FooManchu

I fought and won many duels vs. Snipefu and other blasters with my eng/eng blaster on test, but I don't have any of those screenshots cuz that was before I really started caring about keeping records of stuff.

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During this time Lions Den played a few more matches against teams Like Hell Raisers and the Freaks. To put it mildly we were very good or that well organized at the time..but we were at least competitive with the non Tribute groups.

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Super Competitive
Very Competitive



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We would practice 3-4 hours a night every single night..i pretty much ignored my now ex-girlfriend during this time as i'm sure most of our members did. This went on for months..we really enjoyed practice.

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ROFL, so good

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This thread has been marked to save, but also some content has had to be removed so please keep the forum rules in mind when posting to this forum.

Otherwise it is an awesome collaboration.

Ex

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"YOU WANT THE TRUTH!!? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

<3<3<3<3<3<3 Hugs and cookies and fluffy bunnies!

<3 Hans

I think Evolution was only around briefly, they were present when i4 first came out and participated in some arena matches, but never reached the high level of competition.

I know Evolution and Jagged Legion had a rivalry going..if memory serves me correct.

[u]Freaks Arena Screenshots[u]

Here’s some screenshots of Arena matches from the Freaks back in the day.

Freaks SG Photo ontop of the Arena
Freaks VG vs. Original Sin VG - (Kinkie is my Ice.kin corr)
Freaks VG vs. LOtD – This was a few weeks after CoV came out when vill cap was still lvl 40
Freaks VG vs. LOtD again
Freaks SG vs. JAL - Notice we played with less people in the 2nd and 3rd matches and still won lol
Freaks SG vs. Lions Den - 6/10/2006 – match 1 = 46-3 Freaks
Freaks SG vs. Lions Den - 6/10/2006 – match 2 = 100-2 Freaks
Freaks VG vs. Bedlam - 15-0 Freaks
Freaks vs. Bedlam 2 - 44-4 Freaks
Freaks VG vs. Jagged Legion SG - Who said Vills can’t beat Heroes? 19-4 Freaks
So Jagged Legion Cried and said they’d beat our Heroes - 125-6 Freaks
Freaks SG vs. Redemption - 124-2 (Trainspotter was Hans’ Rad/Elec Defender lulz}
Freaks SG. Vs. Lions Den, 16v16 - 64-36 Freaks
Freaks SG vs. Lions Den 16v16 rnd 2 - 51-40 Freaks
1st Ever Test PvP Tourney in i4 – Team Cowboy Jon vs. Mike Killa’s team - Cowboy Jon’s team undefeated!
Team Cowboy Jon vs. Donkey Bot’s team Season 1 Champs!!
Team Cowboy Jon vs. Team Krole - Flying Sniper ftw! Haha
My eng/eng blapper + emp vs. Spines/regen + emp
That’s right Hans, I beat ur Ice/Eng with my Eng/Eng
Freaks SG vs. Liberty Force 5v5 - Tera Winters is my Ice/eng, ill/rad, fire/kin, ill/emp.
Kyle on his Spines/SR doing a 5v1 and winning lol
lvl 14-21 Team Battle Royale on test
Freaks Base layout for LOL base raids
Grinch Costume on my Ice/Cold corr during the Christmas 2006 winter event.
FooManchu, Eng/eng blaster, my first toon..R.I.P I loved this toon in i4-i6 he was a BEAST..6 slotted hover, and Super Speed. Fire Shield and Char. PB+BU+AIM, Snipe (6 slot with 2 interrupt redux & 4 dmg/acc HO’s Pre-ED), char, bone smasher (drop toggles and they are held) TOOOOOTAAAAL FOOOOCUUUUUS, dead….
Tera Winters, Freaks Dmg Spiker



[u]QUOTES[u]
“GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUUUUUN!” – Kyle (firewire) in his high pitch girly voice…
“Beeow nuh nuh neeow” – Kyle’s Speed boosted run sound FX on vent.
“I…just got [censored]….by a fat girl..” – Hans after a night of drunken molestation and running from the cops
”Your Di1s are SMALL, SON!” -I posted that like 20 times to some scrub SG that lost to LoTD. This caused the CoH mods to add the word "Di1s" to their profanity filter, and is why "Di1s" is censored now..I had to add teh 1 so D.i.l.s would show up haha...
“Nerf us cuz our Di1s is huge, son!” – Ry of course
“DON’T TALK TO ME LIKE YOU KNOW ME!” – Soul of Earth
“Well I was only 6 of the 100 Kills cause I have fly on my Sonic/sonic” –Cuddles after our 100-2 win over LD..He would cage, then fly to the top of the map…and he still died 6 times LOL.
“Kyle, meet me by 7-11 and I’ll kick your @$$!” – Mikey Tyse
“Johnny Priest only beat me cuz hes an overpowered ice blaster, and he used level 3 breakfreeee” - soul of earth
”Johnny is the reason my pee pee reached 20 inches!” – Elated
“YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?? THIS IS REAL LIFE!” – mwghost


There's some Arena History for ya....Now you know more about the Freaks in their Golden age, in the beginning, when PvP first came out. It was a good run; we achieved a lot, and pioneered a lot of the things that are still in use in Top Tier PvP today.

