#Emmi's Curselocke but in the cool kids channel

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circuit cave requires a perfect

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I mean that's not super relevent

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or a stink bomb i mean

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not that that's a huge deal for nuzlocke but still

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but uh

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Can you stink bomb Shark Lady

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Idk if you can get close enough

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problem there is that nothing in circuit cave has either move XP

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lmao

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well then

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uhhh xern is available if you want to clarion for mareep i guess

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COULD try and do Xern for mareep

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yeah

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stunfisk is through boiling cave but that's scary

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same brain cell lol

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Pincurchin is on shore

worthy minnow
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boiling cave isn't too bad

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there's two trainres; they're a little scary

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question is do I need thunder cage

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probably not tbh

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I could just figment volt switch and use thunderbolt

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there's also the polteageist option i guess if you get heatmor for strength sap and you're not confident with this setup

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nah I'm confident here

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what is the trade for heatmor again?

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fair! just wasn't sure how important volt switch/thunder cage were for the gameplan

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any dark type

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ah easy

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yeah

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guiven especially how many dark types the game throws at you (especially given there's another one in the town)

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it's like, free

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make s sense

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lets goi

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wait, need the other ability on shuckle

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ok now lets go

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odd

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so I noticed that I didn't adjust style points

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But also, that made Artemisia not use roost

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huh???

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okay then

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very odd

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But uh, small issue on that front

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this was not the plan

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uhhh i'm pretty sure whims can just swap on this and threaten play rough

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qwll actually not sure wout phsycial tank

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it can yeah'

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I usually get gyarados from my shuckle lead and it works

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ok

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switched in on a rend, popped it, got harbor breakered to 8 hp, ate sitrus

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Asha died to recoil, here's Anri

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Which is a Drome switch for free

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in comes bnuy, who gets ignited

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I can now switch in repeater, who has the juciest hydro pump here

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yeah this sounds good from here

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we hope, lol

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Amalthea took one, switched to Anri

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Asha means I go back to Mortar with a volt switch

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from here mortar should just off anri

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you mean anri

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yes

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but yes that all sounds good lol

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and if not then you probably catch somethng with some damage

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Regirock is here for Mortar

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in theory I should be able to outspeed and ignite, and take any hit fine

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think I'll do that so stout has a bit better positioning in case it comes in on a body press

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that seems smart yeah

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you probably ahve a turn of protect + leftovers too right

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yeah

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burned, dog is here

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on an accelerock, perfect

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its at -4 and burned, repeater comes in for free

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nothing can switch in on a hydro pump

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Regirock down

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I volt switch to kill Haerb

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Blissey can stall Auden down to -12 and then have repeater kill it

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GG

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nice

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actually rotom is a bit more hurt than I'd like

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this is why we packed bubble blaster on blissey though

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this is true

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ezpz

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wrong channel dork

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GG

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IT SHIFTED ME FOR SOME REASON

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Alright, gonna take a break before Sang

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Just wanna shout out how much better/quicker I am now

surreal bolt
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youre kind of awesome?

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first time I got to yez4 in a locke I had 70 hours of gameplay

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this time I had 29

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awesome

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AAAAAAAAAAAh

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ok the hyperfixation left me briefly but we back

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Time to shut this edgelord

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Lets fuckin gOOOO

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LETS

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CLAP

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THIS

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EDGE

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LORDS

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CHEEKS

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Alright

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Loyal tribe gives my leads the speed enough speed to outspeed and oneshot most of Sangs mons

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I have 4 solid mons in back for pivoting if needed

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ok

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gonna try and work my way toward sweetrock before sleepy

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sleeprock

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stupid guy is still here

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Aroma lady dead

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thanks I hate it

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ah the classic "do money grinding and get distracted by a design discussion for 30 minutes" segment

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at least it was a productive design discussion lol

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stupid galar fossil guy down

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Elder down

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Santiago down

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ugh\

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double avatar

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evil...

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oh they are only level 48

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this is fine

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Weird

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Slurpuff never clicked Aromatic Mist

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...flip

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well rip Absolus

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Didn't think about Humble

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DRUMROLL PLEASEEEEE

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Alessa!

