pholtos' Rando Pokemon Tourney IV - Final Round

[Zephyr_DragonLord]

I've personally also been fine dealing with the movesets given. They don't bother me too much. I find that the level difference actually makes some monsters that you rarely see far more potent than they would be.... and that's a really good thing.

That said, I would be down for a standard tourney in whatever class it needs to be.

[Piter Lauchy]

I'm fine with anything, as I let RNG decide everything for me anyway.
Fluffi and me finally got our match done. He'll post the results soon, probably.

[Sorel]

Yeah results are here.

https://www.mediafire.com/?njibvoeaelobx2r

I won. You did pretty well though, Piter!

[Ivy]

is the replay upload broken? why is everyone sharing the files?

[Vinyl]

or everyone's favorite, battle armor acupressure knock off resttalk drapion

[GlitchedGhost]

Two days late to the party, but here's my two cents.
While I have a bit of experience about how competitive battling, I don't have enough experience and knowledge to actually make my own team. It would feel unfair vs. those who actually know what they're doing.

The movesets so far have been decent. They've never quite been what I would do, but they've been good enough. They real problem is that they sometimes don't quite mesh well as a team, or fail to cover an option that could be available if only I could change a move. For instance Baton Pass/Quiver Dance Masquerain with no one else to pass the boosts to, or 3 sticky web users on a team that so incredibly slow it couldn't really use it.

That said, part of the fun of random battles is having to use the hand you're dealt with, and being able to arbitrarily change movesets kinda screws with the premise. Especially when there's pokemon that can easily excel with multiple movesets, like Lucario, or Salamence, or so gimmicky/awful it doesn't really matter what they actually do, like Luvdisc.

In other words, being able to change stuff makes things more fair, but not being able to change anything makes things more fun, in my opinion, because you kinda have to deal with what you've got.

I also agree with what they said.

With having issues on people not doing their matches, maybe a break after this tourney would be a good idea?

[Ivy]

nothin wrong with waiting 3 weeks or even a month between rounds. make it a sort of treat

[pholtos]

All right so from now until February first we'll be going on hiatus. Til then hopefully the last two matches can get done. Once that happens I'll work on pming everyone their round 4 pokemon and that round will begin then. Hopefully the break will help out.

[Zygl]

Zyglrox Odyssey v En Gardevoir

Round 1 - [ispoiler]0-1[/ispoiler]
Round 2 - [ispoiler]1-1[/ispoiler]
Round 3 - [ispoiler]2-1[/ispoiler]

I have no idea what the hell just happened
Four of my mons were weak to three of En Gardevoir's how did this even happen
What

[Dizzybelle]

BK REVERSE

[Gardenolva]

The flinches and the misses took the best of me honestly. If it wasn't for those, I would have taken the W. Oh well, gonna channel more luck for Round 4.

HOORAY FOR LOSING!!

[pholtos]

There has been a change in participants. Ziggy is dropping out due to a bunch of other things he needs to do so Learning-Timebuster will be taking over his spot.

[Slimeman01]

Kuupa vs Slimeman01

Round 1: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-322738050

Kuupa WINS

Round 2 http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-322743816

Kuupa WINS

GG Kuupa, what I've leanred is not to get overconfident with your choices

[Kuupa]

GGs, slimeman!

Gonna be honest, I was kinda afraid of suicune in round 1 when i realized i had nothing for it except for stall .-.

[pholtos]

All righty we're heading into a break period til the 1st. I'll send out PMs sometime within the next few days, and you guys will have plenty of time to make your teams and pick a time to face off against your opponent. Round 4 opponents are set.

As always this is the link.

[Ivy]

wolf vs. xirix??? me vs. salmon??? HYPE

[pholtos]

PMs have been fully sent out for Round 4. Round 4 will officially begin on Feb. 1st and end on the 8th. If someone has an issue with the week, please let me know before the 1st. Starting this round there will not be changes made to the end date so please set up a good time to get this done and try your best. :3

Edit: I think starting round 5 I may just put all the pokemon into one big spoiler, cut down on some of the work that way.

[spittySynthyHands]

Me vs. Fluffi?

Interesting.

[pholtos]

Round 4 has begun.

[GlitchedGhost]

GlitchedGhost vs. En Gardevoir

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-326575966

1-0

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-326580784

0-1

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-326583809

2-0

I don't know how I managed to pull it off. They were some good fights!

[Gardenolva]

Sucker Punch really is a pain in a neck with STAB. I knew I should have Recovered Gastrodon first before attacking at the first round.

[Xirix]

Fights! Xirix vs Wolfolotl! Get hype! I would say first round is a must watch.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-327774483 Result :

1-0

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-327781058 Result :

1-1

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-327783838 Result :

1-2

Holy bloody hell these games, the first one was just kinda nuts. And then... the other two happened :D, oh well, Wolf played really well so I'm happy to lose my win streak to him

...So much Calm Mind and Swords Dance >.<

[Zephyr_DragonLord]

Zephyr Dragon Lord vs. Kuupa.
Who gets stomped? Does ANYONE even get stomped? These battles will tell that tale!

Round 1:

1-0

Round 2:

1-1

Round 3:

2-1

Gosh, those were pretty good! I didn't even realize I had a giant Poison weakness until I was staring down that Amoongus! The first match was really something, with some great back and forth! Slurpuff had me concerned there the whole time, too. Having a good opponent feels great.

space for something else, what

[pholtos]

About a day left guys, hope you all manage to get your matches done.

[Telamon]

Telamon vs. Animita

Round One: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-327984473

0-1

Round Two: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ubers-327987958

0-2

Animita wins.

I totally should have had that second match, but oh well. Two super close games, much fun.