Pokemon

[pseudo goblet]

Ah

[normal cave]

Think early jojo

https://tenor.com/view/jojos-bizarre-adventure-anime-lisa-lisa-jojo-waamu-gif-17950989

Or Baki

[pseudo goblet]

I can hear the bgm

[fading stratus]

it hits harder than koraidon colliosion course in the sun

idk from where "it doesnt hit hard" comes from and what rilla you're facing

[mighty storm]

oh damn

rare candy

Also yay mimikyu 💖

[mighty storm]

@pseudo goblet SHINY

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/riolu-wagging-tail-gif-22478548

[normal cave]

From me using it in the training

Might just be me being bad at using it

[fading stratus]

anyway rillaboom is a very good mon

its just that I like amogus more

but the Jungle Trio is an insane balance core

[sonic inlet]

@polar osprey RARE CANDY FINALLY

[fading stratus]

the candy isnt rare enough

[sonic inlet]

With how long it took for pocket to get it

[fading stratus]

it;d be funny if they announced next month that pocket will have set rotation

[sonic inlet]

Give us budew

[normal cave]

Rilla Incin and...?

If you say Urshi, Urshi is not a jungle mon

[sonic inlet]

We also got rayquaza EX

[fading stratus]

ursh

its a bear

[sonic inlet]

Basically another dragonite

[fading stratus]

idk if bears live on jungle or not tho

[normal cave]

Maybe some do, but they are small

The well-known bears live in forests and the northern regions

Cold places

[fading stratus]

anyway bears do live in jungle

and hence jungle trio

and specifically urshifu which is based on a Asiatic Black Bear live on jungles

[normal cave]

Huh

Yeah you're right

[normal cave]

It hits less hard than Dnite

[mighty storm]

160 split among 4 random hits

so yeah hits slightly less hard the Dnite

[normal cave]

160 for 4 energy

[fading stratus]

biblically accurate

[sonic inlet]

Though Dnite sucks harder

[fading stratus]

smh hating on ma boy

dnite = goat

[mighty storm]

and does 10 more then wug

[sonic inlet]

At least Rayquaza can be a fun deck with dialga

[mighty storm]

but wug does 10 more per hit

3 for 150 vs 4 for 160

[normal cave]

Wug also costs 3 energy and has Misty support

And Manaphy

[sonic inlet]

And Irida

[normal cave]

Eh, Ray can run Irida since its colorless

[sonic inlet]

Ig so yeah

[normal cave]

Ray's only advantage is that it is a basic

[sonic inlet]

But I think Dialga is still better

[normal cave]

Probably

[normal cave]

Wait shit where?!

[sonic inlet]

New trailer

[mighty storm]

Rayquaza can use Ilima

[mighty storm]

But with a 4 cost attack, yeah thats just for a free switch

[sonic inlet]

After 10 years we have a good support card that is not a supporter

[mighty storm]

My 2 shiny kakuna looking at that candy and crying inside

[normal cave]

Damn

[sonic inlet]

Gengar ex coming back on the copium in 6 days

[normal cave]

Yeah this could change the game. If we get enough card draw.

Dude, Zard gets to charge itself up for 1 energy

[sonic inlet]

Yeah I was wondering if the new zard is better now

[normal cave]

Go first, pass, turn 2, rare candy into fully loaded zard

[sonic inlet]

It will be able to eat anything early game without getting revenge killed after using stoke

[normal cave]

Absolutely, you can start one-shotting as soon as turn 3

[sonic inlet]

Plus Lillie exists now if you're really afraid of a revenge kill

[normal cave]

Yeah this set kinda guu

Also Solgaleo looks like it's gonna be fun

The main issue is there are still so few consistency cards in the game

[sonic inlet]

Solgaleo Melmetal maybe

[normal cave]

I think Zard is the biggest winner since it handles all the energy acceleration on its own

[sonic inlet]

And Rotom Dex... sure is a card

[normal cave]

Was thinking solg dialga because you don't need to retreat Dialga

[sonic inlet]

Oh yeah

That's better

Dialga really just is the steel tax

[normal cave]

I can't believe they gave us Tainted Wisdom. Finally.

[sonic inlet]

real

[solemn rapids]

https://www.pokemoncenter-online.com/search/?srule=top-new-product&q=2025年4月24日受注開始 ぬいぐるみ

Beeg Eeveelution plushies

[viral ingot]

[sonic inlet]

[golden lance]

Wait

Rare candy?

[normal cave]

Ye

We Charizard Highroll now

[viral ingot]

Hell yeah, my Shiny Charizard finally relevant.

[warm sky]

did someone say shiny charizard?

https://twitter.com/ookiitora128706/status/1915233051988414559/photo/1

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[pseudo goblet]

Oh god lmao

[polar osprey]

now give us tm evo or breeder

[mighty storm]

yup

~~Warp digi evolution ~~ Going straight from basic to stage 2 is getting added ❤️

[sacred hatch]

every time i realize this exists theres a new season out soon

[pseudo goblet]

My mother just sent me the videos and photo she took during the event last week

[normal cave]

[pseudo goblet]

I look so tired lmao

Then again Im always like 😐 when Im outside or something

[sonic inlet]

Gonna need another 4 months for that atp

[last musk]

lily immersive
Bruh they want that money huh

[fading stratus]

You'll get good photos the next time

[last musk]

Incineroar looking at arceus

https://tenor.com/view/nba-gif-15687325833433865178

[pseudo goblet]

!colossal

[viral ingot]

Muh 2nd Shiny Charizard

UwU

[normal cave]

@fading stratus wake up Wolfe got a card in Pocket

[fading stratus]

it'd be funny if it said wolfey's incineroar

[normal cave]

We'll get that eventually

At least as an event distribution

[fading stratus]

idt they give starter as a distribution

wolfey will get a distribution mon in NAIC since he won EUIC

but will it be incineroar is the question

my guess is gothitelle but lets see

[pseudo goblet]

What was the mon he had 👀

[fading stratus]

he had amoongus incin gothitelle koraidon scream tail and flutter mane

it'll not be koraidon

wolfey's incin is a meme but idk if they;ll distribute incin since its a starter at the end of the day

it'll probs be other 4 I think they gave Iron Hands when vovomaxben10 won LAIC last year so could be a paradox

[pseudo goblet]

So close lmao

Mixed feeling that I’d want the Goth

Now I wonder how many people at the event used Perish Trap

[fading stratus]

Only good perish team this format is the wolfey one

And it was good because it didn't need the perish to win

Doubt many used it

[pseudo goblet]

