Venturing into Platinum. [Warstory]

[Pablo]

I've been out of the loop for quite a while, and I decide Shoddy just wasn't quite my thing. I never managed to accomplish much in there, and the fast pace of it usually causes me to make alot of mistakes.

I've gotten bored of WiFi though, as I seem to be doing even more poorly there, and can't predict anything correctly and I'm lazy and don't Platinum Tutor my stuff, so I gave Shoddy another shot, and I managed to get an awesome battle, which probably sparked my interest again to battle fully.

Here are the teams, in no particular order besides leads, and no that is not an Unown ? in my opponents team, the last member will be revealed in the end.

PMAMX:

DM13

Rules: Ladder Match, Sleep Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Evasion Clause, Species Clause, Strict Damage Clause
PMAMX sent out Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
D13 sent out Weavile (lvl 100 Weavile ?).
Weavile is exerting its pressure!

The match begins, and I'm already at a disadvantage. After using my own lead Weavile for quite sometime, I know it's going to Fake Out first, then Brick Break afterwards, and I rather Heatran take it.

Weavile used Fake Out.
It's not very effective...
Heatran lost 6% of its health.
Heatran flinched!

Heatran 94%
Weavile 100%

There there, now no Life Orb recoil means Lum Berry or Sash are its items, but I can't leave Heatran in for the Brick Break.

PMAMX switched in Gengar (lvl 100 Gengar ?).
D13 switched in Tyranitar (lvl 100 Tyranitar ?).
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
A sandstorm brewed!
The sandstorm rages.
Gengar is buffetted by the sandstorm!
Gengar lost 6% of its health.

Gengar 94%
Tyranitar 100%

A double Switch, which didn't exactly work out in my favour, but this gives me valuable intel on his Weavile NOT having Brick Break. Most Tyranitars now are Careful, and I switch assuming Gengar will not be dead thanks to Pursuit.

PMAMX switched in Lucario (lvl 100 Lucario ?).
D13 switched in Metagross (lvl 100 Metagross).

A double switch yet again, and this gives me more useful information, i.e. Tyranitar is neither Careful not does it use Pursuit, so at this point I'm assuming Dragon Dance one. Metagross can easily KO me with Earthquake, so I have to reveal yet ANOTHER member of my team at this point.

PMAMX switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Metagross used Trick.
Metagross obtained Choice Band!
Flygon obtained Choice Scarf!

Flygon 100%
Metagross 100%

This was a funny turn, as we both gained potentially useful items. Seeing Choice Scarf + Trick, I figure Metagross won't be running alot of Speed EV's and decide on Earthquaking just to be safe.

Flygon used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
Metagross lost 73% of its health.
Metagross used Meteor Mash.
Flygon lost 100% of its health.
PMAMX's Flygon fainted.

Flygon 0%
Metagross 27%

5-6

Lame Shoddy Trick error, if this had been WiFi this turn would have played out so much more different. This means though, that Heatran gets to Stealth Rock, which is it's main purpose to the team.

PMAMX switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Heatran used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around your foe's team!
Metagross used Meteor Mash.
It's not very effective...
Heatran lost 21% of its health.

Heatran 73%
Metagross 27%

Meteor Mash does pityful damage, and Stealth Rock is down. Pretty vital to this team's success (as it causes ALOT of switches), and now time to send Metagross to the grave and equaise the score, as he's obviously not switching out.

Heatran used Earth Power.
It's super effective!
Metagross lost 27% of its health.
D13's Metagross fainted.

Heatran 73%
Metagross 0%

5-5

D13 switched in Tyranitar (lvl 100 Tyranitar ?).

Tyranitar once again, and I forgot about the previous turns, so I'm afraid of an Earthquake and decide to Explode, which I realize now was a mistake, regardless of tyranitars set.

