Pokemon Thread

[sterile agate]

IT STILL

100%?

fuck

[vestal vessel]

protect that galvanutla turn 1 vs gren pls 😭

[sterile agate]

i predicted roost but moved to fast

[vestal vessel]

actually getting destroyed

nooo most

[sterile agate]

that was

the unluckiest turn

iv had

[vestal vessel]

you had use gravity in that turn instead of sending excadrill

also that too

[sterile agate]

i hate that bird

[vestal vessel]

your only missplay was sending excadrill in that one turn

other than that well played

ff'd to not waste time

one last battle

remember what to do with galvantula

[sterile agate]

DUDE

[vestal vessel]

[sterile agate]

its like

4 crits per game

only on your side

ON GOD

[vestal vessel]

okay im down for 1 more battle

but you lead farigiraf galvantula this time

okay?

[sterile agate]

im so tilted

LMAO

[vestal vessel]

its just practice battles

all good

and now if you think galvanutla is in danger you can resist most attacks that galvantula will recieve and switch in ttar

which then allows excadrill to come in

that also works

also its worth saving fari to prevent water shurikens or fake out later in the game

depending on how the match is going

oooo that knock off

[sterile agate]

ill be honest

[vestal vessel]

okay clean game until the last turn

you are adapting

[sterile agate]

i did forget that water shurikan was a prio move

[vestal vessel]

if it comes to just 1vs2 dont protect because

that can happen

[sterile agate]

yeah

[vestal vessel]

well played most

[sterile agate]

was it tho?

LMAO

[vestal vessel]

yep

until the last turn

thoughts on replacing knock off with high horsepower?

[sterile agate]

EQ hit everything tho

[vestal vessel]

yeah

[sterile agate]

tho

they have double flying

[vestal vessel]

specially your fari and galvantula

😭

[sterile agate]

im down to try it

i just feel like that greninja is such an obsticle

and the bird

[vestal vessel]

as long as it get parad you should be fine

[sterile agate]

this guys whole teal seems so fucking annoying

[vestal vessel]

or if dracovish hits it

[sterile agate]

true dracovish does fucking hit it

do you think i should tera him?

cant tft LOL

[vestal vessel]

oh

its fine

we can battle some other time

hold on

farigiraf gets roar

i would be down to replace gravity or ally switch with that just so corivknight doesnt ruin your day if it already got an iron defense and galvantula is dead

pref roar over gravity

me peepoleave

[sterile agate]

ok

im down for that

tho i do like gravity LOL

[weary coyote]

Icy Wind Empoleon and abuse the intimidate noobs

!!!!!

Oh right natdex

[sterile agate]

Lmaoo

Also there’s someone using icy wind empoleon

I fight them last

[weary coyote]

I hope you win but I hope the Empoleon gets 5 kills

[sterile agate]

Lmaoo

[vestal vessel]

i can sabotage most to make it so he loses to empoleon on turn 1

but dont tell most

[sterile agate]

[vestal vessel]

[pseudo sphinx]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9customgame-2071543965

:)

i made the monster

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel apparently I just get the win because my opponent is like a week behind in battles and is holding up someone else

Honestly. Thats the scariest team on the roster for me

So I’m kinda happy

I can handle inciniroar team no prob

[vestal vessel]

nice

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel nvm battle back on you got any advice for me i got 15 mins LOL

protect turn 1 with farig and gal

[vestal vessel]

yeah

only if you are against greninja snealser and the other stuff that outspeeds galvantula

i guess your set wit fari is gravity roar thunder wave and dazzling gleam

dont tera galvantula unless you have to otherwise you become weak to water shuriken

[sterile agate]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldexdoubles-2073569362-fldkdl16oooce5a3kqxamzk6xe7nc29pw

dude the gal got me out of such a tough spot

[vestal vessel]

[sterile agate]

i was fucked up going into that battle

i was also playing double up

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel this weeks battle

homie looks stacked

brave bird murkrow and dual wingbeat gliscor boutta put in work i think

[vestal vessel]

bg

[sterile agate]

FLYING T-TAR RETURN

[vestal vessel]

gambling

[weary coyote]

Yooooo it’s John

Dang, they’ve got the fantasy core without the fairy type

Oh wait they have Prim nvm they’re fine

[vestal vessel]

i think i solved this matchup

[sterile agate]

whats up LOL

[vestal vessel]

dragon dance tera flying ttar

[sterile agate]

the flying T-T is always the answer

[vestal vessel]

and we have swords dance gliscor on the back if ttar goes down

[sterile agate]

im gonna get mummied

and gliscor is gonna poison himself

[vestal vessel]

its fine you can just switch out if you have to

[weary coyote]

The tech is avest ttar

Their ground resist is a Serperior, and as long as you have a strong electric they’re gonna bring Gastro

Wait this isn’t singles nvm

[sterile agate]

does galvantula with energyball 1hko

gasto

with a life orb yeah

75% chance with gigadrain

also dracovish not one shotting serperior with leech life is concerning

like i can focus it down and kill it

its just, fuck

[pseudo sphinx]

You should be pheal but use lefties instead to trick them

[weary coyote]

