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it cant use thunder wave
just foul play
damage on comefy is more important
or you could just switch out excadrill on turn 1 for farigiraf
that is up to you tbh
both options are correct
iirc it uses spirit break
i guess it could use that over light screen
ok hold on, im gonna post a pic and you say what i should do under it, we can do this for all 3 teams
no keep going i just didnt wanna burn more timer
okay now comfey will either switch out or click ally siwtch
it doesnt matter
grimmsnarl will switch out for ursaluna or araquanid
you get rid of the trick room
attack something with excadrill
good
well you can just get rid of the trick room now
and protect excadrill or gamble
tera flying to avoid earth power
or just send ttar
ttar is safer
imo
saving my tera tpye for next game

screenshot
switch ttar out for farigiraf (this blocks rillabooms mandatory fake out)
and tera flying tera blast araquanid slot
oh no
okay if archaludon switch in and you are tera flying
it wont use tera grass
it will most likely go for body press/dragon pulse (which you should survive most of the times) and electro shot
block electro shot by switching farigiraf out for ttar
that was a learning experience
LOL
first time pelipper gets to outspeed your galvantula
just because of that play against this team again
am i just getting worse
okay if you see rillaboom and dragonite left
make you to sure use intimidate and save farigiraf for last
its not an easy matchup
you are not getting worse
take a screenshot for this lead
thunder punch pelipper slot and protect excadrill
switch out ttar for farigiraf
if rillaboom switch in to replace pelipper
and tera flying tera blast arhcaludon
oh never use knock off on dragonite
is that water absorb aqua
nope
or water bubble
rock slide/knock off and tera flying iron head into comfey
THIS IS FINE
btw
its not important to imrpison hyper voice from ursaluna
thats just a bonus
ah
ok
sure
in this case specific case
grimmsnarl will try to leave with parting shot into excadrill so just switch out exca for fairgiraf
and click rock slide
oh i pre moved before you typed

NO
WINNABLE
hi
THATS WHAT I HAD
GOOD
and do whatever wiht dracovish
or do that
okay important info
if you see archaludon heal with leftovers
galvalntula kills it with one bug buzz
dude im in your mind before you type

well
maybe not
i thought that was gonna one shot so it didnt matter if i targeted it with bugbuzz
draco in krook out
volt siwtch out and krook in
i think
that works i guess
wp
wp
i think you are ready
rules
-if trick room is up and farigiraf is not next to excadrill, switch out excadrill (by this i mean, if you can use trick room with farigiraf and protect with excadrill on the same turn)
-if dragonite and rillaboom are still alive, farigiraf must survive
-remember to protect excadrill
those were the main reasons you lost some matches

strategist loss to get better prio for the legendary, all good
also if you want to, you could replace darkest lariat with sandstorm on krookodile
you probably wont use but who knows
suffering from success
if this guy
last min trades a pokemon
ok it time
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tera grass was still better imo 
you get to resist the same stuff and you also get hit so you can activate stamina 
also most im surprised you didnt try to ko ursaluna in that turn instead of going for archaludon
you know what that thing is capable of 
I’ll be honest I didn’t think I could
its not like it matters because ursaluna protected
So new plan, we switch in Lanturn on Rotom, AI clicks willo since it has Hex, we switch into Rawst Berry Lycanroc for the safe switch
Then we truck to outspeed discharge para into full para
Which is 1/2 into 3/10 into 1/4
Surely I don’t lose a 3/80
all i know is that choice band tera flying ttar oneshots among us
LOL
kingambit dies to eq, glimmora dies to a mud shot from wooper so thats nice
garchomp can be problematic
and no, you are not going to trade for a wooper
LOL
i was gonna say maybe we drop galvantula, but i know someone wants to pick it up if i drop it
so if i wanted to drop it and then pick it back up for seth
it would be slim chance that it would still be there
@vestal vessel what about melmetal
thats a mythical i think
yeah i have first pick
melmetal can work too i guess but it gives you another weakness to ground fighting and fire
and another physical attacker
.
give me like 5 minutes
to come up with a team to beat your team
among us, scizor, rotom wash and garchomp are coming for sure
I was just gonna do elemental punches t-tat with expert belt
i need to find something that kills garchomp as a ground/dragon and as a fairy or grass
we could fairy Tera draco
Hear me out. Air balloon T-tar with EQ exca turn one
fine by me
hmmm
thoughts on farigiraf exca lead
to use gravity to get rid of rotoms levitate
Hmm
protect with excadrill and switch out fari for ttar on the next turn
Sure
you build your team
im bringing dragapult, garchomp, among us, scizor, rotom wash and kingambit
nope
interesting
to be fair i know for a fact that brain uses a special garchomp LOL
oh
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also i think its finally time to let galvantula rest for a week
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its like surf flamethrower EQ garchomp
okay mr brain seems to like this among us rotom lead
time to bring those flying tera blasts
flying choice band/expert belt ttar
and focus sash excadrill
it looks like a basic team
oh you dont have to protect excadrill with this strat
just clcik eq
rotom will swith out with volt switch so free damage
252 choice band adamant ttar?
LOL
i dont have to fucking re invent the wheel
i just click spore
fuck it
choice scarf
mold breaker
excadrill
that way you will for sure bait the rotom into switching out and if it doesnt do that
it dies
you might lose excadrill on turn 1 tho
wish was kinda sus too
ok i got a dynamite idea
share with the class

