Quick update to my Battle Factory streaks:
Battle Factory Doubles Open Level - 36 Streak (ended)
Went back to Doubles and managed to break my record.
I won't go into as much detail as in my last post, but some brief highlights:
Round 1 didn't make any notes but swapped 7 times
Round 2 Scizor Lapras Metagross
Got around a lot of threats by switching Metagross in for Scizor. Swapped quite a few times until I settled on Lapras.
Round 3 Slaking Walrein Weezing
Choice Band Slaking is good in Factory, too. Either the foe was KO'd by Slaking, or OHKO'd by Walrein's Sheer Cold or Fissure. Weezing was a really good third, as I could bring it in for Walrein on Turn 1 which gave Slaking a free Earthquake.
Round 4 Nidoqueen Gengar Swampert
In the first six battles, Nidoqueen/Gengar swept every time. Excellent coverage, free Earthquakes, and a bit of luck. Eventually I was almost undone in Battle 7: Faced Medicham-4 and Meganium-4. Medicham got a first-turn OHKO with Psychic on Gengar, and Meganium got a second-turn OHKO on Swampert with Giga Drain. Nidoqueen eventually got a KO on Meganium with Aerial Ace, but it was 1v2 and the next Pokemon in was Swords Dance Marowak. Managed to KO Medicham with Earthquake and did ~60% damage to Marowak, but Marowak retaliated with... Swords Dance. KO'd it on the next turn, but it was a lucky escape.
Round 5 Altaria Tyranitar Walrein
Actually started off with Altaria/Donphan/Ursaring on this round, which was an abysmal set considering Battle 1 was against Tyranitar. I managed to battle through, swapped Donphan for Tyranitar, and the rest was relatively easy. Once again, free EQs for Tyranitar made a lot of difference, although I did rely on Walrein hax in a couple of situations. Got lucky in one battle where the final foe was Espeon 1v1 with Tyranitar and it only had Psychic. Luckily didn't see any seriously threatening Pokemon save for Regirock.
Round 6 Regice Kingdra Dusclops
Regice and Kingdra actually made a good starting pair for all of two battles. I got unlucky in that Dusclops wasn't very good and I had no chances to swap it. I faced Rhydon-2/Latias in Battle 2. Rhydon's Quick Claw activated for Earthquake, and Latias made light work of Kingdra then survived an Ice Beam from Regice. Regice was 2HKO'd by Rhydon's Earthquake, unfortunately, which was my downfall (although it brought Wailord into KO range with ally damage on turn 2). Left with 1v1 Dusclops against Rhydon and it outsped for the Earthquake KO on turn 3.
Pretty pleased with a run of 36, and I definitely think with a few refinements I could get to 42 and beyond.