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Oh and it's heavy hmm
Is that a one hit ko from gyroball bronzong
Oh nvm Xern is getting hit with that 120 BP Zam Heavy LOL
I mean given the dogs are good checks on Xern so yeah
Is there anything with priority clear smog
But does it worth the damage trade tho
No and even then idt it'd be worth it
Yeah but the Xern probably also has a Primal Groudon
Actually so what are the changes stat wise for the Primals
Groudon Physical Side(atk and Defense)
Kyogre Special Side(Spa and Spd)
The only reason xerneas didn't win in 2016 was because wolfie vgc hard stopped that entire team
Fucker got 50 Spatk points
Ah
Both Primals got 50 points dumped into their worse offense stat
Which actually is the one time I will say good idea Pokemon
Primal groundon has stronger eruption
Will say idk what to think about the speed staying the same
Mega xerneas
I mean only Pdon gets benefitted ngl
Eruption is gonna still hit like a nuke
Meanwhile Kyogre has only stronger Waterfall
For some reason I thought Kyogre would have a lot more special moves
Like Groudon with physical moves
ancient power groudon 🔥
I only filtered SV Moveset
Even then Groudon has a billion moves
That’s in SV
It is
That's the problem
Too normie for reddit you are getting #educated
You are going to meme lessons therapy in the reddit island
Wait but my ball knowledge is so elite
Do you know about the reddit island incident
Then you are normie
No actually the reddit island thing is so fucking funny i love that story
What even is it
Some bunch of redditors thought it was a good idea to have their own country on an island and tried to save money to buy one and supposedly they would move there once they bought it and create their own society
Yeah people can be this crazy
I can't even think of a worse one at all
Remember when Mr beast gave away an island
Why did he do that
I dislike mr beast very strongly
Think of the content to attract children ngl
You know the funny part
For obvious reasons this people didn't have enough money to buy the island so their idea was to get Mr Beast to but it for them
W idea
And the even funniest part
Islands and attracting children hmm? Where have I heard of this before
Eh oh well seems like my memory has been wiped and I can't remember
Is that they wanted an island of Cuba
I've been to Cuba
I think you can put 2+2 to know how the idea of buying an island of Cuba is LOL
I heard it’s nice for vacations
what's wrong with Cuba
Communism
The fuck did I
Go to Brazil
so i like life orb koraidon, I do not like the hybrid nature of gio's team, any advice?
Hybrid nature??
Hold up Giovanni's team had 5/6 mons first playable in gen 9
Thank god Groudon has his own power creep cause I would not be able to go on if this was how things were going
?
Play Evan’s team and replace the clam with lorb then
I find a calm mind lunala team im going with
also I dont have raging bolt
So the flexibility of it?
Wut
That’s not a calm mind Lunala type of team
Well I'm doing it
Can anyone put parting shot on my incin
Changing up this team a bit
Using rocky helm incin, and life orb Korai
Good luck I guess
https://pokepast.es/05929b4e14c367c3 this is also an option
unless this needs the clam on korai
Don't think itll work out?