Peace,
FooManchu

[u]Freaks push to #1[u]

After our victory over HVND, the unofficial PvP ladder had a 3 way tie for first, with each SG having beaten the other. Penance lost to HVND, Freaks lost to Penance, and HVND lost to Freaks. We decided that we felt we were ready to take on Penance in a rematch, and break the 3 way tie to determine who the #1 PvP SG was. It was a 20 minute 12v12 SG battle. We had perfected Cross-team buffing, and ran two teams of 6. A 1 blaster, 1 rad/psi, 1 kin, 2 taunters, and 1 emp on each team. Penance wasn’t ready for the newly improved Freaks, and the first match ended with a score of 32-15, Freaks won. The second match Penance adapted to our new tactic, but they still fell short, Penance lost 30-28. The Freaks were now the undisputed #1 PvP SG!!

[u] #1 Villain Group too [u]

I’m not gonna lie there wasn’t much Villain PvP going on when CoV was introduced, but there were a few groups who made a name for themselves, LOTD, Bedlam, Jagged Legion, Original Sin, and a smaller VG, The Outlaws. The Freaks VG challenged and beat all of these other VG’s to official arena matches and Won. While I was still leader of the Freaks, our VG was undefeated in over 8 VG Matches.

[u]The End of a Good Thing[u]

Edited by Ex Libris--it sounds like something you should put in your journal, not on our message boards!

[u]Big League PvP and Tribute[u]

We never got to fight Tribute. They were always the undisputed #1 PvP SG back in the day, and they retired from the game. HVND started to trash talk Tribute, so Tribute came back out of retirement and accepted HVND’s challenge. After Tribute beat HVND, they went back into retirement, so HVND automatically became the #1 PvP SG by default. Penance challenged HVND and lost, putting them in second place. I saw this as an opportunity to get the Freaks name better known in the PvP world (Back in i4 and i5), so I challenged Penance to an Official. We went into the match overconfident, and the first round was 36-17 Penance, and the second round was 65-0 blowout, penance won.

That was the big turning point in Freaks PvP. I came to realize that even though we beat up on a ton of SG’s on liberty, owned in kickball, and were victorious in Server vs. Server battles, we were not going to be able to compete for the top PvP SG spot unless we were more organized. I started scheduling daily practices; we ran a lot of internals and the people who did kickball helped by being practice partners (LEGION SG from liberty). We even had a few minor officials against SG’s such as ABH, where we sported our 4 bubbler team with powerboosted bubbles, just to mess around, haha. We totally annihilated them, and our choice of toons for the official stirred up some commotion amongst the top teams.

After a few weeks of practicing everyday, we challenged HVND to an official. HVND accepted, but when it came to the week of our official, they said they needed to push back the date because some of their players couldn’t make that date because of RL stuff. When our Official match finally happened, we knew why they had asked for more time as the HVND team started to join the match. They need more time because they were PLing an all illusion team (with 1 blaster), that all had the name Acetophenotidon with a letter or two that was different so it would make it impossible for us to call targets. WELL, their plan backfired on them big time because they made 2 huge mistakes. Their plan WOULD have worked had they brought all 8 illusion controllers, but they didn’t. They had 2 ill/storms, and 1 ice/eng blaster, which allowed us to all lock on target by targeting the blaster, or one of the storms. They turtled up a lot and moved as a group, but with stacked CM’s and stealth suppression when they attacked, we were able to see through the stacked group invis’ and we would lock on the blaster or storms, jump in and get a spike kill, then jump out of their turtle and rebuff. We shut them out 17-0. The second round they busted out their jump team, which had the same toons as us minus the rad/psi. Yeah there were a few other Rad/Psi’s on test like Peritus, and Havoc, but Hans and Ry are the Pioneers of the Rad/Psi’s on 8v8 teams. Nobody used them for team PvP until we sported the Rad/Psi specifically as a debuffer/ target caller and 3rd blaster against HVND when they brought their Acetophenotidon gimmick team. Their jump team did a little better against us, but we still won by a decisive margin, 16-6. Freaks vs. HVND screenie

[u]PvP Zones, and FREAKburg[u]