Yt stop listen in lol https://youtube.com/shorts/2YcjthIEK5A?si=krzsm0tMKazHQMUP

[normal cave]

I didn't even need Goth when I faced you with Perish

[pseudo goblet]

Yup

[normal cave]

I think Amogus or Goth are the most likely

Tho I'm still coping on Incin

Flutter and Scream Tail are good options, but Wolfe has a long history with Amog and Goth

[latent sleet]

i once fought wolfe team copycat in showdown but i lost because i missed 3 origin pulses

[fading stratus]

Kyogre effect

You weren't the chosen one

[fading stratus]

I'd like to believe this canon that Kyogre and Groudon were just having a rap battle

[mighty storm]

we got more leaks on the set?

err card leaks

[mighty storm]

Oh gen 10 leak

It's in ||the cyclades|| apparently

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/darth-vader-star-wars-no-shout-scream-gif-16634447

||NOT FUCKING ISLANDS AGAIN ALOLA WAS A DOGSHIT REGION||

[fading stratus]

[normal cave]

||Alola had a few of my favorite things in the series, but the region itself was AWFUL, BORING, AND UGLY||

[twin shard]

Sure but ||hoenn was islands and that one was great||

[mighty storm]

||Alola had really good designs, and being in Greece means we can get another poseidon pokemon||

[twin shard]

inb4 it's ||just lando-t but with scald and better effects||

[normal cave]

||Hoenn was under a different director than Alola, and was before Alola in general.||

[normal cave]

||Alola has phenomenal Pokemon design, but the Pokemon design is not what worries me. What worries me is the story and region design, which were both horrible in Alola.||

||And the route music was eeeewwww||

||Alola had some of the best ups and worst downs in the series imo, but the region itself is by far the ugliest region. Nothing even comes CLOSE, maybe Kanto. The prettiest parts in Alola are either not in Alola (the ultra wormhole) or trying not to look like Alola (a few of the towns, who still let Alola's vileness leak in)||

||All the Pokemon designs and some of the characters make up for it tho, so maybe I am being too harsh||

||Not a single bad Alola mon I can think of. Even Bruxish grew on me.||

Rant over

[sharp kernel]

@fading stratus I kinda want to host something like this https://youtu.be/g_ek_JuSMVo?si=70hCk3jdAqqj5pru

[fading stratus]

Oh this would be fun yeah

Which regulation

Current would be good probs

There are 10 restricted you reasonably can put in team

And like a few more decent ones

So it'd be cool with around 16 players at max

[sharp kernel]

Current yeah, thinking of maybe doing something like instead of auction having set pricing for Pokemon. Haven’t worked out the math yet, but thinking something like 60k budget, miraidon = 30k

[sharp kernel]

Also thinking of doing something like uh $8 entry, 1st place - $50, 2nd place $25, 3rd place $10

I would probably need help with the cost tiers though, if you’re down to help bolt

[fading stratus]

Would this be better than regular draft I wonder

[mighty storm]

ah yes, 6 supporters that switch out active

[sharp kernel]

So I’m thinking of running a budget draft pokemon tournament. Entry will be $10 per person, draft order will be randomized and each pokemon will have a price attached to them. IE - Miraidon will be $30 of your $60 budget for your team.

Prizing breakdown would be:

1st place - $50 + whatever of your pokemon budget is left over.

2nd place - $25 + 75% of your budget left over

3rd place $10 + 50% of your budget left over.

Format would be doubles, current regulation, PayPal would be a must so I can pay any international entrants.

That’s what I came up with

[fading stratus]

Sounds cool yeah

What about platform and stuff like open sheets

Also I do think 30 for mirai is probably harsh

If total budget is 60

Realistically probably like 20 for mirai shadow rider ice rider korai Kyogre lunala zamazenta terapagos

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/miraidon-pokemon-gif-8428631026920261290

[fading stratus]

19 for groudon zacian dusk mane dawn wings Mewtwo dialga dialga o palkia palkia o reshiram zekrom etc

Then 18 for fire ogre water ogre both ursh formes flutter mane raging bolt and such

Might even be worth dividing the restricted into 20 19 and 18 and starting regular mons from 17

Since budget is so low

[normal cave]

Mewtwo at 19

[fading stratus]

Mewtwo is pretty decent in stuff like this

Patches up any hole your team has

Put up nasty plot and life orb tada sweeper

Put up AV now it's a bulky special attacker

Put up specs now it does damage

You can even run it as light screen reflect mon

[normal cave]

Sacrificing your restricted slot for a grimsnarl knockoff

[fading stratus]

You don't realise how versatile Mewtwo is for draft lol

[normal cave]

No

I don't do draft

[sharp kernel]

Tiers going to probably be 25/15/10/5/1

[fading stratus]

So all restricted 25

All broken mons 15 and such

You could realistically take 2 restricted

Which is funny

25+25+5+1+1+1

Assuming it'll be snake draft right thugs

[sharp kernel]

Not necessarily

Like I’m thinking sneasler could probably be 25

[fading stratus]

Could be yeah

More like ogrepon probably

At 25

If we're allowing all formes in one ogre

And ursh

I think sneasler is fine at 15

[fading stratus]

I think thugs the normal mons which could be at 25 are like

• Ogrepon (all 4 formes as a single pick)
• Urshifu (both formes as a single pick)
• Ursaluna (both formes as a single pick)
  -MAYBE flutter mane, chien pao, chi yu

case could be made for both lando formes too probably

[sharp kernel]

I was thinking of splitting blood moon and regular tbh

[sharp kernel]

Is Iron hands not the most repped paradox rn?

[fading stratus]

iron hands is probs fine at 15

[sharp kernel]

Eh I think he’s too flexible tbh

[fading stratus]

its not flexible at all

thats the whole point of hands

[sharp kernel]

My idea for 15 right now is the lower usage restricted mons, rillaboom, Incineroar, indeedee

Etc

[fading stratus]

hands is worse than both incin and rilla

[sharp kernel]

Which one of palkia/dialga is the one that sees fringe usage again

[fading stratus]

neither sees usage but dialga is realistically better

both are fine at 25

if you allow either formes

[sharp kernel]

So what restricted can I actually get away with putting at 15

[fading stratus]

like regular necrozma

non shield forme of zama and non sword forme of zacian

[sharp kernel]

Didn’t even know necrozma existed in SV, ngl

[fading stratus]

regular calyrex

regular caly can probably be at 10

you can probably put regular kyurem at 15

but idk

[fading stratus]

dawn wings has a few tops

I think one top 4'd last year's japan nats

I lied it was top 8

[pseudo goblet]

Tf

They just put this chara behind Giovanni btw

[fading stratus]

Schoolgirl Giovanni >>>

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus First 11 pull

[fading stratus]

[pseudo goblet]

Where was this luck when Im struggling with Shiny Groudon and Kyogre pair

[fading stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/humpback-whale-whale-onthe12thfloor-stan-twitter-gif-3446111347746334272

[fading stratus]

I've been thinking

scarf smeargle with transform

[maiden flax]

I'm excited to see what araquanid is like

I want to see if I can make another non-ex deck

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/henlips1-henlips-henrys-kitchen-onyo-helm-only-gif-27211681

Sketch cannot be used to copy Transform, Metronome, Mimic, Mirror Move, or Sleep Talk.

