Pokemon

[fading stratus]

[golden lance]

The korai one?

[fading stratus]

ye

[golden lance]

I did

[fading stratus]

what do you think about it

[golden lance]

Looks solid

[fading stratus]

maybe chocc

we go sand rush

because sand breaks sash

[pseudo goblet]

Hello my old pfp

… Hau you fool why you say Lillie’s name in front of this person…

[outer eagle]

hey hau is a nonchalant kid

[pseudo goblet]

Wicke gave me Psychic tm

Finally, Ula Ula Island

Thats like, finally halfway point of the game plot???

[fading stratus]

more or less yeah

[pseudo goblet]

That also means, I can get Beldum soon

Even tho this team is kinda perfect now I feel lol

[fading stratus]

whats the team like

catch a magikarp btw

[pseudo goblet]

Maybe, why

[fading stratus]

its a really good mon

also water typing

and flying is immune to ground

so you have a ground switchin

[pseudo goblet]

Ig I could replace it with Ribombee later

[fading stratus]

also intimidate is very good

[sterile verge]

[fading stratus]

did you know that

[pseudo goblet]

Metagross gonna be bench backup

[fading stratus]

you can just bench zoroark

and play metagross

later

[pseudo goblet]

After Necrozma yeah actually

[outer eagle]

man has the whole anti-necrozma setup ready

[pseudo goblet]

Getting to Poipole asap lol

No guarantee when will Bank lifespan end, dont want regrets

Now if only I can not care about the plot and spam skip

Holy, good thing I knew where luck incense was, earn 40k after buying it

[outer eagle]

don't you already have amulet coin by the ranch

[pseudo goblet]

Is it???

Hmm, oh well

[outer eagle]

yeah next to the car in the far right iirc

[pseudo goblet]

Hau swap from Dartrix to Vaporeon on Torracat

NPC with brain

[outer eagle]

The Hau battle when you first arrive on Ula Ula is a pretty big jump in terms of difficulty iirc

[pseudo goblet]

Exactly what Im feeling rn

Good thing I was over levelled to begin with

[outer eagle]

[sterile verge]

[pseudo goblet]

My mons are 31 32 btw, his Dartrix is 30

[outer eagle]

by the time i reached Lana's trial i was so overleveled i actively avoided trainers as often as possible

[pseudo goblet]

Torracat why you learning Fury Swipes… you re no meowth..

[outer eagle]

it's a cat

[pseudo goblet]

I just dont like Fury swipes

[outer eagle]

multi-hit moves in general are annoying due to the long animation

which is why i play with battle animations off occasionally

[pseudo goblet]

Oh yeah I turned it off, also fast text speed

Wait what huh??????

[outer eagle]

thank you UPR for having the option to make text speed instantaneous
you da real mvp

[pseudo goblet]

First off, why here????? Why him???

Second, THEY GUVE Z CRYSTAL LIKE MCDONALD TOYS????

[outer eagle]

i mean there are only that many important events in the game

and they have a lotta Z-Crystals

[pseudo goblet]

Oh wait fuck this is where you meet Guzma aint it…

[outer eagle]

this is at least better than a ton of Z Crystals that just lie randomly in some remote locations without any quests whatsoever

[pseudo goblet]

Lol Ice Z

[outer eagle]

i'm pretty sure that at least 75% of the playerbase never picked up the Psychium Z

and at least 50% didn't for Flyinium Z

[pseudo goblet]

… actually yeah where do you get Psychic Z again…

[outer eagle]

in the desert where bulu's dungeon is

it's a stupid maze that you need to do in a specific way to get to

with zero indication whatsoever

[pseudo goblet]

[outer eagle]

that desert right above the ghost trial

[pseudo goblet]

Ik ik, just why there

[outer eagle]

lord knows whatever tf GF was thinking

[pseudo goblet]

Probably should fish up a karp while Im here anyway

I said karp… not bass, frick off Basculin lol

[outer eagle]

smh basculegion is good kidge

[fading stratus]

its a good mon yeah

btw zane

gyarados is probs the best nuzlocke mon too

even if you;re not in a nuzlocke its still a very good mon

[outer eagle]

in a relatively vanilla nuzlocke gyara is vroken yeah

[fading stratus]

its good in everything except exactly randomisers

[outer eagle]

is it good in athlon

[fading stratus]

stinky

intimidate is vroken
water flying isnt a bad typing either
and it evolves at lv 20 so thats super early
and really good coverage options

[pseudo goblet]

How different would Gen 7 and 8 meta be with Legion lol

[outer eagle]

smh the real star is dragon rage kidge

[fading stratus]

basculegion would probs be meta in gen 7 if it existed

[outer eagle]

coverage doesn't matter when you 2hko everything until at least level 35

[fading stratus]

in gen 9 it was only good when the power level was low

when's YCS houston starting smh

[outer eagle]

1 more hour

[fading stratus]

I'm having to watch pokemon while waiting for it

and a JP stream at that

[outer eagle]

there's another vgc regional this weekend?

[fading stratus]

a Victory Road event

they dont stream themselves either

so I have to watch other people streaming their games

to pass time

[pseudo goblet]

Oh okay Guzma is later ig

[fading stratus]

if you beat gollisopod guzma is easy

[pseudo goblet]

Unfortunately no electric type lol

[fading stratus]

just give your first mon protect

[pseudo goblet]

What am I a meta player?

[fading stratus]

protect is a good move in nuzlocke as well

today I learned screens halve the damage in singles

which makes sense but like

I never realised

[pseudo goblet]

My man you high?

