Live commentary of a Pokémon Showdown Rated UU battle. The narrator leads with Bronzong to set Stealth Rocks, navigates switches and predictions through paralysis and Toxic damage, and closes out a tight match against Xatu and Arcanine with crucial moves like Hydro Pump under Trick Room.
How's it going guys? This is a Rated UU battle on Pokémon Showdown and I lead with my Bronzong. I didn't switch because I am Heatproof so I'm not worried about the Fire-type move but he didn't even use Fire-type, he used Wild Charge so it worked out in my favor. I got a free layer of Stealth Rocks and I tried to Earthquake his Arcane but he brought in his Bronzong and he's immune to it so that means he is Levitate, not Heatproof, which means I'm gonna bring in my Chandelier and try to Flare Blitz him, but he does switch out into his Raikou, and his Raikou does get Para Hex on the Thunderbolt he uses, as you're about to see. He paralyzes me, which kinda sucks 'cause now I can't get the Will-O-Wisp on him, and because I don't get a Will-O-Wisp, which drops his damage by a little bit, I don't live the second Thunderbolt, so my Chandelier did absolutely nothing this game. Because of stupid para hacks, but oh well. I think Thunder only has like a 30% chance to paralyze, something like that. But I tried to Earthquake his Raikou and he switched into his Bronzong. Half his team is immune to Earthquake, so I need to stop using it. And he reveals Gyro Ball, which is pretty good because I know his Bronzong has Toxic. That's pretty much standard. And then he has Gyro Ball, so his Bronzong can't really hurt mine. And I switch into my Blastoise just 'cause I know he can take a Gyro Ball easily and proceed to Hydro Pump. So he sets up the Stealth Rocks, which in a way doesn't really make sense 'cause Blastoise is obviously my spinner, and now he finally uses Toxic, which reveals that he had it 'cause I was beginning to wonder if he actually did have Toxic. And so I switch into my X2 'cause it's pretty obvious he's gonna set up a layer of Stealth Rocks. I have Magic Bounce, so it throws them right back at him, and I pretty much won that situation. So he brings out his Raikou, and he's gonna predict me to switch and give my Wish to someone else, and I'm actually gonna Psychic and kill his Substitute. And that was kind of a risky play 'cause if he didn't Sub and used Thunderbolt, he would've easily killed me, but I ended up winning that play. And now I go into my Hariyama to take the obvious Thunderbolt and yep, so I'm gonna try to Fake Out but he switches Pokémon. That was pretty obvious. He's just trying to get the Toxic damage to rack up on me. So I use Fake Out and now I'm predicting him to switch into something else so I go for the Ice Punch and lucky enough he goes into his Crobat which Ice Punch is super effective against. So, that worked out in my favor. That was a little bit of a luck on my part, but oh well. So now Toxic damage is starting to rack up really high, so I have to get Hariyama out of there. And I go into my Blastoise 'cause to be honest, I don't want anything to get burned from the Scald. So I go into Blastoise 'cause he already has Toxic. He can't really get burned and he can absorb the Scald like it's nothing. So I go for the Dragon Tail. And I pull out his Arcane— Arcanine, and I kinda wanted to pull out his Milotic, but oh well, you know, it happens. So I had to switch out, and I bring out my Hariyama, and basically it's death fodder 'cause he wasn't really gonna do anything else this game. So now in comes my Heracross, and I'm just gonna proceed to Close Combat the crap out of his team. And so I start off by Close Combating his Bronzong. I got a crit, but that does not matter. 'cause I would have outsped him next turn and gone first, so I would have easily killed him. Now, I did not know this, but his Flygon is faster than me, and I'm a Choice Scarfed Speed EV Heracross, so it was pretty weird that he used U-Turn. He could have used Stone Edge and easily killed my Heracross, but I guess he was predicting a switch or something like that. So this Milotic is gonna be an easy 2-hit KO from my Heracross. And he brings his Flygon back out, and as I know from last time he was in here, he moved first, but I don't really have anything that can take a Stone Edge, so I had to sack my Heracross and go into my Blastoise. So he switches out to his Raikou, and I used Hydro Pump, but it misses, and as you'll see later on, that kinda did affect the way the game plays, so Anyways, I can't take a Thunderbolt, so I have to switch out to my Bronzong, and he sets up a Sub, so it was pretty much a safe switch in. And I know my Bronzong's bulky as could be, so he can take a hit. And he's trying to set up. Uh, I don't know why. He should have just been attacking, but oh well. So he Thunderbolts. I know I can live one. He gets the para hax, but that does not affect me. And I'm kinda happy because if I would have got paralyzed there, I would have been really mad. And so anyways, Earthquake does not kill him, which is kinda saddening, but if that Hydro Pump earlier would have hit his Raikou, it would be dead right now. But anyways, I bring out my Blastoise. I know I'm gonna go first because of Trick Room, so I get an easy Hydro Pump on him and he's dead. So it's basically 2 on 2. We both have 2 Pokémon left. He brings out his Flygon. I know Hydro Pump's not gonna one-hit KO him, but he does Outrage, and I do manage to live it with 4% health, and that is crazy. So I managed to get off another Hydro Pump without it missing, and then Toxic kills me. So we both have one Pokémon left. He has his Arcane, which after entry hazards is gonna be pretty low on health, and my full health Xatu. And I didn't know which Pokémon was faster, but obviously his Arcane was faster, and he gets the Wild Charge crit on me and lives with 6 health. But it was a good battle. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe.
