>play on showdown >opponent predicts i'll switch

maybe you should switch a blade across your throat next time you dumb frogposter

>>33141404
this even happens to me in 2k+ elos since gen 3, people are just butthurted retarded idiots. mostly murifags

>33141441
Ow the edge

>>33141404
>y-you're not playing as I expected!
People are really this retarded, OP?

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>>33141404
>opponent uses paraflinch
>gets mad at me for not only getting an attack off but also critting him
People take that shit way too seriously

>>33141404
I always do this and I'm proud of it, why the fuck would someone let their Ferrothorn eat Volcarona's fire blast after they have already used protect once? Some people s so anti-battling it's hard to battle them.

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>>33141404
>make predict
>miss
>was a 90-95 acc move

>>33141609
yes if you don't do what you think you'll do they call you a bad player.

>>33141915
This, not switching when I get Paralysed and pulling it off is the ultimate anal devastation tactic.

>>33141404
>Play Showdown
>5v1, about to kill their last Pokemon
>They use Protect
Every
Fucking
Time

>>33141404
>I predicted that you will predict my switch so i didn't, i'm smarter than you so fuck yourself

>>33141441
t. Opponent who got assblasted by OP

>>33141404
>opponents makes a prediction
>now they click the timer button

Everytime

>>33142043
fully para r8 got lowered this gen, no?

>>33142805
No, just the speed reduction

>playing in ubers
>worst NU/RU team in existance
>opponent has the most tryhard team ever®
>one pokemon literally 1v1'd two of the biggest threats on his team
>Meloetta pretty much wiped out the rest of his team
>gets salty because I'm not supposed to use RU/NU Pokemon in a Ubers battle

Why do people get so salty when they lose?I never really understood that.I tend to lose a lot but I never get salty.

>>33143436
Because the objectve of the game is winning.

>>33141404
>opp says: have fun
>my lead has advantage over his lead
>predict the switch and OHKO the check of my lead
>opp forfeit
I'll never understand those people, they still have chance to win if they play well.

>>33143436
Well losing to bad rolls/RNG can piss me off, but I'll still acknowledge if the other guy outplays me. Anyway, playing with meme teams just for elo hell fun is great. It still doesn't beat random battle salt 2bh.

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>>33141404
I really hate that this game boils down to predicting the switch. They need to overhaul the battle system completely.

>>33144451
the main flaw of the pokemon battling system is that it is turn based

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>>33144464
>the main flaw of the pokemon battling system is that it is turn based

Are you retarded?

>>33144436
>blame "RNG"
>be bad

Hey, you might want to become a better player.

>>33144506
>blame RNG
well Fire Blast and Stone Edge often miss and stuff like that decides games all the time. It's just part of the game. Stop being autistic.

>>33144487
It is 100% right. Pokémon is a game about strategy, not skill. Who thinks other wise is a retard. Also predict is 50% luck for classic probability.

>play against Aurora Veil Hyper Offense
>opponent leads Alolan Ninetails
>lead with Charizard
>Mega Evolve into Charizard Y
>Drought actives
>Ninetail's Aurora Veil failed!
>Charizard used Flamethrower
>The opposing Ninetails fainted
>Opponent forfeits

Every time

>The best swordsman on Earth fears not the second-best, but the worst.

If you're not using this to your advantage, you're missing out. Acting like a retard is the best way to throw your opponent off their game and mess up their predictions.

Go ahead, anon; embrace your inner "world's worst swordsman" and harness it for free wins.

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>>33141404
>play on showdown
>opponent predicts i'll switch
>i don't
>his Swampert mega evolves and uses waterfall on my Black Kyurem
>Black Kyurem uses Subzero Slammer on his Mega Swampert and OHKOs it.
>calls me a douche
this is now a GAD thread

>>33143456
The objective of a game is entertainment. If you actually care more about winning in an online children's game simulator than having fun, you ought to neck yourself right now.

>>33145279

winning and playing to win is fun for most people, which is why they play against human opponents instead of killing zubats in game all day retard

>>33145279
winning is fun.

>playing in ubers and/or doubles
>opponent brings reverse tryhard team with a bunch of shitmons

They're all the same "threaten the core strategy and the entire team becomes wet paper" type of shit

>>33144841
NEVER SWITCH OUT WHEN PARALYZED
NEVER SWITCH OUT WHEN SLEEPING
ALWAYS HOPE FOR A CRITICAL HIT

>>33144464
Wrong.

It's that it's too simplistic, I think a small grid movement system like in the Wild Arms games would be good.

Also give attacks range, and chance their BP/Accuracy based on distance

>>33141404
>>gets mad and calls me stupid because a smart person would've switched
But you outsmarted them

>>33144841
I've won games this way before.

