Maybe for a bunch of you there was nothing to learn from this game 2 (as you are already all very experienced players and you all might think this game 2 was not high level) but for me as someone who is still trying to improve, I like how Tele brought his manaphy from almost mid life (around 60%) to 100% late game by making plays and doubles, trying maybe to make his manaphy able to survive a zone tbolt in an eventual clutch final turn (maybe I'm overthinking it):
252 SpA Magnezone Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Manaphy: 294-348 (86.2 - 102%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO.
ill be honest i didnt think in such a long term. Bringing manaphy back to full was key, becos i needed to be able to take +2 earthquake from gliscor and threaten it out with ice beam preventing it from setting up. cosines passive plays helped me to achieve.
In fact, i think it is incorrect to say that hax played the biggest role. cosine lost it in many ways. he could have done a much better job pressuring me with gliscor since all i could have done was going to manaphy and take free knock offs or earthquakes everytime, instead he kept going to his calm mind clefable and didnt achieve anything. towards the end of the game i was also running out of roosts on my latios, (i think at a given point i only had 1 left) and instead of going to hippo and spam stone edge against a spatk dropped lati he risked his win condition.
i wanna say i never found myself in such an unconfortable position in a tournament game (probably not even in a ladder game) where i had to win, and im proud of how ive been able to stay mentally focused on the game although everything was against me. i think this game is comparable to g2 of my series against bloo/luigi from last year
Yea I too enjoy having 90 second turns where tele uses recovery moves repeatedly and then gets bailed out by his poor team choice with critical hits.
i thought better of u chimp
If you want an accurate description of Tele feel free to watch this battle:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-270647806
You can watch the sequence up to turn 150 from about 135.
Go Cosine.
tl;dr Turn 150: Tele tells me to "eat dicks" after being thoroughly outplayed and having to hax his way to victory.
gotta adress this real fast.
first off, u call me out
here for no reason (likes i guess) and u say im one of the biggest shitposters on this site. i didnt even reply becos of the low opinion i have of you. you called me out several times during last year olt too (
here and
here) but once again i did not respond. what were u expecting me to tell you after 150 turns of you complaining about how lucky ive been during that game? (which is far from being true, considering i only needed 1 scaldburn on your heidreigon to win the game and i went 0/ 4)
i know for sure u will reply to this becos saying stuff like 'tele is always a dick look at what he said in this replay dating october 2013 ahah" is a good way to get likes, but i wont reply anymore
anyway, im humble enough to recognise that cosine has a better grasp than me over oras ou atm, probably becos i havent played the game very much lately (except the qualifying phase where i could easily qualify thanks to my superior ladder skills). this being sad, im confident that my ability to win unwinnable matchups (like i showed last year too) will prevail once again
ill be on smogtours at around 22 pm my time