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Skyler Abendroth's Battle Roads Report - Oregon Two 4/2 Records

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k, so this is my first report. I mainly do not make these because my memory gets so fuzzy at times. here we go ;)

Rivals in Hillsboro:

Round 1
Me Vs. MAMA JUNE!!!!!
Regigigas!

GRR! she uses my all time favorite card. (absol SW) (phazon, you know what i am talking about ;) ) i tried out using a honchkrow G, luxray Deck, did pretty well due to semi fancy playing. Aside from that, alot of cards that I never ended up needing to use....or draw. she t1 baleful winds me, that is annoying. i cant do enough damage. I calculate how everything will play out, trade for trade, card for card. I conclude by my t2 that she will win. because June is that awesome, i let her continue the game for a few rounds. decided for the sake of retreatism, I would scoop. She was a little upset about that, but she understood. Thanks for the awesome game!

(0/1)

Round ?
Me Vs. Andrew Lowe
Kingdra

Great guy, he used kingdra with bucks and crobat. all i really did was time the attacks of luxray x, time the crobats and poketurns, and Target Attack his horseas, his baltoys, and a uxie. he gets i believe two or three prizes. Honchkrow Did most of it, luxray just dominated his kingdras.
Good Game Andrew

(1/1)

Round ?
Me Vs. Alex Something (cool last name)
Mightytank

This guy is awesome. great game. he starts out with chatot g, i start with honchy. probably turn three or two he poketurns his chatot g and plays it, attempting to slow me down. it does not really do anything. After searching my deck three times with honchy, He finally kills Honchkrow off.

I then do the most annoying thing ever. I have luxray, another honchy, and maybe other stuff on the bench. I level up active luxray, bright look his skuntank. He can't poketurn because he used it on chatot, and he does not draw into cyrus AT ALL. Alex passes.

The reason why this guy is so cool, i retreated lux for honchy, poke turn luxray thinking it had a darkness, i see that it did not, HE LET ME TAKE IT BACK. i cyrus for the energy and stuff, and snipe bench mightyena for two turns for the kill. I notice that I might need to guarantee a knockout eventually, so with my benched uxie that i played at one point, i attached an energy. Somewhere in between i finally kill chatot g. Alex is forced to do nothing as i snipe everything, the only card he really needs is warp point. i end up getting my WP out of my prizes. he begs me to use it, he was so cool, so i did.

Alex gets up two mightyena, one with 70 on it. he retreats, for the undamged one. he attempts to poison structure, I power spray, forcing him to end his turn (no special condition, no energy, No Attack ;) ) I kill bench mightyena. His turn. he contemplates what to do, because he NEEDS to attack me. i give him some advice, that if he can get another skuntank g out, he can attempt to poison structure twice, (the optimal play). he sets down toxicroak, playing an energy on it. I see my move. Alex plays down that second skuntank g, i scroll through my hand, YES! two power sprays, stalling him again. three turns of early game honchy's command FTW. ;) i kill off his bench uxie, play down luxray on my bench. he kills off my honchy, i bring up luxray. i level up, bright looking toxicroak g, i retreat, attach energy to new active uxie (that makes two) attach random unown q to unown g, attach unown g to uxie for no reason, level up, random trade off, and zen blade for the game for 120 damage.

Great game Dude.

(2/1)
Round ?
Me Vs. Ozzy
Firestorm ( I MADE THIS NAME UP, YOU ALL KNOW IT IS COOL) Luxray, blazekin, infernape.

He Gets pretty good start, i get nothing. honchy and that is about it. he gets up lux x, and i conclude that i NEED to kill it, i waste two poketurns and three crobats to kill it with my lux x. Then i realize that i have 3 crobats down, an azelf, and a uxie, my only active is lux x. He is able to eventually build everything up quicker than me, I notice this, and scoop. not out of being afraid, but it was as simple as waiting 3 turns, just to continuosly use intimidating roar to get my azelf, uxie, and three crobats up for game. Great game. Thanks Dude, Hope you had fun with those dragon flies, flowers and fairies. ;)

(2/2)
Round ?
Me Vs. Jamie!!!
Flygon Deckout

He starts, with trapinch. he uses sand tomb for 20 to my luxray. I attempt to search for the cards to donk him, no success. so i laid down a honchkrow g, i bite him for 10. he lays down palkia and mewtwo. he attaches psychic to mewtwo, and did that sand tomb again. i draw. crobat, poketurn, crobat on mewtwo. level up, bringing up that psychic god. attach energy,and trash bolt for the knock out. he brings up something, maybe palkia? most likely trapinch. He lays down uxie, i power spray. he plays baltoy, and uses sand tomb. i draw. i poketurn, bring up honchy, crobat and snipe baltoy. he rosy's for another usie. i spray it. attaches psychic to his uxie and uses psychic restore. i draw. do some more stuff, and target attack trapinch. he gets a baltoy, and psychic restores me again. I snipe baltoy. not alot he can do. my turn i poketurn honchkrow, bringing up luxray, and bright looking palkia. trash bolt for the knock out. some other random stuff, GOOD GAME.

