Conflict of Champions

[Oblivion IX]

I have the honors of posting the first B/W warstory on Pojo so here's a great match to kick things off! It was against Lamitie11, my co-leader of both Team Overgrowth and one of the assistant leaders of Team Ascension. He's an amazing battler and a good friend that has helped me alot over the past year. Not much else to say besides that it was a great game with very little hax which is something that every respectable player would want.

Key:
- Comments in blue.
- Score in orange.

My Team:
Heatran @Air Balloon
Nattorei @Leftovers
Rotom-W @Choice Scarf
Spiritomb @Expert Belt
Roobushin @Leftovers
Garchomp @Choice Scarf

Lami's Team:
Kojondo @Focus Sash
Bronzong @Leftovers
Shandera @Choice Scarf
Randorosu @Choice Band
Virizion @Life Orb
Rotom-W @Absorb Bulb

- Overdrive vs. Lamitie11: Standard [6 vs. 6] -

Lamitie11 sent out Kojondo.
Overdrive sent out Rotom-W.
Kojondo used Fake Out!
Rotom-W flinched and couldn't move.

Rotom-W used Volt Switch!
Rotom-W sent back to Overdrive.
Overdrive sent in Spiritomb.
Kojondo used Hi Jump Kick!
It doesn't affect Spiritomb...
Kojondo kept going and crashed.
Kojondo fainted.
Lamitie11 sent out Bronzong.

OD: 6-5

I led off with my Rotom-W knowing that he'd want to start with Kojondo and that it was the Pokemon that would give me the most amount of offensive momentum against the rest of his team. Volt Switch was just to get some damage on that thing so it could die from the recoil of Hi Jump Kick. Not a bad way to start off a match at all.

Overdrive withdrew Spiritomb.
Overdrive sent out Heatran.
Heatran floats in the air with its Air Balloon.
Bronzong used Stealth Rock!

Lamitie11 withdrew Bronzong.
Lamitie11 sent out Rotom-W.
Heatran used Stealth Rock!

Exchanging entry hazards is always nice, but now the real fun is about to begin.

Overdrive withdrew Heatran.
Overdrive sent in Nattorei.
Rotom-W used Hydro Pump!
It's not very effective...

Lamitie11 withdrew Rotom-W.
Lamitie11 sent in Shandera.
Overdrive withdrew Nattorei.
Overdrive sent in Heatran.
Heatran floats in the air with its Air Balloon.

Here was an awesome play on my side! I knew that he'd want to go into Shandera to take on Nattorei so I went for the double switch into my Heatran to take on that candle!

Shandera used Hidden Power [Fighting]!
It's super-effective!
Heatran's Air Balloon popped.
Heatran used Fire Blast!
The power of Shandera's Fire-type moves rose!

Shandera used Hidden Power [Fighting]!
It's super-effective!
Heatran fainted.
Overdrive sent out Rotom-W.

Tied: 5-5

Here was my biggest mistake of the match! I expected him to have the standard Hidden Power [Ground] so I went for the Fire Blast expecting a switch to hit anything on his team for nice damage. Unforunately, he carried that HP [Fighting] and wrecked my Heatran. There was a misplay on my part, but it did have some thought put into it so I don't feel so bad.

Lamitie11 withdrew Shandera.
Lamitie11 sent in Rotom-W.
Overdrive's Rotom-W used Volt Switch!
Rotom-W went back to Overdrive.
Overdrive sent out Nattorei.

Rotom-W used Will-O-Wisp!
Nattorei avoided the attack.
Nattorei used Spikes!
Spikes were scattered all the way around the feet of your foe's team.

Overdrive withdrew Nattorei.
Overdrive sent in Roobushin.
Rotom-W used Will-O-Wisp!
Roobushin was burned.

I decided this would be an ideal time to set-up a layer of Spikes to add more damage to what he already took from switching around. The miss from WoW was annoying, but most likely didn't change the course of the game. I predicted him to go for it again and went into Roobushin to get a free boost using with my Guts ability.

