Your Epic Final Stands

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Game: Pokemon Stadium
Place: Gym Leader Tower
Age: 10
Opponent: Lance of the Elite Four

The fight had gone on for a while and we were both down to our last pokemon. Me with a Golduck and him with Dragonair. Golduck was paralyzed and had already suffered some damage from earlier in the battle. I kept struggling against my enemy's Wrap attack and when that finally ended my pokemon was fully paralyzed. I was sure i would lose this fight now and in the next turn he fires off Ice Beam and i resign myself to fate. I watch the HP bar drop (slowly for some reason. Did anyone else notice it didn't always drop at the same speed?), but somehow it stops at 1. 1 single HP was all that was left and it was my attack. Against a Dragonair with full health i didn't think there was much i could do, but i'd already pressed Ice Beam and there it went. It hit. "Super Effective" as always on Dragon types, but there was something else: "Critical hit" The health bar drained to nothing. "AND THERE GOES THE BATTLE!" went the announcer as the camera zoomed in on my winning pokemon.

To this day i keep a Golduck in my party for good luck.

 

[The]

Just today I was playing Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale as Cole in a 2v2 match. My partner had died by this point I had a single life left; the enemies both had 2. Miraculously, I managed to dodge each and every one of their supers and eventually killed them both. There was a little connection lapse between my final kill, so I think I may have caused a guy to ragequit.

I once played TF2 with my cousin, both of us Heavies, managing to keep the enemy team away from the cart for a whole round. We were the only 2 people on our team vs 3-4 others.

 

[hazabaza1]

Kind of just had this in Dota 2.
Was playing as Luna for the first time, doing pretty good, using some guys suggested build. Things were going fairly well for each team, but the other one had the upper hand it seems.
Still, with my current item build and the glaive ricochet I was doing good for cash. 6000 gold later, I got myself the ever illusive Butterfly. Basically this damn near doubled my damage and attack speed.

I bum rushed their bottom lane (which still had 1 tower and all other buildings up) with some creeps. We managed to get their ancient down to half health in the time it took their entire team to win. I consider that a victory.

 

[Tyler Trahan]

Counter Strike: Source, years ago on the map Westwood. The map is an old west town, chock full of claustrophobic hallways leading between old wooden buildings, rooftop snipers nests and a main street that was suicide to walk down. I was the only terrorist left, six counter terrorists, and I had the bomb. The map only allowed for shotguns, bolt action sniper rifles (scout), and handguns.

I was walking very slowly with one eye on the radar, the other on the timer. I had to walk because the goddamned wooden boards that everything was made out of made a racket if you ran on it. I leave this building and I enter an alleyway that leads to the building with the bombsite in it. One story up in the building that is 15-20 feet away from me I see a CT in the window. my hand twitches and I bring the shotgun up: Blam. Headshot. Now everyone knows where I am, time to haul ass.

I ran inside the building and I knew there was a doorway that led directly to the outdoors. I whirled around to face it as I ran in and caught a CT in the chest with my shotgun and dropped him. I then turned 180 and threw my my grenade around the corner that led to the bar. Boom, dead CT. 3 down, 3 to go.

I jump over the bar and i take out the bomb and I start to plant. More out of instinct than anything I pause half way through and take out my hangun. Just as I duck behind a barrel a CT come blaring around the corner and I fire two shots from my desert eagle; first shot catches him in the chest, second in the face and he drops like a sack of rocks.

I hop over the barrel and I plant the bomb next to the still warm corpse of the most recently deceased CT. Blood is all over this tiny bar and the beeping of the bomb is interfering with me able to hear footsteps. There is literally no place to hide, the room with the bomb is MAYBE 10 feet by 10 feet, and there's at least three entrances if you count the upstairs.

Luckily for me I heard the footsteps upstairs and I caught him by surprise at the base of the stairs: pulling the trigger furiously I send 4-5 rounds up at him before he falls down the stairs a lifeless heap. One guy left now, bomb beeping away rapidly. I run upstairs to explore and after a few seconds I get another hunch. I run downstairs with my knife out, hoping that the CT isnt at the bomb.

He doesn't look up the stairs as he runs into the bar.

He doesn't see me drive the knife into his back.

The bomb goes off.

I came a little.

 

[Ryotknife]

3v3AI on the highest difficulty in Starcraft 2.

