Alright folks, my first warstory here. Hope it is interesting.
My team is as follows:
googlyeyesultra's moves will look like this.
crushed feelings's moves will look like this.
Other text will look like this.
My post-battle comments will look like this.
Leftovers will be removed.
Sandstorm/hail damage will be removed.
Scores will be shown after each KO.
Rules: Ladder Match, Sleep Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Evasion Clause, Species Clause, Strict Damage Clause
googlyeyesultra sent out Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
crushed feelings sent out Bronzong (lvl 100 Bronzong).
Uxie used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around the foe's team!
Bronzong used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around the foe's team!
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I'm running a bulky uxie (non-trickscarf) lead designed to ensure rocks goes down and just generally not have any awful matchups. As such, I can't really touch bronzong at all, but he's not going to do much damage to me immediately. The threat of explosion is really the only big deal, and I'd probably rather have uxie take that then anything else. I changed out a rotom for a gyarados last game so I don't really have an explosion absorber persay. . .
I donno if bronzong is staying in or not this turn. Either way, however, firing off a yawn seems like a solid option. I'll either provoke an early explosion or scout his team a little bit.
pedro the best has entered the room.
Uxie used Yawn.
Bronzong became drowsy!
Bronzong used Gyro Ball.
Uxie lost 18% of its health.
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First off, yay, I have a spectator.
Well, bronzong decided to stay in. He's either exploding or switching next turn, and given bronzong's bulk, he's probably switching out. Scizor is a pretty common switch in to uxie due to uturn and in the off chance that he decides to explode instead of switch, a switch to magnezone will cover that possibility. A slop here: I should have hit u-turn anyways for scouting purposes. The threat of explosion makes me do dumb things.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Pointed stones dug into Magnezone.
Magnezone lost 6% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
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In comes zone hoping to meet a scizor, but instead I stumble upon a flygon. Flygon tends to spam uturn early game: if he opts to do that then I could put up a free sub here. On the other hand, there are pretty good odds that he's got something that magnezone can't punch through, even with a sub. Furthermore, if he decides to make the obvious play and EQ, I'll wind up with a dead zone. Covering both the threat of uturn and EQ leaves me with two options: my bulky ddgyara or my CBNite. I opt to play it safe here and go for gyara, as lefties will recover SR damage for him, while CBNite will be permanently hampered.
googlyeyesultra switched in Gyarados (lvl 100 Gyarados ?).
Gyarados's Intimidate cut Flygon's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Gyarados.
Gyarados lost 25% of its health.
Flygon used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Gyarados lost 7% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
Well, alright. The safe play naturally wound up with a fairly mediocre situation. I have an unboosted gyara staring down a starmie, probably carrying tbolt. He's got two options: tbolt for gyarados or use something else to hit a switchin hard. Time to get greedy. I'm going for a DD: if he overpredicts me I've got a good shot at a sweep here and if not then I've got a free switchin to something to scare starmie off.
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pedro the best: kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk ta e loco
Starmie used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
Gyarados lost 75% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Gyarados fainted.
(5-6)
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
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Pedro, the random spectator, decides one of us is crazy, probably me, and even before he sees my move. My opponent makes the conservative choice and ends my hopes of an early sweep. Alas.
I decide to bring in uxie: uturn will hurt starmie a fair amount and cover me if he switches. Starmie also can't do all that much to uxie, really, although I guess he might get off a spin.
googlyeyesultra switched in Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
Pointed stones dug into Uxie.
Uxie lost 12% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Uxie used U-turn.
Flygon lost 16% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
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Flygon comes in, scout that he is, and takes a little bit of residual damage. Thankfully getting residual on things like flygon is very helpful as CBNite's extremespeed tends to do around 70% to things like that. I bring in my scarfrachi: I know it'll be easy to switch in on, but he can't uturn in the threat of an ice punch. I'll get the residual damage going his way.
crushed feelings switched in Bronzong (lvl 100 Bronzong).
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Ice Punch.
It's not very effective...
Bronzong lost 9% of its health.
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Bronzong comes in again, alas, alas. He's done his job: he's probably exploding soon. Jirachi resists it and doesn't really rely on having much health to revenge things usually, especially since I haven't seen any priority users on his side. As such I'm going to throw out another ice punch and let jirachi take the inevitable explosion.
crushed feelings switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Ice Punch.