If you want to clone your own restricted you will have to use Limber Ditto

[fading stratus]

huh did they change that

you could copy transform

[kind vortex]

sketch could not copy transform regularly for the first few generations it was allowed (under special circumstances, it could copy transform in gen 3)

in gen 4 through gen 7, it could copy transform even in regular use

gen 8 was gen 8

once reintroduced in gen 9, sketch isn't being mentioned as unable to copy transform

[normal cave]

Really?

[kind vortex]

that's what bulbapedia has on it, anyway

you can test for yourself if you have your own smeargle

[normal cave]

Oh shit it does copy tranform

[fading stratus]

wow bruial spreading misinfo

[normal cave]

Looked it up

[fading stratus]

[normal cave]

It's called being wrong

Mb

[fading stratus]

that's just you always

[normal cave]

Oof

Anyways why scarf

You need to get your move off without dying

And smeargle can't really do that reliably with scarf

[fading stratus]

yes thats why scarf so you get your move off fast

also scarf spore is crazy

[normal cave]

Sure you get a scarfed caly-s

[fading stratus]

sash transform just means you transform at like 1 hp

[normal cave]

Smeargle has 75 base speed

[fading stratus]

since you;'re slower than everything you wanna transform into

[normal cave]

What are you outspeeding with scarf

If you go timid full speed

Hmm, actually I guess you do outspeed some unboosted stuff

[fading stratus]

like base 136

[normal cave]

That outspeeds korai/mirai

Aight aight

[fading stratus]

scarf smeargle outspeeds everything relavent in the format except exactly timid shadow rider

[normal cave]

I see the vision now

[fading stratus]

it even outspeeds modest shadow rider

[normal cave]

Now, what are you running beyond spore/transform

Final Gambit?

You have to go max hp anyways with transform

Could also go lunar blessing ig

Or is it lunar dance idr

[fading stratus]

2 moves can be anything your team needs

like idk tailwind

[normal cave]

Tailwind works

[fading stratus]

could be taunt

safeguard

population bomb even

explosion

[normal cave]

The problem is those all suck to be locked into

Pop bomb and explosion less so

[fading stratus]

you dont need to click anything else not named transform or spore

decorate even

or coaching

[normal cave]

Those are fine to be locked into

After You

After You to outspees base 136 with Ice Rider kinda sick

Tho at that point you run Tailwind

Probably run Trick

Giving something a Scarf is nasty

[fading stratus]

https://youtu.be/SyvpCQyr0zM?si=WXWjAngcQRPrgFfw

I never realised there were that many good psychic types

[void herald]

there are a lot of really good psychic types

[fading stratus]

yeah I never realised there were that many

[outer eagle]

Wonder what the list would look like for Singles

[fading stratus]

mewtwo would probs be in list

for singles

1 will be calyrex

[normal cave]

Shadow Honse is the most powerful singles mon

[outer eagle]

Calyrex would be top 3 definitely
But it might be too new for 1st place

[fading stratus]

would 1 be mewtwo then

since megas were way relavent in singles

or necrozma

[outer eagle]

funnily enough mega-mewtwo, x or y, were decent but not the most powerful megas you could be using in ubers

lucario, salamence, and gengar were all better megas there iirc

lunala, necrozma, caly-s, deoxys i can see all being higher than mewtwo

[fading stratus]

deoxys is uncharted territory for me so no idea about deoxys

[outer eagle]

mewtwo's dominance in gen 1 should be considered ofc but that whole gen was broken

deo-s had been an ubers suicide lead staple ever since its introduction and only fell off this gen

deo-a was overall good for quite a few ubers gens as well

been falling off a bit since gen 7 iirc

not sure if gothitelle technically counts

just like in vgc shadow tag carries it

[fading stratus]

competitive goth has worlds top 4

[normal cave]

Smeargle is carried by sketch

Just because there is one thing that makes the mon really good, doesn't mean the mon is not really good.

[outer eagle]

well yeah but then we would also have to rank wobbuffet in top 10

[normal cave]

Was wob good in vgc?

Goth has psychic and fake out among other things

[outer eagle]

vgc wob is ass

[normal cave]

So its a great mon in vgc

Singles wob is good

[fading stratus]

the argument doesnt hold water yeah

since you could just say

incineroar is carried by intimidate

or rillaboom is carried by grassy surge

also like I said competitive goth has a worlds top 4

[normal cave]

Question

I switch out a very fast mon into goth, and my opponent attempts to switch out a slow mon into a different mon at the same time. What happens?

[fading stratus]

switches happen

why wouldnt they

[normal cave]

Goth switched in first

[fading stratus]

doesnt matter

[normal cave]

Oki thanks

[fading stratus]

switches happen before abilities/tera etc happen

[spice rivet]

My first VGC locals will be on May 14th lfg

[normal cave]

Good luck!

[fading stratus]

Gl yozz

[fading stratus]

I wish I could go to locals like that but I neither have a locals nor do I have a switch

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

which Reg

[fading stratus]

its I

reg I starts thursday

basically 2 restricteds zane

I realised why the worlds team is so good honestly

the team has exactly 1 move that can miss

all other moves are either status or 100% accurate moves

[spice rivet]

Reg I. Though since I'll be the Professor for the event I may be busy teaching people the ropes

I'm expecting mostly in game teams ngl

[fading stratus]

you should take a funny team yourself

[spice rivet]

Miraidon Calyrex Shadow it is

[fading stratus]

Honestly I was thinking more of

[spice rivet]

Theyre going to learn the hard way

[fading stratus]

Mewtwo

[spice rivet]

Expanding Force Mewtwo

Side note, shoutout the Giratina that was on stream today

[fading stratus]

mewtwo doesnt even get expanding force does it

[spice rivet]

