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swift jasper
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Or maybe it's a thing it did in the past and now cannot in the future due to evolution?

silver vigil
random stream
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Did you win @snow oasis

snow oasis
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I have not gone in yet

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Should I run Focus Punch over Brick Break on Snorlax?

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If I put something to sleep I can murder it to death with Focus Punch, but I’m not sure what I’d be Focus Punching that I couldn’t just Return

swift jasper
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Brick Break is more consistent

sand forge
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Is Frustration ever viable

swift jasper
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You'd really only want focus punch on sub builds

snow oasis
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Yes

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Frustration is a viable way to acquire $500

sand forge
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Surely by having a Pokémon who can do well with Frustration leads to a Pokémon bad at Frustration

swift jasper
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If you forget and go into grass and kill smth, suddenly it's not at it's max

sand forge
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I suppose on showdown its probably fine

snow oasis
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Frustration literally gets worse during fights

swift jasper
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I think dek meant competitive wise

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In which it wouldn't

sand forge
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I meant generally, but I imagine it's better in competitive

snow oasis
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Are there any moves or abilities besides Return/Frustration that are affected by either your or your opponent’s mon’s friendship?

swift jasper
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Iirc no

snow oasis
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Then the only reason to run Frustration is because you’re a mean person whose mons don’t like them :(

swift jasper
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I use frustration in bw2 before i get return

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On new mons

snow oasis
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Actually there’s a MARGINAL usage for uhh

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Frustration vs Return for things like Imprison

random stream
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@snow oasis for snorlax just do return shadow ball

random stream
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you can run protect lefties too

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Do you want me to go over your final team

snow oasis
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Sure

swift jasper
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Also frustration and return lets you get azumaril very early in bw2

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Cause teaching a tm gives happiness

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So you loop them

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Funny thing, teaching frustration reduces its power

sand forge
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I don't think I've ever evolved a Togepi

swift jasper
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Lmao

snow oasis
sand forge
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I will now befriend Griff (by frustrating him)

swift jasper
swift jasper
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You get to max in like

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A few levels

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I remember getting it at like lv 18 or smth

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Like getting a marill very fast and immediately evolving into azumarill

snow oasis
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Uh

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Solar buddy

swift jasper
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Just for roxie

random stream
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Okmma just ping me whenever

snow oasis
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Marill evolves by level up

swift jasper
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Idr this was years ago

snow oasis
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I’m literally right here renfie

swift jasper
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And you only get that

snow oasis
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Oh I see what you mean

swift jasper
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So you spam work up/return/frustration on the baby

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Get her some levels

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And it evolves

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Just in time for azumarill

snow oasis
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Ye I misunderstood you

swift jasper
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So yeah frustration is op

random stream
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Oh ok so who are your 6?

swift jasper
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🙃

random stream
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Or well just ask me about movesets

snow oasis
random stream
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Yeah this looks pretty goodmma. since the rival has venusaur there's no exeggutor to worry about

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snor should handle most of agatha, jolteon for lorelei + gyaras, rest of lance is with the two waters
sandslash for bruno

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then rival fight is a slug fest

snow oasis
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yeah it should be a real slobberknocker but I think I should win without too much trouble

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probably starmie for bruno tho since surf + psychic just makes his whole team not exist

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lax is immunity too so literally no fear going into cringe fail agatha

random stream
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Oh I do have one suggestion

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did you pick up protect from the power plant

snow oasis
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yeah

random stream
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for blastoise I think surf ice beam protect x with lefties is gonna be good since you could really use the extra hp

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can keep rain dance if you're doing thunder shenanigans with the mie

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or toxic

snow oasis
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I legit just picked up rain dance bc it makes surf go brrr

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I can def replace it since starmie’s the one that will go heehoo thunder

random stream
snow oasis
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I still have toxic tm too so blastoise could be protect toxic lefties, but then I don’t have an item for either slash or aero

random stream
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yeah protect lefties is a little slow animation wise but it lets you be a lot safer in case something ever goes wrong

snow oasis
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for the E4 I turn battle animations back on for literally the only time in the game

random stream
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Probably a berry for sandslash

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since fly lefties is nice for aero

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sitrus?

snow oasis
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I only have Chesto and Cheri

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and Leppa but that’s a ghetto ether if I need one

snow oasis
random stream
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oh is aero not rock head?

snow oasis
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sadly not

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but double edge fucks so he still gets to use it

random stream
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have you already picked up the sitrus berries from route 6 or the one right near victory road?

snow oasis
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didn’t know there was one near victory road I’ll go pick that one up

random stream
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Nyaruhodo

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But yeah that sounds good, protox blastoise should get you out of tight spots if it ever comes to it
good luck and let me know how it goes

snow oasis
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me in 3 hours: “died to bruno”

tacit sphinx
snow oasis
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genuinely I feel like you could beat bruno by just shooting rubber bands at random buttons

tacit sphinx
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My favourite is how in Gen 2 the only change they made to his team was replacing 1 Onix with Hitmontop

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So he still inexplicably has an Onix

snow oasis
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AT LEAST GIVE HIM A FUCKING STEELIX

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Did you know btw

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There are zero trainers in the ENTIRETY of FRLG who use a Poliwrath

tacit sphinx
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That’s Jasmine’s

snow oasis
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Even if you fight every trainer you will not see a single Poliwrath throughout FRLG without evolving one yourself

tacit sphinx
snow oasis
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And they still didn’t five it to Bruno

snow oasis
tacit sphinx
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IIRC there is no Chimecho in RSE other than Mt Pyre

snow oasis
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Poliwrath, Golem, Clefable

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the fossils and eeveelutions obv but they don’t quite count

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Porygon

tacit sphinx
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Chimecho also has the last index value in Gen 3’s Pokemon list so the theory is that it was made extremely late

snow oasis
tacit sphinx
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Listen I am a massive Gen 2 defender but I can and will freely admit that its bosses have some
decisions

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You wanna know my absolute favourite

snow oasis
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Same thing with Flannery using a Camerupt despite it being Maxie’s signature

tacit sphinx
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The biggest meme in Gen 2 boss teams

snow oasis
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wait wait

swift jasper
snow oasis
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Jasmine’s Sunny Day Steelix with zero Fire moves

swift jasper
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Steelix is gen 2

tacit sphinx
swift jasper
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Oh

tacit sphinx
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Even bigger meme

swift jasper
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Then it's cringe

tacit sphinx
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You will probably know this as soon as I mention it

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What’s Will’s team in GSC?

snow oasis
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See like with Lorelei and Agatha and Lance it makes sense in gen 1 bc there weren’t enough Ice/Ghost/Dragon types for a full team

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but there’s 5 Fighting types in Kanto

