Round 1 edition.>infohttps://pastebin.com/sq432CYCThis Thursday we have a potential triple header with Jams v FridayHaffi v ClamsyPecorine v SneedHow goes the team building? Hopes? Predictions? For the two games im not playing I predict Jams and Clamsy to come out on top in their matchups. Previous >>59379134
Team stalled around the high 1700's and low 1800's on the ladder. Went better than I expected. Matches could go either way depending on the opener mons.
>>59405420I don't know if ladder performance is necessarily indicative of how good a draft team is, since you can do really kooky things you would never take to a ladder but might be really good for a specific match up.
>>59405426I know, it was more just to see if the team is functional when working together rather just being a bunch of silver bullets stapled together for specific mons in the meta.
How goes the team building? Well, i think i got the gist of how to build for draft.Hopes? Predictions? I hope we all have some good clean fun, and probably learn something which will support many more drafts to come. I predict that ill get 2-0, but hopefully not :)
>>59405762I have no idea what I'm doing.I'm gonna try oit shit for the next few hours and hope for the best.I might have bitten off more than I could chew.But I'll just see how far I'll go or how far I won't go.
fugg im getting nervous.i havent trained or anything with this team. I just cobbled it together, think its probably okay.Was busy this week with work and night classes.Hope i can do well in the battle soon
I'm nervous too. I think I know what to expect, and tried to build something that'll be good in any situation, but worried I ended up with something that'll be not quite good enough in every situation.
>>59407615well you and me both.I think none of us have any draft experience, so its a good chance to learn if anything
Alright tested it a bit on casuls.Im pretty happy with it, good thing i tested it since i forgot to change a moveset there i didnt change after transferring. That would have been embarassing.Its aight for a meme team
Also a thought just dawned on me, do we share the team after fighting or not?I only know of draft from tubers, where they just make content and stream the battles. It is somewhat fair since if everyone streams then it levels the playing field somewhat. But here, do we keep the thing close to our chest or are we obliged to just share it for the spirit of having fun?Im just thinking in the future, if you share your strats, everyone can see what you are doing, but people later down the line might pick up some tips on how to play and make their own draft. Just something to keep in mind, i dont mind either or
>>59407735If we're allowed to spectate other people's matches, then we should have to post our teams after our own matches. It probably wouldn't be a big deal, but it'd be unfair for someone to be at even a slight disadvantage because they weren't able to watch a match.In any case, I'd also just like to see what everyone else cooked up.
>>59407735Yeah anything interesting that happens in a match should at the very least be recapped or talked about so people who missed it know what's going on. Hell I might take notes of the games although I don't know how.
>>59407615>>59407638I also just cobbled together a team and tried like 5 matches in casual.Did not bother to do shit like >oh opponent has pokemon X I will train my pokemon to live move Y from it.
>>59408127I may have done just a little bit of that, although it is hard since you don't know what EV spread and builds they will run which can ruin all your preparation. If my opponent doesn't lead what I prepared for, I am improvising from turn 1.
Friday get your ass out here.It's time.
Clamsy i might run a bit late by an hour or less, i gotta do some errands.
>>59408570Ok
I was wondering where everyone was.
>>59408448I'm here. Gimme a room code.
85499332Let's do it
>>59408662GOOD LUCK
My power is currently out, so when my mobile runs out of battery it's over for me
No mawille to deal with the gardevior is a surprise!
Damn, that Electroweb miss fucked me.
1-1!
Okay im back, just caught the tail end of that battle.Will wait til this one ends first>>59408693thanks for the update.
>1%Unfortunate
ggs
Ggs.But I had some massive luck on my side.
YOU HATE TO SEE THE EARTH EATER
imagine switching
So sad, I was waiting for the anger point combo to come out
aight give me a glorious death
Huge rockslide miss could have made slot of difference. Close games so far
chat this is so sadGG clams.I swear im not trolling and was playing really hard
>that earthquake turnI felt that
Sad miss, ggs>>59408725Would've used Helping Hand on the last turn if I had read this first, sorry
>>59408728it happens, i gambled that ill eat the earth eater anyways, but something will take a big hit. Sadly it wasnt meant to be
So are we gonna share team sheets.I don't mind honestly.I gonna change some things up anyway.My strategies so far have been too simple and I only won through luck.Jam btw
okay i guess ill do a writeup on the team or something in the upcoming days for those who didnt join, and for posterity's sake. Just so tourists can see what is happening in this thread
https://pokepast.es/19f8efbf477fdd5bA real shame my Garchomp with 3 ground moves didn't make an appearance.
>>59408733https://teamsheet.gg/This site might help.>>59408724But what's the dealio now, sneed?Can I make trades again now?
I'm also gonna change a bunch of stuff around for whoever my R2 opp is.
I'm down to 39% and pecorine isn't due for another hour I think. Am i gonna make it.
>>59408741Turn it off until they come over.
>>59408739Yeah according to the schedule now have until Monday to make trades
>>59408740full schedule is in the pastebin
This was my team.Basically my only plan was staraptor and typlosion eruption go brr and hope for the best with ariados and whimsi as support and dragapult/palafin as clean up.
