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Aggron with qd is wild
Technician boosted Ancient power and HP???? Bro is cookin' 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Oh come on we have sleep clause
yeah the spore ban and imposter ban both seemed a little out of left field to me, but whatever, it isn't a super competitive format so i def understand how banning things that aren't fun for some people can be good. i just hope that line of thinking does not go super far 😂
I'm now realizing I didn't see a "showdown announcements" channel???
Oh yeah the announcement isn't in there anyway
yeah the bans from yesterday were not posted about
It is! I check back from time to time, and I am consistently blown away by how far this game has come!
someone should make a list of the most common fusions in ou
The game is still adapting into a possibly stable state
Gliscor and Toxapex running rampant. Plus the starter triple fusions
And can’t forget Dragonite
I think the Sylveon/Noivern hype has died down
funny thing is that I forgot that Aggron learns flamethrower anyway, so HP fire is simply a bad choice
You could run something with power gem and use that as STAB, but STAB Technician boosted ancient power is 90 BP which is good
Isn't flamethrower 90 BP? so HP Fire becomes basically a flamethrower clone?
with no burn and fewer pp
im pretty sure aggron having qd is being fixed soon lol
So how do triple fusions work? You get the max of each invidual pokemon's stats?
That's what it seems like
which is weird because i dont think thats how it was done in infinite fusion
i could be wrong but for example the wiki gives swamptilikens stats as 83HP/105ATK/75DEF/100SpA/82SpD/87SPE
You mean there may be a discrepancy between stats in IF showdown vs in game showdown?
no, as in there may be a discrepancy between the IF game and the IF showdown server
i have all the triple fusions on my IF save, i can just check
oh wait, they may have changed it for 6.0 so i have to update
That's what I meant
yeah ill update my infinite fusion and confirm
no power gem?
oh technician aggron lmaooo
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
ngl, I wouldn't exactly hate for them to get nerfed
i really dislike the triple fusions and they have insanely inflated bst on the showdown server which is pretty frustrating
How did you verify?
i have all of them on my savefile
i dont think it's the bst that's an issue
to me it's the fucking triple STAB
sure the triple starters get walled by dragons, but then there's zapmolticuno
i have debug mode enabled so i can edit the iv's /ev's to confirm
at least zapmoltcuno straight up dies to rocks so it's not seen very often
ig
still one of the most threatening offensive mons I can think of
people don't use it by merit of triple fusions being boring
yeah idk im not about to complain about "oh fuck u have rocks up i literally cant switch in my pokemon"
Might just be my lack of rock setup
well
that would be an error at team building
why does your team not have the best move in pokemon
lol
gimmicks
that and hyper offensive
and defog being my clearer so it's kinda pointless
hyper offensive teams should be running rocks
you choosing to not use rocks then complain about pokemon that dies to rocks doesnt make me sad
i am just trying to fix ur issue for u
no I mean
get it
I hadnt registered that it insta dies to rocks
I just like to do dumb gimmicks because it's fun to do unique shit
i dont think i understand but im glad you now understand that it instantly dies if you switch it on rocks lol
rock is a bit like pre-buff knock off, the effect looks subtle but it really isn't
might make a full hazard team with a prankster ghost roar to fuck up their dreams
it was pretty funny when after knock was buffed all the old gens started realising it's good even if it hits for 20 BP
aye items are really important
honestly the meta has been really fun for me, my biggest gripe is all the poryvern and azunite spam
my favorite solution is to have psychic terrain up and just outspeed them
but that's a gimmick
my current thoughts on team building in this meta is if you dont have a ground, flying, ghost, and steel type
it is funny though
aqua jet is a bitch on certain mons
maybe I'm using the wrong one haha
idk there are plenty of bulky ghost types that will just
solve ur problem vs those guys
oh i guess i can add, if youre interested in the verification process i show it all here #1178073980742144133 message
im glad that
i was not wrong when i played this game forever ago
and looked at the triple fusions
and said "most of these look insanely ass"
i was questioning my world views when i saw them on the showdown server
roar has a negative priority of more than 1
it goes after focus punch
even with prankster it doesn't go to +1 prio
tragic
in gen 5 tho prankster assist roar was a thing
if only
cos assist ignores the negative prio
also fun fact before someone else gets owned by this because it happened a few times on the ladder
espeed moves before prankster
indeed
so many people tried to prankster willo my dnite
many people also stayed in on porygon because they had a sub
I need a way to stop defog
i have found out theres a lot of critical knowledge missing
👻
defiants all you got
i mean
/competitive
fusions makes a lot of weird situations
espeed is +2 yea
anyways
mach punch prio moves are +1
time to make a full bulk team with a fuck ton of taunts and ghost types ig
sucker is +1
competitive / defiant + ghost is a nice way
to stop hazard removal
let me search through my boxes for the "fuck you dont remove my hazards section"
outstanding
biblade has been so annoying when I've run into it
biblade is pretty good
spectral thief
super buff and hits very hard
hate
spectral thief is legit just haze but better cause you cant taunt it lol
its funny
and then also steals the buffs
just for fun
I didn't know it existed and I set up in front of a bibarel/doublade
and then fucking got swept
LOL
what is a lobby tour?