yeah thought sandrush would be enough
even focus sash can still work if you go for mold breaker
do you think helping hand krook will ever see play
at least im more comfortable
with the match up
wish there was a way to free up t-tar from choiceband
but its fine
im not hearing you out
LOL
nope
ah
thats not too bad
but then
what moves do you use
bug is resisted by half of the enemy team, and steel resisted by the other half 
i gotta come up with everything around here 
icepunch highhorse
yeah
and i noticed you werent using any prio
i wonder why

i was trying to kill it so i could use bullet punch and sucker punch
i will make it work
and fire fang over dragon claw
i think its better to have dazzling gleam on fairgiraf
or maybe not
depending on how scared you are
against garchomp and dragapult
most try this team for 2 battles https://pokepast.es/093ea02b845bf8d4
same strat as last time
can we battle again?
yea
gliscor and krookodile are evd to live rotoms hydro pump i think
and gliscor can 2hko kingambit
dracovish is meant to outspeed garchomp
and nothing is outspeeding dragapult unless you use thunder wave
try to save excadrill
oh no
LOL
MY BAD
okay dont say it in all caps
as if your fairgiraf didnt have the wrong ability for 4 battles

lmaooo
lmao
2 more battles
one with the same lead as always
and then i will try to make something different
jut in case
only rotom has a berry
and the damage to the rest of the team is kinda nice
it also helps ttar live a hit from rotom
oh nvm
ignore that last part
yeh the spd + goes away after tera
i mean it could work
idk how to get out of that garchomp scizor
dracovish tanks everything garchomps uses
ah
good ol eq spam
nice
also
if farigiraf is in
he wont go for sucker punch so you can switch out to keep farigiraf alive
he might
a lot of these guys dont know how farig works
ah
just it being around has been great
like terry wanted to do full offensive grimmsnarl
to kill it
get destroyed terry

we are the silly ones
not you
you battle on sunday right?
idk prob he never got back to me

okay i might be able to play a little bit tomorrow and maybe sunday too
dont expect to see me online on saturday
also
i gave your pokemon evs to live hydro pumps
and I havent connected a single one since i did that
so it wokred well i guess
this is just what i predict
it could also be 252 attack instead of 252 def on scizor
that would make your life easier
also if you dont use sand rush on excadrill i think its actually a good call to not use sand stream ttar
the sand hurts your farigiraf and dracovish and they are important in this match
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@vestal vessel
the ending is so fucked
turn 7
getting perish song stalled when you absolutly could have ended the game
uhm not really
sylveon has to surive hits from extreme speed arcanine and metagross
or arcanine could just go for a rock move and gg
dude metagross could have one shot sylveon
he switched it in and then out
this was pre meditated perish song stall
hmmm
also perish song turning into a water type move because of primm for storm drain
is crazy tech

if we against john again im all for taking taunt
Wattson was kinda free tbh
Lycanroc saved himself tho
This is our next one
We on Norman Split now let's gooo
Flannery split looks fucking abysmal jesus christ
4 consecutive battles with no healing between, perma sandstorm route with teams built for it, Mega Aggron boss fight, 7 trainer gauntlet
These two fights
Two 3-trainer gauntlets, and then Flan
For now though, I am on Norman split
Which only has one of the most difficult fights of the early game, a pretty brutal sequence of gym trainers, and Norman
most if you want to practice at some point before your match ping me multiple times or i will not notice the notifications

