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Pokémon Battle Revolution (2006)

Duration: 10:57

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You heard me. Versus Pants.

Find out which of the two of us is more bonkers in this battle.

My initial disclaimer...this is a really weird battle. As if you couldn't tell already, given that it features the strategically "funkier" of the two ghost-type siblings against a mysterious trainer known only as "Pants" and such classically-named competitors as "A1" and "4A"...

Take note, the "Unagi" betrays the inner nature of the owner of these critters, as it is actually the EEL that stalks--erm...Smashes with me often enough, and if you want to see more of these monsters or other wacky stuff that I might not be involved in, pay a visit to YouTube user WhiteKhakis (y'know, a pair of...Pants) if you haven't already.

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Wi-Fi Friends Match
vs. Pants
(Part 1 of 2)

So it's tempting, looking at this roster, to bring along some of my Fighting-type attackers...but one of those has some accuracy problems under pressure and the other one doesn't like surprises, which as I've already built up isn't really something you can avoid against this particular opponent.

To put things into perspective among the kinds of company I keep...Overhazard thinks outside the box and I like to think that I can get inside somebody else's box...this is the kind of person who is so far off the radar, I don't even think there *is* a box. I mean, it's logical, but it's like...the kind of space case logic that keeps me from being able to accurately predict anything whatsoever. I'd like to think maybe I can boast a 50/50 rate on right-to-wrong prediction when it counts...maybe. On a good day. Yeah, that's not great, but it sounds about right.

So I decided, what the heck? I'll go with all the screwiest I can muster just to see what comes out in the wash. Let's start up the spin cycle!

Premiering this battle are two of Elektra's until now unseen team members, fugue and id...and maybe you'll see exactly why they don't get a lot of exposure. They're just too unpredictable and unreliable.

Noctowl has some pretty neat tricks waiting in the wings, but the odds of actually seeing those tricks at work varies from battle to battle...and this is one of maybe...twice that I've ever seen Sleep Talk choose a Psycho Shift that actually hit. It would've been thrice, but one of them missed.

I'll say on record that Banette is by far the least reliable on the whole team, because if used in the wrong situation...which is like...90% of all PBR random matches, because most opponents consist of "attack, attack, attack!" types who never use support moves anyway. So not only will he pay for his mistakes, he can even manage to torpedo the rest of his team in the process. Oh, and of course it's always the messenger that gets shot first, and Banette is pretty frail, so id will always be the first to suffer for a missed guess.

I'd like to point out, in case anybody's wondering or missed it...for some reason, the confusion check is skipped for Pursuit against a retreating opponent. I don't know why, but it is.

Maybe it's a glitch or an oversight in the game logic, but I've seen it before, because I once faced off with a Mismagius who used Swagger on the turn I used Trick and I was willing to take the gamble, but it turned out I didn't have to, so this time I knew that I could get away with it at no cost.

If I had to guess, it's because Pursuit suddenly jumps up in priority to go as fast as the trainer's actions, interrupting the switch...and since no other action of that priority has a confusion check, Pursuit doesn't suffer one either, even though it should.

As you can probably guess, that time with the Mismagius I did much more damage than I did to this Spiritomb, with all its base stats at a handsome 108 except for HP and Speed, as I've had occasion to share in the past...so it really was just about a freebie of minor damage while I waited to see who would pop out next.

I breathed a sigh of relief that I managed to find a good candidate for saddling the Choice Sash to, because Spiritomb is slow enough not to get much of a boost out of it and knowing who its trainer is and the fact that it can learn an absurd number and variety of non-attacking moves, it at least *ought* to have worked out for the better...probably. There I go trying to analyze the impenetrable logic of that which I've already determined doesn't operate on the same wavelengths I do.

Not that it actually mattered, but I think I should've tried to Trick off Bonk's Leftovers to remove them from play...but again, no opportunity to make a wrong move means no foul in my book.

In this part, you see Elektra project her fugue (Noctowl) and id (Banette). Pants throws on a pair of Bonk (Dunsparce) and 4A (Spiritomb) with a matching A1 (Linoone).

(Continued in Part 2.)

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