Is this the single greatest battle in the history of Pokemon

>1 hour long

Hmm...

>>31865310
Typical smogon desu

>>31865283
>in the history of Pokemon
Maybe in ORAS. The best one is Fuego vs James.

>>31865359

Got a link m8? What generation was it?

>>31865283
>The only reason ABR wins is because of the lucky defense drop from Crunch
nope

>>31865283
Watching now. I'll get back to you in an hour kek

>>31865389

The chances of him getting a drop or critting with that last Stone Edge vs. neither of these happening was about 50/50 I think.

>>31865389
Luck is a skill :^)

>>31865382
>Not knowing James Vs Fuego
What are you a newfag? You would have heard about a 7 hours-long battle on this board otherwise.

>>31865456
>Fucking Yugioh players

>>31865382
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-525565212

Stall vs Stall that went for hours until /vp/'s boy got BTFO by James, it was one hell of a ride

>>31865475
>http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-525565212
>turn 10

Wow these guys are some type of faggot I swear.

>ORAS OU

doubt.jpeg

>>31865427
add the chance of Stone Edge missing, the chance of a non-crit on Stone Edge and the chance of a non-drop and it's much lesser than a 50/50

>>31865475
>it crashes at turn 320
showdown was not meant for this

>>31865569

Didn't he Crunch three times?

The chance of no drop is 80%, and then the Stone Edge crit chance is 10% (80 accuracy and 1/8 crit chance).

0.8*0.8*0.8*0.9=0.46

ABR actually had the oods in his favour, to get at least one thing he needed to win I think.

>>31865283
Can't be bothered watching a 100 turn battle desu

What are the good parts?

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>>31865475
i have seen hell
>mega-sableyeskarmory fusion

>>31865283
>58:22

6v6 singles need to fucking die.

>>31865793
THIS.

The worst thing is: this was balance vs offense. Stall isn't the problem here, 6v6 singles is/

>>31865475
This was the most fun I've ever had on /vp/
>everyone spamming the chat
>james cries to a mod and the chat is disabled
>james gets butthurt when people start joining with nicknames that make fun of him
>james starts privating the battle
>BASED fuego makes it public
>this goes on back and forth for minutes straight several times
>/vp/ makes fanart
>threads on the battle hitting bump limit fairly quickly
>fuego goofing up and forfeiting after some thousand turns
>james insulting /vp/ at the end

>>31865283
One of the best of ORAS for sure, don't know about all time though. Unfortunately, /vp/ seems more interested in showderp and low ladder shittery than high level play. To be expected, of course.

>>31865283
>This Latias is unusual because it has a Dragon move; Latias usually runs Ice Beam to check Dragons
Less than two minutes in and...what the fuck?

>>31865939
Dragon stab is bad, it only hits another mon super-effectively and it's walled by steel (something that already walls Psychic too). Long gone are the days where you could spam Outrage and win

>>31865939
He said Ice Beam was better in general because it has the same Dragon coverage as Dragon Pulse, but it also kills Lando and Gliscor.

If you like boring matches

>>31866001

Let me guess. Your idea of a fun match is a bunch of Dragon Dancers and Choice Scarfers clicking super effective moves on each other?

>>31865283
That's not funbro's wild ride

>>31865793

It's amazing how such a shitty format is still alive because of nostalgia.

>BATON PASS IN UU? NEVER
>stall is ok :)

I hate what smogon became after gen 4

>>31865283
>>31865416
Just finished it. Didn't really get some of the plays or what the guy meant some times but it was a pretty good battle. I liked how back and forth it was. Thanks for sharing OP.

>>31866071
What does stall have to do with anything?

>>31865939
Dragon STAB is hot garbage now. Like, worse than Grass STAB.

>>31866131
Dragon as an attacking type without STAB is garbage. Same with Grass. Z-Moves make that a different story but Mega evolutions are unable to exploit that for obvious reasons.

>>31866131
Fairies ruined Pokemon.
I'm not joking.

>>31866189
no it just got rid of one OP type and introduced another, no change

>>31866189

KEK. Either you only started playing Pokemon in Gen 6, or you never played competitively.

Dragonspam was one of the worst things ever seen in Pokemon.

>>31866189
t. Upset that 4D2M doesn't work anymore

>>31866206
>kek
lel dude, great meme!

As if Fairyspam isn't just as bad.

>>31866225
>Fairyspam

This isn't a thing you gay faggot.

>>31866195
Fairy is far worse than even Gen 5 Dragon ever was. It's actually a good attacking type. Dragon was carried solely by the strength of the things that were Dragon type, and most could be checked by packing some Steel types, or an Ice move. Once the power creep kicked into overdrive, and Dragons lacked the definitve BST superiority behind them, they just started getting shit.
Fairy on the other hand, makes mons that were absolute SHIT before they got the typing substantially better. BST carried Dragon, Fairy carries BST.

>>31866245

Fairy is literally just an inferior Gen 5 Dragon you idiot. Fairies are only good defensively, and while I will admit they are arguably overpowered in this regard, they are nowhere near being a good attacking type.

>>31866225
It really isn't. Back before Fairies, nothing could really stop most Dragons after Outrage. Only steel types, most of which were threatened out by Earthquake or Fire Blast.