Yo Most what do you have access to

I'll give you the hot technology

[pseudo sphinx]

Does banded vish not kill deep

Serp

[sterile agate]

NOPE

it does not

[pseudo sphinx]

[fallen bloom]

@rain karma

found another pokemon nerd

[rain karma]

yes

me like pokemon

[fallen bloom]

snorlax

no sylveon plush bedge

[rain karma]

sorry I prefer Espeon

not sure if you can see the cards

[fallen bloom]

fair enough

oh i see cards

just not which are which

[rain karma]

let me get a better pic

[fallen bloom]

bext resolution this allows

that lulu figure

was so good

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Lillia beside it

[fallen bloom]

alolan ninetails

[rain karma]

Alolan Ninetales is my fav

[fallen bloom]

same got 1 in my sv team,

[rain karma]

had to breed 3 of them to get 0 Atk

[fallen bloom]

eh you can reset their evs btw

[rain karma]

Shiny that is

IV, not EV

[fallen bloom]

to 0

oh fair

my best shiny is a jirachi in sv

[rain karma]

do you pay for home?

[fallen bloom]

yes

[rain karma]

want me to send some good stuff over?

[fallen bloom]

currently busy setting up this mastwrok

some other time sure

[rain karma]

Holy shit wtf

[fallen bloom]

i need to shiny hunt soon anyways

thats for the ladder race'

non of that is manual btw

[rain karma]

Not sure if those pics are clearer but ye

[fallen bloom]

all of that is automatic

[fallen bloom]

those are some nice cards especially epseon and umbreon

10/11 cards being epseon

in the left picture

sry 10/12

[rain karma]

yeah I got almost one of every Espeon prints

and got most Alolan Ninetales for collections sake

[fallen bloom]

is that edition 1 charizard?

[rain karma]

uhhh there's no edition on Expedition

[fallen bloom]

oh expedition

i cant read

those cards have some nice ratings

[rain karma]

it's Reverse Holo, not Holo

the Celebi is in a bad condition

[fallen bloom]

which of the 2?

[rain karma]

got some other stuff in my binder

oh

I meant the Charziard from Expedition is Reverse Holo, the other one also is

[fallen bloom]

i just noticed that both pictures are the same cards

i thought they were seperate ones

[rain karma]

nah same cards just because of the reflections from my light, might be hard to see

[fallen bloom]

makes sense

i was like wtf how many epseon prints do uhave

[rain karma]

oh uhhh

I can grab my binder

LOL

[fallen bloom]

dont tell em thats full of epseon prints

[rain karma]

nah

but I got a couple pages with them

[weary coyote]

Espeon fan good shit

[rain karma]

ok here we go

[fallen bloom]

so many good oens in there

[rain karma]

sold quite a bit before and trying to get stuff back but never had any of the like "insanely rare" stuff

no Espeon Star and not buying one, I have limits

[fallen bloom]

btw while ur here is there a pink role color on lolcrod?

[rain karma]

Ionia role or booster role

[fallen bloom]

oh fair

[rain karma]

#826442023019348028 message

[fallen bloom]

i somehow missed ionia being pink

[rain karma]

happens

[sterile agate]

@rain karma is that my old pal beginning

[rain karma]

my old pal most

[sterile agate]

how ya been

[rain karma]

doing all right, how are you?

[sterile agate]

im doing good! i been in this pokemon draft league

and im undeafeted thanks to @vestal vessel

[rain karma]

let's gooo

[sterile agate]

so this chat kinda turns into a brain storm sesh for that regularly but please feel free to just talk about anything pokemon releated

[rain karma]

I wanna go to a VGC at some point ngl

are you playing VGC, smogon or anything else?

[sterile agate]

its a national dex doubles tournament run by my friends boyfriend

LOL

its very strange

but it kinda makes me wanna run something here

[rain karma]

ohhh just doubles and 6 mons?

[sterile agate]

yeah

and for finals we get to draft a legendary and mythic

and its snake draft

[rain karma]

huh

so no Lando T everywhere XD

so is your Incineroar built yet

[sterile agate]

LMAO someone else got incin

i have a insane meta sand team

you can hot swap two pokemon a week except for your first two drafted

its a weird tournament

[rain karma]

god damn that's pretty insane

let me show you what my VGC team looked like

Exca Tyranitar is nice

Krookodile is always good too

[sterile agate]

i tera the t-tar into flying to spam more EQ

[sterile agate]

AYYY

[rain karma]

that's what my team usually looked like

though

[sterile agate]

hatterene without expanding force

[rain karma]

Hatterene was swapped from Farigiraf and didn't get enough testing

I want Imprison Trick Room

my Heatran is 0 speed

deceives people because they expect Heatran to actually be fast

[sterile agate]

true!

[rain karma]

Milotic destroys any Intimidate users

the nice thing about it is that it has Haze for the times where I get the problematic Dondozo matchup[

then I can burn it

and it's not an issue

[vestal vessel]

MOST FORGET ABOUT LANDORUS STEAL OGERPON FROM SOMEONE

[rain karma]

true

fuck Ogerpon

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

nah

ogerpon is based

[sterile agate]

is ogrepon legendary or mythic

[rain karma]

should be Legendary

[vestal vessel]

i just want him to take ogerpon so he wins the draft league

[rain karma]

if it's allowed in VGC at least

[vestal vessel]

also its the only follow me user (that is playable) that is available

[rain karma]

Amoongus?