It does

Its like the only thing it can do lol

[fading stratus]

vro it went 4-4 but 2 purple dragon i forgot its name went 6-2 into day 2

[spice rivet]

Niceee

[fading stratus]

eternatus

I think we can lab zacian eternatus honestly

if you're down

or rayray eternatus

it'll be funny

[spice rivet]

Maybe later for sure

[fading stratus]

https://pokepast.es/e88d270cfcb097c3

also this went 5-3 which is cool

[spice rivet]

Im also prepping for TCG League challenge next week

[fading stratus]

goodluck

[spice rivet]

Ill need it, that format is currently booty cheeks

[fading stratus]

I have no idea how ptcg is

[spice rivet]

Basically: Rotation just happened and everyone is playing Imperial Order

[fading stratus]

I heard budew or sth was popular

[spice rivet]

Yup, Budew is a goddamn menace

[fading stratus]

yozz maybe you'd wanna try the copium team I made a while back

I realised

its funny af

https://pokepast.es/0cf803acf60e446a

[spice rivet]

Ill give it a go, but for sure I'll have to try and build a team with Solgaleo in it because it's too on brand for me

[fading stratus]

solgaleo and a fast bulldoze user would be funny

going back to the roots

when mence metagross was good

[spice rivet]

Hell ya

[fading stratus]

hear me out

solgaleo lunala

[spice rivet]

I think I see the vision

[fading stratus]

annihilape gets bulldoze

so you can run coaching bulldoze

[spice rivet]

Smart

[fading stratus]

man I wish Yveltal was in the game

its such a cool restricted

its literally the definition of partner restricted

shadow rider gets bulldoze

now I'm cooking

[fading stratus]

I think I burned the kitchen holy @spice rivet
https://pokepast.es/4a05ea6e1e38c9c2

the team is bad but it looks funny

you probably play amoongus over farigiraf

and something over annihilape

or ogerpon over farigiraf

also beatup and sash conflict huh

[fading stratus]

https://pokepast.es/af107e90fbebb218

[fading stratus]

sus

[normal cave]

Mirai frauding out of its mind

Korai is fucking gone

[outer eagle]

what's day 1 chart

[normal cave]

What the fuck is this shit

Well, Reshiram is my homeboy so I do like it

But there's no denying Reshi is kinda ass

You can run it in a sun team as a nuke button with scarf or specs/tailwind

But doesn't Chi Yu hit harder?

While being faster

[fading stratus]

I'm just building a meme team

I realised while building this that goltres and solgaleo actually have cool synergy

[fading stratus]

also 1 eternatus reached top 8 btw

eternatus has really good stats and movepool

it just needs a semi decent ability

sheer force would probs be fine

[swift jasper]

they should give him an ability that transforms him to the boss mode from sword/shield

[fading stratus]

[swift jasper]

this is balanced trust

[fading stratus]

[swift jasper]

ngl this isn't that insane offensively it's just that it won't die, ever

[fading stratus]

yeah

its not that crazy

eternatus in top 4

[outer eagle]

zamn nice stats
now let me grab my level 1 aron

[fading stratus]

csr really had one of its most dominant performance just to lose to a smeargle speed drop in the finals

[normal cave]

Moody is a drug

[fading stratus]

eternatus also went top 4

which was hype

[outer eagle]

has caly-s won a regional this format yet

[fading stratus]

yeah last year

it won like 5 events last year

including the EUIC iirc

or was it NAIC idr

[outer eagle]

i remember one of the calys didn't win for a while but maybe misremembering

[fading stratus]

shadow rider hasnt won this year yeah

koraidon might have the most wins this year

I think it has 5

[warm sky]

just a note that iirc eternatus as is - is already a top tier in singles

and eternamax if you invest in the defenses causes a rollback making it immortal

and you can't even poison stall it

[fading stratus]

eternamax in AG?

[warm sky]

eternamax isn't legal, but iirc the hackmons ban it

[fading stratus]

ah

[fading stratus]

In doubles its not that eternatus is bad but you have to compete with shits like shadow rider and miraidon for a slot in the team so why play it over them is the point

[fading stratus]

huh caly ice is that bad in singles

ig that speaks for trick room being insane in doubles

[warm sky]

yeah trick room is kinda shit in singles

most of the time

[fading stratus]

lando t is vroken in singles huh

well in ubers too

ik its vroken in OU

hooh being good is wild

in a format with rocks especially

[warm sky]

heavy duty boots

[fading stratus]

what does it even do in singles

spam sacred fire?

[warm sky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8nWi3xruk&t=17m42s

[outer eagle]

i can easily imagine some hyper offensive team with suicide lead deo-s using ho-oh spamming banded brave bird

not sure if that's its main use but that's the first one that comes to my mind

[vagrant steppe]

Thinking about how devalued shinies are now and came up with a solution: Each individual shiny rolls a random color pallet

So like someone might get a white shiny corviknight, someone else might get a red

Sure, that means there's higher chance of lame shinies like garchomp, but it also makes them feel more special than "sat in a field for 10 minutes"

[mighty storm]

oof forgot my pack yesterday so I got two unclaimed packs, guess pack time is different now for me 😅

so my next pack is at 9:17 PM

[pseudo goblet]

@mighty storm @fading stratus

[fading stratus]

tf are you vro

[mighty storm]

ooh nice

[fading stratus]

oh its just zane

lmao

also pog

[pseudo goblet]

exactly the reaction I was trying to get

Also Hell yeah Dialga only took 7 mins to catch

Hasty

[fading stratus]

if Malaysian premiere ball league happens in november Dialga is a mon that's on my radar

for your info

[pseudo goblet]

frick lol

[fading stratus]

I think its a really underrated mon that can work fine

[pseudo goblet]

Hows yall feeling the new pfp and name btw

[fading stratus]

its fiine

I'm used to the old one

[pseudo goblet]

Didn't wanna tie myself to a mid toku character lol

[fading stratus]

so you tied to a mid starter

[pseudo goblet]

... fair

Treecko love is deeper so eh lol

Dialga still gave me a bit of shock, today started at 325 and found it at 397

[fading stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/lilly-lusamine-lunala-ultra-space-alola-gif-7436031

[outer eagle]

• make leaf blade physical
• give every grass type in existence an equally powerful new special option in energy ball
• sceptile sadge

[fading stratus]

sceptile is one of the few mons that got worse because of the split

[outer eagle]

imagine LO sheer force nidoking but sludge bomb and earth power were physical

[pseudo goblet]

3 legendary(and 4 UB) in 3DS
3 legendary and 1 mythical in GO
1 legendary and 2 Mythical in Switch

[fading stratus]

you still need kyogre and lunala now

[outer eagle]

kinda want to use a-marowak one of these days again

it was kinda fun early sm meta

stopping cold koko which was one of the top pivots was cute

[pseudo goblet]

btw Kyogre is kinda harder between the two

[fading stratus]

I think we can actually make pure shiny team for you next time

we as in I

[pseudo goblet]

Assuming I can get them

[fading stratus]

like this idk

[pseudo goblet]

Thats a new duo combo

[fading stratus]

I'm thinking about a lot of duos rn

I think that duo has a potential

only problem is neither of the 2 have spread move so you play indeedee

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus @outer eagle @spice rivet @mighty storm @normal cave what do yall think next legendary I should hunt in UltraSun next time?

