“Ok, come on in, I’ll battle you.” Then he adds,
“It won’t take long though, cause I’m really gonna kick your ass.”
I try to act as Newbish as possible, all the while downplyaing my ability.
“Just try not to embarrass me, ok?” I tell him. He laughs cause he thinks I’m serious.
I ask him his name while he picks his team out. He says it’s Brandon. I told him that “I think I’ve heard of him before.”
“You’re thinking of the other Brandon.” He tells me.
So I pick my three guys. After I notice he’s trying to peak at which guys I pick (what a loser). I do it while the controller is nestled under my belly while I’m doubled over, and wait for him to pick his first (Which takes like an entire minute). I notice that neither Cron, Grep, or Sed are in the six pokémon he shows me. Trouble?
I lead with my Electrode (duh) and he sends out, who else, than Benedict-- MewtwoSama’s Exeggutor! I smile and tell Brandon that I know the guy who gave the Reps Benedict. He looks confused and says “Wha?” I don’t try to take the conversation any further and start to battle. Here is a Move by Move (very accurate) of the entire battle.

1.Electrode uses T-Wave First
1.Benedict uses Toxic

2.Electrode uses Screech
2.Benedict is Fully Paralyzed

3. Snorlax comes in for Electrode
3.Benedict (pz) Leech Seeds Snorlax

4. Snorlax (seeded) uses Double Team
4. Benedict (pz) uses Toxic (misses)

5.Snorlax (seeded) uses Double Team
5.Benedict (pz) uses Toxic (misses)

6.Snorlax (seeded) uses Double Team
6.Benedict uses Toxic (misses)

7.Snorlax (seeded) uses Amnesia
7.Benedict (pz) is fully paralyzed

8.Snorlax (seeded) uses Amnesia
8.Benedict uses Toxic (it hits)

After he plants the toxic/leech seed combo on me, he says “About time.” and leans back in his chair contented, obviously believing that I know nothing about the toxic/leech seed combo. All the while I am staring behind me, and chatting with a gym leader to the left of me who is playing the Lickitung mini-game. I’m doing my best to look rather bored. Actually I was just extremely comfortable.

9.Snorlax (toxic/seeded) used Rest
Up until then I had not displayed the movestes for Snorlax (I had
memorized their respective buttons the week before)
9. Gym Leader Brandon’s jaw drops open. Exeggutor (Pz) uses Mega Drain (30 damage). Gym Leader Brandon sits up straight in his chair.

Did he really think that my Snorlax wouldn’t have rest??? Did he really think that there is such a thing as a Sorlax WITHOUT REST??? Did He really think that I had NO IDEA what Toxic/Leech seed was? Or how to nullify it?

10. Snorlax is sleeping (seeded)
10. Benedict uses Mega Drain (-40 damage)

11.Snorlax woke up (seeded)
11. Benedict uses mega drain (misses)

12. Snorlax (seeded) uses Double-Edge (340 damage-- Electrode had
screeched Benedict)
12.Benedict used Mega Drain (40 damage)

13.Snolax Double Edge’s Benedict to death
13.Benedict dies horribly agonizing/embarrassing death

Right at this point, a very cool thing happened. Another master trainer came over (he had a Jamacian accent) and pats Brandon on the shoulder. He asks,
“So, you kicking this guy’s ass?” Brandon doesn’t say anything. Then the Jamacian guy looks at the screen and says: “Hey, he is beating you.” Brandon doesn’t say anything. THe Jamacian guy asks “Is he good?” Brandon nods his head very slightly. I just sit there and act bored, all the while getting very excited.
Brandon sends out MEW.
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14.Mew used Double Team
14.Snorlax (seeded) used Amnesia

15.Mew Used Double Team
15.Snorlax (seeded) used Amnesia

16.Mew Used Double-team
16.Snorlax (seeded) Used Rest (had to heal)

17.Mew Used Double-Team
17.Snorlax is sleeping (seeded)

18.Mew Used Sword’s Dance
18.Snorlax woke up (seeded)

19.Mew Used Sword’s Dance
19.Snorlax used Double-Edge (about 1/3 Damage) (seeded)

20.Mew Used Sword’s Dance
20.Snorlax used Double-edge (miss) (seeded)

21.Mew Used Swift
21.Snorlax used Double-Edge (Mew has 40% health)

22.Mew Used Softboiled
22.Snorlax used Rest (seeded)

23.Mew Used Swift
23.Snorlax is sleeping

24.Mew Used Swift
24.Snorlax woke up

25.Mew Used Swift
25.Snorlax died a honorable and time consuming death.

