The trick is on you. (OU Warstory)

[Run]

I’ve been playing with my team for a while now. It fared very well throughout the early days of Latias being in OU but has been somewhat lacking as of late. I don’t know if it’s the metagame changing or me, but I’m yet to sit down and try to tweak the team, I just like it too much.

B-Run's Team:

After a bad string of annoying losses the night before from some poor choices and some extremely poorly timed hax, I got up the next morning and decided to play a few matches. Won most, lost a few. I decided to do one more before hitting the shower and heading out to work. Little did I know that I was going to be in for a LOOOONG match… However, it was one of the most intense and enjoyable matches I’ve ever played. This was an extremely close match with minor hax riddled throughout, though all within acceptable statistical range of occurrence. Despite hax, it was an extremely well-played game by both players.


Rules:

• Ladder Match,
• Sleep Clause,
• Freeze Clause,
• OHKO Clause,
• Evasion Clause,
• Species Clause,
• Strict Damage Clause,
• Soul Dew Clause

The combat log looks like this.
My comments look like this.
Scores will be shown after each KO.
Leftovers and Sandstorm will be omitted.

TTS sent out Jirachi (lvl 100 Jirachi).
B-Run sent out Kingdra (lvl 100 Kingdra ?).

I see a lot of Jirachi leads, they are 99% of the time trick-scarf leads, which is fine… my Kingdra likes having a scarf just fine. Instead of opting to Yawn (which gets completely screwed by trick as they obtain my Lum Berry) or DD, the easy choice is to attack.

Jirachi used Trick.
Jirachi obtained Lum Berry!
Kingdra obtained Choice Scarf!
Kingdra used Waterfall.
Jirachi lost 34% of its health.

@ choice scarf: 100%

@ Lum Berry: 66%

Kingdra used Waterfall.
Jirachi lost 38% of its health.
Jirachi flinched!

@ choice scarf: 100%

@ Lum Berry: 28%

Yay at flinch. Didn’t matter much to me, didn’t really help a ton later either.

Kingdra used Waterfall.
Jirachi lost 28% of its health.
TTS's Jirachi fainted.

(6-5)

@ choice scarf: 100%

@ Lum Berry: KO

TTS switched in Machamp (lvl 100 Machamp ?).

Machamp… Machamp gives my team a LOT of trouble as both of my normal late game sweepers are easily 1HKOed by him and neither can 1HKO first. Kingdra is expendable. I always opt to just pound into Machamp to take him down to revenge killing range.

Kingdra used Waterfall.
Machamp lost 43% of its health.
Machamp flinched!

@ choice scarf: 100%

@ leftovers: 63%

Another flinch hax, I really hope this pays off. I think I’ve got him now. Thinking that shower might be coming sooner than I thought.

Kingdra used Waterfall.
Machamp lost 38% of its health.
Machamp used Dynamicpunch.
Kingdra lost 72% of its health.
Kingdra became confused!

@ choice scarf: 28% (confused)

@ leftovers: 31%

Ouch. Coin Toss.

Kingdra is confused!
It hurt itself in its confusion!
Kingdra lost 15% of its health.
Machamp used Rest.
Machamp fell asleep!
Machamp restored 68% of its health.

@ choice scarf: 13% (confused)

@ leftovers: 100% (sleeping)

That just sucks. Not only did I fail to KO, but Machamp is toting rest. Meaning I could be in for a long fight if I don’t pull something good out now. There’s no reason to leave a scarfed Kingdra in now. I used to switch Latias in here until Machamp started regularly carrying Payback. I think about pulling out Heatran now, knowing he can 2HKO, but figured he would switch out and wanted to save him for later in the game when there are less pokemon for him to switch to. So instead I bring in Swampert to stealth rock and whittle down Machamp again.

B-Run switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Machamp is fast asleep!
Machamp used Sleep Talk.
Machamp used Payback.
Swampert lost 14% of its health.

@ leftovers: 92%

@ leftovers: 100% (sleeping)

Machamp is fast asleep!
Machamp used Sleep Talk.
Machamp used Payback.
Swampert lost 14% of its health.
Swampert used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around your foe's team!

@ leftovers: 84%

@ leftovers: 100% (sleeping)

Machamp wakes up this turn. If I can’t switch in anyone safely, then I stay in, do some damage and hope for Ice beam hax. I have an Earthquake/Ice Beam/Stealth rock/Roar mixpert and I love it to death. So many Salamence and Gliscor switch in on EQ or get roared in and stay to be ice beamed. Anyway, if I can get Machamp frozen or roar with him at low health then I can deal with him at my leisure.