oh 
if you wanted time off that is
okay, but feel free to ask for help if you need
its not that i wanted time off, its just that im playing a lot of stuff now that i got my laptop fixed
i can play tft again, minecraft too
and im addicted to stardew valley
im still down to practice and come up with strats 
O LOL
@vestal vessel YO you around
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@vestal vessel we got a battle in like an hour or two, i thought for sure this guy wasnt going to show so i didnt study
his team
heres what im thinking, fera excadrill lead
even me irl is faster than that team and the only annoying one is rotom but snolax and copperajah can be problematic
the problem is i dont think iv seen him use fakeout
do i just speed through with sandforce choice band eqs?
first battle why would you fake out when you can just kill the arcanine let me see the rest
of the battles
one minute
could be a moldbreaker moment
this guys been super afk so i dont think he knows about the flying t-tar
is this his current team
i saw an incineror in the last battle
nvm wrong pov
snorlax rotom kingdra mienshao
those 4 are coming for sure
toxicroak could be there too and last one is either magnezone or copperajah
thats why im thinking the flying t-tar EQ spam with moldbreaker
and murkrow gliscor and krook
farigiraf lead with gravity
thoughts?
you lowkey need the sandrush boost to not get otusped by mienshao and the dude
kingdra
gravity turn 1 and protect excadrill to scout for defensive tera types
then swithc farigiraf out for ttar
hmm
air baloon ttar because we are annoying
tera ground and spam high horsepower/earthquake
who tera ground exca?
yea
it can oneshot most the enemy pokemon and 2shots snorlax
its a roll to kill kingdra in 1 turn
maybe, kinda nervous about the gravity cuz i might get fucked by it
how so
oh right
it ignores ttars air balloon
most can you log in for a sec
i need to test something
name
brandnamecerealbox
what wait
bad switch in im guessing
okay you can activate your own berry
nah
i just wanted to see if the berry activates if you damage your own pokemon
almost done
replace ttars crunch with low kick or knock off
and murkrow is just there so you dont lose to kingdra
if ttar goes down early and they set up rain
helping hand LOL
can you give me a quick battle?
i dont have a team for that
the only thing that you must do is
gravity with faraigiraf and protect excadrill
thats your turn 1
the only thing you can 1shot with earthqauke
is snorlax
it takes 2 eqs
but
helping hand highhorse power kills it
well, has like a 30% chance to kill if its fully defensive
also you can give murkrow
screesh over tailwind
that might help
or just go with thunder wave
i like thunderwave over tailwind
my carrys outspeed
idk if the secondarys are gonna live the eqs
dont worry about it 
okay i made a quick team
you probably wont fight this but its better than nothing
@ most
@sterile agate
@ most
AH
@ most
i just went downstairs for food
ttar over exca?
over fari
and tera exca
wait
what do i do now
i cant win

you had ot use helping hand
who cares if the dude dies
ah
now you can lose
speeds still 275
my middle was messy
ah ok
it worked out
hmmmm
in this case
i think you could protect excadrill
and attack snoalx with ttar
and then do the eqs + helping ahnd combo next turn
@sterile agate
hmmmm

damn
LMAO
honestly
if snolax does that again
i think it might be worth to save excadrill adn ttar for later
and just switch out for something else
Your a monster
oh i should have rested
i forgot about rain boosting fishous rend too
im down to get rid of sunny day
and have haze
same
also you didnt have to use thunder wave on the dude
it was basically useless at that point
wp 
ok i think im pretty confident
his snorlax might be less bulky than mine
mine has 252 hp and 252 def evs
+def nature
but you should find out after damaging snorlax for the first time
are you confident?
because i feel like you cant lose if you play well 
@vestal vessel final match and then we on bracket
nope

just got the point by default
once again, time for the classic excadrill ttar lead into farigraf switch in
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3 battles
tera flying goodra could be problematic but nothing galvantula cant deal with
any idea how to stop shedtail
excadrill should be able to break any substitute from that
this is one of those match ups where if i make a wrong move im gonna get bullied
oh also they are well aware of my fondness for flying t-tar
lmao
enemy team
I can see cyclizar over empoleon but thats it
hopefully they decide to bring sableye
they would be down a pokemon
how much does low kick do to goodra?
not bad
and its not bad into empoleon and incin
8_Disappointment
your team https://pokepast.es/1f54803d6a3f921f
i might have to improve some stuff
and you choose fi you want scarf or choice band dracovish
i prefer scarf
if you go with scarf change dracovish nature to adamant
oh you got your own team 
ah its the team from last week
many
uhhh i think exca ttar
is fine
then switch ttar on turn 1
and attack with excadrill
switch ttar for fari *
now, ninetales cant set up aurora veil if snow isnt up
well that was an unlucky roll
i thought you would kill breloom

i guess you did max damage and then min damage
scroll up 
yeah i see
MY TEA MAN
LMAO
im stoopid
ok
also galvantula has weird evs because it cant outspeed ninetales so i just gave it enough evs to outspeed the second fastest pokemon and then used the remaining evs to make galvantula bulkier
again? or do you want to finish your double up game first?

