#competitive_discussion
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It actually can tank a calyrex shadow tera fairy blast
then its balance modes to look at
It does seem a little hard to find a reason to fit gholdengo on teams these days when you have these powerful restricted doing the hard hitting
Well yea
Unfortunately dude some form of Grinding needs to happen lol
It’s the fucking restricted I’m not sure about
Its for NAIC like you said
I know, I know
252 SpA Life Orb Tera-Fairy Calyrex-Shadow Rider Tera Blast vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Tyranitar in Sand: 143-172 (69 - 83%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
I’ve been playing
Not much cuz school
But I’m almost free so I can get the full on grind going
Then look at restricteds that synergize best with ghold
Pretty much wanna get ideas to grind ladder with
better than not playing at all cause of school
See what feels good
Kyogre and Ice types (kyurem and ice rider)
Kyogre “works” but requires a faster form of play
thats what we're doing atm
Snow feels kinda inconsistent
This Pokemon's moves and their effects ignore certain Abilities of other Pokemon. The Abilities that can be negated are Armor Tail, Aroma Veil, Aura Break, Battle Armor, Big Pecks, Bulletproof, Clear Body, Contrary, Damp, Dazzling, Disguise, Dry Skin, Earth Eater, Filter, Flash Fire, Flower Gift, Flower Veil, Fluffy, Friend Guard, Fur Coat, Good as Gold, Grass Pelt, Guard Dog, Heatproof, Heavy Metal, Hyper Cutter, Ice Face, Ice Scales, Illuminate, Immunity, Inner Focus, Insomnia, Keen Eye, Leaf Guard, Levitate, Light Metal, Lightning Rod, Limber, Magic Bounce, Magma Armor, Marvel Scale, Mind's Eye, Mirror Armor, Motor Drive, Multiscale, Oblivious, Overcoat, Own Tempo, Pastel Veil, Punk Rock, Purifying Salt, Queenly Majesty, Sand Veil, Sap Sipper, Shell Armor, Shield Dust, Simple, Snow Cloak, Solid Rock, Soundproof, Sticky Hold, Storm Drain, Sturdy, Suction Cups, Sweet Veil, Tangled Feet, Telepathy, Tera Shell, Thermal Exchange, Thick Fat, Unaware, Vital Spirit, Volt Absorb, Water Absorb, Water Bubble, Water Veil, Well-Baked Body, White Smoke, Wind Rider, Wonder Guard, and Wonder Skin. This affects every other Pokemon on the field, whether or not it is a target of this Pokemon's move, and whether or not their Ability is beneficial to this Pokemon.
Really hard to get veil going with the weather setters and then torn being everywhere
Then like, caly ice is good so that’s a route id definetly go
Yuh
Snow + Sun + Rain
And i run Sand on my Zac team to counter them
Also there is terrain wars
Still think snows better than sand but, yea rain and sun are just in much better spots rn
Electric + Psychic + Grassy
Yotam got 1st in Bo3 ladder with Gholdengo-Caly-I just saying
which mon basically always kills flutter?
This must be the way to go then
anyways, whats a good mon for flutter counter
That’s still really high
Rilla
oh wow
but Bolt is on my team
So?
AV
Group them up
do i just run seed
Go miracle seed
Seed is fine
Just played someone on showdown who U-turned their Urshifu into their own Iron Leaves 🤡
Why is there even an iron leaves?
Grass/Psychic
Quark Drive
90/130/88/70/108/104
590
I think leaves is shit
yeah this is why i didnt wanna add rilla, just remembered
Worse than the other 2 Swords of Paradox
That typing cough
could argue that shadow sucks cause of typing then
i need a flutter answer thats not rilla, any ideas?
but yeah the typing isnt really helping
You’re weak to 2 types and hit more for at least neutral
Psychic grass is weak to what, 7?
Electric, Fighting, Grass, Ground, Psychic, Water
Dragon, Fairy, Normal, Rock, Steel, Stellar
Dark, Fire, Flying, Ghost, Ice, Poison
Bug
Grass-types are immune to Powder-based Moves.
Yep
yeah
No Tera covers for all of those
electric does :3
Ok but like, what does it do for it lol
idk
can firepon work as flutter answer?
tera electric blast?
Exactly
on the electric terrian?
