competitive_discussion

[bold geode]

https://tenor.com/view/elio-lizard-button-gif-10528652411096742370

[bold geode]

My autistic ass doomscrolling Tiktoks

[chrome knot]

mentally im here

[bold geode]

Mentally idk where tf I am

[cyan smelt]

Based and ting lu pilled

[jade dust]

YES

I reached top 10

@stone trellis we did it

[stone trellis]

🫡

The CIR agenda has been maintained.

[jade dust]

While the team was originally my idea, your help to make adjustments was very appreciated

[stone trellis]

What adjustments did I make?

[jade dust]

To drop dazzling

[stone trellis]

Oh, that.

[jade dust]

And put fleur cannon

It really OHKO Zama at +2

I only need it to be +1 tho, high horsepower from caly plus fleur does the job

[stone trellis]

Yeah.

[jade dust]

I also tested an anti darkrai tech

Give Fari chesto berry

Lead Fari and magearna

Protect magearna and trick room with fari

[real prairie]

Yeah use age fell off big time

[jade dust]

Then under trick room, helping hand fleur to darkrai

Even if they tera it’s a guaranteed OHKO

[stone trellis]

I'll try that out as well.

[cyan smelt]

Man I want to use magearna now

[jade dust]

Yee also does wonders against Smeargle

Just double it when trick room is up

[cyan smelt]

Magearna is broken

[stone trellis]

Have we cracked the Reg J meta?

[jade dust]

Attack with both magearna and fari

[jade dust]

And very fun to use

You don’t fall much behind if some of your team faint

As long as she’s in the field

[stone trellis]

It's a Pokemon that allows you to recover from bad situations if piloted properly.

[jade dust]

^

[stone trellis]

Like, really bad situations.

[jade dust]

The comeback pokemon

Like last respects

[cyan smelt]

I'm still trying to figure out good partners for pecharunt, malignant chain is funny when it activates

[craggy dagger]

choice scarf tail glow manaphy + psych up calyrex shadow…

[stone trellis]

And combined with a Pokemon that's so proficient in comebacks (CIR), it's just really good.

[cyan smelt]

Jungle bros has been solid so far

[stone trellis]

Jungle Bros might be on the team that wins Worlds.

[jade dust]

If you can get the perfect positioning to have them both in the field, nothing can stop you

[cyan smelt]

I just love faking out then pivoting with U turn and parting shot

[jade dust]

Getting them in position isn’t that hard either with rilla and incin

[cyan smelt]

I think I might replace Zama with cir and then go iron ball urshifu

[stone trellis]

I think I can run Parting Shot on Incin and give back the Safety Goggles since Farig has Chesto.

[jade dust]

I also have used the caly ice shifu lead a lot

[stone trellis]

Or one of the Power items.

[jade dust]

Shifu allows me to remove a thread and get an easy trick room

[cyan smelt]

I need to figure out what to do about magearna because I struggle against it

[stone trellis]

Yeah, even though Scarf might be better, I think the flexibility of not caring about CC Defense drops that Sash gives is great.

[jade dust]

Use your own magearna

[cyan smelt]

It always goes tera water in front of urshifu

[stone trellis]

There's Rillaboom.

And also your own Magearna with Thunderbolt.

[jade dust]

^

[cyan smelt]

Idk I like farig because of its utility

[stone trellis]

But I understand the advantages you gain by being able to pivot through Scarf.

[jade dust]

I ended up setting for tera grass on magearna

To have a sweeper immune to amoonguss

[stone trellis]

Oh shit, you're right.

[jade dust]

Just don’t tera in front of enemy caly ice

She already resists glacial lance anyway

[stone trellis]

When I get my hands on Arlecc's CIR, I'm going to make the team and share the Link Code with you.

The only problem is that I don't have Magearna.

[jade dust]

I got a couple back when the event was up

I had multiple profiles so I picked multiple ones

I can give you one but I think they are not 0 spd

[stone trellis]

Yo, can you trade me one tomorrow?

[jade dust]

Sure

[stone trellis]

It's fine, I can deal with that.

[jade dust]

Pls give us the rusted bottle

To set ivs to 0

[stone trellis]

We can call this team Big Shrek.

[jade dust]

Shrek forever

[stone trellis]

It's like the Big Six of Reg J.

[crude fractal]

do u guys want a competitive grimmsnarl?

IVs: 31 HP / 31 Spe / 31 Def / 31 SpD / 31 Atk / 31 SpA
EVs: 228 HP / 4 Atk / 156 Def / 116 SpD / 4 Spe
Careful Nature

[stone trellis]

Yeah, I doubt IVs will even exist by the next gen.

[crude fractal]

looks like this

[stone trellis]

My man, I already have a shiny I use for competitive.

Also, #trading_sv.

[crude fractal]

ik but nobody looks

[jade dust]

According to champions, no

If they remove them that’s fine

[cyan smelt]

Might test cir instead of Zama, dunno how well pecharunt goes in tr

[jade dust]

We then always have the same ivs

[stone trellis]

Yeah, that won't matter for half a year.

[crude fractal]

btw

[stone trellis]

Which Magearna has the lowest Speed IVs, Shrek?

[crude fractal]

if any of u guys need a competitive builded pokemon i'm here for u

[chrome knot]

lmao

[jade dust]

Let me see

I need to move it from SwSh, give me a min @stone trellis

Ouuuu

0 speed

[stone trellis]

YES

That's great.

So we can enact our plan.

[jade dust]

Yes

What I don’t have yet is 0 speed caly tho

But it’s fine, Magearna was harder to get

[crude fractal]

i have a very good trained incineroar that should fit perfectly there

wanna trade?

[buoyant coral]

Oh, thanks, I'll actually do it in the game, I'm thinking about it, but for now I'm playing more in the showdown.

[buoyant coral]

What do you want for him?

[crude fractal]

if u want to know my build tell me

[crude fractal]

dm

[foggy lodge]

Flutter Mane

And surf Kyogre is trolling

[buoyant coral]

i will change

[stone trellis]

Arlecc is going to trade me one with 1 Speed IV, so I can just make the team myself and then you can just use it as a rental.

[buoyant coral]

Sorry for leaving the remnants of my team, I was using it with riolu a bit.

[stone trellis]

Making changes won't be that hard, since I'll most likely farm Mochi and vitamins.

[buoyant coral]

Flutter mane is difficult because it's single target and smeargle is using the focus sash I think.

[foggy lodge]

Specs

[jade dust]

That is good enough, close to 0

[stone trellis]

It's literally the same as 0 if you don't give it any EVs.

[jade dust]

Ah

[stone trellis]

Remember, you gain one point per 2 IVs.

So it's still 49 Speed.

[jade dust]

So 1 and 0 do the same

[stone trellis]

Yeah.

It's just that 0 looks nicer sometimes.

[jade dust]

Lol yes cuz it’s more rare

[stone trellis]

Now I just need nicknames for the team members.

ClankerQueen for Magearna would be funny.

[jade dust]

It’s very satisfying getting KOs with this team and see both caly and margeana get boost

[stone trellis]

King Charles for Calyrex would be great too.

[jade dust]

DK Greens for rillaboom

[stone trellis]

What about Incin?

