• Check out the relaunch of our general collection, with classic designs and new ones by our very own Pissog!

Project Unluckiest Player of the Week (Week 5, see Post #112)

How often should we declare a UPOW winner?

  • Every week! (higher odds of winning, but potentially less exciting winners)

  • Every other week! (High quality replays every post, but lower odds of winning)

Results are only viewable after voting.
As a general rule, please don't submit replays for other people without their express permission. Hammy's last week was an example of said permission.

and so with that, let's announce the results. Our winner is...

didntexpectsnorlax - https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/...-2462912858-l5qtgp52663l657ha1em86s7juktabgpw

Y'know, it would've been really simple to deal with this Oricorio. This Electric Oricorio, against a Ground team with an Unaware user. It would've been. But fate had other plans, and Oricorio dodged four out of four uses of Toxic and hit five out of five hurricanes against the two relevant Ground-types. And if that wasn't enough, one of the hurricanes confused the Quagsire and allowed the Oricorio that set up to +4 to just steamroll the rest of the team. Factor in all that together, and you've got something in the realm of 0.00004%, give or take. Not that the odds matter much, for cases like this.

Submissions for the next week are now open; please get them in by early on Sunday the 26th!
 
The winner of this weeks UPOW is Nav1gator_ - https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randombattleblitz-2467016831

Like Checkov's monkey, seeing Passimian come and go like that at the start of the battle seems pretty innocuous at first. Sure, it took care of one of its checks by dodging two hurricanes and landing a poison, but what else is it gonna do? Well, the answer to that question rears its ugly head hardly a dozen turns later, after it manages to dodge another would-be finishing blow- only to go on to sweep the rest of the game away.. As a final twist of the knife, passimian ends the game by landing three back to back critical hits. Rng really can be cruel sometimes.

The next couple weeks may be a little different than the past! We'll give you all the details in the next post.
 
And with that our first full month of UPOW is over! We've loved seeing the amount of people sharing their unlucky moments every week, and we've seen some crazy stuff pass by already (the Hall of Fame really is a treat to check out if you haven't already). Now that we've achieved this milestone, we're taking one week off while we hand the choice of this project's future over to all of you!
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Regardless of the outcome of this poll however, the next UPOW will be a special one! You will have until Sunday November 9th to show us any and all replays you may have collected over the years. Regular entries are still allowed, though keep in mind your competition may be stiff.
 
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