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The Close Combat Tournament
- Thread starter Ditto
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I see Badal on irc fairly often so I'll get this done when I can.
I haven't seen him on IRC in awhile either
I won against Badal.
Well, I beat Itsuki, good game.
I lost to Ferrouswheel. It was a coinflip for the win, based on whether or not he would hit himself in confusion. GG!
Great game LinIsKorean, the tension was really thick for me waiting to find out if I hit myself or not.
I used:
Blissey - Heart Mail (Earlier in the tournament was a chople berry)
Bold - Natural Cure - 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Toxic
Counter
Rest (Earlier in tournament was Softboiled)
Protect (Earlier in tournament was Seismic Toss)
This was an anti-typical strategies Blissey, with Mail to stop people from Tricking, Rest to stop toxic stall, Protect to scout, Counter for physical pokemon, and Toxic for special pokemon. After careful examination I decided that Mail, Rest, and Protect were more important then their replacements, as Chople just beats Infernape, a pokemon that I didn't expect to see much of with focus sash banned. Although I was a little worried about losing the instant recovery of softboiled, not losing to toxic ended up out weighing it's use in my opinion. And after a scare about mispredicting a mixed pokemon, I decided to use Protect instead of seismic toss, as I didn't expect to see many special steels or poison pokes in the tournament.
I used:
Blissey - Heart Mail (Earlier in the tournament was a chople berry)
Bold - Natural Cure - 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Toxic
Counter
Rest (Earlier in tournament was Softboiled)
Protect (Earlier in tournament was Seismic Toss)
This was an anti-typical strategies Blissey, with Mail to stop people from Tricking, Rest to stop toxic stall, Protect to scout, Counter for physical pokemon, and Toxic for special pokemon. After careful examination I decided that Mail, Rest, and Protect were more important then their replacements, as Chople just beats Infernape, a pokemon that I didn't expect to see much of with focus sash banned. Although I was a little worried about losing the instant recovery of softboiled, not losing to toxic ended up out weighing it's use in my opinion. And after a scare about mispredicting a mixed pokemon, I decided to use Protect instead of seismic toss, as I didn't expect to see many special steels or poison pokes in the tournament.
How do the prizes for this tournament work?
You get:
4 Credits from Ditto.
3 Credits from 7014gree.
3 Credits from timetwister.
2 Credits from Ferrouswheel
All you need to do is contact the people who donated and ask them for what you want the credits to be. 1 credit = 1 pokemon.
Oh cool, thanks!
After several times struggling to find a time to battle, we finally battled.
Anyways I beat badalcristiano.
gg man. That Mirror Coat/Counter tactic had me switching back and forth on my attacks. xP
Edit:
Dragonite @ Yache Berry
Quiet - Inner Focus
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Superpower
- ExtremeSpeed
I wanted something with Inner Focus to stop flinches. Dragonite was susceptible to Ice-type attacks so I used Yache Berry, ExtremeSpeed + attack picked off anything weak, and a mix set would prove hard to deal with against Counter/Mirror Coat strategies (which I had to deal with in my battle with badalcristiano and Ferrouswheel, I totally forgot about Counter and just went for it lol). Anyways it has proved me well. =]
Anyways I beat badalcristiano.
gg man. That Mirror Coat/Counter tactic had me switching back and forth on my attacks. xP
Edit:
Dragonite @ Yache Berry
Quiet - Inner Focus
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Superpower
- ExtremeSpeed
I wanted something with Inner Focus to stop flinches. Dragonite was susceptible to Ice-type attacks so I used Yache Berry, ExtremeSpeed + attack picked off anything weak, and a mix set would prove hard to deal with against Counter/Mirror Coat strategies (which I had to deal with in my battle with badalcristiano and Ferrouswheel, I totally forgot about Counter and just went for it lol). Anyways it has proved me well. =]
lost to Itsuki.
gg tfp.
Thank you misclicks, you cost me a bunch of good mons :P
EDIT:
I used-
Swampert @ Rindo Berry
relaxed
252 HP/110 Atk/ 64 SpD / 84 Def/
~Counter
~Earthquake
~Mirror Coat
~Protect
Thank you Ditto for hosting... this was awesome fun! First time I reached semis 9.9
gg tfp.
Thank you misclicks, you cost me a bunch of good mons :P
EDIT:
I used-
Swampert @ Rindo Berry
relaxed
252 HP/110 Atk/ 64 SpD / 84 Def/
~Counter
~Earthquake
~Mirror Coat
~Protect
100% credit to coolking49 for his awesome pokémon creation for 1v1 that I used. Thank You coolking for letting me use it. The best part was that the pokémon I was using was on the first page of the 1v1 metagame thread.
Thank you Ditto for hosting... this was awesome fun! First time I reached semis 9.9
Congrats to Ferrouswheel, LinIsKorean, and Itsuki!
Don't forget to redeem your prizes by either VM'ing those who offered credits, or posting in their threads in Wi-Fi.
Don't forget to redeem your prizes by either VM'ing those who offered credits, or posting in their threads in Wi-Fi.
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