Contests

Hey guys. Now might be a good time to give a heads up. I'm fairly straight forward with story line until contests come up. I'm sorry if I get a little distracted.


Strategy:
In any case, Today I competed in my first Hoenn Region contest in a long time. I am proud to say I got first! Which is surprising because I usually lose by a long shot. I entered a Tough Contest with my Marshtomp. I used 3 of his 4 moves: Tackle, Bide, and Mud Shot.
*- heart
X-jam


Tackle: a highly appealing move
****
Bide: Can avoid being startled by others
*
Mud Shot: Badly startles those that have made appeals
*
XXX


If you are competing with only CPU's, which I always do, then you will be contestant #4. In my case, I have been contestant #4 all my life save once. By starting off with Mud Shot, you have the potential to startle all other contestants. Though at that point they cannot retrogress, you can prevent from moving forward as much as would have originally. When you are first, it can be beneficial to use Bide because there you have the highest chance of someone startling your Pokemon. Tackle is a little better than the basic move which only gives 3 hearts. That way, when you know that you will win the audiences applause, you can use Tackle and receive the most points. In the last round, I was first and fixing to win the audiences applause. I took a risk and used Tackle instead of Bide. In the end, even though I was startled, I still earned the same amount of hearts as I would have if I used Bide. However, if it was a stronger jamming move, then I would've been better off using Bide. Sometimes, it can pay off to do a little math and predicting. Though you shouldn't spend your day working out a complex formula just to win.


This was just an example of how to you can use your moves and turn to your advantage. (Though sometimes you just can't do anything with your moves besides for hope for the best.)  I'm not saying you should start your game over and go with a Mudkip to do exactly what I did. In fact, I chose Mudkip just for old times sake. It was very surprising to learn that he had such good contest moves. 

This is just a random note


I generally use 2 nicknames: Pokemoon and Pokemoonthe1st. 
It's not very useful to identify me by because I only use them the majority of the time and I use Pokemoonthe1st when Pokemoon is taken. So therefore Pokemoon must be a popular user name. In fact, when I was making the URL, I had to use the current one because Pokemoon was already taken.


In any case, it's a general rule. So just know, if you encounter Pokemoon, it might be me, if you encounter Pokemoonthe1st, there's a higher chance it's me than if it was Pokemoon. 


Not very useful, but in case you were wondering. I'll more than likely post tomorrow .