[jade dust]

Glick Puss

References to Wolfey and Puss in boots

[stone trellis]

GlickInBoots is better.

[jade dust]

Yes

That works

[stone trellis]

So we only have Farigiraf and Shifu left.

Gymrat Po and Melman.

[jade dust]

I was about to say Melman

Lmfao

Actually

Goth Melman

[stone trellis]

It's a Psychic type, what about it is goth?

[jade dust]

The Pokédex description

[stone trellis]

Fair.

Three of these guys have nicknames based on Dreamworks movies.

Is Dreamworks just peak?

[jade dust]

Yes

Actually for Fari let’s do PsyMelman

[foggy lodge]

Interesting team from Joey

[buoyant coral]

https://pokepast.es/abeff5fd18b9435f Hey, does anyone have an idea for the last pokemon for this VGC Reg I team? (Smeargle can run transform instead of fake out, so the last slot can be a fake out mon)

[next stump]

Rillaboom

gives you a better Miraidon MU and an ability to hit water types which RN is kind of a struggle

[buoyant coral]

Rillaboom is really needed right?

[next stump]

I think it's probably the safest 6th choice for this kinda team

[buoyant coral]

For sure

[next stump]

you could also consider a more niche grass type like Tsareena but Rilla is soooo nice for the Miraidon MU

[buoyant coral]

But I think I'll go safe anyway.

[next stump]

slap an AV on it and you've got something that can switch in while you figure out what Miraidon locks into

[buoyant coral]

No, rillaboom is good because of the fake out, then I can use transform smeargle.

I guess it's a good thing my smeargle is the only mon that smogon loves to call a gimmick.

[foggy lodge]

Don't use transform on Smeargle

It's better to have fake out

[vernal shadow]

Can't remember exactly. Indeedee F
Use psychic seeds. Defence and ho EVs and get the sp Def from the seeds right ?

[next stump]

yep, max HP max DEF and psychic seed to cover the SpD side of things

[vernal shadow]

Tyvm. Been a while

[gentle crag]

seamagician703 has given 1 Gen Rep to mlbd

[next stump]

no worries, welcome back 😄

[stone trellis]

It's crazy how, out of the five Pokemon who have won Worlds thrice, two of them are Flying types.

Flying really needs to be in the GOAT type conversation, to be honest.

[vernal shadow]

Playing on a cobblemon server and trying to recreate my reg G team. Bought a indeedee with perfect IVs bar like 1 point in defence. Things a monster

[shadow wind]

Groudon so bad he needed Ditto to balance out the amount of Restricteds 😔

[foggy lodge]

Joey knows how to play Groudon

[jade dust]

You just watched the new Wolfey video huh?

[foggy lodge]

Which is not relying on it and using Ditto isntead

But nah maybe you should try out his team

[shadow wind]

Ditto is the other restricted

[foggy lodge]

Ditto seems more to be to cover up the horses MU

[shadow wind]

Is there a paste?

[foggy lodge]

Tomorrow maybe there is

I don't have his OTS

[shadow wind]

Also Reg I is dead so no more Groudonning for me

[foggy lodge]

Grooning

[jade dust]

I agree what he said in the beginning, that flying types don’t look that strong because they lack attacking moves. Most of the list was supports

[stone trellis]

How'd you guess?

[stone trellis]

And I made the mistake of giving them a weather and good moves in my own region.

[jade dust]

Wdym

[stone trellis]

I've been doing some work on designing my own Fakemon region and a lot of the best mons there are Flying types.

I'll talk about it more in DMs so I don't flood chat.

[jade dust]

Alright, also I’m able to trade rn for the Magearna

[stone trellis]

Great.

The Link Code is 2907 2009.

Do you want anything for it or...?

[jade dust]

Nah dont need anything in specific

[stone trellis]

Great.

[jade dust]

Well when you get the caly ice, just to borrow it cuz, I need to calc the speed of it for when I try to catch my own

[stone trellis]

You should look for 76 Speed if it's a Speed-lowering nature, 85 if it's neutral and 93 if it's a positive nature.

That's on Ice Rider, at least.

I'm ready to trade now.

[jade dust]

I have a strategy, to have an Azumarill that is the same speed than slowest caly ice

So when I begin the match, if caly ice moves first, means it has speed ivs

If Azumarill moves first then it’s a speed tie or lower

[stone trellis]

Perhaps you could make it one point faster.

So it hits 50 Speed instead of 49.

Ready to trade?

[jade dust]

One sec, connecting

[stone trellis]

Ready yet?

[jade dust]

Damn it’s been a while since I played

Still have to update it

Alright ready @stone trellis

[stone trellis]

Great.

I'll just give you one of the random Basculin I got while trying to hatch a shiny.

[jade dust]

What’s the code?

[stone trellis]

2907 2009.

[jade dust]

Alright, that’s set

[foggy lodge]

https://x.com/WeedleTwineedle/status/1951652742528680320

WeedleTwineedle (@WeedleTwineedle)

For reg H in-game practice, we should consider using link double battles with a specific code like we did for bdsp doubles as a community 😍

X · Aug 2, 2025, 2:34 PM

[dull ibex]

I moved onto a new combo lmao

[short quiver]

so chat i got a couple team questions

koraidon CSR Galar Articuno Chiyu Flutter and Whimsicott, what sets and ivs can i run on Clear Amulet Koraidon and what can i run on Galar Articuno

[shadow wind]

Galar Articuno 🥀

[short quiver]

yes

[next stump]

Koraidon is Flame Charge/Flare Blitz/Collision Course or Close Combat/Protect with tera fire

galar articuno is buns

[short quiver]

okay and

[tiny karma]

Articuno-Galar's moveset:

Physical Moves

Brave Bird, Dual Wingbeat, Facade, Fly, Giga Impact, Psycho Cut, Steel Wing, Take Down, U-turn

Special Moves

Air Cutter, Air Slash, Ancient Power, Confusion, Dream Eater, Expanding Force, Freezing Glare, Future Sight, Gust, Hurricane, Hyper Beam, Hyper Voice, Psybeam, Psychic, Psychic Noise, Psyshock, Round, Shadow Ball, Snore, Stored Power, Swift, Tera Blast

Status Moves

Agility, Ally Switch, Calm Mind, Double Team, Endure, Guard Swap, Helping Hand, Hypnosis, Imprison, Light Screen, Mind Reader, Power Swap, Protect, Psycho Shift, Rain Dance, Recover, Reflect, Rest, Scary Face, Skill Swap, Sleep Talk, Snowscape, Substitute, Sunny Day, Tailwind, Trick, Trick Room

Notes

A move displayed with Bold text benefits from Same-Type Attack Bonus when used by Articuno-Galar.

Sableye version 4.28.2

[short quiver]

what can i run on it

flutter has focus sash
csr has life orb

[next stump]

air slash/freezing glare/tailwind/protect probably

[shadow wind]

Freezing glare is its signature move

[short quiver]

yes

[tiny karma]

Move: Freezing Glare

Has a 10% chance to freeze the target.

Type

Psychic

Category

Special

Power

90

Accuracy

100

PP (max)

10 (16)

Move Flags

​

Mirror

Copied by Mirror Move.

Contact

Does not make contact.