[vestal vessel]

already on someone elses team

[rain karma]

o pain

drafting seems weird

[sterile agate]

yeah

[rain karma]

knowing the mons I'd run my first pick would be Baxcalibur XD

or Alolan Ninetales

[vestal vessel]

most

practice?

[sterile agate]

cant sorry in du

[vestal vessel]

@ most

https://pokepast.es/be6fd11c9b846fa7

ok

there is your team

[sterile agate]

iou

[vestal vessel]

idk if tera blast on galvantula is good enough and gliscor could be fully defensive

but idk

[sterile agate]

ill most likely just tera ttar since im most confortable with that

[vestal vessel]

thats the plan

or the main one at least

[sterile agate]

also should it be armour tail

do they have any prio

[vestal vessel]

oh did i give it the wrong ability

armor tail

yep

[sterile agate]

ok cool

[vestal vessel]

you need that

dont forget to change that later

[sterile agate]

whats the plan for cof

[vestal vessel]

you just adapt if your opponent lead with cof

switch ttar out for galvantula i guess

if they dont lead with cof then you oneshot it with knock off

best case scenario you dont see that thing because you have 2 dark types that 2 shot it if it switches in, one that could stall it and one that taunts it making it useless

same reasons why i dont expect metagross in that match

ttar, excadrill and krookodile are faster and can probably 1 shot, fari stops its priority and murkrow could stop it from setting up

[sterile agate]

he did just pick them up so i kinda expect to see cof and conkle

[vestal vessel]

cokneldurr is in for sure

i mean you also picked farigiraf like 3 weeks before actually using it

for that imprison trick room

[sterile agate]

true

but im the only one who does that

[rain karma]

Imprison Trick Room is nice

I used to use Farigiraf for it but I prefer Hatterene for Magic Bounce

(for my team that is)

Armor Tail is so good for your team since Conkeldurr just yeets everything

Looking at the team and matchup, looks solid.

[sterile agate]

this is one of the match ups im super worried about LOL

[rain karma]

Hmm

Just hope Kommo-O doesn't go Tera ghost

Otherwise gg xD

You're forced to TTar vs that with Knock Off

And a predict on it is rough otherwise it's a 0.5

[sterile agate]

dude if they swap cof into the target my gliscor is hitting and it gets mummied im gonna be so mad LOL

[rain karma]

Hmmm

High Horsepower makes contact?

Never actually used it

[sterile agate]

naw but dual wing beat does

[rain karma]

Serebii says yes

So it does

Cof is going to be rough

Galvantula feels so nice here

Checks so many

[sterile agate]

yeah it was a good add

[rain karma]

Tera Dragon Metagross feels rough to play against for your comp, so let's hope that doesn't happen

I love how much Tera can shift an entire matchup, actually crazy

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel with the amount of flying types on my team do you think its EQ of HH?

esp if i tera flying t-tar

[rain karma]

Not sure if you're over relying on TTar for Tera here

Take into consideration they have 0 flying type

EQ is strong and HH depends on how you feel

On Exca it seems all right but on Gliscor idk because there's a chance you hit Exca

Protect is a thing though

[sterile agate]

true

[rain karma]

One big thing to take into account is the value of EQ though

Out of all of the mons shown on their list

Only Serperior resists ground

Arca-H 4x
Metagross 2x

The rest is neutral

Wonder how Primarina is going to feel there hmm

If it's even ran

[sterile agate]

i outspeed and iron head for sure

idk if its a ohko i can check

[rain karma]

Iron Head is neutral

Water resists Steel

[sterile agate]

ah it is a 2hko

[rain karma]

Not sure if Galvantula OHKOs

It might

[sterile agate]

yea its an 81% ohko

if its the assultvest set

then no

its a 2hko

but i think its just a thunder then voltswitch in that case

[rain karma]

The more I look at your draft, the harder it is because Galvantula is your only real Special Attacker other than Farigiraf

[sterile agate]

Dude I watched someone get a double freeze on blizzard

What kinda lottery ticket bullshit is that

[rain karma]

Quite a low chance but possible

[sterile agate]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldexdoubles-2076772721

[pseudo sphinx]

damn

unlimited absolutely dogged on omni

even without the freeze

[weary coyote]

ALRIGHT LADS

I LOST ATTEMPT 1

NUZLOCKE RUN N BUN ATTEMPT 2

for those unaware its an emerald rom hack that's designed to be a nuzlocke hack, and is super super catered towards it

and has a bunch of qol stuff

Attempt 1 lost to this fucking demon because I got crit by Discharge

We doing a Chimchar run this time

Alright we got the starter squad

[sterile agate]

AYYY

Steenee carry

[weary coyote]

Wtf is this

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel thoughts on me grabbing arceus for my mythic?

[vestal vessel]

these are the only options

magearna could work too i guess

[sterile agate]

I have first pick of mythic if I keep winning

My legendary is last pick

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel whats up with the excadril

toxic and brickbreak?