[fading stratus]

it reduces the damage by a third in doubles

[pseudo goblet]

Wait its not halve in doubles??

[fading stratus]

nope

[pseudo goblet]

Guess we re both learning

[outer eagle]

in a vanilla nuzlocke protect is fine but not really mandatory

it's great for niche cases like norman or guzma

[fading stratus]

its also good to see what ai goes for and switch accordingly

[outer eagle]

but if you already know a mon's movepool you don't really need it much

ai also often has some rng elements to their move selection at times realistically

except for when they are clicking the se move

[pseudo goblet]

Heh, a Firefighter trainer with a Octillery, no joke, just clever

[fading stratus]

protect also helps for stall strats

[outer eagle]

fitting ig

[fading stratus]

ground flying stall strat

[pseudo goblet]

Octillery jp name iirc means like, Octopus tank

[fading stratus]

or well electric flying

[outer eagle]

stall strats in a nuzlocke is a desperation move

[fading stratus]

its good at time

nice strat to know

[pseudo goblet]

FINALLY

[outer eagle]

it's eh most often times and if you need to rely on it in vanillalockes you prolly fucked up massively elsewhere

[pseudo goblet]

Time to suplex these bitehes!

[outer eagle]

Z-Darkest Lariat

still have no idea what that looks like til this day

[pseudo goblet]

… oh suddenly I get there was a joke of a Litten that speaks German

[fading stratus]

it spins

and then kos on the ring

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/brock-lesnar-german-suplex-daniel-bryan-wwe-survivor-series-gif-13000947

Halfway point and still no shiny

Not my goal but it’d be really cool I get a shiny during this

Aww man, I turned animation off so I cant see the speen lmao

[outer eagle]

wasn't this also the gen they increased the shiny odds to 1/4000 iirc

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/incineroar-darkest-lariat-lariat-gif-12466465997057902502

[pseudo goblet]

Gen 6 I think

The everything-went-easy gen

[outer eagle]

the only thing that went hard in xy was the music

[fading stratus]

also snorlax

it went hard for a free encounter

well guranteed encounter

[outer eagle]

smh when a snorlax consistently comes back to block a bridge every season maybe it's their cue to capture it

[pseudo goblet]

Gyarados get

[fading stratus]

gyrados woulda been good against last kahuna

[pseudo goblet]

Nah, barely a challenge

[fading stratus]

its not good against next totem

be sure to get bulldoze on your mudsdale

[pseudo goblet]

… true

[pseudo goblet]

I let it keep it dw

[outer eagle]

it's ironic that they gave you the Waterium Z AND Grassium Z right before Olivia

interesting game design

[fading stratus]

when do they give flyinium z again

[outer eagle]

1st Island

right after you beat Hala

[fading stratus]

oh yeah

[outer eagle]

just need to go and get it

[fading stratus]

flyinium z probably solos both kommo o and ribombee

especially you intimidate kommo o too

[golden lance]

https://pokepast.es/e488d6f05834b03b

@fading stratus @normal cave

what do we think?

[fading stratus]

man went for stall anyway

[pseudo goblet]

Jesus Zoroark movepool is boring, all dark types

[outer eagle]

what did you expect from a monodark

[fading stratus]

surely you play basculegion as your last mon regardless

[outer eagle]

only coverage it has is focus blast and flamethrower

[fading stratus]

because it sweeps anyway

[normal cave]

Where basc? Where dracovish? All the broken mons in the world and you chose stall

[golden lance]

yes

[fading stratus]

man's addicted to stall

[golden lance]

i guess its better than dozo here maybe

[fading stratus]

do you play both pex and clod

[normal cave]

This entire team dies to freeze dry

Pex kinda sus here

[pseudo goblet]

Ahh, Mount Hokulani, Titan’s home

[normal cave]

I guess you need haze, but then you also need dozo

[pseudo goblet]

Too bad I cant take em back into 3DS, I can just swipe with lv 100 Shiny Metagross lmao

[outer eagle]

Zane about to catch up to where i left my randolocke off

[fading stratus]

do you even need haze when you have 2 unaware mons

[normal cave]

Also why the double tera poison black sludge

[fading stratus]

tera is banned

[outer eagle]

smh spent a day theorizing replacements for half a dead team

[golden lance]

ignore tera

it doesnt matter

[normal cave]

Ah ok

So sludge is fine

[pseudo goblet]

Btw somebody ping me when we get confirm Mega Metagross is in ZA, if they did already, I forgot so tell me lol

[normal cave]

Hazards will eat this team alive

You have 0 heavy duty boots 0 hazard removal

[golden lance]

i'm banking on no one bringing hazards

due every broken ho mon being legal

[normal cave]

Bro

No

[golden lance]

also imma be honest

the skill floor of our players

[fading stratus]

vro play defog in corv

[golden lance]

aren't exactly high

[normal cave]

At least have a plan for hazards

[golden lance]

alright, defog over iron defense

[fading stratus]

and remove pex

play basculegion

[pseudo goblet]

Him talking about kiddos, now 10 years later

[outer eagle]

pretty sure when hyper offense is a dominant playstyle what ends up happening is having more hazard suicide leads, not less

[fading stratus]

late game basc is just ignorant

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-the-pokemon-company-tv-tokyo-pokemon-ultimate-journeys-the-series-ash-ketchum-gif-27078378

[fading stratus]

bruial

a trivia question

what do you think is the max base power that last respect can reach

[normal cave]

5000?

