Official Nintendo Pokemon Tournament 2009 Finals

http://origin.pokemonvgc.com/en/

+ A small analysis on my part

Seattle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLO4qyieKZ0

San Francisco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-WeOcAIJY

Phoenix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww8PizGCXag

Dallas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES1tVrl6Ph0

Philadelphia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEapkWDaAJY

Analysis seattle:
According to these two finalists Trick room teams seem to be quite dominate(Seattle). Speedy OU you teams get killed by Trick room teams. Augh, am i rite xfd.

San Fransico Analysis:
Trick room teams are pretty dominate against powerful OU teams as well, when played correctly. With these many trick room teams, counters are sure to come. I can think of one right now. Well technically several. Hehe.

Phoenix Analysis:
Helping hand proved to be quite useful as an OU Zapdos would have been really tough to defeat. Gengar with it's already amazing sp.atk and speed should been able to sweep that team clean, but a powerful OU force proved my theory wrong. Seems like anti trick room/power house OU teams are back.

Thank you VERY much Shouri.

Analysis on dallas:

The moment I saw azelf come out I knew the gengar was screwed. Fake out for a free hit seems to be present everywhere. Recorded brought in a very key zapdos. It definitely turned things around with discharge + ground-type partner combo. No trick room or advanced strategies found here. Just plain 'ol beatings left and right. A really lucky ice punch screwed over the garchomp since it froze it.

The recorder's side REALLY knows how to predict his opponents. Those were some ridiculously well planned detects with zapdos, and protects with mamoswine. The opposing golduck had something planned after using that berry to up its speed, but a priority ice shard finished it off.

Overall, the recorder's side only had to worry for about.... 2 turns. Then afterwards, he either got very lucky, or is quite good a predicting his opponents.

Philadelphia Analysis:
Wow, epitome of lucky ass mo'fo at the end... But anywho... Here we see both trick room and a discharging zapdos come into play. Good thinking on using curse while trick room is play. Garchomp was really lucky to survive the blizzard, but still died to snow warning's hail damage. Also, that azumarill really turned things around. It allowed the opposing side to sweep things up with abomasnow. Had the recorder's side's zapdos not gotten frozen, a drill peck would've won it for him.

Dallas and Philadelphia analysis added.

+ A small analysis on my part

Seattle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLO4qyieKZ0

San Francisco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-WeOcAIJY

Analysis seattle:
According to these two finalists Trick room teams seem to be quite dominate(Seattle). Speedy OU you teams get killed by Trick room teams. Augh, am i rite xfd.

San Fransico Analysis:
Trick room teams are pretty dominate against powerful OU teams as well, when played correctly. With these many trick room teams, counters are sure to come. I can think of one right now. Well technically several. Hehe.

Arizona videos are coming as soon as they're online.

Well now to make a slow team =\*cough*shuckle?*cough*

Update:
Phoenix finals added.

Dallas and Philadelphia added. Will do analysis later.

I loled at the opponent in Phoenix. All of his Pokemon are named after Left4Dead characters XD.

I'm not one of those super Pokemon-ers, but I thought Seattle was the most interesting fight, and the Philly one surprised me at the end because I thought the recorder was going to win.

I watched a couple matches, seems like you play the Metagame, good for you! One thing I dislike, was the fact that 'of the videos that I've seen so far', all the battles were double-teams. <_<

IMO, double-team matches ends too fast, and it's harder to set up any type of sweeper. Too bad SkarmBliss fails@newgenmetagame.

I watched a couple matches, seems like you play the Metagame, good for you! One thing I dislike, was the fact that 'of the videos that I've seen so far', all the battles were double-teams. <_<

IMO, double-team matches ends too fast, and it's harder to set up any type of sweeper. Too bad SkarmBliss fails@newgenmetagame.

The rules say double teams only, 4 Pokemon per trainer, level 50 is the limit, yadayadayada.

Analysis on dallas:

The moment I saw azelf come out I knew the gengar was screwed. Fake out for a free hit seems to be present everywhere. Recorded brought in a very key zapdos. It definitely turned things around with discharge + ground-type partner combo. No trick room or advanced strategies found here. Just plain 'ol beatings left and right. A really lucky ice punch screwed over the garchomp since it froze it.

The recorder's side REALLY knows how to predict his opponents. Those were some ridiculously well planned detects with zapdos, and protects with mamoswine. The opposing golduck had something planned after using that berry to up its speed, but a priority ice shard finished it off.

Overall, the recorder's side only had to worry for about.... 2 turns. Then afterwards, he either got very lucky, or is quite good a predicting his opponents.

Philadelphia Analysis:
Wow, epitome of lucky ass mo'fo at the end... But anywho... Here we see both trick room and a discharging zapdos come into play. Good thinking on using curse while trick room is play. Garchomp was really lucky to survive the blizzard, but still died to snow warning's hail damage. Also, that azumarill really turned things around. It allowed the opposing side to sweep things up with abomasnow. Had the recorder's side's zapdos not gotten frozen, a drill peck would've won it for him.

Thank you shouri for the analysis. Updated . Lol DSi posting.

IMO, double-team matches ends too fast, and it's harder to set up any type of sweeper. Too bad SkarmBliss fails@newgenmetagame.

I use Skarmbliss on a stall team with a lot of success. xD