[vestal vessel]

we saw that serperior use glare and screens

[rain karma]

pretty fair

[vestal vessel]

toxic to hopefully deal with that kommo

if everything goes wrong

[sterile agate]

OO

okok

i was just like tryna think who used screens on their team LOL

[vestal vessel]

like it shouldnt use tera steel against excadrill so you at least dont insta lose

[sterile agate]

thats a crazy serperior set if it uses screens wtf

[vestal vessel]

haze on murkrow for serperior and kommo too

for metagross too i guess

[sterile agate]

yeah

well could be clear body meta

[vestal vessel]

the ideal first 2 turns is that they lead arcanine serperior

you kill arcanine or weaken it with excadrill and tera ttar and dragon dance

and then kill serperior with ttar

and just adapt after that

rememeber to switch in farigiraf when you think they are going to use a priority move to destroy ttar

mainly mach punch guts from conk

or bullet punch

[sterile agate]

yeah

i think worst case for me is like a gastro lead

gastro primm

the slug fucks me

[vestal vessel]

if thats the case i expect primarina to be specs and gastrodon be physically defensive so hyper voice to ko excadrill (they shouldnt know it has focus sash) and earth power from gastrodon into ttar
excadrill deals 35% of gastrodons hp at the bare minimum and like 64% to primarina

BUT

you might like this idea

we get rid or protect/toxic on excadrill and use earthquake on turn 1

you still deal 50% to primarina and you also deal like 30% and ttar and +1 attack can kill gastrodon on the next turn

and primarina dies to another earthquake

but if excadrill dies on turn 1 because they used hyper voice + muddy water

you can switch in galvantula for free and choose who kills who

it also helps you with arcanine + serperior lead

nvm gastrodon live with like 10% hp

but its still good damage

[sterile agate]

realistically i lose this battle right

[vestal vessel]

nah

[sterile agate]

stressed

[odd oak]

u got this most i believe in you

[vestal vessel]

dont forget to change one of excadrills moves if you are down with that plan

and dont forget to give farigiraf armor tail

[sterile agate]

ye

got it changed

they havnt messaged me back yet

[sterile agate]

ok

its time

[vestal vessel]

gl

[sterile agate]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldexdoubles-2077972313-9rgczfz9gumua6o2t5hm4dohhb7xaj8pw

[pseudo sphinx]

No nicknames you should be banned

[vestal vessel]

[sterile agate]

that kommo would not die

and then the mummy

[vestal vessel]

that match is the reason literally everyone hates ally switch

if it wasnt for ally switch you win 6-0

[sterile agate]

my refusal to switch out

[vestal vessel]

the only mistake i see was trying to kill kommo when serperior was on the field

[sterile agate]

was a problem

[vestal vessel]

and that too xD

like kommo cant really do much vs galvantula

[sterile agate]

i cant believe thunder missed

i wanted to cry

[vestal vessel]

at least im glad the plan vs primarina and gastrodon worked out

[sterile agate]

yeah

i cant believe i called it

[vestal vessel]

that was tragic

also 0 attack evs murkrow with helping hand oneshots serperior XD

i gave it brave bird because there were 3 pokemon weak to flying and foul play didnt do much

but i didnt calc the damage so i was surprised to see that oneshot

[sterile agate]

i did while i was battling

LOL

[vestal vessel]

this is the only turn i didnt like

leaf storm was killing galvantula no matter what so i think tailwind there and either volt switch or bug buzz was safer

unless that damage had a chance of fainting galvantula then in that case i think its fine

[sterile agate]

oh true

i thought if i hazed it wouldnt kill

[vestal vessel]

if you play vs that again we are bringing ally switch imprison farigiraf

i do not care

[sterile agate]

LOL

[sterile agate]

Still have kleavor if we need to pick something up

[vestal vessel]

didnt you trade kleavor for galvantula?

[sterile agate]

Oh I did the spread sheets wrong

[weary coyote]

Box update

I have the option to get slateport encounter but god Remoraid sucks

[odd oak]

I see ur on a monke run

[weary coyote]

Monke

[odd oak]

Also from what ive seen of that game it gets just insanely unfair

[weary coyote]

Oh 100%

Gym 2 having a Bisharp into Zyg10 is rough

The Bisharp is the easy part

[odd oak]

Playing vs perma tailwind later

[weary coyote]

I'm accepting that I'm never getting to that stage

So I can just vibe

[odd oak]

Yea thats fair tbh

[weary coyote]

I took Granite 1f but in retrospect maybe Steven's Room might have been better

But there are so many mid encounters there

And I'm happy to use candy on Surskit here

Also I'm p sure I just wipe to Roxanne again

For those unaware, this is what I'm working towards beating. I have 1 encounter to go, an electric type, as well as an optional water type encounter that I might skip since it has like a 40% chance of being complete dogwater

The combusken is the demon in this fight

Though I do have a Palpitoad

Oh this is free, I can just come in on tpunch and claim heads

[sterile agate]

Crab

Need crab

[sterile agate]

Next opponent (will update with changes if they trade this week)

I ain’t scared of rilaboomt tbh. It’s just free left overs since I have farigiraf.