[fading stratus]

5050

[pseudo goblet]

Wish me luck yall, Beldum hunt without False Swipe

[fading stratus]

gl zane

[normal cave]

Close

I remembered it being in the thousands

[outer eagle]

Aside from USUM changing the story for the worse and frankly making it nonsensical at times, i absolutely despise it replacing Kukui with Hau for your Champion battle

[golden lance]

aight

moveset time

respects, jet, flip turn and what

[fading stratus]

wave crash

[golden lance]

3 water moves

[fading stratus]

or liquidation

[pseudo goblet]

Oooh Volt Switch

[golden lance]

i guess i take jet out

idt i'll need the prio

[pseudo goblet]

Nobody learns it lmao

[normal cave]

Bro

[golden lance]

wait

[normal cave]

Keep the jet in

[golden lance]

adapability tho

right

[fading stratus]

yeah

[normal cave]

You are clicking respects 90% of the time

Wave crash too

[fading stratus]

with scarf or sash agility

whatever you want

[golden lance]

https://pokepast.es/5c9acd9a4982d992

[fading stratus]

no scald on alomo?

[golden lance]

it was the 5th move

going back and forth between it and toxic

[fading stratus]

[golden lance]

real talk tho

what if i do scald mola and poison point clod

[fading stratus]

unaware is way more valuable

do you even play rocks over spikes

since you have flying with yourself

ig gliscor has spikes

[golden lance]

good question actually

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtu.be/2kVFJeL91IE?si=7mpbpDZlkTf5NBMu

Also I caught the Beldum

[fading stratus]

duality of a man

[pseudo goblet]

Exactly lol

[outer eagle]

did pegos do anything spectacular recently

or is this just bait

[sterile verge]

https://tenor.com/view/double-life-gru-gif-15712241234131088719

[fading stratus]

pagos is a good restricted

but it hasnt won any events in a while

[outer eagle]

yeah i'm not contesting that fact, just wondering where this vid was like 6 months ago

[fading stratus]

pao ursh dark and sometimes flutter use stellar tera

[outer eagle]

[fading stratus]

and pelliper uses stellar tera too

[pseudo goblet]

Now, how yall feel for Stellar type

[fading stratus]

its a pdecent tera

its not the best

but its not psychic tera either

[outer eagle]

for singles it's the least common one iirc

[fading stratus]

psychic is least common in doubles iirc

tera stellar is very specific to certain mons

but its very good on those said mons

from 7 months ago

[golden lance]

i'm ngl

[fading stratus]

bug is such a specific tera

[outer eagle]

oh psychic is the least common in singles too

[golden lance]

i kinda forgot all 3 types i picked are freeze dry victims

[outer eagle]

[fading stratus]

apparently bug in vg

but that was before people started playing tera bug hands

and sometimes incin runs tera bug

[pseudo goblet]

Freeze dry but for different types when

[outer eagle]

smh when will we get tera-???

zero weaknesses

[pseudo goblet]

I remember MandJtv made a fan move name Weed whacker

Steel move but super effective on grass

[fading stratus]

stinkaton gets it

[outer eagle]

brb time for dragon move that's se on fairy

make dragons great again

[golden lance]

Actually

Lefties on dozo is kinda ass

What do put in instead?

Boots?

[fading stratus]

youre on resttalk right

boots is fine

[golden lance]

Ye

What do it use on vgc?

Just to know

[fading stratus]

lefties

covert cloak

[golden lance]

[fading stratus]

rocky helmet

[golden lance]

Rocky's kinda nice

[pseudo goblet]

Holy Wolfey’s merch is 💰

[fading stratus]

worlds champ difference

[golden lance]

ngl kinda miss pex

since its a second regen mon

[fading stratus]

holy a white tshirt is like 30 bucks

[golden lance]

do i really need dozo and legion on the same team?

[fading stratus]

is america that expensive

[golden lance]

🟠

[fading stratus]

white tshirt would be liek 300 npr maybe 500 if too much

which is like 2-3 bucks

[golden lance]

it's kinda just better mola too

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

yea not sure how i feel about dozo here

[fading stratus]

you can probs remove dozo add pex if you really want

[golden lance]

yea

regen is so broken

[normal cave]

For stall, so is Unaware

[fading stratus]

so is taunt

vroken move

[golden lance]

but i already got clod tho

and pex has haze

[normal cave]

The thing is, you can run more

[sterile verge]

https://www.phixiv.net/en/artworks/128432471

kyuri (@@www.pixiv.net)

ミヅキがいっぱいコレクション2
今年もたくさん描きました
ミヅキちゃんはいいぞ
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https://github.com/thelaao/phixiv · Mar 20, 2025, 5:51 PM

[golden lance]

dozo also represents inevitability ig

Also imma be honest legion makes no sense on this team

[normal cave]

Then scrap the team to play legion

[golden lance]

Like yea its broken but wanting 5 teammates dead in a stall team is kind of a question mark

Not to mention that before that happens you're kinda playing 5v6

Which is usually never in stall's favor

[pseudo goblet]

Elio not getting any attention lately

[sterile verge]

Just find a random image of ben 10

[fading stratus]

then remove legion idk

just play how you like tbh

[mighty storm]

the funny thing about the dialga/palkia origin forms, they look like they would hinder their respective signature moves

Like how palkia normally spacial rends with it's hands

[warm sky]

He almost never gets fanart (shame because I love his USUM design specifically)

I do have some saved I think

[normal cave]

Who the fuck is Elio

Oh, the male player character for gen 7

My least favorite pair of protagonists

[fading stratus]

galarian hau is my least fav gen 7 character

[normal cave]

At least you get to crush his dreams and watch the moment his heart breaks

[fading stratus]

oh wait you mean gen 7

so alolan hop

yeah he's pannoying too

[normal cave]

Hop grew on me after my 15th UM run

Err

Hau

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/nyon72214/status/1906175094872768584?t=2GgSBFPbcQOHMCnj-KaMcg&s=19

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https://fxtwitter.com/nyon72214/status/1898567303052263535?t=FPeJdq7Qb1f1QRBffsCViA&s=19

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[normal cave]

Fuck they really are the same aren't they

[fading stratus]

yep

[warm sky]

@pseudo goblet one of the few Elio artists I found lol

[fading stratus]

that;s why I call the alola one
alolan hop and galar one galarian hau

[normal cave]

Cute ship, v wholesome

You crush both their dreams

[sterile verge]

Slander

[normal cave]

Oh?

