#competitive_discussion

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solid frigate
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LMAO

dense latch
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be generous and give it some bulk

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so it's just a bit less ass

lofty tartan
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0 Atk Incineroar U-turn vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Malamar: 104-124 (53.8 - 64.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

dense latch
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wow that's bad

forest arrow
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still a 2ko

foggy lodge
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Does it survive a struggle bug from Volc

glacial tartan
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okay, well you don't always have to put the most popular PKMN on the team!!!!

forest arrow
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LMAO

lofty tartan
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Yeah the bulk didn't do anything

foggy lodge
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You don't

solid frigate
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252 Atk Choice Band Dragapult U-turn vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Malamar: 252-300 (130.5 - 155.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Free ahhhh pivot

foggy lodge
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But there is a difference between using uncommon pokemon and using shitmons

dense latch
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but malamar isn't what you put instead

lofty tartan
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Having said that - Malamar is not it

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You can run him, by all means.

dense latch
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uncommon mons need to at least fill a niche that's useful into the meta

solid frigate
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Rillaboom is not popular yet its still on 1/4 of everyone's team at worst

dense latch
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what's malamar's niche

forest arrow
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Just giving friendly advice, youre more than welcome to run favorites

solid frigate
foggy lodge
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Incin counter?

lofty tartan
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Yeah damage numbers are just numbers - data and nothing else.

foggy lodge
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Idt superpower at +1 even KOs

dense latch
cyan smelt
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Lurantis does a better job with contrary superpower

solid frigate
lofty tartan
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Lurantis is lowkey 🔥

tiny karmaBOT
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Pokémon No. 754: Lurantis
Type

Grass

Abilities

Leaf Guard, Contrary (Hidden)

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

70/105/90/80/90/45

Total

480

Other Formes

Lurantis-Totem

dense latch
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at least lurantis has a cool design

lofty tartan
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But you really gotta build around it to make it do more than nothing

solid frigate
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its lowkey gas

dense latch
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i used it back in swsh series 10 it was pretty fun

lofty tartan
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Lurantis is one of my raid mons milk_shrug

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Leaf Blade spam. Get stupid

solid frigate
foggy lodge
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I still have to do chien poo raids

glacial tartan
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is it true that ampharos is OP?

lofty tartan
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No

foggy lodge
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No

dense latch
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who told you that

glacial tartan
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just a Rocket rumor...

solid frigate
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don't care

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unless Mega Ampharos has thunderclap then i think it has potential

lofty tartan
foggy lodge
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This Ampharos' whole limitless page

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One single result from +10 years ago

solid frigate
lofty tartan
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Oh hey Ampharos.

dense latch
lofty tartan
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His resume: unemployed

foggy lodge
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Me

forest arrow
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or a slow bulky electric fighting type

lofty tartan
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Brian HANDS

dense latch
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damn ampharos gets outbulked outstrengthed and outnecked

solid frigate
solid frigate
glacial tartan
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I was raised on the rumor that there is power in the pokemon, and that you have train extremely hard to bring it out

dense latch
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yes but no

lofty tartan
solid frigate
foggy lodge
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Unless you mean EVs

lofty tartan
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Like when we were all in Gen 1 we thought Onix was really strong and really he's garbage. The anime hyped him up too hard.

dense latch
lofty tartan
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Like he's Brock's ace twice

dense latch
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rather than chucking supplements on them

foggy lodge
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PV

solid frigate
glacial tartan
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again, Masuda told me and i think i confrimed it once...

foggy lodge
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Power Values

tiny karmaBOT
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Pokémon No. 95: Onix
Types

Rock/Ground

Abilities

Rock Head, Sturdy, Weak Armor (Hidden)

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

35/45/160/30/45/70

Total

385

lofty tartan
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My grandad is Mister Nintendo.

tiny karmaBOT
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Pokémon No. 595: Joltik
Types

Bug/Electric

Abilities

Compound Eyes, Unnerve, Swarm (Hidden)

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

50/47/50/57/50/65

Total

319

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Pokémon No. 112: Rhydon
Types

Ground/Rock

Abilities

Lightning Rod, Rock Head, Reckless (Hidden)

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

105/130/120/45/45/40

Total

485

dense latch
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they really just made onix and better onix in the same gen

glacial tartan
solid frigate
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honestly fuck ash ketchum plot armor

dense latch
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and to send me some money i have paypal

foggy lodge
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can you tell your dad to let me play miraidon in reg H

lofty tartan
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We have Miraidon in Reg H

cyan smelt
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i thought u meant archaludon

foggy lodge
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Close enough

lofty tartan
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Gets rekt by Ursa

glacial tartan
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😋 well, i'm pretty sure he'd kill me, if he heard i exposed everything on this server...

lofty tartan
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Cool. Anyway. O.o

foggy lodge
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whaaaaaaat

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wrap it up guys quick we are getting exposed

solid frigate
glacial tartan
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search my history in genral chat and here

foggy lodge
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no thanks we are fine

lofty tartan
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I'll pass.

cyan smelt
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boy i sure love pokemon conspiracy theories

lofty tartan
foggy lodge
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you can move on and let the adults talk

solid frigate
solid frigate
cyan smelt
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is landorus also a pseudo restricted

foggy lodge
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I'm a big boy shut up

solid frigate
foggy lodge
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I'm a strong tough and terrific big boy!!!

solid frigate
lofty tartan
dense latch
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ik ik the gif was just too tempting

lofty tartan
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YOU WOUND ME

solid frigate
dense latch
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i think we saw them the first time there's just a bit too much to unpack in 4 minutes

patent terrace
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my bad

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sorry

lofty tartan
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That and being 10 O.o

dense latch
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it's okay i dont mean to be harsh just letting u know

patent terrace
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all good

dense latch
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first things first perish trap doesn't work in reg i

patent terrace
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yah, iguess

dense latch
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way too much offense to make that work

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the other teams are not horrible but likely need some set reworks

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and a few mons replaced maybe

patent terrace
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okay, what do you think could be replaced?