a tournament ran on the showdown lobby
Showdown has an integrated function for tournaments, makes it super neat
cool
Yeah I always thought they were trash, I assumed they had updated it or something
How do i get the role of showdown pings
im helping nagisa make a team atm
they really miss poa
they kinda dipped from all discord servers except the one in a active draft league their in
ah, that's a shame
Yo how long until they bring in Gen 7 IF Dex Monotype.
Because Monotype is unironically my favorite Showdown format lol.
congrats Pitiman
That was a fun tournament 
gym battles are fun
though sometimes decided at team select
Part of the fun to me is designing a team that's able to counter its own weaknesses
I'm basically running double regen + 2 dumb breakers
AG is stinky
I'm currently maining this, but it feels like it's being carried by snorcor https://pokepast.es/b7de6c37484ccd65
I wish you guys didn't schedule lobbies when I worked 😭
yes...
hahahahahahahha
anyways it looks pretty good, main issues id say it has you are willingly choosing to play a psychic fusion which is crazy and drifbloom + registeel is probably not that good
Zapdos/Celebi is Grass/Electric
oh
I have a question for yall btw
What would you recommend for catching up on competitive pokemon
honestly it performs pretty well, the shaky bit has been the ghost type for me
Coming from someone who's only ever played casually and just really started understand the whole OU/ubers system like a few years back
idk electric/grass just like
doesnt really have a lot of resists
so its awkward
if its working its working tho
unironically just playing the game lol
yeah idk i understand that sounds like a meme but
Hard to get in matches working grave shift all the time
just don't play gen 9 OU if you want to keep your sanity
oh, if you mean for like, infinite fusion stuff in particular uhhh
I'm still happy I got to sprite the meme cannon Slyveon Noivern 🫡
youre even more forced into my awful answer of "just play the game"
😂
there's not really any content inparticular
As someone who enjoys his difficulty wall games I get what ur sayin
i wanted a sample team thing but
Just wanted some nice content to pop into my ear while I work
idk how many people are willing toi put those forward
Like primers?
no like just teams people already built
I'd kill for some primers tbh
When I get home I could link boomburst meme team
I'd need to adjust it to OU though
Shouldn't be too much of a change tbh
i mean if you just want a team + a short writeup id be willing to drop my team that i hit top 10 somewhat recently with
fell down because i havent had time to play though
too many students today

But yeah that'd be dope
That's how I managed to figure out old ass magic metas
IFs been my first pokemon game I just sat down and finished since like dp
And having my friends yell at me "dumbass toxic doesn't work on steel types" is still shockingly high

I'm very amused by how much of this game I never understood because (older) pokemon ui is bad at showing information
yeah I faced it a couple times
iirc I won once and lost a couple
though my team was a bit more out of whack some time ago
to be fair this meta really lends itself to surprise strats
i am not gonna pretend to be playing an honest strategy when i have zoroark specifically to convince people to suicide their porygon checks into me
lol
but also for some reason people fall for it 8 times in a row
🤔
I mean, when poryvern comes out you need to go to the boomburst resist/immune
there is surprisingly little choice 😆
the secret is you can usually go to a middle ground
especially if you know that the zoroark is usually disguised as the poryvern for that reason
i do not even bother attempting to hide it, it's just always disguised as the poryvern and i am down to just run the 50/50 with people
no
Just to be clear we're talking adaptability porygon z right
yessir
105 spatk + 102 speed on sylvern vs 122 spatk + 112 speed on poryvern, poryvern is less capable of taking hits but like
it doesnt
really need to
lol
to give a guesstimate of its power
200 SpA Life Orb Adaptability Porygon-Z Boomburst vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Snorlax: 265-315 (50.6 - 60.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
local man finds out porygon has insane stats
Listen it's all new to me
took some EVs off to simulate Noivern having less satk
I had to relearn IVs and EVs for the fifth time this year
too lazy lol
fair enough
I mean, it'll be in the ballpark 😆
is there a custom damage calculator for IF?
no but showdowns calc lets you input stats manually
🫡
yeah I figured
I'm just happy the tournaments not going to be 50 shedinja checks
not a guaranteed 2HKO on SDef Snorlax, PU at best
252 SpA Life Orb Adaptability Porygon-Z Boomburst vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Snorlax: 257-304 (49.1 - 58.1%) -- 96.9% chance to 2HKO
maybe I need some of this in my life
252 SpA Life Orb Adaptability Abomasnow Boomburst vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Abomasnow: 70-83 (20.3 - 24.1%) -- guaranteed 5HKO
great minds think alike... but fools seldom differ
when the moves
I think this might suit my style more tbh
though the stats are lower
why sludge bomb over flash cannon? For poison chance?
