[] Gym Battlers Open 2: This Time, It's Woopersonal

I'll back on Crash on this, I guess.

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

What the fuck? You have no say on anything ever.

I'm not concerned about cheating, so it's not necessary Crash. It'd be... kinda pathetic of someone to cheat in a smalltime Pokemon tournament on an internet forum, anyway.

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

At any rate, my wi-fi is up and I'm ready to battle whenever someone else is.

I was speaking idiomatically.

If only, GB. If only..

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So, it looks like I'm [sadly] going to have to drop this tourny. Apparently my save seems to have vanished, and I've got nothing. Even if I COULD play up to the point where I get access to the WiFi area, I'd still have to somehow arrange a team, and I just don't see that happening, especially since you guys have already started to battle.

Sorry about that, but I'll definitely start playing anyway, in case there's another tournament in the future.

FELIPE NO

You only have to get to Jubilife to use Wi-Fi (maybe even only to Professor Rowan's town).

I'll supply your team. How about that? Just catch six Starlys or something.

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

I can't believe I missed this one. I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open for the next one sometime in the future.

I still think it will be interesting to see how this one plays out though. Good luck to all of you guys.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Dude, there's only been one match in almost a week, and one person wants to drop out.

ChocoDecided you 9, which makes you Grass. Welcome to the tourney!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Haha, I'm slacking so bad right now, sorry GB! My team of six is almost ready. Just have two pokes that need better moves or EV vitamins. So possibly later tonight I will start issuing challenges.
(This would've gone a lot faster if I had myself a copy of Pokemon Platinum. Stupid ice moves.)

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

Okay, well, if you're willing to wait on me, I'll see what I can do. I'm not doing anything tomorrow, so I'll play for a while and hopefully get up to that point. IF I can get the card to connect to my computer again, I'll try to get a team ready. Otherwise, I'll take you up on that offer, GB.

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

Back from my little trip and almost done with my team. I should be ready to battle late at night anytime this week.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Ok... so I just discovered that apparently Thunder Stones are practically non existant in Pearl and Voltorb is one of the Mass Outbreak Pokemon. Things aren't looking to good for me setting up a team.

I also realized this tournament might not have been a bright idea in the first place for me since my work schedule now really leaves me available at strange hours.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

It's not like someone couldn't trade you a Thunder Stone or 30.

FELIPE NO

Do you want a Voltorb with a Thunder Stone? I can arrange that for you.

In the meantime, I'm free to battle at any time now. Send me a PM or find me on AIM as "AltheRake" and we can rumble.

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

I have an action replay so I don't mind hooking anyone up with stuff.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Pretty much all set up and ready to go. If you see me on AIM [Sousuke GFF] send me a message, and we can do our battle.

By the way, my FC... 0259 5604 6732 - Freya.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'll still need a few more days here. I don't have one of those new fangled cheating devices, so everything takes a bit longer.

That's alright though, I had a couple to leverage from old teams, and I've finished one more. So I'm about half way there. Expect me to be finished by this Thursday at the latest.

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

Crash VS. Sousuke: Fire VS. Poison

Round One: This was short. Sousuke starter poisoned me and I burned him, so we were chipping each other away slowly. I knocked his starter out first, then surprised his follow-up with a powerful move. I then brought in a sweeper. Sousuke almost KO'd it, but I managed to power up with 16 HP remaining. Salac Berry activated and I swept his bench for the remainder of the match.

Crash Wins
Crash's Pokemon lost: 1
Sousuke's Pokemon lost: 6

Round Two: I brought out a tank to begin, which Sousuke promptly poisoned. We traded heavy blows; I KO'd his lead, but succumbed to poison and a quick jab not long after. I brought out something fast and laid on the flame for a quick revenge KO. I then switched out for something with ground immunity. So he Toxic Spiked me. GRR. I powered up again but my attack missed on a switch. Fortunately, the Salac Berry strategy worked and I amost died to a Sucker Punch but held on to sweep for the finish again.

Crash Wins
Crash's Pokemon lost: 1
Sousukes's Pokemon lost: 6

Round Three: We switched to 3-on-3 for the remaining battles. I led with something well-rounded, Sousuke brought out the same. A quick burn reduced the damage from a Poison Jab, and I finished it off next turn. He turned around and hit me pretty freakin' hard but I got lucky and held onto 9 life, and took it out with an elemental attack. He Sucker Punched me with his replacement, and I lost my starter. But I had anticipated that he'd use that particular Pokemon and had a counter for it. One attack later, he was down.