Machamp woke up!
Machamp used Dynamicpunch.
Swampert lost 42% of its health.
Swampert became confused!
Swampert is confused!
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Machamp lost 21% of its health.

@ leftovers: 48% (confused)

@ leftovers: 85%

Machamp used Payback.
Swampert lost 14% of its health.
Swampert is confused!
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Machamp lost 22% of its health.

@ leftovers: 40% (confused)

@ leftovers: 69%

I think TTS chose payback here because he noticed I didn’t have a hard counter for Machamp and knew his Dynamic punch needed its PP to last. Swampert didn’t particularly threaten him.

Machamp used Payback.
Swampert lost 12% of its health.
Swampert snapped out of confusion!
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Machamp lost 22% of its health.

@ leftovers: 34%

@ leftovers: 53%

Machamp used Payback.
Swampert lost 12% of its health.
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Machamp lost 19% of its health.

@ leftovers: 28%

@ leftovers: 40%

Machamp used Rest.
Machamp fell asleep!
Machamp restored 59% of its health.
Swampert used Roar.
TTS switched in Blissey (lvl 100 Blissey ?).
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.

@ leftovers: 28%

@ leftovers: 88%

I was hoping to Roar 1 turn before he was going to rest, making it easy to kill him later with anyone other than Swampert. In hindsight, I might have been able to switch Heatran in on a payback and scare him out with about half health. But oh well. I don’t know whether what kind of Blissey this is, whether T-Wave or Toxic, but I know that if it’s T-Wave he won’t use it on Swampert, and if its Toxic, it won’t work on Scizor. So its time for a switch.

TTS switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Pointed stones dug into Rotom-h.
Rotom-h lost 12% of its health.
B-Run switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).

@ choice band: 100%

@ ????: 88% (can't find a working rotom-h icon ATM)

All I know is that this thing isn’t carrying leftovers. Regardless of what kind of Rotom this is, Scizor can’t stay, and is too slow to U-Turn on him. So I assume it’s an Overheat coming and switch to Heatran.

B-Run switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).
Rotom-h used Trick.
Rotom-h obtained Choice Scarf!
Heatran obtained Choice Specs!

@ choice specs: 100%

@ choice scarf: 88%

2 Things here: 1) I know he expects me to attack, meaning 2) he’s going to switch and not try to double-trick. I don’t know whats coming, but whatever it is, it can probably handle Fire Blast… let’s throw a mostly-dead scarfed Kingdra at it and hope for the best.

TTS switched in Porygon2 (lvl 100 Porygon2).
Porygon2 traced Heatran's Flash Fire!
Pointed stones dug into Porygon2.
Porygon2 lost 12% of its health.
B-Run switched in Kingdra (lvl 100 Kingdra ?).

@ choice scarf: 13%

@ leftovers: 94%

Not a bad turn for me. I’m glad I didn’t attack with Heatran now as it would have given TTS a time advantage I couldn’t afford. I know I’m faster with the scarf. It’s time to take a hefty chunk of Porygon2’s health before going down.

Kingdra used Outrage.
Kingdra went on a rampage!
Porygon2 lost 39% of its health.
Porygon2 used Ice Beam.
Kingdra lost 12% of its health.
B-Run's Kingdra fainted.

(5-5)

@ choice scarf: KO

@ leftovers: 61%

Not quite as much damage as I had hoped for. Am I just too used to getting a DD off before using Outrage or is this just a defensive duck? I’m not sure what’s going on. But Latias should be able to handle it.

B-Run switched in Latias (lvl 100 Latias ?).
TTS switched in Blissey (lvl 100 Blissey ?).
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Latias used Calm Mind.
Latias's special attack was raised.
Latias's special defence was raised.

@ leftovers: 100% (+1 SpAtk, +1SpDef)

@ leftovers: 82%

Bah, Blissey. Since TTS didn’t toxic before, I’m assuming he’s running T-Wave, so back to swampert.

B-Run switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Blissey used Thunder Wave.
It doesn't affect Swampert...

@ leftovers: 40%

@ leftovers: 88%

TTS switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Pointed stones dug into Rotom-h.
Rotom-h lost 12% of its health.
Rotom-h makes ground moves miss with Levitate!
Swampert used Earthquake.
Swampert's attack missed!

