Chansey vs my stupidity

[truedragons]

Not the best match I've played and some cringe worthy moments by me which leads to my chansey vs 4 other pokemon. Will Chansey be strong enough to overcome my earlier mistakes or will she fail like the rest of my pokemon?
pokemonshowdown.com/replay/gen1oubeta-41919590

PrimeRuler joined.
MissLemonade joined.
Format:
[Gen 1] OU (beta)
Rated battle
Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokemon
OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
Moody Clause: Moody is banned
Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
HP Percentage Mod: HP is reported as percentages
Battle between PrimeRuler and MissLemonade started!
Go! Exeggutor!
MissLemonade sent out Exeggutor!
Turn 1
Exeggutor, come back!
Go! Golem!
The foe's Exeggutor used Stun Spore!
Golem is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!
Turn 2
Golem, come back!
Go! Snorlax!
The foe's Exeggutor used Psychic!
Snorlax lost 29.6% of its health!
Snorlax's Special Defense fell!
Snorlax's Special Attack fell!
Turn 3
Xiba joined.
The foe's Exeggutor used Sleep Powder!
The foe's Exeggutor's attack missed!
Snorlax used Body Slam!
The foe's Exeggutor lost 29.0% of its health!
Turn 4
The foe's Exeggutor used Psychic!
Snorlax lost 46.5% of its health!
Snorlax used Body Slam!
The foe's Exeggutor lost 29.8% of its health!
Turn 5
Snorlax, come back!
Go! Starmie!
The foe's Exeggutor used Psychic!
It's not very effective... Starmie lost 18.9% of its health!
Turn 6
Starmie used Blizzard!
Starmie's attack missed!
The foe's Exeggutor used Explosion!
Starmie lost 81.1% of its health!
Starmie fainted!
The foe's Exeggutor fainted!
Go! Exeggutor!
MissLemonade sent out Snorlax!
Turn 7
Exeggutor used Sleep Powder!
Exeggutor's attack missed!
The foe's Snorlax used Body Slam!
Exeggutor lost 28.5% of its health!
Turn 8
MissLemonade withdrew Snorlax!
MissLemonade sent out Tauros!
Exeggutor used Sleep Powder!
The foe's Tauros fell asleep!
Turn 9
MissLemonade withdrew Tauros!
MissLemonade sent out Chansey!
Exeggutor used Psychic!
The foe's Chansey lost 17.9% of its health!
Turn 10
Exeggutor, come back!
Go! Chansey!
MissLemonade withdrew Chansey!
MissLemonade sent out Rhydon!
Turn 11
MissLemonade withdrew Rhydon!
MissLemonade sent out Snorlax!
Chansey used Ice Beam!
The foe's Snorlax lost 18.7% of its health!
Turn 12
Chansey used Thunder Wave!
The foe's Snorlax is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!
The foe's Snorlax used Body Slam!
Chansey lost 41.5% of its health!
Turn 13
Chansey, come back!
Go! Golem!
The foe's Snorlax is paralyzed! It can't move!
Turn 14
Golem is paralyzed! It can't move!
The foe's Snorlax used Surf!
It's super effective! Golem lost 91.2% of its health!
Turn 15
Golem, come back!
Go! Exeggutor!
The foe's Snorlax is paralyzed! It can't move!
Turn 16
Exeggutor used Psychic!
The foe's Snorlax lost 29.1% of its health!
The foe's Snorlax's Special Defense fell!
The foe's Snorlax's Special Attack fell!
The foe's Snorlax used Body Slam!
Exeggutor lost 28.0% of its health!
Exeggutor is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!
Turn 17
Exeggutor used Psychic!
The foe's Snorlax lost 44.0% of its health!
The foe's Snorlax's Special Defense fell!
The foe's Snorlax's Special Attack fell!
The foe's Snorlax used Hyper Beam!
Exeggutor lost 43.5% of its health!
Exeggutor fainted!
Go! Snorlax!
Turn 18
Snorlax used Earthquake!
The foe's Snorlax lost 8.2% of its health!
The foe's Snorlax fainted!
MissLemonade sent out Slowbro!
Turn 19
The foe's Slowbro used Amnesia!
