DS Battle 180 / James [UU] vs. Luna874 & TheDarkBlitz720 / Ending the Curse
Channel: Antar1011
Date: 19/02/2013

This used to be an extremely winning team--before my ill-fated battle with TehWilechase (see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbAXfq503xY ), this team's Gen V record was 15-2 (most of my teams end up with slightly under a 2:1 W-L ratio).

But then I lost four of my next five battles. So what happened? Well, I like to joke that it's the curse of Mew--before those battles I ran Uxie on this team, but with access to Roost, higher speed and SpA, I figured Mew would be better in the role of Stealth Rocker/Cleric (and who doesn't love a Cleric who runs Synchronize?).

So was Mew really destroying my team? Probably not. Probably what did it was that the metagame changes, as metagames are wont to do, and after a year and a half, this team just couldn't keep up. When you're in that kind of situation, you have two options: adapt or die. I tried and I tried and I tried to come up with ways to fix this team (Banded Arcanine is clearly my main problem, but there are tons more), and eventually I decided to give up. I'm liking where my other UU team is at now, and so my "spring cleaning" binge provided a good opportunity to see this team off in style.

Many thanks to my opponents, Luna874 and TheDarkBlitz720. Channel links are below.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Luna874
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDarkBlitz720

The music for the first battle was "Are You A Hypnotist?!?" by the Flaming Lips off their album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Download it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00122MXIM. For part two, the music is an except from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "Pathetique." You can dowload it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BG2MZS

The custom backsprite used in this battle was done by deviantart's Bonsly209: http://bonsly209.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-Ash-Back-Sprite-Frames-261438290