OU ADV OverUsed Ladder Achievements

[johnnyg2]

ADV OverUsed Ladder Achievements



Hello everyone! Welcome to the ADV OverUsed ladder achievements thread. Its goal is to record the various performances of the gen3ou ladder enthusiasts, as well as to propose extra challenges to animate things a little bit.

Rules
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1. All battles must take place on the gen3ou ladder on Showdown.​
2. Please give proof that you completed the challenge to validate your achievement (mostly, screenshots of the rating reached/you owning the account a la Suspect Test).​
3. You can get several achievements from the same battle/account, and you are generally encourage to post them by batch to avoid flooding the thread if you are chaining them up. I'll like your post once I've taken it into account.​
4. Achievements can be submitted in PM to me if you want the account you used to remain inconspicuous; I will be posting them in the thread (giving your Smogon username) myself. Please only do it as little as possible though; it's less fun.
5. Past performances will not be counted; any submission needs to be verifiable on the server (by checking at the rank, WL and such) at the moment they are posted. FOR SEASON TWO, ACCOUNTS MUST BE STARTED ON OR AFTER DEC 11, 2023, NO EXCEPTIONS!
6. Any Platinum achiever in Ability, Knowledge and Tactics can submit a new record beyond the Platinum standard that will be displayed in the table's first line. Please send me a private message on Smogon or Discord (Johnnyg2) for more specifics regarding how to submit the proofs as you go further and further.
7. Naturally, don't try to cheat, i.e by submitting an achievement with an account that's not yours and yours alone. If you are caught doing so, you might get exposed and made fun of.
8. Challenges' specifics might be subject to balance changes over time (increasing or lowering their difficulties); if that happens, achievements will be adjusted when possible.
9. A Custom Avatar is available for everyone who completes all the platinum achievements!

I would like to introduce new Season Metrics! After some feedback from season 1, I wanted to make some of these harder, some easier for the best ladder in Pokemon Showdown! I have bolded the new metrics and completely redid the Luck Achievements.

Metrics challenges
FOR SEASON TWO, ACCOUNTS MUST BE STARTED ON OR AFTER DEC 11, 2023, NO EXCEPTIONS!
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Brave Achievement​	Ability Achievement​	Knowledge Achievement​	Tactics Achievement​
Reach a certain rank!​	Get a certain GXE!*​	Reach a certain elo!​	Achieve a certain win streak!**​
Platinum: Top 1 Gold: Top 5 Silver: Top 10 Bronze: Top 100​	Platinum: 86 Gold: 83 Silver: 80 Bronze: 75​	Platinum: 1800 Gold: 1750 Silver: 1650 Bronze: 1500​	Platinum: 25 Gold: 20 Silver: 18 Bronze: 15​

*your Glicko's confidence interval (i.e 1886 ± 43) must be below 51 (50 or less) to make sure your GXE is representative enough of your skill.
** I'm only taking X-0 WL records on screenshots, so if you are aiming for this you should reset your count after every loss | do not relaunch a game before I've liked your post (= validated the achievement). or, if you do, don't lose :P

Fun challenges
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Spirits Achievement​	Guts Achievement​	Luck Achievement​
Feel like a Gym Leader? Reach a certain elo with a Monotype team!​	Who uses top tiers? Reach a certain elo with borderline Pokémon!​	Lucky or good? Try those tricky challenges!​
Platinum: 1600 Gold: 1500 Silver: 1400 Bronze: 1300​	Platinum: 1650 Gold: 1550 Silver: 1450 Bronze:1350​	Platinum: 8 Luck Challenges complete. Gold: 6 LCs complete. Silver: 4 LCs complete. Bronze: 2 LCs complete.​
Only use teams with Pokémon that share a common type.​	Only use teams with at least three Pokémon that are UUBL (or in a lower tier).​	See below for details.​

Luck Achievement specifics

• The Luck Achievement is made of eight different challenges you can complete in any order. All of them require you to have a particular performance in a single match, which means replays are required to validate them. Those are an exception to the PM option in rule 4; all of them have to be posted in the thread for fun's sake. There are a couple extra conditions to not make them too easy to clear:
  • The opponent beaten must have at least 1500 elo. Your own elo does not matter.
  • The opponent must be using 6 Pokémon teams.
  • Forfeits and time-outs will only be counted if the opponent was at an extreme disadvantage/had no chance of winning the match at that point.