Pointed stones dug into Tyranitar.
Tyranitar lost 12% of its health.
Heatran used Explosion.
It's not very effective...
Tyranitar lost 38% of its health.
PMAMX's Heatran fainted.
Tyranitar used Substitute.
Tyranitar lost 25% of its health.
Tyranitar made a substitute!
Tyranitar's leftovers restored its health a little!
Tyranitar restored 6% of its health.

Heatran 0%
Tyranitar 31% [Substitute]

4-5

So no Dragon Dance either :P. This is lame, as I have no good switchins to it, and this is when I miss Flygon's U-Turn the most. I have no choice but to sacrifice a Pokemon to it, and Starmie is the second most reliable one I have to break Tyranitars sub.

PMAMX switched in Starmie (lvl 100 Starmie).
Starmie used Grass Knot.
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for Tyranitar!
Tyranitar's substitute faded!
Tyranitar used Crunch.
It's super effective!
Starmie lost 100% of its health.
PMAMX's Starmie fainted.

Starmie 0%
Tyranitar 37%
3-5

Things are not looking good, but I need to take this guy out, to hopefully open up a sweep for my Special sweepers.

PMAMX switched in Lucario (lvl 100 Lucario ?).
Tyranitar is tightening its focus!
Lucario used Aura Sphere.
It's super effective!
Tyranitar lost 37% of its health.
D13's Tyranitar fainted.

Lucario 100%
Tyranitar 0%

3-4

D13 switched in Zapdos (lvl 100 Zapdos).
Pointed stones dug into Zapdos.
Zapdos lost 25% of its health.

Tyranitar is now gone, and this guy is annoying for Lucario, but is also the perfect switchin for Jirachi, which can attempt to sweep from here on out.

PMAMX switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 33% of its health.
Jirachi's leftovers restored its health a little!
Jirachi restored 6% of its health.
Zapdos's leftovers restored its health a little!
Zapdos restored 6% of its health.

Jirachi 73%
Zapdos 75%

Jirachi used Calm Mind.
Jirachi's special attack was raised.
Jirachi's special defence was raised.
Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Jirachi lost 22% of its health.

Jirachi 56%
Zapdos 75%

This works out perfectly. Now Zapdos won't break my subs, I have a +1 Special Attack and his Tyranitar is gone. I can freely Calm Mind against Zapdos in case he decides to stay in, but I sub just in case something like Infernape comes in.

D13 switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Pointed stones dug into Scizor.
Scizor lost 12% of its health.
Jirachi used Substitute.
Jirachi lost 25% of its health.
Jirachi made a substitute!

Jirachi 37%
Scizor 88%

Scizor comes in to break my Sub, but I will surely outspeed it and more surely put a huge dent on it with my +1 Special Attack, so I just go for the safe choice and Thunderbolt Scizor.

Jirachi used Thunderbolt.
Scizor lost 52% of its health.
Scizor used U-turn.
The substitute took damage for Jirachi!
Jirachi's substitute faded!
D13 switched in Weavile (lvl 100 Weavile ?).

Jirachi 43%
Weavile 69%

Now I DO remember this, and it doesn't have Brick Break, which means a Fake Out + Night Slash is probably coming, but incase he Night Slash first I go to Lucario to keep my Jirachi as healthy as possible as I can picture it sweeping in the end already.

PMAMX switched in Lucario (lvl 100 Lucario ?).
Weavile used Taunt.
Lucario fell for the taunt!

Lucario 100%
Weavile 63%

He doesn't have any safe switchins besides Zapdos, and I should've predicted that, but I wanted to get rid of Weavile incase it stayed in, so choosing HP Ice wasn't an option for me.

Weavile used Ice Punch.
It's not very effective...
Lucario lost 28% of its health.
Lucario used Aura Sphere.
It's super effective!
Weavile lost 63% of its health.
D13's Weavile fainted.

Lucario 72%
Weavile 0%
3-3

D13 switched in Zapdos (lvl 100 Zapdos).

