[] Pokemon Draft Tournament 2.0

This saves me a lot of work, thank you Crash =D
If you do need help in anything for this tournament just let me know.

In any case, sign me up!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I have a question about one of the rules. About the whole draft swapping half, I'm a bit confused by it. Are we allowed to only trade one pokemon and that's it? Or as many as we want but only with one player?

Originally Posted by :words: Overflow

Actually, I'm not so handy with the charts. I can draw them on paper but making them nice and shiny for viewing online, not my forte.

If you'd be willing to assist there, I'd appreciate the help.

Sure, of course! I assume you want a chart similar to the one I did for the first tournament hosted here. But this time I think I'll try including colorful bar or pie graphs. Because everyone likes pie graphs =D

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't think it will matter for the tournament itself. Crash will be posting the drafted Pokemon as everyone makes their selection. But if you want to make the thread less cluttered I'd PM him your choices.

How ya doing, buddy?

Oh god, Icy got Skarmory. Somebody kill it with fire!

Alright, alright. I'll keep the pattern going:
Dragonite
DragoniteMiltank
DragoniteMamoswine

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Do you have any idea what those things are capable of?

Aside form being the best special wall in the game it's pretty good at absorbing attacks. It's only real weakness is physical sweepers. But if planned right you can get around that, too.

Most amazing jew boots

Rotom? Hmm interesting choice. I'll need some time to consider my last three picks (lot's of my initial choices suddenly got swiped!) I'll try not to take too long.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Ack, so few choices. But I think this will work:
Jolteon
Spiritomb
Togekiss

Time to train a couple pokes.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Identity Crisis

My turn!

Staraptor
Xatu
Jumpluff

Bleh, it was difficult figuring out what my sixth was, but I see Chaotic is hogging up some of my air space.

Haha, the Aviary of Doom™ is complete. I hope your insurance covers lightning damages because I will call down the thunder. Along with a typical ice storm or two.

I have to say this, too. Jumpluff?! It doesn't even fly under its own power :U

How ya doing, buddy?

I haven't considered using some of those. Oh well, from what I did consider:
Kingdra - The one I have is way too slow. Probably has VERY poor IVs, its neutral nature doesn't help much either.
Hippowdon - If Hippowdon could actually take a special attack I'd consider it. Mamoswine seems to be a slightly more appropriate choice anyway.
Empoleon - Whoops! I meant to take it but I thought someone else already did. Maybe next time~
Swampert - This one was about to be added to my team. But I wanted more speed so I opted for Jolteon. I already got a couple sturdy tanks anyway.
Machamp - lol 100% effective Dynamic Punch. It's too bad it falls flat at the first sign of a flying or psychic attack. I blame my bad luck with stats, EV training can only do so much.
Shedinja - This guy tends to be loads of fun but I'm paranoid that someone will use Spikes, Stealth Rock, Hail or Sandstorm before I can even bring it out. I might have picked it if the draft selection wasn't public =p.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ah, the training part wasn't as time consuming as I thought. Anyway, just letting everyone know that I am ready to battle by this evening. If not earlier *I'm at work.*

So expect a PM from me some time today.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hahaha, I finally did it! I destroyed Icy in a Pokemon match.

Though I'll admit his obvious weakness to certain attacks is the reason I won so handily. Still, it was mostly a good match. Probably not so much for Icy. Sorry bud!

(See Icy's post for the juicy details.)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Identity Crisis

I'll get you next time, Gadget! Next tiiiiiiiime!

Go-Go gadget counteroffensive!

Originally Posted by Black Mage

Alright, it looks like the wireless I have access to in my apartment is going to be inconsistent this week. So, I will make use of an establishment with WiFi tomorrow.

However, I don't want to make the trek if no one is going to be available tomorrow. So, if anyone will be available to battle, let's say, from 1pm - 8pm PST tomorrow drop me a line. If there's a time tomorrow not in that range you'll be available, let me know too and I'll see what I can do.

I'll make sure to confirm the times I'll be free tomorrow before I make any promises later tonight.