Yes, it's designed to spread status and knock items
Any place to find out what these mean specifically?
like what the tiers names mean?
yeah, their rules and stuff
if dex mean the pokemon in pokemon infinite fusion nat dex means every pokemon ever
ou means overused or stander play stuff is banned from this tier and stuff ability clause and Evasion Clause are in place
ag means anything goes there are no banneds
and doubles just means there are 2 pokemon on the filed rather then 1
hope this helps
Good to know, are OU specifics listed anywhere by chance?
when makeing a team you check the list of stuffed banned by clicking the validate button
Abilities and moves are marked in red if you click on them
Pokémon that are banned are just marked as illegal and don't appear in the teambuilder unless you specifically search for them
Meloetta has been announced
How does this affect the OU meta? (Once it gets in game)
Will it be like the games and you can only use Pirouette if you run Relic Song? If so, bleaugh lmao
100/77/77/128/128/90 doesn’t seem too oppressive. The high speed of Pirouette is locked away.
Meloetta's stats are quite good for the head slot (HP/SpA/SpD) and it has Serene Grace too, so it could see some limited use if paired with a type that works well with Normal
Oh I clean forgot about Serene Grace 
Gets banned right away if Alakazam is getting banned
135/120 vs 128/128 offense
And serene grace shenanigans
STAB Close combat
idk, I feel like it wouldn't be that broken, and that alakazam doesn't really deserve the ban, there are way stronger mons on the current meta
Super fast pivot
Pirouette is like Mega Lopunny but exchanging the ability to hit Ghost-types with a free item slot of choice
It depends on this tbh 
If it needs to use a turn to become piruette form, it's not gonna be too broken
And Aria forme has one of the best head stat spreads in the game at 100/128/128
Well I don't think alakazam should be banned either, but if we are being consistent then yeah
Oh yeah for sure
I was assuming that Pirouette form is like default. Not banworthy otherwise
The normal form has an incredible head stat spread but that's usually not enough to ban
alakazam is banned for a few reasons, magic guard is just an insanely powerful ability
the stat spread is nuts + magic guard mind blown is like fire blast on crack
Then just ban mind blown and it's fine
idk i kinda disagree with that LOL if mind blown is only broken on one pokemon than its not the problem right
as an idea last respects is banned in OU specifically because that move is broken, its the reason why basculegion-m and houndstone are strong, those pokemon are not strong without the move, but rage fist is not banned and annihilape is because primeape also has rage fist and primeape is not broken with rage fist
The Aria head is normal type too, so it has to compete with Porygon-Z adaptability
Unless the devs change that. (Heat crash and Heavy slam this twig lol)
does iron fists affect plasma fists?
damn showdown is already dead, we are at 3 active battles rn
Slowthorn has been putting in the work ngl
having some firepower vs more immediately offensive things w.r.t. Regiapex has felt like it's worth the bulk downgrade
the only real downside of illusion is that it won't show a fused sprite
so it has to look like a non custom
at least it did before when I tried it
idk about Melo, the head stats are very good and the body stats are solid, but normal type is eh and the movepool isn't anything special (unless it gets custom stuff like Quiver Dance or something)
Damn, had to miss the lobby tour for dinner
also, I want the Showdown Pings role, where do I get it?
aight, found it for anyone else looking:
Just fought the OUest team to ever OU. I think I'm done for a while lol
what was it like
AG players putting bulky darkrai and focus sash shedinja on their team (they are very original)
FerroTox, Slyvnite, Poryvern, bugged triple fusion, Jirachomp, Gengar/zoroark to snipe Poryvern counters
And I know I'm a trash player, but I was trying stuff out
yeah some of the stuff floating around requires really specific counters
btw the more I play and vs snorcor the more I think something has to be done about that thing
The only thing I can applaud is the Gengar Zoroark, but I haven't played in a while to see it.
