Pokémon Stadium 2 - R-2 Little Cup - "For Want of a Title"

ANNOUNCER CHRONICLES - PART 7

It's the moment you've all been waiting for! Time to find out who the best lightweight tag team in the WPD is! For the first time ever, the score will be settled in a Blitz of Death match, with four teams participating for their shot at the glory!

[OOC: Yes, the setting (and announcer style) for this installment are vastly different than the concepts for previous parts of the series, to the point where I can't properly consider this canonical alongside the other six. Fortunately, "Announcer Chronicles" is simply a label and not a canon universe.

Ever since I created the concept of the Announcer Chronicles, I've always thought of the character as being quite similar to a wrestling announcer (as in WWE). I just figured why not make the spoof incredibly blatant this time?

I knew I wanted Scyther/Cubone to be the "heels," and recorded their section first. The first try with them was just about perfect for building a story around, and after testing the dynamics of other teams with a few practice runs, I ended up going with the first recorded runs for two of the other teams as well. I think the fourth team needed 7 tries to get something that fit in with the storyline. (Which team is that? Just watch the damn video. I'm not going to spoil it that easily, especially not if you don't want me to.)

The gameplay footage for this video was actually recorded all the way back in March, but even back then I knew I wanted the visual effects you see now, and I didn't have any tools capable of that at the time. Kdenlive (http://kdenlive.org ) looked like a promising program to do exactly what I wanted, but the release that was available back then kept crashing on me whenever I tried to do much of anything. Only recently was I able to get my hands on kdenlive 0.7.4, with which I could at least figure out what made it crash and then not do that, and everything fell into place shortly thereafter.

There are a couple of CC-licensed samples added to the audio here:
"Boxing Bell" courtesy of Benboncan
"Metal Door Slam" courtesy of ReWired
]

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• pokemon
• stadium
• two
• little
• cup
• level
• five
• wrestling
• announcer
• リトルカップ

[24BrianRulez24]

Abra & Scyther would make a great team imo. (and then staryu)

[SadisticMystic]

You'd definitely want to use a different Scyther repertoire if you tried that, because this particular one is only good for setting up Cubone: by giving it a Swords Dance and an Agility, Cubone becomes fast enough and powerful enough to go first and get an instant KO against any opponent that can possibly appear in the cup (barring priority moves).

Abra doesn't need the speed, and gets no help whatsoever from Swords Dance. Additionally, Staryu has a large amount of overlap here.

[drmattisinthehouse]

I merely explained that we agree on one thing, the ending of your video. Though we're debating on how it happened, we still came with the same conclusion. Yes it's true about our explinations. Yours is fact, as where mine is opinion. I know. It is your video. I was only saying what's on my mind, even if it wasn't truth. That's why I say things, to get the truth. Regardless, I'm impressed now. Not just video wise. I feel that we are at least good debaters. Still a good video. :)

[SadisticMystic]

You could come up with the same conclusion by using "higher combined Pokedex numbers" as a tiebreaker. Doesn't mean that's not an utterly stupid way to resolve the decision.

Your metric "least damage taken...but only over the course of battle 8, because we can't add in the previous 7 or it throws off the results" is on similarly shaky ground. In any case, when facts resolve a situation completely, introducing subjective judgments ("opinions") is not just pointless but detrimental.

[drmattisinthehouse]

I never said you did use HP to determine the victors. In fact, your way to determine the winners by instant replay was actually the better way. On my part, I was saying, in case the replays don't add up, another possiblity would be to consider HP left between both teams. And in some sports, in case there is no possible winner, example "Boxing", they do base a winner of certain points. As to the Football point, you're right. Either way, I did enjoy this 8 Pkmn, tag team match. :)

[SadisticMystic]

Even in that event, you would essentially be saying forget everything that happened in the first 7 battles in order to come up with that conclusion. Taken over all 8 battles, Elekid and Gastly took a combined 154 damage (56 self-inflicted from Explosion); Scyther and Cubone took only 78.

[TheMysteriousZebra]

In Japan, Pokemon is mostly watched by adults...

[iPhoqueTheSystem]

You used cheats to put max DV/Stat Exp on your Pokémons U_u

[24BrianRulez24]

@SadisticMystic I figured agility would not be of any help since speed would not be necessary for the combo scyther/abra. I was thinking more of an independent team, more of a scyther with a slash/swords dance/ hyper beam/(?) and scope lens(?) for higher critical ratio, for the physical power, where abra would kick in for the special sweep and deal with the ghosts and so on instead of chansey and stuff. Abra seems good with psychic/ (3 punches? electric/ice/fire) and twistedspoon

[Pokemongod777]

BTW Elekid won by 2 frames, TWO FRAMES

[Pokemongod777]

Slowpoke's ball went up faster, but Cubone inched ahead and then Elekid who knocked out slowpoke's text went faster so Elekid still won anyway

[TobmanTime]

lv 5 Poks with full stat experience? WHAT THE...

[PhilosophicalPsycho]

It figures any Pokemon Stadium video I search would be from you :)

I only looked at the final battle though.

[OnADiet666]

That cocksuck voice is distracting. 

[martyxcallsiefer]

this is like a pokemon sports book

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