My two allies get taken out rather quickly (not my fault, i defended one of the two chokeholds by myself) so now it is 3v1, and my allies mined all of the resources within easy access and there was no way i could expand with all 3 AIs hunting me.

Barely had any resources left, all I had was an army of reapers (jump jet troops designed to ambush workers, they are crap in an actual fight). And so began a campaign of terror against the AI. My reapers ambushed any unprotected units or bases and then ran away long before reinforcements arrive. I focused on draining their resources as much as possible. This was so successful, that the map literally ran out of resources. The AI could not break through my defenses, but nor could i deliver a knockout punch to them.

Not only that, but their remaining armies was much more powerful than my reapers. I had to use my workers as bait for an ambush. I would put a SCV (worker) on the low ground and line the cliffs with reapers, waiting for an unexpecting army to take the bait.

After about a hour of ambushes, i finally put away both AIs.

EDIT: just thought of another one in X3:albion Prelude (space simulator). In the previous expansions, bombers and missile frigates were basically free kills if you can get in weapon range. While missiles do a crapton of damage, even the weakest weapon could destroy them in a single hit and the AI only launch a few missiles at once.

WELL, they that had to be changed! Now the AI will launch all missiles at once, which for the missile frigate is literally hundreds of missiles (and it only takes a few to destroy the biggest ships or stations in the game). Not only that, but now missiles have a LOT of health. If a missile frigate shows at all, all life in the solar system is dead. The missiles form a cloud of death that evaporates all that touches it. Thankfully, as a fighter I was on the low end of missile target priority, however after every single station, destroyer, carrier, corvette, or frigate was killed there were still over half of the missiles left.

The missiles were hot on my tail, so close that there was not enough time for me to input a jump command because the 5 seconds to input the commands would be enough time for the missiles to catch up (they were faster but could not turn as fast as me). Thankfully, there were many asteroids in the system, so taking a page from Star Wars i used them as a screen to destroy as many of them as possible.

I managed to dodge the missiles all the way back to the missile frigate where i hid behind it and started to put in the jump command. The missiles hit the frigate and destroy it, but the frigate held out long enough me to put in the command and get the hell out.

#$%^ missile frigates man.

 

[norashepard]

I remember one time I was playing L4D on expert, and I was the most damaged when a tank/horde combo came, so I told the other people to run for it while I dragged the tank away. I fully intended to die, because I was black and white already and at 60 health, but I managed to kill the tank with 5 health left. I hobbled all the way to the saferoom like that, killing a few hunters, smokers, and four hordes singlehandedly. Over the voice chat I heard the other players wondering why it wasn't loading the next level yet, and when I finally made it to the saferoom they freaked out. It was a miracle. Of course this was back when I played it all the time. Now I probably wouldn't be as good.

And yes I know I should have just died and come back with the 50 health, but clearly I didn't need it.

 

[Erttheking]

Somehow in Halo 4, I think I managed to rack up fifteen kills as the last man standing in Flood. And for around ten of them I was out in the open on level ground.

 

[I Max95]

mass effect 3 multiplayer, and to be clear this absolutely was a LAST stand

I was playing a Volus Adept and my entire team was down, it was one of the later rounds, I was glitched into a corner where enemies couldn't reach me but could still shoot me and I didn't have any viable cover since the level geometry was glitchy and I couldn't tell if enemy bullets would be stopped or if they would just go straight through my cover. I lasted a good five minutes where I got into a cycle of shooting, using biotics, shield boosting rinsing and repeating, it was down to an Atlus and a Phantom, the last enemies in the round, until one cheap shot went straight through my glitchy cover and killed me.

sure I died, but I was playing as quite possibly the weakest class, cornered in a spot with no escape and almost no cover, and I still almost took down the rest of the enemies, by my estimation, I went out like a boss

 

[AngryBritishAce]

First time playing a Gold difficulty match in Mass Effect 3's multiplayer.

I was N7 rank 140 (aprox) and everyone else was between 500 and 1000 (again, aprox), but I wanted to try out gold early and I usually come 1st or 2nd in most silver matches.

So it was round 5 and we were all doing really well. Then, somehow, each member of my team got banshee grabbed at the same time in 3 different areas of the map. So only I was left.

I spend about 10 minutes running around the map, trying to stay out of enemy fire and away from melee range with the Banshees, brutes and husks. I had nearly won; there were only 3 or so banshees left, a brute, a ravager and a handful of husks and canibals.

