i might be a smogon nobody but i showed up anyway seeing as its not that long a drive. i first started caring about the VGCs about a month ago when i heard there was a regional in my town this year. So i spent a week or so planning then another testing on a VGC server battle sim (under the Russian alias Wavtu) and finally i spent this week getting things ready in game.
Now the stuff you care about, the team:
Quagsire@Leftovers
(Water Absorb)
Bold 252 HP 252 SP Atk
-Toxic
-Recover
-Protect
-Icy Wind
it started as a kyogre check but then i added icy wind...
it hits both opponents and lowers speed and best of all no one expected it
Zapdos@Charti Berry
Bold...i forget but some big investment in bulkiness with a little speed
-Discharge
-Heat Wave
-Detect
-Roost
gets some synergy with quag, and after an icy wind or two alternating detect and roost can stall pretty well
Mewtwo@Expert Belt
Timid 252 Sp Atk 252 Spd
-Grass Knot
-Aura Sphere
-Ice Beam
-Protect
more or less what youd expect with protect
Dialga@Sitrus Berry
Modest 240HP 252 Sp Atk 16 Spd
-Aura Sphere
-Thunder
-Flamethrower
-Dragon Pulse
again almost standard with enough speed to beat other dialgas and a few slower things. sitrus helped me more than i thought with dialgas bulk
unfortunately i didnt save any battles...anyway here goes
Round 1: faced a casual player i talked to in line...nothing interesting
4-0
Round 2: this guy seemed to know a bit more and i remember toxicroak and palkia. my team doesnt like toxicroaks but at some point it dawned on me that i had PP stalled him out of Sucker Punch and then i finished up
3-0 i think
Round 3: so, remember one of the in-game trades where you can get a kadabra? i think it was named Kazza and i think my round 3 opponent was using it. so he led with psychic...and followed next turn with..psybeam?
4-0
Round 4:another palkia-kyogre team (man these things are popular) luck smiled on me because at one point i got frozen...and then thawed next turn
3-0
so i was the last finalist to qualify partly because i was in the back of the line and partly because this team is less offensively inclined. after a short break we were on to the finals
Finals Round 1: this was a matt (mattj?) and he wasnt bad zapdos got a paralyze that helped and saw another palkia
3-0 again
Finals Round 2: anoooother palkia-kyogre team from what i remember the important key part was when mewtwo who already had taken a hit survived an ice shard to KO palkia when it was 2-2
2-0
Finals Round 3: palkia-kyogre (sensing a theme?) the difference being me not switching quagsire when i shouldve and taking a grass knot early on, without that things were against me and things went downhill from there on
this was the son of the father son duo (the Arnold family?)
0-2
im quite happy for a first VGC and may go to the nationals, i havent decided yet. it was pretty fun because 3 of my battles were on the screens and at some point someone was hosting the japanese movie arceus on wireless and i snagged one before the VGC people shut it down
gg everybody
PS you may have seen me, i was the white guy with the fro and metroid shirt
Now the stuff you care about, the team:
Quagsire@Leftovers
(Water Absorb)
Bold 252 HP 252 SP Atk
-Toxic
-Recover
-Protect
-Icy Wind
it started as a kyogre check but then i added icy wind...
it hits both opponents and lowers speed and best of all no one expected it
Zapdos@Charti Berry
Bold...i forget but some big investment in bulkiness with a little speed
-Discharge
-Heat Wave
-Detect
-Roost
gets some synergy with quag, and after an icy wind or two alternating detect and roost can stall pretty well
Mewtwo@Expert Belt
Timid 252 Sp Atk 252 Spd
-Grass Knot
-Aura Sphere
-Ice Beam
-Protect
more or less what youd expect with protect
Dialga@Sitrus Berry
Modest 240HP 252 Sp Atk 16 Spd
-Aura Sphere
-Thunder
-Flamethrower
-Dragon Pulse
again almost standard with enough speed to beat other dialgas and a few slower things. sitrus helped me more than i thought with dialgas bulk
unfortunately i didnt save any battles...anyway here goes
Round 1: faced a casual player i talked to in line...nothing interesting
4-0
Round 2: this guy seemed to know a bit more and i remember toxicroak and palkia. my team doesnt like toxicroaks but at some point it dawned on me that i had PP stalled him out of Sucker Punch and then i finished up
3-0 i think
Round 3: so, remember one of the in-game trades where you can get a kadabra? i think it was named Kazza and i think my round 3 opponent was using it. so he led with psychic...and followed next turn with..psybeam?
4-0
Round 4:another palkia-kyogre team (man these things are popular) luck smiled on me because at one point i got frozen...and then thawed next turn
3-0
so i was the last finalist to qualify partly because i was in the back of the line and partly because this team is less offensively inclined. after a short break we were on to the finals
Finals Round 1: this was a matt (mattj?) and he wasnt bad zapdos got a paralyze that helped and saw another palkia
3-0 again
Finals Round 2: anoooother palkia-kyogre team from what i remember the important key part was when mewtwo who already had taken a hit survived an ice shard to KO palkia when it was 2-2
2-0
Finals Round 3: palkia-kyogre (sensing a theme?) the difference being me not switching quagsire when i shouldve and taking a grass knot early on, without that things were against me and things went downhill from there on
this was the son of the father son duo (the Arnold family?)
0-2
im quite happy for a first VGC and may go to the nationals, i havent decided yet. it was pretty fun because 3 of my battles were on the screens and at some point someone was hosting the japanese movie arceus on wireless and i snagged one before the VGC people shut it down
gg everybody
PS you may have seen me, i was the white guy with the fro and metroid shirt
