#Pokemon Thread
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idk how you saw that
i bet i would miss a million shinies in those games 
that deerling looks like the summer/autumn season deerling to me
I made a habit of checking deerling when I was shiny hunting them in my other game
ah
Because it’s a super subtle one
I just felt a bad vibe
there is a chance i killed a zigzagoon shiny a few days ago
i hope that isnt the case

@vestal vessel ok so mythical. Legendarys. And paradox are all banned. Pseudos are back
So raging bolt is gone
I’m thinking dragonite fits the team really well with hurricane. But goodra also does
both are good
terra normal dragonite is still decent even without chien pao
but sap sipper goodra is nice too

Better then azu

also there isnt a shiny option in my pokedex so im safe
still forced to take a day off tho
do you think running 2 dragons is bad
Nah
i need an ice spinner
there is so much terrian
i think azu is actually a solid pick
ok @vestal vessel what should my draft order be, obv peliper first
but do you think i should grab like dragonite or rotom wash second
dragonite > goodra/rotom > araquanid
imo
you are most likely the only one whos going for feraligatr so i guess second pick dragonite because its one of the best pokemon with all the op mons banned
i think
Any shiny hunters over here 
Anyone tryna shiny hunt sometimes in swsh dynamax raids, shits rough solo
also most, legendaries and all the op mons being banned kinda broke my brain 
im used to playing against all of those in every match
so im lowkey clueless for that draft format
no landorus + tornadus or chien pao + dragonite in every team preview, what a beautiful sight

so its like a 13 person draft so there like a solid chance dragonite get drafted fbefore it gets back around to me
and its snake draft
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carried by thunder wave
Paralysis so broken at least its not early gens tho 
@vestal vessel need help, last min rule change we are doing doubles national dex, only thing thats banned is legendarys and gimmicks like megas and paradox
should i switch out of rain team for something much stronger
i think you should be fine
the main threats from national dex are the legendary pokemon
like tornadus and landorus
is ogerpon allowed?
idk if she counts as a legendary pokemon or what

with dracovish
also one pokemon i recommend is either a fast u-turn pokemon or prankster parting shot
like grimmsnarl
because torkoal will be always be slower than pelipper meaning they get sun up
sand team with dracovish? 
oh it gets sand rush
you are allowed to change your pokemon sets and abilities between games right?
@ most
yes
sand team 
i just made that so dont trust that
if you know the person you are gonna battle is a trick room player you could change excadrills ability to be sand force instead of sand rush
as for the other 2 pokemon you could pick a grass type
rillaboom and among us are good options
thats pretty much what i was looking at too
whimsicott can be okay if you dont want to deal with it
i was also looking at ursaluna
oh true
you could replace incineror with hitmontop to get intimidate too
but you get access to wide guard
your last pokemon could be an annoying prankster pokemon like murkrow or grimnsnarl

i chose dragonite to oneshot pranksters like whimsicott
and to get a ground immunity
tyranitar or excadrill first
i guess excadrill because your next best option is alolan dugtrio which has 30 less attack than excadrill
lets pretend this is your team
excadrill, tyranitar, dragonite = incineroar, rillaboom, murkrow is its still up, and then the other two
in that order
instead of rillaboom you could go for among us but idk
i just made this team in 10 minutes 
true
you need murkrow or a pokemon than can reset stats for sure
without all the op pokemon people might come up with weird strats to get to max attack and stuff like that
and to not insta lose to dondozo
but who knows
maybe im thinking you are gonna play against 20 fakers and they might not even be that good 
hmmmm
rillaboom to get rid of their terrain 

ice spinner dragonite
once again, please dont trust my teams, i made them up really fast, they are just suggestions 
oh true
Ment have confidence ur a god
np
im down to one more pick
i have ttar dracovish murkrow, exadrill, krookodile, gliscor
and for spare i have scizor
i need one more
might run the normal sandrush dog
ye
it gets intimidate too
good call most
okay it gets decents support moves
and good coverage
i like that pick

i forgot about it because it doesnt show on showdown
LOL yeah national dex got weird
there are probably some other pokemon i just didnt think about for the exact same reason
also we missed the chance of doing something evil
look at stoutland egg moves 
after you howl and yawn
he was taken before i could grab lol
I believe you can win this league
i respect abbys and ries picks
abby has a bunch of stuff i would pick 
thats the trick room user
bunch of stuff = liligant and torkoal 
also i mean no disrespect to fuu
but they have the potential to have the most annoying team ever

