#competitive_discussion
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Day 2
oh so limitless is an average among the days i guess
or count both days
damn, miraidon and groudon falling off is heart breaking
Zamazenta got top 3 usage that something
Generally im more surprised seeing Zacian usage
WR looks like people are still figuring stuff out tbh, especially with the Calys also marking how heavy the counterplay on some of those are.
yup
lower caly s winrate means people found ways to effectively deal with it
also surprising that ice rider dropped in usage.
Over bold?
I don’t see why it would ever be bold
Although despite how effective the counterplay is it’s more about the resource I think. Everykne still believes its an S-tier mon
Plus results wise it still cut
I think
Unless im thinking of VR tour
which Caly-I recently won undefeated
Oh its for sure an S tier mon. Its just people went in the tourney to beat caly-S which would logically lead to a lower winrate
Same would happen to terapogos arguably. People weren't as prepared for it so it makes sense for its higher winrate.
I think it's harder to answer Terapagos
Classical counterplay doesn't actually exist
Zama probably
yeah that's probably right
korai
So I was curious to see what the data says. Since I have quite a bit of replay data to use I'd figure I'll write a quick program to do so.
Da results
based around ~67k replays.
highlighted are <50%
Calyrex is used?
Yeah I can’t imagine pagos struggling with it
gotta add a devation thingy
33.33% seems a little too clean of a percentage to be a high number of data points
Ngl I do study computer science, but I got no idea what’s happening 
What’s meant by devation?
I could show you my code if that helps lol
Nah I’ll probs not understand it, we haven’t gotten to the main part of coding yet, just theory
what do you guys think of overheat miraidon with eject pack
how spread the data could be due to few data points (low number of uses in battle)
It could work, but if u wanna pivot, go volt switch
Ah ok
like saying "I have a win rate of 90%" (player 1 only did 10 battles) vs "I have a win rate of 85%" (player 2 did 500 battles)
player 2 is more likely to reliable data over player 1
Yeah that makes sense
This also works by comparing teams right?
So it's not necessarily 1-1 interactions
Zamazenta is to be expected
team comparison indeed
Eternatus probably is more knowledge based rather than true counter
Since its harder to mplay against something you dont know whats going on
Koraidon/ is to be expected
Caly-Ice im also not surprised because my set is probably the only Terapagos with a positive/advantageous MU into Caly-I
what would be the best way to build a sweeper torterra and a team for it
im new to competitive
Your only real option is to run Shell Smash + White Herb or Iron Defense Body Press, but I wouldn't really expect to see much success with it. Seeing as you're new to competitive I think it's important to be aware there is a great likelihood you're unable to use your favourite Pokemon (unless they're a metamon) to a consistent successful degree particularly in the current higher powered format.
Figured I'd try my luck with reg G again since I'll be getting an ogerpon soonish, kinda tossed together whatever sounded good (garganacl is mostly a caly counter)
Clear Amulet over Covert Cloak
Hearthflame needs Speed investment
Steel Tera on Garg is just overlapping Fighting Weakness
Alrighty, I used covert cloak since I figured it'd help deal with fake out, I'll change it out now
Flutter Mane needs some form of bulk investment otherwise it dies to essentially everything including other Flutters
Mainly Sash/Booster Spe Flutters
I recommend Icy Wind as additional form of Speed Control, and Protect/Recover on Garganacl so it can actually take advantage of Salt Cure and Stall, although I dislike Garganacl here. Chi-Yu/Raging Bolt with Snarl access already does that work for you. You hahve no true Slow-Play elements either
Was garganacl a bad pick for the team? Chose it for wide guard + bulk for calyrex.
Id rather replace it for a Raging Bolt/Farigiraf if you're concerned about Sun, both of which can assist with the Caly-S matchup.
Alrighty, tysm for the advice!
Farigiraf with virtue of the Normal-typing + access to HH can assists against Caly-S, Koraidon already helps deal with Kyogre/Raging Bolt can further improve that MU as well, reasonings wise.
@next stump i made it back to calyrex, hypnosis went first got hyped, caught it in a love ball, we were speed tying @ 86….
i have skeledirge,gyardos,toedscruel,scyther,gengar and ampharos should i change it for any like types of rotom or should i replace anything for tauros Cylizar or arcanine
singles?
i can feel the fear in terapagos team's eyes when their turtle has nowhere left to run front of a +3 zama and popped tera shell
I think a Rayquaza And Chien-pao core is gonna be strong in Reg G. What else should I run to round out the team?
Suddenly Tera-Ghost Wisp Darkest Lariat Incineroar
I think Pao/Rayquaza is semi-bait
uh oh XD
Anti-priority is huge, one of the main threats is a Ghost-type
For once in the format you can;'t just espeed spam
i am finally free
played through the game entirely while playing other games and it took like 18 hours for caly lmao
how crazy would it be if incineroar got follow me?
How crazy would it be if flutter mane got Geomancy?