It's super effective!
Flygon lost 66% of its health.
crushed feelings's Flygon fainted.
(5-5)
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Well, hmm. In retrospect that makes a lot of sense, as had I not been afraid of explosion I would have switched and flygon could have gotten some free uturn damage on something. Instead I wind up getting a free kill, evening the score out.
He brings out infernape, something this meta has in overabundance. Naturally I can't do much of anything with ice punch and he'll kill me very, very quickly, or worse set up in my face. However, I'm carrying starmie, one of the best infernape counters, as well as uxie, gyarados, and dragonite, all of whom check infernape pretty well. Starmie however is the best choice, able to recover damage off and present an immediate threat. (I'm running the LO set with Surf/Tbolt/Recover/Rapid Spin).
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
Infernape used Overheat.
It's not very effective...
Starmie lost 51% of its health.
Infernape's special attack was harshly lowered.
Infernape lost 10% of its health.
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Starmie eats an overheat coming in, which probably means this is a primarily physical ape, without grass knot or HP ice. He may be carrying stone edge however, so I need to be careful about gyara and nite coming in on him. Still, he can't really hurt me, so now is the perfect time to heal up that damage.
crushed feelings switched in Shaymin (lvl 100 Shaymin).
Pointed stones dug into Shaymin.
Shaymin lost 12% of its health.
Starmie used Recover.
Starmie restored 50% of its health.
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Shaymin comes in, and as I mentioned, I'm not running ice beam. He can pretty safely seed flare here too as even if I had ice beam it wouldn't OHKO. Despite the obvious Nite option, I haven't gotten SR off yet and I'd like to try to get residual out of the way. He also might be carrying HP Ice which, of course, would be very, very bad for CBNite. Uxie is a safe choice, able to come in and sponge a hit and then uturn for some damage.
googlyeyesultra switched in Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
Pointed stones dug into Uxie.
Uxie lost 12% of its health.
Shaymin used Seed Flare.
Shaymin's attack missed!
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Oh fortuna! Not that it matters, seed flare doesn't actually hurt uxie much given the spread I'm running. Obvious uturn is obvious.
Shaymin used Seed Flare.
Uxie lost 37% of its health.
Uxie's special defence was harshly lowered.
Shaymin lost 10% of its health.
Uxie used U-turn.
It's super effective!
Shaymin lost 26% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
Pointed stones dug into Dragonite.
Dragonite lost 25% of its health.
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Well, he didn't switch out. I'm basically forced to go to dragonite here, but with the residual damage he's got he's probably in range for extremespeed to kill him and I didn't eat an attack on the way in. Espeed it is, please don't survive and HP Ice me.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
Shaymin lost 47% of its health.
Shaymin used Seed Flare.
It's not very effective...
Dragonite lost 18% of its health.
Dragonite's special defence was harshly lowered.
Shaymin lost 5% of its health.
crushed feelings's Shaymin fainted.
(5-4)
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Alright, good. He got an attack in there, but he's still dead and it didn't do all that much, so I suppose he was running hp fire or leech seed over hp ice. He's pretty obviously going to bring in an espeed resist, so let's see what it is.
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Pointed stones dug into Magnezone.
Magnezone lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
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Jirachi comes in: a lefties variant. I'm thinking something like a CM set or maybe the subtwave rachi. Magnezone fares pretty well against a lot of variants so he's a solid choice to bring in here.
Wish screams either Wish/CM or a support set. Time to see using the best move in the game: substitute.
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Magnezone lost 7% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Bronzong (lvl 100 Bronzong).
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.
Magnezone used Substitute.
Magnezone lost 25% of its health.
Magnezone made a substitute!
The wish came true!
Bronzong restored 22% of its health.
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Alright. He's running something like the slow wish support jirachi, one that tends to be bulky and carry uturn/wish/ironhead/filler. He decides to bring in bronzong, probably meaning he's carrying EQ on it. I figure I'll confirm and at least get a little damage on him now, although it'll be a struggle to kill it with jirachi wishpassing.
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Bronzong lost 39% of its health.
Bronzong used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone's substitute faded!
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Yep, EQ. Alright, uxie, you're practically dead anyways. Go bait an explosion.
googlyeyesultra switched in Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
Pointed stones dug into Uxie.