Ho-oh and Latios sorta done, Tornadus Groundon Dialga IS done

Im feeling Xerneas

Also I swear the universe just doesnt want me to have a shiny Latias…

[mighty storm]

Xerneas

[pseudo goblet]

Getting the feeling Bolt would say Heatran lmao

[pseudo goblet]

Btw Legendaries that arent version exclusive are

Lake trio
Regi trio
Bird trio
Sword of Justice

Cresselia
Landorus
Suicune
Kyurem
Mewtwo

Cresselia in Dynamax Adventure sounds horrid…

[pseudo goblet]

@mighty storm @spice rivet @mighty storm https://x.com/serebiinet/status/1916631619168858265?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet) on X

Serebii Update: The next Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Tera Raid Battle event has been announced. Gimmighoul will return from April 30th through May 8th 2025

Details @ https://t.co/NWlAdn57aQ

X · Apr 27, 2025, 11:12 PM

Oh wait I meant to ping Bolt too lmao

@fading stratus

[mighty storm]

I'm in the middle of uploading cardboard representation of plastic figurines onto a digital site right now I'll read later

[fading stratus]

dont you already have like 4 shiny ghold

[pseudo goblet]

3

[pseudo goblet]

And I have 40+ Beldums, your point??

[fading stratus]

get one with 0 atk btw

[pseudo goblet]

depends on the twitch hosts lol

[mighty storm]

shiny outbreak event got the wug

the doggo, and birb as well

[pseudo goblet]

Guess Im going back to shiny hunting much sooner

Man they REALLY love gold shiny huh

This is like the 3rd one

[mighty storm]

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/56ce70c8-7180-4823-ad03-5f29f2594215/dfpridw-23e75705-1027-49e0-9f1b-7c2580f8f371.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzU2Y2U3MGM4LTcxODAtNDgyMy1hZDAzLTVmMjlmMjU5NDIxNVwvZGZwcmlkdy0yM2U3NTcwNS0xMDI3LTQ5ZTAtOWYxYi03YzI1ODBmOGYzNzEuZ2lmIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.tdN3pXO-cUVUFhaEGAbldPF1NxAmLfWw_4EJh7dUJGQ

[pseudo goblet]

Good thing I didnt have Wiglett and Growlithe yet

[mighty storm]

go get the blue friend

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus Is Kantonian-RK9 far from being top tier?

[fading stratus]

its good when every good intimidate mon isn't legal

so like regional dex format

next time it'll be good is potentially gen 10

or gen 11

[pseudo goblet]

I just learn the guy who designs for current Ultraman did works on the first Mewtwo movie

Specifically Mewtwo’s armor

https://tenor.com/view/ultra-galaxy-fight-the-destined-crossroad-ultraman-ultra-galaxy-fight-first-appearance-transformation-gif-25740104

[pseudo goblet]

I really didnt think I had this many pokemon merch before organize

[fading stratus]

zane I wonder can you get the shiny of these 6 too

[fading stratus]

alongside these ofc

[pseudo goblet]

Technically I already do

[pseudo goblet]

Mmmm

Man who knew I’d be annoyed by GF for making the Mighty Meowscarada a girl…

Basically I wanted to use the 7 star raids starters for the shiny, but with SV breeding mechanism, the cat and the gator would also go at it, making it not really masuda method

Dw that aint the Ditto I was gonna use

[fading stratus]

[daring pine]

First blokees it's peak

[pseudo goblet]

I hope thats you playing Ikuz in the background

[daring pine]

it is

my first pokemon figure/merch

i was about to get the bandai kit but then blokees announced this figure

and then i waited months too think about it

[pseudo goblet]

Get the bandai kit anyway after this lmao

[daring pine]

no

unless...satoshi gekkouga mod

but i dont have the skills for that yet

[pseudo goblet]

https://x.com/yrfreakyneighbr/status/1916873622360109369?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

Neighbourh (@yrfreakyneighbr) on X

Regigigas

X · Apr 28, 2025, 3:14 PM

[mighty storm]

Ok gen 10 leaks are happening

from some person who apparently is legit? But not positive

||Apparently the focus in the new game has something to do with gods aka "majin" (codename) that through artifacts like sigils, they grant Apotheosis to the apostles which are the special new gimmick. All mons can use the new gimmick but only select ones are the apostles.
They have a list of 41 mons they are picking from to be said apostles with 8 of them being locked in for slots. Notably they also gave us the first letter of several + the region they are from. Like two examples are t(9) and a(10) yes a new mon of the region also gets the gimmick's better form ala the gigantimax equivalent.||

https://tenor.com/view/tinkaton-pokemon-tuesday-gif-8789120682122686192

On an unrelated note, its tinkaton tuesday

[outer eagle]

So Z-A was ||TYBW arc|| all along

[golden lance]

||Oh so we're just doing yokai watch now, got it||

[mighty storm]

||nah this is straight up elestrals||

[vagrant steppe]

I'm not gonna believe shit until I see pictures or something to back it up

[golden lance]

||Ngl these descriptions remind me a lot of alola and the tapus, which is good because alola was the best post 3d gen||

[vagrant steppe]

It's really easy to just go "oh I know a trusted leaker" and say whatever

[golden lance]

||If i can perform a nexus in a vgc game i'm buying 50 copies of the gen 10 games||

[mighty storm]

We'll see if this is real, but god do I hope it is

[void herald]

||i remember there being leaks about this being the original concept for gen 7's gimmick before they replaced it with z moves||

[mighty storm]

||water only run but only allowed to use one god's item ||

[long stone]

||there ain't no way pokemon is gonna involve gods and religion||

||Like this is stright up fan crack||

[warm sky]

||Yeah it was in the teraleak||

[mighty storm]