Sableye version 4.28.2

[shadow wind]

Holy that is trash

[short quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/i-want-my-bird-ivan-vanko-iron-man-iron-man2-marvel-gif-21230157

[shadow wind]

Why did the other 2 birds get broken signature moves

[next stump]

wait the team is 5 frail special attackers and koraidon

[shadow wind]

And then Garticuno got worse Psychic 😭

[next stump]

that’s gonna be very hard to play

[shadow wind]

It’s HO, seems pretty average

[next stump]

at least they got Bolt or Ogerpon hahaha

[short quiver]

whats HO mean

[shadow wind]

Hyper offense

[molten oasis]

Hyper offense

[short quiver]

i wanted firepon but was told to use chiyu instead

so i said okay

[shadow wind]

I would say Chi yu is better than Ogerpon on that team

But bolt over Garticuno would just make the team 18x better

[short quiver]

i want my bird 😦 also i dont even have raging bolt

[shadow wind]

I’m just telling you, you don’t have to do anything we’re saying

As a person who uses Groudon and only Groudon I’m used to not listening to advice that would just make a team better as well

[short quiver]

do you guys have potential stat sets i can run on this team 🫠

[next stump]

munchstats.com

[shadow wind]

We love munchstats here

God bless Pizza 🙏🙏

[short quiver]

im sure

ill check it out later

this team would give me two tailwind setters

[foggy lodge]

CONNER THIS WILL BE GROUDON'S MONTH

TRUST ME

[stone trellis]

Nah.

[shadow wind]

Why?

[foggy lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-kyogre-groudon-watch-yo-gif-25166886

[shadow wind]

If Victini was in the game I’d say he had a chance

But no, I never get to have any fun

[foggy lodge]

Groudon is on the rise in reg I

[shadow wind]

Oh Reg I

Yeah he’s been showing up more and more

Which I’m hyped for

[foggy lodge]

Groudon world champion

[shadow wind]

But will he ever do well?

[foggy lodge]

Nah but he is doing well in this meta

[shadow wind]

Well yeah

People just hate 85%

[foggy lodge]

72%,,,

But I think he can do well Seika winning ranked season with it may be a sign for a better future

[shadow wind]

Eh

He’ll usually do better on Bo1 ladder

But that is very impressive

[foggy lodge]

Fs

[solid frigate]

sid i hear galarcuno

my homie

[fluid fiber]

Man, having such a hard time team building rn

I'm leaning towards Koraidon + Chi-Yu, but Incin is so appealing too and that's already a type stack lol

[foggy lodge]

Depends on if you want HO or balance

I used a more balance version of Koraidon CSR with Scream Tail and Incin

[solid frigate]

What is your second restricted mon anyway

[fluid fiber]

Haven't decided my second restricted yet, wanted to start from the ground up

I messed around with Terapagos but it's a poor partner for Koraidon

Been using Eternatus which I've liked but it's not perfect

[stone trellis]

Koraidon's best partner is Shadow Rider Calyrex.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.

[fluid fiber]

That's fair, I just hate speed tying other Riders

[stone trellis]

Then have speed control.

[foggy lodge]

CIR Korai has been getting a bit more popular

[stone trellis]

I'm never using that.

[foggy lodge]

You still speed tie there lmao

[fluid fiber]

This is my first time piloting a Korai lol

[foggy lodge]

And you can't have permanent tw

[solid frigate]

it depends what you play

CSR = HO
Lunala = Balance
CIR = more TR heavy

[fluid fiber]

Usually I just dedicate to Terapagos lol

[solid frigate]

i tried it

Its actually solid

[stone trellis]

Oh right, Koraidon-Lunala's a thing.

[fluid fiber]

Hmm. Is Luna a good mon with Chi-Yu?

[stone trellis]

What partners do they even run?

[stone trellis]

On a theoretical level? Yeah.

[fluid fiber]

Chi-Yu is one of the most comfortable mons I've used in a LONG while so I'd like to work with it

I feel very confident getting it into good positions

[solid frigate]

you mostly run Incin but I’d say Indeedee Ursa is good for it anyway

[foggy lodge]

https://pokepast.es/ecaf865e1ccf4dde

[shadow wind]

Heat wave accuracy 🥀

[fluid fiber]

Yeah, this is true

I don't LOVE that

[shadow wind]

Why I vowed to never use Chi yu

I can only take so many missed moves

[fluid fiber]

That's how I usually am

[foggy lodge]

Not brave enough to click pblades sleep powder

[fluid fiber]

But something about Chi-Yu just feels so good lol

[shadow wind]

Not brave enough to click Pblades heat wave either

[fluid fiber]

Plus it's a cute Goldfish I mean

[shadow wind]

I mean it can kill both Zama and CSR

[stone trellis]

Why run Sitrus Berry on BB?

Why not just go for like, Rocky Helmet?

[foggy lodge]

Because the team doesn't need chip damage from rocky helmet

And I think its for the Urshifus

[fluid fiber]

Also crying for poor Eternatus having a max speed of 5 below the bikes

[stone trellis]

I still don't know what the hell CIR-Koraidon teams run.

[shadow wind]

Raging bolt !

[stone trellis]

AV?

I presume AV since CIR likes Clam and Korai likes Life Orb.

Maybe Magnet?

[shadow wind]

Or goggles

Raging bolt is VGC mon of all time

[stone trellis]

Goggles Bolt?

[fluid fiber]

Raging bolt is sick

[stone trellis]

The giraffe truly balls on forever.

He's the most malleable Pokemon ever.

Lando-T my ass, this guy has forty different fucking sets.

[shadow wind]

I feel like he has like 3 sets

[stone trellis]

Life Orb, Magnet, Assault Vest, Safety Goggles.

Booster Energy too.

That's five.

[shadow wind]

Every one except AV runs the same moveset though

[stone trellis]

Okay, and?

[shadow wind]

You could say that about any mon then

[stone trellis]

If the EVs and items differ, it's a different set.

[shadow wind]

Ok then every mon has 18 sets

[stone trellis]

You wouldn't say that Scarf Mirai and AV Mirai are the same because they run the same moves, would you?

[shadow wind]

You were making it out to be that bolt has unique sets though

Yeah AV and Scarf are different sets but Magnet and Lorb are the same set

[stone trellis]

Sure.

[shadow wind]

I would say Volcarona is a mon with more unique sets

Raging bolt always runs the same 3 moves

[stone trellis]

Technically, you're right.

[shadow wind]

I do get what you’re saying though

But bolt is just a good mon that loves any item you give him

[stone trellis]

Again, the giraffe balls on forever.

[shadow wind]

I love how they made a Tornshifu answer and gave it to Sun teams bundled up in a gift box with a bow

[stone trellis]

And they gave it the same Special Attack as Lunala.

[shadow wind]

Yeah I’m not sure why they did that

[stone trellis]

For the record, I think the only Pokemon from S/V with a higher SpA is Iron Moth.

[shadow wind]

I believe so yeah

[stone trellis]

And he got a priority move!

[shadow wind]

A stab signature prio move

[stone trellis]

Not to mention its great natural bulk.

[shadow wind]

Give us a fire prio move 🙏🙏🙏

I just want one

[stone trellis]

Spontaneous Combustion would be a fire name, no pun intended.