Peliper+ dragonite is a pain

[vestal vessel]

nah

[sterile agate]

It is free thunder for me

Could be a Tera fire t-tar

[vestal vessel]

i was thinking of a different strat

but its kinda risky now that im looking at their speed stat

sand force adamant life orb excadrill

jolly sand force can work

[sterile agate]

Grimm is gonna ruin it some how

[vestal vessel]

we can be extra annoying

light screen reflect thunder wave imprison farigiraf

who needs damage

[sterile agate]

LMAO

We run light clay?

Might as well

[vestal vessel]

sure

[sterile agate]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldexdoubles-2078177935

His last battle

Didn’t learn a lot from that

Tbh

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldexdoubles-2072109993-r9dzzaziqgxopz68w8q6gpbh5zdgai4pw

This one’s had a lot of info

I can trick him into Tera grounding his peliper by thundering it and then energy balling.

And if he doesn’t protect I just get a free kill on the bird

[vestal vessel]

farigiraf is important in this matchup btw

it makes set up comfey not usable, stop fake out from rillaboom and extreme speed from dragonite

[sterile agate]

Yeah

[vestal vessel]

im only worried about that archaludon if it uses a defensive tera type

[weary coyote]

Crab

[sterile agate]

I think it Tera fires

[weary coyote]

🦀

[sterile agate]

I think the chances he brings are are so low. There’s no way

[vestal vessel]

i think its tera grass

it resists everything that isnt galvantula

and it becomes an issue like kommo

[sterile agate]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldexdoubles-2067594787

[vestal vessel]

im gonna try my best to cook a perfect match

[sterile agate]

He does Tera normal dragonite

[vestal vessel]

just to prove that archaludon is a fraud

im a professional hater

[sterile agate]

LOL

The longer this draft goes on the more likely this win streak pressure cooks me

I’m fucking shaking after some of these matches lately

[vestal vessel]

IS THAT URSALUNA BLOOD MOON OR REGULAR URSALUNA

HELLO

HELLO

[sterile agate]

UH lemme ask

@vestal vessel apparently it’s blood moon

[vestal vessel]

I'll explain later

[sterile agate]

I was wondering when we would use special t-tar

We gonna use every fucking variant of it

[pseudo sphinx]

Does it get any spread special move?

[weary coyote]

ALRIGHT CHUMS

HERE'S THE GAMEPLAN

PONYTA TURN 1 BOUNCE, TANK 1 FROM KUBFU (we live crit) BAIT SUCKER GO INTO MONKE

MONKE EITHER EATS SUCKER OR KILLS WITH LOW SWEEP GOOD SHIT

LOPUNNY COMES OUT SEEING FAST KILL, WE GIB THAT SHIT WITH MACH PUNCH (it has eject button)

EITHER POLIWHIRL COMES OUT SEEING SLOW KILL OR CHICKEN COMES OUT BECAUSE SLOT ORDER

IF IT'S POLI WE GO SHEEP AND CLAIM HEADS IF IT'S CHICKEN WE GO FROG AND CLAIM HEADS

NOW WE GOT MASQ CUFANT WITH EXTRA HEALTH ON EVERYONE ELSE TO DEAL WITH HITMONTOP AND SCRAGGY

INTIMIDATE PIVOTS INTO SWITCH TO SOMETHING FOR OUTDAMAGE AND KILL

SCRAGGY HAS PUP THOUGH SO IT'S KINDA DOOMED

Oh it's 100% Diggersby over Cufant

NO STATUSES ONLY ORAN BERRY

It's probably not Pancham, even though it has Covet it takes so much more from Rock Slide and Rock Tomb, and Cheek Pouch is actually kinda nice here

Wait I think Bounce deals too much damage

It might be scale Pony defence and risk crit

But at that point I just run Fletchinder and slow 2shot

Which might actually just be the better play anyway

This fkn bird man like what is this

[weary coyote]

ALRIGHT IF WE GET CRIT WE TRUCK

LET'S DO THIS

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

TURN 1

Ok we actually don't die to any non-crit rolls

As long as bird doesn't get double crit (1/256 is fake as shit) we're chilling

[weary coyote]

Alright I screwed up Chicken so I lost Bunny to a 50/50, and forgot that Hitmontop could pursuit trap

IT'S FINE

THE RUN'S ALIVE

Maan my first run was deathless brawly this sucks

Tbf Regenerator Mienfoo is disgusting

[sterile agate]

LOL

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel just like I suspected

[vestal vessel]

mythic/paradox priority

[sterile agate]

I imagine mythical are gonna be nerfed by the ban list if I’m first to grab ngl

And landourus is probably gonna be scooped

[vestal vessel]

are you down to sack 4 matches to get a better legendary?