Uxie lost 12% of its health.
Uxie makes ground moves miss with Levitate!
Bronzong used Earthquake.
Bronzong's attack missed!
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Uxie gets in on the obvious EQ with only a little health to spare. I hit yawn: I just need bronzong to explode predictably, and yawn is a pretty good way to make him do it.
Uxie used Yawn.
Bronzong became drowsy!
Bronzong used Gyro Ball.
Uxie lost 8% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Uxie fainted.
(4-4)
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Alright, good. He killed my uxie, now to decide what I want him to blow up. Jirachi and magnezone both resist explosion and probably won't die from it, and as such are the obvious options. Starmie, however, feels like a better choice. I've got infernape covered pretty solidly starmie isn't posing enough of an offensive threat right now. Furthermore, starmie can actually do something with that one turn it gets: it can spin. Go go rapid spinner!
googlyeyesultra switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
pedro the best has left the room.
Starmie used Rapid Spin.
Starmie blew away the pointed stones!
It's not very effective...
Bronzong lost 2% of its health.
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
Bronzong used Explosion.
Starmie lost 65% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Starmie fainted.
crushed feelings's Bronzong fainted.
(3-3)
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Apparently pedro feels it is time to leave; this, however, is when the game gets interesting.
We're standing at a sub+3 attacks magnezone, CBNite, and scarfrachi vs. an overheat infernape, wishpass jirachi, and a starmie. The endgame is beginning.
That turn went basically as expected. Bronzong the exploding menace dies and starmie trades its life to get rid of stealth rock. Good job starmie.
I decide to bring out jirachi now: infernape is probably coming out, but he's pretty manageable. Magnezone can only afford to come out on jirachi, and dragonite can afford to come in really whenever but can't afford to accumulate damage. Every percent will count.
googlyeyesultra switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 15% of its health.
Jirachi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Jirachi restored 6% of its health.
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I opted for an iron head, as it's the most damaging thing I can really do. I fully expected to be roasted here, but hey, if I can soften things up a little bit then CBNite will win this game, right? I just need to keep starmie really from wrecking anything. Furthermore, I can afford to keep switching and firing off weak attacks: he has SR on his side and I don't.
Jirachi comes in on my iron head against my expectations. This is really the only place to get magnezone in, and odds are if I can get a sub up with zone then I can get a kill and begin cleaning up.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Magnezone lost 8% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
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Shitshitshit he decided to u-turn instead of wish. Infernape comes in and I have no choice but to go to dragonite: I can't afford to lose any pokes right, as they'll each hold a role in this.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
Infernape used Close Combat.
It's not very effective...
Dragonite lost 41% of its health.
Infernape's defence was lowered.
Infernape's special defence was lowered.
Infernape lost 10% of its health.
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I need to make a conservative play here: extremespeed can beat anything besides his jirachi and his jirachi is the least threatening poke around.
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 19% of its health.
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As I expected: Jirachi comes in to take the espeed. I suspect he's going to uturn here: he knows I basically have to switch and if I let him get either of his offensive pokes in without hindrance I've basically lost. I need to take the uturn here and stay in: if I can outmaneuver jirachi I've won, but if he manages to outpredict me then I'll be in a major bind.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 18% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
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Shitshitshitshit. . . Alright. He stayed in. There are two possibilities: one, he's staying in and probably killing my dragonite. Two, he's uturning out, healing up his infernape. If I switch while he attacks then I can get a sub up on magnezone and win this, but if I switch while he uturns then at best I can force infernape out once with dragonite, at which point jirachi will come in and clean up.
I'm saving dragonite. Let's go magnezone.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
Magnezone lost 7% of its health.
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 46% of its health.
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Finally. Yes, yes, yes. Alright, I can get a sub up here and either stall out jirachi one on one or kill a switch in quickly.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Substitute.
Magnezone lost 25% of its health.
Magnezone made a substitute!
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Alright, I know what to do. Tbolt will kill either infernape or starmie. Let's go!
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Infernape lost 31% of its health.
crushed feelings's Infernape fainted.
(3-2)
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Good, good. I have my sub up and he brings jirachi back in. All I need to do is spam thunderbolt for a lucky paralysis eventually and maintain my substitute. Once I get the para I can fish for crits or full paras with hp ground and thunderbolt or just stall him out of wish PP.
