Replay film room · RU Match Desk

The guide pins 19 public [Gen 3] RU replays and 669 turns uploaded from July 4 through July 26, after the June 12 source change that moved Manectric to RUBL. All 19 lack ladder ratings; five carry tournament labels. A single repeated pairing supplies 12 games.

The source-date boundary does not prove which server revision ran a battle or whether hidden team slots were legal. The included logs use the exact format label and reveal no conflict with the current format. Unrevealed Pokémon remain unknown, and move, item, and ability records include only information exposed by the protocol.

These films were chosen for mechanisms that transfer to other teams. They do not rank the teams, reconstruct private sets, or turn one result into a matchup claim. The full replay ledger keeps the remaining games, rosters, and protocol counts searchable.

Four pause points

For each replay, stop at four moments:

First commitment: when does a lead, layer, status move, or setup turn spend a resource?
Assignment change: which defensive or offensive job moves after a trade?
Endgame reveal: which cleaner or emergency stop had been kept back?
Counterfactual: does the lesson survive the visible miss, critical hit, or secondary effect?

Grade the choice from information available on that turn. A move learned later cannot make an earlier decision obvious in retrospect.

Film 1: price the first layer

frlgmeta vs isamu_mzm · gen3ru-2654964569
July 26 · 57 turns · isamu_mzm won · both six-Pokémon rosters revealed

Protocol checkpoints:

Turn 1: Meganium uses Swords Dance while Roselia lays Spikes.
Turn 2: Meganium’s Hidden Power knocks out Roselia from full.
Turn 3: Meganium’s Earthquake takes Wailord to 56%; Wailord uses Roar, and Hypno loses 12% to the layer on entry.
Turns 41–46: Meganium attempts a second setup endgame, but Clefable paralyzes it and finishes the exchange with Seismic Toss.

Study question: before turn 1 resolves, list Roselia’s remaining jobs and every legal switch. Which jobs move to another teammate if Roselia is spent for one layer?

Reusable lesson: the layer had later value, but its price included Roselia’s Water, Electric, status, and hazard assignments. Price both sides of that exchange before defaulting to Spikes.

Luck audit: the log records no misses or critical hits. It still cannot show what an unplayed switch would have produced, and revealed species do not expose every move.

Film 2: turn the setter’s last HP into tempo

dubwool12345 vs thleis · gen3ru-2654082457
July 24 · 20 turns · thleis won · six species revealed against four

Protocol checkpoints:

Turn 11: Pineco takes Sludge Bomb to 74% and sets the first layer.
Turns 12–13: Pineco completes all three layers. Poison leaves it at 27%.
Turn 14: Sludge Bomb leaves Pineco at 2%; Explosion takes Swalot to 4% and Pineco faints.
Turn 15: Persian finishes Swalot. Rapidash then enters at 76% because all three layers remain.

Study question: from the revealed board on turn 11, which actions could deny the second or third layer? If none are clean, which Pokémon should receive Pineco’s Explosion?

Reusable lesson: Pineco used one opening to finish its hazard job and spend its last HP on the intended trade. Explosion missed the knockout, so the faster follow-up mattered.

Luck audit: an earlier turn-3 critical hit changed the Politoed exchange, and another critical hit occurred on turn 18. Two of thleis’s species remained hidden. The turns 11–15 sequence is exact; the final result is not a clean test of Pineco teams.

Film 3: a Ghost must meet the Spin turn

frlgmeta vs isamu_mzm · gen3ru-2653977756
July 24 · 103 turns · frlgmeta won · both six-Pokémon rosters revealed

Protocol checkpoints:

Turn 16: Hitmonchan removes two layers with Rapid Spin. Roselia’s Stun Spore lands, but Lum Berry cures it immediately.
Turn 34: Hitmonchan clears the re-laid layer while Mantine, rather than Haunter, enters.
Turn 48: Haunter leaves for Mantine on turn 47; Hitmonchan then spins away two more layers while taking Surf.
Turns 50 and 66: Roselia lays another layer, and that layer later knocks out Kecleon on entry.

Study question: mark every turn on which Hitmonchan could Spin. Where was Haunter, what did switching it in risk, and how much value had the current layers already produced?

Reusable lesson: spinblocking requires the Ghost to occupy the field on the Rapid Spin turn. Re-laying Spikes can still pay after repeated clears, but every layer needs a new positioning sequence.

Luck audit: Rock Slide misses on turns 75 and 79, and Aggron’s turn-83 Double-Edge critical hit knocks out Hypno. Those events affect the late result without changing the logged hazard exchanges.

Film 4: weather is decided one move at a time

frlgmeta vs isamu_mzm · gen3ru-2651433494
July 19 · 24 turns · frlgmeta won · three species revealed against six

Protocol checkpoints:

Turn 5: Rapidash sets sun; Kabutops’s Rain Dance resolves afterward and leaves rain active.
Turn 6: Kabutops breaks Rapidash’s Substitute, then Rapidash restores sun.
Turn 19: Victreebel sets sun first; Kabutops’s later Rain Dance leaves rain.
Turns 20–21: Kabutops’s Rain Dance resolves first, Victreebel restores sun afterward, and Solar Beam knocks out Kabutops.
Turns 22–24: Victreebel converts the remaining sun turns into the last two knockouts.

