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Did you win @snow oasis
I have not gone in yet
Should I run Focus Punch over Brick Break on Snorlax?
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
Brick Break is more consistent
Is Frustration ever viable
You'd really only want focus punch on sub builds
Surely by having a Pokémon who can do well with Frustration leads to a Pokémon bad at Frustration
Just as return, just that return is easier to keep at max between matches
If you forget and go into grass and kill smth, suddenly it's not at it's max
I suppose on showdown its probably fine
Frustration literally gets worse during fights
This implies not I think
I meant generally, but I imagine it's better in competitive
Are there any moves or abilities besides Return/Frustration that are affected by either your or your opponent’s mon’s friendship?
Iirc no
Then the only reason to run Frustration is because you’re a mean person whose mons don’t like them :(
Actually there’s a MARGINAL usage for uhh
Frustration vs Return for things like Imprison
@snow oasis for snorlax just do return shadow ball
Sure
Also frustration and return lets you get azumaril very early in bw2
Cause teaching a tm gives happiness
So you loop them

Funny thing, teaching frustration reduces its power
I don't think I've ever evolved a Togepi
Lmao
infinite friendship glitch (real)
I will now befriend Griff (by frustrating him)
There is a cap
You get to max in like
A few levels
I remember getting it at like lv 18 or smth
Like getting a marill very fast and immediately evolving into azumarill
Just for roxie
Okmma just ping me whenever
Marill evolves by level up
Idr this was years ago
I’m literally right here renfie
Oh I see what you mean
So you spam work up/return/frustration on the baby
Get her some levels
And it evolves
Just in time for azumarill
Ye I misunderstood you
So yeah frustration is op
Oh ok so who are your 6?
🙃
Or well just ask me about movesets

Yeah this looks pretty goodmma. since the rival has venusaur there's no exeggutor to worry about
snor should handle most of agatha, jolteon for lorelei + gyaras, rest of lance is with the two waters
sandslash for bruno
then rival fight is a slug fest
yeah it should be a real slobberknocker but I think I should win without too much trouble
probably starmie for bruno tho since surf + psychic just makes his whole team not exist
lax is immunity too so literally no fear going into cringe fail agatha
yeah
for blastoise I think surf ice beam protect x with lefties is gonna be good since you could really use the extra hp
can keep rain dance if you're doing thunder shenanigans with the mie
or toxic
I legit just picked up rain dance bc it makes surf go brrr
I can def replace it since starmie’s the one that will go heehoo thunder

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
yeah protect lefties is a little slow animation wise but it lets you be a lot safer in case something ever goes wrong
for the E4 I turn battle animations back on for literally the only time in the game
and double edge too
oh is aero not rock head?
have you already picked up the sitrus berries from route 6 or the one right near victory road?
didn’t know there was one near victory road I’ll go pick that one up
Nyaruhodo
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
me in 3 hours: “died to bruno”
if you lose to bruno without actively trying to lose i will eat lipstick
genuinely I feel like you could beat bruno by just shooting rubber bands at random buttons
My favourite is how in Gen 2 the only change they made to his team was replacing 1 Onix with Hitmontop
So he still inexplicably has an Onix
AT LEAST GIVE HIM A FUCKING STEELIX
Did you know btw
There are zero trainers in the ENTIRETY of FRLG who use a Poliwrath
Even if you fight every trainer you will not see a single Poliwrath throughout FRLG without evolving one yourself
This happens more often than you’d think tbf
And they still didn’t five it to Bruno
I think in FRLG it’s only uhh
IIRC there is no Chimecho in RSE other than Mt Pyre
Poliwrath, Golem, Clefable
the fossils and eeveelutions obv but they don’t quite count
Porygon
Chimecho also has the last index value in Gen 3’s Pokemon list so the theory is that it was made extremely late
Tbf in Emerald, Drake uses a Kingdra despite it being Juan’s signature mon
Listen I am a massive Gen 2 defender but I can and will freely admit that its bosses have some
decisions
You wanna know my absolute favourite
Same thing with Flannery using a Camerupt despite it being Maxie’s signature
The biggest meme in Gen 2 boss teams
Petrel’s army of Koffing?
wait wait
That's not the reason
Jasmine’s Sunny Day Steelix with zero Fire moves
Steelix is gen 2
we were talking about his gen 2 team at that time
No
Oh
Even bigger meme
Then it's cringe
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
but there’s 5 Fighting types in Kanto
Why tf Bruno got TWO onix
Xatu, Slowbro, Jynx, Exeggutor, and Xatu
Without looking it up, do you know what’s different between the Xatus?