Also gonna spare you from the pretty long stall war and spoiler it. The following section has no comments because it is a stall war.
And we're back from our break.
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 13% of its health.
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone's substitute faded!
crushed feelings switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
The wish came true!
Starmie restored 34% of its health.
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Shhhhhhhhit. He broke my sub. Dammit. Dammit. Alright, danger mode here. Dragonite and magnezone are not expendable at all, while my jirachi is walled by his starmie. I need to sacrifice jirachi and hopefully do a little damage with it to make the endgame manageable.
googlyeyesultra switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Starmie used Surf.
Jirachi lost 51% of its health.
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
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Jirachi takes a fair amount of damage coming in, but he's not surviving for more than a turn or two anyways at this point. I'm just going to spam iron head and try to get a little damage on starmie.
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
Starmie lost 27% of its health.
Starmie used Surf.
Jirachi lost 43% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Jirachi fainted.
(2-2)
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
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Jirachi's dead. Both magnezone and dragonite are OHKO'd by starmie. Dragonite can finish it off with extremespeed, though. But if I do that, like I've been doing all game, then jirachi comes in, something scary comes in, and I've lost. Jirachi is going to come in. Without jirachi there I can clean up with extremespeed, saccing magnezone to switch moves. This is it.
Fire punch.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Dragonite used Fire Punch.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 44% of its health.
crushed feelings's Jirachi fainted.
(2-1)
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Yes! CBNite doesn't fail me now. The game is in the bag: I just sac magnezone against starmie and then switch moves to espeed.
crushed feelings switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Starmie used Surf.
Magnezone lost 64% of its health.
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
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Magnezone actually took a hit, yay. Not that it matters. I select tbolt in the off chance he tries to hit recover as that would bring starmie out of KO range.
Starmie used Surf.
Magnezone lost 42% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Magnezone fainted.
(1-1)
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
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Alright. Dragonite is ready to clean up.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
crushed feelings: ice shard go
crushed feelings: gg
googlyeyesultra: Good game.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
Starmie lost 21% of its health.
crushed feelings's Starmie fainted.
(1-0)
googlyeyesultra wins!
googlyeyesultra: Nice endgame there.
googlyeyesultra: CBNite pulls through though.
crushed feelings: yeah I'm bit weak to it without rocks lol
googlyeyesultra: CBNite is goddamn awesome.
googlyeyesultra: I might get around to warstorying this or something.
crushed feelings has left the room.
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Hopefully you all enjoyed the warstory, although admittedly I'm not a top-tier player, I felt it had some pretty good plays and that the teams reflected how the meta was developing. I'm open to questions/comments/suggestions as to the warstory, my team, or why I did something.
Here is crushed feelings's team:
Bronzong the exploding menace.
Starmie the scary sweeper.
Jirachi: the thing standing in the way of an Espeed sweep.
Infernape, the other scary sweeper.
Shaymin, the not very scary sweeper because I killed it early on.
Flygon, the scout that got hit with a random ice punch.
Good game.
My team is as follows:
googlyeyesultra's moves will look like this.
crushed feelings's moves will look like this.
Other text will look like this.
My post-battle comments will look like this.
Leftovers will be removed.
Sandstorm/hail damage will be removed.
Scores will be shown after each KO.
Rules: Ladder Match, Sleep Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Evasion Clause, Species Clause, Strict Damage Clause
googlyeyesultra sent out Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
crushed feelings sent out Bronzong (lvl 100 Bronzong).
Uxie used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around the foe's team!
Bronzong used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around the foe's team!
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I'm running a bulky uxie (non-trickscarf) lead designed to ensure rocks goes down and just generally not have any awful matchups. As such, I can't really touch bronzong at all, but he's not going to do much damage to me immediately. The threat of explosion is really the only big deal, and I'd probably rather have uxie take that then anything else. I changed out a rotom for a gyarados last game so I don't really have an explosion absorber persay. . .
I donno if bronzong is staying in or not this turn. Either way, however, firing off a yawn seems like a solid option. I'll either provoke an early explosion or scout his team a little bit.
pedro the best has entered the room.
Uxie used Yawn.
Bronzong became drowsy!
Bronzong used Gyro Ball.
