Warstory:Mindgames in BL

Hi I've been a member of smogon for a while but I have'nt posted very much. Ive been playing shoddy a lot for a couple months and in the past week I've fallen in love with the BL tier. It's a lot of fun, believe me. Anyway, since not many people play BL, I was challenged for the third time by Random#s. The previous couple of times i had won. Since we knew each other's teams fairly well, intense mindgames ensued:

My team (Jacetheace)


Typhlosion, Blaziken, Steelix, Empoleon, Mismagius, Flygon

His team (random#s), in order I remember them, since i knew them from the start of the battle

Crobat, Slowking, Flygon, Manectric, Scizor, Blaziken

Now let the battle begin.

Rules: Evasion Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Sleep Clause

Jacetheace sent out Fearless Leader (lvl 100 Typhlosion ?).
random#s sent out Pinky (lvl 100 Crobat ?).
random#s: hi
Jacetheace: lol what is this the third time
random#s: lets play mind games
Jacetheace: yeah

here i figure he thinks ill switch knowing that he would switch in slowking so i think that he is going to use hypnosis on the switchin or use nasty plot while i switch. complicated eh? well i outpredicted myself:
random#s switched in Slowking (lvl 100 Slowking ?).
Fearless Leader used Eruption.
It's not very effective...
Slowking lost 25% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.

Slowking:81%
Typhlosion:perfectly healthy
---
Jacetheace switched in Bugeyes (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Slowking used Thunder Wave.
It doesn't affect Bugeyes...
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.
---
Jacetheace: ha
Jacetheace: mindgames
random#s: aww
Bugeyes used U-turn.
It's super effective!
Slowking lost 52% of its health.
Jacetheace switched in Briny Penguin (lvl 100 Empoleon ?).
Slowking used Ice Beam.
It's not very effective...
Briny Penguin lost 4% of its health.
Briny Penguin was frozen solid!
Briny Penguin's leftovers restored its health a little!
Briny Penguin restored 6% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.

slowking:35%
flygon:100%
empoleon:100%

---

random#s: crap didnt hit t wave
Jacetheace: no fair :P
random#s: oh lol
random#s switched in Blaziken (lvl 100 Blaziken ?).
Briny Penguin is frozen solid!

---
Blaziken used Substitute.
Blaziken lost 25% of its health.
Blaziken made a substitute!
Briny Penguin is frozen solid!

blaziken:75%+sub
empoleon:100%
i assume his set is the same as mine(sub-reversal-fire punch-sd) so i decide to wait it out since my empoleon carries roar....

---
Blaziken is tightening its focus!
Blaziken used Focus Punch.
It's super effective!
Briny Penguin lost 157% of its health.
Jacetheace's Briny Penguin fainted.

blaziken:75%+sub
RIP poor old Briny Penguin

5-6 random#s


---
random#s: lol
Jacetheace: arg
Jacetheace switched in wispy lass (lvl 100 Mismagius ?).
wispy lass used Thunderbolt.
The substitute took damage for Blaziken!
Blaziken's substitute faded!
Blaziken used Overheat.
wispy lass lost 58% of its health.
Blaziken's special attack was harshly lowered.
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.

Blaziken:75% -2SpAtk
Mismagius:48%
since i know his blaziken can't ko me with overheat, i set up a sub on whatever switches in
---
random#s switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
wispy lass used Substitute.
wispy lass lost 25% of its health.
wispy lass made a substitute!
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.
---
Flygon used Stone Edge.
Flygon's attack missed!
wispy lass used Shadow Ball.
Flygon lost 55% of its health.
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.

Mismagius:33%+sub
Flygon:45%
---
Jacetheace: yay
Jacetheace: hax score:1-1
random#s: dam
random#s switched in Scizor (lvl 100 Scizor ?).
wispy lass used Shadow Ball.
It's not very effective...
Scizor lost 21% of its health.
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.
Scizor's leftovers restored its health a little!
Scizor restored 6% of its health.

Scizor:85%
Mismagius:39%+sub
unfortunately he decides to let his flygon live...we'll see how that comes into play later.
---
wispy lass used Thunderbolt.
Scizor lost 32% of its health.
Scizor is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
Scizor used X-Scissor.
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
The substitute took damage for wispy lass!
wispy lass's substitute faded!
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.
Scizor's leftovers restored its health a little!
Scizor restored 6% of its health.

Scizor:59%+para
Mismagius:feelin' fine
---
wispy lass used Thunderbolt.
Scizor lost 32% of its health.
Scizor used X-Scissor.
It's not very effective...
wispy lass lost 45% of its health.
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.
Scizor's leftovers restored its health a little!
Scizor restored 6% of its health.
---
Jacetheace: uh oh
random#s: lol sciz para
wispy lass used Thunderbolt.
Scizor lost 32% of its health.
Scizor is paralysed! It can't move!
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.
Scizor's leftovers restored its health a little!
Scizor restored 6% of its health.
---
random#s: crap
Jacetheace: musta been like 1 hp b4 lefties
wispy lass used Thunderbolt.
Scizor lost 32% of its health.
random#s's Scizor fainted.
wispy lass's leftovers restored its health a little!
wispy lass restored 6% of its health.