dense latch
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im doing something rn i'll try and give u some feedback in a bit

patent terrace
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thanks so much

cyan smelt
patent terrace
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triple fakeout might be too much, espicially against other farig

dense latch
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sneasler rilla incin gambit is okay i just dont think farig gliscor is the play for the last two

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looks more like a dnite angle to me

cyan smelt
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i just want gliscor for anti-sneasler

dense latch
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you can do gholdengo over kingambit

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considering 5/6 of your team is physical

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you kinda get destroyed by rain

cyan smelt
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yeah that might work considering gambit just gets destroyed by cc and body press a lot

glacial tartan
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Is talonflame competitive?

dense latch
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in reg h yea

lofty tartan
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In Regulation H and some others, yes.

cyan smelt
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i might need to rework my team then, idk what to do about peli arch

lofty tartan
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Electabuzz

glacial tartan
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Which attack stat should I raise, i keep getting low attack on it!

cyan smelt
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replace farig with buzz?

lofty tartan
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Talonflame is mostly support, somewhat of an attacker. You just do max physical attack. Don't use Special Talonflame

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Brave Bird/Flare Blitz are the higher damage moves

cyan smelt
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i'm kinda concerned about having no speed control if i replace farig

shadow wind
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Choice specs hurricane in the rain !!!

lofty tartan
dense latch
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ebuzz dengo is great into rain

forest arrow
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Buzz is cracked

cyan smelt
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ok then i'll replace gambit with gholdengo and farig with buzz

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ty guys

lofty tartan
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Buzz alone just weighs the Rain matchup more in your favor.

lofty tartan
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Eweb is my preferred spice. Breaks Sash.

cyan smelt
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buzz helps redirect beat up junk too

lofty tartan
forest arrow
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Yeah good tool kit going for it

lofty tartan
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Often times, all you need is an Eweb to pickup the KO

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Buzz is too strong

shadow wind
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And then they switch in the bridge 🥀

dense latch
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mika are you still uisng bax?

lofty tartan
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Pelipper hates this one trick

forest arrow
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Vital Spirit to avoid sleep or Static to be annoying to physical attackers

glacial tartan
lofty tartan
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I love Static Buzz.

shadow wind
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Viral spirit is like 18x better on most teams

lofty tartan
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Like what's your point? You're not training Talonflame to survive anything meaningful, he doesn't get a chance to stick around, sets Tailwind, maybe scares Rilla or picks up a KO on Sneasler, leaves

glacial tartan
lofty tartan
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Once Gale Wings is broken then he's pretty cooked.

glacial tartan
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They overhyped every Pokemon i said about

lofty tartan
glacial tartan
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And I'm training them!!

lofty tartan
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Train whatever you want. Resources are infinite.

lofty tartan
dense latch
lofty tartan
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My wife's first shiny in SV was a Dratini that she gave to me.

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Full odds accidental shiny

dense latch
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it's been great

glacial tartan
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Are rhyperior and kangaskhan op?

lofty tartan
dense latch
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i love shiny dragonite

lofty tartan
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I know there's like a 90% chance I play something with Buzz/Sneasler.

dense latch
lofty tartan
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Oh yeah I actually like that. How's Harc been?

glacial tartan
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I could see topsy turvey helping rhyperior...

shadow wind
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My goat using sneasler 🥀

dense latch
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it's mostly justin tang's toronto team

dense latch
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it's sounds fun in theory

lofty tartan
lofty tartan
dense latch
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i just like coaching

lofty tartan
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Grassy Seed Gholdengo is 🔥

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You'll be surviving all the Sneasler Throat Chops

dense latch
shadow wind
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I really need to work on my team

dense latch
glacial tartan
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Is chandelure op?

shadow wind
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It has some really awful MUs

lofty tartan
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No, Chandelure is not OP

dense latch
lofty tartan
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It seems like a mix of anime and Smogon.

shadow wind
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I mean I look at those stats and I’d be thinking the same thing

glacial tartan
dense latch
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im not sure what speed to run on my gholdengo tho

tiny karmaBOT
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Pokémon No. 609: Chandelure
Types

Ghost/Fire

Abilities

Flash Fire, Flame Body, Infiltrator (Hidden)

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

60/55/90/145/90/80

Total

520

lofty tartan
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Oh yeah Chandelure has dummy Sp Atk but everything it's scared of is faster and hits about as hard anyway

forest arrow
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H decidueye was used but got replaced by flamigo so no

dense latch
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honestly thought it was faster for whatever reason

shadow wind
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It just has really good options too

dense latch
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ig everyone just runs scarf on it tbf

shadow wind
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Good stabs and good coverage

lofty tartan
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Like Chandelure is niche, but not OP

shadow wind
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It will never be the best in slot

lofty tartan
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No, never.

dense latch
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basically doesn't exist

forest arrow
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It’s worse

lofty tartan
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I like H-Decidueye in Reg H for some reasons, but Alolan Decidueye is nothing.

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H-Decidueye just gets rudely outclassed by a ton though

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I did run into one at Toronto. It died.

shadow wind
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Triple arrows and scrappy is the only reason it’s usable

glacial tartan
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Raised a good one in gen 7. Made top news on Pokemon site!!!

shadow wind
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Triple arrows is literally one of the most broken moves ever made

dense latch
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dies to mild winds

lofty tartan
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No one is reporting on how things get trained in playthroughs.

shadow wind
lofty tartan
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Anyone can feed EVs into a pokemon. It's not special.

shadow wind
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I’m trying to think how I make this team better into Incin

forest arrow
shadow wind
lofty tartan
dense latch
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player reportedly trains pokemon, crowds become ecstatic

forest arrow
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It looks fun, I might wanna give it a shot

lofty tartan
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Lemme grab the Paste

shadow wind
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I made that team in Reg H1 one and it was solid then but it’s falling very flat now

shadow wind
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Not very flat, that’s misleading

dense latch
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i could see tailwind

forest arrow
shadow wind
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Honestly against Dengo it’s quite nice

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But also Corv feels just weird in general

cyan smelt
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Oh yeah idk what to do into ttar excadrill

lofty tartan
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I'd hate to see someone trigger Dondozo in front of a Primarina with a Mirror Herb.

