master league rank 8

mamoswine cp3322 powder snow/bulldoze & avalanche 15/15/14
gyarados cp3356 dragonbreath/hydro pump & crunch 13/14/15
heatran cp3473 fire spin/stone edge & flamethrower 14/15/15

initial concerns are kyogre and regirock, but mainly kyogre

---------rank 8 (2719)---------
---swampert/gardevoir/garchomp [loss]
---venusaur/tyranitar/mewtwo [win] (opponent seemed to crash on entry, never took any action.)
---machamp/togekiss/giratina origin [loss]
---aggron/machamp/latios [win]
---giratina origin/machamp/mew [win] (shadow claw/dragon claw mew, maybe grass knot as well?)
3-2 2724

---gyarados/mewtwo/rhyperior [loss]
---mewtwo/machamp/giratina origin [loss] (idk what it is but machamps always seem to have rock slide charged up in very few attacks)
---heatran/rhyperior/kyogre [loss] (at this point I'm starting to think maybe I could be using a better setup.)
---dragonite/tyranitar/glaceon [win]
---mewtwo/giratina origin/dragonite [loss] (didn't shield with heatran against mewtwo thinking it wasn't focus blast and it was so ye next time don't try and expect the common sense play)
1-4 2707

changes: mamoswine > dragonite cp3761 dragonbreath/dragon claw 14/13/15
testing
gyarados lead now

---snorlax/dialga/swampert [win]
---lugia/dialga/giratina altered [loss]
advanced heatran from cp3473 to cp3633
---melmetal/groudon/machamp [win] (the melmetal vs heatran matchup is less clean than I'd like.)
---raikou/lugia/gyarados [loss]
---kyogre/dragonite/metagross [win]
3-2 2712

---mewtwo/melmetal/dialga [loss] (wasn't allowed to switch after an attack)
---melmetal/rhyperior/giratina origin [win] (priority losses are kinda eh but was able to farm down melmetal since it was low enough for dragonite to pull it back)
---rhyperior/togekiss/mamoswine [loss] (don't really have an answer to rhyperior it seems. also mud slap mamoswine of course...)
changed gyarados lead to mamoswine lead
---metagross/rhyperior/giratina origin [win] (the usual happened but since it was mud slap rhyperior I was able to just freefarm with dragonite and burn both origin shields and also leave it low enough to farm down with mamoswine)
---dialga/giratina altered/heatran [win] (very laggy opponent)
3-2 2718

changes: heatran stone edge > iron head
lots of rhyperiors right now. have to do some kind of salvage.

---dragonite/tyranitar/mewtwo [win]
---swampert/togekiss/?? [loss] (next time I have to just immediately switch - wanted the HC/avalanche shield trade and then wasn't allowed to switch before the second hydro cannon so it was either use the other shield or let mamoswine die. on togekiss switch I knew I had no chance.)
---gallade/dialga/mewtwo [win]
---blaziken/melmetal/scizor [loss] (another ignored switch attempt, another loss zzz)
---mamoswine/lugia/garchomp [win]
3-2 2723

swapping to dragonite lead for now
---gyarados/giratina origin/mewtwo [loss] (lost a powder snow because the switch hud opened up when I didn't want it to and meant I was a crucial fast attack behind giratina. also mewtwo was focus blast which was unlucky)
---kyogre/metagross/mamoswine [win] (I don't think this player was going for a fair match because there was about 8 seconds where I was unable to attack or react to a charged move so the kyogre got entirely free waterfalls and a surf on me.)
---groudon/kyogre/mewtwo [win]
---kyogre/dialga/mewtwo [loss] (again another near miss with their last at 10% hp - it's the sort of thing that maxing heatran doesn't even fix either)
---mewtwo/togekiss/kyogre [win] (every lead for dragonite has been 'acceptable' so far)
3-2 2729