Crash Wins
Crash's Pokemon lost: 1
Sousuke's Pokemon lost: 3

Total Lost:
Crash - 3
Sousuke - 15


Fun match, Sousuke. Sorry for beating you so handily. I had access to EQ, which probably didn't help you.

EDIT: I am now wondering why Sousuke didn't bring Tentacruel out against me. It's fast as hell and has access to Surf. It would've given me a lot of problems.

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

Sorry, I'm late. Uh Weavile ate my TMs.

Anyway, I have the minimum six needed to go down in flames (of victory.) Working on a seventh, sort of, but I'm tired. Better to save my energy for tomorrow since I have the day off on Monday. So I'll try to be on AIM and MSN most of the day. I'll of course pester everyone with PMs, too.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Do you want a Voltorb with a Thunder Stone? I can arrange that for you.

That works. I'll keep an eye out for you on AIM.

How ya doing, buddy?

*Stealing Crash's format to keep things organized.*
KAIRYU VS. IDENTITY CRISIS: Ice VS. Ghost

Which is colder, I wondered.

Round One: It was brutal. I even made a mistake on my first move and paid for it dearly. I think I lost a good 3 Pokemon straight away, just OHKO after another really. Hoping I could recover from it I eventually brute forced my way through his first and then second Pokemon. Few more blows were exchanged but the damage was too great. Not to mention it was difficult to predict. So bad I even fell for one of the ghost types favorite tactics. Which I will happily call "the force." Yes, that was the final blow. Worst part is I literally could not do anything about it. What a horrible way to go.

Identity Crisis Wins
Identity Crisis Pokemon lost: 3
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 6

Round Two: All it took was one match so I had a good idea what his plan of attack was. Acting on it I immediately setup myself up to out pace him before he could do anything about. A couple heavy storms later there wasn't much left on his side. He managed to take out my main hitter but it didn't matter. I just used something even faster and froze him in his tracks. Everything freezes eventually!

Kairyu Wins
Identity Crisis Pokemon lost: 3
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 1

Round Three: IC you wily bastard. *insert random rape event here.* Following that I died a hauntingly slow death. Topped off with a side of "the force" maneuver.

Identity Crisis Wins
Identity Crisis Pokemon lost: 1
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 3

Round Four: A true battle of attrition right here, folks. It was a SLOW match. I'm not sure how long this took but it eventually came down to me evading an attack and doing the perfect amount of damage to his last ghost. He basically killed himself with too much power. Ohhohoho :monocle:.

Kairyu Wins
Identity Crisis Pokemon lost: 3
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 2

Round Five: FINAL ROUND, FIGHT! I took off all the brakes here and performed a near perfect sweep. He couldn't trick me anymore since I saw his hand four times already. All in all, winter came and left everything bitter and frozen. From the sidelines Articuno watched in delight at my eventual victory then we all had hot chocolate. It was awesome.

Kairyu Wins
Identity Crisis Pokemon lost: 3
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 1

Total Lost:
Identity Crisis - 13
Kairyu - 13

Fun and close matches there. You know how to use those damned ghost pokemon. Yes, I nearly pissed my pants.

FELIPE NO

Crash vs. Identity Crisis - Fire VS. Ghost

Round One: This was a battle of attrition. We traded off KO's for several rounds until he managed to bring out a staller and pass off some powerups. He then turned the tables on me and took advantage of my own advantage. Fortunately, I'd laid some traps that helped me maintain the balance. We both whittled the other down to our final Pokemon, and I'd been saving the best for last. His tank was met with a rather punishing move and it was enough to score the win.

Crash Wins
Crash's Pokemon lost: 5
I.C.'s Pokemon lost: 6

Round Two: We dropped to 3 Vs. 3 for speed and suspense reasons. I opened with a tank and managed to seriously injure his opener with some serious firepower and an incidental burn. But he was laying on the ground assault and it was really cutting into my HP. Thankfully, I predicted well and brought in something that was immune. I dispatched his opener but made the error of attempting to power up instead of immediately attacking. Two turns later (thanks to some mojo on I.C.'s part) I lost my sweeper. I brought in my specialist and got a lucky flinch which prevented a sure OHKO. That was enough to get the victory.

Crash Wins
Crash's Pokemon lost: 1
I.C.'s Pokemon lost: 3

Round Three: I opened with a different tank and immediately burned his opener. I was right to do so and immediately burned it, saving my hide. He still hit me hard but I managed to get a significant dent in before my Pokemon fell. I brought the sweeper out again and finished off I.C.'s Pokemon quickly. Unfortunately, he had an answer and I was unable to do enough damage before I.C. got in a devastating attack. Down to our last Pokemon, I knew he'd be using the one that caused me the most grief, and I the same for him. He pulled some of his mojo again and took a nasty chunk out of me but he was weak to my STAB attack and, thanks to some planning by my opener, the cumulative damage was enough to do I.C. in. I barely squeaked by in the last match.

