Special theme: Thanksgiving Battle! vs Symphonyx64

http://www.youtube.com/symphonyx64
The man of the hour.....two hours in a row? Lol unprecedented!

Dear Youtube viewers,

Heyyyyyyy hey! I did this two years ago and had a blast, I REALLY wanted to do a Halloween battle but wasn't able to get it done. So I couldn't blow that chance again.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsh20I6LKQ )

This one is much better than the one two years ago. I had a heck of a lot of fun, Symphony is a great player who doesn't show any weak points and doesn't go down easily. You can tell simply from the length of the videos his battles always take, you gotta try to outlast him in a marathon, sprinting only gets you beat.

Once again: I screw up in the recording. Now that I can't record from WMM I have to record from my cam itself, and I accidentally hit "Record audio" instead of "record video". So the first 2:45 (of the battle) is from HIS side, which is when I realized I was recording audio and thus switched my cam on and you get me the rest of the way. So MAJOR thanks to him for coming up big with the piece of footage I needed to complete the video. Pretty sure its like 3/5 times now I've screwed up my recording.

How did this work? Well.....while the first Thanksgiving was more about veggies and fish than it was poultry, we made a list of all the bird + vegetable + fish pokemon and tried to decide which ones were fair game to use. After an hour or so of debate, we decided that nobody will agree with us when we come out with a bunch of water and grass pokemon and say Happy Thanksgiving, it was birds or nothing....so we had about 20-25 birds that we had to decide upon. I didn't want to include any OU's, as it would force us to have the same teams, Zapdos would rape, it wouldn't be unique or fun.....so I convinced him to consent to a list of 15 birds.
Fearow, Pidgeot, Farfetch'd, Pelipper, Prinplup, Chatot, Noctowl, Tailow, Murkrow, Togetic, Staravia, Xatu, Doduo, Delibird, and we included Swablu as well due to his description and BST. We based them off trying to be close to BST and nobody too powerful, hence the pre-evos. Anything with a 100+ BST somewhere would be overpowering unless it lacked somewhere else, and we felt that these guys were all fair game.

He went to Smogon to check out sets, I looked at movepools and made stuff that looked fun and workable. I had 2 sweepers in Chatot and Fearow, one on each attacking side. I then had 3 dual tanks to set up, support, and stall -- all with sweeping potential when they get going. The Pidgeot is my favorite, using Protect + Fly in combo with Toxic allows some crazy Lefties recovery while boosting Toxic turns, and Fly does a good chunk too. I hoped that if I could get toxic on a handful of his guys, I would be able to either stall him out with tanks or use my sweepers to finish everything off....multiple paths to victory from the start in case one was stopped. My remaining pokemon is the leadoff, mostly for SR, making the battle 25% easier in a single move...and I hoped Yawn would allow me to switch guys around a bit and give me a couple turns to get a guy set up in the first place. Good to know I still got the mind to figure stuff out, and I think all 6 of my pokes had EVs in 4 stats, I put some thought into them.

I hope you guys enjoy the match as much as we did, because this is what its all about. Screw standards, screw OU competition and screw Theory-mon. Just go out there and have some fun, while still being able to take it to a level above the average player or outside misconception. I'd like to think this bird team would dominate NU and have a chance in UU as well.

So once the dust is settled I hope you guys can take that mindset along with you. Just have a blast, ignore what other people think or feel. You get out of life what you put into it so take your best shot.
I'm thankful I've been able to make videos for over 2 years, have thousands of people respect what I've done and approve of it. I'm thankful I have (almost) 3 million total video views, I must be doing something right and worthwhile. I'm thankful I can continue to do it. These are experiences and memories I have learned from and I can cherish the rest of my life, you guys have made it such a blast, and I wouldn't be working hard to continue if I didn't know my efforts shared a smile somewhere out there.

Until next time.....
~Xerxes~

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[JoshuaPowersYHS]

yo xerxes: what do u play ur MW2 on?

[mtgxerxes]

To be honest I've never played a CoD game in my life. I bought it for the goggles, sold the game for 65 and sold the CoD 1 token for 19 after getting a 15% discount on the $150 price tag.

So, I got some goggles for cheap.

[MasterOfCheez]

Finding nemo :D

[Arceus919]

Your'e ev training your cat?

[kilerpenguin3]

Wait what's you email xerxes?

[HackedGlitch265]

wow...

I JUST noticed, but you cat looks exactly like mine o.O

Then again, it seems like my cat looks like an average cat, i see him on like 100 different tv shows lol

great battle once again though

[Dario8676]

Lmao, the kefka laugh caught me off guard at the beginning. I feel really bad for your cat lol.

[daviddaman91]

haha love the TOV theme to finish the video up. Good man

[JMJ0788]

nice your cat got speed evs

[Nishiogima]

I agree Tiers are just not my things to me.

It is like an unncessary boundary between Pokemon. In a word,a wall between Pokemon.

[LEgallyAzn]

check out my wifi battles

[blood7crow]

Au contrair i got condemned 2 for 10 $ also and i got tony hawks american wasteland for 13 $ and finnally i got gears of war for 15 $ and thoes are great games