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That thing would pop off.

shadow wind
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I mean it’s unaware anyway

dense latch
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yea

lofty tartan
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IF it's Unaware, you Haze

shadow wind
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Then you get rid of your double omni boost

lofty tartan
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That's fine - Dozo is stranded.

dense latch
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i thought it was for dengo

red willow
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Is Primarina dece in H?

lofty tartan
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It's always your advantage

dense latch
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you copy the nasty plots

dense latch
glacial tartan
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Is togekiss op?

dense latch
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nothing crazy but a solid water type

forest arrow
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Probably one of the better water types to use in H

lofty tartan
shadow wind
dense latch
red willow
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Im gonna be real original

dull ibex
shadow wind
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4/6 mons with almost the same sets

lofty tartan
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Yeah best water types in H are def Basculegion, Primarina, Water Tauros...... I think that's it?

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Like Palafin is somewhere in top six?

red willow
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Incin Rilla Prima

cyan smelt
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If I'm running incin sneasler rilla dengo gliscor buzz what should I lead into ttar excadrill

red willow
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Maybe a sneasler

forest arrow
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Can’t forget Pelipper

shadow wind
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The best water type in Reg H is Gholdengo

cyan smelt
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Sneasler gets destroyed by eq + tera blast flying

lofty tartan
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Might give you some ideas

shadow wind
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Yeah

dense latch
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pelipper i guess but it's not the typical water type you can slot into your fwg core

lofty tartan
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I ran Sand Psyspam at Toronto too

shadow wind
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I’m thinking literally just going Ttar Drill Ape and finding what beats that badly

lofty tartan
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Not this team - a different one without Exca

forest arrow
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Prim seems like a good candidate for your incin problem

shadow wind
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So does ape !

forest arrow
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True

shadow wind
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That guy beats anything

lofty tartan
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This is what I ran at Toronto

shadow wind
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Gale wings with sand seems…
Interesting…

lofty tartan
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You're not taking Ttar next to Talonflame

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Not usually

cyan smelt
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And gale wings with psyspam

lofty tartan
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Ttar was there for things like opposing Psyspam and Weather

shadow wind
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I really like Ttar drill into Indeedee Sneasler

lofty tartan
cyan smelt
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Conner do you run into many opposing delphoxes

shadow wind
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About to use specs Rotom wash with pump for Incin

shadow wind
lofty tartan
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I had a total of zero cases where TTar or Indeedee ruined Talonflame being around.

cyan smelt
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Don't use rotom wash, gets destroyed by archaludon

lofty tartan
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You just play like you have more than rocks in your head.

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MOST of my leads were Talon/BM or Buzz/BM

shadow wind
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A very Sandy guy

lofty tartan
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If opponent didn't have a good answer to TW/Blood Moon or Hyper Voice, gg shake my hand

glacial tartan
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I guess I really need to play more to find out, these competitive teams are really killing the Pokemon dream world!!!

cyan smelt
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I wonder if bwahacough is still around

shadow wind
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My hero

cyan smelt
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Ttar lycanroc

lofty tartan
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Lycanroc is just worse than Exca

shadow wind
cyan smelt
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Yeah ik but this guy was committed to it

lofty tartan
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Ah I don't know the guy milk_shrug

shadow wind
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Just a ladder legend

lofty tartan
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I'm not in with the online crowd. I'm old, remember?

cyan smelt
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Like 4legsdontcare always uses 4 legged pokemon

shadow wind
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Was crazy in Reg H1 but haven’t seen him in a while

lofty tartan
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I'm approaching "get off my lawn" ages.

shadow wind
glacial tartan
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Soooooo much different responses around popular Pokemon, infinite crash test results...

shadow wind
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He is to Ttar Lycanroc what I am to Groudon

lofty tartan
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Sash is nothing

shadow wind
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Sash is nothing with sand as well

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Not prio though I’ll give you that

lofty tartan
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It's true. And Ttar does help with Sneasler, there, but Sneasler pressures the hell out of Tyranitar unless you Tera 100% of the time

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And the Tera is soooo telegraphed

shadow wind
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Yeah…

glacial tartan
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Then there's game freak changing stats!! What's with that?

shadow wind
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Show me the electric types this regulation

lofty tartan
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I mean it really depends on the state of the match and what you're against.

shadow wind
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Always true

lofty tartan
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I didn't always want to Tera Ttar, but I was always pressured by Sneasler.

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If you can snipe him without losing such a costly resource, do it.

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And I liked to make them bank on the 100% tera and switch instead

shadow wind
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I know I just hated how reliant Corv was on Indeedee

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I also hate risking crit

lofty tartan
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Indeedee is maximum in Reg H arkeknine

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Both of them are really good.

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I just hated constant mirrors.

shadow wind
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Yeah

lofty tartan
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Like I'm super hesitant to run TTar again. He cost me day 2 last time

shadow wind
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I wonder if Ape would work with Ttar Drill

lofty tartan
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I don't want to be in that winning position and lose to a Rock Slide miss again. 😐

shadow wind
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Ape explodes to Psyspam and Ttar drill can beat Psyspam fairly well

lofty tartan
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Yeah I didn't run Exca last time

shadow wind
lofty tartan
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That's the only thing that teeters me toward it

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Getting more value out of your Sand is pretty great. You're mostly running Buzz and something else out into Rain anyway

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And you're turning it off with a TTar switch when everything is more manageable

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See also: dead bird

shadow wind
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Ok so the idea is

Ttar
Drill
Ape
Levitater

lofty tartan
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Talonflame arkeknine

shadow wind
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I’m thinking Rotom Wash

lofty tartan
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Corviknight is really strong, honestly milk_shrug

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It's bulk, it's damage, it's longevity, it can be speed control

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It messes with Incin

shadow wind
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Corv isn’t bad

lofty tartan
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Immune to Sand

shadow wind
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But then I’d need a heck of a good Arch answer

lofty tartan
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Sneasler is a good-ish answer

shadow wind
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Ehh

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It would have to be a special attacker

lofty tartan
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I mean going Ttar/Exca, you're penning yourself into a tight design space from the get-go

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Blood Moon.