The foe's Slowbro's Special Defense sharply rose!
The foe's Slowbro's Special Attack sharply rose!
Snorlax used Selfdestruct!
The foe's Slowbro lost 80.4% of its health!
Snorlax fainted!
Go! Tauros!
Turn 20
Tauros used Earthquake!
The foe's Slowbro lost 18.1% of its health!
The foe's Slowbro used Thunder Wave!
Tauros is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!
Turn 21
The foe's Slowbro used Rest!
The foe's Slowbro fell asleep!
The foe's Slowbro slept and became healthy!
Tauros used Body Slam!
The foe's Slowbro lost 23.7% of its health!
Turn 22
The foe's Slowbro is fast asleep.
Tauros used Body Slam!
The foe's Slowbro lost 21.9% of its health!
Turn 23
The foe's Slowbro is fast asleep.
The foe's Slowbro woke up!
Tauros is paralyzed! It can't move!
Turn 24
The foe's Slowbro used Amnesia!
The foe's Slowbro's Special Defense sharply rose!
The foe's Slowbro's Special Attack sharply rose!
Tauros used Body Slam!
The foe's Slowbro lost 22.6% of its health!
Turn 25
The foe's Slowbro used Rest!
The foe's Slowbro fell asleep!
The foe's Slowbro slept and became healthy!
Tauros used Hyper Beam!
The foe's Slowbro lost 42.5% of its health!
Turn 26
The foe's Slowbro is fast asleep.
Tauros is paralyzed! It can't move!
Turn 27
The foe's Slowbro is fast asleep.
The foe's Slowbro woke up!
Tauros used Body Slam!
The foe's Slowbro lost 23.4% of its health!
The foe's Slowbro is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!
Turn 28
MissLemonade withdrew Slowbro!
MissLemonade sent out Rhydon!
Tauros used Hyper Beam!
It's not very effective... The foe's Rhydon lost 17.4% of its health!
Turn 29
The foe's Rhydon used Substitute!
The foe's Rhydon put in a substitute!
The foe's Rhydon lost 24.9% of its health!
Tauros must recharge!
Turn 30
The foe's Rhydon used Earthquake!
Tauros lost 44.5% of its health!
Tauros used Earthquake!
It's super effective! The foe's Rhydon's substitute faded!
Turn 31
The foe's Rhydon used Earthquake!
A critical hit! Tauros lost 55.5% of its health!
Tauros fainted!
Go! Chansey!
Turn 32
Chansey used Ice Beam!
A critical hit! It's super effective! The foe's Rhydon lost 57.6% of its health!
The foe's Rhydon fainted!
MissLemonade sent out Chansey!
Turn 33
Chansey used Softboiled!
Chansey regained health!
The foe's Chansey used Ice Beam!
A critical hit! Chansey lost 22.0% of its health!
Turn 34
Chansey used Ice Beam!
The foe's Chansey lost 10.8% of its health!
The foe's Chansey was frozen solid!
The foe's Chansey is frozen solid!
Turn 35
MissLemonade withdrew Chansey!
MissLemonade sent out Slowbro!
Chansey used Softboiled!
Chansey regained health!
Turn 36
Chansey used Thunderbolt!
A critical hit! It's super effective! The foe's Slowbro lost 34.1% of its health!
The foe's Slowbro fainted!
MissLemonade sent out Tauros!
Turn 37
The foe's Tauros is fast asleep.
Chansey used Thunderbolt!
The foe's Tauros lost 27.8% of its health!
Turn 38
The foe's Tauros is fast asleep.
Chansey used Ice Beam!
The foe's Tauros lost 29.2% of its health!
Turn 39
The foe's Tauros is fast asleep.
Chansey used Ice Beam!
The foe's Tauros lost 26.3% of its health!
Turn 40
The foe's Tauros is fast asleep.
The foe's Tauros woke up!
Chansey used Ice Beam!
The foe's Tauros lost 16.7% of its health!
The foe's Tauros fainted!
PrimeRuler: lol
MissLemonade sent out Chansey!
Turn 41
Xiba: lol
MissLemonade forfeited.
PrimeRuler won the battle!
Ladder updating...
MissLemonade left.
PrimeRuler's rating: 1775 ? 1777
(+2 for winning)
MissLemonade's rating: 1521 ? 1512
(-9 for losing)
PrimeRuler: gg
Xiba left.