>Send in my Decidueye against opponent's Primarina.
>He switches to his Dodrio, I used Confuse Ray
>Dodrio doesn't hurt self in confusion, uses Jump Kick, it misses and crashed because I didn't switch to my Rock type (Lycanroc) like he thought I would
>Decidueye used Leaf Blade
>Next turn, he does Jump kick again, crashes again.
>Decidueye used Leaf Blade
>Next turn Dodrio hurts self in confusion
>Dodrio Fainted
>Your "opponent has disconnected"

>go on AG with mega fug, 3 different deoxys, marshadow and p-groudon
>fight someone with an OU team with typical OU movesets
>win
>opponent says "It sure is easier when you only use legendaries"
>confront him about being salty and a retard not only for playing on AG with an OU team, but complaining about legendaries on AG
>"oh I was just pointing out the truth, I'm not complaining"
>leaves

>>33148185
>with an OU team with typical OU movesets
I remember now, it was a mono fairy team, specifically.

>>33148185
>OU team in AG
that guy is the equivalent of Karenfags just using their NU team in OU

>>33144651

dude, then go and play pokemon gou, this is the battle system you wanted

>>33148680

you should kill yourself with your NU and OU bullshit, because of those retarded rules I cannot play this shitty game because I'm using literally only one mon stronger than NU or OU

>>33149042

play on cart or be grateful that a free competitive pokémon service exists you stupid fuck

>>33149055
>be grateful that a free competitive pokémon service exists

ahahaaha this isn't competitive while 90% of the in game mon are shit

>you stupid fuck

oh, no I will tell mommy ;(

>>33149093
some retarded fuck has been hanging around in showderp for far too long.

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>>33149093

>being mad that the simulator youuse enforces rules you don't like when you could just play on cart
>getting even more mad when you get called stupid while acting stupid

>>33149042
Which mon are you using?
I started playing yesterday, I play on OU, 4 of my mons are BL I think, 1 is NU and the last one is OU so far I have lost 10 matches and won another 10

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>Opponent expects my Deoxys-A to be Naive Nature
>It's actually Mild Nature
>OHKO with Psycho Boost or Ice beam
MFW

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>>33149042
>It's another "retard doesn't understand why different tiers exist" episode
Have fun at ~1300, retard

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-609492452

>Calls me a shitty staller when I'm using balanced (+ Dugtrio)
>Gloats he sweeped me
>Tail Glows when +1 on a Zard Y
>Gloats again after he crit my mew
>Proceeds to get BTFO after using leaf blade on Charizard Y
>Get called brainless

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>>33141404
It wouldn't be as fun without the salt

>>33149314
God OU is shit

It's weird, it's the most popular format, so you'd think it would get a lot of love, but nope, it's shit

>>33149326
>see opp is using ice type moves
>send in Garchomp anyways
How is low elo treating you?

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>>33149357
>it's the most popular format
THAT'S the problem, it's literally baby's firt tier where everyone that's new to Smogon goes, that's why it also has the biggest userbase of them all (or used to, I'm not sure), it attracts toxic behavior and all the newbies that think they can become the best by just achieving high ladder withouth ever playing any other tier or OM. Just look at Overwatch, a big, popular game =/= good userbase, it's always the cancerous fucks that shout and whine and eclipse the good players. That's why no one takes OU seriously anymore and many high ladder players left.

Also, the circlejerk.

>>33149360
>not realizing garchomp is the last one left
How is illiteracy treating you?

>predict opponent turn 1 and bounce back his rocks/sticky web/other hazards with magic coat
>forfeits and immediately asks for a rematch
>gets mad when I decline

>>33149474
...how?

How is anyone stupid enough to open with hazards against a team with magic bounce on it?

>>33149042
I don't understand when people use teams that are built and designed for a different tier then get bopped. I mean, they pokemon' moves, EVs, and items where chosen to deal with specific pokemon within the tier. It's not a universal system you can play in any tier.

>>33149326
>6-0 sheer cold

h-how

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>>33149540
They'll never understand. Most people who shit on smogon's tier system are karenfags
>wah my "bro" isn't OU smogon sucks
Fucking hell, play a different tier then, OU is cancer anyway.

>>33149103

kid, because your shittymulator makes zero sense...they are even too lazy to made more tiers and rules to balance it more like "OU with only one or 2 uber" or something, or to make the game chose opponent with the same amount of uber mon as your ect.

>>33149650

another underage, yes, it sucks because if you have PU mon and only one OU or higher YOU FUCKING CANNOT PLAY ANYTHING THAN FUCKING UBER OR AG

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>>33149995
>dude why can't I use Greninja in PU, smogon sucks
>actually proving my point

>>33144684
Nice, tell us how the rest of your battles go now that you broke 1200.

>>33145252
Why in the fuck would he expect a Kyu-B to switch out of a M-Swampert? It bulks everything that pokemon runs.

>>33149481
He said Magic Coat not Magic Bounce. Opponent probably led Rocks Lando against a Magic Coat Smeargle or something.

>>33146241
>misses jump kick three times
You almost had me.