Moonrite ||there is already multiple gods in pokemon||

[warm sky]

||But there it was more like stands||

[warm sky]

||There's literally a church in gen 4||

||Celebi has a shrine in gen 2||

[long stone]

||yah but you don't pray to them in some sort of weird ritual so they can possess your Pokemon||

||Having lore =/= having the main gimmick about that||

[mighty storm]

||Nah you just get a cell phone from god and get yeeted back into time and meet two people arguing over who is the true god.||

[long stone]

||Still, you are not doing a weird ritual to let your pokemon get demonically possessed||

[mighty storm]

||In game wise I'm sure it's likely gonna be more "These mons are devoted to this otherworldly creature"||

[mighty storm]

the gimmick doesnt have to do with that

that's the|| alpha ||equivalent

[long stone]

Anyway ||watch them drop all the ones that change form. And only add 1 or 2 in a DLC, like they did with gen 9. Literally 2 that have a different look when they terra||

[mighty storm]

||the gimmick is like if Arceus, dialga, palkia, or whatever was like "Here is your special atk boost because you held this rock I like". ||

||with alt form for specific mons||

[long stone]

||feels like they are runing of out of ideas||

[mighty storm]

||To draw comparison to elestrals, its like if their "champions" had more changes then just wearing an item associated with the god. ||

||and I think fire tinkaton is likely, there is a greek god who's associated with fire and forging weapons.||

[warm sky]

Sooo

||Shuckle Dionysus?||

[mighty storm]

LETS GOOO

Just in time before next set XD

[golden lance]

||The world is not ready for Poseidon's Cloyster||

||that thing will click shell smash once and go +6 instantly||

@fading stratus i got an idea

So for the other draft that i'm gonna run ingame

So i'm making the sets, yea

What if i put a mon at a much lower cost that it usually would, but with an whack ass set

CB Pex type shit

(Note: you cant see sets until after you buy the mons)

[fading stratus]

huh so sets for all like 150 mons

that sounds fun

[fading stratus]

assuuming I read that right

I'd be down to help

[golden lance]

Cool, i have a holiday on thursday so i have some free time there

[fading stratus]

just hmu my college started so I'm not as free but I should be able to help during my evenings/nights most of the time

[golden lance]

Aight

[fading stratus]

are we doing ubers or

just ou

also choccy there's a funny bit you can do

put a miraidon for like say 10 points

when someone buys it it turns out to be a ditto

or zorua/zoroark

[golden lance]

Just ou

[fading stratus]

are abilities/items also fixed

I feel like items can be whatever they want

and abilities predetermined

so you can do funnies like sap sipper azu

[golden lance]

For the sake on convenience, yes

[fading stratus]

so thursday as in my tomorrow night right

[golden lance]

Uhhhh

Maybe

[fading stratus]

its wednesday 9:55am rn

[golden lance]

40 hours from now, ish

[fading stratus]

40ish works

a bit early than 40

because it'd be like 2am for me

[golden lance]

Time of day doesnt matter really

[fading stratus]

ah gotcha then

[golden lance]

I should be free during most of thursday friday and the weekend

[fading stratus]

aight

that works

[pseudo goblet]

Wth we can get a Hiker unit???

[mighty storm]

Im staying up for pack pulls

the pack will be out in 54 minutes

[mighty storm]

NO WAY

got 2 of the alolan muk ex

[normal cave]

V nice

[pseudo goblet]

Oh shit new pack is today?

[mighty storm]

yup

and guzma is in along with golisopod

grass type tho

[frosty ledge]

which pack are y'all pulling?

[mighty storm]

Lunala for the wishiwashi

[young river]

Solgaleo for Alolan Raichu

[frosty ledge]

I'm not on the wishiwashi train so solgaleo it was

two shinies is certainly something

[normal cave]

I just want electric oricorio to play stun

[normal cave]

[frosty ledge]

yeah was gonna say this looks nice

[normal cave]

Card looks annoying as fuck

Probably something like oricorio greninja or wiggly

[young river]

PSA: There's a solo battle event rn that lets you get Rayquaza EX

[frosty ledge]

who is this company and what have they done with dena

[young river]

Damn these are pretty

[viral ingot]

Bro, FIRST PACK!

But it's a Starmie reprint.

I love it tho. ❤️

[normal cave]

[mighty storm]

another one!

[normal cave]

Time to play Toise ig

[mighty storm]

a second washi ex regular and a washi ex full art

[pseudo goblet]

@mighty storm @normal cave @fading stratus @spice rivet FINALLY

This took, way too long, holy shit lol

I still have a box of gatitos to hatch, shit

Man I can finally free up that green counter, its been holding that number up for ages

[fading stratus]

talking about yozz
@spice rivet I realised what we pair with solgaleo
eternatus
spam specs sludge waves

[fading stratus]

zane next shiny starter rillaboom

[pseudo goblet]

I honestly forgot this ones a gal

Hold up, I just 3 more grass starters to finish the grass starters babies lineup

I now just need Turtwig, Snivy and Chespin

Lets see, Dialga hunt I did out of impulse is done, The tedious egg hunt is done, I now can either continue the UltraMoon playthrough, or Lunala

[fading stratus]

The latter

[spice rivet]

High think this could work well especially with all the Weezing going around lol

Also also, this team continues to look pretty cool

https://youtu.be/okJ5QccA8nI?si=dcTQ1Nid5mKPoXtz

[fading stratus]

My problem with dusk mane is honestly

Why play it over just y'know zama

Or zacian

[spice rivet]

Its basically a way to give you a TR mode + does well into some other restricted, also less damage thanks to its ability is nice (On suppereffective hits, but still)

Also, I forgot Sunsteel has built in Mold Breaker so Terapagos is free (Zamazenta punching the air rn 😂)

[fading stratus]

Well pagos is free regardless because non tera pagos does shit damage tera pagos gets walled by wide guard

[viral ingot]

[normal cave]

[slim birch]

WTH there’s a new pack

[mighty storm]

@pseudo goblet Im probably gonna hunt squirtle, since the pair of shiny blastoise clearly want me to.

[mighty storm]

and it has rare candy in it

stage 2s got the big powerup

swapped over to solgaleo pack for afternoon pack, SOLGALEO EX FIRST TRY

[golden lance]

2 energy 120

[polar osprey]

stage 2

[golden lance]

Pocket really is powercreep central huh

Oh yea right

I forgot

Alola™️

[polar osprey]

tina is 4 energy for 130 but generates one every turn

and is a basic

so like lol

[golden lance]

He ends your turn tho

At least that

[polar osprey]

we did get rare candy this set tho

so Idk how the meta will evolve

I did get my ass handed to me by a mf getting rampardos on turn 3 tho

150 for 1 energy

[golden lance]

Is there a toolbox deck in the game yet?

