Silly Things You've Seen In Other Metagames

[Hourai]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/monotype-445058091

Calm Mind Weavile that still fails to 2HKO Hippowdon at +2. Then again, with a base SpA stat of 45, what can you expect?

And if you really want to run special Weavile, it gets Nasty Plot, so why even run CM Weavile?

 

[Zephyr Dragon Lord]

So I have a whole bunch of games to share with you all.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/stabmons-444944621
Yes, that's a Shedinja. Turns out my team has trouble with it. But that's only the beginning...

And THEN... there's a suspect. You know what that means....

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445018823
Oh jeez. Groudon Focus Blasts a Ghost, and a Garchomp gets Toxic stalled... BY A CROBAT.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445023007
Confuse Ray Gengar does what it does best, but that's the precursor to the true stupidity...

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445047236
Another Special Mega Gyarados. (I actually used Special Gyarados, but those cases were in Gen 3 Battle Frontier and a Specs one. Not this mediocre damage output.)

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445050988
This battle had lots of incompetence.... and the unrecorded rematch was even WORSE, if you can believe it.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445054341
This is basically Crobat: The Battle.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445055607
Those are some questionable Mega Stones and movesets...

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445057005
POLITOED DOES SOMETHING.

 

[Blumenwitz]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445023007
Confuse Ray Gengar does what it does best, but that's the precursor to the true stupidity...

I really don't get it. Why play Mix & Mega if you're only going to use the mega evos that already exist?

 

[Zephyr Dragon Lord]

I really don't get it. Why play Mix & Mega if you're only going to use the mega evos that already exist?

Because that's what they know best, or they can't realize they can experiment. What I'm more curious about is how they made those sets... Some of them are utterly incompetent to a mind-boggling degree. Even I as a child made my sets with a purpose in mind. I can't say the same thing for all of these people...

 

[Squawkerz]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445018823
Oh jeez. Groudon Focus Blasts a Ghost, and a Garchomp gets Toxic stalled... BY A CROBAT.

I'd also like to point out that the Garchomp had 4 DRAGON MOVES. I mean, mixed Mega Chomp is slightly usable in standard, but not when you get hard walled by a fairy type.

 

[michaeloche]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445050988
This battle had lots of incompetence.... and the unrecorded rematch was even WORSE, if you can believe it.

The mon, the myth, the legend...
HP FIRE PRIMAL KYOGRE.

 

[Hourai]

The mon, the myth, the legend...
HP FIRE PRIMAL KYOGRE.

I thought that was just a meme for a while. I didn't realize someone would actually be stupid enough to run it. That just goes to show that you shouldn't underestimate how stupid people can be.

 

[Yoshiblaze]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/balancedhackmons-373508192
Here's another old Hackmons Battle I had awhile ago

 

[Hourai]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-445306620
Birdspam beats a seemingly competent (but not really) team, although not easily. Also, TIL Darkrai gets Swords Dance.

 

[jordanthejq12]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-445306620
Birdspam beats a seemingly competent (but not really) team, although not easily. Also, TIL Darkrai gets Swords Dance.

(L) Swords Dance! Finally, a Talonspam team that isn't mindless Talonspam!
(L)...aaaand you're setting up on Primal Groudon, which can easily carry a Rock move. Max-SpA, sun-boosted, full-health Eruption gets the job done too.
(R) Groudon using Focus Blast against a team full of Flying-types. (And possibly at all--it smacks E-Killer on fully-special sets, maybe, but that's about it.)
(R) Hydro Pump Primal Kyogre when Origin Pulse exists.
(R) Two Kyogre, the second non-primal and also completely ineffective.
(R) SD/Dark Pulse Darkrai. It gets Knock Off and Sucker Punch (also Drain Punch, Poison Jab, Rock Slide, and X-Scissor). Come on.
(R) Say it with me now: DARK! IS! NOT! GHOST! Gengar also has Night Shade, which it doesn't need due to having an actual attack stat. Also, regular Ray+Mega Gengar>regular Gengar+Mega Ray.

 

[Kilgrave]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-445371515
Shame this battle only lasted 9 turns. That Arceus set is horrible.