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Archa hates BM

shadow wind
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This is true

lofty tartan
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And he's fairly okay into Rain if you're already spooking Pelipper

shadow wind
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But then that’s 3 fighting and water weaknesses

lofty tartan
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Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzz

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He's so goooooooood

shadow wind
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BM no speed control?

lofty tartan
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Buzz is speed control

shadow wind
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Other than eweb

lofty tartan
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Eweb is an answer.

shadow wind
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I’d have to run speed invest

lofty tartan
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And if you're playing Corv you can afford TW at worst

red willow
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Does glowking actually have a niche in reg h? I want to use chilly reception to mess with weather and get a ragenerator off lol

lofty tartan
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I run fast bulky Buzz.

shadow wind
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I mean speed invest on BM

lofty tartan
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Turbo bear is good.

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You're either running slow Bear or turbo Bear anyway.

shadow wind
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Fair

lofty tartan
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I don't think that trying to find a lot of bulk is worth it

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You wanna scare the crap out of your opponent's lead with it arkeknine

shadow wind
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I’ll have to try it when I get off my house sitting job

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Cause team building on mobile is worse than death

lofty tartan
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Oh it's terrible.

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I'm not saying I'm any authority on teambuilding, either. I'm just saying things that fit arkeknine

shadow wind
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Man team building is my kryptonite

lofty tartan
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It's really tough.

shadow wind
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Outside of restricted formats that is

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Give me a restricted format and I’ll find ways

lofty tartan
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Yeah but it's still tough. People who say teambuilding is easy aren't making really great teams anyway >.>

shadow wind
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But I’m really bad at not having a centrepiece on every team

lofty tartan
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Or they're like... insane at the game and competing at high levels.

shadow wind
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I have a Groudon shaped hole in my team builder

lofty tartan
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Yeah you do

shadow wind
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Ttar fits it best he can

lofty tartan
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He's trying.

shadow wind
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But man rock slide does 4 damage

lofty tartan
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I mean he's great into Sun teams

shadow wind
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Oh yeah

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Ttar hits all weather setters other than Politoed

lofty tartan
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Ttar/Exca is a nightmare for Sun

shadow wind
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Ninetales(both forms), Pelipper and Torkoal

lofty tartan
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Yeah, I ran into a Politoed at Toronto arkeknine

shadow wind
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He’s quite annoying I can’t lie

lofty tartan
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That thing was out for blood but I punished an early mistake and made my opponent tilt for G2

shadow wind
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Especially since I can’t use Rilla

lofty tartan
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I called his Tera Steel Politoed

shadow wind
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Epic

lofty tartan
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It was not a good time to Tera that thing

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Game 2 he just folded hard and left.

shadow wind
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What other offensive grass types besides Rilla exist?

lofty tartan
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Uhhh

shadow wind
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None right

lofty tartan
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Tsa...reena?

molten oasis
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wow, y'all are cooking it seems

lofty tartan
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Meowscarada!

red willow
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Hisuan lilligant

shadow wind
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Ehhh

red willow
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Or wtf ever it is

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The gras fighting one

lofty tartan
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Meowscarada has use, I don't even care what you think, Conner.

shadow wind
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There’s no substitute for Rilla 😔

lofty tartan
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Protean Triple Axel goes boom

shadow wind
lofty tartan
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Ahhhhhhhh

red willow
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Free terrain gud

lofty tartan
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Lilligant isn't good for Sand.

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If you're planning on Indeedee you don't want Rilla.

shadow wind
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Nah I probably wouldn’t run Indeedee

red willow
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Oh I thought you just meant in general existence lol

shadow wind
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But also I can’t run boom

lofty tartan
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Rilla's okay in Sand.

shadow wind
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EQ cannot be 50 BP

lofty tartan
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OH

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Yeah you're doing EQ Exca

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No, no Rilla.

shadow wind
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So maybe just no grass types

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Which is a shame

lofty tartan
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Eh, it's not required.

shadow wind
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But it is nice into the toed

red willow
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Is ammooguss alright on sand

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Amoonguss

lofty tartan
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Politoed doesn't really dig Electabuzz either. You redirect the Weather Balls

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You're Grass or Dragon Tera. Eat for days.

shadow wind
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It’s a great mon but it isn’t offensive enough to threaten anything

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You’re kinda selling me on the electabuzz idea

lofty tartan
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I ran Electabuzz right into the Toed without remorse.

shadow wind
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Ok so wait

lofty tartan
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Electabuzz lead is not friendly for any Rain team

shadow wind
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Ttar
Drill
Buzz
Corv
BM

lofty tartan
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Like you Eweb and you can slow down Archa so BM outspeeds every time

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You can just Eweb and Protect, scout the Tera

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Blood Moon that thing

shadow wind
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I wonder what as a 6th

lofty tartan
#

Pelipper doesn't often hang around to see the Eweb

#

Well now you need something to deal with fighting types

#

Buzz will take like.. maybe a few CCs but he's going down after

shadow wind
#

There’s always Tera fly Ttar

lofty tartan
#

I mean that's a thing for sure

#

Corv has BB

shadow wind
#

But Tera’ing every time is never a guarantee

rustic mountain
#

ttar isnt groudon

shadow wind
#

But it’s close

rustic mountain
shadow wind
#

It’s the closest I’m gonna get

lofty tartan
#

Talonflame so good for fighting types xD

#

Uhhh. Primarina.