---swampert/togekiss/snorlax [win]
---machamp/rayquaza/mewtwo [win]
---empoleon/dragonite/?? [loss] (another spicy router reset when the alternative is my data which also loses internet once or twice a day at random.)
---melmetal/kyogre/giratina origin [loss] (pretty bad opener anchored by kyogre so ye)
---togekiss/swampert/gyarados [win]
3-2 2734

swapping mamoswine to gyarados again

---metagross/machamp/giratina origin [win] (just stayed in, pretended I had outrage and traded 1 shield for 1 which was okay enough since metagross finished on 30% hp)
---giratina origin/lugia/dialga [win] (I took the wrong team! It was machamp/tyranitar/metagross which wasn't finished yet - he started giratina origin into my machamp and...switched to lugia the moment I switched into tyranitar (smack down/crunch) and just hard farmed lugia, tanking three sky attacks - double crunched giratina origin on switch in (burning both shields) and got in one more from tyranitar's sheer bulk. dialga comes in and machamp is able to solokill it with one shield in reserves anyway.)
---mamoswine/machamp/kyogre [win] (unfair as the opponent lagged for a few seconds and missed several powder snows which otherwise would have meant I probably lost - he dingus switched to machamp at the same time as I went to heatran but as he had no shields and I had one heatran was able to win.)
---swampert/gardevoir/metagross [win]
---swampert/gardevoir/venusaur [win] (gyarados sat in the pokeball all match)
5-0 2760

changes: gyarados hydro pump > outrage
75 energy is just too much, never used it - in fact there's been very few occasions where I'd also use outrage but you never know

---dragonite/gardevoir/swampert [win] (couldn't seem to switch dragonite at first when gardevoir came in with it at 25% after a dragonite mirror trade. rest went as expected)
---kyogre/mamoswine/latios [win]
---mamoswine/machamp/?? [win] (forfeit - turns out dragonite doesn't actually lose to mamoswine lead by much and then dragonite lived with 1hp after a cross chop and was able to get another dragon claw in. one failed cross chop/rock slide shield bait and they went next)
---machamp/metagross/giratina altered [win] (shielded obvious rock slide, then didn't shield two obvious meteor mashes, pretty easy if I must say so myself)
---swampert/dragonite/dialga [win]
5-0 2784

---giratina origin/togekiss/latios [win] (again gyarados got a freebie - doesn't mean it's bad just was the matchup I can win 2v3)
---tyranitar/mewtwo/groudon [win] (bite tyranitar, thank the heavens. he made a strange decision to not shield mewtwo from heatran's flamethrower)
---mewtwo/giratina origin/kyogre [loss] (I'm not 100% on what I should be doing against a mewtwo lead so I just double shielded and hoped for the best - which was about 10% short of what I needed. sadly, if I had stone edge on heatran I'd have won since kyogre was hydro pump/thunder but that's not really a good conclusion to draw.)
---dialga/togekiss/mewtwo [win] (he accidentally switched into togekiss against heatran instead of mewtwo after dialga fainted)
---melmetal/kyogre/?? [win] (forfeit - the battle took longer than normal to start and he took no action for a solid 15 seconds leaving melmetal to just lose 70% hp to dragonbreath alone before he was able to do anything. I feel very fortunate that the one time I run into melmetal it's someone with severe connection issues...)
4-1 2799

---gardevoir/groudon/dragonite [win] (was 100% dead to rights here but he let a flamethrower through on heatran - desperation used both my shields and then he also let through a crunch on gardevoir? he lost with one shield remaining, terrible play)
---tyranitar/gyarados/rhyperior [win] (I'm very happy this was bite tyranitar as I'm absolutely not equipped to deal with both it and rhyperior using smack down.)
---mamoswine/metagross/dragonite [win] (mud slap mamo)
---melmetal/snorlax/mewtwo [win] (alas, the melmetal lead - it seems to be best to pretend to use outrage to usually get a shield, taking one rock slide in the process, shield the next using dragon claw off cooldown and then just accept fainting to the third before bringing in heatran to safely farm it down.)
---dialga/swampert/mewtwo [win] (got outplayed here shield-wise - just used straight thunder against my gyarados switch-in then iron head on heatran, but was too low to able to do anything else to heatran anyway - mewtwo went down easily as I had farm on both dragonite pre-switch and on heatran from dialga's 15% hp)
5-0 2824