[polar osprey]

no

[golden lance]

Bet

I'll return the ask the same question next month

[latent sleet]

my therapist got a god pack

2 shinies guzma and a 1 star

[golden lance]

Pls tell me guzma does exactly what the main ptcg version does

[polar osprey]

completely different

removes the tools from all the opponents mons

[golden lance]

FUCK

[polar osprey]

also we got a flood finally

oricorio can't be damaged by ex mons

[golden lance]

Fym finally

[polar osprey]

a good one

[golden lance]

Gengar ex was in set 1

[polar osprey]

so it's a win con against all of the 4-6 basic exes decks running around

they literally can't touch it

it's probably gonna shape the meta

between this and rare candy I think the devs are trying to move away from the basic ex beatdown format the game has been stuck on since launch

but Idt it will be enough

FUCKING PRINT STAGE 1s THAT DON'T SUCK ASS AHHHHHHHHH

[golden lance]

Print VMAXes 🙂

[polar osprey]

they still haven't realized that the main reason stage 2 decks suck ass is bcs they made their basics and stage 1s dogshit cards to compensate for something that doesn't need compensation

if they don't want to add any direct searches to the game need to make stage 1s decent

and give us tm evo

until then it's gonna be basic beatdown format

but at least candy is a step in the right direction

a bit more powercreep and tm evo and the game finally moves away from basic beatdown

hopefully before 2026

they already learned making everything rely on a coin toss is some ass so they are taking feedback at least

[slim birch]

Yea I got one!

[slim birch]

Why is your therapist griefing you?

[mighty storm]

At least we got candy to skip a turn

meanwhile the deck Im on 🙂

[viral ingot]

Lmao, 70 damage with a 3 energy sounds kinda bad.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something. 😓

[mighty storm]

its max 150

You can run 2 wishiwashi and 2 wishiwashi ex because they have different names

30 base + 40 x benched fish

Fishing Net brings back one that died

[pseudo goblet]

Jesus christ bless you

[pseudo goblet]

Remind me to catch the kalos legend trio in Premier when shiny hunt

[frosty ledge]

conditional 150 for 3 energy doesn't sound like it's it either ngl

30 hp dies to a light breeze too with sabrina/literally just having to be in the active spot

[mighty storm]

yep

but gimmick mon be gimmick mon

[frosty ledge]

nice

[mighty storm]

first rayquaza ex

[young river]

this set has encouraged me to play Gen 7 for the first time since 2011

[golden lance]

TIL sceptile gets shed tail

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-sceptile-mega-evolution-mega-sceptile-pokemon-mega-evolution-gif-18233238593410185308

[pseudo goblet]

YOO Masters art team going HARD

[pseudo goblet]

Wait they made the trainer cards immersives??

[fading stratus]

and its the worst shed tail user probs

[normal cave]

Cyclizar but with a worse movepool and no ghost immunity

Has the same hp stat and 1 less speed stat

Grass means no need for goggles tho

[fading stratus]

sleep is banned in singles and noone is using a shed tail user not named orthworm in doubles
well shed tail is banned in singles too but you get my point

[normal cave]

Ye

[outer eagle]

sleep is banned in singles?
time to get a gf ig

[fading stratus]

man what a shame we nearly had white kyurem make it to worlds

[normal cave]

A-tails spotted

Why only 1 restricted? I thought reg I was in full swing

[fading stratus]

only starts today

first event of this format is milwakee regs this weekend

this was from last weekend philippines nats

[pseudo goblet]

SCEPTILE IS SLOWE- okay fine IG it is a bike-lizard...

still... heart is crushed...

[fading stratus]

its a bikeless lizard

[normal cave]

Ach so

[fading stratus]

oh yeah @golden lance hmu when you wanna start doing the draft stuff

[golden lance]

yea let's go

[fading stratus]

I'm here

so how are you planning to do the draft

like 2 ideas are make mons for points lets say 20 to 1 then seperate mons based on points or easier way is just make tiers lets say s a b c d then let them choose 1 from s 2 from a 2 from b 2 from c 3 from d for example

[golden lance]

i was thinking of a single board with mons varying in price

[fading stratus]

yeah we can do that
What are you thinking about the price like the range maybe

another funny idea is you can put everything at lets say same price and make people bid with a bidding limit

[golden lance]

100 starting total, and then with 5-10-20 tiers maybe?

idk, not really experienced with draft

[fading stratus]

its your game so you can do what you wish really
but generally draft boards look like this with a mon for each price and you are given X amount of points and there's a max and min number of mons you can draft

but yeah 5-10-15-20 does work

maybe idk 3 for bad mons

[fading stratus]

when do you wanna start dividing mons by tiers btw or well points

[pseudo goblet]

https://x.com/avhycch3x80kcue/status/1917919541960802645?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

フキダシコットン『1日1枚‼』 (@avHYCcH3x80KCUE) on X

猫耳をつけると表示が変わるテツノドクガ
#ポケモン #Pokémon #イラスト #ポケモンSV

X · May 1, 2025, 12:30 PM

[kind vortex]

it'd be kinda funny if wolfey getting cheated against in pogchamps results in more people trying out pokemon somehow

but also sad that it happened in the first place

[fading stratus]

atleast it didnt matter for wolfey getting top seed

I was watching the game live and was like wtf how is 600 rated person making those moves

[kind vortex]

i saw where wolfey got his queen trapped in the one game and it's like wtf lol

how's lupo finding it, hard to watch

but yeah pulling for him

[fading stratus]

the zwischenzug were weird to me too
like what 600 rated doesnt take a queen when they see it hanging

[kind vortex]

the knight check, righ?

[fading stratus]

ye

[kind vortex]

i mean i'm really bad at chess, i'd have 100% taken the queen there

[fading stratus]

yeah same

I hope wolfey wins pogchamps ngl

he's the fav to win since he's the highest rated player

I think it could increase the reach of comp pokemon

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/anyway-wolfe-glick-wolfeyvgc-panda-global-alright-gif-21460023

Not sure if Id do shiny hunt this weekend

Finally almost done with sorting stuff in my room

Since I got the new shelve

[fading stratus]

wooo you need shiny lunala wooo 👻

[pseudo goblet]

Checking something, spooked by how long you been telling me to get Lunala

[fading stratus]

only been around 3 and a half months

[pseudo goblet]

Not that many progress, at all

Sprigatito, Roaring and Scream, Tornadus, Spinarak, Sandygast

Ditto I wont count yet since its twitch,if I were to count GO then Totodile, Cyndaquil and Squirtle got in

[fading stratus]

shiny ditto is so bad

because it doesnt turn shiny

when transformed

[pseudo goblet]

Unless the opponent IS shiny lmao

[fading stratus]

do get a shiny ditto too tho

I'll defo make you a pure shiny team next time

AS LONG AS you get shiny kyogre and lunala

[pseudo goblet]

Already wasting my one holiday this month today

Actually how many shiny Ive gotten this year I wonder

Around 100-110, huh, not bad

[warm sky]

I didn't bother watching it because it has a controversial youtuber I don't like at all in it, so tl;dw?