#

I dont subscribe to the Throat Spray Haze Prima though

shadow wind
#

Tree what other slow bulky weather setter that misses moves can I use

shadow wind
#

Lowkey I dig Prima here

shadow wind
#

I had Gastrodon on my old team for Dozo but Prima does it too

lofty tartan
#

Gastro is a thing but it doesn't deal with fighting guys as well

rustic mountain
lofty tartan
#

I mean you can Yawn the fighting guys arkeknine

#

But at that point just run Amoonguss

shadow wind
rustic mountain
#

y

shadow wind
#

Cause screw Reg J

lofty tartan
#

💯

rustic mountain
#

but u can run groudon

shadow wind
#

Groudon would actually be better now cause Magearna brain rot

rustic mountain
shadow wind
#

I know my limits to luck

rustic mountain
#

counterpoint: dark voids accuracy and darkrai sucks

lofty tartan
#

Tree is making good points.

jade dust
#

How do you claim shiny Wo Chein?

shadow wind
#

The counter counterpoint is that Pblades accuracy sucks and Groudon is ok at best

lofty tartan
#

Gravity Pblades and Dark Void

rustic mountain
#

honestly i dont see y ppl hate reg j cuz of mythicals, hate reg j cuz its basically reg i 2.0

solid frigate
#

honestly Calling Groudon ok at best in this gen is calling Zacian Great

molten oasis
shadow wind
#

I wanna see Deoxys attack do well

shadow wind
#

Yeah Drago take that

molten oasis
#

asshole

shadow wind
#

In the “Using a bad restricted” competition I win

solid frigate
#

But yeah Reg J is just Arceus and Magerena joined the top 10 restricteds currently

#

so why bother

rustic mountain
#

nd those r both mid

shadow wind
#

We are not saying Magearna is better than Groudon 🥀

rustic mountain
#

id rather any of the top 10 over those 2

shadow wind
#

I’d rather Arceus over Ho oh

lofty tartan
#

You take that back

rustic mountain
#

ho oh isnt top 10

#

but also no

shadow wind
#

😔

solid frigate
#

ho-oh is 11th

lofty tartan
#

Agree with tree on both points.

Ho-Oh isn't top ten, but that's slander and heresy

shadow wind
#

My ho oh hate stems from missing so many sacred fires

solid frigate
#

skill issue

shadow wind
#

Groudon is safe from that cause I know Pblades is gonna miss

lofty tartan
#

If you're missing off a 5% chance then you're beyond help, I'm sorry man.

solid frigate
#

I dont think i miss a single sacred Fire when i play Entei lmao

lofty tartan
#

Missing that much*

solid frigate
lofty tartan
#

It's 95% accuracy.

shadow wind
#

Why I stick to electro drift nowadays

jade dust
#

The good thing is caly shadow wasn’t dominant winning every tournament. Miraidon and Caly ice won most tournaments

#

In reg G, those 2 won 4 tourneys

#

Both in a tie for the most successful single restricted

lofty tartan
#

Yeah Calyrex-Shadow suffers from greatness. It's extremely good and always the boogeyman, so everyone comes prepared to beat it, and it has to work twice as hard at everything.

shadow wind
#

I hated that phase where people would run anti CIR stuff with levitate mons cause what does Groudon do to them

jade dust
#

Yeah most will bring a dark type to counter it. Either Incin, scarf Chi yu or sucker punch Chein pao

lofty tartan
#

That's how metas work milk_shrug

solid frigate
#

Shadow Rider is like

Ok so i have the massive kick me sign on my back

Not as large as Xerneas but still large enough to let people know i am here

dense latch
#

double eweb miss my beloathed

lofty tartan
#

Lmao

rustic mountain
#

i dont see what arceus or magerana offer as a restricted slot that gives u benefit over an actual decent-good restricted. they dont synergize w/ anything really and outside good bst and typing they arent exactly great self enablers even something like ho oh has shown an ability to be solid into certain duos even if its staying power was short lived

jade dust
#

Xerneas never won worlds either cuz was enemy number 1

shadow wind
solid frigate
#

im not suprised if Shadow Rider win Worlds again anyway

lofty tartan
#

It still has that shot

jade dust
shadow wind
#

I’ll be surprised if Miraidon doesn’t win worlds

solid frigate
#

if Miraidon got overprepped then Shadow Rider can take the opportunity

solid frigate
rustic mountain
shadow wind
#

It beat out Groudon Zacian and it had a Gastro on the team

solid frigate
#

Zacian CSR won against Rinya sun lmao

jade dust
#

Ah wait I often forget SwAh had worlds

#

Cuz it didn’t for most of the time

shadow wind
#

That was a bad worlds for the Groudonation

solid frigate
#

dude

#

are you fr rn

shadow wind
#

Another silver medal 🥀

rustic mountain
jade dust
#

That also gave Thundurus his 3rd worlds

lofty tartan
#

His downfall is a marked point in history.

shadow wind
#

Groudon could’ve been the most decorated world champ if he only won 2022 and 2016

solid frigate
#

we all kinda expected that Groudon got cooked when see saw Groudon

shadow wind
#

But my goat was washed or something I don’t know I didn’t play those years

cyan smelt
#

Groudon will be good in gen 10 when koraidon dies to a clefairy draining kiss

solid frigate
rustic mountain
solid frigate
#

as early as the first restricted format in VGC history

lofty tartan
#

Oh I am pumped for new Megas

jade dust
#

Tera while a good mechanic, I don’t like it

shadow wind
rustic mountain
#

im ready for tera to be done

jade dust
#

Many broken shit is balanced by their bad typing

#

Caly shadow for example

lofty tartan
#

Dragonite is gonna hang on to this crown of relevancy as long as he can

shadow wind
rustic mountain
#

i hope

cyan smelt
#

Not looking forward to the return of xerneas and primal Groudon

solid frigate
jade dust
#

Tera types are a good mechanic but I don’t like it honestly

shadow wind
#

I’ve played some formats without Tera and holy it’s like heaven

shadow wind
rustic mountain
#

its a good mechanic as afar as gimmicks go, i just dont like having to always account for things changing type

jade dust
#

No more 50/50 bullshit if they will tera or not

lofty tartan
solid frigate
shadow wind
#

I like clicking the super effective button and not seeing “X Mon is immune” and eating a super effective move they didn’t have before because of Tera blast

molten oasis
#

yeah so watch this

rustic mountain
lofty tartan
molten oasis
#

go go gadget lead primal groudon now zac isnt an issue

#

or even better, lead incin!

lofty tartan
rustic mountain
#

nah i feel u

shadow wind
#

I can’t wait for CSR to not be a fairy type

jade dust
shadow wind
#

Actually

solid frigate
shadow wind
#

I’m more excited for CIR to not be a water type

jade dust
cyan smelt
#

Primal Groudon + scarlet paradoxes to make it even more fun with xerneas fairy aura

lofty tartan
#

I'm not a Tera hater but even I can see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

cyan smelt
#

Flutter + xerneas

lofty tartan
#

I'll be 100% fine when it's gone, but if it stays with Champs and we just add Mega in with it, then that's fine too, whatever.