@ leftovers: 46%

@ choice scarf: 76%

I don’t want Swampert taking any special attacks as I need him for Machamp. So I decide to reveal my other late game sweeper and get sandstorm running to negate leftovers. Also Tyranitar will weather whatever special attack that’s incoming like the champ he is.

B-Run switched in Tyranitar (lvl 100 Tyranitar ?).
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
A sandstorm brewed!
Rotom-h used Thunderbolt.
Tyranitar lost 31% of its health.

@ leftovers: 75%

@ choice scarf: 70%

TTS makes a good prediction knowing I was going to switch and uses his strongest attack: Thunderbolt. I know TTS is going to switch Machamp back in, and I’m pretty sure I can’t 3HKO with earthquake without a DD. Also I’m scared of a Sleep Talk Dynamic punch. So in favor of not giving up time, I switch right back to Swampert and roar him out, hoping to get a favorable match up and take an advantage.

TTS switched in Machamp (lvl 100 Machamp ?).
Pointed stones dug into Machamp.
Machamp lost 6% of its health.
B-Run switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).

@ leftovers: 52%

@ leftovers: 94% (sleeping)

Machamp is fast asleep!
Swampert used Roar.
TTS switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Pointed stones dug into Rotom-h.
Rotom-h lost 12% of its health.

@ leftovers: 58%

@ choice scarf: 52%

Rotom-h used Trick.
Rotom-h obtained Leftovers!
Swampert obtained Choice Scarf!
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Rotom-h lost 27% of its health.

@ choice scarf: 58%

@ leftovers: 52%

TBH, I had completely forgotten about trick. I was not a happy camper at this point. I don’t even know why I stayed in. I think I was worried about him having will-o-wisp and buring TTar if I switched again… I don’t know. But I forgot he had a scarf. And now my Swampert has my Heatrans scarf. Might as well try to finish Rotom off.

TTS switched in Blissey (lvl 100 Blissey ?).
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Blissey lost 6% of its health.

@ choice scarf: 58%

@ leftovers: 76%

At this point I know I’m going to get T-Waved. I can’t stay in and he needs to cripple my hard hitters. Luckily I don’t invest much in speed on my Scizor anyway as he often sweeps with Bullet Punch or uses Superpower/U-Turn when predicting switches. So I let Scizor take it.

B-Run switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Blissey used Thunder Wave.
Scizor is paralysed! It may be unable to move!

@ choice band: 100% (paralyzed)

@ leftovers: 76%

He’s expecting Bullet Punch or Superpower, I’m just gonna U-Turn.

TTS switched in Rotom-h (lvl 100 Rotom-h).
Pointed stones dug into Rotom-h.
Rotom-h lost 12% of its health.
Scizor used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Rotom-h lost 11% of its health.
TTS's Rotom-h fainted.
B-Run switched in Heatran (lvl 100 Heatran ?).

(5-4)

@ choice specs: 100%

@ leftovers: KO

TTS switched in Porygon2 (lvl 100 Porygon2).
Porygon2 traced Heatran's Flash Fire!
Pointed stones dug into Porygon2.
Porygon2 lost 12% of its health.

I chose Heatran because he’s good at applying pressure and getting key kills mid game. With choice specs I know I can dish out a ton of hurt. But with Porygon2 tracing Flash Fire and the surprising bulkiness of porygon before, I stop for a minute to contemplate my next move. I look over what I know of TTS’s team and decide that Heatran isn’t going to be critical and Porygon2 will always be a major hinderance to him and possibly others. So in the end I reluctantly explode on him to remove 1 wild card.

Heatran used Explosion.
Porygon2 lost 49% of its health.
TTS's Porygon2 fainted.
B-Run's Heatran fainted.

(4-3)

@ choice specs: KO for the greater good

@ leftovers: KO

I know Machamp is still asleep, if he brings it in now, I can get some good damage done on him by U-Turning or even a possible 2HKO with Superpower. If its anything else I’ve seen, I can probably Bullet Punch through it. So back to Scizor.

TTS switched in Togekiss (lvl 100 Togekiss ?).
B-Run switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Pointed stones dug into Togekiss.
Togekiss lost 25% of its health.

An interesting matchup. I’m already paralyzed and Air Slash will do a good bit of damage to me. But I need to see how hard I can hit it with Bullet Punch. I can still take it down barring paralyze hax.

Scizor is paralysed! It can't move!
Togekiss used Roost.
Togekiss restored 25% of its health.

@ choice band: 100% (paralyzed)

@ leftovers: 100%

-_-

Scizor used Bullet Punch.
Togekiss lost 50% of its health.
Togekiss used Air Slash.
Scizor lost 36% of its health.