No wait fuck not that
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, wellspring and hearth are good
ok thanks
firepon works well cause resist-
just dont get hit by a shadow ball-
You go like swords dance sacred and whatever it’s signature is or leaf blade
Aerial Ace, Brick Break, Close Combat, Double-Edge, Facade, False Swipe, Giga Impact, Leaf Blade, Megahorn, Night Slash, Psyblade, Quick Attack, Retaliate, Reversal, Sacred Sword, Smart Strike, Solar Blade, Take Down, Throat Chop, Trailblaze, Wild Charge, X-Scissor
Air Slash, Energy Ball, Focus Blast, Giga Drain, Grass Knot, Hyper Beam, Leaf Storm, Magical Leaf, Solar Beam, Swift, Tera Blast
Agility, Ally Switch, Calm Mind, Coaching, Electric Terrain, Endure, Grassy Terrain, Gravity, Helping Hand, Imprison, Iron Defense, Leer, Metal Sound, Protect, Psychic Terrain, Quash, Quick Guard, Rest, Scary Face, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Swords Dance, Taunt, Work Up
A move displayed with Bold text benefits from Same-Type Attack Bonus when used by Iron Leaves.
any firepon sets? 
Wow it literally gets leaf blade and Psy blade as it’s stand unless you go sun or are throwing with trailblaze
r u saying Giga Impact is bad
Max att max speed
Wha?
sacred, psyblade, tera, leaf blade, quark speed, next to mirai or electric terrian
Does psyblade hit that hard?
If the current terrain is Electric Terrain, this move's power is multiplied by 1.5.
Psychic
Physical
80
100
15 (24)
Copied by Mirror Move.
Makes contact.
Boosted by Sharpness.
No it hits, 120?
its hydro steam but physical and psychic
E terrain < Sun
Steel
Bug, Dark, Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Fire, Flying, Ghost, Grass, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Stellar
Fighting, Ground, Poison, Rock, Water
but yeah 120 bp if you're in electric
oh ig offensively it’s not that bad
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ik ik
its defensive type is garbage but its offensive coverage isnt too bad
oh oh also
run clear amu quark atk as an option
i mean it gets the 1.5 boost in both psychic and electric terrain so you can even use it with indeedee if you want 
for intims
Lmao
https://pokepast.es/acfa03f7d876d113 any ideas?
Ok anyway
Same for Steam, boosted in sun and rain
yeah thats the gimmick of the first paradox legends
Flutter
the problem with bolt here is it stacks weaknesses with koraidon, but its my best ogre stoppa
Chi yu
then its priority vs double hit
Why are you worried about ogerpon???
kyogre
and then protect negation vs protect with burn
cause sun teams dont like it when there isnt any sun
Ik
its time for me to go :3
have fun cooking teams and
gl drago im sure you'll find the perfect restricted before i come back xD
Bye guys, i want to play FE now
I second this
bye
Stay in school kids
Maybe
man
idk the first thing about sun teams i just realised
how do they balance this these typings is a mystery to me
We use knowledge
thanks for the valuable piece of advice
I wish
School is miles easier than uni
I never had to study for an exam in school
Gameplay
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2024regg-2110682771-3ol4k7t6wse03qa0zpny5q6lhva7zkkpw easy case-in-point
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High School has such a nostalgic feeling for me even if it was shit
oh so they worked their way out of a type disadvantage?
I had no type disadvantage
Lol
I had a gameplan
i mean, 3 ice weakness in team
Ok
thats why im strugging to build with
You trapped yourself lol
So like, Tera fire koraidon
Taunt mane was huge there

This is why I dislike focusing on typing synergy
what even is that 
It’s what you’re doing
oh
You get baited into thinking I must have perfect switch ins to everything
I mean it wasn't but like what if they did click tr
It was a huge safe play
The only resists that matter are the ones you're gonna have to play a more balanced mode into
as in
What's even a perfect astral barrage switch in other than normal types
If you don't have a plan, you just have to lean on your typings
Nothing
so plan > typings?
Plan > everything
Plan accounts for typings
IF you need to make life easier, switch it up, but Teras exist, and so do the personal strengths of each mon outside of just typings
But stop looking at it in a "omg this typing overlaps wah"
because you just ignore everything else the mon brigns
Keeping in mind what you expect to face and having a way to deal with it is always better than just having what you think is generally strong and improvising when it gets to battling
Plus
Typings isn't gonna save yuo out of a poor board state
If you're fucked by a hard neutral either way
So basically I’ve sat for hours worrying about typings and they don’t matter as much as I thought they did?
They matter; The consideration you've been having for the last half hour have been mainly about the typings when theres like 70% of Pokemon left to consider
?
I usually still don't wanna run chi yu and incin in the same team
Raging Bolt: Weak to Ice,
- Immense bulk
- Priority STAB access
- Snarl/Speed Control access
- Great offensive typing
Should I worry about that?