#

I'm always just gonna operate with whatever I'm given

shadow wind
cyan smelt
#

Chi yu + primal Groudon

shadow wind
rustic mountain
#

if we do get megas id be curious wat actually stays as a good mega from the original days (parental bond nerf, aerliate nerf etc) nd what new megas actually become meta relevant

lofty tartan
#

Parental Bond got nerfed?

molten oasis
#

i think lucario could be good

rustic mountain
#

cuz i was seeing some calcs, power creep is real on quite a few megas

solid frigate
lofty tartan
#

Serves it right.

shadow wind
rustic mountain
#

i think power up punch did too

jade dust
#

Mega Gengar will fall off

lofty tartan
#

That's fine. A free 25% is pretty good.

shadow wind
#

Power up punch doesn’t exist

jade dust
#

Flutter Mane makes it a nightmare

shadow wind
#

They actually exploded that move

cyan smelt
#

Gravity csr + primal Groudon

lofty tartan
#

I'm still down to mess around with Mega Khanga but the new Megas are gonna be made for the current Gen anyway.

#

So I'm gonna have all eyes on them

#

Some of those could be bonkers.

shadow wind
#

I’m going to have to mess around with Groudon cause I’ve never done that before

rustic mountain
#

i think 2-3 old megas will b good w/ prolly 4-5 new megas being good

solid frigate
#

Honestly even we ignore Big 6

Restricted format with all gimmicks is not fun at all

I rather just play National Dex Format+Megas

jade dust
#

Mega incineroar

cyan smelt
#

Mega ray is washed

rustic mountain
#

y

molten oasis
#

y

shadow wind
#

Pokémon Y 🥀

lofty tartan
#

I'm not gonna discuss it but there's a lot of things swimming around that says there's no such thing as Mega Incin. milk_shrug

cyan smelt
#

Because miraidon and flutter outspeed

solid frigate
lofty tartan
#

Oh 100%

jade dust
#

Mega Incineroar
New ability, Bully
On switch, lowers the opponents Atk and Sp Atk by 2 stages

lofty tartan
#

🙄

solid frigate
lofty tartan
#

Lmao

shadow wind
#

Mega drill would give me life

jade dust
#

Mega Flygon when

#

Make it bug dragon

solid frigate
#

Im not gonna speak about leaks cuz idk if its legal here but there’s a list about them

rustic mountain
jade dust
#

I hope caly ice and miraidon pair win

#

Or Wolfey in general

shadow wind
#

I hope Groudon Groudon pair wins

rustic mountain
#

i feel like tofu said discussing spoilers/leaks here was fine, could be misremembering tho

shadow wind
#

I just want a Groudon in top 8

molten oasis
#

yes its fine

shadow wind
#

Is that too much to ask for

#

I’ll even take a Groudon CIR

jade dust
shadow wind
#

Top 512 if we’re lucky

gentle cragBOT
rustic mountain
#

so if its comp based/related its cool otherwise has to be in the spoiler channels

shadow wind
#

Well every Mon is related to competitive

lofty tartan
#

Mega Clef gonna be counting bodies for a living.

shadow wind
#

So I guess it’s chill

rustic mountain
shadow wind
#

I can’t wait for Mega Cofagrigus

lofty tartan
#

Togekiss was always a problem. Here comes Mega Clef, ruining your day.

shadow wind
#

Mega Pyroar even

#

Pyroar was literally given nothing

rustic mountain
#

is it actually a confirmed leaked list of new megas? or just speculation

lofty tartan
#

I just hope Mega Dragonite sticks. Tera made it matter, now it gets justice.

shadow wind
#

Wish I had the answer though

rustic mountain
#

same havent been looking but usually stuff will pop up

lofty tartan
rustic mountain
#

gotcha

shadow wind
#

I just like guessing random megas that just won’t happen

#

Like mega Clawitzer

jade dust
#

The "leak" still is more like rummors. They were right about mega Dragonite but could be wrong about everything else

rustic mountain
#

mega crabominable

lofty tartan
#

That's the nature of leaks

solid frigate
shadow wind
#

He had a mega and they killed it

lofty tartan
#

That's why I didn't say "it's safe to claim they're true"

I said "it's safe to assume some things"

jade dust
#

Just bring back ash greninja

lofty tartan
#

I mean they've done less with more arkeknine

shadow wind
jade dust
#

And make it a mega button

lofty tartan
#

Kanga is literally just "the little guy isn't in the pocket anymore"

rustic mountain
#

haha

#

old mega designs were mostly lazy

foggy lodge
#

Mega Galarian Slowbro please

rustic mountain
#

some cool ones tho

jade dust
#

Also I fould funny that, some people was "why did slowbro get a mega if its a preevolution"

lofty tartan
jade dust
#

But Slowbro and Slowking are a branch evolution

solid frigate
rustic mountain
shadow wind
lofty tartan
#

100%

foggy lodge
#

Mega Mawile is cute but its only Mawile with a second mouth and pants

jade dust
rustic mountain
#

i like mega gengar

lofty tartan
#

Mega Gengar is absolute liquid hot magma

rustic mountain
#

it looks like a hybrid of gengar and haunter while still feeling like its own thing

jade dust
#

Yes I love the design

foggy lodge
#

Gotta say that mega tytar is ugly af

jade dust
#

One of the coolest megas

foggy lodge
#

Feels so overdesigned

jade dust
#

But will suck sadly

#

With Flutter Mane around'

rustic mountain
#

mega ttar is like lets add more spikes and make it look angrier surely ppl will love that

lofty tartan
#

IF Flutter Mane is around

solid frigate
rustic mountain
#

oh and why not make a face out of the stomach

lofty tartan
#

There's literally zero confirmation of Paradoxes not going the way of Ultra Beasts

rustic mountain
shadow wind
#

Dude mega Ttar is fire

rustic mountain
#

nah

shadow wind
#

God forbid a guy like a pokemon design

rustic mountain
#

ttar is a great design, the mega is just weird

lofty tartan
#

How DARE you have an OPINION?