[warm sky]

Worst pair is hmm

Gen 9 right

[fading stratus]

yeah gen 9

[sterile verge]

Worst pair is 4 or 8

9 I like both, 4 and 8 have ugly males

[normal cave]

Design wise they are fine, but gen 7 is when they first started trying to inject character into the protags

[warm sky]

You take that fucking back

Bro Lucas has DRIP

His platinum design is peak

Also pair =/= bad male design

Else I'd say gen 6

Or bw2

[sterile verge]

What about his dp one

[normal cave]

I hate the gen 7 protags as characters, not as designs. When I play Pokemon, I want to self insert, and Gen 7 doesn't let me because they keep reminding me the player is an individual

[warm sky]

Average

[sterile verge]

Calem look fine tbh

[warm sky]

Calem is entirely blue outside his hat

[sterile verge]

See I'm the exact opposite I love it when the protags have personality (SV/PLA)

[fading stratus]

worst ones are probs LGPE actually

[sterile verge]

Oh yeah true

[warm sky]

Best duo design tbh goes to May & Brendan tho

Like both are S tier

[sterile verge]

I like elaine too much to ever hate her but chase is so awful I forget lgpe had a male

[sterile verge]

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT

[normal cave]

I grew up starting with gen 1, and until gen 7 they did not have a personality. It's a sudden change in direction, and makes the game feel different to me.

[sterile verge]

Johto easily is the best

Ethan & Kris are peak

[fading stratus]

I like the new ones the best

from ZA

[warm sky]

Chase is just bootleg red, while Elaine is not just leaf

[normal cave]

Hmmmm, I have to agree there

[sterile verge]

Elaine is adorable

[warm sky]

Johto is a fair choice too

[normal cave]

Ethan and Kris my beloved

[sterile verge]

Especially in evolutions

[warm sky]

They are the first duo

[sterile verge]

Evolutions elaine was my pfp for a year straight

[normal cave]

Yeee

[sterile verge]

Which is very rare

[warm sky]

Tbf I do think Ethan remains my favourite protag design period

[sterile verge]

Ethan has so much sauce

[normal cave]

Ethan and Typhlosion the iconic duo

[fading stratus]

huh ZA MCs are called Paxton and Harmony? where does the name come from

[warm sky]

Trailer

[normal cave]

Peace and Harmony

[sterile verge]

Trailer

[warm sky]

Also has an X and a Y

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/i-dont-want-peace-i-want-problems-always-choose-violence-no-peace-problems-gif-24342946

[sterile verge]

Harmony's a cool name

And I like their designs alot

That zygarde jacket is sick I want it irl

[warm sky]

Also time to start ethan & typhlosion posting for Foolish in a bit

[normal cave]

The nodl

They are besties

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/K4PpJiK7t986729/status/1900490251665351034/photo/1

https://twitter.com/konoooc/status/1900847930585587768/photo/1

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ヒビキくん

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[normal cave]

THEY

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/batten12_ik/status/1901160553042899133/photo/1 mb I forgot one

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X · Mar 16, 2025, 6:36 AM

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-just-so-peak-peak-panda-peak-panda-it's-just-so-peak-gif-10789048890486755182

[outer eagle]

smh man's gonna lose to Rock Slide

[maiden flax]

My dondozo deck has been going great

[warm sky]

done

[sterile verge]

https://tenor.com/view/gotg-what-chris-pratt-starlord-guardians-of-the-galaxy-gif-11287925

[viral ingot]

Well...this is sumthin'

Very cute artwork. Very meh EX tho.

[last musk]

She tried very hard to make it

[normal cave]

Wow, that's some good art

[viral ingot]

The vibrant colors definitely looks amazing, they kinda remind me of Splatoon.

[pseudo goblet]

I missed the entire MC designs argument lol

Also, Peace and Harmory, what the heck

[fading stratus]

Paxton

[pseudo goblet]

Thats more weird lol

[fading stratus]

Paxton just means Peaceful Town

[pseudo goblet]

Huh, first time seeing Murkrow and Honchkrow in area zero

[golden lance]

@fading stratus @normal cave got offered to trade flying with psychic

What do yall think?

[fading stratus]

lemme see psychic actually

you do get gloking for stall

is it better over corv

idts right

if you take psychic you get another funny mon tho

espathra

idk how singles plays it

[golden lance]

What about for ho?