How on earth can anyone new get into this without getting bodied and just dropping this
I can only imagine that the three natdex ag players all have a forretress/sheddy fusion
as one of the 3 IFdex ag players i cannot confirm
I'll just wait for RandBats or UU I guess, I'm glad they're not advertising it more cause it would destroy people who were genuinely interested
its a shame theres not many players though cus i queue for like 20 min to play against someone i fought last game
no clue howd theyd even attempt to make uu tbh
It's a ton of fun when two people just trying things out meet up. But any fun team eventually hits the meta wall
Yeah, It's why OU titans existed
It'd just be cooler if with the thousands of fusions in the game, people would try to win more creatively
UU was always the place I would go to experiment with fun stuff
theres plenty of ways to win with creativity
literally every tier on smogon suffers from this btw youre just less likely to see it on low ladder in lower tiers lol
if you go to uu instead of seeing great tusk and friends youll see the broken mons of uu
which are just the pre-dlc ou mons
😂
ofc, I just got put in a bad mood after seeing this team. And rematching twice cause noone else was on lol
idk i see this complaint often about competitive pokemon and to me it usually just sounds like "WELL IM TRYING TO WIN WITH CREATIVITY WHY ARENT OTHERS 😡 "
Competitive Pokemon do be competitive Pokemon
because they arent you and dont have the same values as you
some people just want to see victory screen and dont care about how they get there
but also you will always see people innovating and coming up with creative teams and succeeding
id argue the same for this format btw, theres a lot of creative and innovative teams out there that do well
Yeah, it's just lame to see the same Pokemon recycled when there're so many to choose from. But there's a reason that people do. I even see cool ideas and snatch 'em. You have to build around a meta which I just naively thought would take longer to develop in IF
Wait weakness policy is allowed on showdown?
As far as I know
rock polish regitrio about to smoke the meta
Is it one of those randomizer loopholes?
probably
Whether it's Magic: The Gathering or Pokémon, any game format where you go in to a match with your choice of all possible options is going to lend itself to running the most consistently effective deck/team, or at best, a novel variation on it.
Yeah, I just hoped people wouldn't feel like they had to take IF Showdown so seriously. No one gives a shit if you're number 1 on the ladder of a fan game. But for some people the only fun is winning. Different values.
I mean, nothing stops you from going around in low ladder, I do it myself on my alt
I'm sorry if this comes across badly btw
There's not enough people for there to be a low ladder, just a ladder lol
You're fine
yeah I guess that's true
With Magic, I consider draft formats a better version of the game, since it tests you strategically in real time. "Here's 90 cards; take turns drafting them, then build the best deck you can with the ones you picked, and then play the game with it." But really the game started at the draft.
I loved draft leagues for Pokemon, no argument there
The real dream is "here's 18 pokémon, pick 12 of them, fuse 'em, and that's your team. Then fight someone who might've picked a different 12 of those same 18."
I F draft league, after a bit more fine tuning of the server. I’m down! I just got frustrated with OU cause I’m trash at Pokemon and I wasted time building a team that got trashed by the “meta”.
Something like that would test your team-building ability and strategy in a way that can't be outsourced to the meta.
tldr (whiny bitch opinion) Team building: Very fun. Watching said Team bounce off a Toxapex and get BB/E-Speed’ed: Less fun
https://replay.pokeathlon.com/#replay=z4ifir-catsoup02-1701038651813 Never let me cook again 
Acupressure ban when 
Instead of Aqua Jet you could run Rapid Spin to get rid of Leech Seed and get a x2 speed boost 
Wait wtf why does rapid spin boost speed in this game?
They're supposed to be gen 7 movesets
Is there a way to search Expert Moves?
The wiki?
Signature moves: https://pastebin.com/raw/0p555haP
legendary moves: https://pastebin.com/raw/t0f3RMQj
the wiki page is slightly better for readability lol
idk if its the most up to date but
it gives you all the ideas at least
one could always manually write it out and then pin it
if someone were to guarentee it'd get pinned i'd probably write it out
if you update it then mention me
🫡 thanks yoshi
yikes I need to automate this
it's too much text damn
I just have an annoying long google doc now
this thing
@fast elm idk how to format this so it's easily readable but there
tempted to put a description of the move in the message but I
dont have the patience tbh
It shouldn't but I heard some people saying it does
If it doesn't then we good nvm
I've fought rapid spin mons, it doesnt
Okay good nvm
im gonna be playing in an infinite fusion draft league, would anyone be interested in watching if uploaded to youtube / streamed?
There’s already a draft league going for it?
me and some friends organized one, yea
its definitely very far from the usual draft ruleset though as
it kinda has to be, at least atm 😅
Yeah, IF drafts are bound to be weird, but I’m sure it’ll be a lot of fun
we just drafted 24 pokemon, and can only fuse within those 24, if you win with a particular fusion then its gone so that you cant abuse a single fusion to the end of the league
ie if you win with like jirachi + tangrowth, you cant use jirachi + tangrowth together anymore, but you can still use jirachi and tangrowth
no clue if this is the best way to go about it but it seemed like itd result in the most fun + innovative ways to win so
That seems really fun, I would watch that
You drafted some HEAT
🫡
Slowking and Bro lol
i was second pick so i got shafted fairly often on picks so i had to make sure to pick up the good regenerators who are not pex
being one of the middle picks in a snake draft is never fun...
its okay though i have some fire ideas
I’ll be rootin’ for ya! @ me if you do end up posting something
can do, ty 😄
yeah I am doing a draft with some too, very basic and uses more of the shittier pokemon
It's just a way to theorycraft with less of the usual pokemon everywhere tbh 
i think there would be some interest in it yea
atleast i will watch it
and some other answers on here seems like they will too
Would love some day to participate on a draft league, it seems so fun
Man, I don't know why I'm struggling so hard in this format.