I'll replace Dengo With Bolt for my team-
The same logic would apply to Japan Balance lol
It had Lando-I/Boom/Raging Bolt
thats x3 ice weaknesses
What about it
Still one of the more threatening/consistent Ice-types
Doesn't mean im worried about it
Despite a x3 ice weakness overlap
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Definitely
Decent so for
focus on what the pokemon do than what the pokemon are
Unless it's the single player campaign
Ok I get the idea behind it
Sorry no in single players it's levels that matter
im going through HGSS with Snorlax with Screech + Tackle and Lick
Lmfao
I just beat Jasmine
Is scarf on Calyrex common?
Not really
Not really on common or not really uncommon?
Not really common
lol I’m sorry my bad campfire
More Sash Calyrex S
So there be merit to max speed investment ogre with scarf and timid
Sorry I just got confused
Or would it be better for Urshifu ooo decisions decisions
That would be a very clever strat if it had a better normal STAB but not sure about Snorlax's level up movepool and not sure if it learns headbutt
I feel like there be merit against choice specs
My team as 4 pokemon weak to bug and I think it’s really hilarious
Like grass ogre? Why?
Because I do think that kyogre in proper conditions is still the most dangerous pokemon of them all
Ok just lost to after you clef
Why scarf grass ogre out of all options too
I just gotta find out how to bring out its max potential
Is that what Wolfe was running by any chance?
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You have the tera speed boost if you need it
Two words
Kyogre is not washed
There's much simpler ways to deal with that than scarf tera grass ogerpon
Yeah, gastrodon + yawn or Ogerpon-w with horn leech
Neither take damage from water spout
Or wide guard or sun
Yeah but how many people are dedicating a whole spot to gastrodon
Sunny day torn just shuts down the strategy
Kyogre Water Spout is Bullshit
Be sure you keep it alive after tho
I feel like Ogerpon would die to Tera water water spout in rain
Maybe I’m wrong I should test it but i think it would
How many people are dedicating a spot to scarf grass Ogerpon, no-one it’s a waste
You know it has water absorb right
Even then it's a 4x resist
That’s specifically one ogerpon mask
So I do think that Pokémon could be a Problem absolutely
Which is arguably the best mask in the format
I don’t disagree with you but that’s really my only problem I am concerned with tbh
Gastrodon is a legit threat but super uncommon
Thanks Kyogre
And rillaboom
Sunny day tornadus
Then horn leech it
Wide guard
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Kyogre is not washed
You have so many options
Well I have tornadus too so I am not concerned with that tbh
But
It really isn’t that many options LOL
Keep the tornadus alive as long as the kyogre is
If you think about it not really
It really is
What are you guys talking about?
If torn dies and kyogre switches out it's joever
It doesn’t matter you either believe in the ogre or you don’t
I am a personal believer
Thankfully personal beliefs don't alter facts
You can very much just use wellspring mask and you don't need to make your ogerpon worse
Honestly you guys didn’t really didn’t give me a whole lot of problems you gave me one legit Pokémon
And it’s not that bulky
It's immune
Tornadus is on my team with rain dance so that’s a game of chicken
Wide guard or sun, both work at stopping water spout, you ignored when I said gastro we gave you options you just didn’t listen
You can't have more bulk than healing from an attack instead of getting damaged
I was looking constructive criticism and I got it
Kyogre answers:
- Rillaboom
- Wellspring-Ogerpon
- Raging Bolt
- Walking Wake
- Koraidon
- Urshifu-Rapid Strike
- Archaludon
- Wide Guard
I have an answer for wide guard but thank you
I love wellspring
It just fits almost everyhwere
- Fake Out Pressure
- Anything remotely faster
- Amoonguss
How is Urshifu an answer for it? & you can 2HKO archeludon in rain so with fake out that solves that problem
It is great
Oh and Miraidon
Miradion is a problem yes
For kyogre
I agree with you I can deal with the rest of the pokemon on the list
Miradion is a big big problem
Guess people haven't played enough of the mirror to understand why Urshifu-RS is an answer
I don’t see it man
Wait you're the one using kyogre?
Urshifu terrifies me
Maybe you see something I don’t Urshifu is dying to water spout
Probably
It can kill torn and 2hko kyogre right?
