Brainstorm on a Stadium match.

[LC|Drake]

Hello everyone! Today I wanna share a funny and decent (not the best play) Stadium match that I had against a while ago against a friend. Unfortunately, the narration is in spanish, sorry about that! But I think you still can understand the flow of the battle. I'm the P2.

Seems that Substitute mechs are awesome in Stadium since most the "bugs" from RBY were "fixed". Now, HB is more situational and must be used wisely. Because of the recharging phase, your mon can be para'ed, asleep, double-attacked, crit'ed and ofc KO'ed. In other words, it's a high risk-reward move.

Some important points to denote:
1. T-wave on Chansey was a missclick, but it occurs often due to a possible lag. I mean, missclicks. (01:40)
2. My mate predicts very well my Zapdos switch-in and lands a Sleep Powder. I didn't want to gamble on Exe's full paras with SubRhydon. (03:30)
3. I explode my Exe on his Chansey, which I though later was a controversial/precipitated decision. I should have gambled on Chansey's parahax with Psychic. (04:35)
4. I didn't know the damage rolls so far like now, so I send out my own Chansey on his Tauros, which was the worse thing I could have done, taking a BS and then KO'ed by HB. Ofc, his bull got para'ed in exchange. (07:10)
5. High risk-reward momentum. Switch on Golem when Alaka gets parahax. (08:30)
6. I decide to gamble on Starmie's parahax. Bad move. (09:10)
7. The opponent's Tauros goes for BS instead of HB! I don't know what to say about that. Hoping for a para/crit? (11:20)
8. The most intense, tight and incredible point of the battle. Exe get's parahax twice when he was just about to Explode. (12:00)
9. A lot of random parahax.


Well, I hope I didnt ruin the fun typing all these things but I find them neccessary since the narration is in spanish. Wi-fi Stadium battles are a bit annoying to do, but they worth.

[Isa]

In order of appearance:

Sending in Zapdos early, when you know that he has Golem, is bad (unless you actually _want_ him to take the sleep which might not be all that bad given that he has Golem). Let's say that he uses Psychic instead - Zapdos takes a hit, Zapdos uses Drill Peck and Exeggutor switches out to Golem, so Golem takes 12% and Zapdos more than double that amount. Moreover you had nothing sleeping at the time, so Sleep Powder wasn't too farfetched. It was risky but it worked out for him.
Toxic is bad in RBY, don't use it. It reverts to normal poison after switching. You'd rather paralyze things. Rest on Zapdos is also uncommon but I suppose it can work out...but you lose out on TWave, and paralysis is a much better status than poison. You're not reststalling Golem either realistically.
I think the Rhydon/Golem trade is favorable for you as you need Golem removed for Zapdos to do work.
Booming on Chansey is fine. There's not a lot of good physical attacks in Stadium, so I support that.
Surf on Rhydon was not really needed. Body Slam was better, it'd kill but would not reveal Surf. Small point though.
Substitute on Starmie was an error. You absolutely need to Recover there to keep Zam alive and possibly without status. That being said, it was a 50/50 on Blizzard breaking the sub, so eh.
Switching in Chansey on Tauros Body Slam stings - don't do that unless you must. =p BSlam+HBeam KOs Chansey in 99.9% of the cases or something (assuming HBeam hits) - minimum damage from the total combo is 700.
Sending in Starmie on Zam looked very weird, but given what was remaining alive it was probably the best. Setting up Substitute on Starmie is again gambling, and the punishment from Golem comes.

Overall, a few mistakes, but nothing too bad. Zapdos had a weird moveset though.

Seismic Toss/Substitute Chansey is the real deal. Also, needs more Focus Energy Nidoking/Jolteon.