[golden lance]

Protect cosmic power bot

I also get bronzong which isnt the worst for stall

And metagross

Could also play psyspam

[fading stratus]

it might be worth it just because your whole team is weak to freeze dry

idk do you ever trade ground

over flying

[golden lance]

Thing about flying too

Is that its kinda redundant

Because of gliscor and peli being the best dudes

[fading stratus]

basically the question comes down to
is gloking/espathra/bronzong worth over skarm/corv

if you wanna play stall

[golden lance]

Espa prob not

Also i'm not fully commited to stall, i could pivot to ho really easily if i think i need to

I could also try trading for one of player 1's other types

Aka dragon and ghost

Either 2 work ithink because like

[fading stratus]

thing is

[golden lance]

Dragon gives me cycli and lets me keep dnite

[fading stratus]

idt either of water psychic ground get rapid spin/defog

on decent mon

[golden lance]

Ghost gets me gold

Both get me pult

[fading stratus]

do try to get ghost dragon yeah

that'd be insane really

ghold is good overall

[golden lance]

Oh yea speaking of

Flying is what lets me use dnite

[fading stratus]

if you get ghost instead of flying

you can play hazard balance

with hamurott and gliscor

and annihilape

[golden lance]

True

[fading stratus]

dragon typing gets you naganadel

[golden lance]

No ubs

[fading stratus]

oh yeah

[golden lance]

Ok ghost offer got shut down

[fading stratus]

hoodra is not awful

if you get dragon

but dragon's problem is youre weak to freeze dry again

[golden lance]

Idt dragon gets accepted either

[golden lance]

Yea...

[fading stratus]

honestly psychic would be so insane in doubles

but its laughable in singles

[golden lance]

Its not laughable i think

But it is outrageously mid

But flying also is outside of nite and corv/skarm exactly

So

[fading stratus]

basically in doubles psychic gives you both a trick room or perish song mode

or psyspam mode

[golden lance]

Yea ik

Hmmm

This is tough

If we had non restricted legends too this wouldnt be an issue at all

Because flying gives you 11 of those

[fading stratus]

can you try to get fighting

[pseudo goblet]

Had to do it before the trial

[fading stratus]

[pseudo goblet]

Gyarados will not be any help

[golden lance]

Why fighting?

Ape and sneal?

[fading stratus]

well more like fighting resists freeze dry
And its not the most appealing type to not trade

and specificallt annihilape yeah

[golden lance]

Actually 1 sec

[pseudo goblet]

Yo metang learn Confusion and Metal Claw on evo

Also, why Confusion?

[fading stratus]

it confuses its opponents by getting 1 extra arm

[golden lance]

I no longer care about the freeze dry issue

[pseudo goblet]

Oh cool I can switch it for Psychic immediately lol

[golden lance]

Everyone here is a fraud outside of 9tales exactly

Which corv is good against

[fading stratus]

my main point was to get annihilape as a spin blocker

[pseudo goblet]

… just for the totem… Ive taught four of my mon Fighting move

[golden lance]

Idt spinblocking matters too much post defog

[fading stratus]

cant defog under ape either

because defiant

[pseudo goblet]

One of the goal of this run is redemption for past Zane, I may have blacked out twice in this run already but I will not lose on the Togedemaru again

[golden lance]

Also player 3 has no reason to trade

So idt it would even go through regardless

[fading stratus]

aight

do you get psychic the question now innit

[golden lance]

Yea

I'm leaning towards no

Flying is limited but the options are better than anything psychic offers

[fading stratus]

flying had such a funny mon

but its singles

[golden lance]

Gyatt?

Wait that's water

Uhhhhh

[fading stratus]

vivillon

[golden lance]

Oh

Right

[fading stratus]

y'all should play doubles too

with this draft thingy

totally not biased

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtu.be/L4uDWT4HhmA?si=jguJrN4AWltyDvOa

I like mega Swampert cause he makes think of that ben 10 alien - Cannonbolt

That explains

[fading stratus]

cannonbolt also has bolt in its name

my cousin fr

[pseudo goblet]

At this point you brainrot me on the word Bolt yeah lmao

[fading stratus]

its just a harmless joke

choccy can you ever get poison over ground

[pseudo goblet]

Nidoking

[pseudo goblet]

3 OF THEM PICK CENTISKORCH LETS GO

Oh 4

[sterile verge]

Did anyone pick jirachi I forgot

[spice rivet]

Finally got a copy of Lets Go Pikachu to start finishing my LG Kanto dex for Shiny Meltan.

Game is legit, no lie, putting me to sleep.

[pseudo goblet]

Oh actually, 2 of them

[pseudo goblet]

Oh cool I have Eevee

[fading stratus]

zane did you train your team yet

[pseudo goblet]

Later today I promise, I hope

[fading stratus]

do use the amoongus with 31 speed this time

if we need to speedcreep on trick room we'll go with 0 later

[pseudo goblet]

Oh right the question, why the sudden 0 speed hate??

Ohhhh

[fading stratus]

min speed calyrex is 49 speed

31 speed IV amoongus is 50 speed

So depending on whether you need to outspeed it outside or inside TR you go with the IVs

I've seen people run 27 speed IVs too

so that might be optimal too

[sterile verge]

[fading stratus]

maybe zane just go with 0 speed relaxed for now

then if we need to speedcreep we'll do

[pseudo goblet]

If thats supposed to make me hate em, its not working

[fading stratus]

the chargabug ate all of spohocles' food

[golden lance]

Why?

[fading stratus]

your only ground you're using is clod anyway

[golden lance]

Fair enough, idt the hippo dream is gonna pay off

[fading stratus]

poison gets you glimmora, sneasler, globro

and even gweezing if you want

and poison is a fairy resist

so thats another good thing ig

poison and flying have decent defensive synergy too

[golden lance]

Trade sucessful

[fading stratus]

I realised ground actually has no value with bloodmoon banned

[golden lance]

Well, it does have gliscor, which i already have

[fading stratus]

thats flying

[pseudo goblet]

After nearly a decade… WE MEET AGAIN!!!