Koraidon wants to go fast and blow things up
Lunala (in this case) wants to sit and set up, and I think the value of Lunala next to korai is a supportive restricted to wide guard for the horses and ogre spout (if that position happen) or Mirai gleam
And trick room for speed control against tw teams
Clam korai is better for incin and you don’t ko yourself much faster but I’m pretty sure it’s a preference thing
fair enough
drago can you put parting shot on my incin? or level up my bombirdier a few levels so it can learn parting shot
I am not home sorry
frick
i hate smeargle lowk
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Time for the 2026 Pokemon Houston regional championships
is this based off stats and moves or have the abilities been revealed
Those were leaks, take with a grain of salt
Wolfey is at Houston
Yeah honestly surprised by that
What wins Houston
3 of the people in top 12 have autos
Crown deedee
Ok rooting for everything BUT Crown Deedee
Actually I'm doing that anyways, fuck Iron Crown
LET'S GO GIO
Fuslie on stream is actually so fucking fire
I didn't know she was here
And she is using Crown Deedee LOL
I'll give Fuslie some credit for the fit though
Wait
Wait was she supposed to tera
No way they did it again right
Fusler's controller is not responding
just made a team with crown and its cooking currently 5-0
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Yeah its a hilarious bait
I still don't understand this lead
Speculation based on current information
going on stream for VG now
let's go dillon 🔥 good luck
ting lu and dondozo looks so boring to play against
Let's go
@next stump YEAH THATS MY GOAT
nice one dillon

Hello Emma 
halo
How you been, haven't seen you in like forever
i been ok
Good
if champs is good i might go again idk tho
I hope it's good
Be a real bummer if not
i have no real hopes i just want to play some good pokemon
Honestly
isn't it just comp play
Pretty much
Yeah
I believe we're getting megas format very first thing
I want Mega Chandelure
they will be, thats a no brainer
i just meant i wanted to experience that format xd
I also want Mega Clefable to be good
definitely the season is literally labeled a mega season lol
clef stats are so lacklustre bruh
she is going nowhere
Yeah that's what I was saying like bruh they're advertising it so hard
I mean lemme have hope 
Also can't wait for Mega Kang to probably just still be one of the better megas 
parental bond got nerfed & power up punch got removed
Yeah but two hit moves is still something and it got the Scrappy AND Inner Focus buffs for the base
Actually imo the real nerf is like
idk to do what with
It lost Return and Frustration
the nerf is power creep
So now you choose either Double Edge or like what
Body Slam?
double edge ur literally gonna die in 1 turn basically
I mean it was still good in Gen 7 after the nerfs, and even now I don't think it's THAT much worse
i think body slam for para fish
So like
Let's say we're in a world where eventually
The megas and the treasures of ruin are in the game, which probably could happen right
At neutral with SoR
Mega Metagross two taps Incineroar with Heavy Slam 💀
LOL
And also one taps Rilla
i rly wanna see pao&lop
Oh it's 135? That's nice
bc wtf normal stab
has mach punch but lol
It got Scrappy right
I guess that's something LOL
shes just cool
What else hmm
Oh God forbid we're in a format where you can make Reg H Marco Sun with Zard Y
raging bolt
I need to get a raging bolt
Can we just acknowledge that Aegislash is almost forever out of a job LMAO
JOBLESS
Is aegislash is going to be bad or something?
No Emma here's what you do right
Nah they just made Gholdengo 
That's all it took
They do different things no?
Deadass now your only way of use is like
I was thinking wide guard support
Oh hey I'm in a restricted format and I need WG but don't wanna use Zama, here's Aegislash
yay incin food
But yeah sure they do different things but Good as Gold is too damn broken
just use pelipper
I just want to know what mons I can use already 😭
Thankfully I have a shiny dengo 🙂
Monke I found a tailwind team I wanted to learn
I'm still losing lmao
Also the other funny thing like
Hopefully some moves don't transfer from ZA
Cuz if so, they made Mega Golurk and made it irrelevant at the same time 
No Guard plus Fissure rarely ends well
it won’t keep this
Better not
lets use common sense
That would be fucking funny
How many would it even get off
Emma for some reason Golurk having Fissure just reminds me of that one I Carly scene where Spencer has an ostrich
Oh
Also the crab 
The fucking crab
And my beautiful chud son Starmie
Is there anything wrong with this team? Feel like I'm missing something really obvious, but I can't quite put my finger on it. https://pokepast.es/752425263ef1cc0a
@bold geode my favourite format is back what do i do
You like Reg I?
UHHHHHHH
yes!