Gender?
||the level||
Phoebe does that too I think
Both of the Xatus have an identical movepool
Ah, at least Phoebe’s mons have different movesets
I think in HGSS they actually changed one of the Xatus but in GSC they both have Quick Attack, Future Sight, Psychic, Confuse Ray
I might love the Gen 2 games but the E4 are kinda weak
Except Karen who everyone loves
Gen 3-4 were improved but still had some brain king moments
Hitmonchan in general in gen 1 is arguably the weakest fully evolved pokemon in the game, period
excluding Ditto
Okay but get this
In Yellow, Bruno’s Hitmonchan has
Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Fire Punch
and Double Team
No STAB, no physical moves
Ye
Its special is 30 iirc
35! I was close
You know what’s funny is that the Hitmons have like
bizarrely good special defence
All of them have 110 base SpD
Which isn’t like amazing but
Surprisingly high
Fighting types with good spd are a nice novelty
Well like
Part of why Hitmontop was so good in doubles for ages was
Intimidate + good SpD
Wolfey won worlds running ‘top didn’t he
idk tbh
In the former’s case
because gen 2 didn’t know what the fuck it was doing
Because Red had it
Nyaruhodo
Gen 2 honestly feels like the biggest gap between its potential and what it actually turned out to be of the entire series
People forget because they generally try not to make choices canon in Pokemon but Red’s original team had Espeon over Lapras
It’s okay though Red still has Snorlax
Horrendous level curve, genuinely incomprehensible npc team choices, the locking of a sizable number of the new mons behind the postgame
Johto honestly feels like an afterthought which is kind of a bad thing for the MAIN STORY to be
“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
I had a thought about the level curve recently while playing SV
You know how people say “if you get overlevelled just swap in some weaker mons”
Lowkey I wonder if that was their intent
But then I realise I’m just trying to justify it because I like gen 2 lmao
I dunno I just wonder if the devs intended more swapping out of mons
See there’s the difference
If you’re overleveled it gives you the chance to try out new mons
If you’re UNDERleveled it makes you less likely to try a new strat
Bear in mind I’m not arguing in favour of it
Yea
Just like hypothesising
But I do think SV’s way, while still not good design, is at least less infuriating design
What shocks me about Gen 2 discourse rn is like
How do I put this
People act like it’s Gen 1 shittiness
Nowadays
It’s not but like
I feel like Gen 2’s shittiness is sorta masked somewhat by how much shittier Gen 1 was
Objectively Gen 2 is full of
decisions
Sure but so are all the Pokemon games
Even the absolute sacred cow that is Gen 5 has dumb shit
@snow oasis wait i got a worse gen 2 boss decision than will
I literally forgot until this very second
Why the fuck does Bugsy have a Metapod and Kakuna again
B2W2 are great; BW are, while not bad, definitely the most overrated in the series imo
I forgot that lmao
Also Morty has Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar
Pretty sure he has two Haunters
The Ghost type leader IN JOHTO doesn’t use the new Johto Ghost
That goes for everyone though lmao
Actually, one sec
Yeah so 50% of the Johto gym leaders have a Johto mon as their ace
Whitney has the infamous Miltank, Clair has Kingdra, Pryce has Piloswine, and Jasmine has Steelix
The other four don’t even USE any Johto mons at all, right?
Genuinely mystifying design choices
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?
Have you heard the Gen 2 Gym Leader theory, incidentally?
Enlighten me
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)
As you can see the theory is dumb but
It has persisted
Ehhh
Isn’t it literally just that they were all the Gym types that hadn’t been in Gen 1
other than Dark obviously since 17 types for 16 Gyms
Ahh

During gen 7, the rental team mechanic didn't copy happiness, instead it just sets it to zero
So stuff like mega kang used frustration instead of return because of that
i mean most "ate" mons i've seen used Frustration over Return just so that a regular Ditto doesn't get the benefit
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Right, this is another reason
In any case
The hour is nigh
Lorelei more like SNORElei
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we uh. we had some slight problems with bruno.
surely his hitmonlee won’t live a psychic on one HP and then kill from full with a crit mega kick
surely his machamp won’t live a surf on one HP and then kill from full with a crit cross chop
surely it won’t then subsequently live a thunderbolt on one HP and then kill from full with a (regular, but +1) cross chop
What rom is this?