5-5 tie

---
random#s switched in Manectric (lvl 100 Manectric ?).
Manectric used Hidden Power.
wispy lass lost 31% of its health.
Jacetheace's wispy lass fainted.
Manectric lost 10% of its health.

and mismagius goes down gracefully
manectric:90%

4-5 random#s


---
random#s: no flygon swich
Jacetheace: nope
random#s: aww
Jacetheace: she did her job
Jacetheace switched in Fearless Leader (lvl 100 Typhlosion ?).
Fearless Leader used Eruption.
Manectric lost 138% of its health.
random#s's Manectric fainted.

Our fearless leader exacts his revenge on that damn manectric
4-4 tie
unfortunately as u see below this was a well calculated sacrifice to allow slowking to annoy me like he always does.

i think slowking will go for the kill, so i decide to chip off most of his health (he has 35%) and then let someone come in for the revenge kill.

---
random#s switched in Slowking (lvl 100 Slowking ?).
Fearless Leader used Eruption.
It's not very effective...
Slowking lost 25% of its health.
Slowking used Slack Off.
Slowking restored 50% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.

not as I had planned...
Typhlosion:100%
Slowking:66%

---
Jacetheace: arg
Jacetheace: got me
Fearless Leader used Eruption.
It's not very effective...
Slowking lost 23% of its health.
Slowking used Ice Beam.
It's not very effective...
Fearless Leader lost 17% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.

Typhlosion:83%
Slowking:50%

---
Fearless Leader used Eruption.
It's not very effective...
A critical hit!
Slowking lost 40% of its health.
Slowking used Thunder Wave.
Fearless Leader is paralysed! It may be unable to move!
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.

ahh a blessing and a curse. crit but a paralyzed so i cannot finish him off
Typhlosion:83%+para
Slowking:16%

---
Jacetheace switched in Bugeyes (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Slowking used Slack Off.
Slowking restored 50% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.

Slowking:72%
Flygon:100%
---
Bugeyes used U-turn.
It's super effective!
Slowking lost 46% of its health.
random#s: alwas fall for that
Jacetheace switched in Steelicks (lvl 100 Steelix ?).
Slowking used Ice Beam.
Steelicks lost 30% of its health.
Steelicks's leftovers restored its health a little!
Steelicks restored 6% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.

Slowking:32%
Steelix:76%

i decide to toxic him so he eventually has to switch

---
Steelicks used Toxic.
Slowking was badly poisoned!
Slowking used Slack Off.
Slowking restored 50% of its health.
Steelicks's leftovers restored its health a little!
Steelicks restored 6% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.
Slowking is hurt by poison!
Slowking lost 6% of its health.

Slowking:72%
Steelix:82%
now its time to set up rocks for later

---
Steelicks used Stealth Rock.
Pointed stones float in the air around your foe's team!
Slowking used Surf.
It's super effective!
Steelicks lost 81% of its health.
Steelicks's leftovers restored its health a little!
Steelicks restored 6% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.
Slowking is hurt by poison!
Slowking lost 12% of its health.

Slowking:66%
Steelix:1%
i realize that steelix is faster than slowking and all hes got left to do is asplode so asplode i do. unfortunately random#s anticipated EQ and switched in his worthless crobat.

---
random#s switched in Pinky (lvl 100 Crobat ?).
Pointed stones dug into Pinky.
Pinky lost 25% of its health.
Steelicks used Explosion.
Pinky lost 153% of its health.
random#s's Pinky fainted.
Jacetheace's Steelicks fainted.

3-3 tie

---
Jacetheace: oh darn :P
Jacetheace: best thing i coulda done anyway though
Jacetheace switched in Bugeyes (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
random#s switched in Slowking (lvl 100 Slowking ?).
Pointed stones dug into Slowking.
Slowking lost 12% of its health.
random#s: thought eq..
Bugeyes used Earthquake.
Slowking lost 54% of its health.
Slowking used Surf.
Bugeyes lost 58% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.
Slowking is hurt by poison!
Slowking lost 6% of its health.

i take a gamble and assume he won't use ice beam since he will think i will u turn. slowking barely holds on. at this point i can't remember how much hp he had but it was pretty low.
flygon:42%

now a voice in the back of my head told me that he would switch to flygon knowing i had to earthquake, but my hope that slowking would stay in and die was too strong, and i paid for it.

---
Jacetheace: waha
Jacetheace: gotcha
random#s: aww
random#s switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Flygon makes ground moves miss with Levitate!
Bugeyes used Earthquake.
Bugeyes's attack missed!
---
Jacetheace: god i knew u would do that too
random#s: u dint swich tho
Jacetheace switched in Fearless Leader (lvl 100 Typhlosion ?).
Flygon used U-turn.
It's not very effective...
Fearless Leader lost 18% of its health.
Jacetheace: i know
random#s switched in Blaziken (lvl 100 Blaziken ?).
Pointed stones dug into Blaziken.
Blaziken lost 12% of its health.