I believe in you most 
if you want me to use their teams for practice just let me know
let them cook
i mean the excadrill tyranitar lead already resists explosion + intimidate for stoutland
and krook has intimidate
you are chilling 
or do you think i should run moxie
it depends on the matchup
also i was expecting dondozo tatsugiri from someone
but i dont see them picked
I guess they are nice people
it got banned lol
ah
bunch of people wanted it
and i cant blame them tbh
isnt dragon rush a move with like 80 accuracy 
if dragonite has outrage as one of its main moves
i dont see why dracovish couldnt use it too
hmmm
what moves does it get
everything
besides that one electric moves
and boltbeak with his an electric fishouce rend
its movepool is like 2x dracovish
WAIT
dracovish gets stomping tantrum
but you also get another ground weakness hmmm 
we run dragon rush
thats what i was saying lol
U got this
Reuniclus would have been a good pick
Reuniclus is lit 
why reuniclus? 
ez match
It’s so much fighting
omni is not gonna have a nice time against abby 
Tho I think I put speed with Sandrush
i would personally take farigiraf over reuniclus but its just my opinion
I mean I can always go the trusty sigilyf
avaliable

I did what i could 
whats your name on showdown?
Disappointment_8
bro
this dude
made his entire team
weak against fighting and ground

nope
its kinda funny
is that choice band tyranitar?
yeah
poor omni
insta loses against you
abby
and terry
and ries
surely omni can come up with a better team but man
his draft was right under me
again?
yeah sure
omni might actually be a beast we dont know yet
too slow

honestly, this one was winnable, i just thought you were going to protect that turn
with gliscor
i played poorly
i mean no disrespect when i say this
but judging by the team
dont expect him to play like that
i do mean disrespect when i say this, hes not a good pokemon trainer
like i mean in it in the nicest way possible
ah
is expertbelt krook ok or should i go something else
Tyranitar @ Choice Band
Ability: Sand Stream
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- Thunder Punch
- Crunch
Dracovish @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Rush
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Dragon Rush
- Fishious Rend
- Psychic Fangs
Excadrill @ Life Orb
Ability: Sand Rush
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rapid Spin
- Shadow Claw
Murkrow @ Eviolite
Ability: Prankster
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Haze
- Taunt
- Foul Play
- Brave Bird
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- X-Scissor
- Protect
- Dual Wingbeat
Krookodile @ Expert Belt
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Superpower
- Earthquake
- Darkest Lariat
- Rock Slide
hmmmm
the coverage is nice
but he is still slow
expert belt is nice but i think choice scarf would feel better
yeah maybe
also i would replace brave bird on murkrow with tailwind
in case you messed up or they outplay you with other weather
also see how nice prnkaster haze was in that last game?
yeah
im proud of myself for recommending that murkrow 

i like the extra damage from lifeorb on exadrill but i think switching to airbaloon is better
and assaultvest on dracofish
also trick room armarouge could unironically work
with this team against yours specifically
hmmmm
assault vest could be very useful against alakazam and armarouge
and lucario
but then again you are faster than them
lucario is a bit of a problem on that team
I only see you losing if they are crazy enough to run trick room
or if they get tailwind up
but i have a strong feeling they are gonna go on smogon, take the first set, and call it a day

so the extreamspeed set lol
LOL
earthquake 
well this for sure is not happening LOL
evil omni be like:
LOL
this team
isnt so bad in trick room 
honestly you can shut down that strat if omni copies my exact set
on armarouge
if you lead with murkrow + excadrill/dracovish
taunt with murkrow and protect the other pokemon
next turn swtich out murkrow for tyranitar and attack

im pretty sure its doing things because this team is basically weak to gliscor
everything was either weak to ground or flying 
nah
for this match specifically x scissors doesnt do much
sure it hits alakazam but alakazam could probably die to an aipom using fake out
blaziken lol
gliscor much stronger yeah
yeah
i did misplay into it
omni has like 1 billion fighting types
pretty bad
GG
yeah im suprised
we live in a world where decidueye works better as a support than as a damage dealer