Round ?
Me Vs. Cool Dad
Muk Skuntank

Rolled Over him sadly, had board control all throughout, great guy though. Good Game.

(4/2)



Pros:

Got subway! (Subway follows battle roads I swear)
Marvin is awesome! (Pulled him a blazekin Fb x)
Static x in the car
Alot of awesome people
Getting to battle Mama June
not doing too bad with a weird luxkrow deck.
Other cool stuff


Oh Noes:

My pal ozzy getting the bad end of a TG wager and drawing three E gains, and nothing else for like 5 turns.
going against random sexy regigigas deck
not placing (duh)
Too tired to really compete

Borderlands Games - Salem (Woot!)



I arrive early, have fun, goof off. still needing to make a deck for a couple of friends. Today I am running My Friend Marvin's Deck, but with some alterations, and "The God Card" (ask phazon)

Round 1
Me Vs. Mandi From my league
Shaymin/altaria

Fun game. she is pretty cool. i dark palm whatever. telepass for advantage. powerswing ends it.
GG
(1/0)

Round ?
Me Vs. Steve Something
FGD

Really interesting game, i make two misplays, does not really matter. We both get god starts. I call on my lone ralts, use it for baltoy and ralts. I let him get ahead a bit. Early game i use uxie to psychic restore on his PT gardevoir, doing 50. He misplays using psychic connect. he had another psychic he could have and should have moved, but did not. He used that one attack for 1 psychic. Leaving my uxie at 10, where as it would have been gone. i draw. get better set up, I am restricting him with my dark palm, Poke radar for three pokemon. I do another 50 with uxie, pushing it back. i bring up a trapinch to die. he brings up flygon, psychic connects, knocks me out, and I draw. I warp point, bringing up telapass garde. he moved 3 of his total 4 in play energy to that flygon. I immediately dark palm it. Poke Radar for 4. All it really takes from there is to psychic lock everything he has, keeping claydol alive, and eventually an unnecessary bring down for game.
Great game dude
(2/0)

Round ?
Me Vs. Mike Bayes
Masqurane thingy with chirrim

This guy is just awesome. Plain and simple. it is an interesting game, He gets draw power up the butt, but never poses any threat to my tanks. i can't instantly knock him out with power swing till late, late game. no use in psychic lock, because he uses no powers. Luckily flygon X erodes TSD and NM. That did not seem to really phase this really cool player. slowly the bugs die. i see that he has a shaymin with one energy on his bench, i am thinking that his plan was for me to knock out a bug, so he can bring up shaymin, attach energy, and level up to sky form doing 110. DARK PALM!!. :) Really Cool Game, Made me learn alot about my deck. Played three Poke Radar for a total of 11 Pokemon. yay.
(3/0)

Round ?
Me Vs. Mr. Raichu
Blazeray/dialga/garchomp

Cool game, i start with mewtwo and duskull. he starts with the usual sp. my duskoir holds him off for a bit, it was becoming a really sick game until i made a major misplay, i warp point, improperly connecting the dots in my head, and i bring up mewtwo (forgetting that his Dialga G x is stopping my free retreat body) If it weren't for that, the game would have been So much more fun.
GG
(3/1)

Round 5
Me. Vs. (I Believe his last name was Wetherbee)
Flygon Deckout

I really look up to this guy. we had a very fun game, my FGD Skyler Style Deck vs. His flygon deckout with dusknoir. I already know that he is a really good player. we both get pretty good starts, but he has two good cards prized. He azelfs for one. For a while i was worried because he was not taking control. part of me was thinking he had nothing, (even though he had claydol out) and part of me is thinking he was waiting for me to do something so he can counter. Somehow i maintain control, killing flygon, and psychic locking for a while, just for the most part keeping control and playing wisely. early game he dark palms my dusknoir, that was annoying. all in all, Great learning experience.
Great game dude
(4/1)

Round 6
Me Vs. Lowe Brother
Flygon deckout?

Fast pace. very fun, came down to time via three prizes each. i made a major misplay when i didn't quite understand the functions of devoluter. i had a dusknoir with thirty left on the bench, and i could have easily pulled an unown g with a telapassed rosseannes instead of the random trapinch. VERY upsetting, next turn he retreats nidoqueen and devoluter for game.
GG
(4/2)

ANOTHER 4/2. Better than nothing i would have to say. i had a blast. especially because it was at my favorite hobby shop. And the friends are great. Saw Alot of FGD mimicry and Gyrados. I also saw a REALLY sexy garchomp (not C) with SP deck that got a 6/0 record.

Hope You enjoyed!

Guardian Games Portland

4/2 AGAIN! Gar!!

Round 1
Me Vs. Janet
Machamp

Janet is really cool. She is playing machamp again. early game i use azelf with psychic and unown g to do 100 to her machamp. Overall I maintained board control, Not alot of suprises. Very good game. Taught me some more about my deck. Thanks Janet, your awesome.