[shadow wind]

And make it 150 BP no drawbacks

Oh and only give it to Groudon

I just solved VGC

[stone trellis]

Huffing on that copium again?

He still gets trounced by Primal Kyogre.

[shadow wind]

Never stopped

Did wide guard exist in 2016?

[stone trellis]

I just realised how annoying Tera Grass Primal Kyogre would be.

And yes, it did.

[shadow wind]

The humble Chien Pao

[stone trellis]

The humble Urshifu:

[shadow wind]

Does Specs Kyogre hit harder than Primal?

It does right?

[stone trellis]

Probably does.

[shadow wind]

But primordial sea

[stone trellis]

Yeah.

Funnily enough, Specs Torkoal Eruption hits marginally harder than Pdon Eruption.

It does like, 5% more.

[shadow wind]

How?

There’s no way

Doesn’t Torkoal have like 80 spatk?

[stone trellis]

150 Special Attack if it's Modest means it reaches 225 with Specs.

Its base is 85.

[shadow wind]

And 150 hits 222 😔

[stone trellis]

So it surpasses Pdon by three points.

But it has exclusively worse stats everywhere else, so...

[shadow wind]

Good if you’re looking at the speed stat

[stone trellis]

Yeah, that one matters a bit.

[shadow wind]

90 speed 🥀🥀

L speed stat

[stone trellis]

I think my paradox versions of Groudon and Kyogre were like, base 47.

[shadow wind]

Holy that’s slow

But would make them better than CIR

[stone trellis]

They're Fire-Dragon and Water-Dragon respectively.

[shadow wind]

Isn’t it crazy how CIR has a chokehold on TR because no one wants to run Torkoal

Lest we forget how good Torkoal is

Oh and also Tera

Man screw tera

I want to click my moves without playing 80 different mind games

[stone trellis]

The paradox Groudon hits 159 SpA, so it ties with Charizard Y for the highest SpA on a Fire type.

[real prairie]

Reg J is just Darkrai central

[shadow wind]

I thought Zard Y was 174

[stone trellis]

Zard Y is 159.

[real prairie]

Had to add wide guard to my smeargle lol

[stone trellis]

Me when Mirai:

[tiny karma]

Pokémon No. 6: Charizard-Mega-Y

Types

Fire/Flying

Abilities

Drought

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

78/104/78/159/115/100

Total

634

Base Species

Charizard

Sableye version 4.28.2

[next stump]

could you imagine it being at regionals lol

[real prairie]

Toxic AF

[shadow wind]

I expected too much from the goat

[next stump]

fist fights would break out

[real prairie]

Fr

I'm already out here swinging

[shadow wind]

Where’s my Victini 😔😔

[foggy lodge]

Maybe it's a sick question but have there ever been a fist fight at a tournament or something lol

[real prairie]

People doing gravity CSR

[next stump]

there was a dad who got kicked out last year

because his son in juniors or seniors got hit with a penalty in TCG

[shadow wind]

They killed Victini and Cherrim, zero fun is happening

[next stump]

and the dad started swearing out the judges

[foggy lodge]

Lmao

[stone trellis]

I'd be throwing hands too if my opponent ran fucking Darkrai and actually won.

[foggy lodge]

Atleast is not regular

[next stump]

VGC is normally very very chill

[real prairie]

And this is why my son isn't into VGC yet

[foggy lodge]

Imagine something like that happened on stream💀💀💀

[real prairie]

I know the meltdown he would have and I'd struggle to deal with it if he was genuinely hard done by

(perks of an autistic kid)

[stone trellis]

If that does happen in a future regional, just know that it was me.

[foggy lodge]

I think the most similar thing I've seen was when it appeared that Cicciot and Verona were discussing on stream after a set

But definetly not a fight

[shadow wind]

If I ever entered a regional and missed more than 4 blades in a game people would notice

[real prairie]

We are pokemon trainers, most fights would be harder to watch than Darkrai stats anyway

There's a particular 2 "insert here" fighting meme that rings to mind

[stone trellis]

?

[next stump]

there's a few types of opponents:

1. Classic anti-social gamer who is just silent and doesn't say anything before, during, or after game

2. 20-something year old software engineer/computer programmer who is usually very chill

3. Legit dads who are 35+ years old and just vibing

4. Teenagers who just aged up from Seniors, usually very cringe in my experience

5. People who are unbelievably kind even if they're getting destroyed

6. People who will complain about RNG even when it had no effect on the outcome

[real prairie]

The bloke calling out wolfey being a cheat probably the closest I've seen

[shadow wind]

Big number 6 fan

[stone trellis]

I don't think most gamers are antisocial, that's a mental illness.

[real prairie]

If you don't get the reference I'm not at liberty to share it, may offend some

[stone trellis]

Tell me in DMs.

[stone trellis]

I think asocial is the right term.

[foggy lodge]

At my first local I was very timid lol

[stone trellis]

Did you become Bold or Calm afterwards?

[real prairie]

7. People who are full of themselves and are outrageously egotistical

[next stump]

definition 2

definition 1 is the psychology class definition

[solid frigate]

i guess i'm like neither of them

[foggy lodge]

But it was mostly because I was around people that already knew everyone

[next stump]

yep, definitely played those before

[foggy lodge]

It was a full community and I randomly appeared

The people I talked with were very nice with me tho

Someone gave me an Indeedee sticker

[solid frigate]

thats cute

[foggy lodge]

I still have it on my switch

[next stump]

I'm still very shy at locals

[shadow wind]

Imagine someone playing Psyspam and they hand out Indeedee stickers

[foggy lodge]

They were playing CIR balance

[stone trellis]

If I play Pagos, I'll buy a couple plushies and give them out.

[real prairie]

Done

[solid frigate]

i kinda just depends on my mood

[real prairie]

Cute lol

[foggy lodge]

Tho It would have been better for me if they played hard TR I would have had an autowin

I miss Zama rain

[real prairie]

Literally everyone was so cool at my regional apart from my last opponent

[solid frigate]

my last opponent did not even attend lmao

[shadow wind]

I really need to attend tours when I move

[next stump]

at least 80% of people at regionals are very nice humans

[real prairie]

Where you moving to?

[next stump]

sometimes shy and quiet but willing to talk if you engage

[shadow wind]

Down under

[real prairie]

Cool shit

[foggy lodge]

Most people just need that push to talk

[solid frigate]

if you meet me in EUIC (If i can)

Thats basically me

[real prairie]

Always been a dream of mine

[stone trellis]

I will never attend regionals.

[shadow wind]

Yeah going to Perth if everything goes to plan

[foggy lodge]

Most are not willingly ignoring others or uninterested they just don't know how to talk

[next stump]

I hit people with the classic "so where are you from"

[real prairie]

You were happy to chat my ear off 😜

[solid frigate]

at least i know you thats all lmao

[real prairie]

Haha very true ♥️

Buddy for life now haha

[real prairie]

So where are you from?

[dense latch]

i’d love to go to santiago regionals

[stone trellis]

So where are you from?