I did decently in vanilla Pokémon- why is IF kicking my ass 
Random question, is zapmolticuno good? Never seen someone use it before, ig because of the rock weakness, a shame heavy duty boots are gen 8
I think rocks just kinda makes it useless, Ive seen it in AG a few times and it got OHKOed by rocks without doing anything every time
Good in NatDex, not so much in IF Dex
Its ok in nat dex. Get out classed by others mons you want on a team with those types.
But if your not using any type overlap then its good
Pretty knock off weak
A Pokémon getting ohkoed by rocks is really funny
It is
What about Celemewchi? Does it have anything going on?
From what I've tried Celebi Jirachi works better than the three together, the psychic type does not do it too many favors
But it's still solid 
has alot of support moves
It's a good support mon drowned by its poor typing
i would not call grass steel bad typing
if you mean grass steel psychic then yeah no thats not that good my bad
This
Weak to bug, fire x4, ghost
neutral to ground
Bro my electric terrain team did pretty good last night
I was like 10-1 or something like that
It's unfortunate that rising voltage isn't in the game, otherwise it would be the highest power in the entire game
why is this pure flying?
Noivern's first type (Flying) + Noctowl's second type (Flying) = pure Flying fusion
most normal flying birds only pass on flying
i thought they got rid of that
i see
yep see
i love this sprite
rip my tinted lens boomburst idea
Are they gonna make an ubers tier? Just has all the broken pokemon but has all of the usual clauses
Plus add a wonder guard clause if that doesn't already exist
It breaks my heart
i can say id def enjoy the idea of playing an ubers tier more than the existing ag tier lol
yeah, i miss the days of scizors being steel type
but might be for the best to not add too many tiers
It doesn't work like that anymore as of 6.0, it would take one of the secondary types
it's not like we have a lot of players as it is
Or venusaur/Steelix being insane
Gotta find a way to make it more popular
Was just playing If, when I found a bug gem, shouldn't all gem be allowed then?
Was that through the randomizer?
Nope, I got it by checking a web in the forest
Plus i swear you could buy the gem from the stores when I first played
i definitely remember being able to buy all the gems in the stores
maybe not all of them
but a lot of them for sure
Should prolly be banned from OU anyway, gems are cooler z move
They are indeed in 
i disagree that theyre like z moves
you can bait out gem activations
you cannot bait out z move activations
or rather
This is gen 7 btw, before they were removed, they got nerfed to only 1.3x boost, so they are kind of bad
(Except for unburden mons, they are gonna go nuts after the change
)
there is more rps with baiting out z move activations
oh yeah, also 1.3x boost, forgot about that
single use life orb
Yeah apparently they're in
Whimsicott body sprites are goated
funnily enough there isnt really anything that fuses with hawlucha to make it stronger whilst giving it close combat
keeping the flying stab
I had a Hitmonlee/Crobat fusion for Unburden strats. Not that good, unfortunately.
🤔
i mean
i dont think id use headsmash on that
but id definitely say its better than normal hawlucha
The Gen 3 triple fusion would go wild with Gems. Fire Gem + Flare Blitz?
the gen 3 triple fusions should be getting nerfed... soonventually
well
all of them
but
@fast elm any eta on that btw lol
I know someone who might enjoy that
I thought you said you tested and the regis actually are taking the top stat of each?
i meant the starter fusions
but
yea
regitrio is correct
this is what i get for yapping while working
Forgot they were a thing in 7, thought it was just normal at that point
Now to get your speed boost you need to have already attacked, which sucks because you need to be able to setup first on a forced switch. Run it in terrain w/a seed
Normal hawlucha hits like a wet noodle
Nah you good, they were emoved in gen 6 lol, but they did get nerfed at the same time, despite being removed
they're in the game, and still in the game in gen 9 just unobtainable
Yeah so presumably the Hella nerfed versions are in this game
A one time 30% use kinda sucks. Might as well just use the 20% one all the time.