Congratulations
Is use sash on caly s is it fine to just keep it at tera ghost or does defensive tera still matter ?
A lot of people run Tera fairy.
Sash Ghost is fine if you're willing to play it that way
Particularly when you're gonna be running NPlot which is the way with Sash
Ah alright then extra damage on astral barrage sounds nice
I’m debating on just taking a break from VGC until after Indy regionals, so I can get an idea of how the meta actually will be.
I was doing fantastic early on showdown ladder, but know the weird shit is coming out of the woodworks and Im struggling to adapt
Terapagos Cresselia?
idk
Hopefully someone at Indy will make top cut with a Venusaur on their team. Then I may be interested in this format lol. I just can’t stand Calyrex’s design, from both a casual and competitive viewpoint.
I’d like to see a solid sun team do well. Koraidon is super cool
definitely not a bad idea, especially if you’re just laddering and have no tournaments
i’m one of the guinea pigs at indy so I have to play early format which i hate
omg ur a test dummy for this regulation
I had pretty good success with my upcoming content team for Venu
Also I have proof-of-concept for Miraidon
That's actually, I think, good
all of the regionals i’ve been to this year minus charlotte have been first regional of the format
and not only that, fucking opening weekend of the format
Maybe its a sign you're meant to be first
Dillon the First Demon
i’m such a copier too so this blows
I mean
Do you have a paste for your Venu team?
but luckily people have made cool reg G already
If you don't mind waiting like a couple of days
You'll get a full write up as well
Oh sweet yeah link me that when it’s all done!
Makes my life easier when I expose these nerds
did you see the gholdengo variant that won vrs spring challenge
already in the builder 😎
plays much less like a TR team without a second setter
but gholdengo walling amoonguss is amazing
and zamazenta
hahah same
What’s the gholdengo variant?
it has the means to play a mean balance game
whilst having the tr option
kinda feels like p2
mmm what team is this-?
ice rider, incin, amoonguss, urshi-rss, peli, gholdengo
:0
that sounds interesting
i assume rage powder trick room on ice rider-
You have just given me an idea
you what
what-
i’m guessing the trick room setup-
jerapah
Does it even have that?
no no like the play order-
I mean
Oh right
yeah 
I knew there was something up
maybe cir learnt rage powder i didnt know that sounded like a moveset besides lance & hhp
https://pokepast.es/8eed0c59ec1aaecf
lemme just tell you
+2 giratina dragon pulse doesnt KO any shit
its so fucked up
Calyrex-Ice rider can surprisingly learn a lot of support moves with a 165 attack stat
giratina is just underwhelming
that’s calyrex-
not the ice horse
nice will-o-wisp AV Incin you hab there 

What in the shit is this
im sorry
EH AV WILL JAWJAWOAWOKAW
PANTES ANEH
hmmm
Is shamed
Speaks some language that i don't know of
bang maap bang bru balik dri ujian
Pass gk
mau main pke new toy
Ghost/Dragon
Pressure, Telepathy (Hidden)
150/100/120/100/120/90
680
Giratina-Origin
If something is bulky and does nothing back thats called a punching bag
but now i can do something like this
It is a ghost type, it is a punching bag that cannot be hit by fighters and normal people
what apokemon should i add in double with Raging Bolt @ Booster Energy
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
IVs: 20 Atk
Tera Type: Electric
Modest Nature
- Thunderclap
- Thunderbolt
- Draco Meteor
- Protect
Tf am I looking at
Tofu, did you let him in the kitchen?
If it doesn't OHKO anything just use origin form
Plus you aren't running rillaboom
We're not even in the same building
Ok well we need to find who did and take away their keys
Giratina is sadly just awful
And the amount of pokemon that beat it does not help, especially with the secretly badly invested stats
I did not expect to see Base form Calyrex destroying terapagos teams
Ik it is just 3 battles or more by the looks of it
probably like 6 battles of base calyrex and they happen to win a bit more than lose
oop
I also did not expect to see kyurem base form at 50% but that might have just been like 2 or 4 battles
And the kyurem won half of those
A zekrom at the late 1400's is surprising for me, atleast it can compete despite having very very slim odds of making it into day 2 at a regionals in reg G in general
Like Dillon once said "I would be very surprised to see Zekrom top cut a regional in reg G"
NUH UH (yuh huh)
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bo3 is just nicer to play
what about 1300s in bo3?