I had basically known that Mew would Kill Snorlax easily once I saw that he had swift + Sword’s Dance + Double Team (the same moveset I had on the MEW that I picked). I tried to string it out as long as I could though. Snorlax was on stage for quite a while. If only I had put reflect on him instead of Amnesia...
At this point Brandon begins to act more confident and tells the Jamacian guy (who seemed cool) “Now We’re even.” Brandon says. I continue to act bored and distracted by the seemingly unending Lickitung mini-game being played to the left of me.
Reid (10,000Lb.Snorlax) sends out Mew
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26.My Mew (faster) used swift.... (Does 40 damage) What?? I memorized all of the respective buttons for the moves on my pokémon before I came here... Swift was not that button...
26.MEW used Swift (does 40% damage)

27.MEW Used Sword’s Dance
27.Mew Used Swift (Does 40% damage)

28.MEW used Soft-Boiled
28.Mew used swift

29.MEW used Soft-Boiled
29.Mew used swift

30.MEW used Soft-Boiled
30.Mew used swift

31.Mew used Soft-boiled
31.Mew used swift

32.Mew used Soft-boiled
32.Brandon sent out Mewtwo

Bradon had become bored with me healing his swifts off. So he decided to Switch to Mewtwo. Brandon needed to learn, that when you have the upper hand in a battle, you shouldn’t retreat. Unfortunately for him, I had to teach him the hard way.
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33. Myuutsu used toxic
First off, who the hell would put toxic on a Mewtwo? Just wait for the other moves he had...
33. I have two MEWs. When I picked my team, I had wanted to pick my mew with Sword’s Dance, Swift, Double-Team, and Rest. Unbeknownst to me, however, at the beginning of the match I had picked my Mew with Earthquake, Swift, Soft-boiled, and Sword’s Dance. It was a devine mistake. This is the point of the match where I figure out I was using the “wrong” Mew. But I really wasn’t.

Mew Used Earthquake (Does 30% damage) (toxic)

34.Electrode (psn) comes in for Mew
34.Myuutsu uses Recover

35.Electrode (psn) uses T-wave
35.Myutsuu is fully paralyzed
I now see the little window on the screen that shows that Brandon is switching pokémon. I know that Mew is coming in on the next turn. He really should have learned to memorize the positions of his pokémon, so his opponents could not see him switching.

36.Mew came out
36.Electrode hits Mew with a screech

37.Electrode Explodes in a blaze of glory
37.Mew dies a premature and silly death. If only the hand of a seasoned trainer could have guided him... poor Mew. T’wuzn’t his fault.

Now Brandon isn’t very confident. In fact he looks pretty nervous. I pretend not to notice and glance behind me at the audience which is collected to watch our battle. I realize that it has been going on a While. And I know who was chosen by the gods to reign victorious.
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38.Brandon sends out Paralyzed Myuutsu
38.Reid Sends out poisoned Mew

39.MEW (psn) used Double Team
39.Myuutsu used Psychic (lowered special)

40.MEW (psn) used Double Team
40.Myuutsu used Psychic (critical hit)

41.MEW (psn) Used Double Team
41.Myuutsu used Psychic (miss)

42.MEW (psn) used Sword’s Dance
42.Myuutsu used Psychic (lowered special)

43.MEW (psn) used Soft-Boiled
43.Myuutsu is fully Paralyzed

44.MEW (psn)used Sword’s Dance
44.Myuutsu used Psychic (miss)

45.MEW (psn) used Earthquake
45.Mewtwo used Tri-Attack (does miniscule damage)

“EXCUSE ME? TRI ATTACK? YOU”VE ALREADY LOWERED MY SPECIAL TWICE, YOU MORON.” But of course, I just acted bored and unamused. Brandon started saying things like “It’s over. You just gotta attack me now... Comon.. Attack me now.” He had basically given up. If he had just kept using Psychic (or how about recover?), he might have won. I never even thought of asking what the hell Tri-Attack was doing on his Mewtwo. (I guess anti-Chansey along with toxic).

