REPORTING A 104 Streak on Battle Factory Doubles (Open Level)Hey fellow Battle Factory enjoyer!
I'm currently attempting to break the Level 50 Doubles World Record and right now my personal best is 81. I haven't tried to break the Open Level World Record yet, but of course the same numbers there are even harder to reach because the first rounds are harder.
I read your post and was quite stunned to see you having won 104 battles in Open Level without using any of the resources, just having fun with it as you said.
I'd love nothing more than to have a high number like that as the world record, because that would motivate me even more than the current Open Level world record which is almost a whole 30 wins lower.
However a simple screenshot is unfortunately not enough to be recognized as a world record. Without any information provided about the run, it's hard to comprehend how you could achieve such an amazing feat without using the spreadsheet and calc.
In my personal opinion, it would have to involve incredible luck, especially at every draft. So if you could tell us more about the run, which mons you used (at least during the last few rounds) and importantly how the run ended, only then could it be possible to recognize 104 as the new world record.
Thanks for understanding!
Hello again to you all,
Nnico Iosi My most sincere thanks for the reply, as you can see this is a big thing for me and it is really much appreciated. (And props to the Persian profile photo, absolutely love it!).
So this situation of mine is pretty particular. Never in my life have I thought about chasing a Pokémon World Record, or any WR for that matter, so never thought about documenting a run with photos, videos, or with writing down my different teams for each round. I didn’t find it useful at the time and boy was I wrong; (discovered “Smogon” for the first time in my life the other day when I first posted my streak, that alone should give you an idea..); and this despite having hundreds and hundreds of hours of gameplay in Emerald Frontier, especially the Battle Factory. As I already said for me it was just a fun way to decompress and have fun outside of the work hours.
For me Emerald’s Factory is where the Pokémon Franchise peaked, I am just nuts about everything in that game, from the sprites, the soundtracks, the story line, to that memorable Hoenn journey, everything just screams GOAT status. I remember that getting those 7 absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous Gold Symbols in the Frontier was one of the hardest challenges I’ve ever had to overcome, gaming-wise, and it left such a mark on me back in the days that I’d always come back and have a go at it, if only to listen to its memorable soundtrack.
I am actually more than delighted to have finally had the occasion to write thoroughly about one of the few things that I’ve truly loved and cherished in life, Emerald’s Battle Factory. (also relating to that heartfelt, awe-inspiring post by Tinto last week, reaching such an amazing streak on real Hardware is nothing short of legendary).
For me the Battle Factory was all about unpredictability, that is its essence and its whole purpose, and that’s what makes it still truly exciting for me after all these years. The never-ending, always renovated scenarios and surprises, the combination of strategies, movesets, mons that you’d never think you’d actually use.
And since I’ve never had such high aims for it except my personal enjoyment and excitement, involving calcs and spreadsheets would quite ruin that sense of unpredictability and randomness. From my perspective, nothing beats inserting my Emerald cartridge, turning on my beloved GBA SP 101 and having random Pokémon matchs with random drafts facing random scenarios, counting only on my knowledge of the game and my instincts (it is after all called the Knowledge symbol).
In singles, my best streak was at 63 (always in Open Level), and last April I thought it would be fun to try for the first time the Doubles Challenge, just to experience what it’s like and boy was I amazed at just how fun that place is.
For me the Battle Factory was all about unpredictability, that is its essence and its whole purpose, and that’s what makes it still truly exciting for me after all these years. The never-ending, always renovated scenarios and surprises, the combination of strategies, movesets, mons that you’d never think you’d actually use.
And since I’ve never had such high aims for it except my personal enjoyment and excitement, involving calcs and spreadsheets would quite ruin that sense of unpredictability and randomness. From my perspective, nothing beats inserting my Emerald cartridge, turning on my beloved GBA SP 101 and having random Pokémon matchs with random drafts facing random scenarios, counting only on my knowledge of the game and my instincts (it is after all called the Knowledge symbol).
In singles, my best streak was at 63 (always in Open Level), and last April I thought it would be fun to try for the first time the Doubles Challenge, just to experience what it’s like and boy was I amazed at just how fun that place is.
Before getting into the run, it goes without saying that the biggest part of the Credits goes naturally to LRXC and his inspirational runs. He inspired so many of us to get back there and experience that truly unique Emerald Factory Feeling with that charisma and that renowned meticulous cooking of his that are truly out of this world. Emerald Factory is truly the best stage that he could have chosen for his big break as a streamer and I’ve been there patiently watching him cook since the very beginning, and now it’s just a matter of time before he ends up breaking all Factory records (including my -yet to be recognized- record).
There’s unfortunately not much to be said about my streak, after all it’s been almost 8 months since that streak came to an end. And all that Pokémon-related part of my memory has been savagely ambushed and occupied by two of the craziest with the most stupidly-horrifying RNG games that have ever existed (talking about both Pokémon Stadium 1 & 2 with Rental Mons only, with the second one totally completed and the first one nearing its completion and what a memorable journey that one has been).