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Why tf Bruno got TWO onix

tacit sphinx
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Xatu, Slowbro, Jynx, Exeggutor, and Xatu

snow oasis
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Ah

tacit sphinx
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Without looking it up, do you know what’s different between the Xatus?

snow oasis
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Gender?

tacit sphinx
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||the level||

snow oasis
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Phoebe does that too I think

tacit sphinx
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Both of the Xatus have an identical movepool

snow oasis
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Ah, at least Phoebe’s mons have different movesets

tacit sphinx
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I think in HGSS they actually changed one of the Xatus but in GSC they both have Quick Attack, Future Sight, Psychic, Confuse Ray

snow oasis
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Gen 1-2 were uhh

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Not Always Great Design

tacit sphinx
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I might love the Gen 2 games but the E4 are kinda weak

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Except Karen who everyone loves

snow oasis
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Gen 3-4 were improved but still had some brain king moments

tacit sphinx
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Bruno’s Hitmonchan is like

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maybe the weakest Pokemon on any E4 team

snow oasis
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Hitmonchan in general in gen 1 is arguably the weakest fully evolved pokemon in the game, period

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excluding Ditto

tacit sphinx
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Okay but get this

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In Yellow, Bruno’s Hitmonchan has

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Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Fire Punch

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and Double Team

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No STAB, no physical moves

snow oasis
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Ye

tacit sphinx
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In GSC they just swapped Double Team for Mach Punch which like

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It’s something

snow oasis
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Isn’t its Special also like

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Negative

tacit sphinx
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Its special is 30 iirc

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35! I was close

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You know what’s funny is that the Hitmons have like

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bizarrely good special defence

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All of them have 110 base SpD

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Which isn’t like amazing but

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Surprisingly high

snow oasis
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Fighting types with good spd are a nice novelty

tacit sphinx
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Well like

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Part of why Hitmontop was so good in doubles for ages was

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Intimidate + good SpD

snow oasis
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Wolfey won worlds running ‘top didn’t he

tacit sphinx
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idk tbh

random stream
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@tacit sphinx why didnt will get espy or gira?

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seems like a missed opportunity

tacit sphinx
snow oasis
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because gen 2 didn’t know what the fuck it was doing

tacit sphinx
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Because Red had it

random stream
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Nyaruhodo

snow oasis
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Gen 2 honestly feels like the biggest gap between its potential and what it actually turned out to be of the entire series

tacit sphinx
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People forget because they generally try not to make choices canon in Pokemon but Red’s original team had Espeon over Lapras

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It’s okay though Red still has Snorlax

snow oasis
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Horrendous level curve, genuinely incomprehensible npc team choices, the locking of a sizable number of the new mons behind the postgame

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Johto honestly feels like an afterthought which is kind of a bad thing for the MAIN STORY to be

tacit sphinx
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“Gen 2 isn’t Snorlax and Friends, it’s Snorlax and the fucking mortals who he’s decided to spare from his wrath” - Big Yellow

tacit sphinx
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You know how people say “if you get overlevelled just swap in some weaker mons”

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Lowkey I wonder if that was their intent

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But then I realise I’m just trying to justify it because I like gen 2 lmao

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I dunno I just wonder if the devs intended more swapping out of mons

snow oasis
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See there’s the difference

tacit sphinx
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Or rather

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Expected people to swap mons

snow oasis
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If you’re overleveled it gives you the chance to try out new mons

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If you’re UNDERleveled it makes you less likely to try a new strat

tacit sphinx
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Bear in mind I’m not arguing in favour of it

snow oasis
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Yea

tacit sphinx
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Just like hypothesising

snow oasis
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But I do think SV’s way, while still not good design, is at least less infuriating design

tacit sphinx
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What shocks me about Gen 2 discourse rn is like

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How do I put this

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People act like it’s Gen 1 shittiness

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Nowadays

snow oasis
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It’s not but like

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I feel like Gen 2’s shittiness is sorta masked somewhat by how much shittier Gen 1 was

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Objectively Gen 2 is full of WaitWhat decisions

tacit sphinx
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Sure but so are all the Pokemon games

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Even the absolute sacred cow that is Gen 5 has dumb shit

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@snow oasis wait i got a worse gen 2 boss decision than will

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I literally forgot until this very second

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Why the fuck does Bugsy have a Metapod and Kakuna again

snow oasis
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B2W2 are great; BW are, while not bad, definitely the most overrated in the series imo

snow oasis
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Also Morty has Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar

tacit sphinx
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Pretty sure he has two Haunters

snow oasis
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The Ghost type leader IN JOHTO doesn’t use the new Johto Ghost

tacit sphinx
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That goes for everyone though lmao

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Actually, one sec

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Yeah so 50% of the Johto gym leaders have a Johto mon as their ace

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Whitney has the infamous Miltank, Clair has Kingdra, Pryce has Piloswine, and Jasmine has Steelix

snow oasis
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The other four don’t even USE any Johto mons at all, right?

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Genuinely mystifying design choices

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Why not give Falkner a Noctowl, or at least a Hoothoot? Why not give Bugsy a Heracross instead of Scyther? Where is Morty’s Misdreavus? Chuck can’t use Hitmontop?

tacit sphinx
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Have you heard the Gen 2 Gym Leader theory, incidentally?

snow oasis
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Enlighten me

tacit sphinx
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I don’t agree with it, but the idea is that they’re all upgraded Trainer classes.
Falker - Bird Keeper (obvious)
Bugsy - Bug Catcher (obvious)
Whitney - Lass/Beauty (obvious)
Morty - Sage (ghosts/Ecruteak)
Chuck - Black Belt (obvious)
Jasmine - Picnicker (because Picnickers use a lot of mons like Sandshrew which is similar to Steel and they have the same hat ig???????)
Pryce - Gentleman (old guy)
Clair - Dragon Tamer (obvious)

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As you can see the theory is dumb but

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It has persisted

snow oasis
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Ehhh

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Isn’t it literally just that they were all the Gym types that hadn’t been in Gen 1

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other than Dark obviously since 17 types for 16 Gyms

tacit sphinx
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Yes

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The idea is that their designs are based on them

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To clarify

snow oasis
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Ahh

warm sky
golden lance
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So stuff like mega kang used frustration instead of return because of that

outer eagle
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i mean most "ate" mons i've seen used Frustration over Return just so that a regular Ditto doesn't get the benefit

bleak pine
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why would you keep using frustration you horrible people

mighty storm
snow oasis
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In any case

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The hour is nigh

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Lorelei more like SNORElei

sharp kernel
snow oasis
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we uh. we had some slight problems with bruno.