Yeah so we can trade tornadus for Urshifu
Check what 49% HP Water Spout does to Urshifu
Sounds like a pretty decent trade
& that’s assuming he moves first
This set he won’t be moving first
I mean don't you still have to worry about bleakwind when attacking the kyogre
Cause if the debate surrounds pointless hypotheticals then really anything goes
You guys did give me one major problem
Miradion is a major problem I have not solved yet
Rillaboom
Landorus-I
No that guy just stops miraidon
50 games, top 200, 74.5% GXE
Very nice
Rillaboom? Oh your right
Just from like a couple hours of testing
No not you but congrats
I really wanted to use amoongus but I think that Rillaboom would make the team more balanced
The mirrors were more apparent
That’s really impressive
I think the giraffe is also very key to this working
Stops rilla
Pretty sure people used tsareena when we didn't have a better priority stopper
See Tera grass i don’t think will work because we need stab from water spout to maximize damage output
Then run Archaludon
...You have STAB from Water Spout?
It's already a 150 bp move in rain by a 150 spatk mon what more do you want
It does matter
You can't really maximise damage output when you explode to Electro Drift
And it can be boosted by tera and mystic water
The problems with "must ohko" mindsets
Defensive tera 🔛🔝
It's not a relevant consideration and it's been just a back and forth based on clearly personal bias/preference rather than realistic board executions
I’m experiencing that rn, oh this format is really something else
Use Tera grass to tank electro drift
And grassy glide
Honestly the more you mention it
The more I realize it’s a very solid Tera for kyogre
I just gotta test water spout with grass
I bet it still does plenty of damage
Absolutely
Living is pretty much more important than being forced to leave the board
If kyogre is not there kyogre is not dealing damage
Because of rain will help against one of its direct weaknesses
And nobody really has an ice Pokémon on their team
And if a threat is out you either switch out kyogre or it dies
Which means it won't be there
It’s also a direct answer to amoongus
Ever wonder why people ran tera grass dondozo
https://pokepast.es/4542fd3a607b8fe8 Have the OTS for free
The problem I am having is I think that the giraffe is super important to maximizing his playability in this tier but amoongus is going to fit so well on this team man
But Rillaboom is going to help against really really bad matchups such as a electric terrain Miradion
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Which walls amoongus anyway
So you did get a cool dengo team
Does anyone have a Lunala team, if no, any suggestions on what to pair it with. I’m desperate, I am not fully understanding the format yet
Check pins
Thank you
crephace has given 1 Gen Rep to woodtofu
We’re getting there
I think for now we’re going with caly ice wellspring and dengo
Caly ice covers dengo
And it covers for the mirror
Not sure what dengo does for caly tho
Yea dengo wellspring is great into the mirror
What do you think about choice scarf Urshifu in this tier
I want to play kyogre but I don’t know what move to replace with protect ( thunder, water spout, orgin pulse, ice beam)
Good
Scarf is like
It’s my direct idea to have 0 problems against calyrex
The best way to go on rapid
I'd say thunder
Is it a bad plan ?
Without ice beam you do absolutely nothing to grass types
Also good on single
Grabbed a Clefairy + Lunala one
Blogpost also has SableyeVGC's one
Honestly dude I feel like amoongus would be sooo much better then Rillaboom with the exception against specifically Miradion
I’ll check it out later
Moon related pokemon duo
So true didn’t think of that
Maybe besides D-Gleam but eh
This team I’m building without Rillaboom has like 0 answer for Tera electric Miradion
man im anxious to see the liberty note reg g teams
i always build based off of those
Slap an ursaluna on the team just to make it fit the theme idc if it doesn't fit
Also cresselia
don't have to wait; play japanese ladder tours
I've already seen some wild stuff
The real gholden goat
Is you
The one that knocked me out of top 32 was Koraidon/Cress/Ursaluna
That’s a lot of moons
that must be an awesome tour
are they just on limitless or is there some other sort of website
How is archeludon against Miradion ?
i see
Twitter weirdly good vgc source, sometimes
Resists or neutral to like anything it can throw at you
i dont think i follow many involved with hosting them
always has been
wait actually cobalt
What do you take me as Saturn? I don’t need that many moons
Luckily VGC Twitter is a fairly closed loop community so you see a ton of repeating names and somehow someway someones connected
I was not aware of vgc Twitter not being, awful at least
I take you as a Mars, it has 2 moons
any1 have cobalts twitter
Easy tips for be on twitter:
- Focus on your hobby space/Interest space
- learn to scroll past shit you don't like
i forgot the handle
I will keep that in mind
- have common sense
im too uninteractive to even reply shouldnt be hard
Honestly the best tip is don't use it
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We have a problem
I don't have a twitter and I'm fine
were not gonna talk about how much I’m on discord ok
Spoiler alert, not that good
ive tried taking less time from discord
Honestly chronically online is a mindset rather than a true action
And me too but i tried to be on discord less
it takes a bunch of time especially when im going into college
Same
I'm still a functioning human being + job despite being mostly online
You guys don't multitask?
i wanna continue pursuing vgc but like idk is college that intensive
playing vgc and working
IRL > in-game
I mean I’ve been drawing for the like 9 hours today so no.
