Your thinnest margin of victory ever.

[dthvirus]

I had a similar expericence with the Elite Four, this was some years ago whenI was about right or so. It was me and Lance, I had Blastoise and he had a Dragonite. The only problem? I was out of PP for all of my moves, I managed to kill his half-health Dragonite with struggle, yeah that's right I won with struggle.

This kind of stuff never happens to me because I stab the ItemFinder wherever I go, so I've amassed a collection of Elixirs and Max Elixirs. This coupled with my paranoia of not using items that cannot be bought except in dire situations pretty much saves me should this ever happen.

But yeah, that's pretty awesome. How long did it take?

 

[gigastrike]

Kain saved my whole team more times than I can count in Final Fantasy 4. He was the last alive against Barbariccia, Calbrina, and Rubicante to name a few (most of the time killing with his last possible attack), all thanks to that jump ability.

 

[Jekken6]

In left4dead 2, on the last part of The Parish, we were trying to get the bridge achievement. So, near the end, I don't have much HP left, all teammates are dead and there's a shitload of zombies. I successfully board the heli, while every i was playing with cheering me on.

that was win.

 

[Shanecooper]

WoW, Arathi Basin. The entire fight was just a giant back and forth of base stealing, both teams got to 100 points left to get, the swaping of bases quickened, we manage to get ahead, both teams are on 1590. I never new a second could last as long as that did. But, we still won.

 

[Kryzantine]

Heh, Gears 2. It was my first time trying out Horde, and my friend's first time trying out Horde. Level 36 or so, my friend gets wiped out really early out of stupidity and I start one of the more epic one-man-defenses of my video gaming history. Basically, I lasted the entire level by myself. It got pretty close in the end when ammo was really low.

I did see a Youtube video of a WoW raid boss being taken down by the last man standing, a Druid who killed a boss with Moonfire. That must've been a really close call for the guild in question.

 

[Octorok]

Napoleon Total War on Very Hard with a mod that I'm a part of the team of. I was Prussia, had just entered the war with France and joined the Coalition.

I had no money, but my military had Boney by the balls. I had cut off his Eastern territories on the Austrian border with my main forces and was giving him a damn good thrashing, when my reserve force in Cleves was attacked by a Batavian stack.

It had artillery, cavalry and infantry in a full stack. I had little cavalry and infantry making about 1/3[sup]rd[/sup] of the enemy's numbers. It was a helluva battle - I won by the skin of my teeth with heavy casualties. But the story has yet to begin - another Batavian army appears on the horizon.

The battle ebbed and flowed - at one time my lancers took the hill from their Hussars, the next my line was routing. My skirmishers were in the woods at the edge of town, picking off the line and really helping my battered line. Two of my units shattered, reformed, then flanked the Batavians.

It was the closest thing I have ever witnessed. Full Batavian regiments charged my line of weary veterans, and my General was shitting himself.

In the end I won, but I had no men left. I had lost ~1500 men in total, having killed nearly 8000 in the defence of Cleves. It fell next turn to the Frogs, and I went bankrupt. My military collapsed, and the French just ate me up, as I was unable to muster any defence.

 

[Ldude893]

Any time I made a winning kill on MW2.

 

[saintchristopher]

Beating "Jordan" on Guitar Hero 2.

If I had missed one more note than I did, I definitely would have failed.

Spoiler: For those who missed it, this was a pretty epic track

how did I ever beat this?

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

was playing some good ole mario kart double dash, can't remember who i had but i remember DK and Wario were RIGHT there by me on the final good 50 yard 'dash' (pun not intended), and for some odd reason the computer didn't do its normal cheating bullshit by boosting out of no where so we all crossed at the same time, and i won by literally .002 seconds, it came up something like
4:32.012 seconds
4:32.018 seconds
4:32.021 seconds

my god, i stood there jaw dropped for a good 15 seconds on that

 

[TheEarlOfGrey]

Me and 5 mates decide to have a 3 on 3 on Bad Company 2's Isla Innocenta's squad deathmatch map. I stupidly decide to spawn as a recon. I hate sniping but hey, fancied a change. Rather than snipe however I stick a red dot on my GOL and go in for kill 'La Roux' style. Unluckily for me I encounter all three enemies at once, and after soaking a few bullets I duck into a ruined building. Blindfire through wreckage and I get a kill. I run away, soak about two more bullets, aim and get another kill as I fall off the curb into the road. I throw a grenade but it bounces too close to me, only to kill the final enemy who tries to ambush me. And after they all die they tell me on party chat that on the killcam it said I had 1% health left. I was hated for a few hours...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Battlefront 2 for the ps2

our team was down 56 tickets with the last round of spawns coming out.

we all die but I get the last ticket and I choose a wookie.