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why is that so dark lmao

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so this is interesting. This curse is a lot less scary without it being doubles

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well, time to sleep\

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probably gonna go get Clarion before this

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tbh avatar was way easier than galar fossil guy. I lost a mon but it was very very avoidable

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that's fair

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idk I always have some trouble with them

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I just walled em out with Whims and Stoutland

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they are both physical

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and coming in from the south it's all singles so it's more under your control

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the problem is like stat boosting + rend iirc

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Just need to watch out for not setting up your own stats so you don't get humbled to death

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but yeah

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excadrill sword dances or something I think? and that's scary

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I forget lol it's been a bit since I actually did this fight

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Slurpuff has Aromatic Mist, but it never clicked it for me

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Exca does have primeval DDAnce, but its not too bad, and opens it up to being slaughtered by Humble cause of the +1 speed

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I see. not sure I ever tried humbling it before

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primeval ddance was the scary thing yeah

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I pretty much took them out with just Stoutland, Whimsicott, and Absolus

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finished off Slurpuff with Ferro but basically any decently bulky steel can handle it

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noted

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in phase II you can just shove bastiodon in there

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phase I even if you can set up Magnet Rise

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real menace getting through split peaks is Santiago and his goddamn Digiphite tbh

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his team is so annoying lol

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somehow golisopod is the least obnoxious pokemon there

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goli at least tends to just get emergency exited out

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yeah

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pretty sure the AI just doesn't know how to plan around slow forced pivot

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for me it switched in on sandslashes icicle spear, got outsped and emergency exited

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and then later came back in and died to a 3rd icicle spear

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but digiphite and dragonite is such an obnoxious core

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If the trainer new how to use above it all it'd be gross

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so true lol

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night!

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Somehow this is the most recent box pick I have

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And its also still pretty close lol

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thats like
pre raf

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Yep

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But outside of evos and a few guarenteed encounters, this is more or less the same.

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Saved a lot of wilds

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So probably a toxin core of Ariados, M!Mandibuzz, and Roserade or Crobat

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Chroma Clarion go brrr

worthy minnow
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poison core!!!

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merciless and venoshock are great for cleanup once your spikes stick

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this is anti-avatar poison core so sadly no spikes

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(merciless and venoshock are cool though)

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Ye

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Wonder if its worth grabbing Seviper as my killer instead canaria_think

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Honestly Venom Drench is doing 90% of the work here so you're probably fine

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and Ariados and Roserade are specifically decent-to-good on phase II so you have a lot of room to prepare for phase III

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Unless you're trying to one-shot? Which does make sense

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Merciless + Venoshock from Roserade would equal the damage boost of Vipershock, but if you can set up Jinx that negates that advantage

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one question though is how much time you'll have before the poison chews through phase I . . . never actually tested that ever

worthy minnow
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poison is not a fast way to beat avatars

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Yea.

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The plan is probably oneshot, so roserade is fine here.

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(I have not done this enough to be sure of that ftr)

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Big Xern shall fall

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ok

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@grave steppe is there any duping for mareep? No right?

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zero (I am NOT mad)

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that is a good thing

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lets

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roll

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the

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bones

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lowest chance in the game let's go

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WE DID IT

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SHEEEEEEEPP

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NOW TO SAY FUCK SHEEP LETS GET HOPPIP :D

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(jk getting sheep but probably won't bring it to tourney)

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-# But that hoppip loves u

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i love how i immediately pressed the button and clearly it was a different reaction

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(nah tbf if you want to do something different, sheep does kinda only do the one thing)

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🐑

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Its like, I know it does it

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I wanna develop technology

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we never did test it versus Eko tbf

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but that's more a debug sorta thing

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you can see if it works on like the finale or whitebloom or something instead!

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Ok, next patch is Canal Desert

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Given my sand currently, this is actually a choice

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oh you didn't just take the chasm gate?

