Hippos in Free Fall - 5th Shade Offline Tournament 1st Place Team Report

Original Post: d.hatena.ne.jp/gonbe238/20140224/1393258453

Pokemon	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4	Held Item	Ability
Aerodactyl	Rock Slide	Sky Drop	Roost	Protect	Aerodactylite	Pressure
Hippowdon	Earthquake	Ice Fang	Slack Off	Whirlwind	Rocky Helmet	Sand Stream
Hydreigon	Dark Pulse	Draco Meteor	Flamethrower	U-Turn	Choice Scarf	Levitate
Rotom-W	Thunderbolt	Volt Switch	Hydro Pump	Sleep Talk	Choice Specs	Levitate
Aegislash	Flash Cannon	Sacred Sword	Hidden Power Ice	King's Shield	Sitrus Berry	Stance Change
Ferrothorn	Iron Head	Thunder Wave	Leech Seed	Protect	Leftovers	Iron Barbs

This is the team I used in the 5th Shade Offline Tournament. It was my first time ever participating in a Pokemon offline tournament, but I was very happy to clinch the top spot! For now, I'll only be posting the detailed stats and battle videos of the preliminary rounds.

Aerodactyl

EVs: 220 HP / 52 Atk / 4 Def / 4 SDef / 228 Speed (Jolly nature)

Rock Slide

Sky Drop

Roost

Protect

Aerodactylite

Pressure

·        -In Sandstorm, survives Thunderbolt from 252 SAtk Modest Choice Specs Rotom

·        -Survives a Critical Hit Stone Edge from 0 Atk 31 IV hindering nature Salamence

·        -Outspeeds 252 Spe boosting nature base 80 speed Pokemon with Choice Scarf

·        -Outspeeds maximum speed Talonflame before Mega Evolving

 

Hippowdon

EVs: 252 HP / 140 Atk / 100 Def / 12 SDef (Relaxed nature, 0 Spe IV)

Earthquake

Ice Fang

Slack Off

Whirlwind

Rocky Helmet

Sand Stream

·         -2HKOs 252 HP Tyranitar 77% of the time (factoring in Critical Hits)

·         -OHKOs 4 HP 0 Def Garchomp with Ice Fang

·         -Survives 2 hits of Jolly 252 Atk Mega Kangaskhan's Parental Bond Return 76.37% of the time

·         -Survives 2 hits of Ray Rizzo's Mega Mawile's (52 Atk, no boosting nature) Play Rough

·         -Survives 2 hits of Mega Charizard Y's Heat Wave outside the sun

Hydreigon

EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spe (Modest nature)

Dark Pulse

Draco Meteor

Flamethrower

U-Turn

Choice Scarf

Levitate

·         -Straightforward 252/252 spread

 

Rotom-Wash

EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 92 SAtk / 148 SDef / 12 Spe (Calm nature)

Thunderbolt

Volt Switch

Hydro Pump

Sleep Talk

Choice Specs

Levitate

·         -OHKOs 4 HP 0 SDef Mega Charizard Y with Choice Specs Thunderbolt

·         -Survives Solarbeam from 252 SAtk, no boosting nature Mega Charizard Y

 

Aegislash

EVs: 252 HP / 76 Atk / 36 Def / 172 SAtk / 4 SDef (Quiet nature, 0 Spe IV) *** EXTRA EVS?!!

Flash Cannon

Sacred Sword

Hidden Power Ice

King's Shield

Sitrus Berry

Stance Change

·         -2HKOs 252 HP 0 Def Mega Kangaskhan with Sacred Sword

·         -OHKOs 4 HP 0 SDef Garchomp with Hidden Power Ice

·         -Survives 2 hits of 252 Atk Jolly Garchomp's Earthquake with Sitrus Berry

·         -Survives 2 hits of 252 SAtk Modest Salamence's Fire Blast with Sitrus Berry

 

Ferrothorn

EVs: 252 HP / 132 Atk / 108 Def / 4 SDef / 12 Spe (Impish nature)

Iron Head

Thunder Wave

Leech Seed

Protect

Leftovers

Iron Barbs

·         -OHKOs 4 HP 0 Def Gardevoir with Iron Head

·         -Survives 2 hits of Ray Rizzo's Mega Mawile's Fire Fang 13/16 of the time

·         -Outspeeds paralysed maximum speed base 100 speed Pokemon

Preliminary group stage Battle Videos

(Wolfes note: Some of these battle videos are really phenomenal, give them a look if you have the chance)

I forgot to take down my opponents' screen names, so I shall list them by their in-game trainer name.

1.       

Mizumichi-san (Charizard Gyarados Garchomp Scrafty Gardevoir Scizor)

2.       Yakyo N1-san (Tyranitar Ferrothorn Salamence Granbull Meowstic Gengar)

 

3.       Mitarashi-san (Kangaskhan Smeargle Gardevoir Garchomp Talonflame Aegislash)

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4.       Hoshizorarin-san (Kangaskhan Talonflame Garchomp Gardevoir Salamence 
Bisharp)

5.       Merankori-san (Bisharp Kangaskhan Talonflame Rotom-H Smeargle Azumarill)

This video is too good for the blog and wouldn't let us imbed it so click here

6.       Bezeri-san (Politoed Kingdra Gengar Scrafty Gothitelle Amoonguss)

 

7.       Riosu-san (Hawlucha Drifblim Charizard Garchomp Sableye Meowstic)

8.       Kori-san (Salamence Gardevoir Aegislash Kangaskhan Talonflame Azumarill)

9.       Waamusu-san (Aegislash Kangaskhan Gardevoir Garchomp Salamence Talonflame)

Found here 

10.   Kaataletto-san (Aegislash Kangaskhan Pyroar Salamence Gardevoir Azumarill)

On a side note, because up to now I had been playing most of my battles on PO and Showdown, I only started getting my team ready on cartridge at the last minute. As a resjlt I had no time to obtain the Shadow Ball TM and was forced to run Flash Cannon instead. Furthermore, I didn't play a single match in which Flash Cannon would have been more useful than Shadow Ball at all...

Wolfes Thoughts:
I really like this team a lot and dont want to go too in depth and ruin the report with any analysis of mine, but I think that the interesting Metagame choices that the winner made were really good choices. I of course am biased because I love Hippowdon, but again I think that the unorthodox choices made here were all very good in the metagame he prepared for.

Huge thanks to Hibiki for uploading the videos