Honestly atm it's not that much different from what it was before
Pretty sure not that many of the very top crowd have engaged in Reg I just yet
i think ditto will be champ this tome
So Zam CSR is still good
Sun is still good cuz of Zam CSR
Koraidon Ice Rider is interesting
Mirai Nala of course
i just think
Idk where Ditto fits, probably with Mirai CIR?
ditto fits where u want it to
idk why but i rly liked zam dnite pao ditto
but you cant rly build around that bc then its like mirai or csr only
usually scarf mirai
sash ditto
I mean there was that one team that MDB and Montana Mott used at Worlds
but then you lose alot of human structure
Yeah idk
Ditto is just a Pokemon I find a lil wack but
i love ditto
That's really just a personal thing
Like I don't really like to use Pokemon with that much of a risk factor/skill expression factor
its a pokemon that has insane use cases if you know when to fish for it
Like idt it's bad, it's just like
Fitting it in without losing that structure as you said
it has structure obv as like
mirai cir incin ursh ditto
but when you deviate its harder to build around
Right that's why I was thinking Mirai CIR
zam is just broken with dnite pao which is why i liked the idea of deviating
Right
I think it is pretty crazy
Though also like
Zam Dnite Pao Ditto, how do you beat Volcarona
hi im volcarona
nono ditto does
Oh well who says you're not Ditto
Didn't think of that huh
Anyways yeah that's probably fine for right now
Only thing to worry about is like maybe certain Trick Room comps
painsplit nuclear bomb
True
Probably only one that makes that hard is MAYBE Indeedee but I haven't seen too much Indeedee
ok its working and im winning but vgc is boring
skill issue
Fuck you buddy
Kind of is a bit rn
https://pokepast.es/be91ae216d0867ae might replicate this
@foggy lodge they said 6 7 I'm jumping off a bridge
dollarmonke has given 1 Gen Rep to maxihd
How Groudon be looking at me
Also this bo3 ladder is somehow more brainrot than the bo1 ladder
Isn’t that Toby Fox? lol
What’s the policy on discussing a rumor I heard in terms of the new mega abilities?
You can
@chrome knot oh is Kat up against Wolfe
This chat specifically is not spoiler free
I would just tag it with the spoiler thing
Some source in China suggested these are some of the mega abilities, but it’s based on anecdotal evidence: ||
- Froslass: Snow Warning
- Drampa: Drizzle
- Raichu (Unspecified): Electric Surge
- Eelektross: Something new
- Staraptor: Unclear, but attack boost after Intimidate
- Clefable: Misty Surge
- Darkrai: Bad Dreams
- Magearna: Soul Heart
- Baxcalibur: Thermal Exchange
- Zeraora: Speed Boost
- Golisopod: Potentially Tough Claws
- Crabominable: Similar effect reported as Staraptor
- Lucario Z: Prankster was suggested, but the wording is uncertain
- Glimmora: Probably Levitate
- Feraligatr: New ability
- Pyroar: New ability
- Excadrill: New ability ||
The original source is some screenshots in Chinese and I can’t read that shit
Kat lost damn
This was the source covering it https://universonintendo.com/rumor-habilidades-dos-pokemon-mega-evoluidos-ineditos-de-z-a-para-pokemon-champions-teriam-sido-vazadas/
I found an image translator now trying to figure out what it even says
expected outcome lol
Yeah tbf that's not the worst person to be knocked out by
really funny @ x-2 tables too
Real
also not to be that person but
i don’t keep up with her abt vgc bc we broke up like a month ago
Oh I'm sorry I had no idea
Well that's good at least
Shit it's gonna be Wolfe ain't it
Holy shit we're not seeing Wolfe
Thoughts on this if true?
@foggy lodge is this guy related to Aaron?
Hudson Qius team looks sick asf
Who
Oh I'm racist them 
kinda yeah LOL
LMFAO
Fuck
LMAO
How do I consistently find ways to be accidentally racist
I don't like this tera grass entei ngl
Wait I actually fought this guy on ladder what the helly
We were 1-1 in bo3s on ladder
Wow
You know that KoenKy guy?
I'm like 99% sure they beat my ass in a set yesterday and I am 100% sure I told this person that my Incineroar was kinda homeless
@chrome knot is your mom kinda homeless
?
OH C'MON YOU DON'T KNOW THAT CLIP
Yeah
Idk either way I told someone my Incineroar was kinda homeless so
Anyways
Do we think the teams will be out today or
na regionals take longer usually
Yeah I think NA uploads teams right after day 1 ends
I think there's been delays before
@foggy lodge y'know the guy that got to 5-0 and in that stream interview said his goal was 5-3 at least
You'll never guess what he ended at 
6-7!