Crash Wins
Crash's Pokemon lost: 2
I.C.'s Pokemon lost: 3

Total lost:
Crash: 8
Identity Crisis: 12

Very intense matches. Ghosts aren't easy to play as a team but I.C. managed it well. He knows which one really pissed me off.

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

KAIRYU VS. CRASH LANDON: Ice VS. Fire

Round One: What happens when you toss an ice cube into an open fire? It melts, much like the way this round went. Sure, I did some collateral damage with what little water I had to toss around. It was just way too hot for my kind. I did however manage to freeze one of his pokes, but like any fire type it immediately thawed out and destroyed me in the same turn.

Crash Wins
Crash Pokemon lost: 3
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 6

Round Two: More of the same. I snapped back with some blizzards though. I was of course slapped back with a plume of liquid rocks ;_;.

Crash Wins
Crash Pokemon lost: 1
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 3

Round Three: It got a little interesting here. I wasn't doing too hot (pardon the pun) yet my ground tactics did give me a chance to snuff out some of that hot fire. I even managed to get him down to his last pokemon. But Crash's tank absorbed my last blow and made a flashy victory.

My icicles, you vaporized them! D:

Crash Wins
Crash Pokemon lost: 2
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 3

Total Lost:
Crash Pokemon lost: 6
Kairyu Pokemon lost: 12

Good game Crash, even though I saw it coming. What with the laws of thermodynamics and all!

How ya doing, buddy?

Identity Crisis vs. Chaotic: Ghost vs. Fighting

lol bandwagon

Round One (6v6):
The first portion of this match started off humorously. Both of us lead with a Pokemon that did absolutely nothing to the competition. I guess I wound up powering down his Pokemon slightly, but we would be stuck in a stalemate of doing completely nothing. We switched out and started with the bloodshed like nothing happened.

Despite Chaotic's disadvantage of not benefitting from STAB all that often, this game was rather close. We kept trading blows and exchanging Pokemon until Nikka came along and provided custodial duties cleaning up what was left of Chaotic's team. I finished Chaotic's last two Pokemon off with a special sweep followed by a special side order of "the force."

I win!
Pokemon I lost: 4
Pokemon Chaotic lost: 6

Round Two (3v3): I don't remember too much of this one. I used "the force" again on his last Pokemon though!

I win!
Pokemon I lost: 2
Pokemon Chaotic lost: 3

Round Three (3v3): Oh good gravy. This match would be the reason why I couldn't remember too many details on the last one. It took forever.

Anyway, Chaotic started off with a Pokemon that pretty much couldn't kill mine except in a slow, slow, slow fashion. To top it off, one of mine was immune to a portion of his tactics, so it would take even longer to take down. Eventually, it takes down one of mine, and I switch and finish it off. By that time, most of mine were somewhat injured, and Chaotic's cleanup crew finished me off.

Chaotic wins!
Pokemon I lost: 3
Pokemon Chaotic lost: 2

Round Four (3v3):
This one was REALLY close. Both of us started off with strong leads, but his got the jump on mine in terms of speed. Sure, mine went down first, but Chaotic's lead would be too injured to take another hit from my next.

Chaotic countered my choice with a Pokemon knowing a severely damaging move, but I was able to predict what the move was and avoided some nasty damage. We switched back and forth until settling on two Pokemon to fight to the death and, again, inadvertently fainting each other.

Our final Pokemon would determine the winner of the game. Mine would absorb the damage from Chaotic's attack and retaliate for OHKO damage.

I win!
Pokemon I lost: 2
Pokemon Chaotic lost: 3

I win the match! Finally. =p
Total Pokemon I lost: 11
Total Pokemon Chaotic lost: 14

Awesome games though. I have to admit that my games have been enjoyable so far.

How ya doing, buddy?

Alright. It has taken a little longer than I expected, but I've finished my team and am ready to start.

I work tonight until around 6pm EST, but when I get home I'll start issuing challenges.

Though I think I have most, if not all of you guys already, here's my friend code in any case: 2406-1602-4421.

Feel free to message me, as well. My AIM/MSN are listed, and you can always PM me.


EDIT: Also, what's the word on submitting our rosters to an unbiased third party (Rotorblade or otherwise)? Should we go ahead and do so if we have not already?

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