Stealthbomber enters a pokemon draft league!
Hey all! Over the summer I decided it would be fun to take part in a small, informal draft tournament. Here's basically how it works:
1. Each person alternates picking pokemon in a snake draft
2. You must pick a tier 1, a tier 2, two tier 3, a tier 4, and a tier 5 mon.
3. You must draft ONLY one mega
4. You spend the remaining 400 points among drafting 4 remaining mons (Tier 1s are 180, Tier 2s are 120, Tier 3s are 100, Tier 4s are 60, and tier 5s are 40.)
5. After the draft you may pick two of your pokemon to be your designated Z-Crystal holders. You don't need to bring a z-crystal on them each week but they're the only ones who can have it.
As a result, you get 11 pokemon, and then bring 6 of them with different movesets to fight a predetermined opponent who did the same thing. There's a whopping 12 rounds in this tournament, and unless I get an overwhelming amount of negative feedback about it, I'll be reporting how well I do on the site!
I drafted (in this order)
Excadrill [Tier 1] <Z Crystal Holder>
Tapu Fini [Tier 1]
Kyurem (Regular) [Tier 3]
Mega Tyranitar [Mega] (+20 points for drafting a lower tier mega)
Trevenant [Tier 4]
Porygon-Z [Tier 3] <Z Crystal Holder>
Cloyster [Tier 3]
Stoutland [Tier 5]
Klefki [Tier 2]
Galvantula [Tier 3]
Lampent [Tier 5]
During the league I'm hoping to trade off Lampent for Charizard [Tier 5], which was picked two picks before I was going to pick it. I'm also hoping to obtain Gigalith [Tier 3] at some point during the league.
Stay tuned for the week 1 post!
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Looks fun, how is cloyster tier 3 tho
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Nice, if people like it, we could even try to organise such a tournament on the site, what would you say ?
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Sino
Nice, if people like it, we could even try to organise such a tournament on the site, what would you say ?
im down
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Brendan
Looks fun, how is cloyster tier 3 tho
Cloyster required a turn to set up to be brutally effective, and even after that it has limited coverage move options.
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The first battle is against the Boston Vinewhips, drafting the lightning fast team of
Metagross [Tier 3]
Raikou [Tier 1]
M. Garchomp [Mega] (+40 points for drafting a low tier mega)
Kartana [Tier 1]
Sawk [Tier 5]
Spiritomb [Tier 4]
Togekiss [Tier 2] <Z-Crystal holder>
Gogoat [Tier 5]
Darmanitan [Tier 3]
Shuckle [Tier 4] <Z-Crystal holder>
Crobat [Tier 3]
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-591296365
The battle leads off with me reading him to go for a shuckle lead. I set up a swords dance in front of the shuckle, expecting him to go for a sticky web or stealth rock. Instead he goes for... power split. (Linked because I didn't know what it did prior to this battle either.) After taking out the shuckle he sends in togekiss, which gets swiftly taken down with a flinch for some sweet irony. Knowing that I can't outspeed the incoming darmanitan, I go out into my Lampent which absorbs the hit with Flash Fire. He then pulls out an earthquake. Good prep on his part, I have no flying type pokemon to avoid the earthquake. After that I send in my Choice Scarfed Kyurem, which is able to move faster than the Darmanitan and get a clean earth power kill. He sends in Kartana, which has a 94% chance to survive an earth power. Sadly, he does. Then, in a moment of glory, he goes for swords dance. I'm able to mop up the kartana while he goes into mega garchomp. I switch back out, unable to ice beam the garchomp due to my choice scarf, into Tapu Fini. My opponent... sets up a sandstorm and kills Fini. After that I'm able to mop up the game by spamming earthquake on excadrill.
I'm pretty proud of the way that I played this game even though it wasn't a particularly skillful opponent. My only mistake was leaving lampent in on the earthquake from darmanitan and even that gave me a free switch into kyurem. A 4-0 victory and an excellent way to start off the tournament.
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Stealthbomber16
The first battle is against the Boston Vinewhips, drafting the lightning fast team of
Metagross [Tier 3]
Raikou [Tier 1]
M. Garchomp [Mega] (+40 points for drafting a low tier mega)
Kartana [Tier 1]
Sawk [Tier 5]
Spiritomb [Tier 4]
Togekiss [Tier 2] <Z-Crystal holder>
Gogoat [Tier 5]
Darmanitan [Tier 3]
Shuckle [Tier 4] <Z-Crystal holder>
Crobat [Tier 3]
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-591296365
The battle leads off with me reading him to go for a shuckle lead. I set up a swords dance in front of the shuckle, expecting him to go for a sticky web or stealth rock. Instead he goes for...
power split. (Linked because I didn't know what it did prior to this battle either.) After taking out the shuckle he sends in togekiss, which gets swiftly taken down with a flinch for some sweet irony. Knowing that I can't outspeed the incoming darmanitan, I go out into my Lampent which absorbs the hit with Flash Fire. He then pulls out an earthquake. Good prep on his part, I have no flying type pokemon to avoid the earthquake. After that I send in my Choice Scarfed Kyurem, which is able to move faster than the Darmanitan and get a clean earth power kill. He sends in Kartana, which has a 94% chance to survive an earth power. Sadly, he does. Then, in a moment of glory, he goes for swords dance. I'm able to mop up the kartana while he goes into mega garchomp. I switch back out, unable to ice beam the garchomp due to my choice scarf, into Tapu Fini. My opponent... sets up a sandstorm and kills Fini. After that I'm able to mop up the game by spamming earthquake on excadrill.
I'm pretty proud of the way that I played this game even though it wasn't a particularly skillful opponent. My only mistake was leaving lampent in on the earthquake from darmanitan and even that gave me a free switch into kyurem. A 4-0 victory and an excellent way to start off the tournament.
Damn that kid blew
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Brendan
Damn that kid blew
Yea, was kind of bummed to see I start it off with the easiest opponent. Bigger challenge next, though, I'm sure.
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@Stealthbomber16
When is your next game ?
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Assuming we stick to schedule, it won't be for another week.
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sad nerds go get some pussy instead of playing pokemon:go fuck yourself
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Ash
sad nerds go get some pussy instead of playing pokemon:go fuck yourself
LMAO
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Ash
sad nerds go get some pussy instead of playing pokemon:go fuck yourself
i know right these guys aint like us who play digimon league. amiright?
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Ash
sad nerds go get some pussy instead of playing pokemon:go fuck yourself
shut up virgin
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Ash
sad nerds go get some pussy instead of playing pokemon:go fuck yourself
https://i.redd.it/nq4wp5oi6xky.jpg
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For anyone who cares, this was my team for the week 1 battle.
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@Cryptonic
haha u died in 1 hit
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Brendan
sounds about right
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Week 2 is fucking impossible to recap. Watch it yourself.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ge...goes-593438229