Generic General Pokemon Discussion

And yet I still managed to scrape a late match win.  Take that tilt hax!!

It's very safe to say I would have won that a lot easier had I not been plagued by hax at every turn, from constant paralysis to constant special defence drops on my walls.  The tilt is in full force right now.

Like I said I made some big mistakes, in bullet point form hre are the ones I've noticed.

-Letting Politoed die when I did

-Giga draining the latias (and no, expecting it to kill isn't an excuse, I should have gone for the sure kill with ice beam rather than risk the none kill for a pathetic amount of health, on top of that damage calcing it shows I gambled against the odds making my play even stupider than I first thought)

-Waterfalling the Magnazone the second time instead of using Earthquake, the reasons this was a bad move below*

-Not packing Rain Dance on the Zapdos when it had several chances to use it near the end and would have cleanly won me the game if I had

*Why was that a mistake you ask?  Because I feared a Gengar switch, when I shouldn't have.  No matter what happened Earthquake was the best play there.  If he'd stayed in Magnazone would have died, if he switched (which he did) I would have done a nice 65 percent to azumarill, and if he'd gone to Gengar I'd have outsped it and killed with Waterfall.

That last is also the reason why predicting a switch to any of his levitating pokemon was plain stupid of me.  He wouldn't go to either Lando or Zard because if I chose waterfall they'd both straight up die, and Gengar wouldn't survive a Waterfall the next turn.  Put very simply supposing he had predicted an Earthquake and gone to Gengar he'd have then doubled in to Azumarill, basically resulting in the exact same thing that happened, only I'd have maximized my opportunity to damage him rather than minimized it.  


Lastly, Swampert lived by 2 hp at the end, in case anyone was curious how close it was to dying to that sludge wave.  

I don't know why they went Sludge Wave as despite it being a stab it had a statistically lower chance of killing than it did killing, the roll they got was basically .2 of a percent from the maximum Sludge Wave can to do megapert.  The only thing I can think of as to why they went Sludge Wave is that their Gengar was either sub-disable (and didn't therefore have Shadow Ball and also had Focus Miss for coverage), or they didn't think its coverage moves would have sufficient power.  Or they misclicked, but with the mind games they pulled I don't think that was it.  We all misclick from time to time but I think a simple overestimation of their Gengar was the reason.

My team runs on weather induced by switching my Politoed in, I need that to be able to get rain up and use Swampert and Ludicolo to batter the opposing team to pieces.  With three layers of spikes on the ground I lost 25 percent health for every switch, combined with any damage from an attack.

This meant I couldn't switch Politoed in on anything besides a ko, which wasn't an option given I'd already lost one pokemon and had another crippled.  On top of that their Hippowdon meant I couldn't just send in Toed, let it get koed, and then tried to sweep with the seven turns of rain I would have, because as long as it was alive it could just wipe out the rain and with it my two match winners.