Top 500 in BO3 is actually 1400s so
like mid, i'd wanna be at least 1400s
Or low top 500
Probably the same idk i don't play bo3s
Definetely some 1400 players at top 500
1413 is minimum
Yeah
Would 1300 be mid in that ladder rn or?
mid-low
guess im mid FurretCry
It's mid
Lemme cope Tofu
I think if you know whats going on and are pretty solid you should be able to hit 1400s in bo3
and 1600s in bo1
You know you are unlucky when you miss a snarl (ik it is not 2, just clarifying)
Obv this is my perspective
But at the end of the day ratings are just a singular snapshot
See I'm just an idiot in moments where I am almost there so
It's all about consistency
Then you ain't there yet, pretty simple
It's a process
Sometimes you test on alts and just crowd your stats with random shit
Sometimes you just dont give a shit
Yeah
The amount of times this Reg alone that I forget Grassy Glide interactions
I do have to say to add weight to your words and opinions it pretty much helps to have those numbers/stats to back you up
I made it to the 1400s, in Best of 1s, i barely have time for Bo3s and i am still in the 1000s suffering brain damage there in Bo3s
If you can play 3 Bo1 games you can play 1 Bo3 game
I hit top 500 twice though in BO1
Even if it was early on, never done that before so
Idk why you are always finding the most valid reasons possible for every thing someone says in like 2 seconds
I've found BO3 way better tbh
Quality of games are actually quite nice
It's easier to analyse
Yeah
I also think that maybe the skill level in that ladder is a bit higher? May be just me
Why are people running chien pao in torn ogre teams
What type is Chien-Pao
Ice dark
What types resist Water
Btw where did you get this? I checked both of the websites in your about me but i am not sure where it came from
What type is Caly-S
the replays themselves. since i have the data, i just analyzed them
No way caly s isn't tera-ing infront a chien pao but thats besides the point
Probably not asking me but ghost and psychic (I think)
Yea ik the type
I don’t want to remember it also it’s been a long day
Didn't realize chien pao has good coverage i to kyogres resists
I was talking to Tofu, not you
Seemed odd to me at 1st because chien pao generally prefers being paired with physicals
I thought Tofu was asking the question for someone else to answer?
He knew, he was trying to get me realize for myself
Why chien pao is used in kyogre teams
Nice
Loool
Yarne is rillaboom
Obvious play but nice none the less
Gotta love sniping flutters like that
You really do, i have eternal beef with flutter so that terrible play was so satisfying
I mean terrible in their part
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2024reggbo3-2114114217
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2024reggbo3-2114116748
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2024reggbo3-2114119862
The bo3 btw
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Mirror
you're peak 
is reg G interesting?
I love that kyogre beat the mid allegations
i havent had time to dig in too much
i just know that calyrex shadow is actually a fraud
well i definitely exaggerated but seeing the memes was so funny
Tho it recently performed kinda underwhelming in the $400 tourney
Because everyone went in trying to beat it
is that the one torviv won?
The koraidon team
thanks 
pizza.time has given 1 Gen Rep to mayahoppins
Trainer school tourney
torviv was running calyice iirc so i guess it isnt
Its more recent
Overall usage rates and winrates
who the fuck though about the design and lore of calyrex
Caly-S had the most usage, but its winrate wasn't great
calyrex does not look like a pokemon that could ride a horse
People went in to beat caly S
makes sense
guess incineroar is nice against it right?
wide guard is a thing thats so true
It's all well and good until people start dropping the counterplay cause it's WR isn't great then it snowballs out of control
The meta shifted the same way with Urshifu-RS mid-Reg F and look what happened
At the end of the day it's still good
urshifu dark, snarl, wide guard just can pressure calyrex shadow a bit
urshifu rapid was the n1 common enemy
im a caly ice enjoyer i think
glastrier is cooler than spectrier anyway
Urshifu Dark gets 2HKOd by Astral Barrage
252 SpA Life Orb Calyrex-Shadow Rider Astral Barrage vs. 0 HP / 20 SpD Urshifu-Single Strike: 86-101 (49.1 - 57.7%) -- 97.7% chance to 2HKO
Snarl is kinda whatever
if astral barrage is ghost, is tera normal popular now?
I wouldn';t actively Tera-Normal unless theres a secondary benefit
oh, im a weirdo cause i run max hp AV urshifu dark. so i tank a bit better
Yea that's just the cycle unfortunately
Caly-S still needs to be respected, but when its win rate falls and people start accounting for it, it will just go nuts like previously.
wait the one that won a tournament was jmodri im a buffoon
I vaguely remember when JMOdri used to be in this server alongside quite a few other players
Interesting time
My experience with more general spanish players from showdown has been more insulting than anything
That, and italians
i have barely gotten any insults from anyone on showdown. usually its just low ladder in the beginning then no one after.
Idk
Intense is one thing
Hurling slurs is another
It is funny though
How anyone gets that upset over the simulator of all things
I think my favourite was the italian one
It took up the whole chatbox
in the defense of my comrades we do use slurs in a not so hurting manner
like i insult my friends every 5 phrases we chat
I think context matters
To friends: anything goes
To random strangers: bit weird and off-putting
depends on the slur ig but yeah
if some spanish random calls you "putero" dont worry about it
Guess what i am
also something we talk about very unformally is bombing things
Unfortunate
Part Spanish part English
The correct answer
my man LenVGC got banned for that
You told us yesterday lmao
As much as it was excessive, it was a not-so-great thing to joke about i guess
Yes but i deleted that after like 10 seconds
I don’t know why I remembered that tbh
Lifetime ban seems unwarranted
if you are not familiar with the joke i absolutely understand getting weirded out
it does sound a bit hardcore from outside but life ban is absolutely atrocious
I mean hurling slurs as a way of friendship is quite weird and interesting, i never understood that
Do you want me to delete the info for privacy sake?