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

i thought they would count paradox as legendaries but im down

paradox pokemon that i think you could use are gouging fire

and i forgot the rest

flutter is gonna get banned btw

[sterile agate]

Gimme like a 5 spot list of mythical and legendarys to grab

Of just legendarys really. Since I get first pick of mythic

[vestal vessel]

roaring moon, gouging fire > iron bundle, keldeo > genesect, volcanion

gouging fire because it has a nice typing, annoying moves

and can boost your excadrills attack with howl

while excadrill protects

and for legendary pokemon

ogerpon landorus chi-yu flutter mane chien pao > kartana articuno entei tapu lele > tapu koko, wo chien and spectrier

sorry there are too many good legendaries

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

ogerpon is good into everything, landorus i is good into everything that is good into you, chien pao is just good for your team

chi yu and flutter mane is just op

second tier, kartana, articuno are basically the same as lando i (not really)

entei is annoying and op

tapu lele makes it so you dont have to bring farigiraf

tapu koko wo chien adn spectier are there because there is no way you get the pokemon i just mentioned

[sterile agate]

LOL

I think there’s a solid chance I get the minnow

[vestal vessel]

which one is that

[sterile agate]

It’s one of my fav pokemon. So I would love to grab it

[vestal vessel]

as long as you dont pick these you should be fine i think

i like chi yu too

also dont pick tapu bulu unless you change half of your team

[sterile agate]

Also I’m just saying raikou gets weather ball.

Weather ball. Aura sphere

[vestal vessel]

okay raikou is fine

[sterile agate]

LOL

Maybe just its paradox is better tho

[vestal vessel]

i expect urshifu and flutter mane to be the only ones that get banned

maybe chi yu too

[sterile agate]

Maybe I can do a trade

Get someone lower to pick me a legendary for mythic

[vestal vessel]

oh also good thing you suffered against ally switch last week

it made me check comfeys moves

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

yes it gets ally switch

[sterile agate]

I think we run bulldoze for rillaboom

[vestal vessel]

nah

excadrill would win

[sterile agate]

Tera blast flying his ass lmao

[vestal vessel]

then enjoy free healing for the rest of the amtch

[sterile agate]

They will expect the T-Tar

[vestal vessel]

(the game is gonna end before terrain expires)

i might hive to write a document about this specific match

[sterile agate]

Lmaoo

[vestal vessel]

i thought about it for like 3 hours and still have some stuff to think

[sterile agate]

Tbh it’s a stressful one this week

[vestal vessel]

oh i didnt explain the ice beam on ttar

i assume their archaludon is gonna tera grass and you can just bypass the defense boosts with ice beam

[sterile agate]

<t:1710705602:F> my match time

[vestal vessel]

and it deals more damage than ice punch to ursaluna blood moon

chopple berry to resist one body press if they lead with archaludon pelipper

so you get to destroy pelipper while it goes for the predictable wide guard

and pelipper dies to sand because your ttar will always be slower than pelipper meaning you get to set up sandstorm

(unless they are a psycho and give pelipper an iron ball as their held item)

and thats just one matchup

[sterile agate]

LOL

[sterile agate]

Also we know it runs screens

[vestal vessel]

grimmsnarl is the one with screens

we do not care

i think

the thing is

we can deal with screens

we cant deal with ally switch

[sterile agate]

OH it is LMAO

[vestal vessel]

most are you alive?

down to practice?

helloge

i made 3 teams

[pseudo sphinx]

Rillaboom so sadge

It got one gen of amazing use and now it’s just ok

[vestal vessel]

still top 7 most used pokemon

[pseudo sphinx]

Oh damn

[pseudo sphinx]

Wait is this doubles usage

I’ve a singles brain so idk about doubles usage

[vestal vessel]

yes it is doubles

vgc reg f

[pseudo sphinx]

Ah

That makes sense then

I relooked at it and saw incin like hmmm

[vestal vessel]

rillaboom and incineroar combo won 2 back to back tourneys

[pseudo sphinx]

[vestal vessel]

with urshifu too

[pseudo sphinx]

A classic

[sterile agate]

i for sure wasnt LOL

[vestal vessel]

[sterile agate]

I’m helping Abby with her team this week. And she’s against omni so I’m pretty sure she just wins

Like she just chooses between expanding force and dazzling gleam

And sweeps

[weary coyote]

Ayyyy pb

Beat Roxanne

This is our next boss, I've heard demonic things about this Slowbro

[sterile agate]

You sweep

[weary coyote]

Rewarded for playing bad lets goooooo

Togy got double para'd I scammed the fuck out of this trainer

[odd oak]

Not even close

[weary coyote]

Ok so like the next boss

Yeesh

And the box to face it

With the choice between evolving Monferno, Foongus, and Palpitoad

Actually I can evolve two of them

[vestal vessel]

palpitoad lead, lycanroc to deal with rotom

do you ahve wise glasses or soft sand?

[weary coyote]

Lvl 34 30+ SpA Magnezone Hidden Power Grass vs. Lvl 35 29 HP / 19 SpD Palpitoad: 140-168 (130.8 - 157%) -- guaranteed OHKO

With outspeed

[vestal vessel]

isnt palpitoad/seismitoad always faster?

[weary coyote]

Nope

Mine has 5 speed IVs 😎

Besides, Zone has sturdy so Frog just dies anyway

[vestal vessel]

nice

right

[weary coyote]

Lycan is a constant choice of whether to delay it or not, we'll see what I choose

[vestal vessel]

do you have access to u-turn?