I managed to lose sight of one of the banshees, but I was too busy to care greatly about it. I had nearly killed another banshee when I decided I needed to back up from it before making the killing blow.

Usually I'd just turn around and sprint to a safe distance, but I was so close to killing it I decided I'll just back away from it and shoot as I walk down the corridor.

As I was backing away, I didn't realise the banshee I lost track of snuck behind me. It picked my up and stabbed me with those damn spindly arms, and that was that.



EDIT: Surprised to see how many people posted up ME3 multiplayer stories... I'm glad I'm not the only one who plays it :3

 

[putowtin]

Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer.

Iv'e got 3 geth primes on my ass, whole team is down. Rocking a female quarian infiltrator, my tactic is to stealth, shoot, 'nade, run, repeat. It went on for cirka 15-20 minutes,at which point the whole team was shouting at me to "just die already". So, in my heroic self sacrifice i downed the last prime.
And it was epic.

Been there, but with a weak level 7 or 8 soldier that had the worlds worst gun (can't remember which)
I find I'm ok in these situations as long as I'm not facing Banshee's!

Captcha: You're Fired! my good sir, in no way are you my boss!

 

[banthro]

Shogun 2 Total War. As the main bulk of my forces moved south to take Kyoto, only a small garrison of 400 soldiers and my heir was left protecting my Date capital. Out of nowhere two Hattori armies numbering 2000 attack my capital. Knowing that counting on autoresolve would be suicide, I decided to take the field myself and given them a battle to remember. 20 minutes had passed and only 80 of my men left standing, one katana samurai unit and my general's men. The enemy only had 300 men left, my archers being skilled, but I knew I could not defeat these elite troops. So I ordered my men to charge.

When my General was the last man standing, he still managed to take down 20 men before he succumbed to his wounds.

The next turn, the concentrated might of the Date took Kyoto, and the Hattori paid for their actions that day.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

I can't count the number of DotA games i won with 1-3 leavers, because we somehow managed to drag it out for 70-90mins and had a hypercarry that just started to 1v5 the opponent team sooner or later.
Also every friggin base race in LoL ^^

 

[Azure23]

The game: Dark souls
The totally Fubar situation: surrounded by four Taurus demon's in the demon ruins
Note, for the Dark Souls uninitiated the taurus demons are basically Apostle Zodd with giant bone axes

I was playing my heavy knight, he was decked out in elite knight's chest and giant's helm/gauntlets/greaves and armed with the black knight ultra greatsword and artorias' greatshield. I had been careful and pulled the first few, slaying them easily with a few swings of my massive crimson blade. I start getting a call so I look down to answer my phone, thats all it took. In the two seconds I had looked away one of the remaining five demons had totally blindsided me, in a panic I began sprinting away from him so I didn't have to fight him on the tiny strip of ground in between the lava, unfourtunately I misjudged the pull distance of his buddies and three more started stomping towards me. I was too slow to escape, burdened by heavy weapons and armor as I was, so my only option was to take out the closest one and get ready for his friends. I two hand my blade and hit the huge bull demon with the special uppercut attack, opening him from groin to chin and staggering him. Unfortunately this move is rather slow and just as the recovery animation is ending his comrades catch up to me and one leaps from offscreen, crushing me with his jumping attack. By the time my character regains his feet he is completely surrounded. At a loss for what to do I start swinging like crazy as they close in. My entire screen is taken up by their hairy bulk and I can't even see my character amidst the chaos. Any second I expect to hear my character's dying gasp and see those big red letters saying "YOU DIED." Then all of a sudden a harsh white light as the demon's bodies dematerialize and fall to ground in unison. My wild swings had kept the demon's staggered just long enough to kill them. The entire encounter couldn't have taken more than twenty seconds but I remember it well because for me it so perfectly illustrated the Dark Souls goal of making you feel like a tiny human overcoming impossible odds.

 

[DocMcCray]

Mine was Final Fantasy XI

My main character was a white mage, who has the damage potential of a dead puppy with no legs, fighting against the god of the sky, Kirin. We had been kiting and fighting him for 4 hours when our paladin kite went down (again.) Before we could get a replacement, who were all still weakened, our damage dealers started getting plastered by his high level magic and dying rapidly. It was especially heartbreaking since Kirin was literally at 1% health. I was thankfully one of the last in line for aggro due to not having done any damage when I just said to myself "F*** it."