montana mott regional form just dropped
Can't wait for Florida Mott
you posted gore die
Counterargument: you smell
Cybertron why?
I got upper handed once and faked out twice in my dragonite last match (1300 elo btw)
Playing paonite feels just so
Chat Day 2 finna be lit
1300 isn't high
its mid-low ladder
Yeah, but way too high for that stuff
NUH UH
That's @craggy dagger
huh
The cat smells you
You are stimky
@feral wraith isn't Nova stinky
You both are
Yeah but she stink more huh
@bold geode 300 million dollars if u can guess what move cir presses
why am i stinky
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STINKY hallo
@bold geode 2 shieldfish in top 8
stinky…..
@bold geode vibe coded spreads for a limitless tour team its fun https://pokepast.es/e85a2cfee7a3d832
Uh uh UH
Gas
Oooooo Montana Mott's team
Love it
There's actually a paste out for that team
He had to block the Trick Room girl c'mon now
Also Mirai Nala still won, how convenient LMAO
Is that Hirofumi's team in two spots there
Also @foggy lodge I think Wolfe has become a Sun player LOL
Wait that pao is timid
True
I think he hasn't dropped sun since EUIC lol
Wait nah he used that Horoark team at Milwaukee
But everything else has been Koraidon/Torkoal
He is out😔
But I think that if he wins now he makes top 16
He has a high resistance
oops lol
Why is there a regular Ninetales in cut
Shifu dark tournament?
This is why I told y'all to use darkshifu
This is the moment where psyspam is the strongest
Also dozogiri
Its annoying against paonite
Hm
Two Texans in top 8 🔥
Lucy is in top 8
They're gonna stream all the top 8 sets
She'll be against Carson Confer
Kanto Ninetales against Primarina
her team is a sun team
Yeah and she has Primarina 
Unironically I feel Primarina was actually potentially better this format than H
obv it working
Cuz it beats incin shifu pao
Its ok into bolt
bando went off
damn carson played that so well
Nah it was the last turn
she had to make call g2
Yeah
was up a game didn’t need to swap lando
Yeah
@bold geode felt my frontal lobe devolve in real time as i saw this
That's a GIGA impish pon
Absolute cinema
The Slither Wing that made it far had AV Flutter
You know what I don't blame them
We are stuck in reg F for 2 more weeks lets just do whatever we need to do
I know it was four attack of course but I hope it was Bold
How do you even win this MU if you are Carson
Cresselia Ursaluna is just so strong against this team
And AV Incin
what’s the other top 4 pairing?
i can’t believe regular ninetales is gonna be in finals
dude that call
The Urshi dark is just very strong against the Incin Cress Ursa core
Good gameplan to revolve it around darkshifu
carson is so good at this game damn
How tf does hard TR beat urshifu dark + imprison farig
dylan matthews vs justin burns
Maybe Smeargle hard TR can beat it
how quickly we change tune
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How do you even win this MU if you are Carson

I didn't believe in darkshifu enough
Ninetales is cool
I hope Carson wins he deserves it
Good team with a good player in a good day
hes def been on a roll
I mean I'm not too much of a fan of HO so that's influencing it but like
Eh not really interested with just Chi Flutter Torn everything
ppl were tired of balance'
so u build ho good enough to break it, then the cycle repeats
Yeah but now like
It just feels like a slap boxing contest
Also these Chi Yu stuff are good against psyspam
eh ive seen some really good sets this weekend
Yeah they've been good sets but like man
eu is also just big on balance
That too
Honestly I knew that this shift would happen but I'm disappointed I'm right 
like i feel u monke to a certain extent, reg f isnt bad but we all expected to b just about done w/ sv and now we arent, any format we get still is gna feel kinda meh as a result
ive enjoyed reg i for all of 2 seconds before being like damn wens champions comin out, granted still wanna use a cppl different teams but still
CHAMPIONS DEMO NEXT WEEK GUYS REMEMBER WE ARE SO BACK
yea i saw, its gna b lame
Right
I mean honestly until the Reg I announcement, I thought TPCi was doing an okay job keeping us busy til Champs
But at some point you can only keep people busy for so long
And I think we're at that point now
we r goin on like wat 4 years just about on sv? and we are just recycling formats they needed to do a better job of extending other formats to not run into this
if we had 1 or 2 new formats instead of repeating 3 ppl would feel a lot different
late 2022- early 2026
I just don't understand why we're changing formats for like maybe a month
Like unless we run SV thru all of May what's the point
p sure some events will b reg i in may
Almost a presidential cycle of SV
champions realistically is gna b very choppy w/ official irl events, itll b like 1 region has it for qualifiers (think its been confirmed) and then prolly slowly get rolled out everywhere else for the actual circuits
im grateful that champions was a thing imagine waiting until 2027 for a new mainline game to play vgc on