Only useful for unburden users sometimes
and only in if dex, natdex would just run seeds
Seeds are legal in IF dex just not as good
gems would have the advantage of being self contained
no point in seeds if there arent terrain setter abilities
flygem is banned in ou
we were theory crafting gems because they are all in the game
U can probably get away with fusing Ambipom with Hawlucha or Hitmonlee to use Normal Gem with STAB Fake Out if you really wanna use gems with Unburden
are they getting unbanned
fake out 🤢
STAB fake out from a Technician Ambipom hurts alot if you're not resistant to it... fcking hate it
no man i go into my regen and take 20 and switch out
with all the boombursts around you have to have a normal resist anyway
Every second team has a regenerator steel
anyone want play IF dex AG, I keep getting the same person they quit 😦
a lot of the more prominant boombursts from what i've seen have been fairy as opposed to normal
just wait til you hear about steel type
i know what the steel type does im just saying
nuh uh
probably not going 2 play unless regenerator gets banned l0l
Regen is really really good, but it's also holding a lot of stuff back
regenerator is kinda necessary
while boomburst and espeed are around
which shoulda been banned before like
5 other things
Espeed on it's own is fine imo
Boomburst yeah, get it out
and V-create while we're at it, it's so annoying
Espeed relies on Pixilate and Huge Power to be broken, anything else is perfectly fine
no those are just the most broken versions of espeed atm lol
you'll just see new espeed variants pop up as others get banned
v create is def not ban worthy though
But they won't be as powerful
V-create is just annoying, not banworthy (my fire resist sucks)
It's not that great
It's not like game breaking
No it really is
But it's needed
Shoutouts to Anaconj's quadruple(?) Regenerator team I hate it so much
Has a pokemon with regenerator ever gotten banned from OU for being too strong?
Not that I'm aware of
recovery moves just gota nerfed to 5 base pp
There are MUCH better regenerators in this tier
And you can stack multiple with very low downsides, unlike OU
That wasn't the question
Smogon loves stall 😔
espeed and boomburst are definitely the bigger problems atm tbh
Even then giscor is the only one
this is definitely not true
Gliscor, Mega Sableye
regenerator got a % regen nerf in gen 9 as well
it's like
ur asking the wrong thing
No it didn't?
Still 33%
I wish it did
i dont
mb
Game Freak only balances around doubles
i remember ppl saying it did at start of gen
lol
atm
yes
Regenerator is (nearly) the sole reason for draws
If you have regenerator your also giving up a potential other ability like magic bounce which might just be better
triple
Regenerator is a top 5 ability (not including dumb signature abilities)
if regenerator werent insane in fusion you wouldnt see every stall team have 2+ regenerator mons
ur spinner has regen
Regenerator, Magic Guard, Magic Bounce, the weather setting abilities (not ordered)
ur knock off/hazard setter
I would not go that far
Molt breaker levitate intimidate sheer force
Idk what your top 5 is based on
there are no better abilities for stall that unaware and regenerator
and u can give it to all ur mons
The only one I agree with you is sheer force, at least in IF
magic bounce also sucks in if
Sheer force is only good on some mons, literally anything could abuse regenerator
Magic bouncec is better than regenrator
Sableye was largely about magic bounce rather than just being a wall, but even then your only other example was 10 years ago
are all kinda ass
Not regenerator
huge power (technically not signature) regen mg ph bounce
Rip Toucannon
i forgot fc bc thats not technically sig either
I can't even imagine someone beating your team. Have you ever lost???
It's like impossible
In paper it is, in IF, not so much, espeon is great offensively, but most of the time you want a magic bounce user to be more defensive, and Xatu stats suck 
once i dcd
I beat someone else using the same team, does that count?
i think adaptability is better than bounce
Oh protean but i gues thats just nationaldex
at least as far as if goes
In IF there's only 1 magic bouncer, espeon is very mid
Protean kecleon meta when 
Rip the guy running an all kecleon team 
Adaptability is great to
We don't talk about Xatu
Regenerator is annoying but not top 5
kecleon has technically
theres xatu
idk i think in if you have to take the quality of the pokemon into account as well and bounce has extremely shit mons
and regenerator has great users
So that's a no then lol
Good pokemon with regenerator: Toxapex, Slowbro x2, Slowking x2, Mienshao, Tangrowth, LC Mienfoo
Bad pokemom with regen: Corsola
Yeah it is, a shame we only have one usable adapability user in OU, which while Porygon Z is great, it's not a great mon for physical adaptability sets
I meant in the main series
oic
also
are heavy duty boots really not ingame
its fine
Nope, gen 8 
They aren't in gen7
u can use adaptability dragonite as an example
pain
A lot of mons are held back by heavy duty boots not being in game
Dragonite fusions would go crazy
Specially zapmolticuno 
With heavy duty boots gale wings would be awesome
would be playable at the very least
mukuno (real mon) and encuno (real mon) would finally be good
Talonflame isn't that good
braver than i
hurricane is tho
talonflame is mostly just very niche
bravebird is
u can also do galewings oblivion wing
Brave Bird removes gale wings
bb gale wings 
is it nerfed gale wings?
most offensive mons have to have a boosting or stallbreaking abil to be good
Galewings hurricane on a rain team when 
I think I saw at least one person use it on #showdown-teambuilding
i was using that
all the chandelure jolteon stuff just isnt good
lol
Or QD
galewings hurricane is pretty fun
Every time I see a jolteon fusion I wall it with my regenerator water type weak to electric
the people playing chandelure jolteon feel like they are in
a different meta from me
lol
What does it do? Just spam high damage volt switch?