I started casting the only damage spell I had which could do at max about 300 damage and had about a 7 second cast time (Kirin started with several hundred thousand, I used to know the exact amount.) In the middle of casting, I was hit bit Kirin's Stonega 4, I resisted the damage which left me with red hp, my spell went off doing 250 damage (unresisted) and killed him. Shocked my whole linkshell. At first they were pissed that I was even casting, but then realized we would have lost him and lost the days of farming it took to even spawn him. I basically threw a pebble and critically hit a god.

Several months later, people figured out a risky way to kill him within 2 minutes. Doesn't matter. Itty bitty white mage killed a god.

 

[thejackyl]

NOTE: These are from about 2 years ago. I know some items have changed, or no longer exist.

Well, I remember a while back on LoL when Dominion was first released. I played a game where my team was down 75-400. My team held 2 towers and denied (but couldn't take) a third one. All the while we farmed minions and eventually I got my big items (Urgot: AS Boots, Sanguine Blade, Black Cleaver, Phantom Dancer, Infinity Edge). Long story short, we ended coming back, winning with only 3 points left.

There was another match I had, where I was playing on Summoner's Rift as Shen. We were down to out last 5 towers (one in each lane, and the nexus towers). We kept winning team fights, but it usually ended with 1 or 2 of us left alive with low health, so we had to stay in base and recover. Eventually I got enough assists through running in and taunting everything that I ended up with my full build. I had about 4k HP and 75% damage reduction and a shit ton of regen. Force of Nature(2% Hp/sec), Leviathan(Stacking HP + 10% Damage reduction at full stacks), Warmogs(1000ish HP + about 50 Hp/5sec), Plus I had a Randuin's Omen(Armor, HP, + Active Slow), and Aegis of The Legion. That was the first time that I felt invulnerable. Me and our AD Carry took on the whole team, and won 2v5. I was still at 3/4 health and they had ALL blown their ults on me. I did the same thing later under their tower, and still came out with over half health.

I love playing a tank when I can actually get my farm completed.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

Spoiler: Medieval II: Total War.

Playing as the Turks. I had conquered Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa. My main armies of heavy janissaries were pushing through the Balkans and into Russia.

Then, the Timurids invaded. They came into Iraq with 10 fully stacked armies (10 000+ total), including elephants.

I quickly turned around any stragglers from the main campaign, and pulled militias out of their settlements. All in all, about 2000 troops, or two fully stacked armies. I saw one Timurid army on its own, and decided I had to take the opportunity.

Imagine the Battle of the Pelennor Fields from the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. My army of infantry militia was utterly destroyed by their dozens of elephants and heavy cavalry.

But my lord, was it glorious. And eventually, I was able to defeat them by defending against their sieges.

 

[The Funslinger]

My mate and I were playing Star Wars Battlefront 2. We were both clones, it was Kamino. All of our forces had been wiped out by the enemy, and we had fallen back to the cloning facility, our last command post. Enemy droids were coming in bursts and we were picking them off one at a time, just infantry so far. I got the opportunity to play Obi Wan, but given the Hero timer, my friend convinced me not to. If only I had. After a while, the inevitable happened. Droidekas and Magna Guards came in on both sides. Our standard blaster rifles couldn't save us.

Rome: Total War. Some city, I can't remember which. I was at war on three fronts, and the other Roman families were being utterly useless. Stretched so thin, I was losing men in some vital areas. This city was seiged for a while, and I remember hoping I could wait it out, long enough for my other army to join with them. My only proper army near enough. It still wasn't as big as the seiging force, though. Even with the units in the city. But even then, I didn't get that chance.

The city was being defended by a few units of paltry town guards, and one unit of Triarii from when I first took the city. The turn before my reinforcements were due to arrive, the Carthaginians used their seige engines to storm the city. I knew I might hold the gates for a little while, but at the cost of all of my men, as they had the numbers to bombard me. I'd seen it before, in my own rare defences and during my many assaults on enemy cities. Instead, I moved my troops to the city center, and posted them just at the ends of the various streets and alleys. It was my only opportunity. Minutes crawled by. Then they took the walls, pouring in from all sides. I waited. They came at my men, but were funneled through the thin paths of the streets, right onto the spears of my men. Eventually, my men were slaughtered, even the Triarii. I sighed. A simple loss. But then the final statistics popped up. I'd lost my entire small army to a man, but the numbers said something I hadn't seen during the battle.