jade dust
shadow wind
#

I think the Kaiju designs are peak and the mega just made it more that

jade dust
#

I agree, mega Tyranitar is ugly

#

And no purpose to use it

#

Its sand stream again

shadow wind
#

Mega Ttar is literally one of my favourite megas

jade dust
#

I love Tyranitar but not the mega

dense latch
#

i mean sand stream is just like that

foggy lodge
#

Mega Slowbro is cute

shadow wind
#

You would make the Mon horrible if you got rid of sand stream

dense latch
#

i like mega scizor

foggy lodge
#

I like it so much its so silly

lofty tartan
#

He's just geating eaten by the shell.

foggy lodge
#

Literally me

lofty tartan
#

It's milk_shrug

shadow wind
#

Why we all hating on the megas right now

jade dust
#

If nothing changes

dense latch
#

because stats

rustic mountain
shadow wind
jade dust
#

Just more stats

rustic mountain
#

its not as bad as mega garchomp tho

lofty tartan
tiny karmaBOT
#
Pokémon No. 248: Tyranitar-Mega
Types

Rock/Dark

Abilities

Sand Stream

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

100/164/150/95/120/71

Total

700

Base Species

Tyranitar

molten oasis
#

what i miss

lofty tartan
#

Holy bulk

jade dust
#

Yeah but that doesnt realy justify it imo

solid frigate
#

ttars stats after mega is fucking impressive-

lofty tartan
#

AND 164 attack?

foggy lodge
#

Why would you want your weather setter to lose its ability to set weathers

lofty tartan
#

And his speed isn't terrible?

#

Man.

jade dust
#

Its bad

#

Bad speed

lofty tartan
#

Lol

solid frigate
#

lol

lofty tartan
#

I'd Mega Tyranitar in a match for sure.

shadow wind
#

They should’ve given it Hadron engine but sand stream version

lofty tartan
#

I ran a fast Tyranitar at Toronto.

shadow wind
#

Trust me it wouldn’t be broken

lofty tartan
#

Tailwind matters. Team composition matters.

shadow wind
#

He also gets ddance

jade dust
#

71 speed is in a weird spot where its slower than most things but not slow enough to be used in trick room

rustic mountain
#

i feel like theres good reason it didnt really do anything in the mega formats tho

lofty tartan
#

That's fine. He's got the bulk to survive hits and the offense to do damage in return.

foggy lodge
shadow wind
foggy lodge
#

But ig there is no way for it to work

shadow wind
#

All the one that did were god awful

tiny karmaBOT
#
Pokémon No. 376: Metagross-Mega
Types

Steel/Psychic

Abilities

Tough Claws

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

80/145/150/105/110/110

Total

700

Base Species

Metagross

solid frigate
#

peak spread btw

shadow wind
#

Mega steelix 🥀

jade dust
foggy lodge
#

Mega Kangaskhan was rough for it yeah

tiny karmaBOT
#
Pokémon No. 306: Aggron-Mega
Type

Steel

Abilities

Filter

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

70/140/230/60/80/50

Total

630

Base Species

Aggron

foggy lodge
#

But kangaskhan lost power up punch no?

shadow wind
#

This is peak bro

lofty tartan
shadow wind
#

I love the wall

lofty tartan
solid frigate
shadow wind
#

Now tree is going to tell me that Mega Aggron’s design is also bad

jade dust
shadow wind
#

“It just gets spikier”

jade dust
#

Unless you invest a lot in speed

lofty tartan
shadow wind
#

And that makes it cool

lofty tartan
#

Do you have an affinity for porcupines?

forest arrow
#

Lmao

shadow wind
#

Spikes are dope

#

Ting Lu speech bubble

jade dust
#

Do you like Sonic the hedgehog?

lofty tartan
#

Conner getting absolutely raked out here.

shadow wind
#

The simplicity makes it awesome

shadow wind
rustic mountain
#

its lazy tho

shadow wind
#

God forbid a guy like some strong looking mons

tiny karmaBOT
#
Pokémon No. 373: Salamence-Mega
Types

Dragon/Flying

Abilities

Aerilate

HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe

95/145/130/120/90/120

Total

700

Base Species

Salamence

solid frigate
#

P E A K

foggy lodge
#

Mega Pidgeot is also one of the worst pokemon designed ever (competitively)

jade dust
#

Do you, like Sonic? He's spiky @shadow wind

lofty tartan
shadow wind
#

Sonic is cool

foggy lodge
#

How do you give it adaptabiliy with a mid typing and 0 good stab moves

rustic mountain
#

tbf idk wat u do to make pidgeot good

jade dust
foggy lodge
#

Wait no no guard

dense latch
#

spikes 👍

solid frigate
#

im spamming Mega Mence with Hearth/Chi-Yu

foggy lodge
#

Idk why I said adaptability

lofty tartan
foggy lodge
#

But it has hurricane only

shadow wind
#

No guard is like best case scenario for it

rustic mountain
shadow wind
#

Or sheer force

forest arrow
#

And hyper beam lol

jade dust
#

Mega Pidgeon cant make good use of its mega outside of Hurricane

foggy lodge
#

Change the normal typing

#

For something else imo

shadow wind
lofty tartan
foggy lodge
#

Atleast the mega to give it a real coverage with stab

jade dust
#

Give it fisure

rustic mountain
jade dust
shadow wind
#

Tree, how do you find Groudon’s design

rustic mountain
#

love groudons design

shadow wind
#

Yet Mega Ttar is bad

rustic mountain
#

yes

jade dust
#

yes

forest arrow
#

Yes

lofty tartan
#

Normal typing is actually pretty good. Immune to ghost, only weak to fighting, offensively neutral into all but ghost, steel, rock milk_shrug

shadow wind
#

Now is that because you like Ttar’s original design?

