Yeah its kinda hard to choose sometimes to when to Mega evolve

Won my battle against Magmaster 4-4. He forfeited after I landed a lucky burn with Fire Blast. GG regardless!

I had to forfeight my match with Sub-Zero 4-4

I was NOT in the mood to take down a Blissey with both of physical attackers gone.

Congratulations to Sub!!! Glad to finally get this tournament moving again!

Bracket: http://challonge.com/jtvzl9x9

Sorry for derailing your thread, Matt. Eh, not really :^)

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Originally Posted by Sub-zero That's true. I forgot about abilities. Even so, Altaria is hard to pick. Keep Natural Cure or Mega for power? Keep weather at bay? D: So fluffy!

"the best" type in the game depends on your play style, Dragon/Fairy's kind of useless if your opponent doesn't have any Dragons themselves or your own team is full of Steels, but being immune to one of your own types and super effective on the other is definitely very . . . interesting.

If you use your items wisely you may not even need a Mega Stone to avoid taking damage from dragon, since you could trick your opponents into thinking you do have one so it's useless using those types of moves on you, at least for a few turns. that's where the real fun of competitive Pokmon starts, imo.

calm down, old man, I just finished saying it depends on the situation. Vanilla Altaria still resists fire, grass, water, bug and Ground, I never said Fairy's bad I just said there are places in Pokémon where Flying and Natural Cure could be better.

Whoa dudes. I didn't mean to spark a little talk there about how amazing fluffy M-Altaria is. But yes. I try to make use of it's defensive typing while still being able to hit hard enough. I don't run DD offensive Altaria like I've seen run around. Also, regular Altaria's flying typing comes in handy sometimes, too. To avoid Earthquake though the cost of weakness to Stealth Rock is a pain. It just depends. The point is that Altaria has become extremely versatile with it's Mega. The ability to take hits and check a good amount of Pokemon while being to hit hard back is no joke. I kinda wish it didn't get the attack boost but with it, it adds to the guess of what set M-Altaria will run, unlike others like Pinsir and stuff.

Edit: And that's just discussion on it's typing. Didn't even touch taking Toxic or Will o Wisps for the team. I usually carry a cleric anyways, though.

Forfeited to Pianomaster. Had 4 against his 5. Was not about to keep the stall going again and I had lost my only physical wall against Talonflame. Gg!

Congratulations to Pianomaster19!!! Also congratulations to Sub-Zero on his excellent tournament run! ONLY 3-4 BATTLES LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Updated Brackets: http://challonge.com/jtvzl9x9

Pianomaster19 is victorious against Reuniclus 4-0!!!! Congratulations to Pianomaster!

Also, congrats to Reuniclus for taking 4th place!!!!!

Bracket: http://challonge.com/jtvzl9x9

Pianomaster beat me 3-0. Good luck to both in the finals! I'm happy that I got 3rd.

Congratulations to GrasspokemonFTW on an amazing 3rd place run!!!!!

The finals have arrived!!!!!!! Between myself and Pianomaster19... Boy am I nervous!!!!!!

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT AN EXHILARATING SERIES!!!!!!!!!!

-As I thought I was closing in on victory against Pianomaster19, he came out of nowhere and swept the rest of my team with a Talonflame.

-The second match was extremely nitty-gritty and I just barely managed to pull off the 1-0 Victory.

Congratulations to Pianomaster19 for his unbelievable run and his 2nd Place finish.

- I am very very glad to have won this awesome tournament and to be able to call myself the Champion of Victory Road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- A HUGE thanks to EVERYONE who participated in this tournament and helped it to be as epic and fun as it was. I could not have done any of it without all of you! Also a big thanks to Nytz for his amazing commentary!

-Love my Victory Road family!!!

-FINAL BRACKET: http://challonge.com/jtvzl9x9

Dang, wish I could've watched. Both of you played very well <3

*Poof* Just wait till the next tournament to see who will be crown champion of VR, i'll probably battle more seriously next time But congrats to MattyBrollic! *Poof*

*Speaks thru the shadows* Maybe i can get a slight change to my signature picture, maybe say "Champion of victory road winter 2014" ?

That or i'll just make a new one without "champion of VR" in it

I miss this tournament already I really hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Feedback would be nice! I put a lot of time and effort into running these tournaments and I'd like to have some fun, more unorthodox styled ones soon, but only if you guys would be interested because that's what matters the most to me.

Your tournament was great! You're so awesome, MattyBrollic! I wish I could be half as good-looking and battler as you, and I'm sure that leaving my computer on for you while logged on and opened to this page was a great idea!

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Hehehe :3

Maybe i should host the next tournament I have a good one once I figure out the ruleset.

Tourney went well, actually. I think the other one lasted a little over a month or something, no? Took a while, is all I remember. Talonflame is a train wrecker if you don't have a defensive Rotom or Mega-Manectric. >.> Or a rock type but, y'know, 5x weaknesses. Gg all! Next time Talonflame should be excluded since it was the star of the show. :3

There's probably a better place for this (and I think I mentioned it somewhere else but can't remember where) but can we have a gimmick tourney some day? Like, the the only move we can use is Metronome, but we can still try to build a team around it that isn't six Togepi?

Could be a fun, lighthearted thing to do over spring break or something, between the serious tournament seasons, and is actually possible now that training in ORAS is as easy as tau.

Oh yeah i forgot to say that the day we kicked this recent tournament off, greninja was banned to Ubers. But i cant see why tho, the only person i swept with it was against dragonite.

Yes, and let us never speak of that again.