[weary coyote]

My current working idea is Lanturn + Masquerain gets anything to -6

No uturn, however Infernape gets Fake Out

With a Scale

Though I would probably rather get Overheat so I can actually like kill it

[vestal vessel]

those 5 speed ivs on palpitoad really ruined your life

[weary coyote]

I mean I can trade heart scale to make any IV 31

Just that I only have one heart scale available right now

Copperajah is probably my best Zone answer

Oh Seis actually outspeeds Zone

So I can Infernape Fake Out into Seis, eat the Discharge, outspeed oneshot with Earth Power

[vestal vessel]

yeah

thats what i was thinking

worst case it explodes but you surive i think

[weary coyote]

Enemy sends out Zeraora seeing kill with Grass Knot

Lvl 34 31 Atk Magnezone Explosion vs. Lvl 36 29 HP / 23 Def Seismitoad: 123-145 (93.1 - 109.8%) -- 56.3% chance to OHKO

Sometimes

It has a 5% chance to Boom on any turn

Which increases the lower the hp gets

[weary coyote]

Then go Masquerain, pivot between that and Seis until I get bored

[vestal vessel]

you still have to deal with eelektross and ampharos

[weary coyote]

Amphy is Seis food

We outspeed and EP twoshots

[vestal vessel]

[weary coyote]

And we can force a safe switchin with Discharge

Eel we can do the same thing as with Zeraora

And pivot between Masq and, in this case, Lanturn

[vestal vessel]

does your arbok have intimidate?

[weary coyote]

Ape is kinda useless after the fake out so I wonder if I can find a different way to it Apeless

It does yea

Lycanroc is really interesting in this game

You get the 3 stones on 3 different gym leaders, with the payout being if you wait until Dusk

Moon Stone is pre-Roxanne, Sun Stone is pre-Wattson, Dusk Stone is pre-Norman

[vestal vessel]

[weary coyote]

Lycan might be the play to deal with this Rotom

[vestal vessel]

fk it, stomp flinch from copperajah and then bulldoze

[weary coyote]

Hell yeah

Now you're speaking my language

Wait it has Sheer Force rip that strat

[vestal vessel]

oh and you cant even lower magnezones speed with bulldoze

rip

[weary coyote]

It might be Copperajah

Discharge deals less than 50, we can poke it with a Rock Throw or something

Then go Seis and EP

[vestal vessel]

i also noticed that musharna gets wish and that might help you to keep seismitoad alive

but idk if you can actually use wish without dying

[weary coyote]

Which is effectively the same as the Ape strat with the only difference being that Copperajah is an actual pivot

Wish Protect will be great if I can get a Protect TM

[vestal vessel]

oh nvm wish is a level 1 move you need a scale to get it

[weary coyote]

Apeless means I have 1 candy and 1 scale spare

[vestal vessel]

so i guess your team is copperajah seismitoad lycanroc lanturn masquerain

and who si the last one

[weary coyote]

Unless there's another way to beat this Rotom

But I think Lycan is just easiest

Only thing this team lacks is a Lanturn answer, and then just backup for other mons

Technically I can use my own Lanturn

And just bring a bulky water type to tank the scalds

Amoonguss does that decently

[vestal vessel]

i guess

it can also somehwat help you tank zeraora

[weary coyote]

Eh Amoonguss baits ice beam over discharge, a bulky water would be better

Technically I have another encounter I can do

[vestal vessel]

wait among us kinda tanks 3 of his pokemon

zeraora eelektross and lanturn

[weary coyote]

If I don't delay 118 I can get this list

Otherwise I'm picking from one of these

[vestal vessel]

do you have leftovers/black sludge?

[weary coyote]

Nah

Though Giga Drain helps

Maybe I just stay in and click Drain

[vestal vessel]

you can also use ingrain

if you still have that move

[weary coyote]

Hmmm idk if I get enough turns of value out of it

Hey so fun fact

Lycanroc speedties Rotom

Brave Lycanroc 😎

[vestal vessel]

😎

[weary coyote]

Rock Slide into Sucker always kills but ew

I've also got Hard Stone so Slide is just a 75% range

[vestal vessel]

i mean who cares

yeah

excatly

rock slide into accelerock

gg

[weary coyote]

The Rotom is definitely the sketchiest part

[vestal vessel]

i think its better to have a berry to heal para from discharge to be safe

it probably wont use discharge if it switches in when lanturn or seismitoad are on the field

or maybe that berry that heals any status effect but idk

[weary coyote]

Yo what if I Candy Lycanroc to outspeed

And also give a better odds to kill with Slide

And if it doesn't kill then lol rip bozo

[vestal vessel]

i would use the candy to get among us

lycanroc probably wont do much after it kills rotom unless you plan to let it die

[vestal vessel]

fongus evolves at level 36

[weary coyote]

Like if I can get Araquanid or Tentacruel, I don't need Candy for Among Us

[vestal vessel]

i'll let you figure that out

im having a harder time trying to make a strat for an npc

than making a strat for a real person

[weary coyote]

LMAO

[vestal vessel]

its 7am for me gg

[weary coyote]

7am blues

[vestal vessel]

gl wit that fight

[weary coyote]

We'll see how it goes

Bad news it's not Araquanid or Tentacool

[vestal vessel]

good news

now you get to have an among us

[sterile agate]

@vestal vessel hey you around

got time to practice before my game today?