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surely his hitmonlee won’t live a psychic on one HP and then kill from full with a crit mega kick

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surely his machamp won’t live a surf on one HP and then kill from full with a crit cross chop

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surely it won’t then subsequently live a thunderbolt on one HP and then kill from full with a (regular, but +1) cross chop

golden lance
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What rom is this?

snow oasis
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Cartridge LeafGreen lol

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Agatha down

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This does not slip now

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We rise above

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Lance down

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One way or another, it ends now

outer eagle
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Having problems with Bruno

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Now that's a phrase i've never expected to hear

bleak pine
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Hoo Hah!

snow oasis
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Lost two mons to him my first time around too

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Literally no one else gives any trouble

snow oasis
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fun fact! Protect + Toxic stalling out an entire team of 6 fucking sucks, especially when one of them is Poison type

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did I cheat my personal ruleset and spam Full Restores mid fight bc I didn’t want to lose? perhaps.

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do I care? not really

golden lance
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Wait

snow oasis
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if the game cheats me I’m gonna cheat back

golden lance
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Did blue have a poison type?

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Oh right venu

snow oasis
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Venusaur

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I had to yawn that and whack it with return til it stopped breathing

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Fun fact then I went back and did the Bruno fight over again and 6-0’d him bc he didn’t have cringe fail RNG

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Get fucked you shirtless idiot you couldn’t stop me anyways

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@random stream I will never call FRLG piss easy ever again

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I will now call them “piss easy when the game doesn’t literally load not only the die but the entire casino against you”

warm sky
mighty storm
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it even knows when itself dies logically

sand forge
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I think the end of existence might be a tad more harrowing

young river
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they probably foresaw Scarlet and Violet... the horror

long stone
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bc it knows everything. these is no mystery

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"i have seen it all".mon

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altho its nice of them that they don't just project these visions to other beings...

long stone
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gdi

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never battle a Gothitelle i guess.

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since it says oppenents

warm sky
long stone
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rip xatu

golden lance
# warm sky

The bigger question is honestly what arceus is doing when that happens

warm sky
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or maybe it's like hinduism, endless cyclical nature

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end of the universe leads to the next big bang

long stone
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a Paradox mon that is the Creation Trio + Arceus all mixed up.

atomic cove
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If you think about it

Couldn't AZ's Floette be a paradox pokemon?

It's beefier than a regular Floette, has a signature move, and looks different. It didn't time travel per se but it's old af

latent sleet
mighty storm
bleak pine
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Aaaaaa

snow oasis
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Ssssssss

obsidian juniper
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i think i will replay pokemon y

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actually thinking about playing it in english

mighty storm
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Nuzlocke it @obsidian juniper

obsidian juniper
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thats the plan yes

mighty storm
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nice

mighty storm
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I cant wait for when we can move PLA mons in SV

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so I can unite my shiny ursaluna with my SV shiny teddiursa

sharp kernel
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we should come up with rules for a good SV nuzlocke

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I think first thing's first, flamigo and starters are banned

mighty storm
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lechonk only

waxen moat
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

obsidian juniper
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now chat

obsidian juniper
void herald
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chespin for life #chespingang

vagrant steppe
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I second Chespin

obsidian juniper
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chespin it is

sharp kernel
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Chespin

obsidian juniper
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balls obtained

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scatterbug is my first encounter

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How much does the supertraining actually matter?

vagrant steppe
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It's quick EV training

obsidian juniper
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Evs are like

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Small incresed to stats on lvlup sometimes or smth, right?

vagrant steppe
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Yeah, but they add up

obsidian juniper
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Ic

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So i should just max out all of them?

vagrant steppe
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You can only max 2

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And then put a few in another stat

bleak pine
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Alright, what can I do with a Squakabilly?

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I'm trying to come up with something that it's pretty good at

vagrant steppe
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Pretty much nothing... It's kinda just there

bleak pine
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And no I don't care that Staraptor or Braviary exists

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...Yeah, it's kinda there, but I still like to challenge myself to bring out the best of the parrot

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Still pretty neat how they really shown their work on Squaks being like a good few parrots

obsidian juniper
bleak pine
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Like, these are based on some kind of parrot that was found in South America, but brought to Europe

obsidian juniper
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Attack and hp then ig?

bleak pine
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And they usually do come in a green color but can be bred to have yellow, blue or white colorations

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Also, they have Zygodactyl feets, which is like, 2 digits in front and the back instead of the usual 3 front and 1 back

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jeb

obsidian juniper
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Also, first encounter in the foredt was the region bird

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Not sure if im hyped about that, but i guess flying is neat

bleak pine
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Already went and trained up Orthworm

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Which I shall dub the "Alaskan Bull Worm"

sharp kernel
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Max speed max attack

bleak pine
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Righto

bleak pine
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So, Cinderace!

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As it turns out, Cinderace the Unrivaled ends up using Bulk-Up every so often

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Which, if done enough can invalidate any and all usage of Belly Drum to just blow past it’s defenses

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I wasn’t affected since I had Slowbro out using tech moves to help everyone else

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But it was funny seeing them just hammer with Play Rough, and not making any headway

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Annnd did it, captured Cinderace!

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Slowbro MVP

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Thanks Ducky

waxen moat
bleak pine
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I am aware you aren’t too fond of Slowbro, but I’m still glad to use something related to your favorite

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Well now that I got a Cinderace, I guess I’m gonna keep doing raids with Slowbro against Cinderace

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…I might change it up and maybe use Espartha

bleak pine
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Also for @normal cave

Sneasel wearing glasses

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I def wish this was higher resolution, cause I’d totally have this as a PFP

warm sky
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@normal cave how do you feel about slam poetry shiny sneasel from go

normal cave
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I love shiny sneasel

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And poetry

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But why does it have glasses/beanie?

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Is this an event mon or something?

warm sky
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yes

normal cave
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I think the outfit would look better on base sneasel, but I love it

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It does look better on base sneasel

warm sky
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pseudo goblet
bleak pine
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Aaaaaa

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I might try out Toxapex against Cinderace later.

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Slowbro works out fine, but I feel like spicing things up every now and then

mighty storm
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the new PMD series /joke

obsidian juniper
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ok so, i already maxed out my fletchlings atk evs, should i also max its speed, or is it wiser to invest into hp since its speed is so high already?

vagrant steppe
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Speed

bleak pine
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Yeah

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Even if you're gonna go first with the Gale Wings ability, sometimes you just need to throw a fire-type attack instead

obsidian juniper
vagrant steppe
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Nope, friend Safari is it this game

obsidian juniper
vagrant steppe
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So it'll be flame body only for a nuzelock

obsidian juniper
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speed it is

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my trainer has been standing in this one spot for literal hours KEKW

vagrant steppe
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Do note that Super Training makes nuzelockes pretty trivial

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I would have suggested ignoring it

obsidian juniper
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have you considered that i am terrible at pokemon

vagrant steppe
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Okay fair

obsidian juniper
bleak pine
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Man, I wish things in SV learned Coaching

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Would be a sick move to have for Tera Raid battles

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Oh, you're talking about challenges, not teambuilding. Yeah, def speed and attack still

bleak pine
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Alright, apparently got in a room with someone who probably didn't know what they were doing

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They, the whole time, just had their Wigglytuff constantly use Metronome

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Kinda thinking their end goal was to throw the raid

sharp kernel
harsh path
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Reminded myself of that one Alakazam from one of the GameCube spin-offs that had the element punches

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Made sense for the time with how physical and special move classification worked but still find it funny

mighty storm
bleak pine
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...Ok, but what if that actually is true?