Moxie in one of his last vids said we've been in SV for a whole Obama 
Also some national in asia was confirmed to still be reg F in april/may
I like that we will have 3 active formats at the same time
Some nationals reg F
Global challenge champions
The rest of the circuit reg I
idk man winds and waves looks amazing and now i gta play on what seems to be a very bogged down version graphically instead
If NAIC ain't Champs, that'll be actual garbage
Blame it on them having Switch 1 accessibility LMAO
Like the reason Winds and Waves looks that good is cuz there's no Switch 1 port most likely
we r kinda getting the short end of the stick if they do away w/ turn based combat in the mainline games if u think about it now that gen 10+ r seemingly gna look way better. small complaint but yea champions has squandered any hype i had

I saw one leak saying there was potentially a choice for either combat but grain of salt y'know
Honestly I may be crazy but I want them to go with ZA's style of combat
im just speculating they may keep turn based but seeing how weve gotten legends games where it is different and vgc being moved to another game maybe its time
i’d love a mix between za and turn based
za combat is meh
I honestly loved the ZA combat, for me it felt refreshing
good start tho
like for wild battles that’d be fun
ZA's battle system is reason I didn't buy that game lol
ok its not that bad lol
But I don't think its fundamentally flawed its just that I think it needs some tuning
it needs a lot of tuning
It was refreshing to have something different after 3 years of Pokemon consumption being just VGC
Yeah it could be tuned but it was their first time really going into that style + especially in online play, I feel it's honestly rough to perfect that style
it wasnt awful for a first attempt
Yeah I think it was good
I know stuff ain't gonna be perfect first try either
Which like btw that's what pisses me off with a lot of general gamers
Why do we expect perfection right out the gate
ppl want everything in an instant
instant gratification has become rampant in society
Yeah then they bitch when shit is not done right even if they rushed it out
I remember the combat system in Cyberpunk had that issue
also too u gta realize, internet is also like majority bots and rage baiters so most times its not actually reflective of what most ppl think
Real
i cant take any blue checkmark takes seriously on twitter
Also I swear like
So I play Rivals right
And one thing I've learned from that community
I uninstalled twitter like 2 days ago
they get paid for ragebaiting lol
Is that 95% of gamers don't know how to balance a game or how to keep one stable
yea blue checkmarks r everywhere its terrible
I get on it and surf for like 3-5 minutes tops before having enough
I hate public internet sites in general its incredible how you get rewardes just by talking rather than by saying stuff that makes sense
like yea wat if we made a platform where opinions can be strategically monetized surely that wont be awful
What if some opinions that were monetized were controversial anyone hear that
But tbh I stopped taking it seriously long ago
Internet makes you think its the mainstream site just by the amount of stuff it shows you so fast
the internet got hijacked, free sourcing of information and understanding? nah lets just make money off senseless opinions that pick on peoples insecurities and delusions
Its a niche place that makes you think everyone is there
I loved that like 4 hour period where a bunch of idiots actually thought that Bluesky would be a good alternative for Twitter
And everyone was talking about moving over to Bluesky and then like barely anyone did
wasnt that the one where u needed to be invited
How did Ogerpon just click cudgel 3 times in a row and evey single target got OHKO'd
No idts
I made an account just fine
I want to see how good the Ninetales is against crown indeedee
oh
Cuz Ogerpon funny
dude chi yu felt so bad for justin
ogerpon took it out like every game
nd it did nothing
either based kanto ninetales or unbased psyspam
Also darkshifu won
torn as well
How good is the MU for Carson here
I think Ninetales actually comes reducing damage on cudgel from waterpon can be huge lol
Incredible how they made this mon work LOL
Life orb coming to solve any type of lack of damage
mostly different mons but tw mirror presumably so gna b weird imo
both have tr available as well
not knowing either team that well off rip id say it slightly favors dylan tho
e force in the wrong spot seems like it can be devastating
Yeah
Honestly I lile the Ninetales so much here its like the perfect way to see how a niche mon fits on a standard team
Rockpon Torn Flutter are weak against steel types or tera steels so Ninetales solves that problem + letting Tornadus not run a weather control move and good sinergy with Flutter
So annoying
This is not bad for Carson
Tera dazzling heat wave kills both even with tera water from crown
Is a Ninetales winning?
