So I'm going to attempt to make a weekly discussion topic every week to bring some life back to the battle tower.

So what makes you ragequit a battle? Hax? Outpredicted? Stall?

Likewise are there sets you use to cause the opponent to ragequit? Or just make them rage in the chat?

So post and discuss your ragequit strategies, stories and movesets.

I don't like to ragequit but I have caused it before. I just get lucky and hax them out, and they don't like that. They also tend to ragequit when one of my sweepers starts going through their entire team.

I really hate stall though. It is probably one of the things that comes closest to making me ragequit, along with Umbreon's; they give me problems.

It bugs me when people forfeit late game as you are sweeping through their team, you'd think after a 50 turn battle you can be kind enough to stick around another two turns and just say Good game.

I had a guy recently rage in chat on my Sub/LSeed/T-wave/Iron head Ferrothorn basically paraflinching and substalling his entire offensive team out. When they spam "f*** you noob" "haxhaxhah" I almost have to say I love the hate

Does it make a difference if you forfeit or lose?

I dislike Salamence since it wrecks my entire team. Sometimes I forfeit right off the bat if I see one in the opponent's team. I've never had someone rage at me (except maybe once in Spanish but I had no idea what they were saying) despite being rather annoying at times.

Been loving this set lately, it can really make the opponent rage when played well.

Gothitelle
Timid @ Choice Scarf
Shadow tag
4hp 252atk 252spd
-Trick
-Magic Coat
-Psyshock
-Thunderbolt

Bring this in against any defensive lead Forretress,Skarmory,Ferrothorn,Hippowdon etc. Simply Trickscarf them and follow-up with magic coat to force them to set hazards on themselves. Then you can whittle their HP down with Psyshock/T-bolt until their own hazards will KO if they switch back in, then switch out to a powerful boosting sweeper suck as DDhaxorus/gyara, Volcorona, or Cloyster for a free set-up (or two as it seems people prefer to leave the crippled poke in and assume it's going to be ko'd.)

My personal pet peeve is Volcarona- my team has no great counters to it, and after a couple of Quiver Dances, it's pretty much hopeless for me.

On the other side though, I love to see people's rage quitting reactions whenever I get the opportunity to stall then sweep their team with my Sigilyph. Build up the Cosmic Powers, pass on crippling burns with Flame Orb/Psycho Shift, and then demolish any non dark type with Stored Power, replenishing health with Roost all the while. The only downfall- unlucky crits from a Night Slash or Stone Edge.

No one ever wants to face my Cloyster lead. There is even one guy I know who outright refuses to face me if I use it (he's never been on the receiving end of mine, but has with others).

And do I blame them? No; my Cloyster sweeps entire teams of Ubers. I need just 1 turn to set up and I'm golden...unless priority.

Moral of the story: run priority.