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I know it's likely not, buuuuuut

mighty storm
bleak pine
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...Ok yeah, this is a real winner

placid junco
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Speed swap Rabsca seems really funny

mighty storm
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reminder that shiny scovillian is literally just gold shirt plus pants

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love it tho

pseudo goblet
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Genuinely curious, can people pull out Scovillain’s heads similar to Tropius’s bananas or Slowpoke’s tail?

mighty storm
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Im pretty sure they cant

pseudo goblet
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So they can’t regrow the heads, shame, serve it with Moomoo cheese and ham slices sounds pretty good

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Although I never tried bell peppers before

bleak pine
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They apparently can give off whatever that extract is for hot sauce

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...So yeah, no need to tear their heads off

mighty storm
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what item do they drop in the wild?

pseudo goblet
bleak pine
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Oh dear

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I think it's Capaskid Petals

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Or seeds

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Either one

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Apparently the teeth from Capaskid is used in hot sauce as well, so there's that.

mighty storm
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capsakid seed yep

pseudo goblet
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Imma assume these two can learn seed bomb and bullet seeds

golden lance
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Well

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IRL peppers mostly store their spice in the seeds

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So it works out

harsh path
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Capsakid does

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Just about to check Scovillain but Capsakid learns Bullet Seed at Level 21 and Seed Bomb at Level 44

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Same levels are for Scovillain

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Stone evo gaming

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Spicy Extract is also a funny move

placid junco
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Damn Eri’s anhilape doesn’t fuck around

bleak pine
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It's really one mon I really liked introduced this gen

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I just got a Mankey cause I learned it learned Cross Chop at an absurdly early level.

I didn't know it was gonna become Akuma

obsidian juniper
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I think im gonna switch pidgey out for this pancham fella

#

Got the whole "physical fast bird" side of things covered well enough with the other one i reckon

placid junco
#

I really need to finish my bug type run of Y

atomic cove
#

if the anime had trainers with strats as scummy as some of the shit that's been cooked up in the games, could it defeat the true power of friendship ? 🤔

bleak pine
#

Nope

twin shard
#

Yes, why else do you think ash has lost so many tournaments

bleak pine
#

And even if it did? There's gonna be a rematch soon enough

#

...But yeah, it's subjective

#

As much as Ash trained in the early days, many others who enters likely have trained just as hard. But when you look at those league battles you tend to notice that Ash seems to place pretty highly consistently.

twin shard
#

Let’s be honest though, people will call literally any strat a scumbag strat

bleak pine
#

Not everyone can claim to have such a track record that often

#

And yeah

#

Sand-Attack is scummy, any sleeping move is scummy, etc.

mighty storm
#

Imagine if Ash had to fight a fear aron

bleak pine
#

I think most battles made it so that if a mon fell asleep, they were automatically disqualified.

#

Since y'know, they can't intelligently defend themselves

twin shard
#

Stall? Fight me you coward
Hyper offense? Let me set up you coward
Set up? Let me hit you, you coward
All rounder? Stop having the best Pokémon you coward
Rain? Fight me in the sun you coward
Sun? Fight me in the rain you coward

atomic cove
#

What's ash gonna do against some shit like funbro

mighty storm
#

Only to win at the last second cuz he realizes he has a rock/ground/or steel type

bleak pine
#

Those things rarely do get brought up in the anime, since Anime is wayyy different than the games.

atomic cove
#

Slowbro w/ Leppa Berry, Oblivious, Heal Pulse/Recycle/Slack Off/Block

sharp kernel
#

There’s only one annoying thing in comp right now and that’s focus sash Meowscarada

bleak pine
#

Well, nothing says you have to constantly give orders.

#

If a Slowbro had that moveset in the anime, all a trainer would need to do

#

Is just not have their mon act

twin shard
#

Literally just keep switching

atomic cove
twin shard
#

It’s a draw unless they actually use something and begin struggling

bleak pine
#

Also I think in some high-end tournaments, mons can win by judge decision...?

sharp kernel
#

Do you know how big of a difference focus sash makes on Meowscarada? It’s the difference between winnable and unwinnable for some teams

bleak pine
#

So I guess the whole deal of "defense for the sake of defense" would not be very fetching

atomic cove
#

Full baton pass teams would run circles around plot armor

lyric pollen
#

do you play vgc or singles thugs

sharp kernel
#

Vgc

lyric pollen
#

yeah meow is pretty good

#

maybe thats why sand has gotten more popular

#

ko after sash

bleak pine
#

Truth be told I do enjoy the way the anime handles battles.

atomic cove
#

Take it back to gen 4 with the minimize muk 😂

bleak pine
#

Since it takes a lot of factors the games usually establish and ends up turning it around

sharp kernel
#

Garchomp had to adjust his bulk because the normal EV spread for chomp was still getting 1 shot by flower trick

#

It was actually kinda hilarious

#

But also sad

bleak pine
#

The flower of disrespect

lyric pollen
#

its also funny that protean seems less popular

atomic cove
#

I mean didn't protean get nerfed?

sharp kernel
#

It’s like not being used at all on the ladder

bleak pine
#

Yeah, it's nerf definitely made it less imposing

#

It's still a great ability, but isn't just a guessing game of What type will Greninja/Cinderace/Meowscarada/Kekleon(lol) will be now

lyric pollen
#

its also just that sash overgrow flower trick is so strong

sharp kernel
#

Cinderace might shake things up a bit, especially with skeledirge falling out of favor

lyric pollen
#

It wont be legal for at least a month

sharp kernel
#

Series 1 is too short imo

#

I wish we had more time

lyric pollen
#

yeah I'm going to an OCE event in feb

sharp kernel
#

Meta is legitly changing by the day

lyric pollen
#

I hope the ruleset isnt too crazy for that

bleak pine
#

I actually caught Cinderace Yesterday!

