Clarification: FUCK THOSE POKEMON ;.;

In all seriousness though, Im having a fair bit of trouble countering some of the new tricks/pokemon brought in this Gen, some of which are just fucking cheap.

 

Honestly, it's next to impossible to really counter everything with just a 6 poke team, at least in the truest sense of the word.

What you really need to do is to build a team with a plan and then execute your plan better than your opponent does theirs. That's also why I insist on having wifi mode on - Hard to adjust for something when you don't even know that you should be. And the amount of pokemon that go from docile to insane with just one turn of setup (blaziken, any shellsmasher, drillmon, etc) really require both a plan and wifi mode so you know they are coming.

 

As the prostitute once said to a competitor on the next street corner, "You can be as cheap as you want, but I'll always make sure to be cheaper."

This gen is cheap, so you gotta be cheap too. As Kai said, you can't realistically counter everything in a six team. Besides, the ones Drome listed are so well known and easy to counter - it's the "surprise" ones you have to look out for. Stealth Rock takes down a Volcarona well enough, and Taunt can stop it QD'ing right away, not to mention a Stone Edge from a mildly-powered anything that can learn Stone Edge... Ferrothorn? Come on son, Ferrothorn is easy to take down - fire and ice. Reuniclus? I'd like to think since everyone has a Reuniclus now, they're not impossible to take down else nobody would win their battles. In short, be cheaper.

And fuck your Wi-Fi mode, Kai. Hate that.

 

I didnt mean everything - just a select few in the OU tier that has reached a massive popularity within the metagame. The problem is that many of my teams are reactive rather than proactive. Meaning I absorb the damage taken by predicting it and dealing big damage on either the switch in or by setting up.

And this Gen has proved to be a massive boon to people who prefer to set up for the long haul and tbh thats probably a good thiing. But you can only see so many SS or Rain teams before you lose your mind xD

 

Not having a good plan to counter or at least deal with the most popular Pokes in the metagame is the height of foolishness.

Volcarona is easily dealt with with Rock type moves- or a decent enough SpDef wall, or any pokemon that can deal with pokes piling buffs and powerups.

Ferrothorn has its glaringly obvious fire weakness but also has a decent Fighting weakness that's useable- or you can even use Reuniclus and Focus Blast it to death. In any case, easily dealt with.

And if you don't have a strategy to deal with weather teams is just retarded.

If you still don't know how to deal with this kind of shit, there's still online resources with popular pokemon lists on Wifi and Dream World battles floating around the place.

Anyway, as a footnote, the top 15 most popular pokemon for the last week in the Japanese metagame:

1. Garchomp
2. Rotom-W
3. Volcarona
4. Metagross
5. Latios
6. Ferrothorn
7. Scizor
8. Tyranitar
9. Politoed
10. Abomasnow
11. Hydreigon
11. Jellicent
13. Dragonite
13. Gyarados
13. Excadrill

 

Well, I think allowing the opponent to gain offensive momentum is a mistake in this metagame unless you're running stall. A single misstep is all it takes for a garchomp or cloyster to be at +2 and beating down your door.

It's much much easier to control the battle if villain is switching to your moves rather than the reverse.

As for significant offensive threats, running powerful priority is one of the better ways to deal with them, since they are mostly defensively weak (garchomp being the main outlier here).

 

Okay. I'm incredibly sorry about everything, but I've been extremely busy and overworked over the past couple of weeks, with finals looming ahead at the end of July.

That said, I'm more inclined to have shit be more enjoyable for everyone, and since most of us (excluding me) undoubtedly have a lot of free time on our hands, I've decided to run this as a Swiss style tournament.

All the teams seem to be in, so I'm kick starting this thing. Arrange your matches and whatnot.

Final Teams:

After randomly shuffling the players about 10 times with my eyes closed, we have our seed.



And now for the rules, if you're unclear on what a Swiss tourney entails.

Does that sound good to all you pokefags? >:3

 

Fuck Vira and that bullshit ass team

0-3 :awesome

 

Awesome, I come home to find that there's already been a match played. I'm hoping that we can get through a round every week, so we'll be done by the time August rolls around and summer really kicks in (at least for me).

I'm so happy! :awesome

Congrats to Vira for winning her battles, and as a sidenote, the matches are best of three, so it's quite impossible to win 3 battles in a single round.

Also, to Kalas: I have a Chemistry midterm tomorrow, so I'm studying like mad, but I'll be able to play over the weekend.

 

I won against ALB 3-0. He played really well though.

 

Not really. Got rolled. Had fun though.

Enjoy those points Fiat. They might be your last.

 

I have no opponent? Cool. I could go for a bye.

 

I KNEW I was forgetting something. 1.5 points work for you?

 

Yeah sure.

 

First opponent Lutris? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

 

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

 

Through the power of positive thinking and copious weeping, my computer is fixed and I'm back in the tourney. Let's get it on.


EDIT: Just had my match with MattSilver and won 2-0. The first battle was pretty damn close, but the second I managed to baton pass a substiute to my cloyster and sweep. That brings me up to a grand old 2 points.

 

Sooooo... how are them battles going? D:

 

If Grub would get on irc at the same time as me, they'd be going fine. >_>

 

2-0 against Aekiel.

Don't you feel silly now, Aekiel?