Skyblade
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I did have both Ironhead and EQ, but a rock move alongside that is great for coverage on Excadrill. Also, that Careful nature and defensive build really came in clutch as well, because the offensive variants that I'm more used to playing would have been easily OHKOd by Volcarona.

And yeah, Blaziken is a scary mon to go up against. I did have one decent answer to it in Cofagrigus, but once that goes down, I'm only left with Blastoise as a check, who can't even switch in. And without that as well, I'd just straight up lose to a +2 speed Blaziken.

It's still a pretty tough matchup in general. But I do think TW on ferro and some careful preserving of Blaziken as well as maybe a stronger set on Banette could have the potential to turn things around.

And perhaps. If I kept Shadowballing, there would always be that risk of an SpDef drop eventually, which might have forced an attack from Talon. Otherwise, I'd probably have stayed in until I had to struggle to be honest. Aerodactyl already goes down to +4 Acrobatics (if you're running max attack) so I really had no other option than passing Mummy to it. If I ran out of every move on Cofagrigus, my play would have been to switch to another less valuable pokemon, and then back to Cofagrigus to try to bait the attack.

But yeah, that could still have been really bad for me though. =P

Well, I'd have to think about that one for a bit. But I feel Talonflame and/or Volcarona are the keys to winning pretty much.

Once Talon gets set up, my only option is basically to sac Cofagrigus to pass Mummy to it in order for Aerodactyl to safetly revenge it.

Also, running TW on Ferrothorn is always an option since the only pokemon immune to it is Excadrill, who pretty much loses to Ferrothorn anyway. So it's a pretty safe option to hit my switch ins with.

Finally, I've never used non-mega Banette either to be honest, but I do feel like there has to be something it can do better. I know it gets access to Disable, so it can always pull some tricks with that, in order to prevent too much setup. And it also gets taunt, for stall-breaking. So I'd probably try to use it for that, I think.



Also, once Cofagrigus goes down, I don't really have any switch-ins for Blaziken, so if you can manage to preserve Blaziken until Cofagrigus goes down, it becomes a lot more valuable.

Also, sorry for creating such a horrible Toxic-stall set.

...if only pokemon had a "no hax" option for battles. D;

Let's have a re. That SpDef drop was bs.

Alrighty, will do.

Ops, was offline. If you're ready now though, then sure.

Whew, that was quite a burn. D;

Like I said before, I am sorry for letting the Bern persona get out of hand a bit. When it's appreciated at first, it's easy to get carried away, and I should have toned it down earlier I suppose. I will admit I do find it fun to play the "villain character", but my intention has never been and will never be to actually hurt anyone. So it's a shame it turned out like this.

Oh well. You are right that I'm a sore loser though, I won't deny that. Not as bad as I make the Bern persona act, but a somewhat sore loser nevertheless. Which it seems most of the people participating are, bare a few, to be honest. But that's fine.

Anyway, hope you don't hate me too much, because I still don't quite get why you ended up this pissed. Hope we can be cool again. D;

It's okay. Jinx is gone from the tournament, so Rez wins by default, which means we can start the finals once everyone's ready. I'll upload the updates brackets this weekend.