I mean when I do fight omni I’m gonna knock off EQ spam the fuck outta him
Also pursuit is an option I can take.
ehhh
locking yourself using pursuit
can be kinda bad
prankster thunder wave over brave bird can also be decent
or over foul play
in this match
I was thinking about thunder wave
when you gonna battle omni?
yeah what do you think hes gonna do with cinderace
lose if he brings it against your team 
LOL
like is just blaziken without speedboost against a team that is fast
actually
let me calc something
nvm
i was gonna say maybe he could cook with choice scarf cinderace but excadrill still outspeeds
also do you think the flying t-tar is a good choice
against omni for sure
yeah
but if you see cindearce expect it to do the same as blaziken
strong fire move, high jump kick/low kick, protect
and maybe u-turn
@fallen bloom did you check dms? 
oh didnt see


im kinda curious to see if abby can take on ries in round one
im an abby believer
ries will most likely lead with gholdengo to try to stop trick room
so the torkoal liligant lead is extra safe, after you + eruption = good
and ries doesnt have an actual fire resistance or a psychic resitance for expanding force
if trickroom gets set up i think shell be fine yea

meowscarada can stop trick room too and its not that common
it could surprise abby
hope they bring heatwave instead of eruption for that one
what do you mean? 
oh btw, did you trade for a new pokemon?
not yet
got one in mind?
i wonder if i can make orthworm work with all my EQ spam
i actually liked sigilyph and reuniclus
and ofc my beloved farigiraf
any of those would be very useful against abby
with imprison and trick room
they can also be nice special attackers which is somthing you dont have on your team
farigiraf is really good and i never ised sigilyph and reuniclus but they are probably okay for a draft league
all i know is that it gets imprison and trick room 
i use to use a flame orb sigiliph with trick cosmic power, stored power and roost
evil
i could pick up reuniclus with expanding force, trickroom, imprison
and just ruin abbys day
sigilyph also gets that combo 

its kinda like health vs speed
tho some of the teams changed, xavi dropped lilligant for klefki and abby dropped amp for tsereena
but thats it
hmmmm
do you get to trade 1 pokemon per week or just this time?
oh bet
my battle with omni is friday
i could be wrong but you might not need any change to deal with fu
i like magic guard to much i think
hmmm
for this matchup i think fari is better because it negates last respects from basculegion
i am not excited to fight fu
i already read fus mind 
its just explosion revives
turn one they are gonna try to do stuff with golem and rabsca,
eq excadrill if they dont have air ballon and tera grass tyranitar and click rock slide to either finish golem and to probably leave rabsca with 1 hp for it to die to sandstorm damage
then i think its safe to sacrifice excadrill to pawmot/wailord/basculegion to get rid of pawmot and get in stoutland
and just cook with murkrow and tyranitar to prevent rain dance from the little rat
dracovish can tank a 250 power last repects and oneshot basculegion with crunch
i said all of that but it could go very wrong from turn 1 
LOL
you will for sure want (besides your 2 first mons) stoutland, murkrow and dracovish
sorry i get extra annoying when it comes to pokemon

i can grab their battle on showdown when they are done
be annoying
tailwind to still get outsped, sunny day so basulegion deals less damage
taunt for fun
and encore so you dont feel bad for spamming earthquake?

im like 50% sure they will bring grafaiai over whimsicott
isnt it banned?
despite having pelipper
they only get 2 water moves
weather ball from pelipper and liquidation from araquanid
oh no surf?
nopers
i was like MAYBE THE CRADILY TECH
weahter ball becomes a 100 base power water move under rain
araquanid is probably just there for wide guard
pelipper is just good
more than a rain team its just there so archaludon get to use that one electric type move
but archaludon cant really click that move when like 80% of your team is literally immune to it 
archaludon and rillaboom lead is tough
i could gliscor T-Tar lead
i got the tech
EQ dual wingbeat?
is there a world where i pick up feraligatr for a round on any of these guys