 

[SadisticMystic]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-445287400

My own team is pretty silly here. But there is no way it should be able to get that close (one critical or 15% miss) to beating a lineup like that, not unless the opponent is doing things like staying in and spamming Toxic Spikes against a team where it cannot possibly have any effect, ever.

[EDIT]
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-445695029

This team isn't quite as stacked, but it shows that the tendency to willingly lock yourself into a completely useless Spikes, and then refuse to switch out, is not an isolated case. Also, the ending is downright ridiculous--maybe it would have even turned out differently if they didn't take the auto-suggestion of 0 Attack IV.

 

[heybbygal]

Have 119 turns of.. Ditto.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-445644995

 

[Zephyr Dragon Lord]

Nothing really insane this time. Just some more silly replays.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/monotype-445931056
Some of the movesets here are... questionable. Turns out Rest is a good gimmick.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/balancedhackmons-445934776
Just a bad half of a team falling to Klefki and Genesect.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/balancedhackmons-445937414
Okay, what exactly is Left's team doing here???

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445939116
Mostly just an enjoyable battle of things you usually don't see. Also Aerial Ace Weavile.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-445944941
The rare Mega Aerodacyl sweep, against a mediocre team...

 

[Hourai]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446114436
NU team smites a questionable Gen 4 team

 

[Yoshiblaze]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446114436
NU team smites a questionable Gen 4 team

S/Os to that guy for using Exeggutor on an NU when Victreebel exists. I use Eggy on my OU sun team that I have a RMT for *cough* Shameless Plug *cough*

Excuse me while I go find a silly replay to make this more than just a reaction

Found one http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446139516

 

[jordanthejq12]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446229822
Crawdaunt vs. the world. The world has Raikou. (And Crawdaunt has Guillotine and apparently nothing else.)

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446214462
My childhood is crying.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/monotype-446233084
A duel of Electric squads, and right's is...strange.

 

[Durengardnit]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446310439
Gengar takes the "Ghost + Fighting = perfect coverage" thing too literal.

 

[Quantum Tesseract]

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-anythinggoes-446310439
Gengar takes the "Ghost + Fighting = perfect coverage" thing too literal.

Try this

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446310439

 

[jordanthejq12]

Try this

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446310439

And try this rediculous stuff in the battle:

(L) Draco/Brick Break Dragonite.
(L) Aura Sphere (decent)/Blizzard (Ice Beam exists) Blastoise.
(R) Detect Umbreon. Sigh.
(L) The Gengar has Shadow Ball/Shadow Claw/Drain Punch/Brick Break. Look, I hate Focus Misses as much as the next guy, but this is ridiculous.
(R) CritDra whiffs a Draco, achieving nothing.

 

[Hourai]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/balancedhackmons-446533309
"Pig" (#WalrusesAndMammothsAreNotPigs) theme team versus questionable decisions

 

[Kilgrave]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/balancedhackmons-446533309
"Pig" (#WalrusesAndMammothsAreNotPigs) theme team versus questionable decisions

But #WalreinandMamoswinehavepignoses. Not saying that its a good battle though.

This battle will make you wonder why people are so dumb sometimes.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-446631778

 

[Anna says hi]

Mamoswine probably counts because it evolves from a boar (and also has "swine" in its name - similar to how neither Psyduck nor Golduck are ducks, one being a platypus and the other a kappa). That being said, Walrein and Slaking make no sense at all as a pigs, (#implyingslothsarepigs) and I'd have used something like FEAR Swinub instead of Walrein.

 

[Zephyr Dragon Lord]

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446661260
Using Snubbull and Mantyke in this tier is basically asking to lose.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446661894
I don't understand how those Garchomp is supposed to be Martin Lurther King... Jr. Oh, and an incredibly dumb battle. too.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446666125
Eevee alert. Despite that, right almost wins.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446670673
You bring shame to both Hoshido and Nohr for that performance and casting! (and not naming Crawdunt Ryoma how dare you }

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446676196
Volcarona sweeps an incredibly incompetent team of legendaries and dragons.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446682189
A rain team in Mix and Mega... and a great performance by Skarmory, compounded by some questionable moves on the foe's end...

 

[Hourai]

Have my three most recent Mix and Mega battles, all against pretty bad opponents. Enjoy!
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446785293
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446765174
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/mixandmega-446764008