that g2 had such slim margins
Late tailwind won Carson the game holy
- conserving tera for torn
Yeah
Its must suck so much to want to play hard TR in Seville and see how this team wins LOL
idk tho dylan botching t1 and that atk into torn mid game and still almost winning

If he went for calm mind on that turn tor tected i think it could have been different
Cuz he didn't expanding to not let Carson get the free switch into dark ursh
oof
What do you do now
I think that's just GGs honestly idk how well you can play this out
now u sac ninetales protect urshi and then tera torn idk wat u do from there tho
super risky turn but ok
2 turns left
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The thing is that tachyon kills ursh here
oh wait he tera;d already nvm lmao
aw man
Alright can the Torn get a double
Wait doesn't earth power ursh tachyon torn get the double KO
Can Flutter 1v3?
Man does
Sucker punch Lando I into Flutter dazzling win
Because its tera fairy specs dazzling gleam
Crit dazzling
i think he had to sucker to have a chance with flutter
Depends on the last pick anyways
wait
Excuse me?
hold?
NO WAIT NONONO WAIT
i think he staggers carson’s tailwind enough to win anyways
Bro it was Sludge Bomb always
And then protect tailwind into sludge bomb
Does TW end after this turn?
MAN WITH SUCKER HE WOULD HAVE WON
Did Carson forget he could even Sucker
With sucker tailwind he wins always
player of that calibre can’t be forgetting game mechanics brah
Flutter in tailwind is faster than everything
nice troll lol go next
Yeah that's such a mistake
Bro it blows so hard
Had 3 people from TexasVGC in top 8
And they all fucking lost
Huge flop
At least we're done with Regulation F right
Nope next week Seville wujuu
I'm gonna shit on your porch
Wolfe was 29th btw
Top 32 he gets good points
Apparently he was 74th in NA going into this
That + the NA auto invites
I think he only needs another good result to secure his invite
If he even wants to go to worlds
Because how many people got autoinvites in NA
But how many autos are in that top 80
I think everyone who won a regional is there
Cuz if they're not it kinda don't matter
Except maybe Chuppa Cross cuz he just won his regional and stopped playing lol
Tbh if I won a regional I wouldn't play either
What a fucking horrible season has 2026 been
I mean I'd probably go to like a couple
Depending on my vibes but y'know
Like I would just go to have fun
Actually low-key if I won a regional I'd just dick around for the rest of the season LMAO
Why play rn lol
This season is, not good, it was supposed to be the mega season and we haven’t seen megas lmao
its been a mega season alright, a mega disappointment
Because everyone’s done with SV and waiting on Champions
i can’t remember any of the regionals
@bold geode I hand you this a sign of disrespect https://youtu.be/tJByihl9sP4?si=VrYz_auEseBhDEGA
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Ok fuck you buddy 
I have played some Incin Rilla recently I'll have you know
Then for @molten oasis
I went back away from it but I played it
What
I played reg I the first two days then realized champions is way too soon for me to try to engage again with SV and stopped
Comp chat got hands
I've been playing Reg I here and there
I like dual restricted and don't know when it'll be back
But it's also something to do and I do it less because Rivals new season dropped and it's actually fun so I have something else rn
I play sometimes but not too much
@molten oasis what do you think of Carson's team
I know you like alolan ninetales but what about regular ninetales
I legit haven’t been watching lemme look up the paste rq
Check pokedata
I like both Ninetales I just like Alolan a lot more
You'll see it quick

cant wait to see what a shitshow champions is gna b
True
@foggy lodge that is indeed a cool team
I feel like it’s similar logic to how some a9 were ran in reg h
so fun to lose 30 elo to a low roll
Get used to it
happens to everyone bro
Lowkey is fun
Cause then you learn how to not lose to it
Collecting losses to eventually win them all
#ImGettingBetter
#LearningNewMatchups
At least like winning the matches you think it’s still possible
What was the other guys elo?