Uxie lost 18% of its health.
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First off, yay, I have a spectator.
Well, bronzong decided to stay in. He's either exploding or switching next turn, and given bronzong's bulk, he's probably switching out. Scizor is a pretty common switch in to uxie due to uturn and in the off chance that he decides to explode instead of switch, a switch to magnezone will cover that possibility. A slop here: I should have hit u-turn anyways for scouting purposes. The threat of explosion makes me do dumb things.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Pointed stones dug into Magnezone.
Magnezone lost 6% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
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In comes zone hoping to meet a scizor, but instead I stumble upon a flygon. Flygon tends to spam uturn early game: if he opts to do that then I could put up a free sub here. On the other hand, there are pretty good odds that he's got something that magnezone can't punch through, even with a sub. Furthermore, if he decides to make the obvious play and EQ, I'll wind up with a dead zone. Covering both the threat of uturn and EQ leaves me with two options: my bulky ddgyara or my CBNite. I opt to play it safe here and go for gyara, as lefties will recover SR damage for him, while CBNite will be permanently hampered.
googlyeyesultra switched in Gyarados (lvl 100 Gyarados ?).
Gyarados's Intimidate cut Flygon's attack!
Pointed stones dug into Gyarados.
Gyarados lost 25% of its health.
Flygon used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Gyarados lost 7% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
Well, alright. The safe play naturally wound up with a fairly mediocre situation. I have an unboosted gyara staring down a starmie, probably carrying tbolt. He's got two options: tbolt for gyarados or use something else to hit a switchin hard. Time to get greedy. I'm going for a DD: if he overpredicts me I've got a good shot at a sweep here and if not then I've got a free switchin to something to scare starmie off.
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pedro the best: kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk ta e loco
Starmie used Thunderbolt.
It's super effective!
Gyarados lost 75% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Gyarados fainted.
(5-6)
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
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Pedro, the random spectator, decides one of us is crazy, probably me, and even before he sees my move. My opponent makes the conservative choice and ends my hopes of an early sweep. Alas.
I decide to bring in uxie: uturn will hurt starmie a fair amount and cover me if he switches. Starmie also can't do all that much to uxie, really, although I guess he might get off a spin.
googlyeyesultra switched in Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
Pointed stones dug into Uxie.
Uxie lost 12% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Uxie used U-turn.
Flygon lost 16% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
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Flygon comes in, scout that he is, and takes a little bit of residual damage. Thankfully getting residual on things like flygon is very helpful as CBNite's extremespeed tends to do around 70% to things like that. I bring in my scarfrachi: I know it'll be easy to switch in on, but he can't uturn in the threat of an ice punch. I'll get the residual damage going his way.
crushed feelings switched in Bronzong (lvl 100 Bronzong).
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Ice Punch.
It's not very effective...
Bronzong lost 9% of its health.
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Bronzong comes in again, alas, alas. He's done his job: he's probably exploding soon. Jirachi resists it and doesn't really rely on having much health to revenge things usually, especially since I haven't seen any priority users on his side. As such I'm going to throw out another ice punch and let jirachi take the inevitable explosion.
crushed feelings switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Ice Punch.
It's super effective!
Flygon lost 66% of its health.
crushed feelings's Flygon fainted.
(5-5)
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Well, hmm. In retrospect that makes a lot of sense, as had I not been afraid of explosion I would have switched and flygon could have gotten some free uturn damage on something. Instead I wind up getting a free kill, evening the score out.
He brings out infernape, something this meta has in overabundance. Naturally I can't do much of anything with ice punch and he'll kill me very, very quickly, or worse set up in my face. However, I'm carrying starmie, one of the best infernape counters, as well as uxie, gyarados, and dragonite, all of whom check infernape pretty well. Starmie however is the best choice, able to recover damage off and present an immediate threat. (I'm running the LO set with Surf/Tbolt/Recover/Rapid Spin).
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
Infernape used Overheat.
It's not very effective...
Starmie lost 51% of its health.
Infernape's special attack was harshly lowered.
Infernape lost 10% of its health.
---
Starmie eats an overheat coming in, which probably means this is a primarily physical ape, without grass knot or HP ice. He may be carrying stone edge however, so I need to be careful about gyara and nite coming in on him. Still, he can't really hurt me, so now is the perfect time to heal up that damage.
crushed feelings switched in Shaymin (lvl 100 Shaymin).