Zapdos comes in and my opponent knows I'll switch, and seeing how Flygon is gone, I have no choice but to sacrifice a Pokemon.

PMAMX switched in Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
A critical hit!
Jirachi lost 46% of its health.
PMAMX's Jirachi fainted.

Jirachi 0%
Zapdos 50%

2-3

I was hoping to survive and dent the Zapdos a bit more, to let Lucario or Gengar KO the thing with their main attacks, but I get haxxed and can't.

PMAMX switched in Gengar (lvl 100 Gengar ?).
Gengar used Shadow Ball.
Zapdos lost 41% of its health.
Zapdos used Thunderbolt.
Gengar lost 65% of its health.

Gengar 23%
Zapdos 10%

2-2

Gengar used Shadow Ball.
Zapdos lost 10% of its health.
D13's Zapdos fainted.

D13 switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).

I decided to keep Lucario as healthy as possible, since he still had Scizor and I didn't know how much a Choice Band Bullet Punch would do. Gengar takes down Zapdos and indeed in comes Scizor. I don't have a choice, so I choose Shadow Ball again hoping he overpredicts the switch to Lucario and doesn't use Bullet Punch.

Scizor used Bullet Punch.
Gengar lost 16% of its health.
PMAMX's Gengar fainted.

Gengar 0%
Scizor 24%

1-2

Yeah pretty obvious move. Now Lucario comes in to revenge kill. Earlier he didn't have a true 'safe' switchin to Lucario, and I still have yet to see his last Pokemon. I'm getting worried about this, but figure it's definately not a Ghost. I'm afraid it's some sort of late-game sweeper like Salamence, which would pretty much mean I lose.

PMAMX switched in Lucario (lvl 100 Lucario ?).
Scizor used Bullet Punch.
It's not very effective...
Lucario lost 39% of its health.
Lucario used Aura Sphere.
Scizor lost 23% of its health.
D13's Scizor fainted.

Lucario 33%
Scizor 0%

1-1

Scizor is such a beast! Bullet Punch did alot more than I expected, and now it all comes down to his last Pokemon.

D13 switched in

.
Pointed stones dug into Kingdra.
Kingdra lost 12% of its health.

Kingdra... This means game pretty much.

EDIT: Thanks to LGY for pointing out my typo. I calculated the health %'s by adding and substracting damage, and forgot Weaviles Ice Punch on my Lucario.

Being at 33% health, I have a 0 chance to survive. It all comes down to how much a Specs Aura Sphere can do to it.

Lucario 252 Neutral vs 0/0 Neutral Kingdra:
Defender HP: 291
Move Damage: 214 - 252
Damage: 73.54% - 86.60%

Kingdra is sitting nicely at 88%, so not even with Choice Specs do I have a chance as every Kingdra out there is bulky, and even if it isn't, it'd have to be -SpD for me to have a chance lol. I click 'use' and type in gg.

Lucario used Aura Sphere.
A critical hit!
Kingdra lost 88% of its health.
D13's Kingdra fainted.
PMAMX wins!
D13: hjdhfjdhfd
D13 has left the room.
PMAMX: sorry! gg

How's THAT for unexpected turn of events I got insanely lucky there, as I only had a 6.25% chance (that's the chance of CH's occurring right?) to win that battle and I nailed it :). My opponent left before I could apologize for the hax, as he really had the win, but I think not bringing Kingdra in earlier, despite not having many chances to do so, was a mistake of his even if it being at full health towards the end guaranteed him winning pretty much.

Hope you enjoyed reading! This took quite a while to type up and edit, specially without the use of the 'warmachine' as I'm using a Mac.

 

[Ryoku]

XD When I read it before you edited it, I thought your opponent was using an Unown.

 

[macle]

Very good battle Pablo.

 

[Little Green Yoda]

Nice match; is there a reason why your Lucario still had 100% health despite being Ice Punched by Weavile? Typo?