[fading stratus]

lol

I should replat platinum

from that platinum talk yesterday

[golden lance]

And chomp, exca

Hippo

[fading stratus]

exca without sand stream is eh

and hippo isnt a good mon

[golden lance]

Hippo

[fading stratus]

chomp is good ig

[golden lance]

[fading stratus]

oh yeah poison also gives you amoongus btw

if sleep isnt banned

[golden lance]

Its not but sleep clause is up

[fading stratus]

its fine amoongus was OU before sleep was baned

[golden lance]

I also got gengar

[fading stratus]

yeah jenjar the goat

choccy how good are you with english

[golden lance]

Does overqwil do like, anything?

[golden lance]

Why the question?

[fading stratus]

you can probs go like eviolite qwilfish

[fading stratus]

I'm really bad at editing stuff

like finding the errors in a paragraph

so

I just need help

[golden lance]

Oh

I see

[pseudo goblet]

EAT HHP YOU RODENT!!

[golden lance]

I've been typing in english for what, 11 years now?

[fading stratus]

basically idfk why there's a comma after something and not a comma after another thing

[pseudo goblet]

ALSO, FUCK BOUNCE, IT AVOIDED HARIYAMA Z MOVE LOL

[golden lance]

I don't think i'm the worst at it

[golden lance]

Oxford comma

It's sometimes considered optional

Depends on who you ask really

[pseudo goblet]

avenged young Zane ✊

[fading stratus]

basically to edit something like this lets say

basically I know 2 of the errors are just quotes

what else

do you need comma after children

[golden lance]

I dont think it's needed

[golden lance]

Also, if we're talking about formal english, i think you need an "a" between to and lot

The first the is redundant

Listens is wrongly in plural

Finds is also wrongly plural

[fading stratus]

oh yeah you need a huh

yeah I just get confused with these sort of stuff

maybe you dont need comma if it doesnt exist after all

what do you do here

[golden lance]

Dont have much context, but i would put a comma after cry, it would make the dialogue flow more naturally

[fading stratus]

this is the whole sentence

there's no context

[golden lance]

Huh

[fading stratus]

this is the whole context

[golden lance]

Have had isnt exactly wrong but you can use a contraction

Cry and that's dont connect together

Needs either a comma or another word like "and"

The 3rd sentence needs a complete restructure

[fading stratus]

whats the 3rd sentence even supposed to mean

oh that's probs 2 sentences

[golden lance]

"Let's talk now and think of some plan"

Is my answer

[fading stratus]

"Don't cry my darling," he said. "You have had your cry; that's enough. Let us talk now. Let us think of some plan."

[golden lance]

I prefer the latter, btw

[fading stratus]

this?

[golden lance]

Hmmm

Works i think

Altho the second let us feels redundant

But it might be fine?

[fading stratus]

probs

thanke btw I'll ask you more later :p

[golden lance]

Dw

[pseudo goblet]

@normal cave its your boi

[fading stratus]

[pseudo goblet]

Goliospod keeps using Sucker Punch when Im using Double Team on metang

4 times! Lmao

5

Razor shell on sixth

How many pp Sucker punch has?

[fading stratus]

5

[golden lance]

5 to 8

[pseudo goblet]

Oh shit He swapped back to pod after masquerain low health

[fading stratus]

well its npc

so idt they have pp maxed

[pseudo goblet]

Also Metang learn Zen

[fading stratus]

shit move

[pseudo goblet]

Ez Guzma fight, he only hit me once

On the sixth double team

How will Guzma recover

Incineroar z crystal is mine

Never got to use the fire z lol

[golden lance]

Next thing you know all of his mons have aerial ace

[pseudo goblet]

Oh shit a wild Shiinotic

[fading stratus]

shitnotic

[golden lance]

Wait

Wtf do i replace g-king with?

[fading stratus]

pex

[golden lance]

Do i even want king?

[golden lance]

Pex kinda broken tho

[fading stratus]

you play gloking because it gets chilly reception

[golden lance]

And how do i benefit from snow exactly?

[fading stratus]

no its slow flip turn

[golden lance]

Oh yea right

Its just better teleport

[fading stratus]

yep

[golden lance]

Forgot about the second effect

[fading stratus]

you can go primarina and blizzard spam if you want

[golden lance]

Insane

[fading stratus]

amoongus is also another insane mon

[golden lance]

Funnily enough weather is unviable for anyone else except me

And ig veil for player 4

[fading stratus]

you can play sand lycanroc

you know what I mean

[golden lance]

I got it

Still, no exca

Kinda mid

[fading stratus]

sand rush makes white one only viable lycan form iirc

oh yeah chocc

what if you play water absorb clod

[golden lance]

For who? I'm the water guy

And i have

4 water resists

[fading stratus]

if the dragon guy wants to ficious rend spam

oh yeah btw chocc

your bro just has garmanitan spam

in snow at that

[golden lance]

Vrazy

Yea ngl stall sounds more and more like a bad idea

[fading stratus]

just play hazard balance then

poison gives you glimm

and you have poison

not like they can remove toxic spikes

that was another reason I wanted poison

[normal cave]

What changes to type pool happened

[fading stratus]

I asked him to switch ground for poison

[normal cave]

[fading stratus]

because every ground type he wanted was either flying or poison

[golden lance]

Ehh

Maybe not

[fading stratus]

lmao

wtf

[golden lance]

Before curse btw

[normal cave]

But now he doesn't want to play stall

[fading stratus]

he will play stall again

just watch

[fading stratus]

also poison has glimm

for balance

and sneasler

[golden lance]

And gengar

[fading stratus]

yep jenjar

[golden lance]

(Dont ask what it does)

[fading stratus]

and amogus

and bruial

The main point of poison is that they wont have poison

so you can toxic spike spam

SINCE chocc has both poison and flying

btw chocc

do you even play impish dozo

[normal cave]

Got my second PCL, can finally stop chasing it in wonder picks

Got this from a pack because fuck wonder picks

[golden lance]

I think its good since its my best physical wall

[fading stratus]

whats your special wall avalomo?