Cartridge LeafGreen lol
Agatha down
This does not slip now
We rise above
Lance down
One way or another, it ends now
Hoo Hah!
For some reason he’s actually the bane of my Kanto lockes
Lost two mons to him my first time around too
Literally no one else gives any trouble
fun fact! Protect + Toxic stalling out an entire team of 6 fucking sucks, especially when one of them is Poison type
did I cheat my personal ruleset and spam Full Restores mid fight bc I didn’t want to lose? perhaps.
do I care? not really
Wait
if the game cheats me I’m gonna cheat back
Venusaur
I had to yawn that and whack it with return til it stopped breathing
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
Get fucked you shirtless idiot you couldn’t stop me anyways
@random stream I will never call FRLG piss easy ever again
I will now call them “piss easy when the game doesn’t literally load not only the die but the entire casino against you”
it even knows when itself dies logically
I think the end of existence might be a tad more harrowing
they probably foresaw Scarlet and Violet... the horror
i don't think its that bad.
bc it knows everything. these is no mystery
"i have seen it all".mon
altho its nice of them that they don't just project these visions to other beings...
You were saying?
rip xatu
he fell asleep and dialga forgot to set the alarm
or maybe it's like hinduism, endless cyclical nature
end of the universe leads to the next big bang
a Paradox mon that is the Creation Trio + Arceus all mixed up.
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
Aaaaaa
Ssssssss
i think i will replay pokemon y

actually thinking about playing it in english
Nuzlocke it @obsidian juniper
thats the plan yes
nice
I cant wait for when we can move PLA mons in SV
so I can unite my shiny ursaluna with my SV shiny teddiursa
we should come up with rules for a good SV nuzlocke
I think first thing's first, flamigo and starters are banned
lechonk only
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which starter do i pick
chespin for life #chespingang
I second Chespin
chespin it is
Chespin
balls obtained
scatterbug is my first encounter
How much does the supertraining actually matter?
It's quick EV training
Yeah, but they add up
Alright, what can I do with a Squakabilly?
I'm trying to come up with something that it's pretty good at
Pretty much nothing... It's kinda just there
And no I don't care that Staraptor or Braviary exists
...Yeah, it's kinda there, but I still like to challenge myself to bring out the best of the parrot
Still pretty neat how they really shown their work on Squaks being like a good few parrots
Ah
Like, these are based on some kind of parrot that was found in South America, but brought to Europe
Attack and hp then ig?
And they usually do come in a green color but can be bred to have yellow, blue or white colorations
Also, they have Zygodactyl feets, which is like, 2 digits in front and the back instead of the usual 3 front and 1 back
jeb
Also, first encounter in the foredt was the region bird
Not sure if im hyped about that, but i guess flying is neat
Intimidate tailwind, taunt, Brave bird, foul play. Focus sash as item
Max speed max attack
Righto
So, Cinderace!
As it turns out, Cinderace the Unrivaled ends up using Bulk-Up every so often
Which, if done enough can invalidate any and all usage of Belly Drum to just blow past it’s defenses
I wasn’t affected since I had Slowbro out using tech moves to help everyone else
But it was funny seeing them just hammer with Play Rough, and not making any headway
Annnd did it, captured Cinderace!
Slowbro MVP
Thanks Ducky

I am aware you aren’t too fond of Slowbro, but I’m still glad to use something related to your favorite
Well now that I got a Cinderace, I guess I’m gonna keep doing raids with Slowbro against Cinderace
…I might change it up and maybe use Espartha
Also for @normal cave
Sneasel wearing glasses
I def wish this was higher resolution, cause I’d totally have this as a PFP
@normal cave how do you feel about slam poetry shiny sneasel from go
I love shiny sneasel
And poetry
But why does it have glasses/beanie?
Is this an event mon or something?