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>>33150307
[High] Jump Kick causes recoil whenever it fails (AKA against ghosts), you retarded underage

>>33149982

READ MY LIPS:

NO

COMPLEX

BANS

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>playing OU
>opponent talks shit because I use OU pokes

>>33144841
This is so true. At 1700 elo I don't really fear my opp if they have common threats (Unless the majority check my win conditions) but if I see a shitmon that never gets used I'm very likely to get fucked by it since I don't know what it will do.

>miss draco meteor 3 times in a row
>get 3hko'd by something I'd OHKO with draco meteor

That is fucking it, I am building a team where I have no moves with less than 100 accuracy I am so sick of 90 accuracy moves missing when I need to hit

>>33149326
you got a link for the battle?

>>33141942
1.death gives safe switch
2. hopping for fireblast miss
3. hopping for protect to work again
4. predicting your prediction and acting appropriatly.

>>33150294
Electrode magic coating his Galvantula's sticky web, but yeah, the two situations are the same

>>33150760
>100% accurate move doesn't get the KO

>>33143436
there is losing
and than, there is losing to RU team with uber pokemons

>>33150467
>
it deals 50% of the fucking damage to opponent you idiot, theres no way to use it 2 times and live if you attacked it

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>>33144841
this.

@33150825
you)

>>33150794
Don't care, losing because I lack the power feels better than losing because RNG decided I had to lose

>>33150760
did your win rate rose when you switched over to 100%? its true losing on RNG sucks, but sometimes the wins outgrrow the loses.

>>33150876
same 2bh, it's still annoying though

>>33149650
shoo shoo shills
smogon ain't relevant anymore since the end of gen 4, scandals, predators, cheaters and many such cases

>>33150886
I don't care about the drama and autism, I just play to have some fun.

>>33150800

And thEn there is being a tripfag and not knowing the most basic rules of English grammar.

>>33150769
i gotchu senpai
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/anythinggoes-200101715

Sounds like he never heard of a hard read.

>>33150922
thanks anon, this is going into the vault of salt

>>33150918
Like not putting capital letters middle-word?

>>33150112

no kido, you see, OU is a tier where teams are repetitive and overpowered, if you want to build a team of 'shitmons' with blaziken or 1 giratina you cannot play this fucking game because it hates you for using any of them, there should be a tier with "only 1 legend allowed" ect. if smogon is playing with the restrictions

>>33141609

Yes, because that means you're bad at the game, and your opponent gave you too much credit.

>>33144464

>the main flaw of pokemon is that's It's pokemon

That's basically what you're saying

>>33150771

People don't just make those double switches for no reason. Normally your opponent sees that you have a pokemon that wins you the game of you keep it alive. If you decide to stay in and sack the pokemon that wins you the game, if I was your opponent, I would be upset too that my opponent doesn't even know how to play.

>>33151390
I actually said that OU fucking sucks in >>33149650
>if you want to build a team of 'shitmons' with blaziken or 1 giratina you cannot play this fucking game because it hates you for using any of them
Just use another sweeper/wall. Fucking hell you're retarded

>>33150546
>no complex bans
what about the memeban itself:
>you can use BP
>except if you also carry a move that boosts speed and a move that boosts any other stat
>except for this move that can boost speed, it doesn't count
>and this move that can boost speed, it doesn't count either
>oops almost forgot this move, yeah it doesn't count either
>you can't carry BP and have speed boost tho
>ok you can, just don't boost another stat
>unless it's with these boosting moves that don't count as boosting moves
???

>>33151469

kid, I don't like other mon to use them, plus they aren't having movepool or typing I want

>>33151582
>except for this move that can boost speed, it doesn't count
I've literally never heard of this before

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>>33151586

>>33151623
Off the top of my head, acupressure, ominous wind, ancient power
might be more. dunno

>>33151586
>I want to use these pokemon because they're better than other pokemon, but I'm not allowed to because they're better than other pokemon, the system is unfair!

I don't like smogon OU, Landorus-T is fucking stupid and I wish smogon would at least try not allowing stealth rocks for a teensy tiny bit just to see what happens, but you sir, are an idiot

>>33151390
>>33151586
>kido
>kid
>reddit spacing

>>33144841
I'm +1800 on random battles and I do this all the time. It's really effective.

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>>33151704
>not allowing sneaky pebbles
>enabling stall even more
I mean, sure, it sucks that certain types/mons get fucked over which would be decent otherwise, but SR damage can make the difference between a 2HKO and a 3HKO

>>33151777
>used to be ~1700 in gen6 randoms
>z-moves keep fucking me up and I'm sitting at 1400-1500 in gen7
I actually like megas but z-moves suck

>>33151803
then allow better wallbreakers

Heaven knows all the good wallbreakers get booted up to ubers lest they actually do their job and break walls

>>33151831
Gotta memorize which mons has Z movesets.

>>33151836
I mostly play NU, PU, Monotype and random battles 2bh, so I don't know too much about OU except for some meme sets

>>33151411
"pokemon was a mistake" -nintendo