@ choice band: 63% (paralyzed)

@ leftovers: 50%

I’m very glad I set up Sandstorm earlier and hope 50% wasn’t the high end damage output.

Scizor used Bullet Punch.
Togekiss lost 50% of its health.
TTS's Togekiss fainted.

(4-2)

@ choice band: 63% (paralyzed)

@ leftovers: KO

TTS switched in Machamp (lvl 100 Machamp ?).
Pointed stones dug into Machamp.
Machamp lost 6% of its health.

I’m feeling pretty good now, but I’m not out of the woods yet. I need to reset Scizor for Superpower. Back to Machamp? Back to Swampert.

B-Run switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Machamp is fast asleep!

@ choice scarf: 58%

@ leftovers: 94% (sleeping)

Swampert used Ice Beam.
Machamp lost 22% of its health.
Machamp woke up!
Machamp used Dynamicpunch.
Swampert lost 36% of its health.
Swampert became confused!

@ choice scarf: 22%

@ leftovers: 72% (sleeping)

Swampert is confused!
Swampert used Ice Beam.
Machamp lost 21% of its health.
Machamp was frozen solid!
Machamp was defrosted!
Machamp used Rest.
Machamp fell asleep!
Machamp restored 56% of its health.

@ choice scarf: 22%

@ leftovers: 100% (sleeping)

I finally get my hax, but in counter-hax he instantly defrosts. I believe TTS chose rest here because Scarfpert was faster and knew he couldn’t let me have a free switch into Latias after KOing Swampert with Machamp at 50% health. Good move TTS. Now I need to make a switch. My best bet is to get some heavy damage in while he’s asleep and KO before he can rest again. I opt for Scizor as he’ll take a Dynamic Punch better than Latias will a Payback. Though now I think Latias would have been the better switch.

B-Run switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
Machamp is fast asleep!

@ choice band: 63% (paralyzed)

@ leftovers: 100% (sleeping)

Machamp is fast asleep!
Machamp used Sleep Talk.
Machamp used Dynamicpunch.
Scizor lost 57% of its health.
Scizor became confused!
Scizor is confused!
It hurt itself in its confusion!
Scizor lost 7% of its health.
B-Run's Scizor fainted.

(3-2)

@ choice band: KO

@ leftovers: 100% (sleeping)

Drat. Not investing much in speed for Scizor doesn’t hurt me often, but here I could have really used that Superpower. Scizor goes down and I go to Latias, who I should have switched in 2 turns ago.

B-Run switched in Latias (lvl 100 Latias ?).
TTS switched in Blissey (lvl 100 Blissey ?).
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Latias used Dragon Pulse.
A critical hit!
Blissey lost 21% of its health.
The sandstorm rages.

@ leftovers: 100%

@ leftovers: 43%

Again, I can’t allow Latias to be paralyzed until after Machamp is down. Scarfpert, do your thing.

B-Run switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
Blissey used Thunder Wave.
It doesn't affect Swampert...

@ choice scarf: 22%

@ leftovers: 43%

Swampert used Earthquake.
Blissey lost 36% of its health.
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 50% of its health.

@ choice scarf: 22%

@ leftovers: 57%

EQ wasn’t quite enough to KO. He’ll softboil again and I might as well EQ again hoping for a crit.

Swampert used Earthquake.
Blissey lost 36% of its health.
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 50% of its health.

@ choice scarf: 22%

@ leftovers: 71%

No crit? Oh well. I see another softboiled coming, and since I don’t want to be taking extra damage. I decide its time go to back to Tyranitar, who can scare Blissey out and hopefully get Machamp into revenge killing range before going down.

B-Run switched in Tyranitar (lvl 100 Tyranitar ?).
Tyranitar's Sand Stream whipped up a sandstorm!
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 30% of its health.

@ leftovers: 75%

@ leftovers: 100%

Tyranitar used Stone Edge.
Blissey lost 58% of its health.
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Tyranitar lost 29% of its health.

@ leftovers: 58%

@ leftovers: 42%

I’m not sure why Blissey stayed in here, maybe TTS thought Seismic Toss would be 4x effective? I dunno. But I’m glad he did, I got some damage off. Even though I think Machamp is coming back in, I don’t want miss the chance to KO Blissey, and I don’t think EQ would cut it. So instead I pick Crunch.

TTS switched in Machamp (lvl 100 Machamp ?).
Pointed stones dug into Machamp.
Machamp lost 6% of its health.
Tyranitar used Crunch.
It's not very effective...
Machamp lost 23% of its health.