46.MEW (psn) used Earthquake
46.Myuutsu used Tri-Attack

47. MEW (psn) Used Earthquake
47.Myuutsu fell helplessly down a cavernous fissure into the Earth’s molten hot “magma” core, and died.
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48. 10,000Lb.Snorlax Yawns, rubs his belly like a 10,000Lb. Snorlax, and shakes hands with Brandon
48.Brandon uses Teleport, and disappears from sight very quickly

After that, I showed the other (cooler) gym leaders (Nigil + others) a printed out Gym leader planner (the one I posted for you guys to look at). They were thouroughly impressed. I explained it all to them. They told me that they never use Cron, Grep and Sed anymore. I gave Nigil a copy to keep. They asked me if I played pokémon very much (sarcastically) and I said: “Yeah. I kind of wish I never started though. I would have sooo much of my life back.....!” The laughed at that because they could deffinately relate. They asked if I had a girlfriend and I told them I did and then they said “Well, then that means you ARN”T a real dork.” I guess they are right. That made me feel a little beter about the 400 hours of my life which I have spent doing pokémon related things. They asked “Do you tell people you play pokémon?” And I said “I try to keep it to myself.” “Well you just came out of the closet.” We all laughed at that.
After I left the Stadium arena, A group of guys came up to me and started talking to me. These were guys who understood a lot about the game but didn't know anything when it came to box tricking/ Stat experience/Max Stats etc. The were recommending I take a look at some of there offical stratedgy guides. These are trainers in need of guidance. So, of course I gave out Azure’s address and my E-mail address. They should be here soon. BTW- One of these guys, Biff, beat the other ass-hole Gym Leader, with Un-box tricked/ Pokémon. I was verry impressed. That was after he beat my ass decisively on a 3 on 3. These guys are not Newbies, and have gone as far as you can go without learning about all of the advanced stuff. SO when they get here, give them some respect.

All in all Brandon’s Stratedgy was I’ll conceived. Toxic on two pokémon? He must have known I’d be switching out at least once! Tri-Attack? His tactics also sucked. If he had just used Psychic at the end he could have won. Or even recover. He didn’t understand the whole Special lowering thing, I don’t think. And he was wayyyy to Cocky. It wasn’t even confidance really, it was more like he was to much of a Jerk for his own good. My Gods don’t like Hubris.
So That’s that. Thanks for reading.

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If I had a Snorlax, I'd use him as a Bed

Always love to hear about the reps getting beat!

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No, no no...I did NOT juat see a pink elephant..

Hey yall its me, square!

Good Job 10K, Snorlax rocks! And it always kicks butt to know that we've been kick'n rep bootie.

Its nice to know they still use my Benedict.
I'm assuming yo faced big Brandon. He always does weird stuff with his Poke. I remember he once put Egg Bomb on Benedict.

But now he put Toxic and TriAttack on Dread's Mewtwo...how weird.
Definately an anti-Chansey manuever.

Plus the Swift Mew...
I might be the first person to have used it on them (or maybe it was Simyn). They were HyperMew junkies when I faced them.

Funny, when they get beat by strategy, they copy what beat them. No wonder why the West Coast trainers are chumps...

Anyway, good job 10k Snorlax!
Too bad they dont give out hats anymore.

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MewtwoSama
A viscous,Psychic Pokemon that was created by a scientist after years of horrific gene splicing and DNA engineering experiments. It's DNA is almost the same as MEW's. However, it's size and disposition are vastly different. It's cold, glowing eyes strike fear into it's enemies.