[foggy lodge]

I will try to go as an spectator atleast

[solid frigate]

unless we confirm the next year Janurary - april format

Whoever gonna be in EUIC i'm opening a GC for teambuild shit

[next stump]

https://tenor.com/view/chicago-cubs-bears-da-bears-chris-farley-gif-7161670

[solid frigate]

and also accomdations

[real prairie]

Id love to do one of the Brasil ones.

That culture + pokemon feels like real life pokemon movie vibes 🤣

[foggy lodge]

The call for EUIC will be stealing a japanese team

[solid frigate]

[foggy lodge]

As it always is

[stone trellis]

EUIC will be won by an American.

[solid frigate]

next*

[real prairie]

Gonna be quite funny when this server takes over EUIC

[stone trellis]

And NAIC will be won by an Italian to keep up the tradition.

[real prairie]

Guess I'm winning NAIC then 😜

[solid frigate]

i think its funny that i literally got dreaded over by choice Specs Eternatus back in bham

[real prairie]

Come a long way

My teams now shit on the one I got 5-3 with

[solid frigate]

i mean Eternatus is 100% way more fun if you drop the stall formula

Cuz its stats are so fucking perfect in my eyes and typing is not bad

If it has a strong ability then i would run it

[stone trellis]

My worst fear and the reason for not wanting to attend a tournament is appearing on stream.

[solid frigate]

mine kinda left in the dust but eh

Good to know Iron Crown One shotted a Groudon

[shadow wind]

Dragons maw 🥀

[foggy lodge]

Pressure wasn't bad before

To shit on Terapagos and the horses lmao

[next stump]

you can turn down stream unless you make top 4

[stone trellis]

If they cannot pronounce Michael Kelsch, my name will be like fucking Elvish to them.

[foggy lodge]

You can?

Pokealex said you couldn't reject showing on stream

[next stump]

yeah, it never really happens because most people want to but I've seen it happen before

[solid frigate]

i really want to meet MDB in person and just watch him roasting streams

[dense latch]

i’ve never met someone that pronounced my last name correctly on the first try

[next stump]

for swiss streams you can tell them no, I don't want to be on stream

[stone trellis]

Same here.

[next stump]

and they'll pick a backup

[solid frigate]

idm be on stream

[shadow wind]

I don’t know how I’d pronounce “SP” so it makes sense

[real prairie]

I am tentatively debating attending EUIC in a Miror B cosplay

[foggy lodge]

scott pilgrim

[real prairie]

If I got on stream with that it's curtains 🤣

[solid frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-miraidon-plush-spin-silly-gif-7447766115590536849

[shadow wind]

Might as well change my last name to Groudon at this point

[stone trellis]

Might as well change my name to King.

Wait, hold on.

[real prairie]

https://tenor.com/view/mirror-b-pokemon-pokemon-xd-battle-afro-gif-15350699

[solid frigate]

expect me to run a fucking rain team if its restricted format even without a fucking kyogre

[real prairie]

That's me

[solid frigate]

no you literally played scarf Ogre in bham don't lie

[foggy lodge]

pls euic in champion pls euic in champions pls euic in champions

[next stump]

if you can get rank 1 with ludi in Reg H i'll bring your team to pittsburgh

[dense latch]

my local special event should be on champions

[real prairie]

Ludicolo with choice specs Politoed or some shit

[dense latch]

imma win my first major 🗣️🔥 (1-3 drop realistically)

[real prairie]

Yeah I'm saying I'ma always run rain lol

[shadow wind]

Better than 0-3 drop 🔥🔥🔥

[solid frigate]

welcome to pittsburgh

The weather forecast predicting massive sentient pineapples are dropping down the city

[next stump]

you're gonna pop off, 2-3 drop

[real prairie]

Haha if only there was a reg H ladder 🙃

[foggy lodge]

Maybe you can go 3-3 as a little treat

[dense latch]

i hope to at least go neutral

[solid frigate]

i mean if you see me and jack did 4-4 and 5-3

You be fine

[next stump]

it's all a mental game

very easy to get down on yourself with a couple early losses, gotta stay strong

[solid frigate]

honestly mental game is fine for me

Its more like i can't jot notes while playing

[real prairie]

If champions doesnt have Ludicolo to start with I might cry

[solid frigate]

noticed when i was doing more better in 6-8 round

[dense latch]

i realized how bad my mental was in the smogon tour, lost a g3 vs mdb off one bad turn then lost my next two sets off tilt

[next stump]

it sounds really corny but I bring noise cancelling headphones and listen to music between rounds if it was really stressful

[real prairie]

Ngl I packed down so many energy drinks I had the jitters so couldn't think about worrying 🤣

[solid frigate]

if Mega Salamence is playable in champions

Expect me to play that guy cuz its my favourite megas now

[solid frigate]

i did that too

[foggy lodge]

My mental is better in tours than in ladder which is what I've noticed

Idk why is that

[solid frigate]

i kinda just

An energy drink and a sandwich

[shadow wind]

Gotta learn to take advantage of the tilt, it’s like a superpower

[foggy lodge]

Probably because of the direct interaction with people in tours

[stone trellis]

He's right.

[dense latch]

it’s easier to just queue and queue and queue in ladder too

[shadow wind]

I love queueing ladder !!

1300 is my only practice !

[solid frigate]

i kinda started to not do ladders

Rather find someone to actually help me practice

[foggy lodge]

One time I played a limitless tour and went 0-2 drop and my only reaction was "man did I do BAD"

And moved on with my day

[solid frigate]

wait which one

[foggy lodge]

As with ladder I keep tilted until I start another set lmfao

[dense latch]

that happened to me a while ago but my friend did just as bad as me so we laughed about it and moved on

they’re just practice ateotd

[foggy lodge]

Yeh

My best result is still a 5-3 at the spearpillar tour🔥

And I'm still mad with myself because I didn't figure out in that moment that Pelipper Urshifu was an instawin into the last round MU

[next stump]

that day 2 at santiago is gonna hit like crazy

[foggy lodge]

I wish I could

My goal this season is getting top 4 at a local lol

[shadow wind]

This was at a spearpillar tour

I should’ve taken a picture of the actual discord message

[foggy lodge]

My local community has something like a qualifiers tournament and I will try to get there

[shadow wind]

One second

[foggy lodge]

Was it the same tour

[next stump]

number 1 advice for anyone at IRL tournaments is to create gameplans into every meta matchup and write them down/print them to reference before the tournament

can't look at them during the round, but if you have a good memory/a lot of practice you're good

[solid frigate]

highly recommend it ngl

saved my ass

[shadow wind]

Was what the same tour?

[foggy lodge]

Oh it wasn't the same one

[dense latch]

o shit you’ve won a spear pillar tour? that’s sick

[shadow wind]

I was pretty stoked about it

It’s old now though, over a year ago

[foggy lodge]

Keeping the sauce hidden

[shadow wind]

I think I did it before I became active in here too

[foggy lodge]

Fr

[dense latch]

my best was a 20 person limitless win lmao

i miss regieleki

[foggy lodge]

Take me back to reg G

No one ever saw my full power with Koraidon Venusaur

[stone trellis]

"Why yes, I do want to die to a single Glacial Lance if I don't have the option to Tera"

[next stump]

eric rios was selling his LAIC team guide for like $15USD back in november, this is just a small snippit. Anything on this level, even if you make it yourself by hand, is gonna be so helpful

[shadow wind]

That’s still fire

I think that spear pillar one had like 40 some people

I could probably find it on limitless

[solid frigate]

i'm gonna hate myself but because i like Salamence and its not bad by any means

Why not

[stone trellis]

Just run Flying Tera Blast like the chad Lando-T.