@ leftovers: 64%

@ leftovers: 71% (sleeping)

So somewhere along the line I miscalculated the number of turns Machamp had been sleeping and thought I had an extra turn. Regardless I choose to EQ and do some damage.

Tyranitar used Earthquake.
Machamp lost 40% of its health.
Machamp woke up!
Machamp used Dynamicpunch.
It's super effective!
Tyranitar lost 64% of its health.
B-Run's Tyranitar fainted.

(2-2)

@ leftovers: KO

@ leftovers: 31%

Tyranitar goes down and I’m a bit disappointed because I’m still scared of Machamp and if Latias can’t handle Blissey, it’s over. I go to Latias and hope for the best.

B-Run switched in Latias (lvl 100 Latias ?).
Latias used Dragon Pulse.
Machamp lost 31% of its health.
TTS's Machamp fainted.

(2-1)

@ leftovers: 100%

@ leftovers: KO (finally down!!!)

Machamp goes down with a crash. But this leaves me with only a special attacker and a severely crippled wall with choice scarf to deal with one of the best stallers in the game. I’m hopeful, but not very confident. This is going to be a long ride.

Instead of boring you all with the next huge portion of the match, I’m going to give you my basic strategy at this point. I know I can still do some damage by using Calm Mind. I know paralysis is inevitable at this point and I hope the paralyze hax don’t work against me more than they should. I Ought to be able to Calm Mind up, keeping my health high with Recover.

The beginning of this exchange begins with me alternating between Calm Mind and Recover. Later we exchange hits a few times, both recovering/softboiling as need be. There’s no way for me to win, but know he has only 2 options: kill me or continue to waste softboiled PP then kill me, while I have the chance to crit for the KO…

TTS switched in Blissey (lvl 100 Blissey ?).
Pointed stones dug into Blissey.
Blissey lost 12% of its health.
Latias used Calm Mind.
Latias's special attack was raised.
Latias's special defence was raised.
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 50% of its health.
---
Latias used Calm Mind.
Latias's special attack was raised.
Latias's special defence was raised.
Blissey used Thunder Wave.
Latias is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Calm Mind.
Latias's special attack was raised.
Latias's special defence was raised.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Calm Mind.
Latias's special attack was raised.
Latias's special defence was raised.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 20% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 18% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Dragon Pulse.
Blissey lost 35% of its health.
---
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 35% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 30% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Calm Mind.
Latias's special attack was raised.
Latias's special defence was raised.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias is paralysed! It can't move!
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias is paralysed! It can't move!
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Calm Mind.
Latias's special attack was raised.
Latias's special defence was raised.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Dragon Pulse.
Blissey lost 44% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias is paralysed! It can't move!
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Recover.
Latias restored 50% of its health.
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Dragon Pulse.
Blissey lost 48% of its health.
---
Blissey used Softboiled.
Blissey restored 50% of its health.
Latias is paralysed! It can't move!
---
Blissey used Seismic Toss.
Latias lost 30% of its health.
Latias used Dragon Pulse.
Blissey lost 42% of its health.
B-Run's Latias fainted. (sandstorm)

(1-1)

@ leftovers: KO

@ leftovers: 15%

In the end he opts to kill me with only 15% health remaining. Latias’ job is done. Time to revenge with Scarfpert… (wait, what?)

B-Run switched in Swampert (lvl 100 Swampert ?).
TTS: ooooh
B-Run: gg
TTS: forgot about pert
TTS: rofl
TTS: fuck you scarf :[
B-Run: lol

Swampert used Earthquake.
Blissey lost 15% of its health.
TTS's Blissey fainted.
B-Run wins!

(1-0)

@ choice scarf: 22%

@ leftovers: KO

B-Run: hey, i didnt put it on him
TTS: lol
TTS: gg
B-Run: gg
TTS: that was fun

After that whole thing, my Swampert, who normally would have been slower than Blissey with his –speed nature, outspeeds Blissey and deals the last 15% for the win. I can say that is the only time in my shoddybattle career that Swampert has been the only pokemon left after a victory.

This was an amazing game. So many things had to be perfectly balanced in order to keep from getting behind. TTS managed to completely screw up my normal strategy and cripple some very useful pokemon. Without each of my pokemon doing the exact job that they did, I’m not sure I would have won this battle. A few minor changes to either of our game would have severely changed the outcome. Great job TTS.