#

...Well, it took awhile to find a good enough team to go in with

#

I had like 3 tries in which all three members wanted to use Azumarill

#

...Which didn't bode well when Cinderace will use Bulk Up every so often

lyric pollen
#

that best raid mon video set society back by decades

#

I've been testing a lot with tauros

#

I really really like the water one

bleak pine
#

Would have been hella funny if they just gave Cinderace the Gunk Shot move instead of Iron Head

lyric pollen
#

and I think the fire one is good once the ruin mon are in the format

sharp kernel
#

All I know is, don’t sleep on big boy hariyama

bleak pine
#

DOSUKOI

#

uh

#

SUBALUWA

lyric pollen
#

they also have 105 base def STAB body presses, which is cool

sharp kernel
#

He gets access to 2 moves that I think only 1 other Pokémon this Gen has access to

bleak pine
lyric pollen
#

headlong rush and uhhh

sharp kernel
#

Cc

#

Only other Pokémon that gets that combination is

bleak pine
#

Kinda weird how rare Superpower is

lyric pollen
#

oh right, the combination yeah

#

yeah superpower is a weird one

bleak pine
#

Only a few mons actually learn it now, and a few that usually would just learn Close Combat instead

sharp kernel
#

The new force of nature has access to contrary superpower

lyric pollen
#

Its been really good on my cetitan for laddering, catching kingambits all the time

bleak pine
#

I guess they phased it out as Close Combat being a strenuous fit of martial fury, whereas Superpower is just

"beeg muscle"

lyric pollen
#

but cetitan after an attack drop is so ass its like a one and done

bleak pine
#

I wish Submission had more power

sharp kernel
#

I want to try a chilling reception team so bad, but it’s kinda too meme to spend time and build it atm

lyric pollen
#

I think submission got deleted from the game

bleak pine
#

Yep

mighty storm
#

so apparently scovillian has a gimmick

#

it uses grass moves with its red head, and fire moves with the green head

#

thats cute

bleak pine
#

Pretty neat. You'd think it'd be the other way around.

mighty storm
placid junco
#

My team rotation going into the finales

pseudo goblet
#

How good is Veluza?

placid junco
#

I haven’t really used it much

#

It seems just kinda painfully okay, stat wise

lucid moth
#

trash tbh

placid junco
#

I could see it maybe being a menace in like
NU

#

Gonna be making all my Pokémon level 57 before going into any of the finales

lyric pollen
#

veluza is a gimmick mon for sure

#

but it did carry me in-game

#

and if it gets set up +2 sharpness boosted STAB psycho cuts will hurt

#

nonwithstanding terrain and the guaranteed crit set up if you're a mad person

sand forge
#

It's interesting to me how boring Veluza is compared to your other no-evo Pokémon

#

Pinsir, Tauros, Lapras, Ditto, Shuckle, Skarmory, Smeargle, Miltank, Sableye, Mawile, Torkoal, Castform, Kecleon, Tropius and so on

#

And then

#

Fish

maiden flax
silver vigil
#

I am lame

sand forge
maiden flax
#

Joltik!

latent sleet
#

human compatible

sand forge
#

Give Claydol a mega evolution/gigantamax form you cowards

random stream
#

What about a regular evolution?

#

Steelfigure

warm sky
#

nah see, in gen 10 they're gonna add a new gimmick called extreme forms, so we get claydol extreme

latent sleet
#

new necrozma form

#

its necrozma with a glock

sand forge
#

Give Skarmory an evolution called "Fucklittlecup"

latent sleet
#

will it have a glock

sand forge
#

yes

#

and a signature move that OHK/Os any level 5 or lower Pokemon

placid junco
#

Finished the team star storyline

obsidian juniper
#

ok, so pangoro has a basespeed of 58, which seems pretty abysmal
do i invest the stats in have left after atk into bulk (andf if i do, is hp or the two defenses better?) or do i put it into speed regardless?

#

for reference, ability is mold breaker and nature is naive (which doesnt do anything think?)

long stone
#

💀

obsidian juniper
#

wow, i misinterpreted the colours

#

i have one mon with a non shit nature

#

💀

placid junco
#

Wow Raifort is a boomer

placid junco
#

All classes done

#

Now just the various teacher side quests, and a lot of pins to pull

#

God Penny really is the “I know writers who use subtext, and their all cowards” of trans coded characters isn’t she

warm sky
mighty storm
placid junco
#

Yup

#

Clavells battle theme might also be the single worst character unique battle theme in the series also

last musk
placid junco
placid junco
#

Lost my rematch against arven

placid junco
#

Swept Rikka with just Brambleghast

#

Poppy went down even easier to skeledirge

sharp kernel
placid junco
#

Larry gave me trouble
And Hassel was easy

#

Geeta beat me

#

But because I was greedy

#

Second attempt I played significantly smarter

pseudo goblet
young magnet
mighty storm
#

@waxen moat

pseudo goblet
#

Huh, Razor Leaf Decidueye, in this new vs map, OP AF WTH AWAAAAAA

#

First off, I always play Decidueye with spirit shackle, kinda my first time using razor leaf, I clicked the wrong move KEKW

Second, Decidueye’s attack speed and damage combine with this map allowing moves spamming, jfc

mighty storm
#

NOT A DRILL, POKEMON SQUISHMALLOWS

#

there is even a gengar

pseudo goblet
#

Show me one with Clodsire, my wallet should be ready any day nyaruhodo

mighty storm
#

with the spikes ^

pseudo goblet
#

Could wrap it around my head fluff

#

Something something face huggers, a cute one

lyric pollen
#

had a nice win streak on ranked with a snow team

#

abomasnow being a real mon, and not just a snow/veil bot in a lot of matchups is so nice

maiden flax
#

Quiz: what colour is roaring moon officially?

pseudo goblet
#

Red?

sand forge
#

Blue, surely

obsidian juniper
random stream
maiden flax
pseudo goblet
#

Ah

#

Huh, so that’s the jp name for roaring moon, they were being literal I guess

sand forge
maiden flax
#

nope

#

blue has it's own category

pseudo goblet
#

Yeah the dude kinda has that mint-ish blue-green

sand forge
#

Salamence is blue, Roaring Moon is slightly greener

#

But I'd still call Roaring Moon blue

placid junco
#

I just got completely demolished by ||Sada’s|| flutter mane

placid junco
#

Revavroom has been an absolute MVP

#

Shift gear OP

#

Finished the story

mighty storm
#

what are you talking about, its green

#

diamond dust is pretty btw

mighty storm
#

the DLC cant come soon enough, Roaring Beast or whatever this is called is gonna be so cool

bleak pine
#

This thing might not even exist. It's described in the Scarlet book to be an artist's interperation of what may lurk in Area Zero.