Typhlosion:83%+para(random#s forgets this detail however)
Blaziken:63%

---
Blaziken used Reversal.
Fearless Leader lost 32% of its health.
Fearless Leader used Earthquake.
It's super effective!
Blaziken lost 73% of its health.
random#s's Blaziken fainted.

3-2 me


---
Jacetheace: woot
Jacetheace: my lucky day
random#s: forgot para
random#s switched in Slowking (lvl 100 Slowking ?).
Pointed stones dug into Slowking.
Slowking lost 12% of its health.
random#s: i think i lose
Fearless Leader is paralysed! It can't move!
Slowking used Slack Off.
Slowking restored 50% of its health.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.
Slowking is hurt by poison!
Slowking lost 6% of its health.

---
Jacetheace: maybe
Fearless Leader used Earthquake.
Slowking lost 23% of its health.
Slowking used Surf.
It's super effective!
Fearless Leader lost 98% of its health.
Jacetheace's Fearless Leader fainted.
Slowking's leftovers restored its health a little!
Slowking restored 6% of its health.
Slowking is hurt by poison!
Slowking lost 12% of its health.

2-2 tie
Slowking:something less than 25%
now i switch in flygon. i use draco meteor in case he switches in his own flygon...
---
Jacetheace switched in Bugeyes (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Bugeyes used Draco Meteor.
Slowking lost 31% of its health.
random#s's Slowking fainted.
Bugeyes's special attack was harshly lowered.

flygon:42%, -2 SpAtk

2-1 me

here is what i know:
-his flygon is scarfed (and so is mine) so i think that whoever goes first will be a toss up.
-his flygon is going to use draco meteor
---
random#s: lol yes
random#s switched in Flygon (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Pointed stones dug into Flygon.
Flygon lost 6% of its health.
Jacetheace switched in BEAST (lvl 100 Blaziken ?).
Flygon used Draco Meteor.
BEAST lost 73% of its health.
Flygon's special attack was harshly lowered.
---
random#s: oh....
Jacetheace: aw too close :)
Flygon used Draco Meteor.
BEAST lost 35% of its health.
Jacetheace's BEAST fainted.
Flygon's special attack was harshly lowered.

1-1 tie


here i think i have it won; surely if worst comes to worst and i lose the "toss up" then i would survive his draco meteor since he has a 4 stage satk drop. so i pray to the hax gods to let me go first....








---
Jacetheace switched in Bugeyes (lvl 100 Flygon ?).
Flygon used Draco Meteor.
It's super effective!
Bugeyes lost 50% of its health.
Jacetheace's Bugeyes fainted.
random#s wins!
random#s: lol
Jacetheace: that was a toss up
random#s: gg
Jacetheace: very gg
random#s: no i added 8 ev more
random#s: in speed
Jacetheace: haha nice
Jacetheace: just for me right
random#s: ya


turns out random#s outsmarted me by thinking ahead there. By adding 8 speed evs he guaranteed going first and going before other flygons that were clever enough to add 4 evs.

Props:
-both of our prediction was great, although i messed up a few times(first turn anyone?)
-it was a very close battle
-random#s team for carring a fire resist(typhlosion rips through them without one)

Slops:
-Slowking for being so annoying to my team
-empoleon getting frozen
-my blaziken for not setting up
-not enough people play BL on shoddybattle
 
Cool team, but MASSIVE ground weakness. 4 of your pokes are weak to ground.

Oh, BTW, im BL. I may have fouhgt you before. I'll battle again iof I see you on, k?
 
it covers the ground weakness though...and yes i think i've fought u before. that fake out mach punch hitmontop was an annoying SOB.
 
how come we never met on shody? my hole team was BL! Anywys, I liked the warstory, the haxxgods must have like, neverending periods or something, seeing as they have unpredictable mood swings.
 
Pretty decent battle. By the way, if you ever see me on Shoddy, I have a BL team that I never get to use. It's not that great, but it's fun!
 
BL is such a great tier that i'm thinking about completely abandoning my OU team.

Nice match and fun read! Look for me on shoddy some time, both of you.
 
What tier list do you guys follow as your "Borderline" guideline? I never know which is correct + up to date. basically, I avoid OUs and use whatever :D
 

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Sub Punch Blaziken is interesting lol. BL is an interesting tier. I'll definitely build a BL team soon.
 
nice match GJ for posting this. I have a BL team in the making that was abandoned at that time I didn't think it was worth it thinking so hard and not getting to battle as much(I wrote it down so it must somewhere in my room). Again gj!
 
thanks everyone
and
@hrothgar-i don't think ANYTHING not on smogon's ou list is taht accurate. when i first made my team i had yanmega on it, which is not on smogon's ou list, but definately too OU for BL play.
 
Oh yeah, Yanmega is way too powerful.

NSider had an OK tier list, fairly accurate. But NOA anday shut the whole operation down.

I'll miss NSider T_T
 

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