[vestal vessel]

yeah

let me know when you wanna practice

[sterile agate]

wanna go rn

[vestal vessel]

sure

[sterile agate]

did you send team for this week?

[vestal vessel]

https://pokepast.es/e601942771639099

i wont tell you what to do on the first battle

I'll coach after that

name

[sterile agate]

brandnamecerealbox

[vestal vessel]

okay one thing

rillaboom will use fake out

thats all im going to say

[sterile agate]

okidoki

[vestal vessel]

and always lead ttar excadrill

[sterile agate]

okidoki

you sendingchallenge

oh it glitched LOL

[sterile agate]

how was that

[vestal vessel]

good

the reason i told you about fake

[sterile agate]

was that the opening you had in mind

[vestal vessel]

is because you could just switch out ttar for farigiraf

[sterile agate]

OH

[vestal vessel]

and ko araquanid for free

and rillaboom does nothing

on turn 1

[sterile agate]

he might go for wood hammer

[vestal vessel]

and it lives if it has 252hp 252def evs

[sterile agate]

do i just like, eat it?

[vestal vessel]

you live it with 20% hp left

balanced pokemon btw

[sterile agate]

ok lets run it again wood hammer me

[vestal vessel]

you can also use farigiraf to annoy dragonite

also i gave comfey the wrong moves and ability

i couldnt heal dragonite XD

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

remember that grassy glide is also a priority move

just so you know

[sterile agate]

yeah

i just wanna play from a mistake

incase it happens

[vestal vessel]

now that pelipper used trick room

everything is faster

i wonder if farigiraf has a move to negate that

you had to use protect

and trick room

okay everyone on your team should be faster again

EXCEPT TTAR

MY BAD

SORRY

oops

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

draognite has choice band

thats why i ffd

yeah...

you ttar might be the slowest ttar in the world

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

just to you always get sand if he leads with pelipper

one more match with this team

and then i start using the other one

[sterile agate]

sure

[vestal vessel]

okay in this scenario

i think its safer to protect with excadrill and not tera on turn 1

and just focus pelipper with ttar

or do that

oh right im a dumbass i forgot to tera archaludon

REMAKE REMAKE

REMAKE PLS

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

thats why i said its safer to protect on turn 1

against this lead

sure you could go on the offense and kill archaludon but it this happens you just lose your excadrill

[sterile agate]

ikik

[vestal vessel]

nice

ally switch abuser

[sterile agate]

i threw

[vestal vessel]

damn

i liked the first farigiraf switch in

okay one last battle with this team

if this happens

pelipper will for sure just get switch for something

you use thunder punch anyways

[sterile agate]

if arch doesnt tera what do i do

just keep hititng it with high horse pwoer?

[vestal vessel]

yep

also you dont kill that archaludon

at +2 defense

with tera blast

good good

okay in that turn

you didnt need to target with both pokemon

galvantula is good enough

in that scenario

WTF

wp

[sterile agate]

AYY

i didnt know thunder would do so little

damn

[vestal vessel]

to who?

[sterile agate]

drag

[vestal vessel]

it has multiscale

[sterile agate]

oh true

[vestal vessel]

time for the first ursaluna team

if you cant beat sand with rain, you can beat it with trick room

[sterile agate]

same lead?

[vestal vessel]

same lead

oh wow

[sterile agate]

LOL

[vestal vessel]

the tera type i chose for fun actually helped

i wasnt expecting that

OH

i forgot about this

i cant use hyper voice

with my ursaluna now

@mort

[sterile agate]

damn

[vestal vessel]

okay

first mistake, staying with excadrill when trick room is up

[sterile agate]

i pray he doesnt bring ursaluna

[vestal vessel]

you can imprison with fari

or just reverse the trick room

and using tera on your ttar is not ideal i think

and you only use super fang with dracovish

if archaludon is being annoying

with like +6 defense and comfey

[sterile agate]

yeah

are you sure same lead? would galvantula be better for the energy ball

[vestal vessel]

yeah same lead

wtf i got destroyed

remember you can either use trick room to get rid of it

or imprison and then use trick room

and get this poor excadrill out of here if you dont use trick room and protect

oh right ally switch can fail

i had to user trick room and protect then

[sterile agate]

WHAT LOL

why can it fail?

[vestal vessel]

i guess it works like protect

good play

gg

[sterile agate]

GG

[vestal vessel]

the only missplay i saw

was not protecting excadrill in that one turn

[sterile agate]

ok im gonna grab something to eat

[vestal vessel]

i have 1 more team

let me know when you are back

[sterile agate]

ok lOL ill be like 5 min

[vestal vessel]

[sterile agate]

back

[vestal vessel]

okay so either damage the grimmsnarl or comfey or just switch out excadrill for farigiraf

oh no

okay it still wroked out

but its still not correct

nvm you are goated

now imprison

remember rillaboom can use grassy glide now

because farigiraf is dead

[sterile agate]

that went so poorly

[vestal vessel]

as annoying as screens might seems

grimmsnarl cant do much after that