[foggy lodge]

The best prep a lot of the times is to just run sets over and over again against the most popular meta teams

[stone trellis]

I know it breaks Sash, but who cares?

[foggy lodge]

If you do that, most likely will go atleast neutral at tournaments

[real prairie]

Did you mean #1 on SD?

[next stump]

second part of that is to get lucky at the regional and roll the common matchups

[foggy lodge]

You are already starting with an advantage

[next stump]

yes

[dense latch]

i need more prep into p2 ursa and rain

[shadow wind]

https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/6648f5e6b8762f7f15f6dcd4/standings

[solid frigate]

wish i have that luck on facing more Zamazentas

[shadow wind]

I did indeed find it

[foggy lodge]

Indeed

One has to be lucky to win

Or lucky enough to not autolose to rng

[next stump]

I got so lucky with CSR/Zama at this tour

If I got more Kyogre, CIR, etc., wouldn't have made Day 2 most likely

[dull ibex]

What's better with swordfish, Torn or Moon, and why?

[solid frigate]

i wish more Zamas in my run honestly

Cuz my team just mauls Zama

[dense latch]

moon is seen more since it does well vs csr

• knock off utility

[dull ibex]

Alright I'll go grab a roaring moon from trading

[foggy lodge]

Anyways still trying out this team https://pokepast.es/3d18c01904a315e4

I'm addicted to it is so good

[next stump]

is that the 6 victor medina was using?

[stone trellis]

Wasn't Emilio Forbes the guy who showed up dressed like a Blood to 2018 Worlds finals?

[dense latch]

i’m addicted to eu balance

[foggy lodge]

Yes

Erizabeth rain

[next stump]

he was in worlds finals but i never watched it so im not sure

[foggy lodge]

I just put extreme speed over tailwind on Dnite

[next stump]

i love victor medina

he might be my favorite player

[foggy lodge]

I love him too

Incredibly good at the game

[next stump]

I wish he could finally get a win

[foggy lodge]

My harry potter lookalike❤️

[next stump]

he's had a crazy good last year or two but no win, just so many top cuts

[foggy lodge]

2 second places is crazy

[short quiver]

anyone need any legendaries i have uh, a few

[foggy lodge]

And a bunch of top 8s

[stone trellis]

Yep, he was wearing the red.

Man really wore Choice Scarf IRL and thought we wouldn't notice 😭

Or is that Choice Band?

[foggy lodge]

For his choice scarf protect tapu bulu

[chrome knot]

lol i got like 4 of each set of

[stone trellis]

Just realised that Paul Ruiz is the only person with my name to have won Worlds.

Damn you, Paul Chua!

[next stump]

victor medina 🐐

[stone trellis]

He has potential.

[short quiver]

just asking cuz i do not need all these legendaries

[chrome knot]

i fear some of these u wouldn’t just be giving away but

happy for the people who may get them

[short quiver]

not all of them are for trade just the duplicates

[spiral nymph]

Hey guys, did you know that Pikachu is the mascot of Pokemon to this day? Pretty crazy

[molten oasis]

156*1.5

[gentle crag]

Result: 234.000000

[stone trellis]

Are you calcing Scarf Kyogre?

[molten oasis]

God dammit that ape wasn’t scarfed

I had it otherwise

[stone trellis]

Mr. Apeshit somehow finding a way to be relevant by dying a second time off-rip:

[waxen dock]

Are they hacked?

[stone trellis]

He said he caught most of them on Shield, so I doubt it.

[dull ibex]

Can I go 252 252 on iron Jug?

[buoyant coral]

https://pokepast.es/38267d29b7ed83c0 a cool team i created since choice specs terapagos is being used more.

[bold geode]

[chrome knot]

what

[stone trellis]

I think someone gave monke a lobotomy.

[bold geode]

Helloing

But really
Lizard

[bold geode]

You're jealous you didn't get one

[stone trellis]

Blink twice if you need he- Oh wait he's a lizard, he can't blink.

[waxen dock]

Can i still get cp from gc if my switch nintendo account isnt the same one as the nintendo account that i do the gc on?

[stone trellis]

Get what from GC?

Oh, nevermind.

[waxen dock]

Cp

[bold geode]

No

I mean you'd be linking it to yourself either way

I think it's a disqualify? Idr exactly

[waxen dock]

Why?

Didnt wolfe do that?

[bold geode]

Cuz if not you could just
Abuse tf outta that system

[bold geode]

His other account he did the Korai Perish stuff on wasn't connected to Play Pokemon

[chrome knot]

he didn’t get pts

[next stump]

can you explain a little more what you mean

[chrome knot]

each time he alted he forfeit the means to obtain pts from gc

[next stump]

like you registered on pokemon's website using one switch account and you want to play under another?

[bold geode]

Emma I'm playing H again help me

[waxen dock]

I registered an acount on the pokemon website but it isnt the swtich one

[next stump]

so you have a trainer club profile on the pokemon website but some of the information isn't accurate?

your account should say this

[molten oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-shut-up-shut-it-shush-shut-your-mouth-gif-14195072583773268462

[next stump]

If you choose to play under another nintendo account, you dont earn points

[bold geode]

Drazil

Waka wak

Anyways chat have we all decided to stop Reg J yet

[chrome knot]

https://tenor.com/view/shatap-gif-24359594

[bold geode]

Chat if anyone answers they're playing Reg J, point and laugh

[bold geode]

Shiggy wiggy

[chrome knot]

un playing reg j

[bold geode]

You are?

[chrome knot]

ya

[bold geode]

What you using

[chrome knot]

idk

im not good at lying

[bold geode]

LMAO

Girl just wanted to be laughed at

[chrome knot]

magearna trick room

[bold geode]

https://tenor.com/view/buzz-lightyear-gif-21327280

That and Arceus

I'm not touching that format with a 39 1/2 foot pole

[chrome knot]

i play mario kart

[bold geode]

Damn what Pokemon is that

Is he broken?

[molten oasis]

That’s much better than what I found

[molten oasis]

[real prairie]

I'm live doing ladder games with Ludicolo if anyone fancies coming and saying hi.

Link in in the self promo 🙂

[short quiver]

im playing Reg J

[short quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/squidward-daring-today-spongebob-spongebob-meme-daring-today-arent-we-gif-23808696

[chrome knot]

yeah i like winning

[short quiver]

understandable

[molten oasis]

https://pokepast.es/9058afa62056c641 thoughts on a 6th?

[chrome knot]

annihilape

[short quiver]

meanwhile me using meowscarada and galarian articuno 🙂

[chrome knot]

okiwe

[short quiver]

i expected a more interesting response

galarian articuno is so cool AND its not restricted so

[chrome knot]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regh-2414250443-q7ls85alroysoy2n1y4njak9n61y3gqpw

she still got it ig lolz @bold geode

[foggy lodge]

Idk why top cut explorer keeps bugging on my computer lol

Does that happen to anyone else

[molten oasis]

Why ape?