Rotom-W used Hydro Pump!
Roobushin used Payback!
Rotom-W fainted.
Lamitie11 sent out Shandera.

OD: 5-4

Shandera used Shadow Ball!
Roobushin fainted.
Overdrive sent out Rotom-W.

Tied: 4-4

I thought that he would switch into Shandera to take the Fighting-type move, but Payback took out the Rotom so it wasn't a bad choice. The extra health that would have been recovered if I used Drain Punch didn't really matter anyways because I just left in Roobushin as death fodder so the safe move was better.

Rotom-W used Hydro Pump!
Shandera fainted.
Lamitie11 sent out Virizion.

OD: 4-3

Overdrive withdrew Rotom-W.
Overdrive sent out Spiritomb.
Virizion used Sacred Sword.
It doesn't affect Spiritomb...

I went for Hydro Pump over Volt Switch thinking that he MIGHT want to go into Randorosu, but just left in Shandera knowing he would lose to entry hazards anyways.

Lamitie11 withdrew Virizion.
Lamitie11 sent out Bronzong.
Spiritomb used Shadow Ball!

Overdrive withdrew Spiritomb.
Overdrive sent ou Rotom-W.
Bronzong used Payback!

Rotom-W used Trick!
Bronzong obtained one Choice Scarf.
Rotom-W obtained one Leftovers.
Bronzong used Payback!
Rotom-W fainted.
Overdrive sent out Nattorei.

Tied: 3-3

I needed to cripple this Bronzong because it could wall my Spiritomb for days and knew that if he switched out than giving his other team members a Choice Scarf would be nice too.

Lamitie11 withdrew Bronzong.
Lamitie11 sent out Virizion.
Nattorei used Gyro Ball!
Virizion fainted.
Lamitie11 sent out Randorosu.

OD: 3-2

Randorosu used Hammer Arm!
It's super-effective!
Randorosu took damage from Nattorei's Iron Barbs.
Nattorei used Gyro Ball!

Here is the one spot that the burn on Nattorei would have helped him, but I could take a Sacred Sword from Virizion anyways and 2HKO it with Gyro Ball. I ran some calcs and Spiritomb could easily take out Bronzong while living a few Payback attacks as Zong would be faster because of the Choice Scarf and then it could have gone for Sucker Punch against Randorosu brining it low enough for Chomp to KO with Outrage.

Overdrive withdrew Nattorei.
Overdrive sent out Garchomp.
Randorosu used Hammer Arm!

Lamitie11 withdrew Randorosu.
Lamitie11 sent out Bronzong.
Garchomp used Fire Blast!

Garchomp used Fire Blast!
Bronzong avoided the attack.
Bronzong used Explosion!
Bronzong fainted.
Garchomp fainted.
Overdrive sent out Spiritomb.
Lamitie11 sent out Randorosu.

OD: 2-1

Spiritomb used Sucker Punch!
Randorosu fainted.
Overdrive defeated Lamitie11.

OD: 2-0

That was a great match with just a mild case of hax and really came down to the wire! Great job to Lami for putting up such a fight and giving me the best of my B/W battles so far! :D

[Bastion]

Nice battle od I also would not have predicted hp fighting but is great agenst the ran nattorei combo hittimg them both for super effective damage. Also nice play with tomb imcluding walling rank it seems to handle kojando without a problem too hreat battle man. This has made me want to make one.

[mgswarrior2]

Awesome battle OD, Tomb really made a big impact on the win and you made nice predictions even though you lost Tran to HP Fighting. Your Rotom was also an X-factor for crippling Bronz and Volt Switching a couple of times to get you into a good position to switch in a poke with a better advantage.

[Lamitie11]

Yeah. That was an awesome match OD. That fail with Mienshao in the beginning really cost me too. :p

BTW, Rotom has Absorb Bulb, and Virizion has Life Orb.

[Oblivion IX]

Ok, I updated your team with that information.

[darth_massey]

nice battle, and good read. thanks for getting the war story thread started for B/W.

[Bastion]

Again OD nice battle you have encoureged me to make my own Warstory now i just need an opponent.