Cause if it's a 250 elo gap you deserve 7 for cranking a 1200s player
why exactly?
Because they're a 1200s player
On average they're worse
Wouldn't be fair if you got the same elo as someone in your elo range
Kinda the entire point of an elo system
its bo3
and he was high 1200
almost 1300
play better
i cant win every match if i get unlucky
playing optimally will minimize luck
And try play the outs even against you
It's fair because you're the better player
but it can also be a mu in his favour
also he can then get a littleunlucky or me getting super unlucky and he wins
Yeah that's mons bro
Have zero clue why you're complaining about a thing that's been clear since day 1
Kyogre with the blue orb
What about him
he's with the blue orb
Just a few more days until champions gameplay at PAX lets gooo
Oh it’s on Thursday
I tried to investiga the pax schedule and I didn't find anything lol
I don't even know if that champions demo will be playable on day 1 of pax east
Maybe it is? I didn't find any info on how pax east actually works so idk
Hopefully
Been shalpha hunting for the past month getting everything ready for champs lol
I’m ready to go
last time i went to pax that featured nintendo it was at the front door by the registration & was an allday access
its a big games convention like there isn’t a “schedule” unless you’re looking for specific panels or events with creators, the whole floor is mostly allday running
Whats up with no ghost stab on most top cut flutters recently
Is icy wind 2 gud in dbls
yeah to be honest you’re not shadow balling much in the format
anyone know if tera normal orb callyrex shadow is good?
Hey guys I want to get into competitive Pokemon and was wondering where a good place to start is
If you play best of 1 online ladder it’s a cool tech to steal some games
Hello! Are you looking to play VGC (double battles)?
nah u lose the trade game between the dark ones
im using it competively
just had a game go to timer in cart for the 1st time in awhile, man fuck pollen puff amoongus, we got the w but i had to do like 6 bars worth of health

@foggy lodge I think an ear piercing might hurt more than a tattoo
Thinking about it
Just got a tattoo and that jon did not hurt
#ImAToughCookie
lmao im so cooked
i really want a shiny marked 0 speed clef for orlando but im ngl theres no way im gonna be able to find it in time
unless i no life
its such a cool mon lol
it is so easy to get this
set kitakami to night and jump in one of the ravines w/ a fairy sandwich
Is not having hands in a miraidon team just throwing?
no not really
I haven't had a tattoo, yet, but have had several different piercings. Depending on the place, a piercing can be pretty painful, but honestly it's a person-to-person thing 
Some people can't do a single hole but can get repeatedly machine-gunned by a needle and be fine 
Some people can do piercings in crazy places but can't get a tattoo
I think the most painful tattoos hurt a lot more than the most painful piercings but the average piercing I’d say hurts more than the average tattoo
Cause you go over bony areas and it burns like you’re on fire
But go over some flabby part with lots of skin and it’s chill
Im going to die
Nah but in a “both might hurt less than I thought”
Kinda way
Cause tattoo I just got was no biggie
And so maybe they just don’t hurt that bad
And maybe piercings also don’t hurt as bad as I thought
how is this account real
Wow what
Miku Miku BEEEE-
james baek's worlds team is so good
a friend and i have been playing a handful of games each with it and ended here
i've missed out so much not wanting to play csr
wen u beat some1 top 5 on ladder: 
hell yea dude
but now i need a min atk calyrex if i ever wanna bring it to a local or the special event
cant go wrong with a 30+ elo gain
still on csr zama?