Same
True, although can’t exactly say life is great rn
college sucks
lonely, the usual
i could say the same for the second half of senior year
Dw bucko it's only gonna get worse form there
Oh, I’m sure it will be useful in the future
jk
cant say when ive had the time to just sit down and just chill on my pc
or are you
Lemme be a gamer in peace
as someone who probably has a right to whine about life: it gets better with time
Nah jk, things’ll get better
my school keeps piling projects on projects( i thought senior year was chill 😭 )
Everyone has the right unless you're a billionaire
Once I hit 25 suddenly i'm not mentally ill
I didn’t really do shit this semester and also literally treated this semester like a joke
well, 24
And now I’m wondering why I’m about to fail a course
Cant wait
woah you're a geezer / j
Get off your phone and go study
I feel twice my age
Lmfao
Jk that doesn't work
Telling people to go study at least for me
Tofu is actually aging twice as fast mentally
fuck studying
Would a team consisting of Calyrex Ice, Indeedee, incinoroar, fluttermane, amoongus, and rillaboom be good competitively for Reg G? What are the flaws and what do you guys recommend I should replace/add
Fuck the American education system
Like 80?
It’s ass
Sure
Studying isn’t that bad
and I live here and can’t move so I have no choice
No but like, it still sucks
Other than the interaction between Indeedee + Rillaboom beign screwy
Especially if it’s not anything you’re motivated to do
It does very much
If you do something you enjoy it’s pretty fun
I miss when I didn't have to study for exams
Yea
Honestly
This semester was fucking work
The shit you love can still fucking suck
Nothing interesting, except criminal justice ig that was cool
In all fairness I don’t do exams just a ton of essays
Battle Royale players lol
i loved valorant
Pokemon fans
but it sucked so i stopped loving it
apex was always bad bud
I keep an eye on both
No, it got bad season 8 and onward tho 
they really killed titanfall for that shit
I'm the garden warfare guy
No it was also like, okay until they fucked the ranked system
I loved it as a kid now the newest one is objectively bad
Season 14 I think?
Not just because I grew up
thats probably why i dislike it
Anyway yea apex is shit
Titanfall 2 was so peak
on god
Literally
I miss Papa Scorch
It still has a player base which is kinda cool
Iconic, falling off
yeah thats cool
Although they’re all, insane
thats my kinda game
We should shut down apex and make titanfall 3 happen
cant wait to see pokemon become like that someday
What we really need is more mario and luigi rpg games
I want another Mario game like Mario wonder
RIP Alphadream
what we really need is more dragon quest games on nintendo
That was a fever dream but that was so fun
havent played that one

Put it on your list
i really wonder what the fuck i was on when i missed out on zacian shiny
It’s up there it’s so fun
Kirby and the forgotten land is still my all time favorite game
It's just such a perfect game
i love the kirby yarn game bro
But idk if it’s that one or a different one
Like an interdimensional evil archangel
i forgot which one i think it was on wii
do you know his/her name?
Fecto elfilis
Drago rn
me next year when i have no friends
It's the 3d Kirby game
I played the one with, uh
Don't do what I did kids: get involved 👍
i was the only one that got accepted into my college bruh
Also don't go to uni during a pandemic
It transitioned so well into 3d it doesn't even feel like the first time they do it
So that probably helps
All my friends went to unis near home I moved away
parents forced me to commit 😭 now none of my friends gonna go
But being able to hold a proper conversation with friends is so key
…
My best friend was the all a+ grades guy in school
my friends are all smarter than me
thats why i like hanging with them so much
I made new friends there great
i feel like im actually learning something just by being around them
majority of my friends are like those
I play Destiny 2 with a friend
My current best friends struggle at most things as much as I do
but when im at college im probably just gonna make friends with a bunch of people on shit like i am
You’d probably enjoy uni more if you made some friends their
Ok, you haven’t met me irl
probably not gonna be on pokemon that much hopefully if there is a club
no, i dont think i have
Once you get there you'll find a lot more people with similar interests to you than in school
I am the most shy social anxious person out here man
Evidently, we don’t live in the same continent
Opening up is HARD for me
my school has no Chance doing these kinda stuff
Heres a tip: say and do the weird thing because at least its you
Wanna fight for the title
i feel like thats what college is really for
That and finding the time to make friends it’s difficult
Challenge difficulty: easy
Cuz I work
I mean being weird means I share way to much
That went one of two ways for me reading that
im hella introverted
“Hey guys I play competitive Pokémon do you?”
yeah that was craxy
Introverted,but yes same.