>>59408670I'm here now
Room ID is 5922 4253Hopefully Sneed's phone survived
>>59408787Room up 40602062
>>59408796I'll join you
>>59408794Oh nvm I'll join this. Want to give people a chance to spectate?
>>59408799Sure, how long do we wait? I see Clamsy is already in.
Er I guess people left after there battles, can go whenever I guess
Based Ditto lead
>>59408805I am still here I was just busy
Is the battle still on?I had to deal with some shit for a minutr.
Game 1 just finished, that was scary
The double intimidate got me good>>59408826Game 1 just finished
I'm a retard
>imposter ditto into oranguru next to a double boosted alcreamieDamn how did it live draining kiss?
This game was over when Sini got crit. Game 3!
Anyone else hopping in for game 3? I just need to take a quick washroom break.
>>59408737>evs that weren't just 32/32/2ExplainWhat was the thought process behind it?
>>59408850Sorry about the delay
>>59408853I'm in, but I am already in.I only missed match one.
That ditto was a problem
GG, ditto too strong
GGs Sneed, got lucky with that Game 2 Snarl crit through light screen Fun matches
Also if we wanted to, I could stream or record these matches. Obviously no need, but figured I'd throw it out as an option if the timing works out.
>Scrafty crits a Drain Punch into Vileplume, getting extra recovery>Survives a DGleam>This leads to Ditto copying Scrafty instead of DiggersbyDid it matter? Probably not, and the extra recovery might not have mattered either, but it was cool. Glad I stayed up for this set.>>59408873I'll explain tomorrow. I keep notes on my sets in Showdown's teambuilder using the nickname slots, but then I deleted the nicknames before making the pokepaste, so now I have to remember everything.
That zoroark alecremie was cracked. If only I didn't try alter my gameplan game 2. Well played in stalling out trickroom game 3, was always in trouble if I didn't win by then.
*tailwind not trickroom
>>59408902How do you even prepare for ditto? How do you counter yourself?
>>59408921Never boost and have some form of speed control since it always run scarf.It's hp also doesn't change so it's generally pretty frail.
>>59408926>>59408921You could also consider torment, but speed control and priority moves keep it under check a lot too.>>59408916That Switcheroo G1 turn 1 was a great play too, absolutely ruined my Zoroark. Alcremie was something inspired from getting ruined on the ladder by someone running it with screens. It was horrifying
>>59408937>but speed control and priority moves keep it under check a lot tooThat being said.I was surprised that it tanked that drain punch so well.I know it was minus 1, but ditto only has 48 base hp and it was a supereffective stab move off of a 130 base atk.I thought it would atleast get it to yellow, but I don't think it would kill even if scrafty didn't get intimidated.Did you make your scrafty super bulky or something?
I'd like to trade H-Arc and Passimian for Skarmory and Bearctic, please.
>>59408873>GarchompUnderspeeds M-Gengar by one, for reasons I'll get to later. I could've just stopped at outspeeding Vanilluxe (or more accurately, outspeeding Scarf Vanilluxe at -1), but I didn't know how much speed he'd run on Incin and I needed Chomp to still outspeed him after taking an Icy Wind. Max Atk Adamant just because someone on the team has to be; I was worried I was sacrificing too much damage with the others. The bulk is leftover, but it's clearly optimized for something I forgot about. Probably just making some roll a bit more favorable.>OrthwormOutspeeds -1 Tauros. Takes less than 75% from M-Gengar Shadow Ball, meaning Garchomp can heal him back into Shed Tail range with Bulldoze (that's why Chomp underspeeds M-Gengar).>GlimmoraTakes an unboosted Raging Bull from Tauros at full health (assuming no Mystic Water), and is likely to take Incin Fake Out + Psychic from either M-Gengar or Raichu (assuming no boosting item there, either). It's not perfect, but I needed max speed for Tauros and didn't want to sacrifice any more damage. That said, I don't think 19 SpA guarantees anything in particular. OHKOing Raichu, OHKOing no-bulk Tauros, and KOing max HP Tauros after Frost Breath chip are all rolls.>DecidueyeOutspeeds non-Timid Armarouge. I didn't expect Armarouge to come against my team, so the speed was mainly for Jolly Incin and The Cooler Decidueye, but he had some leeway with his evs thanks to the Sash so I figured I might as well spring for the Armarouge benchmark. The leftover HP could help him take Icy Wind + Raichu Psychic.>VolcaronaShould survive a double-up from M-Gengar and Raichu, and outspeeds non-Timid M-Gengar at -1.>RotomOutspeeds Scarf Vanilluxe, and takes a +6 Aqua Jet from full HP.As a side note, I just learned that Storm Throw is more accurate than Frost Breath. I assumed they were both 90%. I might not've doubted that he'd bring Pinsir if I had known that.
I don't have much to say about my team aside from the fact that Vileplume is the backbone of this team and Ditto is the X factor that kind of holds the team together.
>>59409601That fight was over before it even begun.
FUCK ALL OF YOU FOR HATING FLYGON