---togekiss/giratina origin/melmetal (win) (just man moded this - pretended to have hurricane on dragonite to get a shield out of togekiss before dying and then after bringing in heatran was able to 1v1 origin with gyarados and heatran wins the rest 6.5/10 no comeback mechanics)
---dialga/metagross/giratina origin (win) (metal claw dialga? togekiss already needs both shields in order to beat it)
---melmetal/swampert/mewtwo (win) (seemed to be no rock slide melmetal - either way dragonite more or less evenly traded)
---giratina origin/melmetal/dialga (win)
---kyogre/togekiss/metagross (win) (it didn't matter in the end but somehow heatran fainted from kyogre's waterfall on re-entry before being able to use flamethrower when it was fully charged as togekiss fainted - togekiss burnt both shields and used ancient power if you're wondering how heatran was so low)
5-0 2847

---swampert/togekiss/heatran (win)
---moltres/machamp/haxorus (win)
---togekiss/dialga/kyogre (win) (5d chess switch from togekiss after 2 seconds expecting me to go into...something that beats togekiss but loses to dialga?)
---metagross/tyranitar/?? (loss) (I somehow pressed 'not now' instead of shielding meteor mash and things went downhill from there when tyranitar seemed to know my last pokemon is hopeless against it and just double shielded iron heads while farming heatran down without using a charge move of its own)
---machamp/metagross/dragonite (win) (turns out they're not bluffing rock slides with cross chop if their other charge move is dynamicpunch)
4-1 2862

---giratina origin/snorlax/dialga (win) (opponent was attacking at about half the speed of normal, bad phone?)
---swampert/kyogre/dialga (win)
---swampert/togekiss/mewtwo (win)
---swampert/rhyperior/groudon (loss) (you'll be defeated into the ground!)
---dragonite/darkrai/metagross (win)
4-1 2875

---dialga/giratina origin/togekiss (win)
---togekiss/dialga/giratina origin (loss) (only hope here was the usual 'pretend I have hurricane' and they didn't believe me so gg)
---metagross/gyarados/dragonite (win) (I feel he double shielded at the start as he predicted by me staying in that I had nothing better to fight metagross with so he wanted to defend it at all costs - the truth is I just didn't want to switch out.)
---heatran/melmetal/kyogre (win) (I feel this player was mid 30s at most level-wise due to the cp on their pokemon - oddly, kyogre had the second attack but heatran was flamethrower only, no reason to not use iron head/stone edge against dragonite when flamethrower is a very similar cost)
---machamp/metagross/giratina origin (win)
4-1 2889

---giratina origin/dialga/kyogre (win)
---togekiss/kyogre/heatran (loss) (didn't get the shield bait on togekiss and turns out I got hit by surprisingly few charged attacks over the game so I had a shield left over. silly me)
---togekiss/giratina altered/dialga (loss) (again another close loss despite the lead matchup.)
advanced heatran to cp3687, had the candies spare
---heatran/togekiss/dialga (win)
---groudon/giratina origin/mewtwo (win)
3-2 2893

gave dragonite a second move - not outrage, hurricane. why? you just about get enough energy before dying to togekiss and if they don't shield, hurricane does over half their health and leaves them very low - if they shield, then you've traded a lost matchup for a shield and a little bit of damage, which is the best you can hope for

---melmetal/machamp/dialga (loss) (lost excessive hp because the game wouldn't let me switch from heatran to gyarados on machamp in any reasonable time frame)
---giratina origin/togekiss/kyogre (win)
---snorlax/mamoswine/togekiss (win) (heatran basically 1v3'd)
---togekiss/heatran/mamoswine (win) (togekiss shielded hurricane. it got ancient power boost and I still won because luckily it was iron head heatran and I was smart enough to switch out my own 30% hp heatran from it and not try and save gyarados from mamoswine's ancient power at 20% hp as I needed the shield.)
---swampert/metagross/garchomp (win) (instinct worked for me here - metagross tried earthquake both times - then he took a visit to de_molished)
4-1 2907