Vaporeon- Everyone else I saw who fought the gym leaders had very weak teams, so saying that your friend didn't lose to any of them doesn't really impress me. Nigil was a nice guy, but he kinda sucked in battle. I watched him battle in the poké, and he lost to some weak teams. If you want to fly to Boston I'd love to teach you how to play pokémon! Or I can give you personalized tutoring through e-mail. Which ever you prefer.

Junior trainers are cute!

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~Slick has spoken~

P.s.- Ha! Ha! Ha!

I kinda find that story hard to swallow anyway.
Details of any kind would give it a shred of credibility. It sounds wannabe the way it was written.

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MewtwoSama
A viscous,Psychic Pokemon that was created by a scientist after years of horrific gene splicing and DNA engineering experiments. It's DNA is almost the same as MEW's. However, it's size and disposition are vastly different. It's cold, glowing eyes strike fear into it's enemies.

...anyway, at least 10K's story didn't make me queasy...

Coming here and bragging will only get you flamed.

But let it be known, a major weakness of the reps is that they ARE WAY to cocky, and not humble enough. That's alot of the reason why they lose to us. NEVER, underestimate your opponent. Huzzah.

I know how exciting it can be to win a match and 10K was just trying to share with us. Fishboy told his story with the intent to show that he was better than someone else...skills or no, that's hardly a way to make friends or get taken seriously.

P.S. Ignore everything TeeJay says. He is drunk or something, and he is the only one of us that actually uses Player's Guides to win matches. And that crap he told you about beating us all? He uses his gay Mewtwo match after match, lands like, 4 lucky freezes, and then thinks he's all good. Pity.

(Yo Sama!)

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Originally posted by Fish151PKMN:
Yes, I am some sort of moron. I have absolutley no clue what was going on here, and I have made a FANTASTIC name for myself.

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Well, there's always time to make up for a bad first impression...

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I was just sticking up for Vaporeon, no matter how new he, or I am, because good old 10k was ripping on him backstage, and I wasn't abput to watch. I have the utmost respect for most guys here now, but I still have my doubts about 10k.

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Well, from what I saw, he said...

"These guys are not Newbies, and have gone as far as you can go without learning about all of the advanced stuff. SO when they get here, give them some respect."

...doesn't sound so bad to me...

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Originally posted by Fish151PKMN:
Thank you, Mr K, if you meant what I thought you meant.

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I think I meant what I think you think I meant...so, you're welcome.

I understand defending yourself if you feel like you've been attacked, but I don't think anyone here meant to offend...so how 'bout we just all write this off as a misunderstanding and move on?

At least we're all in agreement that many of the Nintendo reps are cocky pricks who know less about the game than we do...

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Originally posted by Biffster:
hey its biff from the midwest tour
I'm so glad that i talked with 10k after his heroic battle. I talked to him because i saw that he had the same moves that i did on my mew.
Fighting Brandon was so tight.
I dont remember every exact moves i did like 10k. I didnt know that there were other people who disliked mewtwos as much as me. I never thought of not using one unitl that day. The highlight of that battle w/ brandon is the look on his face when my mewtwo used thunderbolt on his toby-bro.
This site rules!

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"Probability can be a real b!tch."
-Mr. K

P.S. Despite what is says below, my Pokemon do not hate any of you, they have just been having a bad day because they keep getting cut from my lineup.

Congrats, 10k. I'm actually sorry you didn't get to go against cron, grep, and sed. What did they say was the reason for ditching them? What do they use now?

I fully agree that arrogance kills in battle. All it takes is one wrong move (switching at the wrong time, for instance, is big...)

Good match.

-cfalcon

They didn't tell me why they stopped using Grep et al, but it was inferred that they had gotten kind of sick of using the same guys for every battle. I really would have worked Grep though....
They use TobyBro all the time it seems... and I saw a lot of Exeggutors. No Starmies. One Jolteon.... and Mew just about every battle (His stats sucked though... 373 hps!) I think they they decided to get a little creative with their teams (a sure fire sign of arrogance). I think Grep Cron and Sed could win most of the battles for them, if they used them. Oh Well..
It's sad for me to know that the majority of the guys on this board could do a better job of winning than the Nintendo Reps (and they get paid $800 a weekend!).