"High damage" yes
but yes more or less
ghost and electric are both good stabs
and it has very high speed + good spatk
tbh i feel like
It's fast and has high SpA
Kyurem seems to be strangely decent?
But bro just run Porygon/Jolteon instead you get way more damage, are faster, and only have 2 weaknesses
not much else
I fought a bulky offensive with recover one and it was really annoying to switch around
walled by grass steel
And Regen steel + normal
havent thought about normal laddering a lot lately
It hits ridiculously harder than chandelure/Jolteon
which
i dont even play anything thats getting banned
it just feels like
so out of touch
to me
There aren’t that many bans tho?
You have never played BH i see
Okay spore makes sense
bh?
Balanced hackmons
i played vs someone playing wobbufet + ditto
i just played like they had an imposter mon
trapinch has 3 good abilities and higher atk than flygon which is kinda funny
Dib getting banned was good
Ditto is best played with Eviolite
that
That move was annoying
It becomes really stupid
You run it with an NFE
if its munchlax ditto it does
does it?
YES
that doesnt really make sense but i take ur word for it
You can switch into a bulky pokemon, copy it and you get the eviolite boost on top of the bulk
i just assumed ud take the rules of the pokemon u transformed into
for evolutions sake
BH in regular smogon has Eviolite Imposter Chansey
Spore wasn't that common due to poison heal [200 fusions] but it was only a matter of time before something was found
but anyways yea idk my opinion kinda remains on it lol
on both spore and imposter
if u play + build well u can nullify a lot of the advantage gained from both
imp has a greater effect on def mons imo
Imposter proofing is difficult without access to moves like Judgement
Has anyone found a good Oricorio fusion? It seems like a fun gimmick
oricorio doesnt have qd in this game
so its like
not that great as a fusion fodder imo
only really offers rev dance which is not super crazy
Oh right
does it hit twice or anything
rev dance matches ur primary typing
its not like amazing but
u could get flying as a primary typing? ig
so it's only good in doubles 😭
@odd kiln I only had one contingency plan for wonder guard which is apparently not enough. My Arceus/Haxorus has Mold Breaker+Dual chop which invalidates wonder guard and their sashes, but otherwise my team doesn't have anything inherently that wins aside from just having the ONE type that hits through the wonder guard which in that case is my only fire type
Do most people here play singles or doubles?
It's still extremely annoying
and so is boomburst
either just
have a better espeed
porygon-z and dragonite breaks through them easily
or just have a good defensive steel type
it can barely live anything anyways
I mean 76 defense and 60 sp.defense
with 63 hp
Doesn't rock resist too?
Frogman has plans to make Meloetta Pirouette its own slot rather than a battle form
Meaning we can use it right off the bat like Oricorio or Lycanroc
How will this affect the OU metagame
It won't. It'll get banned
If we are consistent
Mega Lopunny was OU only tbf 
Natdex hisui decidueye/meloetta piroutte
Serene grace triple arrows 
Or sneasler/meloetta dire claw if sneas didnt get banned i dont know if they keep parity with smogon stuff
Does whirlpool/infestation/etc work on wonder guard?
So would it only poison then 
It's 50% to do any of the effects randomly
So it can pick any
I feel like it would have a priority on what takes effect first
So like if poison 50/50 doesn't trigger it checks for Para 50/50
And if that doesn't trigger then it checks for Sleep 50/50
Or smth
Everything ive seen says the chances are even
If dire claw is used against a poison/electric type does it have a 50% chance to sleep?
I'm probably thinking from a Game Dev perspective too much
Probably
Toxtricity fans when I hit them with the off-brand spore
cant fuse with piruoette
it doesnt it just randomly picks one and if it doesnt work it doesnt work
Frogman says he might make Pirouette its own separate slot
So we can make things like Aria/Pirouette fusions
right
Rn you just have to use Relic Song for it
Anyone having any issues with the Showdown player rn? I was doing fine earlier today but then sometime in the afternoon it just stopped showing sprites and won't let me log in.
The logo in the corner also won't show up, and there's an eternal loading bar where my name should be.