I kept killen them as they came got extreme lucky headshots on heros with my bowcaster and just kept going and won out in the end with only a few shots left in a dark ally

you wouldn't believe how many times i've gone from getting blown to bits by a stupid tank to being the unsung hero with a soldier in that game, once i got that elite rifle, WATCH. THE. FUCK. OUT!, one time i was 1-8 at the start and they already took out 40 of my guys (no idea how this happened) and then i went into complete rape mode and went 78-10 after that bad start

 

[Bobtowna]

Hey, I just got off fighting the Elite Four with three Level 43 Pokemon in HeartGold. It came down to my Feraligatr against an Aerodactyl that knew Thunderbolt, and no more Pokemon left on either side. Battle went like this:

Spoiler: Warning: epic amounts of luck.

Aerodactyl outspeeds Feraligatr so...
> Aerodactyl used Thunderbolt!
Feraligatr loses 60% of its health, so I know he can't take another hit. Lucky I avoided Paralysis. Gotta finish it with this in this next attack!
> Feraligatr used Ice Fang
Aerodactyl loses 70% of its HP. I get no STAB from Ice attacks after all. Should have used Surf. I also forgot that I don't get 4x damage because Rock is not weak to Ice like I thought. I curse like crazy under my breath. But then...
> Aerodactyl was frozen solid!
YES
> Feraligatr used Ice Fang!
YES YES
> Aerodactyl fainted!
YES YES YES

Anyway, what was your closest battle in any game ever? Did it come down to luck (in my case) or a hairline of skill?

Wow, I mirrored almost eactly what you did a couple months ago on silver.
Lvl 44 Feraligatr but with ice punch.
Lady luck must favor Feraligatr =D.

 

[Omnific One]

I can't remember which games, but I've occasionally stayed alive with only 1 hit point left.

 

[skeliton112]

In TF2 i beat a heavy, medic and solider with a scout with no ammo 4 anything but his bat and force a nature. When i finished i had 1hp left

 

[MR T3D]

win by .03s (one frame) in mario kart.

 

[Silent Eagle]

I was playing galo erhm halo 3 and this level 50 always comes in first and im usually 2nd. well anyway we were both at 24 kills (FFA) and as soon as he gets a kill i get a sticky double (guy gets stuck,runs to an ally,double kill) and he has 25,i have 26 kills! Me first and him second! The score limit is 25! lol
I didn't rub it in his face though, hes a cool guy unlike most people on xbox live.

 

[capin Rob]

Me vs 5 On MW2, SD wasteland, minute left and if the time went out we would have lost, long story short 5 people got an insane amount of death that day.

 

[Shjade]

We're both down to command centers, and I thank FUCK that Thors have 40mm cannons and Helions are weak attackers to buildings.

Wait wait wait, stop. He was attacking your command center with hellions while you're stomping him with thors and you're calling it a thin margin of victory?

You know that building can lift off, right? As in off the ground? Where hellions can't damage it? >.>

As for myself...eh, I can think of several "Awesome victory!" moments, but nothing that strikes me as a particular thin margin comes to mind. Just for examples of I can't believe I won in general: the end of a Left 4 Dead campaign in Blood Harvest with just one other player (my first game with my dad, as it happens - introducing him to how the game is played right!). The bots died while we were taking out the first tank. Dad doesn't make it through the waves up to the next tank; I had to leave him in the house when I heard it coming up close on us or I'd have been dead also. Escaped to the loft in the barn while the tank finished killing him. Tank en route to the barn I hear a smoker. Peek out of the loft enough to spot it, duck back in as it tries to grab me, peek out, empty shotgun at smoker, smoker dies. Tank is climbing into the loft now, so I jump out and start heading around the house, unloading on the tank when I can see it. Run through the house to snag a reload and to shake the hunter that I'd heard prowling around somewhere outside, finish the tank in front of the house, back into the front door to wait for the hunter. Killed it as it tried climbing in a window, ran out, plowed through horde, into the tank, and out alive. Thin margin? Eh, I was the only alive, but I was also at 70+ health by the end. Then again, getting hit by just about anything other than horde while solo means a game over anyway in that game. So that's one candidate.

Sillier candidate: GGXX, Slayer vs. Slayer, we're both nearly dead. I hop up at an angle ahead of him to go for my air super (he dives downward at a 45 degree angle to strike the ground with his manly beard); opponent has the same thought, but the grounded version, which is basically the same attack jumping up at a 45 degree angle instead. FLASH FLASH super animations!

The game freezes.

We (there were about 6 of us playing/watching in the rec room) have a few seconds of wtf?

Game unfreezes: opponent's Slayer has teleported through me and is hovering just behind me when my super goes off, killing him instantly with the purple flash that goes off behind Slayer like a rocket to shoot him at the ground.

Much laughter and "what the hell" ensued.

 

[Carbonic Penguin]

In Castlevania SotN, I was fightin beezlebub, and I had him down to just his head, and hit him a fair few times, but now I couldn't get past his stupid flies to hit him! Eventually, over frustrated, with 24 HP left, enough to die in one hit, I did a suicide jump at his head from the top platform to start again. I managed to jump through the bugs and slashed him out of spite, about to fall to my death. Except that one slash killed him! Also, I've killed Galamoth twice without previous preperation by gltiching him so he couldn't turn around by accident, and stabbing his ankle for 2 minutes.