I'm actually thinking of writing a letter to nintendo describing the Reps last weekend. A Woman who was working with the reps said they were ignoring kids who were supposed to battle them, and being rude and inconsiterate to people who asked for battles. Not to mention egotistical. How do they get hired?? It's just a job to them.

I thought that was the case. The ones I saw on east coast were competent, and played to win whenever they thought they had a challenge (I saw them pick weak monsters like an Articuno with silly moves and use them sometimes... against this one kid the rep used AGILITY three times, probably because he knew he would win and wanted to give the kid a shot without dying right away).

My girlfriend thinks that one of the reps actually gave her a round before finishing her (the one time she bothered with Pika cup she got picked. She had no Pika cup monsters, however (well, she had a L20 Mew, which they let them use up until the Stadium battle), and so didn't think she had a shot).

Who knows? They view it as a job. Maybe they lose on purpose whenever they see someone trying very hard and able to put up a fight (I'll probably get slammed for that statement universally, as it implies that some of the reps aren't actually playing to win, but actually playing the players, but think about it- no AI in a Nintendo game has EVER played to win, it has always tried to give a fight. If I were Bowser, I wouldn't put that Axe there.... Wart has a vegetable machine in his house. That would be the equivalent of Dracula keeping a 5 MWatt UV lamp inches away from his coffin, with no justification.)

But the guy you got was certainly arrogant and silly... deserved to lose.

-cfalcon

I really think they should make those guys study up...just so kids (and Snorlaxen) who really want a challenge get what they bargained for...

...when I lost for the 4th or 5th time in my first mall tourney, the Nintendo guy tried to give me a Cascade badge.

I told him I might as well pick one up off the floor if he's just gonna hand it to me. I told him I wasn't a loser like Ash, and I wanted to fight to win my badges and all the kids around me started chiming in "Yeah, he's not a loser!". It was gratifying to be with a buncha kids who were really in the spirit of things, and I think it really surprised the Nintendo guy.

It might be just a job to him, but he must have forgotten that for some of us, it's a great big deal when the Pokemon League comes to town!

As for the cute chicks who worked the events, they knew nothing about Pokemon, other than maybe what Pikachu's name was. They might as well have been parents.

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Being frozen solid is going to make this a one-sided fight.

I are?

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"Oh wait, NO wait, you're kidding. He didn't just say what I think he did. Did he?"
-Eminem

"Pika Pika chu, pika, pi pi pi-kchu, CHU, pik-a-chu."
-Pikachu

case closed.
brandon

Too bad in my Master Trainer fight, I chose my Gengar over Exeggutor at the start. I had expected them to use Hyper Beaming Mew, but they didn't. I had loads of fun taking down their Jolteon and Starmie without even getting HIT (except by Toxic, but it only managed to do 1/16 damage to two of my members, since I switched when they switched).

At least on the East Coast tour, there was one other way to get to battle Master Trainers: sing a Pokémon-related song. It felt dumb singing the anime's Season 2 theme song, but it was pretty much worth it.

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Originally posted by Apophis:
sometimes we get assraped by someone who is better than us.

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LOL, did it hurt.

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Originally posted by Apophis:
case closed

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Agreed. You are probably better than me. This shows how the t-bolt/ice beam/amnesia/recover M2 is cheater. You dont have to be good to win with this thing.

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Like fat woman in G-strings with orange hair
(Mr. Shady what's a G-string?) It's yarn Claire
Women stick 'em up their behinds, go out and wear 'em"

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"And sometimes you see things that aren't there (Like what?)
Like fat woman in G-strings with orange hair
(Mr. Shady what's a G-string?) It's yarn Claire
Women stick 'em up their behinds, go out and wear 'em"

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Seriously, abz1986, we've been trying to contact you like crazy. I signed your website's guestbook, and posted topics called "[ATTN] abz1986" twice. E-mail me, or get ICQ, AIM, Odigo, or something.