• Those Luck Challenges (LCs) are the following:
  • KABOOM!: Win a battle after using Self-Destruct or Explosion 5 times.
  • Death by a 1000 Cuts: Win a battle only using passive damage (Spikes, Sand, status, leech seed, etc. Damage dealing moves are banned. Team can have damage dealing moves as long as they're unused).
  • STABless: Your team members must not have STAB affected moves. Confirm with !showteam
  • Guacamole: Win a game with the following team: https://pokepast.es/48bbf5a03db29901. (Note I forgot exploud was banned, I added another Pokemon instead). No adjustments can be made, confirm with !showteam
  • The Sweepage Special: Win a battle where you announce in the chat what action you will take next turn, each turn (the name of the move you are going to use or of the Pokémon you are going to switch into).
  • Not So Weak: Win a battle using a team with all EVs at 0. (using !showteam is required at the end of the match; you need to put a single EV point in a stat on each of your Pokemon for the team to be valid)
  • Taken By Storm: Win a battle KOing the 6 opposing Pokémon by Turn 15.
  • Surgical Strike: Win a battle only sending out three Pokémon or less.

Season One Metrics

Season 1: Feb 8, 2022 - Dec 11, 2023

Metrics challenges

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Brave Achievement​	Ability Achievement​	Knowledge Achievement​	Tactics Achievement​
Reach a certain rank!​	Get a certain GXE!*​	Reach a certain elo!​	Achieve a certain win streak!**​
Platinum: Top 1 Gold: Top 3 Silver: Top 10 Bronze: Top 100​	Platinum: 88 Gold: 85 Silver: 80 Bronze: 75​	Platinum: 1700 Gold: 1650 Silver: 1600 Bronze: 1500​	Platinum: 30 Gold: 25 Silver: 20 Bronze: 15​

*your Glicko's confidence interval (i.e 1886 ± 43) must be below 51 (50 or less) to make sure your GXE is representative enough of your skill.
** I'm only taking X-0 WL records on screenshots, so if you are aiming for this you should reset your count after every loss | do not relaunch a game before I've liked your post (= validated the achievement). or, if you do, don't lose :P

Fun challenges

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Spirits Achievement​	Guts Achievement​	Luck Achievement​
Feel like a Gym Leader? Reach a certain elo with a Monotype team!​	Who uses top tiers? Reach a certain elo with borderline Pokémon!​	Lucky or good? Try those tricky challenges!​
Platinum: 1500 Gold: 1400 Silver: 1300 Bronze: 1200​	Platinum: 1550 Gold: 1450 Silver: 1350 Bronze: 1250​	Platinum: 4 Luck Challenges complete. Gold: 3 LCs complete. Silver: 2 LCs complete. Bronze: 1 LCs complete.​
Only use teams with Pokémon that share a common type.​	Only use teams with at least three Pokémon that are UUBL (or in a lower tier).​	See below for details.​

Luck Achievement specifics

• The Luck Achievement is made of four different challenges you can complete in any order. All of them require you to have a particular performance in a single match, which means replays are required to validate them. Those are an exception to the PM option in rule 4; all of them have to be posted in the thread for fun's sake. There are a couple extra conditions to not make them too easy to clear:
  • The opponent beaten must have at least 1400 elo. Your own elo does not matter.
  • The opponent must be using 6 Pokémon teams.
  • Forfeits and time-outs will only be counted if the opponent was at an extreme disadvantage/had no chance of winning the match at that point.

• Those Luck Challenges (LCs) are the following:
  • Surgical Strike: Win a battle only sending out three Pokémon or less.
  • The Sweepage Special: Win a battle where you announce in the chat what action you will take next turn, each turn (the name of the move you are going to use or of the Pokémon you are going to switch into).
  • Not So Weak: Win a battle using a team with all EVs at 0. (using !showteam is required at the end of the match; you need to put a single EV point in a stat on each of your Pokemon for the team to be valid)
  • Taken By Storm: Win a battle KOing the 6 opposing Pokémon by Turn 15.

