Saturday, July 19, 2008

i am imbued with a ridiculous amount of luck.innate serene grace for the win!

what makes me say this? its the insane amount of critical hits, freezes from ice punch, paralysis from thunderbolt, flinches from rock slide ive been enjoying. seriously, i could safely say my luck is at least 5x better than the average pokemon battler.

examples:

i am a gengar facing a metagross, which i need 2 thunderbolts to kill. metagross has agility, and after it uses that it will outspeed and kill me in one hit. i thunderbolt and he uses agility, but my thunderbolt paralyses cutting his speed to 25%. he dies to the next thunderbolt.

i am a jirachi facing a gengar, who has destiny bond. the gengar is at roughly half health and will surely die to psychic but not thunderbolt. what happens? he destiny bonds, and i thunderbolt and leave him at 2%hp. at this point the sandstorm in effect promptly kills him and my jirachi lives.

i am a regice facing huang pei's snorlax. i ice beam it and freeze it. and it stays frozen for 6 turns, allowing my zapdos to get 5 thunderbolts on it while it does nothing, turning a confirmed loss into a win.

and the ultimate one:
my last pokemon is aerodactyl and he has 4 pokemon left, a half-health weezing and a fresh heracross+blissey+magneton. in such circumstances im lucky if i can even kill one of his pokemon before i lose, but luck comes to the rescue in the most spectacular fashion ive ever seen:

turn 1: aerodactyl used rock slide! a critical hit! (52% dmg) weezing fainted!
heracross replaces weezing
turn 2: aerodactyl used rock slide! (80% dmg) heracross flinched!
salac berry increases heracross's speed
turn 3: heracross used reversal! (80% dmg)
aerodactyl used rock slide! (20% dmg) heracross fainted!
blissey replaces heracross
turn 4: aerodactyl used rock slide! a critical hit! (90% dmg) blissey flinched!
turn 5: aerodactyl used rock slide! (10% dmg) blissey fainted!
magneton replaces blissey
turn 6: aerodactyl used rock slide! (36% dmg) magneton flinched!

at this point my luck ran out and i died to thunderbolt. but seriously, to turn a landslide loss into a almost win is imba

if one goes to las vegas with the kind of luck i have, he will never need to do another day of work in his life O_O

- sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)