Now that there are Fairies, you can't simple spam Outrage after eliminating your opponent's steel type. Not only that, but it gave way for Steel and Poison being effective offensive types as well as buffing tons of Pokémon.

Dragons and Weather Wars (namely rain) are what ruined Gen 5 competitively.

>>31866225
>muh sarcasm XD

kek

KEK

K E K

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>>31866225
>thinking fairies are worse than push button

>>31865793
>>31865819
It's only an hour long because the players took their time each turn. The game lasted about 100 turns (about 2 minutes thinking for each turn) with only Clefable and Tyranitar left.

For a serious match, that's pretty average amount of turns and if they went faster with their decision making, it would be 30 minutes long.

>>31866023
Actually just a fast paced match with clutch victories and bops

>>31866225
Yeah. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>>31866245
I know. That's why everything is carrying non-STAB dazzling gleam. Because it's so op. Oh wait. Still ice beam.

>>31866643

>bops

Only happens in ladder matches because they aren't serious and don't require skill

>>31866070
>nostralgia
>the way the in-game has played for 20 years
inb4 gamecube games, no those don't count.

>>31866070
>nostalgia
>when the entire fucking in-game is like this

nice meme

>"I almost left my house an hour ago to not narrate this"
>Turn 102

Jesus fuck this is only slightly more interesting that a Naruto fight scene

>>31866867
Its probably a good match. I just dont have the attention span for a hour long pokemon battle.
This is also the reason why ive never watched a vgc tornament.

>>31868133
vgc tourneys don't have battles that last an hour each

>>31868145
So double battles dont last that long as ive presummed they did?
Wasn't some big deal made about timer stalling?

>>31868163
that's why the timer is 10 minutes for each player, with 1 minute timer for a move

>>31868175
Great now if i could only get interested in watching them as much as fighting games and oney lets plays.

>>31865283
Your
OPINION
IS
SHIIIIIIIIIIT

>>31865283
that was breddy gud

>>31865283
Lol this battle sucked lmao where was teh epic magikarp sweep XD? Also why was it so long lmao I fall asleep watching desu kek

I watched the whole thing and dont really get it? What was the good part.

>>31868411
The part where you gave a view to this shit. Or i assume turn 70 when something died.

Is this really what people like to do?

Fight the same Pokemon, with the same movesets every single time, with no variety whatsoever?

How do people NOT get bored of this shit?

>>31865475
The sad thing is that Smogon's ban system actively fights to keep stall alive as a viable tactic. The Pokémon that get banned are, almost always, frail offensive threats which have the ability to break through walls.

>>31865283
That's not Funbro's Wild Ride.

>>31865283
>OU
zzzz

>>31868845
See
>>31866867

It requires skill to stall

>>31868860
>It requires skill to stall

I'm sure it required skill to run concentration camps too, but that doesn't make it a good thing.

>>31868888
>muh nazis
please stop

>>31868888
>>31868896
Nazi Germany would have run HO or bulky offense, I think.

>>31868824

Because theres literally over 12 different formats on Smogon. Get bored of one, switch to another format.

>>31868888
Quints of truth.
I like hyper offense because my attention span only allows for less than 50 turn games at max.
To sit there for 500 turns requires patience i just dont have. So basically more skill than just fishing for super effective hits.

Its boring. No one can prove its not boring.

>>31868860
I'm not sure if that's sarcasm, but it takes skill to win consistently regardless of playstyle. There's no reason Smogon should force one playstyle to be viable when, in the game's natural state, it isn't.
It's like if they banned Gastrodon, Ferrothorn, Charizard Y and Rotom-W because they considered protecting Rain's viability to be a priority.

>>31868888
>muh holohoax
what a waste of quints

>>31868896
Concentration camps weren't exclusive to nazis you fucking retard.

>>31868920
Then why does OP consider this game to be a good game just because its a long game?

>>31868845
You know that most banned threats are ones that shit over hyper offense/balanced teams, right? There's too little offensive shit that can shit all over stall without shitting over the other play styles.

Things like Hoopa-Unbound are anomalies, not the most common kind of offensive powerhouse. Mega Lucario was able to shit over hyper offense and balance because it would pick off at least 2 mons before you discovered its set while stall would just keep switching between counters. Shit like M-Kangashkan shat over balanced teams and forced you to run Rocky Helmet Ferrothorn to "counter" it... something that stall already ran to start with.

>>31868860
Stall takes no more skill than the other playstyles. Stall as a playstyle is centered around reacting to your opponent.

>>31869101
There was also the fact that M-Kanga with Seismic Toss can easily 2KO every poke in the metagame sans stuff like SubCoil Zigarde & Blissey. The fact that GF didn't fix this for Gen 7 is why it is still banned after the nerf.

>>31868824
People experiment once in a while with odd stuff. That's how Tangrowth became OU in the first place.

>>31869340
It mostly requires knowledge of the kind of stuff that can tear you apart.

>>31869637
Just like Hyper Offense requires knowledge of what can wall or revenge kill you and Balance requires knowing pretty much everything you need to know with HO and Stall. So again, Stall takes no more skill than any other playstyle.

>best battle
>not world champion pachirsu
???

What about wonder guard minun vs. a global mod

>>31869886
he only won because of luck... get good kiddo