Those who conclude all challenges will be awarded this Custom Avatar:

 

[johnnyg2]

Achievements

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	Brave Achievement​	Ability Achievement​	Knowledge Achievement​	Tactics Achievement​
All-time Record​	​	M Dragon - 94​	Kerts 1933​	johnnyg2 - 51​
Platinum​	DepressionCherry​	​	Sheik :​	baddummy, Century Express, Mintyfresh756​
Gold​	Peabnut Bubber, Sato07, Underlying​	Underlying​	Cristian Jimenez, DepressionCherry, Sato07, Underlying​	​
Silver​	​	Funkybeangamer, Sato07​	Funkybeangamer, Kappa Kore, Peabnut Bubber, Underlying​	​
Bronze​	Funkybeangamer, Underlying, Thea36​	​	Charliezard7, Thea36, Underlying​	Underlying​

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	Spirits Achievement​	Guts Achievement​	Luck Achievement​
All-time Record​	Underlying - 1612​	Pesce5667 - 1861​	​
Platinum​	Kappa Kore, Underlying​	Kappa Kore, Mintyfresh756, Underlying​	Sato07, Underlying​
Gold​	​	Gul Macet​	​
Silver​	Illyrios​	​	​
Bronze​	​	BlerpDerpSkerp​	Cristian Jimenez, Illyrios​

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Seasonal Records

Season 1: Feb 8, 2022 - Dec 11, 2023

Achievements

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	Brave Achievement​	Ability Achievement​	Knowledge Achievement​	Tactics Achievement​
All-time Record​	​	M Dragon - 94​	Kerts 1933​	johnnyg2 - 51​
Platinum​	ABR, airports,Altina, Arcanis Prime, Century Express, Conflict, Endill,Fear, F1shingRod, Gacu, Hclat, Ibidemsa, Jimothy Cool, johnnyg2, Kalaveet,Kerts, Kollin7, Kristyl,L3W, M Dragon, Mead, Pesce5667, Sapphire Star,vapicuno, w_r​	ABR, johnnyg2, Hclat, Kristyl, M Dragon, Shitrock enjoyer​	ABR, airports,Altina, Redless Century Express, Cdijk16, Conflict, DepressionCherry, Endill, Expulso, Fear, F1shingRod, Funkybeangamer, Gacu, Hclat, HenrikeDoge, HumYum, johnnyg2, Kalaveet, Kerts, Kollin7 ,Kristyl,Leo, Lekstaz, LoD Shiddo, L3W,M Dragon, Malphoria, Mead, Mintyfresh756, Pesce5667, pixie909, Queueueuebone, Sapphire Star, Sato07, Segale, Sepulo, Shitrock enjoyer, TyCarter, vapicuno, Voyager, w_r, Zacpz​	johnnyg2, We Three Kings​
Gold​	Expulso, Fear, HumYum, Leo, Redless, Sepulo, Smurf., Zacpz​	Altina, Arcanis Prime, Century Express, Conflict, Endill, F1shingRod, Gacu, Ibidemsa, Kerts, Kollin7,Mead, Sapphire Star vapicuno, w_r​	Alice Kazumi, Arcanis Prime, cactuTH6, Danzilla, Elian, Ibidemsa, Ghostfall22, goldmason, Jimothy Cool, Kalaveet, Kollin7, , Mattakata, Smurf., sulcata, Zerkas​	Astamatitos, M Dragon, w_r​
Silver​	cactuTH6, Cdijk16, Cowboy Dan, DepressionCherry, Dubbcan, Elian, -Frexa-, Funkybeangamer, Ganso, goldmason, Mattakata, Mintyfresh756, Pkmn trainer Rizzo, Plushietran, Sato07, sulcata, TyCarter, Zacpz, Zerkas​	airports, Cowboy Dan, Coton, Cristian Jimenez,Elian, Expulso, Fear, -Frexa-, Funkybeangamer, Jimothy Cool, Kalaveet, Leo, LoD Shiddo, L3W, Pkmn trainer Rizzo, Redless, Sepulo, sulcata, Zerkas​	ABC-Trainer, AC7, Alice Kazumi, berry, cactuTH6,Celticryan94, Cristian Jimenez, Cowboy Dan, Deezcastforms, Dubbcan, Elian, Fear, Flame._., -Frexa-, Funkybeangamer Ghostfall22, Leftwingbo, LoD Shiddo, kenny, Melanie goes boating, paolode99, pixie909, Plushietran, Pkmn trainer Rizzo, Zacpz, Zerkas​	earl gr3y, Elian, NEON_Voyager, pixie909, vapicuno​
Bronze​	ABC-Trainer, Arty224, AC7, Alice Kazumi, Askov, berry Cdijk16, Coton , cyberas, Danzilla, File 13, Flame._., Funkybeangamer, I Click Things, LoD Shiddo, kenny, Malphoria, Melanie goes boating, ojr, Osterzone, paolode99, pixie909 Shock3600, Tempokin, TyCarter, Zerkas​	berry, Boogario, cactuTH6, Cdijk16, Dubbcan, Elian, I Click Things, Maestro Venusaur,Mattakata, Smurf.​	ABC-Trainer, Arty224, Askov, AutumnMint, berry, Blizihguh, Boogario, cherryb0ng, Coton , cyberas, Denojap, EarthTraveler413, Erfder, File 13, Fojo, Girl Anachronism, klaus_27, HumYum, I Click Things, ItalianTresza, LoD Shiddo, Maestro Venusaur, MaybeModest, Stella_R, Osterzone, PikaPikaChuuuuuu, PoiGrenade, Shock3600, Vent, VincentGaming0, VZR, YubelVT​	Cdijk16, Cristian Jimenez, Elian, Funkybeangamer Maestro Venusaur, Sepulo, Takatk​

