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PO Youtube Tournament Quarterfinals: DarkDiglett vs bigXxXDUB Recorded and Edited by Derwin aka SloshedMail / smbcha http://www.youtube.com/user/SloshedMail Narrated by Clifftongasium http://www.youtube.com/user/Clifftongasium
What's up guys, this is Clifftongasium and I am back and today I'm bringing you
a battle from the PO YouTube Tournament and this is a battle between DarkDiglett and bigXxXDUB.
DarkDiglett's team is a sun team featuring Ninetales, Vensaur, Darmanitan Chansey, Skarmory, and Latias
and bigXxXDUB's team, who I'm going to call bigDUB, and
his team is featuring Salamence, Skarmory, Reuniclus, Terrakion, Vaporeon and Sableye.
Obviously, this is from the YouTube Tournament so as you remember the way the YouTube Tournament worked;
everybody had a certain amount of points and you spent your points according to how
you wanted to build your team and the way the points for the Pokes were decided is on their usage stats
so we see this being the quarterfinals the big Pokes have been unlocked, the Pokes such as Skarmory and Venusaur and Ninetales,
Salamence, Terrakion, those top tier level Pokes that cost the most amount of points were available at this time
and these are how - this is how these two guys decided to spend their points and this is the battle that ensued.
so DarkDiglett is gonna lead off with his Darmanitan and bigDUB is gonna lead off with his Skarmory
now, DarkDiglett's just going to U-turn, he's not gonna play anything simple, doesn't want to
Flare Blitz here and then just get Brave Birded to death by this Skarm, doesn't want to risk anything
He will go and get his sun set up as quickly as possible because it will be nice to have this weather now
and be able to go into his Venusaur at any time and scare bigDUB off a little bit and he will sub on the switch, and get Toxic off
on this Vaporeon which is a very nice thing for the Ninetales this Toxic-substalling Ninetales Toxic'ing Vaporeon
which won't get the Hydration to get rid of its status, a good thing. Skarmory has set up one layer of Spikes and that Scald crits. I mean
obviously he fires these Scalds just to try and get a Scald burn just to get rid of the Skarmory's Sturdy. He sees this and goes into his Latias on
bigDUB's switch into his Sableye. Now, this isn't really a good situation here for
DarkDiglett cause he can't set up his Calm Minds so he will go into his Darmanitan and
he feels fairly confident here, though on the Taunt he can just go for Flare Blitz; nothing's really going to want to take two of these
bigDUB goes into the Vaporeon and the first one does 48% and that takes it down over half.
Why? Because of what we see the layer of Spikes and the Toxic from before. That means the second one will kill and the Vaporeon will go down
so that's first blood to DarkDiglett but now bigDUB's going to take this opportunity to go into Salamence and just Outrage
and get that Moxie boost, we see DarkDiglett maybe thought he could outspeed the Salamence or
I don't know, maybe he just wanted to sack Darmanitan but now the Salamence is locked into the Outrage on the Skarm switch
DarkDiglett knows the Skarm will live an Outrage and just Roost up anyway and
the third Outrage comes on the Skarm and he will just take the Roost again
and just get back his Sturdy because Salamence wouldn't be doing anything to Skarmory anyway
so why not go to a hundred percent and then take the opportunity to set up
a second layer of Spikes on the switch then on this double switch back into Salamence
he will manage to get his third layer of Spikes up, knows that Fire Blast is probably coming. He will switch out into his Chansey because
Chansey can take Fire Blasts for days... and the Chansey will take the opportunity just to set up another layer of
entry hazards being Stealth Rock on this Reuniclus switch.
but Reuniclus is a scary Poke for DarkDiglett because on his switch into the Latias
the Reuniclus will go for the Calm Mind and DarkDiglett is kind of fearing this here because Calm Mind in Reuniclus is
scary to his team because him building up Special Defense will kind of shut down the Venusaur and then
on the Latias' Calm Mind, Reuniclus goes for the Shadow Ball and pulls a Crit which does matter, that Crit,
but what can you really do? He sends in his Ninetales and goes for a sub
as the Psychic breaks the Substitute and then just goes for Flamethrower to sack the Ninetales
obviously being that Ninetales isn't that useful anymore and if he's gonna get rid of the Reuniclus, he's going to have to do it this way
the Psychic won't even do 40 percent to the Skarmory and Reuniclus will just be phazed out and he does phaze Reuniclus out into the
Terrakion which because of the entry hazards will take a very big chunk of damage but
he doesn't wanna stick around he's going to switch out into his Skarmory
on DarkDiglett's Skarmory's Roost back up to a hundred percent regaining his Sturdy again
and always looking good because his Skarmory outspeeds the other Skarmory as both Skarmories go for a Whirlwind
he Whirlwinds bigDUB back into his Salamence and feels pretty safe just going for a Roost
to see how much the Fire Blast would do and as bigDUB switches back out into Terrakion.
DarkDiglett will go for the Whirlwind and phaze it back out into Salamence and
is fairly confident that the Fire Blast obviously will take it down to its Sturdy and the Brave Bird almost kills, Skarmory will go down to
recoil though now the Venusaur has come in because of the Chlorophyll boost, the Venusaur will be quicker than the Salamence
and take it out with a Sludge Bomb... and now this Venusaur is pretty much free to sweep through bigDUB's team and bigDUB can call the
prediction right here it goes for Will-O-Wisp but DarkDiglett actually goes for the Growth
making this Venusaur even scarier and bigDUB kind of messed up there; if he'd have gone for Taunt on the first turn
instead of going for the Taunt on this turn... but now Venusaur wouldn't have been able to setup Growth and the Venusaur would
probably not been able to sweep through the rest of his team
it obviously has the potential now because it's got the times two Special Attack. The sun
is up, which means the HP fire that he's going to go for here is sun-boosted and the Solarbeam will only take one turn to charge.
Reuniclus comes in and will just go down to the Solarbeam
which now only leaves Terrakion, it won't outspeed the Venusaur, so the Venusaur will just be able to take it out with the SolarBeam
and that will be good game. DarkDiglett will go through the semifinals and bigDUB is out!
Obviously this tournament has already happened and finished, but this was the game for the quarterfinals.
DarkDiglett won this game but bigDUB did play well
if he'd have gone for the Taunt when that Venusaur came in instead of going for the Will-O-Wisp... then
it would've been a lot better for him just because Venusaur with no boosts isn't as good as Venusaur with times two Special Attack for
obvious reasons times two Special Attack being a lot better than no boosts. I mean that's obvious enough...
Anyway guys, I'm Clifftongasium. I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you next time.