I'm trying to be more outgoing because I just switched majors and almost everyone in my class is an introvert so I can't just wait for people to approach me
That's hwo I got my current partner
Lol
No fucking way
It works really well
Oh right you got the pokerizz
Dude, almost like half the girls I went on dates with wanted to listen to me rant about pokemon
Cant be a true story
They’re interested in vgc?
Women don't play pokemon we all know it
I mean it’s tofu it’s gonna be true
They don't even play Pokemon

Tofu just went up like "they EQ on my Snorlax" or whatever tf
Just be genuine
I’ll keep that in mind when, any of that happens
My partner has 0 pokemon knowledge but still reads my blog and gives me feedback on it everytime i release a post
They eq on my snorlax till I body slam
That’s hype
That’s incredible
If you gotta hide a part of you to be with someone theyre gonna find out one way or another
might as well have them like it
That’s a great point
"The fuck is an Amoongus?"
I mean I wouldn’t hide that
Hiding is not always the same as not trying to show it
It’s an active hobby, my co-workers know about it
Or is it
Although none of them give a shit lol
None of my friends have any understanding of competitive Pokemon whatsoever
Tbf my co-workers are mostly high schoolers or
Hello everyone
Just, they don’t know who I am lol
At least half of my class plays videogames so at least one other person has to know pokemon
I have a friend who plays vgc occasionally
If they only know it casually I can give them bad advice so we can be on the same skill level
One of my work friends is a 19 yo in high school so
My friends just accept that I have different interests and my brain works slightly oddly comparatively to theirs and they move on, some of the best friends I’ve ever made
Ok but they’re all girls
Oh
I don't really look at age when I'm only looking for friendships
I literally work surrounded by high school girls
That's not weird right?
No
Aren't youu in high school
or were i mean
So like
You're not that far off
Yes
I mean I don’t really want to be friends with a 10 year old
So it’s not a big deal at all
And it’s not really weird, just odd cuz I don’t really work with guys at all
Some of my friends are 15-16 we just have similar interests and are goofy
Easy: who cares
There is, my managers pretty much lol
People are people
Fair yea
I hate everyone equally ✨
Lmfao
Most of the people I'm making friends with rn are girls and there's probably a reason for it that I don't know
Me hate people too
Everytime I made friends with a girl I got the wrong signs and fucked it up
Except 1 time we just stopped talking for whatever reason
In middle school
Surprisingly I’ve become friends with like 70% of the people I’ve met. I think before uni I talked to like 3 people, it’s good to talk to people, they are usually very nice.
last year was rough lol
I just don't care about it. like i messed up twice in Middle School.
The average educated person usually isn't an idiot and are decent
I just got the wrong signs once but I don't blame myself because she was really giving the wrong signs too and admitted to it, now we made things cool again and are best friends
Easy never act on anything ever
Oh I didn’t act on shit lmao
Oh
Literally just tried to be friends
I'm officially 26 🥳
it was too obvious lol
Happy birthday
Ty!
Many congratulations
Hype, happy birthday

I should look for a job
I mean you have to try, otherwise nothing will happen
Ik
Same
But should I
Yes
Happy Birthday red
I just switched majors and started uni over so I need to get a feeling for what I'm doing
I don't think I should get a job rn actually
Maybe an internship when I'm ready
Preferably paid
I aint doing free labor
So get a job
Money is good
Money is a lot of things
Oh I need ti try to find someone to go to NAIC with me lol
I cannot pay for a hotel by myself
I can confirm it can’t be me
You actually go to them?
It’s so fucking expensive
Someday I should
See
Sounds like a pretty fun experience
Relatively cheap then it like $1000
Flights are pretty expensive when they're international
Found one for $200 no cap
I gotta find the SAIC
Round trip as well
SAIC?
South America international championship
Oh nice
Idk if that exists
I could have gone to euic, but didn’t
I know there's small stuff around where I live
I missed one
What was the smallest type of official tourney called again?
I just didn’t want to go to London lmao
Regional?
No less than that
Local
Less?
Weekly
Idk
It was official
I should start making more serious teams in case I decide to go to one
Instead of trying to make mons I like work
I can do both but separately
Or choose mons you like which are also good
But yeah I'm willing to pull up to a local with caly shadow ho
When playing ladder for fun I still wanna use what I like
Palkia level of unique or like emolga?