No need to
Ok
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bo1 cts is so cool and epic
i mean i cant fully explain it but yeah i slur my friends a ton and they slur me and were chill
When someone says a very bad word it is offensive
When a person from Europe says them it is fine (specifically some from the mediterranean)
Well as a minority my experience with slurs from Europeans are different
Um as a European I don’t agree with that
My friends do the same, me, i don't unless i get pissed
Like with homies sure, when not with the homies not cool imo
Sure
Ok
I got randomly called bad by an 'experienced' player in the vgc chatroom because of some spreads that weren't even bad and they play worse than several people here, i also beat them a week ago and they used Zama while i ued Zekrom
I think the most recent one was someone asked if I had dignity or if my parents beat me enough
In spanish
Ok that is too much, ofc in spanish
I just kept typing "?"
I think I seemed to annoy them more than they did me
Like bro i've been called nearly every asian slur under the sun, im chinese, ofc i've been beaten
Wtf did I come back to
I honestly think that the Showdown chatrooms are a mistake imo
The funny bit where the players that insult me post match tend to be italian or spanish
and just discussing my most recent insult
Oh lol
🤦♂️
And it's also like
I never liked spanish people for a reason despite being one
It's just funny
I just saw slurs and was like "as a Southern white man, I am not safe here"
Lol
I still remember
Someone called my a slur in this chat cause I told them to ask questions in a separate chat
I didn't even like
Do it in my usual snarky way
I had to google cause it was an entirely new slur
Me everytime i hear about something bad from the Spanish and Italian people
It was one applied to vietnamese/korean people specifically so they kinda missed the mark there
I gotta say as someone from the South, I have seen some slurs on the Internet that idk if ANYONE around here would say lmao
Then they assumed what brand of Asian you were
Racist
Wait
Maybe not brand lmao
Tofu I done fucked up and associated with one of the store brand Asians
I never understood the concept of slurs, i always despised them and i wouldn't use any
They are just upscaled insults
But pushed way too far
Well just like everything, they were words, but the words just don't have good history behind em
Honestly i always hid my spanish/english blood, i just don't want to put up with nasty comments
Like technically, one of the variants of the N word is just the Spanish word for black
But not good history makes it not good
And hence why we don't use them
Stone Edge Groudon💀
Who let them cook
a qn le dices putero
And D-Pulse Wake, atleast they have good reasons to use it
As a spanish i can seriously confirm this
D-Pulse Wake i can see,but Stone Edge Groudon-
Wow I see why people started running heavy slam on zamazenta
He’s in like the top elites of fat asses
Stone Edge is only to get some OHKOs that rock slide couldn't but rock slide > stone edge always
who overfed the dog?
Damn
He just big boned
Plus Stone Edge is as accurate as Focus Blast with 75% accuracy
LOL
I mean that shield is not something to take lightly
I mean people are shitty regardless of race
That is the most important thing to learn, there are some more rude than others but all of them can be rude
Why is your pfp Pedro

any luck?
makes sense
Kyurem is second
The raccoon tries to wash his cotton candy, but finds it dissolves in water instantly. He learns, and finally eats the candy.
i mean,i put An Entei when i made a Miraidon team-
Well now that I’m thinking about it a little miraidon struggles with caly ice
entei? Why entei specifically?
Dengo typically doesn’t
Guess another way of Golden Dragon
Imo Tera water gholdengo can generally beat up a caly ice team
Yea, might look into that
Extreme Speed Snarl Support,Since Raging Bolt is Type Overlap and does the same thing,Plus its immune against Incineroar's Intimidate and Fake out-
Trying to find reference teams tho
Make it rain go brrrr
huh should probably try that
https://pokepast.es/6add20a8f2556e40
I made this at school randomly
However I’m trying to think about what miraidon does for dengo in return
distraction
Bug, Dark, Electric, Fairy, Fighting, Fire, Ghost, Grass, Ground, Ice, Normal, Poison, Psychic, Rock, Steel, Stellar
Dragon, Flying, Water
Miraidon,Dengo,Entei,Whimsicott,Lando and what can be final pokemon? Ogerpon?
is that a miraidon team? we arent gonna take advantage of terrain?
most of the terrain abusers are subpar at best
not even abuse, just use
It’s bait
i watched Moxie Boosted and he does not think Quark Drive Spam that well
It’s not good
this makes sense ig
I do think miraidon has a place
my opinion the largest value of electric terrain from miraidon is damage boos for miraidono specifically and preventing spore
But you need to run something for rillaboom
volt switch
ogerpon hearth
In that regard I think Hearthflame is one of its best partners
and volt switch
I want Miraidon to just be Offensive and no need Quark Drive Spam,Entei and Ogerpon feels good
so do I
Do you really want your restricted just sitting in the back?
