[] Gym Battlers Open

Josiah vs. DarkMageOzzie

The result:

Spoiler:

Round 1 (6v6):

The fight was a trading of blows for a little while until Josiah started bringing out his stronger pokemon and went on to finish off DarkMageOzzie.

Winner: Josiah
Josiah: 3 lost, 6 defeated
DarkMageOzzie: 6 lost, 3 defeated

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Round 2 (3v3):

A clean sweep by Josiah....were it not for the fact that DarkMageOzzie's last pokemon got off a Destiny Bond before receiving the final blow. "Awww, that wasn't very nice," said I, but then again, the feeling was probably mutual.

Winner: Josiah
Josiah: 1 lost, 3 defeated
DarkMageOzzie: 3 lost, 1 defeated

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Round 3 (3v3):

Josiah led with a different pokemon this time, whose ability swung in its favor this time around. And...well...

Spoiler:

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...yeah.

Winner: Josiah
Josiah: 0 lost, 3 defeated
DarkMageOzzie: 3 lost, 0 defeated

Josiah wins 3-0!!
Total:
Josiah: 4 lost, 12 defeated
DarkMageOzzie: 12 lost, 4 defeated

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I'm still hoping to catch Generic or radcliff tonight first. If they don't turn up for a while and I'm not feeling too tired, I'll give you a jingle, Chaotic.

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

Bah, that second round was dirty. Quite dirty from a pokemon that has nasty potential to begin with, just not in the way I expected. ..Oh well, I felt I was going to be pretty outmaneuvered and outgunned in this battle anyway, and so I was.

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Spoiler:

This was a crazy battle folks.

Round 1 (6v6):

Josiah managed to whittle down Generic's first a bit, but Generic withdrew to a second pokemon that Josiah proceeded to kill. When that one was down, Generic resorted to a strategy Josiah could only get around with luck this whole battle. Josiah got mowed after that.

Winner: Generic Badass
Generic: 1 lost, 6 defeated
Josiah: 6 lost, 1 defeated

Round 2 (3v3):

Generic started with his strategy. But what's this? Quick Claw comes to the rescue!! With that item's help Generic fell quickly.

Winner: Josiah
Josiah: 0 lost, 3 defeated
Generic: 3 lost, 0 defeated

Round 3 (3v3):

So...talk about luck. Generic's first puts Josiah's to sleep, and thus goes that turn. Then...not only does Quick Claw proc, but Josiah's first also wakes up and eats Generic's bug in the same turn. However, the Quick Claw didn't come through like it did for round 2, and so Generic's rather annoying strategy proved Josiah's undoing again.

Winner: Generic Badass
Generic: 1 lost, 3 defeated
Josiah: 3 lost, 1 defeated

Round 4 (3v3):
The Quick Claw broke Generic's strategy again, and while its holder fell, Josiah's next was able to pick up the slack and finish the job.

Winner: Josiah
Josiah: 1 lost, 3 defeated
Generic: 3 lost, 1 defeated

FINAL ROUND (3v3):

Generic didn't lead with his usual strategy pokemon and KOed Josiah's Quick Claw holder. He then switched out before Josiah could nail that one, and Josiah managed to kill the replacement. Then came Generic's strategy pokemon again. Anticipating an eventual switchout to Generic's real powerhouse, Josiah also switched to his last pokemon. Josiah surprised Generic with a Quick Attack...that crit. But alas, it wasn't quite enough, leaving Generic's at about 15% health. It was over after that, but with a Life Orb Generic's powerhouse fell with Josiah's last, with Generic still having one last pokemon standing.

Winner: Generic Badass
Generic: 2 lost, 3 defeated
Josiah: 3 lost, 2 defeated

Generic Badass wins 3-2!
Total:
Generic: 11 lost, 13 defeated
Josiah: 13 lost, 11 defeated

...In retrospect, I'm quite sure I would have won if I had led with a different pokemon in the last round.

No explosions here.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I owe the critical Quick Attack to the fact that that pokemon was holding a Scope Lens. A shame it didn't quite do the job.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Spoiler:

Round 1 (6v6):

Luck was not with Josiah this round. One of his pokemon missed and got paralyzed by a super-effective Thunderbolt. Another barely survived a Flamethrower....only to get burned and die from that.

Winner: radcliff13

Round 2 (3v3):

Josiah lost his first, but not before weakening radcliff enough that his second was able to pick up the slack.

Winner: Josiah

Round 3 (3v3):

While Josiah didn't get swept this round, he sure got robbed. Both were down to their last pokemon and Josiah's last hit radcliff's with a super-effective move that had killed this one in the past. Only this time..notwithstanding not wearing a Focus Sash or any item of the sort, radcliff's barely survived survived this one and hit hard right back.

Winner: radcliff13

Round 4 (3v3):

Josiah had a little luck this time with his second (and fastest) of his threesome getting in some consecutive flinchings with the help of a Razor Fang.