Study question: after each weather move, write the active weather and remaining turns. Which side is converting the window into damage, and which side is spending a turn to take control of the field?

Reusable lesson: manual-weather mirrors hinge on which weather move resolves last and whether the next turn converts it. A weather reset can be more valuable than immediate damage when it changes both Speed and move behavior.

Luck audit: Politoed misses Blizzard on turns 1 and 2, and Kabutops’s turn-13 Hidden Power critical hit knocks out Rapidash. The weather order is exact; the result is variance-heavy.

Companion film: the same pairing in gen3ru-2651436240 reaches a different sun route. Roselia sets three layers by turn 9. Victreebel starts sun on turn 14, Camerupt renews it on turn 22, and Rapidash takes five knockouts from turns 25–30 after the Water, Rock, and Normal answers have been worked into range. The log also records five misses, so study the handoff from setter to closer rather than the final margin.

Film 5: renew the screens before the sacrifice

isamu_mzm vs frlgmeta · gen3ru-2651423473
July 19 · 31 turns · isamu_mzm won · four species revealed against six

Protocol checkpoints:

Turns 20–21: Mr. Mime sets Light Screen against Politoed, then Reflect as Aggron enters.
Turns 25–26: Mr. Mime renews both screens and is knocked out by Aggron’s Earthquake. Poliwrath enters at 75%.
Turn 27: Poliwrath uses Belly Drum, drops to 25%, and activates Salac Berry.
Turns 28–31: Poliwrath uses Brick Break to knock out Clefable, Rapidash, Politoed, and Aggron.

Study question: pause on turn 20 and count the screen turns. Which opposing resources can still stop Belly Drum Poliwrath, and which turns remove or chip them before Poliwrath enters?

Reusable lesson: screens are timed assets. Renewing them immediately before the setter is spent lets the cleaner enter inside the intended window instead of inheriting an expiring field.

Luck audit: Primeape’s turn-7 Cross Chop critical hit removes Meganium. The screen-to-drum sequence is exact, but the final board was shaped by that earlier knockout.

Film 6: Banette creates the Hitmonchan endgame

DonBoneJones vs Beesinyourchair · gen3ru-2653964263
July 24 · 32 turns · DonBoneJones won · five species revealed against six

Protocol checkpoints:

Turns 11–13: Banette enters on Meganium’s Swords Dance, burns Whiscash on the switch, and then Taunts it.
Turns 14–18: Banette presses with Shadow Ball and Hidden Power, leaving Aggron at 33% before taking paralysis.
Turns 23–25: Hitmonchan uses Bulk Up as Meganium uses Synthesis, then knocks it out with two Sky Uppercuts.
Turns 26–29: Whiscash uses Rest at 38%. Hitmonchan takes two more Bulk Up turns over the Rest turn and first sleep turn, then knocks it out.
Turns 30–32: Hidden Power removes Mantine and Mach Punch removes Aggron.

Study question: list every defensive job Whiscash and Aggron still held when Banette touched them. Which of those jobs became an entry or setup turn for Hitmonchan?

Reusable lesson: Banette can create progress without taking the final knockouts. Burn, Taunt, broad coverage, and its willingness to trade can force recovery and leave a bulky Hitmonchan healthy enough to close.

Luck audit: Raichu’s turn-10 Thunderbolt critical hit knocks out Mr. Mime before the Banette sequence begins. The replay shows a coherent Banette-to-Hitmonchan handoff, not a guaranteed sweep against the same six.

Three shorter clips

Aphynobiprimes vs 2pac hit em up · gen3ru-2647597337: Azumarill uses Belly Drum on turn 1, but Metang combines resistance, Toxic, and Protect to compress it into an even trade by turn 6. Body Slam paralysis and the Protect pattern are random, so study the available response package rather than treating Metang as a guaranteed counter.
frlgmeta vs isamu_mzm · gen3ru-2651429636: Xatu reveals Haze on turn 10 and is gone by turn 16. Victreebel finds a new Swords Dance turn on turn 18 and takes the remaining four knockouts. The clip asks whether an emergency answer is being preserved for every live setup threat.
Rambode vs isamu_mzm · gen3ru-2643921153: Xatu pressures Pineco on each attempted entry and knocks it out on turn 9 before Spikes appear. This is hazard control through entry denial rather than removal.

What to watch across the corpus

Use the full ledger to answer one question at a time:

Which leads set Spikes immediately, and which preserve the setter?
What enters Raichu first, and how does Raichu punish it?
Does Aggron use Double-Edge as the middle click, call Focus Punch, paralyze, or preserve its resistances?
Which Hypno moves are revealed, and what teammates use its support?
When does a bulky Hitmonchan attack instead of preserving priority or Spin?
Which answer contains Banette after its item and last move split are known?
Which teams make progress without Spikes?
Which setup threat stays hidden until its nominal wall is chipped?

Repeated tests can be useful film. They are still one group’s work, so carry the mechanism into the builder rather than the raw frequency.

Six-line review card

For any replay, write:

Known: what had actually been revealed?
Live branches: which sets or roles still fit?
Assignment spent: which job disappeared with the last trade?
Conversion gained: what did that expenditure create?
New endgame: which cleaner or emergency stop matters now?
Counterfactual: which miss, critical hit, roll, or unplayed reply could change the conclusion?

Save the six lines beside the replay and compare them with the builder checklist.