The PvP zones came out Bloody bay, Sirens Call, and Warburg), and we literally ran Warburg on Liberty. All the badgers complained and cried because they were trying to get their pvp zone badges and we’d farm everyone in the zone whether we had a 2 people team, or two full 8 man teams. Nobody on liberty got their PvP Zone badges in Warburg for the first month, unless they were there when we were sleeping. We started calling Warburg, FREAKburg, and that didn’t go over too well with the rest of the server, so we challenged the whole server to a battle for Warburg. 24 Freaks, versus the rest of Liberty (heroes and vills), whoever kept control of the globe in the middle for an hour won and would be able to proclaim the zone theirs. SO, on the scheduled date and time our 24 Freaks showed up, and over 150 people from Liberty came to fight against us for Warburg. This is where we perfected cross-team buffing. Needless to say after about 25 minutes of intense battling, we pushed the whole opposing force that Liberty brought back to the Beach, where we farmed anyone who even came out of the water. After 45 minutes the 150+ people gave up and the Freaks Officially proclaimed the zone as FREAKburg.

We used to run our 4-8 bubbler team in FREAKburg…we called it “FREAKburg Soccer”, cuz we’d have all our Force bubbles pushing the poor helpless Badgers, and all others who opposed us into the corners of the map, and we’d stack holds on them, drop their toggles with endless force bolts, and force them to have to log out in order to get away from us because we wouldn’t kill them so they could re-spawn, we’d keep bouncing them back and forth into the corner. And if you think it can’t be done, 8 force bubs, speedboost from a kin…They couldn’t touch us because we had 4-8 sets of bubbles, yeah, we were jerks…

[u]The Early Days[u]

Freaks of Legend was a SG based on the Liberty Server..Freaks PvP started when Issue 4 first came out. I wasn’t even a part of the Freaks when Issue 4 came out; I was in a Hami Raid SG called Hamidon Death Squad (HDS). I was picked up by the Freaks after the Freaks vs. HDS SG Rumble in which the Freaks won by 3 kills (score was like 63-60 or sumthin).

Eventually I became PvP Leader and we first started off fighting for the Freedom Server on test when the Server vs. Server Arena battles were going on (even though we were from Liberty). We fought alongside Tribute against other servers that had some awesome PvP SG’s like Hell Raisers, and Jagged Legion…but Tribute + Freaks = you cant bet us..
Freedumb vs. Virtue
Freedumb vs. Triumph
Freedumb vs. Infinity

[u] Kickball Pioneers![u]

We lived in the Arena, and we were the ones who started Kickball. Originally we did it on Liberty to get people to come to the arena because no other would fight against us, and we were really the only organized PvP SG on the server. Our SG was hated by pretty much everyone on Liberty because we were very very cocky, I mean we had Kyle and myself in the SG..nuff said. But kickball actually drew out A LOT of people to the arena, which was pretty much vacant from the start.

[u] LOL Hover..[u]

Hans was the mastermind when it came to team strategy, and toon PvP builds, and me Kyle and Hans would collaborate on what we should bring to our PvP matches. This is old school stuff, back when movement wasn’t suppressed, people actually used 6 slotted Hover with a super speed bind to switch back and forth between the two…you could do some nasty dive-bombing with power boosted hover which was unsuppressed, and super speed. Then there was the whirlwind era for unsuppressed movement when attacking, you could super speed around the map while in the Total Focus animation.. Oh yeah, I also remember when Energy Melee would knock off all your toggles and you could stun-lock people haha.. tankers could not be killed, DM/SR was OP..hell Super Reflexes was God mode. Perma MoG (Moment of Glory) for Regens, when i4 first came out I had a perma MoG build on my BS/Regen scrapper named Static’s Mama, and I used to 1 shot crit squishies with Headsplitter crits, and no one could touch me, except for blasters with PB+BU+Aim. Oh yeah and HO’s were so OP..

[u]Small Time PvP matches[u]

We fought a lot of different SG’s on test, and I have a lot of screenshots. We fought Anointed Brotherhood (ABH), Lords of the Dead (LOTD), Old School (OC) in a VG Match, Lions Den (LD), Justice for All League (JAL), Penance, Have a Nice Day (HVND), The Outlaws in a VG Match, Bedlam in a VG match, Legacy of Champions from Freedom, Jagged Legion from Pinnacle.. Most of the Matches were 20 min 8v8’s though.

