This tournament made me so salty. Here is my team and a quick analysis:
- Lum berry azumarill against Wow and sacred fire entei and other status.
- Life Orb Scizor, usually my win condition after sword dance
- Piloswine, icicle spear against dragonite and subs. Roar against suicune and clef. Ice shard for priority.
- Dragonite in specs! This WAS THE BEST! Skarm was destroyed by Flamethower. Thunderbolt killed suicune in 2 turns and azumarill in 1 (except assault). Quagsire and arcanine were no match for Draco meteor. Venusaur and clef got GG from Hurricane.
- Gengar. Say hello to my smeargle + Espeon counter. Safety google protected against spore, taunt to stop baton pass. The idea was simple: when I saw at team preview smeargle and espeon, I usually started with dragonite to defeat his/her first pokemon. Then Smeargle come out. I switch to gengar to take the spore. Sometimes my opponent do quiver dance or geomancy, and not spore. Because it will be faster for a baton pass, I do clear smog to erase all the stats. Battled against 4 smeargle+espeon teams. Beated them all.
- Raikou Stall. Not Sp. Atk investment. Did good job against fat teams.
But I did 29-16. Seriously, I counted 5 fair loss. The other was pure hax! Freezing against porygon2 in first turn. Missing draco meteor 3 times in a row. Play rough missed a lot, and cost the battle. A japanese that critted my azumarill and critted my dragonite in a row, after taking its life orb away. Sheer cold suicune hitting twice.
I took too many crits at this tournament, I dont know if GF did something or I got a very bad lucky. I made this team to beat the common threats, I did ranked at showdown even few days before the beginning of the Johto Classic. Too bad, anyways, it made me salty, it happens..:/
Best intense battle, please watch if you got time: QMEG-WWWW-WW46-CHG5