Miraidon level unique is already fine
Is there a chance for ditto usage to rise on next reg ? because transforming into restricted mon seem's broken
Ditto is an option
I've seen transform smeargle
Well i'm thinking of slotting it for my team
u need to see less
I wish I did
It did just get one shot
Idk if I'm remembering it right
All I know is I won
I think it used transform on the empty slot of the just killed kyogre
Ditto > Transform Smeargle
Should i just max it's speed/HP and give it choice scarf then ?
I am now realizing if they ever do a format with mythicals then mew (transform) + ditto + 2 restricteds = 4 restricteds, one with shit hp
Not sure on how good it is, Tofu knows the answer (i think)
Weirdest thing I’ve seen so far is probably heatproof bronzong, specifically because they swapped it into a Groudon locked into a ground attack by encore
It was the only damage left into either of my flutter and electric giraffe
or sash
HP is the only EVs that matter anyways
https://pokepast.es/3077e704c3e0c9f5 How is this Kyogre team?
Does imposter mimic the ev’s of everything but hp?
But isn't scarf like better tho if my ditto transform into my openent caly s it can outspeed it and possibly get ko
im saying either or
Fair enough
On switch-in, this Pokemon Transforms into the opposing Pokemon that is facing it. If there is no Pokemon at that position, this Pokemon does not Transform.
The user transforms into the target. The target's current stats, stat stages, types, moves, Ability, weight, gender, and sprite are copied. The user's level and HP remain the same and each copied move receives only 5 PP, with a maximum of 5 PP each. The user can no longer change formes if it would have the ability to do so. This move fails if it hits a substitute, if either the user or the target is already transformed, or if either is behind an Illusion.
Normal
Status
0
—
10 (16)
Bypasses Protect-like moves.
Does not make contact.
Neat
Does it copy the nature and the IV too ?
That is facing it
So it's hard to predict stuff
Because it really depends on what pokemon is on the left or the right
If you want your ditto to switch in and transform there's a 50% chance you can send it in in the position you want
Be better ez
Yeah it def pain to try position it but it's worth it if you can Pull it off
Do you think your opponent is gonna select kyogre or tornadus on the left?
Just put the ditto on the back opening with ditto seem's like horrible idea
Even then
Maybe on the right you have a pokemon you want staying in and on the left one you want to switch out
But what you want it to transform into is on the right
There’s also like
If you’re predicting a switch
Into the restricted, that’s prob when you throw ditto out
It might be funny with screens and tailwind
You have the same pokemon but faster and more defensive
Except for the 44 base hp part
155 HP + x 0.75 SpA + Weakness + (probably) AV = Why did that do less damage than it should?
oh i forgot to say this was tera poison mb
252+ SpA Life Orb Ursaluna-Bloodmoon Earth Power vs. 12 HP / 244 SpD Vessel of Ruin Tera-Water Ting-Lu: 78-94 (33.6 - 40.5%) -- guaranteed 4HKO after Sitrus Berry recovery
i completely forgot that was integral to the funny
thats tera water
Oh right
252+ SpA Life Orb Ursaluna-Bloodmoon Earth Power vs. 100 HP / 252 SpD Assault Vest Vessel of Ruin Tera-Poison Ting-Lu: 104-125 (42.7 - 51.4%) -- 2.7% chance to 2HKO
What is the opposing Blood Moon's spread? You prbably dont know
yeah i have no idea, it must not have been life orb or something
252+ SpA Ursaluna-Bloodmoon Earth Power vs. 100 HP / 252 SpD Assault Vest Vessel of Ruin Tera-Poison Ting-Lu: 80-96 (32.9 - 39.5%) -- 99.3% chance to 3HKO
Well, that would explain it
You old bastard
Happy birthday
Thanks
btw monkey i wanted to apologize for the misunderstanding yesterday i didnt mean to argue with you it was just a preference thing i dont think using innaccurate moves is worse or better

Why you hiding
Me eepy
Also the team I found from the pin worked well
Oh no sorry
I wasn't really using the word argument as "you're arguing" anyways
More like reasoning
It's all good
Rillaboom + raging bolt feels really strong together
Well, I think I’m settled on caly ice
Not that I’m a fan of having to hunt the 0 speed on it
Horse. Ice-horse, I’m scared please lord, I don’t like the horses
Yessir
Having a move that hits that hard without needed snow is just good
Makes sense, you decided on the other Pokémon you gonna pair with it
oh
i wish i saved this
but i fought a gholdnego calyrex team
totally messed me up
gholdnego naturally counters zamazenta and i didnt stop it form nasty plotting fast enough
Happens
so i do think theres something with that synergy for real
Which caly
the icy one
Oh, uh
Uhhhh, scary
I really like electric giraffe, it’s fun
Snarl and electroweb are so useful
im so excited for worlds
worlds is gonna be interesting
Very nice team
Aren't you planning on going to NAIC lol
hopefully we'll see some fun teams there
SHIT
Usually people keep their competition teams pretty under warps
i memorized the team and will now battle against it in my mind in anticipation against your team.