	Spirits Achievement​	Guts Achievement​	Luck Achievement​
All-time Record​	mikmer - 1605​	Pesce5667 - 1824​	Mead for having done all four in a single battle​
Platinum​	ABR, Elian, F1shingRod,Gul Macet,johnnyg2, luisin, Mead, M Dragon, mikmer, Mintyfresh756 , nanashi, ojr, Osterzone, Queueueuebone, w_r​	ABC-Trainer, ABR, Barry Limoncello, DepressionCherry, Erfder, F1shingRod, Gul Macet, Jimothy Cool, johnnyg2, Kollin7, L3W, M Dragon, Mead, Mintyfresh756, Pesce5667, Sepulo, w_r, vapicuno​	ABR, Elian, F1shingRod,johnnyg2, luisin, M Dragon, Mead, RL, w_r​
Gold​	​	Boogario, Cdijk16, HeyYa!_Forte, Jimothy Cool, RL, Valyns, VulpixUnion Queueueuebone,Queen of Bean​	​
Silver​	Zacpz, RL​	cactuTH6,Veexliat,lacoot​	adorluigi, Deezcastforms, Denojap, Erfder, Funkybeangamer, Leo, Mattakata, Ryphereon, Shitrock enjoyer, Tempokin, VincentGaming0, xtinaxendrix​
Bronze​	Arty224, Blizihguh, Cdijk16, VincentGaming0​	A Welcome Guest, Girl Anachronism, SpooningManatee, VincentGaming0​	Agentkeval, berry, Deezcastforms, L3W, HumYum, ojr, Osterzone, PolarisADV, Zacpz​

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[Voyager]

Claiming silver tactics
(Confidence is too low for gold ability )

 

[johnnyg2]

Now that the week for spl is over, I'm posting for the platinum achievements of 1700+ and top the ladder for teamaqua124.

These were recorded on Thursday, so I'm not sure if i decayed below 1700, but I can get back up if you'd like.

shout out to kerts who got about 100 pts off of me during the late stages

EDIT: I got back up to 1700 and got 88% GXE in the last screenshot

 

[M Dragon]

 

[Kerts]

Edit: got the Elo record and top 1

 

[M Dragon]

Screen before I lost:

 

[Smurf.]

what kind of hyperstall are you using mariano

 

[M Dragon]

Lost at game 29

 

[Smurf.]

big papa smurf claiming gold for rank and elo.

someone low ranked please bop above user so the push for the summit is reasonable - i actually have other things outside of mons to do

 

[Teclis]

I added some "fun" challenges to the mix. They are more or less goofy, but I hope they will be of interest to those of you who are looking for...experiments to attempt. Enjoy!