the tech if you really hate archaludon rillaboom is, lead with choice band tyranitar with low kick and farigiraf (if you take it) to prevent fake out and use helping hand on the first turn
it kills archaludon every time
then you cook
ok, ill pick up farig and drop sizor
a believer
ok got it
this is the team im thinking to deal with mr lyte
but thats in like
2 months from now on so idk why im thinking about it now 
yep
save this somewhere so i dont forget about the evs
Tyranitar @ Choice Band
Ability: Sand Stream
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 60 HP / 252 Atk / 196 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Low Kick
Farigiraf
Ability: Armor Tail
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 132 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Helping Hand
- Skill Swap
Stoutland
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 64 HP / 252 Atk / 192 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Ice Fang
- Iron Head
- Wild Charge
- Return
Murkrow
Ability: Insomnia
Tera Type: Dark
IVs: 0 Atk
Excadrill
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Ground
lmaoo
2 moves last resort goes too hard
I JUST SPENT LIKE 2 HOURS DOING CALCS AND STRATS, they could very well have a completely different team by the time you fight them thanks to trading 
I remember getting rekt by fake out last resort m-lop 
ambipom
m lopunny my beloved 
is the true goat
🤝
i would have loved ambipom actually
I think i used ambi like that in a monotype tourney
I loved ambipom in sngle battles
kinda sus in double but its not like i had the chance to use the lil guy in sword and shield
he wasnt even in the game

its kinda stoutland
fake out tho 
yeah
Its lopunny lite 
m Lopunny could save us from flutter mane 
i actually wouldnt have minded megas in the formate
but i think it woulda been to strong
plus im stuck with mega t-tar???
mega t-tar would be really nice to reset weather 
I would rather not have to deal with mega kangaskhan in every game 
or mega charizard Y
:set10:
technician bullet punch with 150 base attack 
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first battle of the week
this is xave and seth
I support the lopunny user 
that one was close
encore turn 1 instead of aurora veil was kinda sus 
Ok @vestal vessel what should be my strat against omni. Same as I was doing flying T-tar and EQ spam
do you think i should sandviel wide lense my gliscor
or is poison heal just better
poison heal
evasion just add rng to your match
you might get hit every time and basically have no ability 
true
i might leftovers my exadrill im not a big fan of airbaloon
Id would go poison heal
or use the berry that reduce damage from fighting moves
or focus sash if you are not using it yet
or life orb/soft sand
Bulky zoom lens horn drill exca

whats your excadrill moveset
I'd replace shadow claw wih protect 
like in case you lose tyranitar on turn 1

hmmmm
i mean you cant taunt the main pokemon that use status moves
because they are dark types
speed boosts on blaziken are not a problem since you already have haze 
so if anything its tailwind over taunt



oh im looking at your evs
remember that omni has like 7 physical attackers
def > special def
imo



@vestal vessel should I Tera blast on t-tar
Set is like crunch EQ thunder punch knockoff. So drop crunch right
I like thunder punch. It go BRRZZZZTTT kapow
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@vestal vessel i feel bad
he didnt get lucky one time
no spoilers
okay but dont feel bad about the gunk shot miss
he has auspicous armour on his armourouge
he should not even have that move against your team 
oh
oh...
you know when i saw armarouge and alakazam i thought we were going to see evil omni
with trick room
that wasnt the case
nice first win
im gonna offer to help him with his next round

i feel like i completly demoralized him

yeah
i already have a strat for abby
Ment god of vgc gonna win worlds

and the only thing i gave up on my strat is flying t-tar and they can guess that Krook is choiced
tho they might just think i like EQ
i mean you did but not really
like its normal to have a tera type that makes your pokemon that is x4 weak to fighting
into flying or fairy
true
need the games first 
abby has adopted a sunny day starter into her team with torkoal liligant and it is not fun to play against
shes actually so strong
Defensive tera types op
most
Gimme a month to walk down

excadrill with sand force + whatever, turn 1 switch whatever for tyranitar
and 1 shot both pokemon with excadrill
trust
she also spams expanding force
RIGHT
Farigirafs so cool
i knew farigiraf was good
and my goat proved me right
wolfey won a recent event with it

ok so its a murkrow switch out? or do you think gliscor
I havent mastered the art of darude 
it learns sunny day and rain dance tho
could be useful against abby and the dude with pelipper
but its too early to cook
LOL
Its never too early to cook just add preservatives 