Now all I have left is some photos that I’ve shared with a dear friend of mine, also a fellow Factory enthusiast, of some of the stupidly good Mons that I had during that run. I’ll share them with you guys just so you can have an idea of how insanely lucky I got, especially with drafts, during the last rounds.
1st one: Salamence and Gengar easily sweeping the entire round with the infamous combination: Earthquake-Levitate, a classic that proved to be absolutely fundamental in more than one occasion during this run.
2nd and 3rd : Latias & Latios with Suicune in the back: I don’t think there’s really much to say about such a team, except from “on to the next round”
4th and 5th: Getting so high up that an actual Pokémon match would end up looking like this (with Raikou in the back)
6th and 7th: I remember this team being the one leading me to victory during one of the last rounds
8th: Getting both Latis in the draft was so crazy that I had to take a picture here
I actually am aware that this isn’t helping at all. Giving absolutely no accurate information whatsoever about the drafts, the movesets, the different scenarios. However, luckily I found that I did record and save my last battle, the 7th and last one in Round 15.
As you can see, also not much to say about this battle, only managing to hit one Hyper Beam during the entire match, due to a stupid Fire Blast Crit on Blaze. Also surviving my Dragonite 3’s Hyper Beam there was probably a range there by Zard. And it all went downhill from there.Not sure if I could’ve played this better since I have no idea of what there other movesets were (8 months Is a long time)
There’s unfortunately not much to be said about my streak, after all it’s been almost 8 months since that streak came to an end. And all that Pokémon-related part of my memory has been savagely ambushed and occupied by two of the craziest with the most stupidly-horrifying RNG games that have ever existed (talking about both Pokémon Stadium 1 & 2 with Rental Mons only, with the second one totally completed and the first one nearing its completion and what a memorable journey that one has been).
Now all I have left is some photos that I’ve shared with a dear friend of mine, also a fellow Factory enthusiast, of some of the stupidly good Mons that I had during that run. I’ll share them with you guys just so you can have an idea of how insanely lucky I got, especially with drafts, during the last rounds.
1st one: Salamence and Gengar easily sweeping the entire round with the infamous combination: Earthquake-Levitate, a classic that proved to be absolutely fundamental in more than one occasion during this run.
2nd and 3rd : Latias & Latios with Suicune in the back: I don’t think there’s really much to say about such a team, except from “on to the next round”
4th and 5th: Getting so high up that an actual Pokémon match would end up looking like this (with Raikou in the back)
6th and 7th: I remember this team being the one leading me to victory during one of the last rounds
8th: Getting both Latis in the draft was so crazy that I had to take a picture here
I actually am aware that this isn’t helping at all. Giving absolutely no accurate information whatsoever about the drafts, the movesets, the different scenarios. However, luckily I found that I did record and save my last battle, the 7th and last one in Round 15.
As you can see, also not much to say about this battle, only managing to hit one Hyper Beam during the entire match, due to a stupid Fire Blast Crit on Blaze. Also surviving my Dragonite 3’s Hyper Beam there was probably a range there by Zard. And it all went downhill from there.Not sure if I could’ve played this better since I have no idea of what there other movesets were (8 months Is a long time)
Link for 105th and final Battle
Lastly you can all see how much this actually means to me. It would literally be a dream come true seeing my 104 Wins on the Top Left Corner of LRXC 's streams and being the WR Holder that he will aspire to beat in his eventual next attempts on Open Level Doubles, and watching him doing so as I’ve always did during these months.
I am actually closing in on a chapter in my life, and opening a new one in a new continent and a new country, where the absolute priority would be my work and my career, one that wouldn’t include Pokémon anymore, after being the absolute protagonist in almost all of my previous chapters, and that is why I left my beloved Emerald back home, harshly imprisoned in a firmly and tightly closed box, along with all of my other cartridges and consoles, since I’ve always only played on real Hardware.
An unthought of, unintended WR, having only some photos and a video taken from my Emerald French Cartridge as evidence. Who knows, perhaps if I had intended it, studied it and worked on it, maybe I would never have reached such a feat if it were all calculated and premeditated. So all and all, I’d say that this is much more poetic and singular; no one has ever broken a WR just having fun, without even aiming for it, thinking about it and only knowing about it 8 months after.
I am actually closing in on a chapter in my life, and opening a new one in a new continent and a new country, where the absolute priority would be my work and my career, one that wouldn’t include Pokémon anymore, after being the absolute protagonist in almost all of my previous chapters, and that is why I left my beloved Emerald back home, harshly imprisoned in a firmly and tightly closed box, along with all of my other cartridges and consoles, since I’ve always only played on real Hardware.
An unthought of, unintended WR, having only some photos and a video taken from my Emerald French Cartridge as evidence. Who knows, perhaps if I had intended it, studied it and worked on it, maybe I would never have reached such a feat if it were all calculated and premeditated. So all and all, I’d say that this is much more poetic and singular; no one has ever broken a WR just having fun, without even aiming for it, thinking about it and only knowing about it 8 months after.
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