I think the outfit would look better on base sneasel, but I love it
It does look better on base sneasel
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I might try out Toxapex against Cinderace later.
Slowbro works out fine, but I feel like spicing things up every now and then
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?
Speed
Yeah
Even if you're gonna go first with the Gale Wings ability, sometimes you just need to throw a fire-type attack instead
oh, is there a way to get hidden abilities this early?
Nope, friend Safari is it this game

So it'll be flame body only for a nuzelock
Do note that Super Training makes nuzelockes pretty trivial
I would have suggested ignoring it
have you considered that i am terrible at pokemon
Okay fair

Man, I wish things in SV learned Coaching
Would be a sick move to have for Tera Raid battles
Oh, you're talking about challenges, not teambuilding. Yeah, def speed and attack still
Alright, apparently got in a room with someone who probably didn't know what they were doing
They, the whole time, just had their Wigglytuff constantly use Metronome
Kinda thinking their end goal was to throw the raid
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Reminded myself of that one Alakazam from one of the GameCube spin-offs that had the element punches
Made sense for the time with how physical and special move classification worked but still find it funny
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...Ok yeah, this is a real winner
Speed swap Rabsca seems really funny
Genuinely curious, can people pull out Scovillain’s heads similar to Tropius’s bananas or Slowpoke’s tail?
Im pretty sure they cant
So they can’t regrow the heads, shame, serve it with Moomoo cheese and ham slices sounds pretty good
Although I never tried bell peppers before
They apparently can give off whatever that extract is for hot sauce
...So yeah, no need to tear their heads off
what item do they drop in the wild?
Give it some time, some fans will probably make some art about it 
Oh dear
I think it's Capaskid Petals
Or seeds
Either one
Apparently the teeth from Capaskid is used in hot sauce as well, so there's that.
Imma assume these two can learn seed bomb and bullet seeds
Capsakid does
Just about to check Scovillain but Capsakid learns Bullet Seed at Level 21 and Seed Bomb at Level 44
Same levels are for Scovillain
Stone evo gaming
Spicy Extract is also a funny move
Damn Eri’s anhilape doesn’t fuck around
It's really one mon I really liked introduced this gen
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
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
I really need to finish my bug type run of Y
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 ? 🤔
Nope
Yes, why else do you think ash has lost so many tournaments
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.
Let’s be honest though, people will call literally any strat a scumbag strat
Not everyone can claim to have such a track record that often
And yeah
Sand-Attack is scummy, any sleeping move is scummy, etc.
Imagine if Ash had to fight a fear aron
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
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
What's ash gonna do against some shit like funbro
Only to win at the last second cuz he realizes he has a rock/ground/or steel type
Those things rarely do get brought up in the anime, since Anime is wayyy different than the games.
Slowbro w/ Leppa Berry, Oblivious, Heal Pulse/Recycle/Slack Off/Block
There’s only one annoying thing in comp right now and that’s focus sash Meowscarada
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
Literally just keep switching
That's what Block is for
It’s a draw unless they actually use something and begin struggling
Also I think in some high-end tournaments, mons can win by judge decision...?
Do you know how big of a difference focus sash makes on Meowscarada? It’s the difference between winnable and unwinnable for some teams
So I guess the whole deal of "defense for the sake of defense" would not be very fetching
Full baton pass teams would run circles around plot armor
do you play vgc or singles thugs
Vgc
yeah meow is pretty good
maybe thats why sand has gotten more popular
ko after sash
Truth be told I do enjoy the way the anime handles battles.
Take it back to gen 4 with the minimize muk 😂
Since it takes a lot of factors the games usually establish and ends up turning it around
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
The flower of disrespect
its also funny that protean seems less popular
I mean didn't protean get nerfed?