Props:

• Machamp for single-handedly running through almost all of my team.
• Tyranitar for negating leftovers with sandstorm, without which I would have missed crucial kills on Togekiss, Machamp, and Blissey.
• Latias for getting the KO on Machamp and taking Blissey into revenge kill range.
• Kingdra for doing his job, taking down a lead and being expendable.
• Swampert for taking so many hits and outspeeding Blissey with his choice scarf!
• TTS for an amazing match.

Slops:

• Kingdra missing an early Machamp KO due to confusion.
• General hax.

TTS’ team:

 

[noob3]

People really need to quit tricking scarf :D Good match.

 

[diinbong]

The match itself was phenomenal in my opinion, and the comments were pretty good as well. Overall I enjoyed it a lot and hope that you stick around and post some more good battles.

 

[Pyromanic]

Drat. Not investing much in speed for Scizor doesn’t hurt me often, but here I could have really used that Superpower. Scizor goes down and I go to Latias, who I should have switched in 2 turns ago.

Minor nitpick: You were paralyzed so he would have outsped you even if you ran max speed jolly.

 

[reyscarface]

Haha, ScarfPert. Very good game, awesome battle, the comments were as it needed to be, good, while explaining the situation. Awesome job with this Warstory.

And assuming you are new here (post count and join date) i would like to say... Welcome to Smogon ^_^

 

[Matthew]

Good story and it was your first post also! Keep up the great writing job

 

[hellmonkey]

Enjoyed the story, thanks for the read.

 

[joshe]

Welcome to Smogon, and way to make quite the entrance. Nice Warstory.

 

[Xeorr]

same as joshe, amazing battle, great comments. all around great!

 

[MegaBuddha]

good first post. I enjoyed the war story however i felt like you never really lost much control of the match

 

[sasami]

Great warstory, I enjoyed it =).

 

[Legacy Raider]

That was a very fun read, thank you. Welcome to smogon, and just so you know, I'm expecting more warstories from you in the future =).

 

[Run]

Minor nitpick: You were paralyzed so he would have outsped you even if you ran max speed jolly.

Yea, I noticed that right after I posted. I was like... "wait..."

ive got a login under "B-Run" that I've had for a long time, I've read a lot, never posted. And when i finally went to do it, I couldn't post. I guess when I signed up I never did some email verification or something... I dunno. But I had to make a new one to do this. So even though that was my first post, I'm only a new poster, not a new student of smogon. Been battling off and on for probably a year, maybe a little longer.

Thanks for the comments!

 

[Staraptor Call]

I like how it proves that if a slow Pokemon is Tricked an unwanted Scarf, it doesn't automatically make it nearly useless like I had thought earlier. Good warstory.

 

[YoshiX]

this is a beautiful warstory.
The current top warstoriers need to move aside ;)

 

[muttonhead]

Great read, I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Scarlet Spyder]

Great battle and nice predictions on both sides. It was a very enjoyable read

 

[Stallion]

Nice warstory and great predictions on either side, what a way to make your first post :).

*****

 

[Veedrock]

The battle was pretty good. The predictions were great too, but were offset by the misplays. =/ It wouldn't hurt to minimize the Blissey v. Latias stall either, especially since they were commentless. The comments were patchy, but they were sufficient, well thought out and written.

Overall, good warstory.

Drat. Not investing much in speed for Scizor doesn’t hurt me often, but here I could have really used that Superpower.

Scizor was paralyzed. Speed investment would not have helped you at all.

 

[Thorns]

I share your frustation! When a Machamp gets me down like that, I get really pissed and start doing crazy shit that pays off!

 

[Wes]

I wish everytime someone new comes here, he'd post a warstory like this.

 

[Malfunction]

As everybody else said, a great warstory with a great battle and great comments. 5 stars ;)

 

[bugmaniacbob]

Pretty good battle, insightful comments. Well deserving of the 5 stars.

Also, here's a Rotom-h icon if you want it:

 

[Run]

I like how it proves that if a slow Pokemon is Tricked an unwanted Scarf, it doesn't automatically make it nearly useless like I had thought earlier. Good warstory.

I don't know... Even after this experience, I'd still consider my swampert being scarfed "near useless". I've had it happen to me a number of times now on switches, and most of the time I use him for fodder or roar once I've got scarf. It really does severely limit its usefulness, just don't make a needless sacrifice unless it serves some strategic point. I think it just happened to work out this time.

 

[husk]

lol TTS

It's a good story. The waterfall luck on jirachi mattered because he was probably SRing when you flinched him. TTS would've won if he got the rocks down.