---kyogre/togekiss/groudon (win) (got greedy with the overfarming here on dragonite and turns out that if you just take two surfs, you finish kyogre with not much hp left at all - also I think I had enough energy for hurricane when togekiss came in but not sure)
---kyogre/mamoswine/heatran (win) (lol I instaswitched dragonite to heatran when mamoswine came in on my dragon claw and then turns out it's mud slap mamoswine - still won because I think he was trying to farm me down but fire spin defeated it with heatran having 1hp - which also meant I got a free flamethrower on kyogre.)
---togekiss/dialga/mew (loss) (straight priority loss - gyarados has higher attack than mew yet mew got to use thunderbolt first despite me also pressing crunch. but togekiss let hurricane through so that's a moral victory at least)
---metagross/rhyperior/giratina origin (win) (not a fair victory but I'll take getting in charged attacks while my opponent is too laggy to respond. what else am I going to do against rhyperior?)
---heatran/togekiss/kyogre (win) (I should have lost this - I shielded heatran's stone edge as their first charged attack and was going to just let dragonite die and then they used flamethrower despite stone edge requiring the same amount of energy)
4-1 2920

---melmetal/excadrill/mewtwo (loss) (I feel I was lagging slightly as I didn't get the third dragon claw onto melmetal when normally I should be able to - I'll restart the phone and see if it gets better - also the melmetal had the sense to use superpower on heatran before going down so it's one of the tougher leads for me to deal with)
---weavile/metagross/tyranitar (win)
---rhyperior/dialga/giratina origin (win) (I VERY nearly lost this, I should have gone into heatran instead of gyarados on the dialga switch-in since I knew heatran's uses were limited anyway - if they had something that beats dragonite but loses to heatran like togekiss they'd have sent that in instead)
---machamp/melmetal/dragonite (win) (again should have gone into gyarados instead of dragonite against the dragonite switch-in but whatever)
---dialga/rhyperior/snorlax (win) (expected body slam bait off snorlax, was superpower which doesn't even KO heatran from half hp.)
4-1 2935

---dialga/darkrai/mewtwo (loss) (sometimes pressing crunch doesn't mean you actually pressed crunch, especially not against a 60% hp mewtwo with no shields who wasn't even using a charged move at the same time as you. also, turns out against an overfarmed dialga who is on 5% hp you should probably shield, draco meteor does 70% to heatran)
---?? (loss) (error finding match counts as a loss?)
---giratina origin/melmetal/kyogre (win)
---ampharos/heatran/dragonite (win) (I think he just wanted to show off his best buddy medal ampharos)
---gyarados/togekiss/rhyperior (loss) (this was just my bad - tried to go for a silly play where I preserved dragonite who had 10% hp and dragon claw and they switch to togekiss at the exact moment I go to my own gyarados.)
2-3 2930

---dialga/?? (loss) (lost connection)
---snorlax/togekiss/mewtwo (win)
---latios/mamoswine/giratina origin (win)
---giratina origin/togekiss/dialga (win)
---metagross/mewtwo/tyranitar (loss)
3-2 2935

ND
---togekiss/giratina origin/dragonite (win) (he lagged but what am I meant to do, not attack?)
---togekiss/dialga/giratina origin (loss) (what a shame, he let the hurricane through. it's not like they switch to save togekiss, most of the time they just let it die and put whatever damage on heatran that they can.)
---kyogre/snorlax/mewtwo (win)
---melmetal/dialga/togekiss (win) (I think he tried to greed for the thunder/draco meteor against gyarados and missed the 0.1sec window to actually use it)
---metagross/dialga/groudon (loss) (my mistake here was not switching to gyarados fast enough against dialga when I needed both the hp on dragonite and to keep heatran concealed in case of fairy type.)
3-2 2940

---metagross/tyranitar/togekiss (win) (he double shielded metagross which was questionable since the second was obviously dragon claw even though the first was 'outrage' - perhaps he felt I had no better metagross answer and to defend it at all costs? heatran 1v3'd since he didn't get enough energy for an earthquake I was able to double iron head tyranitar)
---machamp/togekiss/giratina origin (win)
---melmetal/dialga/togekiss (loss) (melmetal's probably the overall worst lead to deal with for this team, there's not really any room to outplay it if they just don't shield and they have superpower for heatran which charges before you can KO it with fire spin)
---togekiss/kyogre/giratina origin (loss) (at the end of the day, trading a shield for dragonite isn't really worth it)
---togekiss/giratina origin/dialga (loss) (hurricane landed so could have maybe done this but as it stands I was one fire spin off winning. heatran just won't become best buddies fast enough when time and time again it seems I need the couple extra stat points)
2-3 2936