All the time?
Miraidon @ Electric Seed
Ability: Hadron Engine
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Dragon Pulse/Draco Meteor
- Electro Drift
- Calm Mind
- Dazzling Gleam
i use this mirai
Could fidget with calm mind again
Electric/Dragon
Hadron Engine
100/85/100/135/115/135
670
it can be changed for Flash Cannon for Flutter Manes and Caly I
but idk
Idt it does enough damage
You just go your stabs
I’ve seen av
oh interesting it gets snarl
252+ SpA Hadron Engine Miraidon Flash Cannon vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Calyrex-Ice: 112-132 (54.1 - 63.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Yk, I think dazzling gleam ain’t worth
It doesn’t exactly do good damage without Tera
252+ SpA Hadron Engine Miraidon Flash Cannon vs. 212 HP / 4 SpD Flutter Mane: 106-126 (67.5 - 80.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO#
flash canon isnt it
its still very nice damage tho
Acrobatics, Body Slam, Crunch, Dragon Claw, Dragon Tail, Facade, Giga Impact, Heavy Slam, Outrage, Supercell Slam, Take Down, U-turn, Wild Charge, Zen Headbutt
Charge Beam, Dazzling Gleam, Discharge, Draco Meteor, Dragon Breath, Dragon Pulse, Electro Ball, Electro Drift, Flash Cannon, Hyper Beam, Mirror Coat, Overheat, Parabolic Charge, Power Gem, Shock Wave, Snarl, Solar Beam, Tera Blast, Thunder, Thunder Shock, Thunderbolt, Volt Switch
Agility, Calm Mind, Charge, Confuse Ray, Dragon Cheer, Eerie Impulse, Electric Terrain, Endure, Helping Hand, Light Screen, Metal Sound, Protect, Reflect, Rest, Scary Face, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Swords Dance, Taunt, Thunder Wave
A move displayed with Bold text benefits from Same-Type Attack Bonus when used by Miraidon.
it isn't bad but i'm not fully locked in on the sets
electro dirft simply does more
I’m gonna try snarl
220 SpA Choice Specs Flutter Mane Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Miraidon: 146-174 (83.4 - 99.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO huh
I wouldn't use the electric seed
why
Normally you are going to pivot with Miraidon to put your terrain over your rival's terrain
With electric seed you do that once and later you play without an item
his miraidon isnt a pivot one i dont think
my mirai is not pivot Mirai
seeing as its calm mind, it plans to stay in
Ok hear me out 0+ SpA Choice Specs Hadron Engine Miraidon Overheat vs. 252 HP / 124 SpD Assault Vest Rillaboom: 210-248 (101.4 - 119.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Ok thats-
yk now im interested in mirai lol
i just ran Max Max Min Miraidon
Choice Specs electro drift in electric terrain is a OHK0 against AV Kingambit lol
Kek
might make a mirai team over korai
i'll make a Miraidon Team as Back up
But nah I’m gonna just go hearth but it’s something I’ll keep in mind
but i need to use my Own Mirai instead of AI Professor's

a ti puterazo
You see there’s no gholdengo so me no touch 
Although I’m aware of the sauce
Good luck figuring it out
spill beans
No
Good luck
Texhnically ill spill the beans soon but yea
i give up
ill just make my own team and hope things go well
RIP Kevin's Chilli
Is it miraidon, cleffa, Clefairy, clefable, jigglypuff and wigglytuff?
You got 1/6 mons
Nearly there
Nearly
https://pokepast.es/bf400c022d43377d
I'm just gonna use this-
iron bundle
Is ok
i love iron bundle is it good with miraidon
Incin at 70%+ usage
Balance has been achieved
incineroar will always be the goat
iron bundle, iron hands and?
Sounds right
No
thats 2/3
Huh?
is incin at the top of the meta cause its balanaced? or is the meta balanced cause incin is at the top?
Juggy
rn?
i am aware but what is the last one
oh the Air slash-
Incin holds back an unbalanced meta making it meta
Ive always believed Incin is the literal limiter of the metagame
incineroar🐐
oh that makes sense to me
Incineroar is just that guy
I mean spore is incredibly valuable what do you expect + the other support it gives its great against restricteds
yeah, i just hate going against it
it slows things down a bit
but taking into account the absolute units that can obliterate teams, its not a bad thing imo
yeah but before i didnt have to think about it that much, now its everywhere
Then think more
i dont like having to think that much 
If you play a game competitively you nearly always have to think quite a lot, it’s just the nature of playing games competitively
i mean think about amoongus specifically, like glimmora is stresses me out
like if i dont kill it im ruined
Unless Miraidon but then again,If Terrain gone then-
oh yeah. miraidon
Man unloads (probably) shit because the bucket was too full
nah kevin knows food
I mean being one of the very few consistent answers to Calyrex-Ice is something, especially if its already amazing
consistent?