It’s like not being used at all on the ladder
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
its also just that sash overgrow flower trick is so strong
Cinderace might shake things up a bit, especially with skeledirge falling out of favor
It wont be legal for at least a month
yeah I'm going to an OCE event in feb
Meta is legitly changing by the day
I hope the ruleset isnt too crazy for that
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
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
Would have been hella funny if they just gave Cinderace the Gunk Shot move instead of Iron Head
and I think the fire one is good once the ruin mon are in the format
All I know is, don’t sleep on big boy hariyama
they also have 105 base def STAB body presses, which is cool
He gets access to 2 moves that I think only 1 other Pokémon this Gen has access to
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Kinda weird how rare Superpower is
Only a few mons actually learn it now, and a few that usually would just learn Close Combat instead
The new force of nature has access to contrary superpower
Its been really good on my cetitan for laddering, catching kingambits all the time
I guess they phased it out as Close Combat being a strenuous fit of martial fury, whereas Superpower is just
"beeg muscle"
but cetitan after an attack drop is so ass its like a one and done
I wish Submission had more power
I want to try a chilling reception team so bad, but it’s kinda too meme to spend time and build it atm
I think submission got deleted from the game
Yep
so apparently scovillian has a gimmick
it uses grass moves with its red head, and fire moves with the green head
thats cute
Pretty neat. You'd think it'd be the other way around.
yep
My team rotation going into the finales
How good is Veluza?
trash tbh
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
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
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
I am lame
Did you know in terms of Gooey's favourites, Vaporeon is the only Eeveelution from gen 1
Joltik!
human compatible
Give Claydol a mega evolution/gigantamax form you cowards
nah see, in gen 10 they're gonna add a new gimmick called extreme forms, so we get claydol extreme
Give Skarmory an evolution called "Fucklittlecup"
will it have a glock
Finished the team star storyline
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?)
+spd, - sp.atk
also hp probably
Wow Raifort is a boomer
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
Yep, especially in the last battle of her storyline
Yup
Clavells battle theme might also be the single worst character unique battle theme in the series also
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Show me one with Clodsire, my wallet should be ready any day 
with the spikes ^
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
Quiz: what colour is roaring moon officially?
Red?
Blue, surely
Unaware is such a funny ability. Oh you set up 6 Dragon Dances? Sorry that doesn’t affect me because I wasn’t looking.
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@sand forge green
Is this a Green & Blue are the same colour type deal
Yeah the dude kinda has that mint-ish blue-green
Salamence is blue, Roaring Moon is slightly greener
But I'd still call Roaring Moon blue
I just got completely demolished by ||Sada’s|| flutter mane
the DLC cant come soon enough, Roaring Beast or whatever this is called is gonna be so cool
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.
I mean
Kalos ghost girl
Don’t forget zygard being added essentially an entire generation early
today i remembered that ash has yet to return to reunite with pidgeot
its been 20 years
||it does exist actually, this and the virizion counterpart have been leaked to be in the DLC along with the third legendary||
||none of the paradox mon exist, I am very pilled on the 3rd legend granting wishes and the time travel being a lie||
I agree with this
it's why none of the paradox pokemon ||have real names||
there are also some other clues, I cant remember what they are but it makes a lot of sense imo
I love focus energy + scope lense. Opponent can get up double screens and you just kill em in one hit regardless
damn Ash really said he doesn't want kids
I doubt Serena will allow that 
Focus energy is cool but like I feel as if we’re trying to get too gimmicky to deal with dondozo tatsugiri
Apparently everyone who met me are bugs

When it’s not even that oppressive without a pawmot
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
...I'm wondering though, how well Focus Energy can do in Tera Raid battles
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.
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
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
He can yeah, but he has much better moves that it’s like why go cosmic power
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.
Rabsca is unironically really fire into gholdengo also
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.