looks good

gonna try and switch it in on a tropkick from liligant H

yeah hers is more like. triple axle. bullet seed, tropkick and closecombat
with loaded dice
i prefer to be evil with after you 
Idk if ive ever used after you outside of randoms 
ment whats some things you would change about omnis team
he has 2 trades, still
and hes battling mike
uhhh
only 2?
pangoro was lit
and so was armarouge when i used it with trick room
lucario seems fine too
decidueye for sure
get that thing out
i cant see mikes team
nvm
mikes a sweat
Imagine sweating
couldnt be me
Good grass tera user 
i think hyrdrapple
is still up
its slow
also abomasnow got picked up
tangrowth might be an option for a defensive
Shiftry can go hard but some1 has mercrow already
lurantis with contrary could cause problems

getting rid of decideuye for tangrowth
for this week
would be bis
if its 1 trade per week
its 2 trades per week
but he didnt trade anything this week
so if he can use 2 trades after our battle
he has 4 trades
decidueye and blaziken out for sure
for tangrowth
and let me think of something else
gyarados
can be good
seems good in general even against big mike
gyarados gives him an intimidate pokemon and can be a good support/sweeper
here are all the trades so far
what do you think about kleavor for me at some point
dog
fu
who dropped wailord for abomasnow
wait disa kleavor gets a move called stone axe which sets up stealth rocks for free
yeah
ehhh you could trade the dog i guess then
i prefer the dog mainly because it can be a support if you happen to need one
but breaking focus sash for free can be helpful i guess
oh i also thought one of your battles as if you still had the dog 
against the rillaboom and archaludon match

ok with choice band he has like a 533 attack on a 95.7 base power move that one shots a random dracapult
kleavor?
yeah
actually
go for it
it also helps your against grass types
you do get another water weakness but it is what it is
nothing a terra grass cant fix
i guess its fine against fu
kleavor over stoutland
wailord might just click self destruct and basculegion will spam last respects
Wailord gone for abomasnow
im only worried about primarina and palafin
oh right
yeah kleaver is better now
kleavor
i would suggest giving brick break to one of your non choice pokemon
to desotry aurora veil if abomasnow happens to live more than 1 turn
I have psychic fangs on dracovish
👍
most i think i understand fus team
i only played 1 match so i could just be delusional
i have his replay from his last game
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i got like 3 revives off 
why was brian playing among us as if it had its other moves blocked by a choice item
oh yeah its pretty much what i expected
whimsicott and abomasnow way more offensive than what i thought tho
this is the team i think he is gonna use against use
until i remembered whimsicott was also there
and that golem cant really use electric type moves against you
But he can EQ me back
wanna battle 1 or 2 times?
Sure
litterally praying on para
@fast meteor 
fu kinda cooked with this team

last one
most wide guard cant miss
i was hoping for one of those, theres no way hell EQ again moments
im in danger
also
gg
last respects has 250 power 
Dying breath op
there is a chance golem has wide guard so it might be time to swtich from EQ to stomping tantrum spam 
also fu can change the weather to any type of weather
why am in the pokemon thread
@merc pinged you
Its public and i pinged u
@upper temple
it might be time to try out farigiraf 
I see the vision
Im in 
Ment be my stand-in 
dodged the para test
Naw i swapped places 
mosthandsomehumble

BRO IG OT SCNAMMEED THIS GAME IS OS BAD
Ment too good 
bro turn 1 iswtiched my thundurus
but you had both thunder wave and will o wisp


random double battle?
yeah come
im trying to get jaum on egirl paradise on the side
so if i int
theres my excuse
Egirls

ggs

Ments a beast
dude i coached abby before her match
and she stole reis lunch money
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@vestal vessel whats the strat for fuu again?
setting up tailwind against a trick room team
it is what it is
wp from abby 
idk, when are you battling fuu?
I can set it for next weekend

@vestal vessel thoughts on what im cooking
i could tera ghost
with weakness policy since im probably not gonna have weather controll at all
ah good point
haze ir worthless in this matchup i think
and taunt might not be very good
since the whimsicott we saw was very agressive
and is faster than murkrow so it always gets tailwind up first
if murkrow gets feather dance
It does
that might be useful
we whirlwind for sure for sure