[magic9mushroom]

Not too often you see a Chansey sweep.

Anyone ever tried Defense Curl Chansey?

[Isa]

Garrin Red did. Uuuuuugh.

It was boring until I decided to play his game, and made him forfeit after outstalling him for 80 turns.

[jorgen]

Defense Curl Chansey is a possibility, the problem though is that Chansey really appreciates the quick boost to its Defense offered by Reflect. If you REALLY want to PP stall, though, it can work.

And now for commentary on the match:

As for the teams and leads, Egg lead is slow and loses to all other common leads (except Zam, but he looks to get slept anyway), so I don't like it. That being said it makes sense for Lemonade's team, but yeesh that's a serious lack of Speed there, dude.

I don't like Golem into Egg on Turn 1. I would have tried to take sleep with Starmie personally (and actually led with it). I mean, I guess Golem to take the sleep ain't all THAT bad if you want an active Starmie, but Golem is not an ideal sleep absorber. Sure, he can still tank Explosions and Zapdos while asleep, but you lose out on a lot of offense, you lose out on a possible Explosion, you're missing out on a switch-in to deter Snorlax from mindlessly Bslamming away, and you aren't all that likely to see him wake up in the late game. Going for Stun Spore instead of Sleep Powder also didn't make too much sense, but I suppose it worked out since he actually tried to absorb Sleep with something that couldn't tank Exeggutor's attacks.

Bringing in Lax for turns 2-5 only to let Egg hit it with Psychics and try to Sleep it was a poor play.

Leaving Egg in on that Blizzard turn 6 was a pretty dicey play, that could have killed! But, there was a chance it wouldn't (or that it would miss completely), so if the opponent wanted to bring Golem in THEN to eat a predicted Explosion, that would have made a good bit of sense.

Turns 7-8, why are Snorlax and Tauros the things he chooses to take the sleep?

Turn 15, that Golem is useless. Maybe Explosion bait down the line, but nothing more. I would have tried to either Explode or nail the Rhydon switch-in with EQ rather than switching to Egg, especially since Snorlax could just Bslam to KO Golem or hit that Egg hard.

After Lax was killed on Turn 18, I would've gone Rhydon. He has no more Egg and his Lax is easily in EQ KO range, so you can just go to town, whereas Slowbro can possibly be outsped and Exploded on. If anything, Slowbro should be baiting Snorlax's Selfdestruct so that Rhydon can come right in and eat it, because going straight to Rhydon would likely be met with Snorlax switching out and possibly causing your paralyzed mons trouble down the road.

Turn 20 is a complex situation. Briefly, Slowbro is KOed by Bslam but not EQ (unless crits of course), but Bslamming could be met by Rhydon (which could be crippled by paralysis anyway), which could then chain-switch to Chansey looking to eat a Blizzard, which would then paralyze either your Tauros or Chansey (you'd probably pick Chansey), both of which are bad news with a Rhydon raring to go and a Slowbro looking to Rest up and renew its sweeping chances. Even then, you'd have a healthy Tauros, so the game would be far from over, it would just continue to be complex, whereas a Slowbro that tries to sac itself and happily manages to para that Tauros gains clear control over the match. To sum it up, EQ from Tauros here isn't necessarily an awful play, but might have been overthinking things a bit, especially considering how the other player had played thus far.

Turn 25 Hyper Beam worked out for the player in the end since he FP'd the following turn anyway and got the para on the Bslam to follow, but he knew Bro was faster and about to Rest. Wasting turns with Hyper Beam recharge is something you must be extra-cautious to avoid in most situations, plus using Hyper Beam here kind of showed his hand a bit and made Rhydon into Hyper Beam on turn 28 a much easier switch to make. This could have been abused, mind you, but it also means trying to kill that Bro once it does eat a crit or paralysis that much more difficult.

That Chansey was pretty lucky in winning the Freeze war so quickly. Then again, if I were the opponent I would not have allowed Rhydon to be KOed by that IB (not a guaranteed KO, but then again EQ only has a slim chance of KOing that Chansey in return), and instead would have gone to my own Chansey right there to go for paralysis because the odds would probably be in my favor after that: a freeze war is a 50/50 whereas I have three things waiting in the wings that could abuse paralysis to get in position to KO Chansey, and following that KOing Golem would be trivial.

[Dre]

I have to agree that eggy isn't really a good lead. Slow sleepers who aren't good sleep absorbers don't really offer much, because they either take sleep when theyre not good sleep absorbers, switch out without achieving anything, or sleep the dedicated sleep absorber on the opposing team.

Rocks are even worse sleep absorbers. Unless you get caught be a surprise sing from chansey or lapras or something, you always have control over who takes sleep on your team. If you're going to let your rock take sleep, you might as well run gengar, who functions similarly whilst asleep, but is better at is. Really though, you shouldnt be letting a rock take sleep or running gengar at all. You should be letting either zam starmie or jynx take it (maybe hypno too, but it's never used).