Not that consistent but putting it to sleep is very nice
yeah true
Especially to stall trick room
Because that thing is better than nearly everything in tr
is amoongus slower tahn calyice?
With 27 speed ivs yes
Why run that when Amulet is right there?
196+ Atk Entei Sacred Fire vs. 252 HP / 44 Def Rillaboom: 170-204 (82.1 - 98.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery
HMMMMMMMMMM
No insultes tio
just run tera grass caly if you’re afraid of amoonguss
or a pokemon that gives sleep immunity to your side
Tera Water and Fire have very good resists for calyrex, grass offers nearly nothing for it but that is the only reason to use tera grass, obviously i prefer the sleep immunity over the former
https://pokepast.es/0b31d4cecbd72842 Opinions?
I will come back in a bit but rn i have to go do something fast
Looks good
Looks good
I've been trying the Howl HO but with Zacian and i was using Gapdos so Incineroar can't hard counter my team
https://pokepast.es/73ffe56efe17f5f4
https://pokepast.es/8973716ede01304f
Thoughts on these? They’re just some concepts
The thing is
Doesn’t urshifu do the same thing
I have a horrible MU against TR lmao
Ah shit
True, i could run just Scarf Urshifu
Hmmm
I am back, good to know
You can run more than 1 check to incineroar just be wary they also have to have different reasons to justify them
G-Zapdos and Urshifu are both fighting types
Gapdos and shifu do the same thing
The EV spread is not so good but i have this https://pokepast.es/f556a25af9314a07
Any reason for sash flutter?
Specs is right there but it is probably for a different reason
And you can redirect the surging strikes so i think it is good here
Icy wind to have speed control, and in general just so it doesn't die too early
I don't use it so much in the matches anyway
Booster Speed is best with icy wind
So i could replace it with another thing
I can see a case for it with sash
If you want to go ahead but do note Gouging Fire already has booster energy
I think it looks good
But if i had to make changes (which is unnecesary) i would remove some SpA investment on flutter and put those on Spe to truly take advantage of icy wind
Jolly or Timid
Flutter: Timid
Zacian and Urshifu benefit more from Jolly then Adamant
Ofc if you want Urshifu to outspeed calyrex-shadow then jolly is fine
?
I think Torn is good for great support
Pelipper to wide guard and give urshifu a power boost in surging strikes
Honestly i think i will take the pelipper over tornadus
finally unlocked lunala path in DA
Plus it counters groudon and landorus
soon ill be hunting for it and making the team alive
I have 2 versions since I like Hearthflame as a Mirai partner but pelipper has bad synergy
With hearth
I want a rilla check
For overall balance tornadus is good
Honestly i thing Tornadus is best, you get more consistent speed control, checks rillaboom better, better synergy at the cost of no rain and wide guard
Which the team can handle
Late congrats
But congrats 

You trying to shiny hunt it?
Indeed
Spent the entire weekend doing sword dex so I better get it
For charm Ofc
I will shiny hunt Zekrom a ton tomorrow and do some squad runs
With Zekrom, i already plan to shiny hunt Kyogre and Xerneas in the future
Tomorrow i do have to make the notes, pokepaste and rental code for my rental
You can guess which restricted it has
So
Miraidon can Ohko +2 spD raging bolt
140 SpA Choice Specs Hadron Engine Miraidon Draco Meteor vs. +2 180 HP / 4 SpD Raging Bolt: 230-272 (103.1 - 121.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Good luck
Thanks, and good luck for your hunt too
lycopoky has given 1 Gen Rep to otot8953
🤝
can't post doggo with sword memes
You hunting lunala rn?
Mhm
Care to connect so I can get path?
sure, after i finish the adventure im in
No rush
I have Kyurem, Solgaleo, and Ray if you need any of them
Or I can get ho oh from Peonia rn
Should I be using -speed nature if I have snarl on incineroar
how do those correlate
So I don't use a -spatk nature
oh ok
I mean you still won’t be doing much damage
But it's still damage
Incineroar doesn't outspeed much anyways
It hurts ghost types
I think I never actually bothered to know how specially defensive the bulkiest flutter sets are
I wanna use calm mind ursa bm and wanna know how much I need to invest for +1 blood moon to ohko always without a boosting item
https://pokepast.es/c0a5a4db48de5453
Should i go for it
i just need to change Cress's Nature
You're really only using Snarl on Incin to drop Spatk, not to do damage
Ohko what
If you're going for damage with a Dark type move on Incin, Knock Off is there
is it a Bad idea if i use Cresselia for Terapagos Support
🤷♂️
Worth trying
If you think it could work give it a shot
it could,not a s Trick Room,but just healing and T-Wave
Yeah
I just also think Comfey probably still better though due to priority healing
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Comfey Ape Terapagos
What Comfey does not have Is Bulk and does not heal itself
Even clef
But priority healing is dope
Remember kids
Also Draining Kiss technically heals itself
If caly is led with redirection
Fo and taunt
Watch a replay of a Pokémon battle between Gholdengoat27 and BRAVE12223! Format: [Gen 9] VGC 2024 Reg G; Date: Apr 29, 2024
Outplayed tf out of this guy
Remember kids
China No 3 Shrek edition
Drago would you adopt a kid from China No 3 Shrek edition
No
What if the kid is like the dude from Meet the Robinson's?