Tbh I don’t agree with this theory personally
Maybe for the future paradoxes but not the past ones
Idk why I just think it doesn’t really make sense
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||
||my reasoning is more simple
- They have been appearing in the crater since before the time machine
- All of them are described exactly as they are from some sort occult magazine
- Something about the profressors obsession not lining up with their robot counterparts reasoning makes me feel like the professor was being controlled one way or another||
yeah that second point is what does it for me
||they match the magazine because that is what the professor wanted them to be||
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||
slowbro can't actually be that bad
weavile is also very funny, but also mega weavile is legal so maybe
This is going off current uu usage
surely slowbro runs the format
Probably
i know it lost scald, but still
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
water pledge 

pledges should be physical or special, depending on what is higher
It’s funny because Slowking has a very solid niche now with chilling reception
My friend just sent me a mashup of the ruin quartet theme and Tunak Tunak Tun
Battle! Treasures of Ruin
Battle! Ruinous/Legendary Quartet
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pokemon charizard raid
pokemon scarlet violet patch glitch
This actually fucks
This sounds like cope if it has no source
ANYBODY can make a false quote
Also a voice actor doesn't get to decide that kinda thing
Yeah im just waiting for more news and see how will they play this time
Surf honestly
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
Fuck, Veggie got sassy nature… decrease speed…
Please tell me nature mints is here
Found the perfect slowbro set. Body press, iron defense, trick room, yawn
I mean, female Sprigatito being sassy sounds kinda fitting, but still…
Yeah, you can find mints very easily
You should be able to tough it out until you find a few
Yep. Finding them out in the wilds is possible
It's a dev cube
It's what game Devs use to position their building and object placements
Why is Great Tusk used so much
its a bug with indoor areas
funny thing though, you can change what ball is there
Role compression similar to Lando-T in previous gens apparently
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
Makes sense
Baxcalibur moved to UU
Heh
Lokix moved to UU
Hehe
Also for reminder, Tera goes into voting today
Because smogon hates fun they’ll probably ban it
I think Tera is by far the most balanced gimmick
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
I think Tera is fine as long as you would be able to see what tera types opponent's monsters have
Also while scrolling through the forum, found the best meme
that's it, getting me mallet
@sharp vale
UU is just the tier directly below OU
PU is lowest
OU
UU
RU
NU
PU
Oh right ZU exists
Isn’t ZU kinda unofficial
I mean Smogon is kinda unofficial 
but yes you are right, it kinda just is called ZU without being a smogon supported format
ZU is catchier than “no significant usage” though
I love how shit Mycelium Might actually is
It feels almost bugged in some cases too
At least with Corrosion you don't have to do Long Division to find out the use case
@eager sentinel tier
Insomnia, Magma Armour, Pastel Veil, Immunity etc all cure the status condition they prevent
Mycelium Might straight up just doesn't work
SV UU really is just SS OU huh
Yeah the powercreep is nuts
It's nice that all 3 starters are OU
No u
and 1 of the 2 is a gen 8 mon
Dragonite packing heat tho
does Espathra win the award for "mon in the tier for the shortest amount of time ever"
Nah griff is based and showerpilled
Did Espathra drop from OU or get banned from UU?
banned from UU
Okay that makes sense

Will gen 9's powercreep be strong enough for "With this generation's RU resembling last generation's OU"? 
Not once new toy syndrome wears off
all we need to do is wait and see ofc
My brother in Christ it’s been nearly 2 months
Oh right
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.
Just give me gen 5 Gems 
Basic, effective, and isn't a one-time gimmick
it wont
some new faces for sure
but its some notable weaknesses of the drops
a fucking goldfish is more used than unstopable juggernauts kek
never knew a literal family of mice was an unstopable juggernaut 
they are wanted in 50 different countries
rocky helmet go brrr
maushold after they population bomb a garchomp with rough skin and a rocky helmet
Ferro's return would be "interesting times" for Maushold
Maushold is the archetypal early gen noob trap
it's the zoomer's Cinccino
Hydreigon still remaining an UU superstar i see
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
Misty, explain Sandy Shocks
That's kinda boring
didn't people hype up defensive Tera pre-release
it just hits hard as fuck
defensive tera is broken dont get it twisted
offensive tera is just significantly more
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
What's the chance of chi yu going to ubers?
high
chi-yu is pretty broken and its most likely that he gets unanimously voted to ubers
isn't Ubers currently only comprised of like 5 mons? 
gen 9 has ubers?
Yea it's where flutter mane lives
i mean a official ubers list
Ubers is always official
from smogon or something
Its function just changes depending on the time period
flutter mane has like a huge base sp atk right
like pre-gen 5 it wasn't considered an actual ranked tier iirc
135 across SpAtk/SpDef/Spd
pretty good
Flutter Mane is just good stats good stab
dump ev on it and you’re good to go
Palafin has an uberfucked ability
Flutter mane is like
Houndstone has Last Respects + Sand Force + some other good moves
Pretty explicitely min maxed
zero to hero base stats increase bottom text
hey at least Delibird getting banned meme technically came true

was iron bundle actually banned?