lofty tartan
#

Normal/steel is too good of a possible type. I'm waiting for them to not be cowards, and make it happen.

forest arrow
shadow wind
#

Cause I love Mega Ttar

lofty tartan
shadow wind
#

Quad weak to fighting 🥀

molten oasis
#

im curious as to why, the 4x fighting weakness sucks

shadow wind
#

It walls flutter mane 🔥

rustic mountain
lofty tartan
shadow wind
foggy lodge
#

Only 3 weaknesses is crazy good

molten oasis
#

hm, fair

shadow wind
foggy lodge
#

Tytar has fucking 8 and one is a X4 weakness

tiny karmaBOT
#
- [Normal/Steel]
Immune

Ghost, Poison

Resists (0.5x)

Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Flying, Grass, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Rock, Steel

Neutral damage

Dark, Electric, Stellar, Water

Weak (2x)

Fire, Ground

Weak (4x)

Fighting

Type Notes

Steel-types cannot be Poisoned.
Steel-types take no damage from Sandstorm.

foggy lodge
#

And its still a goat

solid frigate
molten oasis
#

ok thats kinda really good but

#

you are weak to common types which kinda sucks

#

and your offensive coverage isnt great

foggy lodge
#

Fairy Steel is also weak to common types

lofty tartan
#

Your weaknesses are the same as any steel type.

forest arrow
foggy lodge
#

And its the best combination

#

It has the same weaknesses except of fighting

shadow wind
#

Tree about to give me an essay on why Ttar is cooler than Mega Ttar 🥀

molten oasis
#

thats, yeah good point

lofty tartan
#

Like you can't make an argument based on weaknesses making something bad if you're weak to the same 3 things that steel mons are weak too and they somehow end up still being good

rustic mountain
jade dust
#

dark and rock is terrible combo

molten oasis
#

i think it depends on like

#

its stats and ability ofc

jade dust
#

One of the worst types possib;e

#

Ground and rock is upthere too

shadow wind
jade dust
#

That typing is dogshit

foggy lodge
molten oasis
#

mega ttar is too much

shadow wind
#

Y’all just don’t see the vision

lofty tartan
foggy lodge
#

There is like no balance in the design

foggy lodge
#

Where are my eyes supposed to go

shadow wind
#

Mega Ttar is just a cool guy

molten oasis
#

its just not a type i've thought about personally

lofty tartan
#

It's a hypothetical thing at the get-go because it doesn't exist and there are no mons with that type so you can't weigh ability and stats

solid frigate
#

Ttar says fuck you and just do his own thing

foggy lodge
#

Like do they want to look at the spikes, his face, his stomach

shadow wind
#

They want you to look at everything and be amazed at how awesome he is

foggy lodge
#

But they failed

jade dust
#

Ok shup up now

molten oasis
#

lmao

dense latch
#

you gotta learn to use your eyes individually you look at the face with one and the body with the other

rustic mountain
#

so it has nothing to do with the original design being liked r not, its taking the original and then basically worsening it by overemphasizing all the features for no real benefit on what its adding to the design to begin with

jade dust
#

Its ugly as fuck

#

End of the glazing

shadow wind
#

This dude is pressed 😭😭

#

Last time I have an opinion

molten oasis
#

cant wait for mega dragapult to have like, 10 holes on its horns for the dreepy

lofty tartan
#

Nah, Conner, have an opinion

foggy lodge
#

But also dude

#

WHAT IS THAT SPIKE ON HIS HEAD???

shadow wind
lofty tartan
#

This guy doesn't tell you what to do arkeknine

shadow wind
#

I’ll have my opinion quietly from now on

lofty tartan
#

What else has a spiky Mega?

jade dust
lofty tartan
molten oasis
#

that

foggy lodge
#

Can't have fun anymore in comp chat

lofty tartan
#

Oh yeah Chomp is spiky

shadow wind
#

Nah Mega Chomp is where I cross the line

foggy lodge
#

Wrap it up guys

shadow wind
#

He’s literally mewing and I don’t mess with that

jade dust
molten oasis
#

lmao

shadow wind
#

Holy jawline

rustic mountain
#

if you have something and its liked, and you take things about it that are liked and make those things even more obvious, that doesnt always mean the thing itself is then going to be more well liked. a lot of times it actually means the opposite because it cheapens the art. something of a similar sentiment is like dialogue bascially spelling out certain aspects of the narrative or plot when most of the time if a show does a good enough job, its assumed by the viewer

foggy lodge
#

The spikes on Mega chomp's chest are cool

jade dust
#

Like how many dragon fairy types we should get

foggy lodge
#

Idk about the jaw and hands lol

lofty tartan
dense latch
lofty tartan
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Just sayin' milk_shrug

shadow wind
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I still like Mega Ttar cause I’m a simple guy

rustic mountain
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yea thats fair

lofty tartan
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I'm gonna switch sides and join Conner. Mega Ttar is great.

rustic mountain
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just explaining myself

foggy lodge
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Conner are you sure you don't like dinosaurs

foggy lodge
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I see a trend

jade dust
shadow wind
rustic mountain
lofty tartan
dense latch
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the wall (: wish the wall had more spdef

rustic mountain
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oh u were serious

jade dust
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Mega Dragonite will probably be dragon fairy

foggy lodge
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Now Mika will be sent to the dark void realm for having a different opinion

shadow wind
molten oasis
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i kinda like normal aggron more

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i think mega is a bit much too

shadow wind
lofty tartan
jade dust
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Rock is one of the worst dual types

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If not the worst

rustic mountain
lofty tartan
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I mean honestly Mega Aggron doesn't look too bad. He got fatter and I love chonk designs. milk_shrug

shadow wind
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Also on the dinosaur comment, Anklyo on top

lofty tartan
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Chonky Gundams are best Gundams. Chonky Pokes are great too.

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I love Cetitan. So why not

foggy lodge
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I like Walrein

dense latch
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based

lofty tartan
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Oh yeah I love Walrein and Wailord

molten oasis
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A9's one of my favorites due to its like, pretty design and i like zac cuz its cool

lofty tartan
molten oasis
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never!

lofty tartan