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Share your battle replays (or battle codes from the cartridge games) on this thread! Make sure you follow the guidelines below or your post will be removed.

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Due to Showdown suffering data loss, most replays from the previous thread are now lost. We're starting a new thread in light of this. https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/3732031
The data loss made me lose a replay of a battle I had against temp6t. I'm never recovering :'(

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I have a lot of decently interesting replays, so I'll be bolding the ones I think are most interesting.
Gen 9 NatDex
PRE TERA BAN
OG ZARD-Y TEAM
Just Watch to Find Out:
Low ladder is something else

ZARD-Y TEAM
Wins:
At least MDiance gave info on Great Tusk item
Hatterene is so good midgame + opponent overpredicted too much
This one might not be that good, but screwed up Iron Crown sweep & still won cause I was so lucky
Was at the edge of my seat, Iron Crown Double Dance clutched so hard (also Chinese player encounter)
"They definitely U-Turn turn 1", that Psychic Terrain at the end scared me for a second
Made some terrible decisions midgame, at the end their wincon almost pulled through (contains one abbreviated swear word at the end)
"oh shield dust"
The important part about HO is knowing when your sweepers can win the game & common counterplay antics
Stall might be a trash matchup especially due to Sinistcha and Dondozo but its still hella predictable :)
Yeah Gouging Fire's getting banned; the Tera reads are getting out of hand
You love to see an opponent who's not salty about bad luck

Losses:
Worst early game of my life + misplayed my sweeping mons bc of Taunt and Encore
"hell nah" (if bleakwind didnt drop speed i might have had a chance)
Focus...Miss? Played very risky, especially against Aegi since I didnt have a lot of experience against it.
Opponent played really well
I miss Gouging Fire's Electric Resist, played first few turns decently well but screwed up lategame (and I need a Ground so badly)

HARD TRICK ROOM TEAM
Wins:
Never slow play against Trick Room, or they might just ball outside of the room
Air Balloon Stakataka can run away with endgames so easily
I might be +Atk Stakataka but the HP invest is still insane
"ggs...or not" very innovative Trick Room team from my opponent
Fighting Trick Room without Trick Room then winning against Trick Room with Trick Room
Never despair, Healing Wish is here!

Losses:
This is the origin of salt
Played aggro and got cooked, in the end I really needed Stak to set Trick Room but kinda misplayed (Stak cannot have swept bc of Pelipper)
I don't even know what to say
Legit I definitely could have won if AloMarowak didn't troll

RILLA GOUGING TEAM
Losses:
Trick Room Zard-Y is incredible...might take that for myself (also I could have won if not for the flinch)
An Iron Crown sweep is so dependant on if the opponent gets lucky or not
Quad pivot move is actually a good strat if I actually set up Rocks with Lando, although the Toxic miss was unfortunate

AURORA VEIL HO TEAM
Losses:
It is what it is (Opponent swore in game)

DUAL WEATHER AURORA VEIL HO TEAM
Losses:
You never truly win until your opponent is defeated (could have used Focus Blast against the Garg but didn't want to risk a miss)

NEW AURORA VEIL HO TEAM (might clump the AVs together lol)
Wins:
Trick Room Zard player showed up again, really sketchy endgame but Disable A9 saved me (contains swearing from opponent)

MSCIZ BALANCE:
Losses:
stall, my bane of existence

ETERRAIN HO:
Wins:
Legit locked in for the second half of the battle, called basically all of their moves

Losses:
just watch the replay and guess out of what Pokemon I lost to

Just Watch to Find Out:
I love making predicts
opponent played kinda weirdly imo, managed to pull through at the end...or did I?
S T A L L

SAMI - SEMISUN + BAND WEAVILE
Just Watch to Find Out:
bro had the goofiest team

POST TERA BAN
GHOLD HAZARD HO
Wins:
you do still need a zenta check in this day and age
what was bro cooking
stall teams need dondozo now

Gen 9 NDUbers
Losses:
Met a chill dude who wanted to teambuild with me, anyways if I played DeoSpeed or PDon better might have won (Has some swear words)
"well I was right about the choice band part", inexperience against Trick Room and Melmetal really was my downfall

Gen 9 NDDoubles
Wins:
Tera Fire Chi-Yu gave me a lot of issues (plus turn 1 was tragic) but it all turned out well :)

Losses:
This is what I mean by low ladder pain (im not even low ladder im top 100 but this dude got matched with me and now im cooked)

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You lost the one with the quad pivot
yeah good call, I just saw that and I was like "wait i lost that right"
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Gen 9 NU
Always play to your outs whenever you have one, even if it's something silly like PP stalling (Long Raikou vs Raikou sequence until turn 77)
Trick Room Teams aren't always an autoloss for Hyper Offense Teams (Also had a nice Tera Read and a high damage roll vs Diancie)
(Gen 9) National Dex Monotype
Me being able to beat Ground with Electric with some aggresive reads from my end (I should've went with my gut and stayed in to Grass Knot turn 20 to make a god read lol)
Sub Bulk Up Buzzwole 1v1ing a Mega Venusuar and winning the exchange
Bulkarona 1v1ing Raging Bolt and winning the exchange, letting me beat a really bad matchup of Bug vs Electric (This was a roomtour game and not a ladder game)

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https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9doublesbrokencup-2110230239-xhba9x8qwwhisgx82wwm6bi3ylfvraypw

Not sure if this is restricted by the ELO rule, but its double broken cup, so it doesn't really matter, I think. Wildbolt storm hit both opponents, paralyzed both, and both were unable to move.

(WARNING FOR THIS ONE: I swore once or twice cause I was getting mad but yeah)
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen9monotyperandombattle-2120939953-rhchk0hm6dijth120epvygmyk2nb8wkpw

This one was EPIC. I played really trash at the start, but Comfey was goated, and sleep worked my ways a couple of times. Comfey swept SIX mons.

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