 

[johnnyg2]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1527775701-opkgdnsxd9jr5jxh4jlmrj1nul57ruqpw

tried and true strategy of suicune + booms for surgical strike :)

I'll try to do the others for the luck achievement later

 

[Altina]

I'm coming for u mdragon

edit:

 

[Zacpz]

Claiming spirits silver (for now)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1529701652

 

[mikmer]

claiming platinum spirits achievement.

Fuck that was harder than i thought.
Here's the final version of the team that i used monotype (pokepast.es)
Most of the replays are saved and public, if some are private it's because my opponent made it so, so if u want more replays for proof just pm me.

edit, i'm 1600 now :

 

[Teclis]

I'm adding a quick poll at the top regarding the validation modalities for the Spirits and Guts challenges. It will remain open for a couple days, so if you are interested in all this (which I assume you are if you are checking this thread), don't hesitate to vote!

The idea is to have some kind of safeguard against people trying to score those achievements having laddered w ZapDugTTarLoomJiraCune:

• option 1: have people ladder with prefixed accounts (a la ladder tournaments), which is the case now. you would only be using such an account if you are trying to do a particular achievement, meaning that if you are meeting someone with this prefix and they see you trying to cheat on that it's likely you will be exposed. good incentive not to cheat & typically what has been done in similar settings across the Showdown community.
• option 2: have people ladder on whatever (fresh account) they want and be ready to submit a decent chunk of replays of their run to me in PM for verification's sake if I think it's needed. it has the advantage of not forcing people to use prefix and thus lose in surprise effect (it's hard to have to play Monotype in the first place and ever harder if your opponent knows you are doing so t0), but provides a bit less control.

2 looks somewhat more practical to me but I prefer polling it to try to make it more objective. Cheers!

edit - majority seems to be in favor of option 2, so thats what we will be rolling with moving forward.

 

[Zacpz]

Taken by storm
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1531464519-lmthusfgeklh31iq9i8r9n6m9gfx58vpw

 

[johnnyg2]

Not so weak. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1536140942-7u53dkfwar1d6jgk8p8hvkbqy150y0gpw (Winning against this kind of team is prob a bit cheating, but yama was going to sweep)

This was extremely difficult. I tried a normal team here: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1535694548-3zizpqy59mgwywann5a7zrcprwzr83zpw but this was below 1400.

I didnt save too many interactions, but i showed some below.

 

[Teclis]

A change to the Luck challenge:

• Not So Weak: Win a battle using a team with all EVs at 0 and all IVs at 0. (using !showteam is required at the end of the match; you need to put a single EV point in a stat on each of your Pokemon for the team to be valid)

Adding IVs decreases the difficulty a little bit both due to the boost in stats & the fact you can now use Hidden Power(s). This should now lean closer to the right side of the challenging - frustrating balance those challenges aim to maintain. Having said that, massive congratulations to johnnyg2 for having cleared the original version

And a precision:

• The Sweepage Special: Win a battle where you announce in the chat what action you will take next turn, each turn (the name of the move you are going to use or of the Pokémon you are going to switch into).

Probably the hardest of them all, might be nerfed later if it ends being too hard.
e: this aged badly ^

 

[johnnyg2]

The sweepage special: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1536269031-xbttp99s32db8rb6dc3ngyxw0d17c8bpw

let me know if my errors to say one of my move (eqing an agiligross w flygon) is too much and ill redo it

 

[johnnyg2]

Taken by storm: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1536319277-njj16ww7sox2ftgl92qtr5x4ea21t9ppw

Shout out to teclis for the idea, was fun coming up w teams to try this

 

[Altina]

Turned the brave gold into platinum after mdragon decayed

 

[-Frexa-]

Claiming silver for Brave achievement, Ability achievement and Knowledge achievement.

 

[ABR]

ability + knowledge platinum

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brave platinum

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edit: updated elo/gxe and combined into one post

 

[Leo]

silver brave, silver ability, silver knowledge

proof

...for now