And the whole Trick discrepancy between Wifi and Shoddy throws me off a lot too...

 

[Pablo]

Thanks for pointing that out LGY. It was a mistake on my part indeed. I editted the pertinent parts now. (Give me your Raikou plz!)

 

[Potential]

Sorry for the ignorant question, but what is the "Trick discrepancy" of which you speak?

 

[Lightsabre]

that was a great battle. I liked reading it. good job and there wasn't to much hax(though what there was did affect the battle quite a bit). and in anser to Mathematician5- the metagross should've been forced to use trick again since he got a choice item

 

[Legacy Raider]

Good battle throughout, pity about the hax at the end. The comments were enjoyable to read.

 

[Pablo]

Yeah that's it, as seen on THIS video, that on WiFi Trick works differently. This would've allowed me to keep my Flygon alive and well, by U-Turning as he was pretty much forced to switch, and if he did I'd have a choice on the item he received.

 

[Potential]

Oh, that. Thanks, I get it now.

 

[Chou Toshio]

Biggest mistake I saw was Flygon's earthquake > U-Turn v. Metagross. Flygon v. Trick Gross should be extremely advantageous for flygon, but U-Turn is definitely a better move for a number of reasons.

Earthquake is a really bad early game move in general since the enemy could switch in any number of flying/levitate pokes with great set up moves and proceed to rape.

U-Turn on the other hand is a fantastic early game move, especially when it comes to flygon v. metagross, because you can see if they switch (not bulky enough to live earthquake) or stay in (going to use meteor mash), at which point you can make the appropriate switch (and gain more advantage). I'm guessing you were running Jolly > Adamant (due to band), which would have been even more incentive not to try to take metagross down 1 v. 1. Heatran would have absorbed the Meteor-Mash like nothing and gotten SR up nicely, and while you'd have lost ~20% more on heatran, you'd be +1 Scarf-Flygon.

In short, U-Turn is almost never a bad move, especially early game.

Scarf Flygon in the back pocket would also mean that kingdra would have had 0% chance of sweeping at the end. Kingdra could choose to DD twice and die to lucario or die to scarf flygon outrage.

 

[Pablo]

Flame.

You live and learn by your mistakes Chou :P. I realize that now, and I'd be worried if I didn't learn after the battle. Trust me I won't be making the same mistake twice ;).

 

[Chou Toshio]

Not a flame, just a critique.

 

[Hocotate]

A question here, how could you be sure that Weavile didn't have Brick Break at the beginning? He might have just thought that your Heatran was scarfed, and would have outsped Weavile for the OHKO.

 

[Stathakis]

A question here, how could you be sure that Weavile didn't have Brick Break at the beginning? He might have just thought that your Heatran was scarfed, and would have outsped Weavile for the OHKO.

no lo damage means he was prolly sashed and therefore able to take heatran with brick break. but he switched, so it's pretty clear he didnt have brick break.

 

[umbarsc]

Or maybe he knew that Weavile wouldn't OHKO with Brick Break, and he wanted to save his Weavile for potential revenge-kills later. Or maybe he just wanted to take the opportunity to set up a Substitute with Tyranitar. I didn't think it was that apparent that he lacked Brick Break.

 

[Stathakis]

Or maybe he knew that Weavile wouldn't OHKO with Brick Break, and he wanted to save his Weavile for potential revenge-kills later. Or maybe he just wanted to take the opportunity to set up a Substitute with Tyranitar. I didn't think it was that apparent that he lacked Brick Break.

on the contrary, if he had brick break, he should have used it, to either scout the heatran set, 2HKO it if it got down sr, find what move the scarfer used, etc.

or maybe he had brick break and wasn't very smart?

 

[Pablo]

Well I would consider it an 'educated' guess. I hate how this has 1000+ views but only 16 replies :(. I'm slowly creeping up the ladder, now at 1499 and when I had this battle 3 days ago, I was at 1400. I look forward to reaching close to the top soon.