Round 2
Me Vs. Joseph Lowe
Walreign

Lol, Walreign. It was annoying that he got set up quickly with it. interesting strategy. He ran none of the stage 1 of it. bad move. He combo-ed it with starmie to get energy from the discard. Basic play was he fell for my bait knocking out my azelf and uxie. I bring up Garde. I use psychic lock. He uses the attack on my garde x with unown g (He discards, I dont XD) i needed to recover, so i brought up Flygon x. I power swung for knockout. He brings up another one, does 70 and discards my energy. I see my move. he has uxie, starmie, and 2 claydol on his bench, I warp point and dark palm his walreign. I then bring up garde and take a few prizes with psychic lock. This prevents his draw power, and keeps his candy and walreign in his hand (because he can't use the energy acceleration power yet)

Joseph somehow brings up another walreign. without all the energy. i bring up trapinch. I used inviting trap bringing up claydol. he plays switch, uses walreign poke power, knockss me out. I palmers, get it back and also see that i still have another trapinch in my deck, YAY. I do it all over again, He Draws, plays switch, kills trapinch.

By now I see that he has a total of 3 switches in his discard, and 4 SSU, I Make my move, I do it one more time, for the claydol. He sits doing nothing, Earlier he devolutered my dusknoir with starmie, so i kept it in hand. He has a uxie, a claydol, a claydol, a starmie, and walregn with 4 energy. I candy into dusknoir and dark palm walreign. Still psychic locking, He is forced to attack one energy per turn on spheal (he needs that candy) It is at three. then i bring up garde, bring down for knockout on it. He is sooo ticked. then i psychic lock and power swing for game.
GG

Round 3
Me Vs. (I always forget his name, he is cool thouh)
Absol SP Stuff

He dittos and uses psychic lock to kill my garde. i kill off some stuff, he kills a couple cards. i then dark palm, getting rid of his absol g, i kill his active absol g x. he TSd and gets 3 5's lol. next turn he brings up honckrow, rosseannes for ditto, energy on ditto, and he target attacks my claydol. I draw, dark palm ditto, extreme attack his bench uxie x for my 3rd prize, and he scoops. ( I have TOTAL board control) GG


Round 4
Me Vs. Alex
Mightytank

WORST GAME EVER. I start first with unown g, baltoy, warp point, and a psychic. he got a mulligan, putting my hand at four, what are the other four? 4 CONSECUTIVE RARE CANDIES. T3 he owns me. GRRR. GG. we play a few games after, and every time, I wasted him. psychic locking so no poison structure, power swing, sand wall. should have been an auto win for me, but oh well. Glad you did so well Alex!


Round 5

Me Vs. stephen
FGD

We both run the same deck, I Play a little better, knowing how and when to play my cards, I see him building up his gardevoir with telepass, and he just barely has a trapinch out. I inviting trap claydol, making sure he cannot psychic lock me. In Time I get supreme control. Just like at Borderlands, i dark palm his pokemon with the most energy (this time his benched gardevoir) and i psychic lock. he only has active cladol to contend with (along with a uxie, a trapinch, an azelf i believe, and a nother claydol. He can't search and I set up my board and get an air tight lead.

Round 6
Me Vs. Ben Lucas
Gyrados
Gyrados. Grr. I have never played one of these. basically it came down to my 2 prize to his 1, i meant to build up vibrava with one energy to seal the game ( a total of 140) but i needed to get another knock out first. what i should have done is attached an energy to vibrava sooner, then late game attach another one, and evolve. he had BTS. I could have easily recieved board control. He beat me. Very fun. I loved the game, But I am so sick of 4/2 Records. GG

Props;

BK (no subway, YES!)
doing decent
seeing some buddy's

Slops:
4/2!!!!!!!!!
I ALWAYS MISPLAY LATER IN THE DAY. I CAN'T HELP IT, I WILL ALWAYS MAKE A BIG MISTAKE, COSTING ME THE GAME....TWICE.
 
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Lol. darn, i feel like i offended someone, I will figure this out....We do need to play. we will at guardians (if you can take me) because today lowered you a tad, and today got me higher a bit. especially facing some top players.
 
Nice report Skyler. It was fun playing you. Hope to see ya this weekend.
Don't worry I'm helping judge so no Gigas/Absol :thumb:
 
Thanks Jamie!

and Shuckle, Not cool. ;). i even thought about it to tell you the truth lol. so beautiful, but machamp owns it like it isn't even funny. :)
 
I dont think I even have enough SW Absol's, and I KNOW I dont have enough of the SP ones. I only have a 1-1 line there v.v
 
You make me an Absol/Absol deck, and I will play it. Shoot me the list before hand so I can proxy it up and practice abit.
 
Give me something better to play. I mean, my current deck is Magnezone. I could rebuild Luxray if I really want, but past that, I dont really have the cards for any competitive deck. I just cant wait for Tangrowth, cause he will be fun ^_^
 
I know right? I just want go-pokemon to be back up so i can check my results.

Go-Pokemon went back up last night :smile:

GJ in the Flygon matches. Those were an interesting read. It takes skill to work around the lock and know how to ward it off before it can even BEGIN !

Awesomeness man.
 
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