sharp kernel
#

Cope

#

It def exists, video games don’t just throw stuff like this in for no reason

placid junco
#

I mean

#

Kalos ghost girl

#

Don’t forget zygard being added essentially an entire generation early

latent sleet
#

today i remembered that ash has yet to return to reunite with pidgeot

#

its been 20 years

mighty storm
lyric pollen
#

||none of the paradox mon exist, I am very pilled on the 3rd legend granting wishes and the time travel being a lie||

sharp kernel
#

it's why none of the paradox pokemon ||have real names||

lyric pollen
#

there are also some other clues, I cant remember what they are but it makes a lot of sense imo

uncut cradle
#

I love focus energy + scope lense. Opponent can get up double screens and you just kill em in one hit regardless

sleek sky
#

damn Ash really said he doesn't want kids

pseudo goblet
#

I doubt Serena will allow that blob3c

bleak pine
#

Alright what type am I

#

not really, but just for laughs you could

sharp kernel
#

Focus energy is cool but like I feel as if we’re trying to get too gimmicky to deal with dondozo tatsugiri

pseudo goblet
#

Apparently everyone who met me are bugs KEKW deadinside

sharp kernel
#

When it’s not even that oppressive without a pawmot

bleak pine
#

I really like the idea behind Focus Energy, but it's just not exactly a worthwhile investment when most mons you'd want to use it with also can likely learn Swords Dance which is a flat bonus to attack

sharp kernel
#

Wel focus energy is for dondozo

#

Frits don’t care about your defense raise

#

Crits*

bleak pine
#

...I'm wondering though, how well Focus Energy can do in Tera Raid battles

sharp kernel
#

Not viable

#

Prob

bleak pine
#

You're gonna have to fling out a couple attacks anyways, so one of those are bound to nail a pressure point

#

What I have been noticing is that Cinderace the Unrivaled ended up being a really unbreakable fella on a defense level.

#

That same strategy of "Just click Belly Drum and then Play Rough" isn't too helpful if Cinderace can keep jacking up its Defense stat

#

...Now I'm just frightened at the prospect of needing to do a raid battle against anything that knows Cosmic Power.

sharp kernel
#

I haven’t done a Cinderace raid yet, nor any 7 star raids. I’m legitly stuck trying to get perfect iv’s for my vgc team

bleak pine
#

They're pretty fun

#

It's not a slap-fest like Max Raid battles, so you're bound to be in for a busy and frentic time

#

...alright, so I looked up Cosmic Power

#

Turns out our resident "dung" beetle can learn it

#

...But it's an egg move

sharp kernel
#

He can yeah, but he has much better moves that it’s like why go cosmic power

bleak pine
#

The other mons that learn it? Arceus and Eternatus.

#

It's less it being good and more "How can this make a tera raid battle very difficult

#

Looking now, though, a 7* raid battle against Eternatus would just be nightmarish.

sharp kernel
#

Rabsca is unironically really fire into gholdengo also

bleak pine
#

Poison/Dragon type nullifies the whole trend of having your resident water rabbit or roboathlete just belly drum and click an attack move of your choice, and cause it knows Cosmic Power, it can likely use this every time it hits an HP threshold to stall out

#

...Though, given this is a Tera Raid battle, it would have a Tera Type.

placid junco
#

The paradoxes ||not having real names is mostly just a result of older researchers describing them||

#

||the third legendary granting wishes I won’t rule out, but I don’t think the paradoxes are the result of it||

maiden flax
lyric pollen
#

yeah that second point is what does it for me

#

||they match the magazine because that is what the professor wanted them to be||

placid junco
#

I mean
||they do outright say the terastal crystals seemingly enhance technology||

#

It’s kinda funny how ||for the Sada robot what she’s doing is functionally suicide, while the Turo robot will probably be fine, assuming it’s an actual Time Machine||

silver vigil
lyric pollen
#

slowbro can't actually be that bad

#

weavile is also very funny, but also mega weavile is legal so maybe

silver vigil
#

This is going off current uu usage

lyric pollen
#

surely slowbro runs the format

placid junco
#

Probably

lyric pollen
#

i know it lost scald, but still

sharp kernel
#

Losing scald hurt a lot of Pokémon

#

Best widely available water move now is probably wave crash on the physical side, and idk about the special side, but it’s probably hydro pump or muddy water

#

It was a very good nerf

lyric pollen
#

water pledge copium

sharp kernel
lyric pollen
#

pledges should be physical or special, depending on what is higher

sharp kernel
#

It’s funny because Slowking has a very solid niche now with chilling reception

tacit sphinx
#

My friend just sent me a mashup of the ruin quartet theme and Tunak Tunak Tun

#

This actually fucks

warm sky
#

ANYBODY can make a false quote

#

Also a voice actor doesn't get to decide that kinda thing

pseudo goblet
#

Yeah im just waiting for more news and see how will they play this time

pseudo goblet
#

Anyone got all three gen 9 I can trade with? I’m currently deciding my starters in-game

#

I picked Spragatito and named it Veggie

#

Why is this here??? I know this game can be buggy, it’s that I can’t tell if this is intentional or bug

bleak pine
#

Yeah, it happens sometimes

#

Doesn’t hurt anything but it is sometimes pretty weird

pseudo goblet
#

Fuck, Veggie got sassy nature… decrease speed…

#

Please tell me nature mints is here

sharp kernel
#

Found the perfect slowbro set. Body press, iron defense, trick room, yawn

pseudo goblet
#

I mean, female Sprigatito being sassy sounds kinda fitting, but still…

bleak pine
#

Yeah, you can find mints very easily

#

You should be able to tough it out until you find a few

pseudo goblet
#

What about EV-related berries, they here too? OgreThink

#

Oh wow, Leafage right off the bat

bleak pine
#

Yep. Finding them out in the wilds is possible

pseudo goblet
#

Fantastic

#

That’s it for tonight CheemsCozy

last musk
#

It's what game Devs use to position their building and object placements

snow oasis
silver vigil
#

what did hatterene get this gen again

#

or is it a circumstance thing

sand forge
#

Why is Great Tusk used so much

mighty storm
#

funny thing though, you can change what ball is there

snow oasis
#

Can run multiple different sets, has all kinds of support moves

#

Unfortunately no Intimidate or similar support ability

#

Though Protosynthesis does give it the ability to run a vicious wallbreaking set

sand forge
#

Makes sense

crimson moat
#

Baxcalibur moved to UU
Heh

#

Lokix moved to UU
Hehe

#

Also for reminder, Tera goes into voting today

placid junco
#

Because smogon hates fun they’ll probably ban it

#

I think Tera is by far the most balanced gimmick

crimson moat
#

Tera is definitely way more balanced than Dynamax

#

If the forum for the suspect test were any indication (which it isn't honestly a good indicator of the vote), the most popular pick is not to ban it but to reveal it in team preview, and that it will eventually need to be banned when the pokedex opens up to more big hitters coming back

uncut cradle
#

I think Tera is fine as long as you would be able to see what tera types opponent's monsters have

snow oasis
#

Yeah I think that’s what they’ll vote for

#

Will make it a lot more strategic

crimson moat
#

Also while scrolling through the forum, found the best meme

#

that's it, getting me mallet

latent sleet
snow oasis
sand forge
#

or is that PU

crimson moat
#

UU is just the tier directly below OU

#

PU is lowest

#

OU
UU
RU
NU
PU
Oh right ZU exists

placid junco
#

Isn’t ZU kinda unofficial

crimson moat
#

I mean Smogon is kinda unofficial nyaruhodo

#

but yes you are right, it kinda just is called ZU without being a smogon supported format

sand forge
#

Ah I see

#

Overused, Underused, Rarely Used, Never used, and Stinky?

