moment I was just going to switch to grimmsnarl. However, I considered two things. One, Goodra these days runs toxic a lot, and leading it early could indicate it has knock or toxic. The other consideration was that unless its specs, its not clicking Draco Meteor because I could predict that and Morning Sun then either curse or switch expecting the rhydon switch after. Therefore, I chose to stay in and CC to cover if he switched to Rhydon, and do a massive amount to goodra if he doesnt. This thankfully worked out, and looking back it was a pretty risky play and I'm glad it payed off this time. A main character in this game was Oricorio, who had me scared the moment it entered the field. I almost popped tera on rhydon after one QD but didn't because I was water and if he was grass i was cooked. I ended up sacrificing cramorant to not lose to oricorio immediately. I could have tera'd, but I was also afraid of eq not 2hko'ing once he was tera ground. Anyways, once I survived the bird the first time, I knew he was really Hecid weak at that point so I just used Hecid to revenge kill as much as i could while conserving my rhydon health for toxtricity. This was the other reason I sacrificed cramorant, I knew i needed rhydon for toxt. The most sketchy part of this game for me was deciding whether or not to risk the speedtie on Hecid mirror if he was scarf jolly as well. I decided to risk it, thinking worse case scenario I'm chipped and flinched, which was relatively low odds. The hecid gameplan essentially won the game from there, with tera normal arcanine espeed in the end to guarantee the bird doesnt get a second shot at sweeping me.
Overall a very competitive and close series, and I will probably have another one vs Thiago Nunes soon since he is my r1 opponent in pu ssnl. Stay tuned for that!
We were able to complete our game today, and they were some fun ones! After all was said and done, I won the set 2-1 playing from behind, but every game was pretty close and predictions had to be made for me to claw back into the set.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2286335483 Loss
vs This game started out fairly even, with some damage being traded back and forth, and rocks going up on both sides. However, the tides turn in OBB's favor quickly when he reveals offensive NP Uxie. It is able to get boosts up and bust a hole through my team, and OBB wins over time with good resource management, preserving his tera to counter my Pawmot CC sweep and saving his copperajah for my florges lategame. Very well played by my opponent with a great bring in Nasty Plot Uxie vs this team. I knew I would need to bounce back next game so I brought a team I'm very comfortable using at this point.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2286343918 Win
vs This game, I brought my Band Tauros+Lurantis team, and managed to make some poggers clicks with Band Tauros in the midgame. This allowed me to snipe the cramorant out of the picture early. I also knew that if I had an opportunity, I could set up my Lurantis and force out a tera from the wo-chien,, and if I was lucky it would be poison or steel. It was indeed poison, and this allowed me to cleanly end the game with tera ground eq from redbull. The other interesting note of this game is that I am relatively salazzle weak with this team, and was very worried about OBB getting too much value out of the salazzle early. Thankfully I do know how to play to my weakness pretty well at this point, so once I saw lefties I made sure to get rocks up and never click leaf storm into it. Probably my best game play-wise.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2286350549 Win
vs This game, I brought I fairly standard team that showcases Band Arcanine, and I got to showcase it right away at turn 1. I lead Arc and OBB led Goodra, and for a moment I was just going to switch to grimmsnarl. However, I considered two things. One, Goodra these days runs toxic a lot, and leading it early could indicate it has knock or toxic. The other consideration was that unless its specs, its not clicking Draco Meteor because I could predict that and Morning Sun then either curse or switch expecting the rhydon switch after. Therefore, I chose to stay in and CC to cover if he switched to Rhydon, and do a massive amount to goodra if he doesnt. This thankfully worked out, and looking back it was a pretty risky play and I'm glad it payed off this time. A main character in this game was Oricorio, who had me scared the moment it entered the field. I almost popped tera on rhydon after one QD but didn't because I was water and if he was grass i was cooked. I ended up sacrificing cramorant to not lose to oricorio immediately. I could have tera'd, but I was also afraid of eq not 2hko'ing once he was tera ground. Anyways, once I survived the bird the first time, I knew he was really Hecid weak at that point so I just used Hecid to revenge kill as much as i could while conserving my rhydon health for toxtricity. This was the other reason I sacrificed cramorant, I knew i needed rhydon for toxt. The most sketchy part of this game for me was deciding whether or not to risk the speedtie on Hecid mirror if he was scarf jolly as well. I decided to risk it, thinking worse case scenario I'm chipped and flinched, which was relatively low odds. The hecid gameplan essentially won the game from there, with tera normal arcanine espeed in the end to guarantee the bird doesnt get a second shot at sweeping me.
Overall a very competitive and close series, and I will probably have another one vs Thiago Nunes soon since he is my r1 opponent in pu ssnl. Stay tuned for that!
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