(Jun 28, 2015, 09:26 AM)podfighterninja123 Wrote: Ive battled alot of people who think there so superior but alot of people just think there cocky in general, I battled a guy today that literally after i lost to him due to misplays hes like
★2LowCloud: i win anyways
That made me so mad lol why do people have to be like that.

(Jun 28, 2015, 10:14 AM)naitre Wrote: I usually just laugh and agree with them. Yep, I'm bad. Yes, I'm terrible. No, I don't know how to play this game.

(Jun 28, 2015, 10:21 AM)Eckley Wrote:

(Jun 28, 2015, 10:14 AM)naitre Wrote: I usually just laugh and agree with them. Yep, I'm bad. Yes, I'm terrible. No, I don't know how to play this game.

Haha, it's funny seeing how they react. My all time favourite was when I found a battle on showdown and all his/her friends joined (at least I assume they were friends) and he/she was trying to be funny, telling me which moves to use and what plays to make.
I did what they asked.
I won.
There was more salt at the end of that battle than there is in the sea

(Jun 28, 2015, 05:28 AM)GMX Wrote: Closing thoughts about the International Challenge: never again. 21-9 with 2 disconnections (never happened in more than 500+ games on BP.. infact i thought it was a server problem but it wasn't) and 7 losses against Japan/Korean players. I've never challenged a player with more points than me (my reward for winning a match has always been a miserable amount of points while i had to drop over 20 points for every lost game). Regarding team compositions, i have to admit that Japan meta is quite ahead of ours at the moment (Japan Sand and TR M-Gardevoir are the most popular examples but they aren't even as much popular there as here, there are many other solid cores there around M-Kang too), however i had to face things such as double Prankster lead (Liepard/Sableye + Thundurus insane Swagger + TWave/W-o-W spam + Foul Play combo), Fire Punch M-Kang, Mental Herb Amoonguss, a lot of Jolly Landorus-T (because screw the damage output, i just want to rely on flinches more than you do!) and many other things (mostly based on RNG or situational moves - such as HP Grass M-Gardevoir, yes.. a 2HKO on my poor Gastrodon)

I am unlucky because due to my timezone it is more likely for me to be paired with JPN/KOR players than US players (apart for EU players obviously)

Anyway i hate this RNG based format and i don't really like the pairing system too. You could say: Battle Spot has the same format! Yes, it's still a BO1, but you can't build a RNG based team because BS needs consistency over anything else and you can't really expect to reach higher rated ladders if you rely on Swagger, while you only have to play 30 games in the International Challenge and you may be lucky enough to have the RNG in your favour at least 20 games out of 30, then the tourney is over and you finish with a score of 20-10 with a team you made with no time or effort.

I hope to see an online BO3 format in the future, which would be more than interesting as it would give the appropriate challenge and balance for this kind of competition.