placid junco
#

ZU is catchier than “no significant usage” though

sand forge
#

I love how shit Mycelium Might actually is

placid junco
#

It feels almost bugged in some cases too

crimson moat
#

At least with Corrosion you don't have to do Long Division to find out the use case

snow oasis
sand forge
#

Mycelium Might straight up just doesn't work

golden lance
#

SV UU really is just SS OU huh

vagrant steppe
#

Yeah the powercreep is nuts

snow oasis
#

22/36 OU mons are Gen 9ers

#

8 of the top 10

uncut cradle
#

It's nice that all 3 starters are OU

eager sentinel
silver vigil
#

Dragonite packing heat tho

#

does Espathra win the award for "mon in the tier for the shortest amount of time ever"

warm sky
warm sky
silver vigil
#

banned from UU

warm sky
#

Okay that makes sense

silver vigil
#

immediately after UU became official

#

I think someone said like 38 minutes

warm sky
outer eagle
#

Will gen 9's powercreep be strong enough for "With this generation's RU resembling last generation's OU"? KEKW

placid junco
#

Not once new toy syndrome wears off

outer eagle
#

all we need to do is wait and see ofc

silver vigil
placid junco
#

Oh right

bleak pine
#

As much as Dynamax is hotly debated I still enjoy it, primarily because most any mon can use it, compared to Mega Evolution.

#

I used to love Mega Evolution, but over time I really just realized that it's pretty iffy.

outer eagle
#

Just give me gen 5 Gems EZ
Basic, effective, and isn't a one-time gimmick

lucid moth
#

some new faces for sure

#

but its some notable weaknesses of the drops

latent sleet
#

oh kingambit is in top 10

#

suprising

warm sky
#

This is a hatecrime to GODZILLA

latent sleet
#

a fucking goldfish is more used than unstopable juggernauts kek

outer eagle
#

never knew a literal family of mice was an unstopable juggernaut EZ

latent sleet
#

they are wanted in 50 different countries

snow oasis
#

rocky helmet go brrr

latent sleet
#

maushold after they population bomb a garchomp with rough skin and a rocky helmet

outer eagle
#

Ferro's return would be "interesting times" for Maushold

snow oasis
#

Maushold is the archetypal early gen noob trap

latent sleet
#

just kill them

#

its just that easy

outer eagle
#

it's the zoomer's Cinccino

sand forge
outer eagle
#

Hydreigon still remaining an UU superstar i see

lucid moth
#

i think for ttar

#

tera fighting and the most popular pkmn usually have frequent fighting coverage means it can no longer survive without being an immediate tera user itself

#

but it uses tera defensively

#

so it automatically falls

#

similar to skeledirge

#

bax falling also makes sense. its a massive threat but random tera fairy and all the fighting coverage means it can get melted and it cant spam glaive rush easy

#

too many effective sweepers rn

#

charizard never deserved to stay in ou neither did orthworm or maushold

#

ditto too it always falls

#

lokix same deal

#

its basically slither wing

#

also will give gen 9 props

#

a lot of uu mons still feel playable in ou unless they are directly outclassed

#

ive seen tinkaton and azu and sandy shocks and slither wing and grafaiai do well in ou

sand forge
#

Misty, explain Sandy Shocks

lucid moth
#

stab earth power

#

and volt switch

sand forge
#

That's kinda boring

outer eagle
#

didn't people hype up defensive Tera pre-release

lucid moth
#

it just hits hard as fuck

#

defensive tera is broken dont get it twisted

#

offensive tera is just significantly more

outer eagle
#

it would appear taking advantage of either an Adaptability boost or an extra STAB is the more important part of the equation
who would've thought

#

the worst part is a lot of the times offensive Tera also helps defensively cuz the extra STAB also happens to be a counter type

#

so purely using Tera defensively is such a waste

golden lance
#

What's the chance of chi yu going to ubers?

lucid moth
#

high

#

chi-yu is pretty broken and its most likely that he gets unanimously voted to ubers

outer eagle
#

isn't Ubers currently only comprised of like 5 mons? KEKW

latent sleet
#

gen 9 has ubers?

outer eagle
#

well yeah

#

where do you think the box art legends are?

golden lance
#

Yea it's where flutter mane lives

latent sleet
#

i mean a official ubers list

outer eagle
#

Ubers is always official

latent sleet
#

from smogon or something

outer eagle
#

Its function just changes depending on the time period

latent sleet
#

flutter mane has like a huge base sp atk right

outer eagle
#

like pre-gen 5 it wasn't considered an actual ranked tier iirc

#

135 across SpAtk/SpDef/Spd

latent sleet
#

pretty good

silver vigil
#

Flutter Mane is just good stats good stab

latent sleet
#

dump ev on it and you’re good to go

silver vigil
#

Palafin has an uberfucked ability

golden lance
#

Flutter mane is like

silver vigil
#

Houndstone has Last Respects + Sand Force + some other good moves

golden lance
#

Pretty explicitely min maxed

latent sleet
#

zero to hero base stats increase bottom text

outer eagle
#

hey at least Delibird getting banned meme technically came true

golden lance
latent sleet
#

was iron bundle actually banned?

outer eagle
#

yes

latent sleet
#

kekw

sharp kernel
#

Defensive tera is very good, it’s just a different approach to the game.