[fading stratus]

basically dude cheated vs wolfey

in pogchamps

which is streamer tournament done by chess.com

[pseudo goblet]

Name?

[void herald]

drlupo cheated super blatantly in his mach against wolfey and didn't even seem to realize how blatant his cheating was

[fading stratus]

dude didnt even take accountability but it is what it is

[fading stratus]

wolfeyvgc

[warm sky]

Pretty sure Fillian is on the thumbnail but tl;dr

She's a vtuber who makes money illegally off of two v tuber models she doesn't own and gets away with it because the creator of the model can't afford an international lawsuit lmao

[kind vortex]

there is a filian in the player roster, yes

[fading stratus]

only person I know in the tournament is wolfey anyway

[pseudo goblet]

Wait what- Fillian??? What she got to do with pokemon????

[warm sky]

Idk

[kind vortex]

nothing

pogchamps is a chess tournament

[fading stratus]

its chess zane

[kind vortex]

the link is that wolfeyvgc is one of the players this year

[warm sky]

I don't watch vtubers, but even I know about the huge controversy about her

[kind vortex]

and he got cheated against

[pseudo goblet]

This person btw

https://tenor.com/view/filian-dance-fortnite-vtuber-gif-14513663680615418633

[fading stratus]

I dont really care about vtubers tbh

[pseudo goblet]

Dwai

[fading stratus]

I think the other players in there were like

an olympic medalist

and a Crystal Palace player but I dont watch football enough

[kind vortex]

https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/v1/images_users/tiny_mce/Skyrider50/phpwTj4ut.png
https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/v1/images_users/tiny_mce/Skyrider50/php1quJEs.png

there are the players, idk most of them

(wolfey won group b)

[void herald]

god, imagine being such a scumbag that you cheat in a charity tournament

[pseudo goblet]

2 of your sentence made me think of something else, like, WAY off than what the topic is about lmao

[fading stratus]

crystal palace is an english football team

[fading stratus]

yeah that's such a shitty thing to do

[pseudo goblet]

I only know two of these people

[fading stratus]

mongraal looks like distantcoder

[pseudo goblet]

Dr Lupo feel familiar

[fading stratus]

fortnite guy iirc

[kind vortex]

lupo is the other one i had at least heard of

prior to, you know, blatantly cheating against wolfey lol

2-0'd him, got caught bc better players than me found it super obvious, his account gets closed, wolfey gets credited with the 2-0 over him in the results lmao

[fading stratus]

I mean wolfey woulda defo won

[kind vortex]

no doubt

dude blundered his queen

[pseudo goblet]

Am I wrong for thinking vgc is just a chess game

[kind vortex]

i mean if you boil it down, you can look at it like that, sure

[fading stratus]

I think against stephen wolfey bludered his bishop in like 6 moves

[pseudo goblet]

But you chooses your own chess piece

[fading stratus]

[kind vortex]

oof

[fading stratus]

I think vgc and chess are different in a sense that

a bad vgc player can beat a good vgc player with a bit of prep and getting lucky

but a bad chess player doesnt even come close to beating a good chess player

[pseudo goblet]

What about rock paper scissors instead of chess

[fading stratus]

even if they got "lucky"

[kind vortex]

yeah i mean in the general sense, in terms of transferable skills and such

they can be viewed kinda similarly

but if i had a lucky day i could beat wolfey in a set, granted it would be incredibly unlikely

but i'm never beating magnus carlsen in chess

[pseudo goblet]

Cause these two games keeps popping into my head when thinking pokemon game comp

[fading stratus]

I think I could beat wolfey in a lucky day yeah but defo not magnus

but I havent touched chess in a few years

so i've gotten a bit rusty

[fading stratus]

the chess game with gun

[pseudo goblet]

people around me and my age doesnt fucking understand chess

I TRIED TO GET THEM TO PLAY WITH ME, I REALLY DID

They rather just play basketball

[fading stratus]

basketball is fun but I'm too short for it

[pseudo goblet]

We literally same height so

Guess I dont need to express what I feel for it

Guess Im hunting on weekend afterall

[fading stratus]

I'm gunna guess

is it lunala

jokes aside arcanine is cool

[pseudo goblet]

lol

[fading stratus]

I came to like altaria after my emerald seaglass run

[pseudo goblet]

already done with bird, heck I'll prob end up with more of them kinda unwillingly when Im hunting for Sigilyph

[pseudo goblet]

HOO Alder first pull!

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[mighty storm]

Pulled an A-Raichu ex in my evening pack

[pseudo goblet]

Oooooh no type energy like Yanmega

[mighty storm]

😮 just saw someone play the cool pokeball (the crown rare)

[normal cave]

Who evolves their sneasel vs oricorio

[mighty storm]

the birb got dropped after weavile did

[frosty ledge]

hourglass shop reset btw

[viral ingot]

I pray for my 2nd Oricorio.

Seems like such a funny lil birb. 😂

[sonic inlet]

Ok so now we just play pikachu with oricorio huh

Or magnezone ig

[normal cave]

I think we play Oricorio and a damage dealer that sets itself up

Magnezone is an option

We need a way to beat non-ex decks like rampardos

[spice rivet]

@fading stratus

https://youtu.be/LsopwwdWI50?si=faWRM3kKZ_uF3Qum

You have to watch Game 1 lmaooooo

[fading stratus]

aight

LMAO

peam game

imprison is a funny move

coaching makes sense tho

[normal cave]

I think you are supposed to combo Oricorio with this? But man, 70 for 3 energy is so slooooow

[polar osprey]

https://limitlesstcg.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/pocket/A3/A3_075_EN.webp

this card is starting to make waves

we might see the first toolbox deck soon since a3 gave psychics a bunch of broken 1 energy attackers

there's also lele that snipes the bench for 20 damage FOR EACH ENERGY THE OPPONENT HAS

so if they are boosting something in the bench she can hit for 60+ for 1 energy as a basic