Greatest escape or Comeback

[GatoRage]

Have you ever had a battle were the odds are so stacked against you that a victory seems nigh impossible, but through some incredible luck or strategic move you still came out victorious?

If so please share.

Here's mine:

Spoiler

I'm battling the Battle Factory head Thorton in Singles Lv.100.

My team:
Gliscor
Hariyama
Dragonite

His team:
Snorlax
Meganium
Probopass

So the battle starts, he sends out Snorlax and I send out Gliscor.
I try a Counter, expecting a physical attack but the Snorlax uses Curse. Not much my Gliscor can do here.
I switch to my Hariyama while fatty Curses up again.
I go for a Dynamicpunch.......misses.
The Snorlax uses Return, and with two Curses + Stab, knocks out my Hariyama easily.
I send out my Gliscor again, but this time with an ace up my sleeve, because said Gliscor knows Guillotine and now is the time to use it.
So I use Guillotine......miss, Snorlax curses up.
I try again.....another miss. Snorlax uses another Curse even though he can already sweep my team.
Guillotine once more......yet another miss. The Snorlax finally uses Return, surely no way back from this.
But wait, Gliscor was holding a Focus Sash, I get another chance.
So with 1 HP I try Guillotine for surely the last time..........miss.
But then something incredible happens. Ignoring all sense of logic the Snorlax uses Rock Slide......
Gliscor avoided the attack.
Yes! This has got to be a sign, I say to myself.
So then I use my last Guillotine.......and watched in amazement as those two huge claws come up and clamps the Snorlax.
I laugh like a maniac as I watch the HP bar whittle all the way down to zero.
I can't lose now, I just can't.
He sends out Probopass.
I knock it out with an Earthquake in a blink of an eye.
He sends out Meganium, I E'quake it as well just to decrease it's HP. He finishes Gliscor off with an AncientPower.
I send out my Dragonite.
The Meganium's faster and uses AncientPower. My HP goes down to half.
I fire off a Flamethrower. He survives with oh so little HP.
He uses another AncientPower, I sit there in horror as my HP goes down.
"It's not STAB, It's not STAB" I say to myself.
"But it's super-effective" I remind myself of.
I survive....with 14 hp left.
I finish it off with another Flamethrower.

And then I wondered how on earth I won.....

So, have you ever experienced a "Great Escape" or a thrilling comeback?

 

[chimera]

Let's see... Hmm.
Well, I was soloing the E4 in SS with Meganium. I ran into a sticky situation, however.
Dragonite uses Outrage, it's a critical hit and Meganium is down to 12 health. I use a Full Restore, Dragonite then uses Fire Blast, but Meganium's incredible Sp. Def causes it to do hardly anything. Meganium finishes Dragonite off with AncientPower and continues to destroy the rest of Lance's team.

 

[hurristat]

I was down 5-3 to lance in SoulSilver -- I managed to pull it to 1-1, but it was Pupitar vs. Aerodactyl? I'm fucked right. 13 HP, out of revives and full restores. HE MISSES with Air Slash, and I Rock Slide to the championship.

GREATEST. WIN. EVER.

 

[Zekurom]

I once used a Level 3 Bidoof in a battle to revive one of my other monsters (who were in their 40's).

 

[Fennel]

I think I already posted this somewhere, but I'll say it again.

I was tagging with Hilbert and facing the Subway Bosses. Both my Pokémon were down and Hilbert had an Amoonguss out, I think. The Bosses had Klinklang and Durant left. Amoonguss' only attack was Giga Drain. I thought I was screwed. But with the help of Spore, Ingrain, and Double Team, it pulled through and we won. I lol'd.

 

[Composer]

The greatest comeback was that of Darach when I was battling him in HG first time.
Our last Pokemon.
It was my Dragonite vs. his Houndoom.I chose outrage.
Houndoom uses crunch,getting my Dragonite to about 60 percent,but lowering it's defense meaning the nex hit will knock my Dragonite out.
Now Dragonite's only chance is to OHKO the bastard.
Dragonite uses outrage and does the OHKO,but as I celebrate,I notice the message:Enemy Houndoom hung on it's Focus sash!
Lucky bastard.

 

[Karpi]

Silver version, in which all close battles involve Red:

Spoiler

Yes, I'm battling Red again. This battles sticks in my mind because it was so close the entire time - my 5 pokemon all being around level 45

First round, my Quagsire creams his Pikachu - go figure. This isn't the cool part lol.