i can comfirm pizza is barry allen
I thought you were playing palkia
Ah you’re right
I totally don’t remember the team either
tofu
Yeah probably for the best
I did not think about that at all
hope you have fun
Still a cool team though, won’t share what I saw
not sharing either. chances are, i wont ever battle you lol
yes?
It was Palkia tailwind if anyone wanted to know
I ain’t going to naic, so it doesn’t effect me
thought it was the Mewtwo Expanding Force core
It was both
At the same time
ah makes sense
It was Palkia with expanding force, it was hacked in
I’ve already forgot the team ngl
I mean, the only big event I'm heading to is the LA Regional in May. Doubt I'll run into anyone I know there.
Good
I’ve talked about Palkia to much
Oh nice, any na events I can’t go to
Only eu events, namely in England and maybe France and Belgium can I go to
Nice they splitting the costs
Yea, we gotta pay for someone’s ticked but that’s fine
see ya at grand finals 😉
good luck pizzaaa
thank you!
Good luck everyone who’s going
7-9th of June
I'm gonna post them
I got a month to prep
Nice
Very nice
What if I don’t set a weather… What will you do then
Huhhhhhhh?
Just because I don’t set a weather
Hold up I need this as a sticker
Dammit I need ti be on my laptop
I’ll do it later
You’re scaring me…

Does imprison farigiraf with trick room protect have some merit in this format
Oh ig no bo3’s either huh
damn hella people are starting to go to events now
This has never happened to me before, what do
that’s awesome
Outside of England, I can’t attend many
imprison/protect/trick room/dazzling gleam or psychic is a possible moveset but IMO it’s just a sitting duck in a lot of matchups
Throat spray is good
It has two merits
I also like sitrus helping hand
People can’t protect in front of Kyogre
Which I think is very scary
Or use priority moves
& it will help against indeedee t/r teams
Stopping Protects is only relevant if the following action actually alters the board state
Not worth
Do you think it would be better to just run throat spray hyper voice & psychic ?
And I am almost thinking about taking out wood hammer on my Rillaboom in favor of u-turn to reposition
I love farigiraf
I think that protect trick room could be very useful
hai
I’m going to test out all of them and see what I like the best
Having a imprison user I think is very underrated
Giraffe is fun
I think it’s going to be a key Pokémon on this Kyogre team
Giraffe is friend
Anti prio good for kyogre
I still don’t know if I am going to stick to my Groudon team or I am going to do Kyogre
Kyogre is my favorite pokemon
Then try out Kyogre
Urshifu, tornadus, Rillaboom, archeleduon, giraffe , kyogre
My favourite mon is sandshrew, it’s not worth trying out in this meta-game
I think this team can work lol
I’m generally gonna spend the next month learning, stuff
Nice
You know what I’m gonna do for the next month
the brainrot is real
Ok I just think that meme is funny
Do you need teratilize for the move to change typing for ivy cudgel ?
no
Or if you wear the water mask is it automatically water
just mask
Thank you very much
Do you like pizza? @strange fjord
mayhaps (yes)
It is shocking

drago do you have all of your registration accounts already made for NAIC tomorrow
RK9 and the pokemon portal

Uhm
I got the page with the countdown up
Alr
Would anybody be willing to trade me a white mochi for something?
3 ability patches
Okay I’ll trade you 5 ability patches
That’s all I need ti do?
And then tomorrow which one do I need to do first?
Cool thanks
My brain rotted a while ago
I never had a brain in the first place
I love brainrot
you still need the fresh start mochi?
Nahhhh I’m okay thanks tho I just decided to feed some berries
mayahoppins has given 1 Gen Rep to pizza.time
well i got extra white mochi if yall ever need it
usually i see water or fire tera
common tera for reg g
Finally got the 1300 wall down on showdown for regulation g lol
So I shouldn’t really be too concerned that someone just Tera blast electric my Urshifu to dust