yes
kekw
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
levitate with a elec tera type is very useful
Why is that relevant? Switching into it makes it hard
Ngl i'm pretty surprised seeing ting lu with that much play
beefy boy goes hard
huh
i can probably see why
Good defensively, but lacks offensive pressure unlike Ting-Lu, with an arguably worse typing
and 70 Speed is awkward as hell
well yeah he is weak to a lot of stuff
For starters it has 7 weaknesses as a tanky boy
i can think of 5 of them
grass alone has 5 weaknesses
u-turn bois
4x to bug isn’t super relevant since bug types this Gen are actually worse than last
you don't really care about actual bug mons
but randomly getting domed by a momentum move is big
And I’m sure singles isn’t spamming struggle bug in a switch heavy format
especially when a defensive mon's job is often times to be a pivot
in singles at least
and losing to one of the most popular momentum preserving move doesn't help
a hit and run i see 
always funny to see mons with gigantic ass Def and SpDef with average at best HP
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
It’s why cetitan is so good in doubles right now
Gigantic hp
Horrible defenses
But still bulky enough to take a hit
Along with the fact that he gets awesome coverage for an ice type
and can get rid of his awful defense typing
Between snow def boost, AV and slush rush it gets a lot of free stats
Lokix slander smh
I guess Lokix just didn't leave a good first inpret
got a sentret from the honedge route
i guess i shoulda went for the audiono/venipede encounter instead
wdym Sentret is good boyo
...I tried looking up Sentret in GIF's but all i got was Furret
Argh
i am a big fan of the honedge line tho
and im not particularly lacking in the normal type department
https://twitter.com/Sunsnak_Sn/status/1610031472311955456?t=AxyBjVXaJHKAQ655cwJI0Q&s=19 @normal cave
Lomf
croagunk
lets gooo, goated pokemon and i finally have something to use against fairies
next route is fucking seviper
Annihilape Close Combats my Maushold, but I Tera into ghost first
So this depends on which annihilape builds we’re looking at
Assuming both are the bulk up, drain punch, rage fist builds and not the final gambit one
The best play to make here is protect Maushold and bulk up
T2 the best play is to double protect Maushold and if either of them get the double protect to proc, they win
If it’s bulk up build vs scarf final gambit the bulk up build has a huge advantage
i hate running into that lead on ladder so much i stg
because sometimes the maus is goggles
and sometimes its sash
Wait for more pokemon to be added, Swap out Maushold for Hisuian Zoroark
Annihilape use Protect
if the ape final gambits its literally a sigh of relief
thankfully skeledirge is the 🐐 and ignores both
Tech Thief onto Maushold, make their sash your sash.
"What do you mean I can just run my own sash"
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"
I think its honestly decent coverage on scizor
but also scizor should basically only be clicking one button
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
I think you missed how one of the most popular tera users is annihilape who uses tera water mostly for defensive purposes
Also prerelease people were hyping up how same type tera would be the end of ou, how it would make hyper offense too powerful
i think even with cinderace court change in the meta i assume hatt will remain pretty good
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
Note that court change still works with magic bounce
tera grass, fighting, dark, fire all viable on chi=yu
Oh right forgot fighting
it also gets around gholdengo
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
not broken but meta
i also dont think it will be enough to completely invalidate hatt as some ppl i have seen been saying
Yeah cinderace is def meta
Of this the fire one i say is the weakest
hatt + great tusk is a pretty legit core for teams i think
im not the biggest fan of tera fire
but tera fire overheat on specs is damage beyond what is normal
True but most things are going to die without that and those who dont generally would take more from the other teras XD
oh yeah absolutely
doesnt mean i dont see it
its kinda meme
but its like just enough power that its justified
Yeah fair
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
like
for example
u ever wanna ohko a dondozo from full with rocks on chi-yu?
specs tera fire overheat has u covered
even clod gets eaten up
dont forget, you are always one dark pulse flinch away from losing >:D
iirc its guaranteed 2hko after rocks
You wouldnt need the rocks if you had the other teras lol
also how can anyone be mad at gholden
when its free entry for your specs chiyu
like mmm
Yeah lol
this mon is not surviving january in the tier
But yeah chi-yu needs a ban lol, the mons not okay
its fun
Fish
I love the lava fish
specs overheat from tera fire can actually let u destroy ting-lu in 2 hits