[chrome knot]

ape just fits well on this core

tested it alot w/ some friends before toronto

[molten oasis]

Alr

https://pokepast.es/677eae3acc2f95d9

[chrome knot]

i feel like a bully being 1000 again lmfao

[foggy lodge]

I forgot that Chomp speed ties were a thing lmao

[short quiver]

if a prankster mon used baby doll eyes it would be +3 priority correct

[foggy lodge]

yes

[real prairie]

9-0 tonight on cart ladder, having a good night 😄

[foggy lodge]

pog

[real prairie]

Ah psyspam

[chrome knot]

uhhhh

[real prairie]

How I have not missed thou

[chrome knot]

want a replay it was anything but psyspam LMFAO

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regh-2414257571-u89c37f4n38t1nc4bfico90w2kno0htpw

[foggy lodge]

me because I don't have a broken electric terrain setter

actually what is Pincurchin doing

there are no paradoxes and they already have an Indeedee

maybe I'm asking too much for a 1100 elo team

[short quiver]

maybe they dont wanna go to sleep

[dull ibex]

https://pokepast.es/d380e857c9d4c865 fixed teras

[foggy lodge]

4 tera waters is wild lol

Go tera grass on Ogre

And tera fire or steel on Jugulis

[dull ibex]

Idm having 4 water teras

[molten oasis]

Tf was that lmao

[jade dust]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regj-2414280858-fgvqetgg5wodi5xj0fmu7xn6ofo35brpw

Take that L fucking asshole

I’m glad I won that

Such a toxic match

[molten oasis]

Mm, tw teams are annoying

[cyan smelt]

Whimsicott is very annoying

[solid frigate]

what is a good name or basc

https://pokepast.es/1b48c4c85a44db30

For this team cuz somehow this is my best so far

[dense latch]

always thought it kinda looked like bowser

[real prairie]

Ended the night 12-1 but it's 4am lol time for bed 🤣

[dull ibex]

they are so good though

[solid frigate]

ah yes Bowser as Feesh

[short quiver]

cotton ball is epic

[jade dust]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regj-2414296731-urc167mkctv81dbw3c5m9i66rv9eclvpw

Such a close game

Against seed number 7th

What could I have done better to win?

I was really scared of the Torkoal so there is that

[cyan smelt]

Probably could have knocked off the calyrex, or used tbolt again with magearna

[jade dust]

Yeah I think I let their caly strck around for too long

They were intimidated so I ignored it but it got back up to neutral at the end

[shadow wind]

Well I just hit 12th on the inheritance ladder

Mobile moment so I just keyboard mashed

[cyan smelt]

I'm always gonna assume dondozo is covert cloak now

[latent leaf]

Mythicals are gonna be allowed?

Darkrai found alive in a ditch?

[cyan smelt]

Darkrai sableye is super annoying

[molten oasis]

reg j also sucks and every mythical is ass except arceus and magearna

[zinc moat]

Quick question for those who know.

Whats the current suggested build for Jirachi, Speed and attack or speed and sp attack?

[molten oasis]

and even then

[dense latch]

never used jirachi before but i imagine max attack max speed would be good for iron head flinches and such

[zinc moat]

I would assume so also, I just seen a lot of swapping between the two.

[cyan smelt]

Maybe give it scarf to outspeed most stuff

[zinc moat]

Finally got one I been ribbon mastering to the switch so might as well max him out so I can try and get that ribbon.

Support move suggestions?

[cyan smelt]

Wide guard and redirection, does not like astral barrage or dark type moves

[zinc moat]

Will keep that in mind thank you.

[stone trellis]

"Dance if your GOATed"
Farigiraf:

[jade dust]

Good job

[jade dust]

And yes the tech works

[stone trellis]

Chesto?

[jade dust]

Yes

[stone trellis]

Fuckass little giraffe.

This team is absolutely great for Bo1.

[jade dust]

Scarf shifu also is great against Darkrai

Tera water surging strikes

[stone trellis]

Screw it, I'm scarfing it.

[stone trellis]

Can you send me the updated paste?

[jade dust]

https://pokepast.es/6a29a83f13102f8b

[stone trellis]

Why have two High Horsepower users?

Wood Hammer from Rilla kills Kyogre.

By a wide margin.

Glide only does like, 80% at most.

[jade dust]

Grass is very bad offensively so to have the option to chip zama, mira and incin is appreciated

[stone trellis]

Sure.

But you're forgoing a really powerful STAB move in Wood Hammer.

[cyan smelt]

I'm putting chesto on farig too because it helps with shroom

[stone trellis]

Does Foul Play account for STAB on the user's end or on the target's end?

Like, if it's used into two Pokemon with the exact same Attack and Defense, but one's a Normal type and the other is Dark-Ghost, will the Dark-Ghost one take more damage?

[cyan smelt]

Is foul play damage reduced by burn

[stone trellis]

Presumably it is, since burn cuts your Attack stat.

[cyan smelt]

I haven't really been able to make the most of pecharunt, maybe I should replace Zama with caly I and go hard tr with scarfshifu the only fast mon

[stone trellis]

Do what suits you.

[cyan smelt]

Will need to test caly I instead of zama

[stone trellis]

Pech has the most aggressively mediocre stats in everything except for the Pdon-ass Defense.

[cyan smelt]

Too bad it doesn't get body press lmao

Malignant chain is so funny when it activates though

[stone trellis]

Poison Puppeteer?

[cyan smelt]

Yeah

[stone trellis]

Yeah, I guess that's funny.

[cyan smelt]

Then if it survives it has hex as well

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, maybe I need screens instead

[waxen dock]

Use saefty googles

[cyan smelt]

Doesn't help with dark void

[knotty mirage]

Just wondering tho does miraidon hard counter gravity dark void or there a way around it

[cyan smelt]

Yeah but those teams have Groudon too and lilligant

[stone trellis]

They do?

[cyan smelt]

The one that I played did

[stone trellis]

I never encountered LIlligant + Groudon.

[cyan smelt]

Well at least Groudon

[knotty mirage]

Is your second restricted doesn't counter groudon or ground type

[stone trellis]

And the hell is Lilligant gonna do, Sleep Powder into Miraidon or After You inside of Trick Room?

Both die to CIR anyway.

[cyan smelt]

The sableye has quash

[stone trellis]

My brother in Christ, switch to Farigiraf.

[cyan smelt]

Yeah ik but Darkrai has dark pulse too

[stone trellis]

Tera Fairy Farig and Dazzling Gleam on both.

[cyan smelt]

What moves on farig, tr, helping hand, d gleam and foul play?

[stone trellis]

I was talking about Miraidon Dazzling Gleam, but sure.

[cyan smelt]

Oh right

[stone trellis]

Miraidon and CIR don't hard counter Gravity Darkrai teams, but they give those teams a hell of a hard time.

I mean hell, I was able to beat three of those teams without using Miraidon.

[knotty mirage]

Yeah i think i might just need too slot taunt flutter on my team now

[cyan smelt]

Taunt incin

[knotty mirage]

Not fast enough

It would be asleep before it can taunt the darkrai

[stone trellis]

Chesto Berry.