---snorlax/melmetal/lugia (win) (yawn snorlax and flash cannon only melmetal...whatever I'll take it)
---metagross/machamp/giratina origin (loss)
---dialga/melmetal/mewtwo (win)
---dragonite/blaziken/machamp (win)
---giratina origin/darkrai/lucario (win)
4-1 2950

---kyogre/togekiss/dialga (win)
---mamoswine/kyogre/swampert (win)
---dragonite/mewtwo/giratina origin (loss)
---dialga/swampert/giratina origin (loss)
---giratina origin/melmetal/dialga (win) (remind me next time to shield heatran when it's at 60% against a melmetal)
3-2 2954

---dragonite/mewtwo/melmetal (win)
---machamp/kyogre/darkrai (win) (opponent letting darkrai get hit by outrage because they thought I was baiting with crunch is one for the highlight reel)
---mewtwo/melmetal/gyarados (win) (sort of absent-mindedly used flamethrower on a melmetal one fire spin away from fainting but he might have gotten another rock slide off so who knows)
---metagross/tyranitar/dragonite (win) (idk it seems the rank 9s who are sub 3k aren't very good as a whole)
---togekiss/groudon/raikou (win) (hurricane landed and out of tilt, my opponent tried to save their 10hp togekiss from heatran by sending in groudon - that's what we have gyarados for)
5-0 2977

ND
---tyranitar/togekiss/dialga (win) (bite ttar)
---metagross/melmetal/giratina origin (loss) (just a terrible set of 3 for me to deal with)
---kyogre/dialga/groudon (win)
---melmetal/dragonite/dialga (win) (I got a shield out of him on the lead matchup to 'even it out' and gyarados more or less 1v2 won)
---giratina origin/togekiss/melmetal (loss) (he just let togekiss die and brought in giratina origin which heatran can't really touch, making the right call regarding his melmetal being able to 1v2 the rest)
3-2 2982

---rhyperior/gyarados/metagross (win)
---metagross/gyarados/rhyperior (loss)
---dragonite/dialga/snorlax (loss)
---melmetal/giratina origin/?? (loss) (there's just no outplaying melmetal leads, sadly. they always have time to get a superpower on heatran before they faint - he didn't use any shields on melmetal and I had to use both so it was a bad spot to be in)
---dialga/tyranitar/raikou (loss) (the problem with dialga leads is that dragonite is on 45% when you get your first dragon claw so if you stay in you just feed it a full energy bar while it lives with ~20% HP and both shields - I feel next time I'll just instaswitch to gyarados and hope for the best?)
1-4 2968 (it was going to happen eventually)

---dragonite/machamp/?? (loss) (counter with the 3.5ept lol)
---heatran/dialga/giratina origin (win)
---snorlax/togekiss/dialga (win)
---swampert/dialga/togekiss (win)
---snorlax/lugia/giratina altered (loss) (I couldn't remember what lugia did and went into gyarados instead of heatran - checked and apparently heatran walls it for the most part. oh well)
3-2 2972

---gardevoir/dragonite/?? (win) (hurricane oneshots gardevoir and he just flash uninstalled the game off his phone)
---togekiss/mamoswine/metagross (win) (he shielded my hurricane and then...used ancient power on my 1hp dragonite? disaster struck, I accidentally switched to gyarados after heatran because lol switch menu bug - gyarados actually puts up a better fight than I thought and once again, he stupidly makes his mamoswine use avalanche when gyarados is 1hp. I have one shield left and he has none and heatran wins 1v2 - the SAVE!)
---giratina origin/dialga/hariyama (win) (we both had a stroke here - he farmed up to 100 energy then used iron head back to back, not even re-farming up to 65 energy, and then against hariyama I went into dragonite instead of gyarados when gyarados hard walls hariyama because the only non-fighting move it gets is heavy slam - but we won and that's the main thing)
---snorlax/togekiss/swampert (win)
---gallade/gyarados/dialga (win)
5-0 2996 (we're back in the running!)

---togekiss/latios/kyogre (win) (switched out of the lead himself for some reason?)
---machamp/weavile/salamence (win)
---kyogre/togekiss/metagross (win)
---giratina origin/magnezone/kyogre (win)
---melmetal/kyogre/togekiss (loss) (this needs no explanation.)
4-1 3010 (so...rank 10 push?)