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Total Members Voted: 51

[Greiger]

Went into a ranked triple battle against a regi team using my old XY team. (Who I will continue to use in Alpha Sapphire online battles until I'm struck by inspiration for a new team.) It was a really close battle with me getting some lucky crits early and being unable to mount an effective offense about halfway through thanks for rhyperior getting flinched and 0 coverage sceptile being walled.

But at the end I somehow won despite killing the final poke with a lethal recoil move.  Has the rule changed where you would be the loser if you committed suicide killing the last enemy poke?  I thought that is supposed to make the user lose.

CXNW-WWWW-WWWD-89U2 is the vs recorder ID for the curious.

[umiman]

It's basically who faints first, though in Showdown it counts as a tie.

What were the Regis running? Curse rest? Calm mind ice beam?

[RekkaAtsuma]

IIRC if your self-ko Move is used by your last pokemon, even if you'd normally win by ko'ing the last opposing pokemon with that move, You'll instead lose.
Again IIRC, but that's what I remember reading when learning about Explosion and Self-destruct mechanics...of course we're talking recoil moves here but same mechanic IMHO.

[Reudh]

Recoil moves deal damage to you after the foe takes damage and faints, so it is a win for you.

If it were a move like Explosion, that KOs your pokemon and theirs, then you lose as technically your mon fainted upon beginning the move.

[Greiger]

Ah ok, so recoil is diffrent from other self kos

Not entirely sure of the moveset, the regigigas died on turn one from a sun boosted, STABbed, crit grass/fire pledge, all it got off was a wide guard.  Registeel kept using gravity and iron head, regirock was using rock slide and drain punch, and regice only used blizzard.   The sets are probably not the kind of things you'll usually see in other modes though.  The rest of the team was filled by a Arcanine and a M-Salemence

[Tawa]

Well, I've had Alpha Sapphire for a while now.

This is the most badass Pokémon game I've ever played.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yes, flying on Lati@s like that is awesome, especially with the land-on-a-route feature and the Super Mario Galaxy-esque background music.

Yes, the Cave of Origin sequence is epic.

But the cake-taker is, hands down, the end of the д Episode. Riding friggin' Rayquaza into outer goddamn space to save the world from a huge-ass meteor, then catching a trippy-looking alien that was on it?

PURE AWESOME.

Also, I liek Mudkips, so I was pleasantly surprised with Swampert's Mega Evolution.

[umiman]

Swampert's mega is good yo. I think it's the best out of all the three. Yep, including mega Blaziken. It's like a super strong Quagsire, compared to how it used to be a really crap Quagsire.

Mega Camerupt's damage really surprised me. It's still absurdly slow, but if you play around it it's quite scary. Maybe paired with a storm drain user. Seriously, that damage is redonkulous.

[Neonivek]

Or you can room it so it will always go first.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah, with TR that thing is terrifying.

[umiman]

It is. When I saw it OHKO a Muk with earth power I was like... "Whoa...". Was expecting a 2HKO with about 65% - 70% damage each hit, not a total wipe.

Can it learn heat wave? I'm scared to know the answer to this.

[Furtuka]

Through breeding yes

[Culise]

There's also something to be said for Lava Plume.  Fire-type Scald (80 BP, 100% Acc) for that 30% burn chance, and the only issue is that it targets all neighbors instead of all opponents.  Shame nothing learns Trick Room that has Storm Drain off the bat.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Mega Camerupt has Sheer Force, so the higher burn chance is kinda pointless.

[Culise]

*blink* Whoops, I suppose so. 

[umiman]

Urist is the factchecker of this thread, you can't slip anything past him.