i took a look at the king's rock users. starmie4 nearly singlehandedly beat me 2-3 times, in one battle it psychic crit to OHKO my rotom, then surf flinch crit scizor for the 2HKO. all terrakion sets are OHKO'd clean by bullet punch, yanmega (surprisingly good in subway) is 2HKO'd by bullet punch - but can 3HKO healthy scizor, jolteon is OHKO'd by unboosted gliscor EQ and only a tiny chance at 4HKO with shadow ball, that infernape set is junk, mienshao is a non-threat.
regarding rock slide and hax in general - some luck did roll my way in my two best win streaks. other than the starmie4 loss, here are three instances where i was lucky enough to overcome flinches.
for transparency, here are some losses straight from my log
looking at my saves folder, i made a save state for every loss, and in total i've 10 losses, five of which i felt were pure hax. made save instances where i felt i was lucky or if i got rng'd (but still won), and there are 59 instances where i felt i was lucky, and 33 instances where i felt i got rng'd. my save naming scheme isn't consistent so there may be more. if you're interested, i don't mind posting more hax/loss stories in the interest of transparency. full disclosure - i did most of my testing a year ago a couple months after my last post here, so my memory isn't fresh. lost interest shortly after that 260 win streak, and came back to the subway a couple months ago to test out some new team ideas. i'll attempt a couple of fresh runs with this team to see how far i can go before losing
regarding rock slide and hax in general - some luck did roll my way in my two best win streaks. other than the starmie4 loss, here are three instances where i was lucky enough to overcome flinches.
starmie4 again: scizor was my last mon, survives one surf flinch, tanks the second surf, and OHKOs with u-turn
chand: thundurus1 yanmega1/3 aerodactyl (this is straight from my log)
- gliscor shuts down thundurus, gets +6
- yanmega air slash crit+flinch on gliscor, gets 2HKO
- rotom voltswitches on yanmega, scizor bullet punches for the KO, then OHKO on dactyl
instance #3
- jolteon gets shadow ball king's rock flinch on gliscor
- weavile gets ice punch freeze x2 on scizor but scizor thaws immediately twice
chand: thundurus1 yanmega1/3 aerodactyl (this is straight from my log)
- gliscor shuts down thundurus, gets +6
- yanmega air slash crit+flinch on gliscor, gets 2HKO
- rotom voltswitches on yanmega, scizor bullet punches for the KO, then OHKO on dactyl
instance #3
- jolteon gets shadow ball king's rock flinch on gliscor
- weavile gets ice punch freeze x2 on scizor but scizor thaws immediately twice
bank: kingdra porygon2 flygon
- kingdra uses rain dance, gets hydro pump crit OHKO on scizor, then KOs rotom
- gliscor able to revenge kill kingdra
- porygon2 specs ice beam OHKOs gliscor
vespera: shiftry3 houndoom arcanine1
- didn't log how i lost, but i remember shiftry (holding heat rock) led with sunny day and it's sneakily followed by two fire mon, who proceeded to tear through my team with sun-boosted fire moves, and the sun nerfed rotom's hydro pump. in my log i made a note for whenever i play vespera in the future, to wait out the sun whenever i'm facing her because her roster is full of fire mons.
petro: salamence2 infernape3 hydreigon3
- rotom's wisp misses then gliscor switched in
- gliscor KO'd by hydreigon's draco meteor
- weakened rotom KO'd by hydreigon
- scizor revenges rotom but KO'd by nape
- kingdra uses rain dance, gets hydro pump crit OHKO on scizor, then KOs rotom
- gliscor able to revenge kill kingdra
- porygon2 specs ice beam OHKOs gliscor
vespera: shiftry3 houndoom arcanine1
- didn't log how i lost, but i remember shiftry (holding heat rock) led with sunny day and it's sneakily followed by two fire mon, who proceeded to tear through my team with sun-boosted fire moves, and the sun nerfed rotom's hydro pump. in my log i made a note for whenever i play vespera in the future, to wait out the sun whenever i'm facing her because her roster is full of fire mons.
petro: salamence2 infernape3 hydreigon3
- rotom's wisp misses then gliscor switched in
- gliscor KO'd by hydreigon's draco meteor
- weakened rotom KO'd by hydreigon
- scizor revenges rotom but KO'd by nape