[knotty mirage]

And your partner

[stone trellis]

What are they going to do, switch CSR into fucking Incin?

[knotty mirage]

You can only makes one of your mon hold chesto

[cyan smelt]

Taunt tera bug incin helped me beat a gravity Darkrai team

[stone trellis]

Just get lucky on that front.

[knotty mirage]

Yeah incin will woke up but the partner will still asleep

[cyan smelt]

Just use scarfshifu and force it to tera

And surging strikes it anyway

It's frail

[knotty mirage]

Could work but you know there some mfer who try to be cheeky with scarf darkai that have dark void

[cyan smelt]

Don't they have sash

[knotty mirage]

And no i already check adamant scarfshifu surging doesn't even ohkod it

[cyan smelt]

Tera water

[stone trellis]

236+ Atk Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike Surging Strikes (3 hits) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Darkrai on a critical hit: 156-186 (107.5 - 128.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO

[knotty mirage]

Wait let me check again

[cyan smelt]

Or helping hand farigiraf

[stone trellis]

Yeah, what are they going to do, Quash the +5 priority move?

It doesn't even work.

[cyan smelt]

Can't even quash with farig on the field

[stone trellis]

Exactly.

[cyan smelt]

Then you just gotta deal with the Groudon

[stone trellis]

The ever-reliable Urshifu:

It can 2HKO in sun even if it's max HP.

[knotty mirage]

Just wondering where do you get this calc because when i tried calcing it always end up on 86.8-101 so it's not guaranteed ohko

[cyan smelt]

Were the ones you fought also choice band Groudon

[knotty mirage]

Oh nvm tera water

[jade dust]

Wow the ladder grows fast

I was top 10 last night

Now top 10 is 1600s

[buoyant coral]

https://pokepast.es/2c11bd27db397550 last pokémon for the team?

[cyan smelt]

Landorus

[solid frigate]

Bonnet or Amogus

[buoyant coral]

Speed EV to kyogre work on tailwind and trick room?

and IV maybe, idk

[buoyant coral]

?

[solid frigate]

if you want you can just run 12 speed to hit 112

this way you can outspeed Shadow Rider and Scarf Shifu while Kyogre is in TW

Kyogre @ Mystic Water
Ability: Drizzle
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 236 HP / 100 Def / 156 SpA / 4 SpD / 12 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk

• Water Spout / Hydro Pump
• Origin Pulse
• Ice Beam
• Protect

this tanks Koraidon's Life Orb Close Combat most of the time
252 Atk Life Orb Orichalcum Pulse Koraidon Close Combat vs. 236 HP / 100 Def Kyogre: 177-211 (86.3 - 102.9%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO

[buoyant coral]

With 31 IVs right?

[stone trellis]

Yeah, obviously.

[buoyant coral]

Thank you.

[foggy lodge]

@dense latch I beated Westy Liam lol
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025reghbo3-2414575971-fox7c4o8bwngdq4sr1y2tuqspv642vdpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025reghbo3-2414574529-wfnbcke5qnrar2j3na0p1bcp4j4gs7xpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025reghbo3-2414573098-o0esqh1r51f7tm55vjfp73lbifa3rhvpw

[stone trellis]

Who?

[buoyant coral]

Hey, is it normal for the last Pokémon in a team archetype to be more similar to the others? Like Landorus just having more options than Tornadus, changing 3KOs to 2KOs and even some 2KOs to OHKOs, while still being part of the Genie family, or Amoonguss fishing for Spore like Smeargle?

[buoyant coral]

the team

[dense latch]

welcome to the club lol

[dense latch]

liam westland, made top cut at bologna iirc

[stone trellis]

Oh.

Yeah, he placed just outside the top 16.

[buoyant coral]

To be fair, someone defeated Wolfey, who was messing around very little with a super messy ice team because he got 2 freezes.

1% chance

[foggy lodge]

what

[next stump]

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X · Aug 3, 2025, 5:36 PM

groudon in finals

[shadow wind]

WILL HE GO ALL THE WAY

Yo it’s literally a good MU too😭😭

Please please please

Whoa he beat swordfish as well

I hate that MU so much

[solid frigate]

i'm not gonna underestimate Koraidon CIR that much but good luck for either

[shadow wind]

Hey the other guy in final is literally named Yu-Chi using a Chi-Yu

[solid frigate]

i'm not gonna say Chinese name cuz that person is from Taiwan-

but eh wasn't important

[shadow wind]

Joe won?

Groudon won

It’s a beautiful day

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Victory Road VGC (@VGCVictoryRoad)

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X · Aug 3, 2025, 5:59 PM

[next stump]

let’s goooo

I hope he brings it to worlds

[shadow wind]

Me too

It’s kind of a boring paste but that’s ok

Screens Specs is a bit weird though

But maybe that’s the sauce

[next stump]

If I had to guess it’s probably incredibly bulky Mirai and you play off screens and thunder wave

[shadow wind]

Most likely yeah

[next stump]

I wonder if you can make Lance a 3HKO behind reflect with tera fairy

probably pretty easily

[shadow wind]

It probably does it with like 44 28 invest

I wonder what the Lando MU is

Looks like he didn’t run into a Lando

[molten oasis]

Go Kian or Samuel!

Nvm I’m stupid

Funky mu for finals lol

[short quiver]

what teammates can i use with Kyogre CSR and Basculegion

[shadow wind]

https://pokepast.es/e44e33e418682397

This won Portland

[stone trellis]

He wants to use CSR, not CIR.

[shadow wind]

I misread 😔

[short quiver]

😃

[stone trellis]

But realistically, all you really need is a Tailwind setter on this bitch and you should be golden.

[short quiver]

cotton ball

[stone trellis]

Or Torn, both work.

[next stump]

you're gonna want tornadus to help deal with rillaboom

[short quiver]

ill retrieve him from PLA then

a shame my grimmsnarl isnt shiny

[stone trellis]

I have a shiny, but I'm never trading White Goblin.

[molten oasis]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regh-2414654198-co32k22v0wttl2bujddem2dvl5y4tucpw really enjoying harc rilla a9 chomp

[foggy lodge]

I told you

[stone trellis]

I kind of want to run a CIR-Mirai team with screens. Does anyone have a Pokepaste or some suggestions as to what else I should run?

[foggy lodge]

Borrow the Utrecht team

[next stump]

do you have darsh's paste from a while ago still

[stone trellis]

Doubt it.

Just send the paste.

[chrome knot]

reg h is sm funnn

https://pokepast.es/fb4afc646054bba0 hi is this supposed to be fake out or coaching on sneasler?

[foggy lodge]

Both!

[chrome knot]

well no protect is kinda important

[foggy lodge]

But if you want protect I would go coaching

[chrome knot]

I found that out last reg h

[foggy lodge]

Getting the Gambit and Dnite on line

Maybe even for Incin both offensively and defensively

[knotty mirage]

So anyone who already tried out reg J which mythical is the most common is it arceus ?

[chrome knot]

thx coaching dnite just blasted through a team 😭

[gentle crag]

setsumizi has given 1 Gen Rep to maxihd

[chrome knot]

forgot that dragonite is quite literally her