Awesome. I'll make myself available around that time then. I've got my msn and miranda/AIM IM online as well in case you (or anyone) decides to contact me for a match.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Black Mage

I feel terrible doing it, but I'm going to have to go back on that plan and make it Sunday instead of Saturday. I'm sorry about the short notice here Kairyu, but something I have to take care of came up.

I will, concretely this time, be available for the same times (1pm - 8pm PST) this Sunday. Just let me know if/when you'll be free during that time and we can work it out from there.

Sorry again for the change of plans. :-/

Bah, I knew I jumped the gun after reading your plans more carefully. There's a good chance I won't be available on Sunday since I'm needed to help install a sub for a car. I don't think it will take long so I should be able to make it home and start some matches. I hope.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Second results!

Black Mage vs Kairyu:

Round 1 (6v6)
I could've picked a better opener but I didn't think about that until the match was well underway. Definitely a very one-sided match but I think BM got too sure of himself towards the end so I tried taking advantage of that. Which didn't work for the most part. But I did get away with a few KOs. Overall, it was mostly a snooze-fest of a match and it gave me a renewed hate towards Wheezing. Oh well, good game ~
(Black Mage barely finishes with 3 pokemon.)

Round 2 (3v3)
Looks like I got the initial advantage here. Enyo taught BM's Infernape that monkeys can't do much during an Earthquake. It was a OHKO. Some time after that I got put into nice stall match against his Blissey versus my Jolteon. It sucked but at least I went down fighting till the bitter end. God, do I hate Blisseys *shakes fist*
(Only KO'd one of his pokemon here.)

Black Mage wins! (2-0)
Pokemon Black Mage defeated: 9
Pokemon I defeated: 4

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Good game, radcliff

radcliff13 vs Kairyu:

Round 1 (6v6)
Kai picks a bad opener again. But with a little luck I pulled through with some crazy hits. We traded KOs for a bit but I stopped that when radcliff provided an opening for me to counter back not once. But twice on his two of his pokemon*!* Things got very grim for rad and eventually I won with some well placed Thunderbolts.
(Radcliff defeats 2 of my pokemon. Not bad.)

Round 2 (3v3)
I thought I was screwed when I saw what rad brought out first. A Primeape versus my Jolteon with less than stellar physical defenses. I was hoping it would scare off his Primeape into switching but I think he knew I wasn't at the advantage, despite knowing what my Jolteon is capable of. Sacrifices had to be made for me to regain control and it turns out I was right. A few moves later I had the game in the bag.
(I lose one pokemon here.)

Kairyu wins! (2-0)
Pokemon radcliff defeated: 3
Pokemon I defeated: 9

FELIPE NO

It sure did. I haven't had much time to play either. I'm just too busy at work or planning for that trip. I'll be able to get off early tomorrow so we can get our match out of the way~ that is, if you don't have any other matches planned.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Another match completed!

Tritoch vs Kairyu:

Round 1 (6v6)
Looking at Tritoch's current track record I was expecting an easy 6v6. Turns out it became a moderately CLOSE match. I say moderately because my flying Egg pokemon dealt some solid hits towards the end and survived a crap load of attacks. Embarrassingly, my Dragonite didn't fare too well. Totally got defeated by his Bastiodon ;______;. And then his Vaporeon made less than polite gestures with water attacks. But I killed that before things got freaky. All in all, I made it out alive with two pokemon =D

Round 2 (3v3)
Wax on, wax off. I've achieved perfection in this match. My flying egg is unstoppable, even after being paralyzed by a thunder attack.

Kairyu wins! (2-0)
Pokemon Tritoch defeated: 4
Pokemon I defeated: 9


Good game though, you had me worried when you took out my Dragonite like it was nothing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Damn, I usually don't resort to this but I think I will have to drop out of this tournament. Starting tomorrow I will be unavailable to do any matches for the next 12 days or so, going traveling. To another country. I was hoping I'd be done well before that but that's what happens when we're slacking.

I have no idea if Crash wants to extend this tournament any longer. If he doesn't then I will automatically step down to help keep this game moving.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I wouldn't mind finishing this tournament. But if more than half of us is too busy, lost interest, etc then maybe the tournament should be dropped. I'm slightly more on the "too busy" reason myself but I can make time for matches, when asked.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.