[normal cave]

Clod probs

Or glowking

[fading stratus]

how does stall win btw

[golden lance]

Toxic

Or dozo setting up a billion curses

[fading stratus]

and hazards ig

gloking also gets a funny stall move btw chocc

that noone uses

||Eerie Spell||

[golden lance]

Pp stall is insane

[fading stratus]

with pressure corv

its possible

and funny

another funny idea is

quick draw quick claw globro

[golden lance]

1200 elo strats

[fading stratus]

its funny

and wins 44% of the times

[golden lance]

Waow

[fading stratus]

2 Poison 2 Water 2 Flying does sound balanced

[normal cave]

Less dead to freeze dry

[golden lance]

Oh yea brui

About that

Who here is clicking it?

[fading stratus]

kyurem

jokes aside defo ninetales

hmm arctozolt is actually funny

bolt beak blizzard freeze dry arctozolt

[golden lance]

Ninetales feels niche with fd because it can just spam blizz

[fading stratus]

not like it gets more coverage

so might as well play both

[golden lance]

It gets encore tho

And you want like

The 2 stabs, veil, and something else

Also considering that we're probably gonna do swiss matches

Packing a move on your weather setter for half of one dude's team doesnt seem too worthwile

And its not like a-tales spatk is high enough to ohko the water stuff

The 2hko never actually happens because of lefties recovery

[fading stratus]

do you play lefties

over boots

i feel like you need boots in both globro and alomolao

[golden lance]

Hmmm

Do i still need defog on corv if the regen duo is on boots?

[maiden flax]

Glowking and mola both use boots yeah

[golden lance]

Hi metrona

We're labbing out type draft

[maiden flax]

Ooo

[fading stratus]

he has cool mons to play

and he still decided to play stall

[maiden flax]

Lmao

[golden lance]

I mean with my picks its borderline constructed stall

[maiden flax]

Where are the mons?

[golden lance]

Missing just stuff like blissey and clef

[fading stratus]

gloking
alomo
clod
dozo
gliscor
corv

so far

[maiden flax]

Wow that is basically ou stall

[golden lance]

And a last respects basculegion that temporarely in the team

[fading stratus]

if it fits he plays a last respect legion yeah

[maiden flax]

Next thing you know they are playing poison sting on clodsire

[golden lance]

My drafted types are water, poison, and flying

[golden lance]

Well uhhh

Ehehe

[maiden flax]

Lmao

[golden lance]

• 6v6 Singles
• Natdex format, up to gen 9
• No battle gimmicks (mega, tera, etc)
• each player gets a type pool, you can only use mons who have a least one type from one of your pools
• no legendaries, UBs, or paradoxes, anything else is fair game
• Ash gren exactly is not legal due to no longer existing in gen 9

This is the ruleset

[fading stratus]

also some specific mons are banned

like bloodmoon

ig it technically falls on that 1of mon criteria

like legendary

but GF said bloodmoon isnt a legendary

[golden lance]

Player 1 - Dragon, Psychic, Ghost

Player 2 (Me!) - Water, Poison, Flying

Player 3 - Steel, Fighting, Normal, Grass

Player 4 - Dark, Fairy, Bug, Ice

Player 5 - Fire, Elec, Ground, Rock

[fading stratus]

[golden lance]

These are the pools

Holy shit 5 has both ground and rock now, didnt realize that

They could play sand without too many concessions

[fading stratus]

oh yeah

lmao

[golden lance]

Oh well, guess i do need chilly reception now

[fading stratus]

you need to say a bad joke every time you activate chilly reception

that's the rules

electric gets dracozolt btw

[golden lance]

[fading stratus]

so they can have whole ass sand team

[golden lance]

Duuuuuuude

Maybe i should not have traded, then again they only really got exca out of it

But they got exca out of it, broken mon

[fading stratus]

exca wasnt even needed

they had lycan

[golden lance]

I guess

[fading stratus]

water beats ground and rock

[golden lance]

Imagine if they had access to magic guard too

Like a clef or smth

[fading stratus]

brazy

stall beats trust

[golden lance]

They cant switch into ttar forever

[golden lance]

So uhh

Who has the worst pool out of these, actually?

Its honestly pretty balanced aside from maybe 3 being too good

[pseudo goblet]

Anything I missed

[golden lance]

Just stall teambuilding

[fading stratus]

yeeah its probs 3 being beter

[normal cave]

4 doing sticky web gambit things?

Player 1 looks very weak to dark

Tera fairy kingambit just farms them

Oh wait no tera

So just player 4 in general should do really well into them

[pseudo goblet]

Whats the other minor changes after this was made btw??

[pseudo goblet]

@normal cave @fading stratus @golden lance @mighty storm Shinu Sandygast using the rain method

[normal cave]

[maiden flax]

This is going exceptionally well

[pseudo goblet]

I dont wanna live another day without this pile of black sand lol

Now Im hoping theres another rain or straight another shiny during the next 20 mins before the sandwich ends

[frosty ledge]

damn nice, which deck you using?