This guy
What event are you going to btw and how far away are we looking
I mean far away as in how many days until the event
oh lmao
may 24th
which could still be reg i but idk
but it’s going so well with this team i might look at some locals
If it is
Hit me up close to that time for Lima at least and I got one you can borrow
Though tbh like
Idt having 0 IV Atk really matters for it LMAO
So you can probably at least roll up to locals with a non 0 IV
yea i won’t stop going if i use my cir calyrex instead
Yeah
But yeah I have a 0 Atk IV Calyrex
damn that’d be great, i’ll keep that in mind tysm
eriksp has given 1 Gen Rep to dollarmonke
Actually was my first ever Calyrex I got from the story
Literally got it first try without even trying or even knowing about IVs at the time
Also np, I let folks borrow stuff all the time
Actually my Calyrex is nicknamed OutKast cuz a friend of mine borrowed it and nicknamed it that LMFAO
shit i’m even more sold now
Champions on March 25?
Ah
See I’m dumb and like the funny dog
i'm just happy to use wire guy again
my goat
james baek made it really convenient to pick up the team
he made a team report + a 6 game showcase + an analysis of his stream games
What's good Tofu
Oh interesting
Eleki being lowkey outclassed by flutter is sad tho
I like eleki, cool Mon
it's been nice to be able to outspeed shadow riders and stuff without weather, sometimes i want to lead eleki csr into other shadow riders or switch it in before i get koraidon in
it's a bit situational but it works well on this team
Interesting
Csr speed ties deterrent
Yeah cuz CSR speed ties suck
I like the role compression because it's basically flutter + bolt compressed into one mon
i avoid them altogether with or without eleki bc james had a bulky csr
really fun to use it tanks a -1 facade from ursa after i tera dark
and just living more hits in general is nice
Modest csr is so good
https://pokepast.es/c02ac80fc18b0e92 this is the paste
Bulky team
I think James was still timid
one of my losses with the team was bc i forgot volc was bulkier and slower than im used to but we kept a good record anyways
Kinda nice to have eleki for tornadus and ogre
Like eleki isn’t taking spout but it’s decent damage into it
Shifu too
oops
Still modest csr is super good I was watching Torviv's games at worlds
i've led csr eleki into tornogre you can get a few ewebs off before it drops while keeping csr safe
Man that CSR + booster bolt combo is lowkey evil
Cuz like yeah your csr may be faster but its more frail and you just get pinned by tclap LOL
I'm going back to Incin Rilla fuck this
It’s like the green goblin mask
Undertale ost so good man
When the 2012 video puts undertale music in the background while they rant about some random ass game
That’s me with Smeragle ngl
lost like 30 elo to missing 3 bleakwind in like 3 turns and getting crit twice
while i got 0 crits
and now i lost 45 55 where i had the 55
is that how you play oprimally?
just to get your luck decreased
and now i get 3 turns of sleep
Son I’m cryne
Bros using bleakwind storm then complaining about missing
Either build a more consistent team or don’t complain brodie
what if groudon missed all pblades in one game?
ykw what if hhp missed when it was 1v1 against incin and you were faster but low health?
I know what I signed up for
And there’s been games where I hit 1/5 Pblades
They happen
You’re using inconsistent moves then complaining about consistency
You can’t have the reward with no risk
well i cant have the reward but i do have the risk
😭😭😭
Absolutely no one is going to have any sympathy for you just letting you know
It’s mons
It’s luck based
No matter how good someone plays the luckier player can always win
So I wouldn’t stress over missing a couple bleakwinds on the ladder
It’s an 80% accurate move
so at least i dont lose 30 elo cuz of this