#

Also Great Tusk is the 2 of 2 Pokémon that gets close combat and headlong rush

latent sleet
#

levitate with a elec tera type is very useful

sharp kernel
#

Why is that relevant? Switching into it makes it hard

golden lance
#

Ngl i'm pretty surprised seeing ting lu with that much play

outer eagle
#

beefy boy goes hard

latent sleet
#

is wo chien used

#

don’t see him as often as the rest of the quartet

outer eagle
#

well according to smogon it's UU rn

#

so probably not

latent sleet
#

huh

outer eagle
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i can probably see why
Good defensively, but lacks offensive pressure unlike Ting-Lu, with an arguably worse typing

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and 70 Speed is awkward as hell

latent sleet
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well yeah he is weak to a lot of stuff

sharp kernel
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For starters it has 7 weaknesses as a tanky boy

latent sleet
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i can think of 5 of them

outer eagle
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grass alone has 5 weaknesses

latent sleet
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oh actually hes 4x to bug

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but who uses bug

outer eagle
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u-turn bois

sharp kernel
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4x to bug isn’t super relevant since bug types this Gen are actually worse than last

outer eagle
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you don't really care about actual bug mons

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but randomly getting domed by a momentum move is big

sharp kernel
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And I’m sure singles isn’t spamming struggle bug in a switch heavy format

outer eagle
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especially when a defensive mon's job is often times to be a pivot

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in singles at least

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and losing to one of the most popular momentum preserving move doesn't help

latent sleet
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a hit and run i see nyaruhodo

outer eagle
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always funny to see mons with gigantic ass Def and SpDef with average at best HP

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pretty certain if you take any equal amount of points from those 2 stats and invest them all in HP the mon would come out with greater bulk on both sides

sharp kernel
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It’s why cetitan is so good in doubles right now

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Gigantic hp

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Horrible defenses

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But still bulky enough to take a hit

outer eagle
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it's what Avalugg wished it could be

sharp kernel
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Along with the fact that he gets awesome coverage for an ice type

mighty storm
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and can get rid of his awful defense typing

lyric pollen
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Between snow def boost, AV and slush rush it gets a lot of free stats

warm sky
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I guess Lokix just didn't leave a good first inpret

obsidian juniper
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got a sentret from the honedge route
SadChamp

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i guess i shoulda went for the audiono/venipede encounter instead

bleak pine
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wdym Sentret is good boyo

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...I tried looking up Sentret in GIF's but all i got was Furret

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Argh

obsidian juniper
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i am a big fan of the honedge line tho

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and im not particularly lacking in the normal type department

warm sky
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Lomf

obsidian juniper
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croagunk
lets gooo, goated pokemon and i finally have something to use against fairies
next route is fucking seviper
cheems

placid junco
vagrant steppe
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Annihilape Close Combats my Maushold, but I Tera into ghost first

sharp kernel
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So this depends on which annihilape builds we’re looking at

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Assuming both are the bulk up, drain punch, rage fist builds and not the final gambit one

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The best play to make here is protect Maushold and bulk up

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T2 the best play is to double protect Maushold and if either of them get the double protect to proc, they win

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If it’s bulk up build vs scarf final gambit the bulk up build has a huge advantage

lyric pollen
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i hate running into that lead on ladder so much i stg

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because sometimes the maus is goggles

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and sometimes its sash

crimson moat
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Wait for more pokemon to be added, Swap out Maushold for Hisuian Zoroark
Annihilape use Protect

lyric pollen
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if the ape final gambits its literally a sigh of relief

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thankfully skeledirge is the 🐐 and ignores both

crimson moat
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"What do you mean I can just run my own sash"

bleak pine
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I keep thinking about good uses for Thief, but then it just loops to "Then why not just use knock off if that's a thing they can do"

lyric pollen
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I think its honestly decent coverage on scizor

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but also scizor should basically only be clicking one button

maiden flax
# silver vigil or is it a circumstance thing

Its 100% a circumstance thing, with so little hazard removers that can actually get past gholdengo hatt has become one of the ways to just staight up not get hazard stacked to oblivion

maiden flax
maiden flax
lucid moth
maiden flax
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Also some of the most popular tera types are as follows (there are a few others but these are the ones Ill point out):
Annihilape with tera water for purely defensive reasons
Dragonite with tera normal for stab espeed with the addition of not folding to an ice type move
Gargnacl with fairy/steel/water/flying to wall different mons in the meta
Chi-yu with tera grass to let it punch water (and rock/ground types) types with tera blast while also not dying to them or tera dark to hit harder while still dodging that water (and rock/ground) weakness (tera fighting is also used to punch ting-lu and other chi-yus)
Espathra with tera fairy/fighting to hit dark types with either tera blast or dazzling gleam while also dodging dark weakness
Tera flying iron hands, used purely defensively to dodge eqs from like garchomp
Tera flying roaring moon, for stab accrobatics and fighting resist

Some hyped up tera types that werent all that:
Tera ghost dragapult, means dragapult has an actual physical type ghost type move, problem is that due to inflexibility makes certain matches hella awkward
Tera flying dnite for flying tera blast, again inflexibility hurts, and still being weak to ice types also hurts
Tera dark kingambit, thing much prefers something like tera flying to dodge weaknesses
Tera normal scizor, sounds better on paper with quick attack, just inferior in every way to tera steel scizor for that extra bullet punch push (or tera electric if running tera blast)
Tera ground/dragon garchomp, being still weak to ice hurts which is why ghost/steel/water are generally way more common to dodge common weaknesses

lucid moth
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dont forget chi-yu tera fighting

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that shit is also pretty busted

maiden flax
lucid moth
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tera grass, fighting, dark, fire all viable on chi=yu

maiden flax
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Oh right forgot fighting

lucid moth
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it also gets around gholdengo

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so cinderace being able to safely court change in a lot of mons and has the ability to easily push past gholdengo i can see cinderace being meta

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not broken but meta

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i also dont think it will be enough to completely invalidate hatt as some ppl i have seen been saying

maiden flax
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Yeah cinderace is def meta

maiden flax
lucid moth
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hatt + great tusk is a pretty legit core for teams i think

lucid moth
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but tera fire overheat on specs is damage beyond what is normal

maiden flax
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True but most things are going to die without that and those who dont generally would take more from the other teras XD

lucid moth
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oh yeah absolutely

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doesnt mean i dont see it

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its kinda meme

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but its like just enough power that its justified

maiden flax
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Yeah fair

flat sedge
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i think people overstate the prevelance of hazard+gholden and how unbeatable it is etc etc but also at the same time ppl do be spamming it atleast in low-mid ladder because of how everyone loves to just say it

lucid moth
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like

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for example

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u ever wanna ohko a dondozo from full with rocks on chi-yu?

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specs tera fire overheat has u covered

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even clod gets eaten up

flat sedge
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dont forget, you are always one dark pulse flinch away from losing >:D

lucid moth
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iirc its guaranteed 2hko after rocks

maiden flax
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You wouldnt need the rocks if you had the other teras lol

flat sedge
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also how can anyone be mad at gholden

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when its free entry for your specs chiyu

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like mmm

lucid moth
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actually

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still absurd as fuck

maiden flax
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Yeah lol

lucid moth
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this mon is not surviving january in the tier

maiden flax
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But yeah chi-yu needs a ban lol, the mons not okay

flat sedge
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its fun

normal cave
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Fish

flat sedge
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specs is fun*

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scarf is unfun for both you and them imo

maiden flax
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I love the lava fish

lucid moth
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specs overheat from tera fire can actually let u destroy ting-lu in 2 hits