Winner: Josiah

FINAL ROUND (3v3):

Josiah just wasn't able to pull it out this time. His fastest isn't good enough to take on three pokemon, especially when that one is not faster than all of radcliff's.

Winner: radcliff13

radcliff13 wins 3-2!
radcliff13: 14 lost, 14 defeated
Josiah: 14 lost, 14 defeated

I was largely outrun again in this battle, putting me at a pretty big disadvantage.

I guess that's all the battles for me, leaving me with a record of 4-3-1. Bit of a rough way to end the night before early morning work.

FELIPE NO

....Gah, just when I figured I was done, BM reappears at the last minute when I decided to more or less stop paying attention. I have to be elsewhere tonight even if we could still battle. I guess it's too late for anything now...?

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

Originally Posted by Sane Brain

My system was set-up so every KO was worth 1 point. Since Kairyu had the advantage of his Pokemon doing double the damage they would normally do, I had to take that into account into the scoring; I did this by reducing the amount of points he gets per KO in half. Therefore, Kairyu would receive only a half of a point for every KO, while radcliff13 would still retain a point per KO.

You know, in theory it could be argued that Crash or Icy have the same advantage because their respective types have their fair share of really heavy hitters without necessarily having to be "super effective" against whoever they battle. Not that I want to lower their scores; I'm happy where I am, I'm just saying.

And radcliff did have one way of getting around that ground weakness: his Charizard. I learned the hard way trying to EQ him when he switched out to that one. Wouldn't Kairyu technically get a full point for KOing a Charizard since, unless he had Gravity somewhere ( ), radcliff's Charizard would be completely immune to ground attacks?

Anywho, since this is all more or less overwith, I figure I could post up my team if people were curious.

Josiah's Normal Gym Team:

Spoiler:

Porygon-Z (The one Icy called "Sir Kills-A-Lot")
Togekiss (The other "Sir Kills-A-Lot")
Tauros
Blissey
Slaking
Dodrio


Alternates:
Bibarel
Girafarig
Spinda

They are for the most part listed in the order of most used to least used. Porygon-Z and Togekiss were about equal in that regard.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I personally feel kinda "battled" out, so to speak, so I'm content with just saying I got third and that's that. Nothing against Crash, but battling him again sounds like masochism.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Sane Brain

So ... the top four ISN'T going to battle to see who's the best? Okay .... then what was the point of determining forth place in that case, anyways? >_> I REALLY disagree with you ending the tournament like this, but if that's what you want, then so be it.

My guess is that we determined fourth place simply for the sake of having some degree of certainty about it, at least more than having a few people tied for it.

We did this for FUN, and I think it safe to say that most of us are content with how it all played out. There was a lot of battling going on, and after a while we can get a bit tired of it. And then it's not really "fun" anymore, it's "work". We've had our fun, and even learned something from it. I for one didn't think Normal-type pokemon could be such a force to be reckoned with, but I was proven wrong. But now you're more or less asking us to do more "work", which in the end might not even be that necessary. I appreciate you wanting to have some input on this man, but seriously, don't push your luck.

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

I'll give it some thought, but right now the bed beckons for early morning work. I'll catch you on AIM about it sometime, Kai.

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

If it means anything right now, I wouldn't mind the mostly-ongoing E4 idea, but only if we kept battles down to a one or two per day basis as much as possible. It was a bit stressful the last few days of the gym battling open trying to catch everybody.

As for this drafting idea, I'm a little unsure on it. Maybe I just need more time to wait and relax after this one, I don't know.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Identity Crisis

Heh, I just remembered that Slaking is hosed by this scoring system with its extremely great stats but an awful ability. Since it only attacks every other turn, would it have a special calculation attributed to it? I don't plan on using it if I can, but someone who is a giant Slaking fan or something might be greatly opposed to this.

I suppose I'm about as close as it gets to a fan on here since he's not only my type but I also used him.

Slaking can be pretty nasty, but it does take a bit more strategy to use him effectively. I wouldn't be against lowering his score a little based on his ability. Though...couldn't lowering Slaking's score open doors for debating changing scores of other Pokemon for similar reasons? Like Shedinja with only 1 HP but with a pain-in-the-rear Wonder Guard, just as an example?

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Originally Posted by Sane Brain

I revised it; it's pretty much done now, and I modified the points system for the two Pokemon the above posters mentioned. However, I disagree with the poster about the two rules of switching move pools and hold items as I believe they add strategy to the game.

Citing Shedinja was merely for the sake of example rather than desire, but ok.

Unless I missed it, I don't think anything was said about whether or not switching hold items were allowed. It wasn't stated either way for the gym battles until I did it between matches of my battle against Icy and then thought maybe I wasn't supposed to. I personally think it should still be fine to switch hold items between matches; sometimes certain items were the only way I could break some strategies used against me.

I'm not sure about being allowed to change move pools...but I'm leaning toward no.

How ya doing, buddy?