I send out Murkrow against his Espeon, and it gets dangerous! I specifically caught this bird because Psychic was destroying all of my pokemon. I have to use several X Defends to be able to take less than half from Espeon's Swift, and from there I spam Shadow Ball and Faint Attack until it gets to low health. Intense, but not the really close part.

My Magmar fights Venusaur and it conveniently sets up Sunny Day for me! Seriously, Red's Venusaur is bad against fire types. As with Pikachu, go figure.

Magmar foolishly tries to fight Charizard and ends up getting destroyed by Wing Attack. Quagsire is my only option at this point because everyone else will die in one hit. Turns out Quagsire dies in 2. I had to send him in, take a hit, Surf, take another hit and die, and then revive and heal him twice to kill this stupid dragon off. Meaning I'm running low on team members, but it should be fine, right?

Blastoise turns out to be exactly the same menace except in Water type form. I have my Meganium, fortunately, and I bait it into using Blizzard by switching in and out between it and Quagsire until Blastoise only has its water moves left. Then I slowly beat it with Razor Leaf.

Snorlax is a good choice on Red's part, I will give him that. It ate Meganium and Quagsire alive, and with Murkrow and Magmar already dead, it's looking grim for me! I have one pokemon left - Stantler!

As we all know, Stantler is not a particularly GOOD pokemon. I fully expected to lose here, but had a small chance if I could get a Hypnosis in! I do, and follow it up with a Nightmare. Then I have a short celebration because I think I have just beaten Red!

It turns out Stantler's Double-edge does much less than I would have liked and Snorlax has plenty of time to Snore for decent damage, wake up, and Rest off all the damage.

This continues for a while and I slowly start to panic. I had been getting lucky and one Body Slam would have finished me off the whole time. I use my Hypnosis + Nightmare combo once again, hoping for a miracle!

I pull that off, and even though I know Double-edge won't kill it, I can hope for a long sleep, right?

I GET A CRITICAL HIT ON DOUBLE-EDGE AND TAKE IT OUT!

YES!

Except... Stantler's HP starts to decline rapidly from a huge amount of recoil. I survive in the red with a sliver of health left, and I have finally beat Red!

I wasn't really planning on having most of these pokemon, but in the end we all came together!

Technically it's not a COMEBACK, it's more of a "several moments where I avoided ugly defeats"

 

[JohtoMotto]

Ugh. 2 days ago I thought I was good enough to take on Chuck in my Nuzlocke.

After all I had a level 32 noctowl, level 28 nidorina and a level 35 Ampharos. I should be fine?

Spoiler

Start with Noctowl and he gets off with Primape.

I hit it with Hypnosis but the next turn it wakes up and double teams.

I get hit with some fighting move instead of rock slide and I get taken into yellow. I then Reflect and while it spams Double team I eventually hit it with a Air slash and kill it.

He gets Poliwrath in so I switch to Ampharos. He charges a focus punch while I foolishly did a Thunder Wave. I go into about half health. I then charge and he hits me with a body slam. I only lose a slight bit of damage so im in yellow. He then manages to survive a charged thundershock and destroy my Ampharos with a crit body slam.... :'( RIP Sparks.

I then think, oh shit, Noctowl can't fight? Oh well lets see what Nidorina can do. I had a Moon Stone but im waiting for toxic spikes and I don't want it to be a super effective surf that kills me.

So I send in Nidorina and it Double Kicks Poliwrath. But he healed this turn so he's still in green. I then do another double kick and he goes into about 1/2 of his health. He Body slams WHICH CRITS and I manage to scrape through with 6 HP. I then go for a Double Kick.

CRIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!! POLIWRATH GOES DOWN AND I GET AN AWSOME REVENGE KILL STORY!! YEW!

RIP Sparks 6-35

 

[Kenshi]

I think I already posted this somewhere, but I'll say it again.

I was tagging with Hilbert and facing the Subway Bosses. Both my Pokémon were down and Hilbert had an Amoonguss out, I think. The Bosses had Klinklang and Durant left. Amoonguss' only attack was Giga Drain. I thought I was screwed. But with the help of Spore, Ingrain, and Double Team, it pulled through and we won. I lol'd.

