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JAA: how I almost won
Topic Started: May 13 2006, 05:45 PM (775 Views)
+Amazing Ampharos
Tangela
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My team:

Groudon@salac berry
Earthquake
Rock Slide
Fire Blast
Swords Dance

Jumpluff@brightpowder
Aerial Ace
Substitute
Leech Seed
Sleep Powder

Mewtwo@petaya berry
Psychic
Ice Beam
Thunderbolt
Protect

Ho-oh@leftovers
Sacred Fire
Shadow Ball
Thunder
Protect

Metagross@lum berry
Meteor Mash
Shadow Ball
Earthquake
Agility

Golduck@Quick Claw
Surf
Ice Beam
Psychic
Calm Mind

Note which 2 Pokemon I never used. Well, I did pick Metagross first round, but he never came out.

Ok, so after finally finishing training my team in the morning, I head out to the mall for the tour. When I get there the under 13 tournament is going on, and it's swarming with little kids. I mean absolutely swarming. I feel really out of place, but I manage to find out where the Celebi and top 20 download station is and get a Celebi for each gamepack(they limited it to 1 per gamepack, jerks). I did get a Modest and a Lax one, so I think I'm pretty lucky. I went the the top 20, stood in line for a half hour, and got a Charizard(I needed one), Latios, Latias, and Suicune. I then stood in another line to enter the tournament. Luckily I'm 18 as you have to sign a waiver to enter the tournament, and I had no parent present.

Ok, there were 3 smogoners there, and I was there too. So that's 4 NBers. There was TJ, who was a cool guy who I hung around with for most of the tournament. He was with a friend, Derek, also a smogoner who was running a perish trap team. There was another guy, but he and I didn't talk much. Ok, as I waited for the first round, a guy went up on stage and asked a bunch of random trivia, most of it about the show. I managed to get a question about what the names of the wandering reporters in RS are and got it right for a free hat(Gabby and Ty FTW). Then first round, I played a guy much older than I was who had no ubers and a Hyper Beam Dragonite(he led with Misdreavus + Altaria with sweeping sets...). Groudon + Jumpluff decimated. Next round I played a cool guy much older than I was I'd been talking with before the tournament. He had a 5 uber team, and I was really worried. However, Jumpluff messed him up really badly, and he didn't use Kyogre, a big mistake. Groudon pretty much moped the floor with him. Next round I played a silly Quick Claw Kyogre. Quick Claw made his rain come before my sun that is. He did knock out pluff fast, but Ho-oh + Groudon was all I needed in the sun to sweep him. He didn't put up much of a fight. The round after that I played a boy younger than I who just crumbled under Groudon. Seriously, Groudon + Jumpluff was the absolutely right idea for me. Of course, the first Pokemon I slept that match had a Chesto, and the second had a lum. Comically, he wasted all his time going after Groudon who just tanked and swept while pluff finally made itself useful on the third sleep.

Ok, now I was in the final four. I was really scared as I saw my enemy had a Kingdra, but it wasn't too bad because he didn't have Kyogre! He used a Houndoom too; it was really bad. I slept a Pokemon, he foolishly killed pluff, Groudon + Ho-oh killed him.

Then the finals. TJ lost in the final 8, but Derek had won all of his matches up to that point. So it was me vs Derek in the finals. Wow, this is big. I already told Spanky about the match so I'll c+p our conversation:

amazingampharos: 2nd place...
amazingampharos: I could have won
Sir Spanky: how was it?
RagnarokXtreme signed off.
Sir Spanky: oh man
Sir Spanky: was the winner any good?
amazingampharos: ok, here's what happened in the finals match
amazingampharos: yeah, he was from smogon
Sir Spanky: cool
amazingampharos: ok, he leads with Ludicolo and Kyogre and I lead with Groudon and Jumpluff. We have rain.
amazingampharos: by the way, he had been running a perish trap stunt the whole tourney so I was expecting that
Sir Spanky: bg
amazingampharos: no, it's not lost there
amazingampharos: his Ludicolo fakes out Jumpluff while Groundon quakes both to around 55% and his Kyogre IBs Jumpluff for the kill
amazingampharos: I then send out Ho-oh
Sir Spanky: go on
amazingampharos: His Ludicolo Hydro Pumps Groudon to death while Ho-oh uses Thunder knocking Kyogre down to 17 health, paralyzing it. Fully paralyzed.
Sir Spanky: k
amazingampharos: I send in Mewtwo for Groudon
sakura-chilena signed on.
sakura-chilena signed off.
amazingampharos: he switches Kyogre for Rhydon while his Ludicolo OHKOs my Ho-oh with Hydro Pump and Mewtwo kills Ludicolo with Psychic
amazingampharos: he sends in Latios
amazingampharos: I IB Rhydon, killing it, while he uses Light Screen with Latios
Sir Spanky: damn rain lol
amazingampharos: so it's near dead Kyogre and Latios vs my lone Mewtwo
Sir Spanky: ohkoing something with 154 base special d
amazingampharos: Next turn I tbolt Kyogre, finishing it, while his Latios thunders me
amazingampharos: to around 55% health
amazingampharos: I then protect a turn to waste time on another thunder
Sir Spanky: so what 100% to 55%
amazingampharos: next I ice beam while he thunders me down to 29 HP, petaya activates
Sir Spanky: oooh
Sir Spanky: btw
Sir Spanky: what does IB do?
amazingampharos: My IB puts him at about 60%
amazingampharos: I think Petaya IB will probably kill, and I also know his Light Screen is on the last turn
amazingampharos: I could protect and let light screen run out
amazingampharos: or I could IB and hope for a kill
Sir Spanky: let me guess
amazingampharos: protect runs the risk of him recovering which will kill me
Sir Spanky: you IB and do 59&
Sir Spanky: %
amazingampharos: I go with IB, and he survives with a smidgen of health
amazingampharos: thunder kills
Sir Spanky: rofl
Sir Spanky: BFG
amazingampharos: also, that IB that brought him down to 60% froze
Sir Spanky: btw how many matches did you win to get to the final?
amazingampharos: and he auto-defrosted
Sir Spanky: oh wait one turn desfrost?
Sir Spanky: sigh
amazingampharos: that was my 6th match
Sir Spanky: congrats anyway
amazingampharos: I did win a Gameboy Micro
Sir Spanky: were some contendors a joke?
amazingampharos: whatever that's worth
Sir Spanky: cool
amazingampharos: many were a joke
Sir Spanky: lol
Sir Spanky: HIAPER BAEM
amazingampharos: my first opponent had no ubers
amazingampharos: and did try to Hyper Beam me
Sir Spanky: hehe
amazingampharos: also, Josh didn't come
Sir Spanky: shame
Sir Spanky: an aa vs josh final would have been cool
amazingampharos: I was so close...
amazingampharos: So close
amazingampharos: $500
Sir Spanky: wow
amazingampharos: plane tickets for 2 to New York
Sir Spanky: i didn't know it was that much
amazingampharos: hotel paid for
Sir Spanky: O.o
amazingampharos: it was a BIG prize, and I nearly had it
amazingampharos: I failed on the coinflip prediction
amazingampharos: I knew I should have protected...
amazingampharos: It was my first instinct
amazingampharos: but I tried to outpredict his recover
Sir Spanky: yeah
amazingampharos: which he did have
Sir Spanky: outpredicting sucks
Sir Spanky: i do it too often ;_;
Sir Spanky: sometime you think, i would have prefered to underpredict and play nubby than try and overpredictt