[pseudo goblet]

Went to Area Zero instead and found Shiny Flutter Mane of my own lol

And its stuck in wall

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-gif-27123015

[pseudo goblet]

Able to encounter it now, also another one spawned behind it lmao

Oooh this one has a mark

Damn it broke the only Friend Ball I have left

Safari Ball time

[fading stratus]

relaxed nature and put 4 EVs somewhere in these

probs like 4 HP in ogre and 4 def in bolt

[pseudo goblet]

@normal cave @normal cave @spice rivet holy shit Lunch time mark Shiny Flutter WITH Timid

I am naming this one Summer lol

Pray I remember how the pokeball lottery system work yall, I need at least 3 to 5 of each balls

[fading stratus]

zane a trivia

do you know what a pinch berry is

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/doggone-hungry-dh-dh-game-doggone-hungry-game-low-poly-gif-15735720678566571229

[pseudo goblet]

No

[pseudo goblet]

Also jesus it took 3 tries to get the timing right lol

[maiden flax]

This

[frosty ledge]

oh wow I gotta try this

I've just been boring and grinding with giratina mewtwo

[pseudo goblet]

Whats the best deck to get btw?

With the shop ticket

[maiden flax]

From the shop pack?
Probably either giratina, wugtrio or beedrill has those 3 have the most meta relevant cards

For giratina and wugtrio it's the ex themselves
As for beedrill it's the meow line (and beedrill is pretty okay too)

[pseudo goblet]

So Beedrill isn’t exactly the main star

[normal cave]

Pick one depending on what EX you have

[fading stratus]

wow zane hasnt heard of pinch berries

[normal cave]

That deck's kinda sexy. What is Tauros there for tho

[fading stratus]

intimidate

[maiden flax]

120 hit comes in handy sometimes
And with red it one shots the 140s and the 150s after dondozo chip

Here is me vs a Palkia deck

The perfect situation

[pseudo goblet]

These and the 5 Beast Balls, hopefully enough for next couple of shinies

Trust me I tried to get Moon Ball, somehow with these Im able to make it 40% chance of actually get what I want

@fading stratus pick a Mane

The one in Quick Ball is Summer’s

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/My__6633/status/1907002496876220925/photo/1
https://twitter.com/pika_yomogi_/status/1906330783171899546/photo/1
https://twitter.com/robert00poole/status/1905741916152721775/photo/1
https://twitter.com/aruji_yume/status/1906333459771256940/photo/1
https://twitter.com/ayosanri009/status/1906168610890129464/photo/1

My (@My__6633) on X

フシギダネ

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ヒトモシパーカー

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Poole (@robert00poole) on X

I sketched up this lil idea for Lumiose Gym Leader Bonnie and a Mega Dedenne a while ago, I definitely think it's cool but I'm thinking I'm going to have to accept that I'm not going to do much with it lol so here

She likes chewing wires

#PokemonLegendsZA

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タロちゃん実装おめでとうございます…‼️
#ポケマス

X · Mar 30, 2025, 2:16 AM

twitter algo has been giving me a lot of lacey fanart lately

[pseudo goblet]

Masters fault likely

https://tenor.com/view/lacey-pokémon-scarlet-and-violet-indigo-disk-blueberry-academy-gif-13957166330678139950

[warm sky]

yeah masters probably, since I also get like the plza crew in school uniforms and rosa and serperior in her master outfit

(also for some reason a bit of calem x serena as of late too)

[fading stratus]

do I pull out my trusty ruler and measure the atk

use whichever has least atk IVs

[pseudo goblet]

We re in the 400 yall

... Scream Tail was the 400th

[normal cave]

The sleeping one with the fork and knife looks like the smallest atk

[fading stratus]

if they're similar enough atk

use one with mark

because that's funnier

[pseudo goblet]

and rarer lol

[fading stratus]

Dondozo the teeny

[normal cave]

What title does that mark give

[pseudo goblet]

lunch time??

[normal cave]

Ye

[pseudo goblet]

Peckish

[fading stratus]

mini mark

[normal cave]

THEY HONGRY

LESGOOOOOOOO

[fading stratus]

just like me fr but I just ate food

[pseudo goblet]

... now Im curious if my Morpeko has it lmao

[pseudo goblet]

nope

[fading stratus]

lunala will be 401st

[pseudo goblet]

nah thats the Sandygast earlier lol

[fading stratus]

if it was next format

I could make you play swordfish

but korai is good enough probably

[pseudo goblet]

Zacian and Kyogre? lol

[fading stratus]

everyone is hyping up swordfish I'm fearing it'll flop so hard

[fading stratus]

yeah

[outer eagle]

Wonder what would be best in a theoretical Double Restricted (as in, 2 of a Restricted Mon) format

[pseudo goblet]

People gotta be people lol

[fading stratus]

probably like 2 miraidon

[outer eagle]

why Goodra

i can understand Lopunny and Fini

[fading stratus]

goatdra

[pseudo goblet]

Sliggoo

[fading stratus]

sligoat

[outer eagle]

Getting 8 encounters in a row after beating Guzma the 1st time is nice

[fading stratus]

reminds me

I need to finish my emerald seaglass nuzlocke too

the lv cap between norman and winnona is so close

[outer eagle]

yeah

[fading stratus]

also seaglass has a shit lv cap method

[outer eagle]

altho the level cap between tate/liza and wallace is even closer iirc

[fading stratus]

it has soft lv cap instead of hard