oh wow that would actually be pretty crazy if true, it has an attack stat just 2 points short of Breloom/Machamp, and a speed stat that's a whopping 10 points faster than even Hawlucha; it would instantly be the single best Fighting fusion by far
That first battle was a slaughter
yeah i noticed he didnt have a good ground resist
well
any ground resist
😂
and i figured i could just win if he tried to set hazards
This doesnt seem to work
It moves me to different places each time
rules
Thats just discord for ya
drafts just slightly below it
im also not getting pulled all the way up to the original message so you may have to scroll a bit
but you can at least see most of the original message
I just searched for it with search
If theres another draft in the future could I join? It seems like fun
i'll talk to the others about it, they're just friends from my local fighting game community
id also be willing to do it again with a group of people here tbh, it's easy enough to set up
why does starmie forretress get dd lmaoooo
you fell for the illusion
im down
would be fun
OMG
IM WATHING THE REPLAY AND I FELL FOR IT LMAOOO
😏
my immaculate zoroark play fools all
it was really funny hearing everyone in my vc
thinking that somehow jirachi + hydreigon just had enough attack to be doing this
until the illusion broke
🫡 if we got one more person i'd 100% be down to run it! 4 people with 24 pokemon seems to be the best i could think of for numbers, at least for the specific way we're doing it
if dex is not super large so
you start looking at some real shitmons to draft after a while LOL
that's chill owo
if anyone else is interested, just feel free to @ or dm me
Good, that's part of the fun for draft
I'd be down
We gotta start like advertising this showdown or something there's like 6 active players unfortunately
Quick, get Finchinator in the server!
Who's that
He's a member of the OU council. Basically, he helps decide what the rules should be.
message for mkap
not just a member of the council, hes the straight up tier leader
also when the randbats is complete there will probably be more
atleast in showdown i think it's the most played mode
Idk why randbats is so popular tbh, the sets and teams u get are usually incoherent at best
Battle factory is just randbats but better
all i remember is he got 6-0'd by a kyurem and tilted super hard over it 
i mean that's a part of what makes it fun for some people, you know it being pretty random. but having skill expression still matters a lot
also a part of the no building the team before and balancing is really nice for a new player
and it can get them into building a team
this is something battle factory has too tho
yes
but it's like it's unwanted to be popular by showdown
you need to search for it
random is the first thing you have
you don't even have to search for another mode and you can just get into the randbats
which is a big part of it being popular for sure
but it's also how easy it is to get into
even tho it is random
which makes it fun
almost missed this, but sounds good, i'll add you and @hexed umbra then so we can figure out a time that works best for everyone 🫡
o, theres a draft league happening?
is there still a spot open?
id like an even number of people, so if we get another after you, sure! theres time to figure out a +1 anyhow
so again, if anyone wants in, dm or @ away 🫡
Ngl, I have no clue how a draft leauge works
But I do greatly enjoy the competitive side of Pokemon IF as of now
basically every mon gets a point value assigned to it and u pick a team of mons with ur budget that youll use for the whole tournament
the team being not a normal pokemon team but like 8 or 10 mons or so
i do not have a point value system readily available btw, if really wanted i could figure out one beforehand but because of how if works its a little difficult
u just gotta put all the mons into tiers, no?
to make sure nothings too broken just highball mons strengths a little and it should prolly be fine
for the draft league im currently doing we just drafted a number of pokemon and can only fuse within the pokemon used, and to prevent abuse of particularly broken fusions when you win vs someone all the fusions used cant be used again
but yea, i can prooobably get a point buy system done sometime today regardless
just draft noivern and 20 normal types innit
down for doing whatever people prefer, i know in draft leagues ive done previously people havent been fans of point buy systems, the one im currently doing was just because my friends wanted to get it done immediately lol
In the draft leagues Ive played point buy worked quite well tbh
im also a fan of point buy
if its okay with you, i can just send you a rough draft for a point buy system later today and let me know what you think. always better to have two sets of eyes on it anyhow
sure
just noticed that apparently in 1 of my former drafts I managed to get this team together somehow
wtf LOL
dunno how they let me have incin+lando+char y sun in a doubles draft
Okay so we'd never be able to use the same fusion twice with all of our selected pokemon? Thats actually really cool
that should help with a problem I ran into with the previous draft leagues I played where the more casual players would just bring 1 team every time
yeah that was also the idea, if you lose then you still could refine the ideas you have, but if you win then you gotta use new ideas, also adds like, a rubber banding mechanic of if you win too much then youre stuck with shittier fusions vs people with their better fusions which is kinda funny
o its only if u win, Ig that works as a comeback mechanic, Id have just done it for everything for maximum fusion diversity
again im down to do whatever, i will leave it up to what people prefer
I'm down for either
I would love to participate on a draft league, specially an IF one, it sounds so fun 
excellent, just waiting on dusk to accept my friend request and we can figure things out then!
Id be down for this
I like draft leagues and now i can join a format i have played like 10 games in
Do you have a doc made?
PIF official league when 
Good question
Cutie
sure, id be down for at most 8 people, so if we get 1 more thatd be tight
not 100% sure what you mean but the answer is no, i dont have any docs lol
nope, did mention id have to work on that later
Ah ok didn't read all the 200 messages since ive last been here lol
the draft league im currently in was just "draft 24 pokemon who cares about power level" lol
Ah ok you able to go to dm's
based
It is based
with a meta as fresh and difficult to understand as this one it feels fine to just say fuck points pick what you want ngl LOL
sorry not 100% sure i understand what you mean, if youre just asking to dm me feel free