I knew there was a reason empoleon was rising in usage.
Great story.
Great story.
Thank Chris is Me for that... but it wasn't for surviving unSTABed Earthquakes :-P. Empoleon is naturally bulky enough to survive all unSTABed SE attacks really...Holy Shit!
What a comeback!
So that's what the 28 hp and 16def are for!
Surviving a T-tar EQ!
You gottta thank whoever made that evs.
Freaking close!!
Best comeback ever!
I think metagross leads lower my IQ like 30 points, I always misplay against them. As for leaving zapdos in against champ, I didn't really see an alternative, with only heatran, ttar and empoleon left, zapdos seemed to be my best match up. I think everyones noticed that this is a team with pure sweeping in mind and has major defensive pitfalls including 4 ground weaks, 3 fighting weaks with no resistances, etc. This was due in large part to replacing my bulky gyarados with empoleon to test empoleons power, which replaced a fighting and ground resist with a fighting ground weakness. However this team has put me at #39 on the leaderboard so I haven't had much incentive to change it. (edit: now #25)A pretty interesting battle. I thought that TVboyCanti made a few terrible decisions in the early part of the game, with Tricking Metagross and leaving Zapdos in on Machamp being the worst. That being said, it goes to show you that a weakness to one nasty Pokemon like Empoleon can bring down a whole well-played game. It really is true that Legacy Raider ends up in all the good warstories. And if he does have a fan club, I want to join. :)
I agree with this, I really don't feel I played well enough for this to be put in the archives. This was just a chance to show off my formatting.While this was indeed a good warstory, I don't really think it was so awesome as to be archive-worthy. An archive-worthy battle should involve exceptional play on both sides, and this battle fell a bit short of that. The formatting is fantastic and the ending is dramatic, but it was not an exceptionally well-played battle. With no offense intended to either player, I feel that the archive should be held to very high standards.
Something thats been bothering me though is that Empoleon took 95% from Earthquake when it should have only taken max 92%. Anybody know how that happened? 95 instead of 92 means that if I hadn't kept rocks off the field empoleon would have died and I wouldn't have even bothered posting this warstory.Thank Chris is Me for that... but it wasn't for surviving unSTABed Earthquakes :-P. Empoleon is naturally bulky enough to survive all unSTABed SE attacks really...
Thanks for clearing that up. I was under the impression your Tar had lum berry. Guess expert belts not worth much.Expert belt on my Tyranitar?
The pictures can be found at http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page; just go to the article of the pokemon you want, all the sprites from all the games will be there. The hp bars were done by hand in paint with cut & paste and the line and fill tool, with a good eye for what percentages look like.Excellent warstory :)
[offtopic]Where can I get those pictures that show your and the opponent's
teams' HPs?[/offtopic]