Watch a replay of a Pokémon battle between Marisa_Fumo_Gaming and MorrisPXG456! Format: [Gen 9] VGC 2024 Reg G; Date: Apr 29, 2024
wtf is this Zacian Team-
a clearly superior version to my Zacian team lol
they got all the secret techs
zacian is so good on weezing teams
🐇
this one kinda
sucked tho
Cresselia:Heal go brrr
Zamazenta better
well the idea is it blocks the intimidate and you can control when zacian's ability activates so it isnt wasted
i think weezing in general is just a really underrated gem rn
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XDDDD
i was being ironic
that's not a good team
Watch a replay of a Pokémon battle between gryph10 and MorrisPXG456! Format: [Gen 9] VGC 2024 Reg G; Date: Apr 29, 2024
not this again-
Did you read below what I said
Ignore him if you’re not interested in what he has to say
Weezing Zac is a good concept
While this Pokemon is active, Abilities have no effect. This Ability activates before hazards and other Abilities take effect. Does not affect the As One, Battle Bond, Comatose, Disguise, Gulp Missile, Ice Face, Multitype, Neutralizing Gas, Power Construct, RKS System, Schooling, Shields Down, Stance Change, Tera Shift, Zen Mode, or Zero to Hero Abilities.
BUT caly would be a better weezing partner, as one doesn’t get turned off by the gas
it is cool to see it
how does wheexing zac even benefit though
control when Intrepid Sword Activate
Incin can’t intimidate
youd still have to kill it
Weezing just allows Zac to do things a little more freely
They run sacred
does it OHKO?
koraidon, zama ect
or souped up Tera Fighting Caly S
mostly fighting types
but thats Subjective
and its a spatcker
no i mean i said the team sucks
@molten oasis gholdengo kinda nuts rn
you said zacian is good on weezing teams
yeah thats why its Subjective
I’m telling you
It’s so good
insert WolfeyVGC Gholdengo Edit Music
What are you running it with?
not by your belief it just fits on my team lmao
oh yeah i just saw the combo and wanted to mention i thought it was cool
Well, it’s still good
same 6 ran by winner of vrs spring challenge
What makes dengo so good rn
Makes sense that team is very solid
i save you time, no good
Dengo is run with caly ice for zama
And other IDBP mons
Also solid into the mirror mu
and it beats Zacian and Zamazenta like you said before right?
Does generally beat Zac yea
i did pretty well with a zacian weezing team earlier on
it felt good
used regigigas
What do you have to prove that
no way I'm arguing with people who thinks weezing zacian is a thing sorry
that's a one-way debate
It’s not a thing that doesn’t make it unviable
Viability being subjective, it became a one-way debate
Bruh
I knew it, it's always like this
It’s one way cuz you refuse to give me a reason to respect your opinions
Ok
I'm secure claiming weezing zacian isn't a thing
Viability being subjective
buddy you gotta loosen your mind to the possibilities
One-way debate
Drago,Like you said,let just ignore him
good idea
Yuh
ignoring one-way debate is a good thing
see, you're so keen on getting a debate you are into attacking others on a personal level
ima wait patiently to see Zacian Weezing dominating next regulation
Maya what are you running rn?
this was my zacian weezing climb earlier on with my friend's team
i dont ussually like to drop things like this for argument sake
damn top 100
but it is evidence
Top 100 is impressive tho
Yea
It’s very impressive
I haven’t gone on a true grind in a while lol
I’ve tested here and there
BUT I’m hoping to get a team I like to top 100 for NAIC
Once finals are over
i did some grind and i am still only blocked by 1300 Border,honestly,for me who has Autism,Its alright
Soooo i used the Howl HO Zacian team
How is it
It's fine but TR sucks lmao
ladder ranking is all I need to screenshot to invalidate anything nowadays lmao
I think you have to run amoonguss
that's weak
Prove your worth before saying others worth is pointless
i said no to your one-way debate already
is this another jaysp/heatran/ray
In fact don’t try to say someone is worthless it’s fucking rude
Or something that maybe could OHK0 Farigiraf
Nah i can't
I was thinking about conditioning Farigiraf to tera but it's always paired with Inci
Or just using a Farigiraf on my own lol
It’s proof something works
nobody being worthless is what proof ?