Pointed stones dug into Shaymin.
Shaymin lost 12% of its health.
Starmie used Recover.
Starmie restored 50% of its health.
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Shaymin comes in, and as I mentioned, I'm not running ice beam. He can pretty safely seed flare here too as even if I had ice beam it wouldn't OHKO. Despite the obvious Nite option, I haven't gotten SR off yet and I'd like to try to get residual out of the way. He also might be carrying HP Ice which, of course, would be very, very bad for CBNite. Uxie is a safe choice, able to come in and sponge a hit and then uturn for some damage.
googlyeyesultra switched in Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
Pointed stones dug into Uxie.
Uxie lost 12% of its health.
Shaymin used Seed Flare.
Shaymin's attack missed!
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Oh fortuna! Not that it matters, seed flare doesn't actually hurt uxie much given the spread I'm running. Obvious uturn is obvious.
Shaymin used Seed Flare.
Uxie lost 37% of its health.
Uxie's special defence was harshly lowered.
Shaymin lost 10% of its health.
Uxie used U-turn.
It's super effective!
Shaymin lost 26% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
Pointed stones dug into Dragonite.
Dragonite lost 25% of its health.
---
Well, he didn't switch out. I'm basically forced to go to dragonite here, but with the residual damage he's got he's probably in range for extremespeed to kill him and I didn't eat an attack on the way in. Espeed it is, please don't survive and HP Ice me.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
Shaymin lost 47% of its health.
Shaymin used Seed Flare.
It's not very effective...
Dragonite lost 18% of its health.
Dragonite's special defence was harshly lowered.
Shaymin lost 5% of its health.
crushed feelings's Shaymin fainted.
(5-4)
---
Alright, good. He got an attack in there, but he's still dead and it didn't do all that much, so I suppose he was running hp fire or leech seed over hp ice. He's pretty obviously going to bring in an espeed resist, so let's see what it is.
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Pointed stones dug into Magnezone.
Magnezone lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
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Jirachi comes in: a lefties variant. I'm thinking something like a CM set or maybe the subtwave rachi. Magnezone fares pretty well against a lot of variants so he's a solid choice to bring in here.
Wish screams either Wish/CM or a support set. Time to see using the best move in the game: substitute.
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Magnezone lost 7% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Bronzong (lvl 100 Bronzong).
Pointed stones dug into Bronzong.
Bronzong lost 6% of its health.
Magnezone used Substitute.
Magnezone lost 25% of its health.
Magnezone made a substitute!
The wish came true!
Bronzong restored 22% of its health.
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Alright. He's running something like the slow wish support jirachi, one that tends to be bulky and carry uturn/wish/ironhead/filler. He decides to bring in bronzong, probably meaning he's carrying EQ on it. I figure I'll confirm and at least get a little damage on him now, although it'll be a struggle to kill it with jirachi wishpassing.
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Bronzong lost 39% of its health.
Bronzong used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone's substitute faded!
---
Yep, EQ. Alright, uxie, you're practically dead anyways. Go bait an explosion.
googlyeyesultra switched in Uxie (lvl 100 Uxie).
Pointed stones dug into Uxie.
Uxie lost 12% of its health.
Uxie makes ground moves miss with Levitate!
Bronzong used Earthquake.
Bronzong's attack missed!
---
Uxie gets in on the obvious EQ with only a little health to spare. I hit yawn: I just need bronzong to explode predictably, and yawn is a pretty good way to make him do it.
Uxie used Yawn.
Bronzong became drowsy!
Bronzong used Gyro Ball.
Uxie lost 8% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Uxie fainted.
(4-4)
---
Alright, good. He killed my uxie, now to decide what I want him to blow up. Jirachi and magnezone both resist explosion and probably won't die from it, and as such are the obvious options. Starmie, however, feels like a better choice. I've got infernape covered pretty solidly starmie isn't posing enough of an offensive threat right now. Furthermore, starmie can actually do something with that one turn it gets: it can spin. Go go rapid spinner!
googlyeyesultra switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
pedro the best has left the room.
Starmie used Rapid Spin.
Starmie blew away the pointed stones!
It's not very effective...