I had wiped out two thirds of their army in the process. Two thirds of this army that dwarfed all others. They took the city, but the next turn, my real forces swept through like a wind and took it back.

 

[King of Asgaard]

The game: Dark souls
The totally Fubar situation: surrounded by four Taurus demon's in the demon ruins
Note, for the Dark Souls uninitiated the taurus demons are basically Apostle Zodd with giant bone axes

I was playing my heavy knight, he was decked out in elite knight's chest and giant's helm/gauntlets/greaves and armed with the black knight ultra greatsword and artorias' greatshield. I had been careful and pulled the first few, slaying them easily with a few swings of my massive crimson blade. I start getting a call so I look down to answer my phone, thats all it took. In the two seconds I had looked away one of the remaining five demons had totally blindsided me, in a panic I began sprinting away from him so I didn't have to fight him on the tiny strip of ground in between the lava, unfourtunately I misjudged the pull distance of his buddies and three more started stomping towards me. I was too slow to escape, burdened by heavy weapons and armor as I was, so my only option was to take out the closest one and get ready for his friends. I two hand my blade and hit the huge bull demon with the special uppercut attack, opening him from groin to chin and staggering him. Unfortunately this move is rather slow and just as the recovery animation is ending his comrades catch up to me and one leaps from offscreen, crushing me with his jumping attack. By the time my character regains his feet he is completely surrounded. At a loss for what to do I start swinging like crazy as they close in. My entire screen is taken up by their hairy bulk and I can't even see my character amidst the chaos. Any second I expect to hear my character's dying gasp and see those big red letters saying "YOU DIED." Then all of a sudden a harsh white light as the demon's bodies dematerialize and fall to ground in unison. My wild swings had kept the demon's staggered just long enough to kill them. The entire encounter couldn't have taken more than twenty seconds but I remember it well because for me it so perfectly illustrated the Dark Souls goal of making you feel like a tiny human overcoming impossible odds.

You, sir, deserve a spot in Valhalla for that.

Once I was fighting Ornstein and Smough for the 23rd time (thankfully doesn't take me that long anymore), I'm flipping around like there's no tomorrow, but dodged right from a lightning bolt into Smough's hammer. I thought I died, but my character got back up. I ran behind a pillar and checked my health: 2. I didn't have any Estus left. I thought about healing with a humanity, but instead I put on the Red Tearstone Ring and killed them both.

You too, you bold barbarian!

Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer.

Iv'e got 3 geth primes on my ass, whole team is down. Rocking a female quarian infiltrator, my tactic is to stealth, shoot, 'nade, run, repeat. It went on for cirka 15-20 minutes,at which point the whole team was shouting at me to "just die already". So, in my heroic self sacrifice i downed the last prime.
And it was epic.

I had a similar experience a couple of days ago, where it was one of the last rounds, and my useless team members were on the other side of the map trying to steal kills from each other, when all of a sudden I'm charged by a Brute, a Banshee and a (much less impressive) Cannibal. Now, I'm rocking a human male Soldier armed with just an M-8 Avenger III, so I'm just a wee bit nervous. They were coming towards me in the order above when the Banshee 'ports past the Brute, giving me the opportunity to weaken her barrier with concussive shot. Naturally, this wasn't going to get me very far. I glance down at my abilities, and I see four beautiful frag grenades just begging to be used. I oblige, sending all three oncoming nasties to the fiery pits of Tartarus whence they came, and ending the round.
The moral here, kids: grenades are incredibly OP and will demolish any fool that dares to cross your path.

 

[Elfgore]

I was playing Mount and Blade Warband and a united army of Nords attacked my pathetic company of companions and mercenaries. Note, I had just placed all of my best units into a castle I was just given so I had an army of around 20 terrible guys who I needed to level up. The nord army had 450ish people in it, with maybe 50 of those being huscurls (insanely op melee units). Me and my small ragtag army held the top of a hill for about 20 minutes, with me doing hit and run attacks on their archers and my main force holding the infantry. After 25 minutes of barely surviving a guy with his lance couched drops me like a rock and we lost. Epic last stand though killed over a hundred of their guys.