Oml

Top 100 on showdown ladder is proof a team works
what proof do you get they played that team to get there
The Weezing-Zacian?
u can just ask them for replays :^)
It can work
She sent a screenshot of the fucking ladder
yes the ladder
So anyway
its true that you only have my word to go off of but i'm not a liar and I have this
I can only say that i made maymaytest specifically to use only this team so i wouldnt mess with my other accounts
ok i need the BBE4 BW Sprite
if you fail to see why this reasoning is flawed then I don't know
Is this another jaysp alt
thats what im saying lol
im getting really sus cus this is just how he acts 💀
since when we making Amogus Jokes-
theres just nothing else to do in canada ig
It’s another Jay
tragic
who's Jay
hes like joe
Anyone has any of these lebron james images but for VGC? Lmao
lol
Tofu sent one the other day
I can't send the one LBJ meme I got
If Lebron Plays Smash bros,I'm down for it
Yea although thah one is hilarious
Anyways y'all don't listen to Bobby
Alt or not, the takes are bad still 🤷♂️
It's whatever
Yuh
agree
Plus him saying we're acting toxic after all he wants to do is argue is also shitty as well
Idgaf lol
Anyways, Pokemon
lol,we are just chill as fuck
Lofi Music is Optional
Lofi music is great
its just relaxing when you have a hard time and want to chill in your room or doing work
oh dios mío
I listen to Lofi a lot when I'm laddering/working on blog
I listen to battle music when laddering
i like to listen to youtube videos
i should try music
I also have some upbeat EDM I listen to
Drago btw did you ever listen to that one
same,Usually Crush 40 or Xenoblade
I don’t think so
also when i do the Legendary Notes i just play the Themes on which Legendary i am writing
If its Kyogre,its ORAS Primal Theme
Just got killed by indeedee u-turning into its own psychic Tera armorouge to proc weak armor weakness policy
wooooow
People on ladder are fucking weird
now that's retro gaming

I lost to a Tera ground earthquake roaring moon today
It always feels great losing a match to such a silly gimmick. Makes me wonder how many people hit masterball rank by playing stupid stuff
I was not happy lol
i lost against a Psyduck team once,,,
lol i run that before lol
I hate CTS
If it wasn’t that I win with gholdengo
i lost to a Mewtwo team before,but then again,Its a gimmick team so that does not count
I hate CTS because I always run into people using minimize strats
I hate CTS because people are weird
And there is a special place in pokéhell for people who use minimize and moody
Minimise Strats,Smeragle,Stall
i will throw my controller out of the Window if i saw one /jk
I’m so happy y’all can let me complain about these troglodyte-produced strategies I see on CTS ladder
because we have experienced those before
The only weird thing I run is venusaur 😦
i mean at least its something that is normal,Minimise is just-
it just takes advantage of people who dont know any better
or people who are simply unprepared for it
They have to add a BO3 OTS ladder in the next games
yep
CTS just makes those strats infuriating
at least OTS kinda blames on the players don't look at the information if you don't know somehow
Cts punishes good teambuilding
exactly
i might not have good Teambuild,it just punishing for people
Cts allows more more types of teams I’d say though
Some people like their gimmicks
CTS be like: “Woo, down to 1v1, just my Raging Bolt vs their cute pawmot, most likely a revival blessing set.” Pawmot is Volt Absorb Tera Fairy because fuck me
tf-
Wait lemme check
252 SpA Transistor Regieleki Helping Hand Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Zamazenta in Electric Terrain: 276-325 (71.1 - 83.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Ummmmm
Specs?
Yes
think u missed the specs part, idk why u have terrain there
Okay not gonna lie, Tera fairy volt absorb pawmot with upper hand, close combat, nuzzle, and revival blessing sounds solid
But I may be crazy
ok wait-
also different sets, maybe they didnt have as much bulk
I had more…..
This sounds like it walls miraidon lol
ur running a calc w/o even knowing wat build ur calcing for
252 SpA Choice Specs Transistor Regieleki Helping Hand Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 100 SpD Zamazenta-Crowned: 247-292 (63.6 - 75.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Hmmmmmm
is it a crit?
252+ SpA Choice Specs Transistor Tera Electric Regieleki Helping Hand Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 100 SpD Zamazenta-Crowned: 192-226 (96.4 - 113.5%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
dont even need it
oh its Tera thats why-
they said that lmao
mhm
its a roll more in their favor to ko
ffs i need to look more info lol
cts is hell sometimes
Wonder if tera electric Regieleki ohkos caly s
run the calc 
i mean,if Zamazenta can't,then how Caly S can.
it has better sp def then def
another wtf instance
252+ SpA Choice Specs Transistor Regieleki Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Calyrex-Shadow: 138-163 (78.8 - 93.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Ok thats just unfair at the slightest-
sabeleye had an eject pact. Brought out guess who🐴
If you lead with incin that messes up that Strat, sableye is eject pack

yeah but i had no idea what they were tryna do
then protect to scout
dont relegate ur 1 restricted to wide guard support
switch to Protect
thats bait
Use pelipper for wide guard support unironically
Pelipper the GOAT
why?
i do that fir my lunala team and it works rly nicely
I think i might gonna see Calyrex Shadow Invalidates Urshifu Rapid and Flutter Mane-