Bronzong lost 2% of its health.
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
Bronzong used Explosion.
Starmie lost 65% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Starmie fainted.
crushed feelings's Bronzong fainted.
(3-3)
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Apparently pedro feels it is time to leave; this, however, is when the game gets interesting.
We're standing at a sub+3 attacks magnezone, CBNite, and scarfrachi vs. an overheat infernape, wishpass jirachi, and a starmie. The endgame is beginning.
That turn went basically as expected. Bronzong the exploding menace dies and starmie trades its life to get rid of stealth rock. Good job starmie.
I decide to bring out jirachi now: infernape is probably coming out, but he's pretty manageable. Magnezone can only afford to come out on jirachi, and dragonite can afford to come in really whenever but can't afford to accumulate damage. Every percent will count.
googlyeyesultra switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 15% of its health.
Jirachi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Jirachi restored 6% of its health.
---
I opted for an iron head, as it's the most damaging thing I can really do. I fully expected to be roasted here, but hey, if I can soften things up a little bit then CBNite will win this game, right? I just need to keep starmie really from wrecking anything. Furthermore, I can afford to keep switching and firing off weak attacks: he has SR on his side and I don't.
Jirachi comes in on my iron head against my expectations. This is really the only place to get magnezone in, and odds are if I can get a sub up with zone then I can get a kill and begin cleaning up.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Magnezone lost 8% of its health.
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
---
Shitshitshit he decided to u-turn instead of wish. Infernape comes in and I have no choice but to go to dragonite: I can't afford to lose any pokes right, as they'll each hold a role in this.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
Infernape used Close Combat.
It's not very effective...
Dragonite lost 41% of its health.
Infernape's defence was lowered.
Infernape's special defence was lowered.
Infernape lost 10% of its health.
---
I need to make a conservative play here: extremespeed can beat anything besides his jirachi and his jirachi is the least threatening poke around.
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 19% of its health.
---
As I expected: Jirachi comes in to take the espeed. I suspect he's going to uturn here: he knows I basically have to switch and if I let him get either of his offensive pokes in without hindrance I've basically lost. I need to take the uturn here and stay in: if I can outmaneuver jirachi I've won, but if he manages to outpredict me then I'll be in a major bind.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 18% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
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Shitshitshitshit. . . Alright. He stayed in. There are two possibilities: one, he's staying in and probably killing my dragonite. Two, he's uturning out, healing up his infernape. If I switch while he attacks then I can get a sub up on magnezone and win this, but if I switch while he uturns then at best I can force infernape out once with dragonite, at which point jirachi will come in and clean up.
I'm saving dragonite. Let's go magnezone.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
Magnezone lost 7% of its health.
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 46% of its health.
---
Finally. Yes, yes, yes. Alright, I can get a sub up here and either stall out jirachi one on one or kill a switch in quickly.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Substitute.
Magnezone lost 25% of its health.
Magnezone made a substitute!
---
Alright, I know what to do. Tbolt will kill either infernape or starmie. Let's go!
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
crushed feelings switched in Infernape (lvl 100 Infernape ?).
Pointed stones dug into Infernape.
Infernape lost 12% of its health.
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Infernape lost 31% of its health.
crushed feelings's Infernape fainted.
(3-2)
---
Good, good. I have my sub up and he brings jirachi back in. All I need to do is spam thunderbolt for a lucky paralysis eventually and maintain my substitute. Once I get the para I can fish for crits or full paras with hp ground and thunderbolt or just stall him out of wish PP.
Also gonna spare you from the pretty long stall war and spoiler it. The following section has no comments because it is a stall war.
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 34% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Substitute.
But it failed!
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Substitute.
But it failed!
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone's substitute faded!
Magnezone used Substitute.
Magnezone lost 25% of its health.
Magnezone made a substitute!
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 35% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 34% of its health.
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 33% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Protect.
Jirachi protected itself!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi protected itself!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 33% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Protect.
Jirachi protected itself!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi protected itself!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
A critical hit!
Jirachi lost 64% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
But it failed!
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 15% of its health.
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
---
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
googlyeyesultra: There we go.
Jirachi used Protect.
Jirachi protected itself!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
Jirachi protected itself!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 14% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 15% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It can't move!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 44% of its health.