Haha free weekend account activation FTW!!! This is prolly gonna be wayyyyy TL;DR, and I need to make multiple posts to get it all out, but I figure some people will actually take the time to read it. Enjoy!
-FooManchu


FREAKS a.k.a Freaks of Legend – The Golden Age

These were the days that we were referred to strictly as Freaks. Not FoL, that’s a different era of the Freaks of Legend. The days of the Freaks were the good ‘ol days, I miss those times. With Riddle and Gahd taking breaks from the game a little after issue 4 came out, I became the leader of the Freaks of Legend PvP squad. Kyle and Hans’ drunken rants on Vent, priceless…Back then our roster was:

[u]Original Starters:[u]
FooManchu – Ice/Eng Blaster, Eng/Eng, Mind/Kin(Tera Winters, FooManchu, Psyco Foo)
Shawn – Ice/Eng Blaster, Ill/rad (Artic Strike, Ghost Sage)
Hans – Rad/Psi, Ice/Eng, Ill/emp (Cerebral Peaness, Duff.Chick, Narcolucy)
Kyle (firewire) – Ill/Kin (-oral fixation)
Dave (Relativator) – Grav/Kin
Aura – Emp def, ill/emp(Dark Healz, Bad Magick)
Will (Super Chick) – Emp Def, Ill/Emp (Saphyre, Counterfeit)
* Blind Sight – Emp Def
HiFi – Inv/Eng Tanker

* Blind had a busy schedule so he wouldn’t always be able to make matches, but when he did we got him in emping with Aura. Our usual team make-up was 2 blasters, 2 kins, 2 emps, 1 rad/psi, and a Taunt bot (tank or scrapper). Of course this was when taunt was viable in PvP.

[u]B-Team:[u]
Dr. Cozy – Emp Def, Elec/Eng
Peter (Stormbringer) – Storm/elec, mind/bub, Ice/storm
Andy (Onizuka) – Fire/kin (Kasei Oni)
Maximum – Ice/Eng blaster
Ms. July – Blaster
Dumok – Blaster
Freezer Burn – Blaster
NeX – Spines/Regen
OldSkhool – Blaster, Spines/Regen
Noranaga Son – Ice/kin
Mac Daddy B – Blaster
Healer Hank – Emp Def
Gibson – Ill/emp ( S H A R O N A)
Blue Heeler – Inv/SS tank
Magnus Star Inv/SS tank (creator of Trailblazer badge)
*Notice Monkeybut isn’t on any of these lists, kthnx

[u]Later Pickups:[u]

**Ajax (was a badger on Liberty lol)– Earth/Kin, Fire/Kin (Reverse Cowgirl, NY ATC)
**Labrynth (from Penance) – Ill/emp
**Ry Storm (El Nino, from Tribute) – Spines/Regen, Pad/Psi, Storm Def (Cant Bet Me, PsiTech, Storm Angel)
Frozen Fist (from Tribute) – Ice/Ice blaster, Bub defender (St. Jimmy)
Outtie (from Tribute)–Emp Def
Xhiggy (met during zone PvP)– Ice/Eng tanker
** Became Starters

I once beat a kin/eng defender with my emp/eng defender in the archetype tourney a while back before I took a 2 yr break...I LOL'ed

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this is getting hot

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It doesn't get hot until we get to the wedding night.

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Vent cyb0rz & touching urself ftw!

Signed

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I'm surprised there's this much drama and personal shot-taking over a team that didn't win a match... especially given that it's in the later weeks of TPvPL.

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I have never quoted someone before in my sig, but I really think this might be worth it. You do realize that when you trash talk an SG in front of one of its members, that that person is going to tell his friends, right? You really are a tool Silent.

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Oh Lab, you're such a whiney [censored]. Still better than Foo though, I suppose. I hear he's slow on kin.

<3

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I'm SO SLOW!!!!

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sg would prolly still be together if pvpers had more pull in their pvp sg, rather than having people who log on every 4 months call the shots

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QFT

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Freak Forums.. >.>

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i see why you named your sg taking it too seriously

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yeah..srsly

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So now that everyone is gone from FoL, is this when Ajax, Foo, and the other Freaks return? Or is this FOL's swan song?

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As far as I'm concerned teh Freaks PvP SG was dead after me, kyle, hans, and ry quit.

VR 4 life!

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nobody cares.

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you cared enough to reply

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PWNT

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PWNT?

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I didn't play in those matches Mr. 2nd account, I was just spectating.

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pwnt is what i'd call 'forfeitting'

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LOL so true

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So now that everyone is gone from FoL, is this when Ajax, Foo, and the other Freaks return? Or is this FOL's swan song?

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As far as I'm concerned teh Freaks PvP SG was dead after me, kyle, hans, and ry quit.

VR 4 life!

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nobody cares.

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you cared enough to reply

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PWNT

Cools, so who is T!TS gonna challenge first?

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So now that everyone is gone from FoL, is this when Ajax, Foo, and the other Freaks return? Or is this FOL's swan song?

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As far as I'm concerned teh Freaks PvP SG was dead after me, kyle, hans, and ry quit.

VR 4 life!

why not!?

Since I can predict the future, I predict some WHOA! worthy additions to this thread...

I'm just sayin....

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i knew it was over when they let the fairy join

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ROFL

but ur teh nino, son!

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