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also if they dont lead with incineroar or breloom you can just stay in with ttar exca
oh right
clear amulet

i have experience using intimidate user + sinistcha + goodra
mb 
i can finally use good pokemon 
LOL
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i dont see them bringing trick room sinistcha but you could replace ally switch or hyper voice with trick room
to get rid of it

RUN IT AGAIN
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me rn

sorry i played like 200+ battles with this combo
okay maybe not 200 but 100+ for sure
first
ok so whats the play for that
get rid of ally siwtch of hyper voice on farigiraf
and give it trick room
if sinistcha sets up trick room you get fargiraf in and use trick room to get rid of it
by doing that im forced in a way to use tera flying with goodra and set up trick room again
then you can actually do something with galvantula
thats the plan
like even with +6 defense excadrill dealt a lot of damage with earthquake
if im only at +2 i will for sure use tera type
nah
sure murkrow gets haze
but then what
you are 1vs2
tailwind is not useful in this match, brave bird and foul play dont get much use at all
and thunder wave is whatever
bravebird for breloom, taunt, and thunderwave
gliscor gets taunt 
i aint gonna click taunt on gliscor
and can also deal with breloom and get a ground type move
lmaoo

for now just give trick room to farigiraf
keep psychic noise
to stop goodra from healing and to make sinisthca useless in battle
i couldnt use half of my moves after getting hit with that move
trick room
psychic noise, helping hand trick room
get rid of hyper voice or ally switch
up to you

fuck it, curse adamnt sand force iron ball excadrill
0 speed ivs
and abuse their trick room
LMAO im sure they arent gonna run trick room
okay but lets practice against that anyways
because trick room and goodra are cooking you
yeah
okay same lead as before but
aight cook me
if you see sinistcha
switch out ttar and bring farigiraf in
if trick room is up
REMEMBER
PROTECT EXCADRILL
TRICK ROOM FARIGIRAF
but not on turn 1 
attack with excadrill
ttar out, farigiraf in, attack with excadrill
if trick room got setup on turn 1, next turn you use trick room and protect excadrill
is it always tera
most
OK we got this for sure
@sterile agate if you dont want to kill farigiraf now, either switch out for ttar or gliscar
or just use highorse power on incineroar
but sinistcha might kill excadrill (idk the calcs)
@sterile agate SPECIAL INTERACTION RIGHT NOW, excadrill is slower than ninetales if sand is not up SO YOU ARE FASTER IN TRICK ROOM
but might still die to sinistcha
im down to attack with excadrill and test

i was switching gliscore with t-tar and protecting
also gliscor is also slower than ninetales so you could just attack with gliscor instead
i'll let you cook
true
my goat 
okay dont click trick room if its about to end like now, just letting you know just in case
trust me, body press + matcha gotcha were going to kill galvantula
you kept protecting, all i wanted was to see the damage calc
if im flying type you might aswell just click fishous rend
man
lead with galvantula
o
flying and defence up
let me set up on turn 1 first
wow

my goodra
got it
ok
no elp this time
just cook
im fucking
stupid
i keep forgetting that you have clear amulet ( that i saw at the start of the battle and that i even gave you that item)
you played almost perfectly
the double protect to double switch in
except that move on turn 7
other than that you did great

i missplayed with incineroar on turn 2
but still wp
thanks
im glad you recognized that you needed to keep galvantula alive 
now time for the easy difficulty
no trick room
ALL GOOD
winnable
you forgot to switch ttar in to get rid of the snow
hmmmm
i got this dw
i think
in that specific match up
is fine to stay in with ttar
and protect on turn 1
to see what happens
protect both?
ok
that still doesnt kill???
LMAOO
honestly its fine
you got rid of 2 pokemon in 1 turn
oh you are choice band
siwtch both out
before its too late
KILL ME
low kick aint the play no more
it is the play
if auroa veil isnt up
hmmm
i think choice band over choice scarf on dracovish
cost you the game

fishous rend, psychic fangs, low kick, iron head
adamant choice scarf
might be the play
i think i just might be cooked
i have to shower and workout for like 20 mins

SORRY FOR LOOKING AFTER MY BODY

@vestal vessel yo got time for practice?
?
just lemme know ign 

i hate goodra