---
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 34% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It can't move!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 35% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 34% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Substitute.
But it failed!
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Substitute.
But it failed!
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone's substitute faded!
Magnezone used Substitute.
Magnezone lost 25% of its health.
Magnezone made a substitute!
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 35% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 34% of its health.
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 33% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Protect.
Jirachi protected itself!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi protected itself!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 33% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Protect.
Jirachi protected itself!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi protected itself!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
A critical hit!
Jirachi lost 64% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Wish.
But it failed!
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 15% of its health.
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
---
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
googlyeyesultra: There we go.
Jirachi used Protect.
Jirachi protected itself!
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
Jirachi protected itself!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 14% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 15% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It can't move!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 44% of its health.
---
Magnezone used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 37% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 34% of its health.
Jirachi is paralysed! It can't move!
The wish came true!
Jirachi restored 50% of its health.
---
Magnezone used Hidden Power.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 35% of its health.
Jirachi used Wish.
Jirachi made a wish!
---
And we're back from our break.
Magnezone used Flash Cannon.
It's not very effective...
Jirachi lost 13% of its health.
Jirachi used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
The substitute took damage for Magnezone!
Magnezone's substitute faded!
crushed feelings switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
The wish came true!
Starmie restored 34% of its health.
---
Shhhhhhhhit. He broke my sub. Dammit. Dammit. Alright, danger mode here. Dragonite and magnezone are not expendable at all, while my jirachi is walled by his starmie. I need to sacrifice jirachi and hopefully do a little damage with it to make the endgame manageable.
googlyeyesultra switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Starmie used Surf.
Jirachi lost 51% of its health.
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
---
Jirachi takes a fair amount of damage coming in, but he's not surviving for more than a turn or two anyways at this point. I'm just going to spam iron head and try to get a little damage on starmie.
Jirachi used Iron Head.
It's not very effective...
Starmie lost 27% of its health.
Starmie used Surf.
Jirachi lost 43% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Jirachi fainted.
(2-2)
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
---
Jirachi's dead. Both magnezone and dragonite are OHKO'd by starmie. Dragonite can finish it off with extremespeed, though. But if I do that, like I've been doing all game, then jirachi comes in, something scary comes in, and I've lost. Jirachi is going to come in. Without jirachi there I can clean up with extremespeed, saccing magnezone to switch moves. This is it.
Fire punch.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
crushed feelings switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Pointed stones dug into Jirachi.
Jirachi lost 6% of its health.
Dragonite used Fire Punch.
It's super effective!
Jirachi lost 44% of its health.
crushed feelings's Jirachi fainted.
(2-1)
---
Yes! CBNite doesn't fail me now. The game is in the bag: I just sac magnezone against starmie and then switch moves to espeed.
crushed feelings switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Pointed stones dug into Starmie.
Starmie lost 12% of its health.
googlyeyesultra switched in Magnezone (lvl 100 Magnezone).
Starmie used Surf.
Magnezone lost 64% of its health.
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
---
Magnezone actually took a hit, yay. Not that it matters. I select tbolt in the off chance he tries to hit recover as that would bring starmie out of KO range.
Starmie used Surf.
Magnezone lost 42% of its health.
googlyeyesultra's Magnezone fainted.
(1-1)
Starmie lost 10% of its health.
---
Alright. Dragonite is ready to clean up.
googlyeyesultra switched in Dragonite (lvl 100 Dragonite ?).
crushed feelings: ice shard go
crushed feelings: gg
googlyeyesultra: Good game.
Dragonite used Extremespeed.
Starmie lost 21% of its health.
crushed feelings's Starmie fainted.
(1-0)
googlyeyesultra wins!
googlyeyesultra: Nice endgame there.
googlyeyesultra: CBNite pulls through though.
crushed feelings: yeah I'm bit weak to it without rocks lol
googlyeyesultra: CBNite is goddamn awesome.
googlyeyesultra: I might get around to warstorying this or something.
crushed feelings has left the room.
This log was formatted using Warmachine Version 1.0
Hopefully you all enjoyed the warstory, although admittedly I'm not a top-tier player, I felt it had some pretty good plays and that the teams reflected how the meta was developing. I'm open to questions/comments/suggestions as to the warstory, my team, or why I did something.
Here is crushed feelings's team:
Good game.
