Adherence Triple Header - LikeTehTubez, Pwnobi, GoldRules2 - Also, Recent Events
Channel: Coatay
Date: 2011-06-02

Get comfy, this is a LONG one and requires a TON of explanation.

I use a poor choice of words when I say Scott "Got himself into a bit of trouble". He didn't start the trouble, IMO anyways. So I'll add an annotation there later.

First battle: A really exciting one. It was a typical Adherence match, using some guys who I literally took from my box and shoved a Choice item on. He did the same. As a result, there isn't much to talk about here that I didn't mention in the vid. In the end, it came down to what move I picked at the very end. I seriously could not remember for the life of me what his 6th was. I knew I'd seen it, but I was busy talking to people because these matches aren't meant to be serious. I didn't calc it, but I think an Ice Beam would have killed the Pinsir. Oh well. A really close game, a ton of fun :D

Second match: This was the final version of the team I devised to play against Scott with. It's a lot different from the first team I played Tubez with, and only slightly different than the one I played Gold with. 

Once again, our teams are remarkably similar. I keep telling this guy to get out of my mind ;) He was a bit more intuitive, because though he never got to use it, his Gliscor had Fling. That was something I didn't even THINK of. That would allow him to get rid of his Choice item, and is a totally interesting spin on the whole mini-metagame of an Adherence match. Something I wish I thought of. That would give him a HUGE advantage. That Gliscor had Toxic, Protect, and Roost as the other 3 moves, so he could have nearly swept me with it, had I not had something faster and a x4 SE move in Glaceon. And Forretress. 

My Gengar was built kind of similarly, with Trick. I tried to bait out the Scizor he probably had (I honestly didn't know. Even if I baited the Ttar would have been sweet) and then trick it Specs instead of band. Crippling one of his physical sweepers while I still had Bliss for his special ones would have been worth the price of my Gengar. 

So my Gar is equal to his Gliscor, we both had Bliss and Forretress to heal/set up entries (Though we utilized different methods - him Wish and Toxic Spikes and I Softboiled and Stealth Rocks) and I think we had the same standard Scizor. His wild cards were Ttar and Tran, while I had Glaceon and Zam. I still haven't figured out how to predict Scott, even though he's battled me 1 000 000 times. I need to work out his mind so I can start beating him D:

Finally, Gold. This is one subject to controversy. I started off so well, pretty much going up 5-3 very early. I had Rocks up, everything was going my way. Then, the collapse. Here's a breakdown of nearly every weird play I made in the whole match.

I stayed in with Forry on his Pidgeot because I knew he wouldn't have Heat Wave. I thought probably banded, so I risked that.

I went to Forry on his Dragonair predicting him to Outrage predicting Blissey again. Didn't pan out.

I hadn't seen anything else when I used Ice Beam with Blissey, so why over predict? I could have TBolted, but if he had a Ground type, then I was in trouble.

Foddered Gengar on his Dragonair, cause this time I knew he'd outrage, and no physical wall.

I thought Scizor would KO Pidgeot, didn't calc because fun match. 

And after that, it was pretty much over. He made an EXCELLENT play switching out of the Zam standoff. I thought he would be scarfed, and I needed my Zam to beat his Ape, so I couldn't risk getting Shadow Balled. The best I could have gotten was a Speed tie at that point, so I went for it. I didn't want to have 0 chance if he stayed in and was scarfed. If I got my Bliss in for free against his Zam, I won. If he got his Ape against my Bliss (As he does), it comes down to a speed tie for the win. I went for the switch to guarantee at least a coin flip chance at the win, depending on what he did. He made the right play, and that's that. 

So I look like a total nub in all three of these matches. All came down to the wire and I couldn't deliver. IDGAF :D Trolololol

I post more losses than the average YouTuber (I'd say, anyways) but is it any big deal to lose when both guys are in it to have fun? Don't get me wrong, I tried my very best to win against these guys, but going 0-3 is not the end of the world. I win some, I lose some. I move on. 

One final thing I want to talk about. I tried to do this all in one take, just to prove to myself I could. My rambling on at the end isn't the best rambling ever heard, so if you're a trooper and are still reading this novel of a description, I'd like to explain a little. 

I'm sure you've all heard of the "Xerxes situation". Obviously it has nothing to do with me, but I think that puts me in a nearly unique spot, along with iamthetie. We're both buds with Scott, and both love Xerxes. That's why I feel like my interpretation of the situation is unbiased and perhaps the best. 

I can't fit everything here, so I'll leave the rest of my thoughts elsewhere.