Had a similar experience, with my Serperior down because of its bad Defense stat (fuck, even the nature's bad for that one... unlucky), as well as this other 'mon I was using. I managed to take down all the ones up to the last one with me, but Hilda's first Pokemon kept missing and killed itself, and the second one was down to half health, but it eventually won and came with it 10 battle points. Haven't gone back in the subway since, though. (Aside from getting IVs evaluated, I mean.)

 

[Baron Dante]

Hmm. I played an Ruby hack (Can't remember what), with a "Dark Lugia" or something. When you first fight that thing, it will be at level 100 (And in multiple later occassions), until you finally can catch it.

So, in every single of these battles, which you are meant to lose, I pulled wins on it with one and same strategy.

The problem was that once it came pretty much from the blue and I only had my level 40 something Venusaur. Normally, I would spam accuracy dropping moves with other pokemon, then Leech Seed and Poison it, and then spam Double Team, to avoid it's OHKO move (I THINK it just plain kills everything)... I didn't have anyone to drop the accuracy though, and Double team out of PP. The accuracy of the move is something like 90-95%, so go figure, I just go with "Gonna get killed", leech seed it, and then Stun Spore. I win after it missing 5 times and being paralyzed on all other turns.

 

[Pokefannn]

I managed to beat Misty with a typhlosion in Gold. All of my other pokemon were knocked out and she still had two pokemon. Fortunayley, I had a lot of potions.

 

[Thundagere]

I'm up against N, and I have my Herdier, my Pignite, and a newly caught Darumaka that I'm not sure whether to train.
What happens?
I take out three of N's pokemon, no problem, but then Sigilyph comes over. I'm not fast enough, he taked out Pignite. My Herdier's take down gets him to half health, but he crits and takes out the dog.
I bring out Darumaka. Not trained, first battle ever. SOMEHOW, it lives a Psybeam, and follows up with a critical Fire Fang...most EPIC EVER.
I only nickname the pokemon I train, with the exception of Adonis, my Drillbur whom I stuffed in the box. I named Darumaka Gianni, after...a pizza place. But hey, had to honor him somehow.

 

[British Banette]

mine would be when i was vsing a friend. i had my poliwrath and i had put his dragonite to sleep with hypnosis. i then kept pounding him with my focus punch. he then woke up and took me down to red so i used anouther hypnosis. i kept focus punching until we where both on critical hp and then he woke up. used dragon rush...But missed. now i had charged up a focus punch the previous turn i pounded him for the game.(we both had 1 pokemon left)

 

[Oswin]

This was ages ago on a random Wi-Fi battle.

It was a six on six battle, we were both down to our last Pokemon, my Infernape vs. Ninetails.

I had already used Close Combat a couple times in the battle and was pretty low on health. His Ninetails was at full health and all I needed was one hit and I would have been toast.

I used Close Combat and won, a one hit ko!
This was the best time to get a critical hit.

I'll always remember this.

 

[yourlilemogirl]

(back in June of '10)
6vs6 full on battle against the gym leader Justy in Colosseum. My Umbreon was the last poke left on my team against Justy's double team/sandstorm spamming Sandshrew (who was 10 lvls higher than Umbreon, as was his entire team so that caught me way off guard ) i had only taught him Toxic before the battle, and thanks to that move, the double team spammer went down when one more blow and damage from sandstorm would've finished me for good. (i couldn't restart the battle cuz i forgot to save beforehand :X) i'd have to say it was the most epic battle of my pokemon life So even though tanks aren't good for a double battle team/game, i'm never abandoning Black Jack the Umbreon


and most recently, when i went against the e4 champ in White.
Alder was the biggest pain. Especially since i messed up and didn't know that if you walk up to the champ it forces you to auto-battle D: i didn't even get a chance to heal my half dead team D:> which....made my come-back victory all the sweeter >

 

[Bazzle]

The other day I was experimenting with semi-implausible 2v2 strategies and opened with espeon and snorlax.
Feeling a tad ambitious, I used Belly Drum on Snorlax first move of the game. Risky,right? Always is.
My opponent opened with a Meganium and Gengar. Meganium Giga Drained Snorlax for about 30%, leaving him alive, but not gonna live much longer. The Gengar anticipated a Psychic from Espeon and switched out. Espeon however, did no such thing. I had equipped it with a lagging tail to make it go last and had him Psych Up Snorlax's +6 attack bonus. Useless for a Special Sweeper, right?

Nope. Next Turn, I Baton Passed the bonus to Bullet Punch / Earthquake Metagross.
It was the most thorough sweep I've ever had.