So yeah, I did win a gameboy micro and a bunch of other junk(a treecko pillow, an emerald player's guide, and a skin for the gamecube that I'll never use). They took my Sapphire cart to verify for cheating(I didn't cheat, but I got into a funny argument with one of the employees that if someone did cheat they couldn't tell) and I should have it back eventually. Also, if Derek can't go, I get to go in his stead, but I think the $500 will be his unconditionally, and he's going to go. So yeah, it was an almost thing, I could have won if only I protected. I'm kinda sad about it, but yeah... I guess we lose to smogon today.
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That's a different JAA. I complained that there was no chair to sit on up there, and they didn't want us to stand so everyone else could see. Therefore, we got the bench and drug it up there so Derek and I could sit.
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drug = drag?

Also congrats, did you get anything other than the micro? Haveing money for only the first place winner would suck huge ass
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May 14 2006, 12:36 AM
That's a different JAA. I complained that there was no chair to sit on up there, and they didn't want us to stand so everyone else could see. Therefore, we got the bench and drug it up there so Derek and I could sit.

Oh lol. I searched on Pokemon.com for JAA and found one in Kansas city, which I presumd was yours today. Josh told me that the red circled person was you, so I guess I was half right...

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Cool, good job AA. I guess like you he figured that recover would be useless in 2 v2.

EDIT: maybe the Derek cheated and AA wins :o
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gj noob. At least you've done something good for a change...
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Actually, I thought about it, and I'll never forgive myself. The turn his Ludicolo used Hydro Pump, Ho-oh should have protected. I knew Ho-oh was going to die; I just forgot I had protect. That's the kind of stupid error that just shouldn't be made. That thing at the end was just another chance, but that move was a blatent chance to crush him that I threw away.
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bad luck :( Entertaining read though.
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I don't have the patience for JAA so thumbs to AA for second@\!
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May 13 2006, 10:58 PM
Actually, I thought about it, and I'll never forgive myself. The turn his Ludicolo used Hydro Pump, Ho-oh should have protected. I knew Ho-oh was going to die; I just forgot I had protect. That's the kind of stupid error that just shouldn't be made. That thing at the end was just another chance, but that move was a blatent chance to crush him that I threw away.

bleck, there was no way of knowing anyways... and in a few years... you'll probably have forgotten about it too.
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If he had a smidgen of health left when you attacked him, your attack must have done very nearly 33% to him. with LS down and petaya boost, you would have done triple damage. so you probably should have protected, as if you protect and he recovers, you can still OHKO (or you can't, but then you couldn't have OHKO'd by attacking instead of Protecting anyway). If he thunders, he dies. Protect just seems like it would have been a better idea.

Still, hindsight is 20/20...good job, AA, on getting that far in the first place.
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Oh snap, I forgot all about that event =/
I would've liked to go, but I don't have any ubers trained. My Battle Frontier team is Lv50 :P

But wow, I can understand you beating yourself up over that; I'd be the same way, though I definitely wouldn't let others see it in my face.
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So hey, it's cool to see you around even if nothing ever came of an alleged SSBM tournament in April. I know I'd probably get killed, but I want to see how well my Ice Climbers would do in a competitive environment.

Also, yeah, the fact that I completely screwed up twice that match makes me really mad. After paralyzing Kyogre, I should have decimated him... The fact that there was that overly IDIOTIC 30 second time limit didn't help either. I probably would have taken 2 minutes on that last move had I been given it. And then there was the fact that the whole crowd was cheering against me. Seriously, their bigotry toward Jumpluff confounds me.

But yeah, it's nice to see you around even if there's a 95% chance you won't respond to this topic.
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