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suppose yo udidn't need it

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(thank you steelix)

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Saharicaneeeeee

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Saharicane goes crazy, and having a sand streamer is nice (menagerie is my only other option for one)

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But also Maractus is good af in sand, and Skorupi is also there

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you can probably get the on-hit ability from tyranitar at decent probability to

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though sand stream is definitely better

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yeah, 2 more rolls for that

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Yea but saharicane

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the cave of hatchign is also pretty dupeable

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I think for the sake of developing tech, I'll roll grass here

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Im the devil on ur shoulder

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which, granted, it's probably still like a 60% or so with herding

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Krook is good tho

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but it's complicated lol

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tbf I don't believe in krook lol

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Lily has provided good evidence for Krook

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Ive used krook

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not in a nuzlocke setting but like

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His signatures suck but like

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Krook is a bulky regenerator mon

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Regenerator + stare down is a crazy combo

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he cannot be bad lmfao

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Semi-bulky

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it's more like
that's kinda questionable bulk and speed isn't in a great spot

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regenerator helps but there's things with a lot more sehp

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so Sili

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It plays very similarly to tornadus-t

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Where it uses its medium bulk with a vest to unload its strong moves

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Highland Tall role

worthy minnow
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praying for falinks bc funny

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f u n k y squad o guys

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Rip giraffe dreams

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No Farigiraf means no lategame gravity team lol

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But there's stuff here

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I want yoi to catch falinks and name it the proletariat lol

worthy minnow
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kanga is probably the obvious pick

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falinks is RWALLY good for duping potentially

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what is the ??? grass its in?

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tower first floor and sweetrock, and the sweetrock patch helps you dupe guardian isle and has a bunch of trades for further duping

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Tower first floor isn't super relevent

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As in, falinks is also in a ??? Grass patch

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cause verizon wireless

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sweetrock is nice

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and if you give up virizion for carnation tower first floor there's potentially florges or one of the bug guys

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supposedly accelgor sweeps zain

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notable

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dictatorship of the proletariat

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But there's also the funny boomer pokemon

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I don't know if that's actually good in the nuzlocke context because there's four other fights, but someone said that

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drampa is very funny

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also a dragon

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zinnia's voice whispers in your ear telling you to pick the fuckin dragon

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pff

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if zinnia were here she would say to take the dragon

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I think I can cycle out Teamujin here, it doesn't seem crazy

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Take THE GUYS

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The best gif ever

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The babies!

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embrace ur inner zinnia tho

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alright the babies

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both my partners present, who get 2 votes each, want the babies

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falinks has been solid when I've used it in the past too lol

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plus like
it's steel
steel types are never bad

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ooh fuck that clicked no retreat

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(but partners are more important reason lol)

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Yeah but emmi is weak and refuses to FUCK IT WE BALL and click no retreat

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nuzlocke problems

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it does get take shelter to help with that at least

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click the master ball

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what are you gonna use it for anyways

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torkoal

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got it

shy stump
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it was relevant in context 😭

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I use the masterball on tentacool tbh

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real

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tbh like

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honestly, with the new catchig mechanics, it might even be generally better to use master balls to simplify annoying triples

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if you plan the wild legendaries they just aren't that hard to catch normally with the new tectonic balls and such

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Alright

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GAMBA

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CONFIDENT DEEP WATER

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LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FISHING

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which deep water is this, OFC?

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Yep

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I guess we know you can't dupe towards lugia anymore lol

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Mantine, relicanth, bruxish

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if only

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Bruxish isn't it

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Mantyke is very cool

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bruxish is the most interesting

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which does not mean good

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yeah

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I did almost bring mantine to the tournament twice; would be interesting to actually test it

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I think its a relicanth angle

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like wooo strong jaw with 6 moveslots

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is funky

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but

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relicanth looked decent into samorn when I calced it, but then A. Sandslash and Talonflame did the thing

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if you dont clarion and instead just keep getting single dupes you can run and reroll

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at some point I have to test whether that's actually better lugia odds

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but that requires like
simulation
annoying and time-intestive lol

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yea

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I listened to Lil last time

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this time I listen to my heart

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and my heart says BABYYY

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Bruxish?

rugged kelp
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mantine is too adorable not to come with i guess

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lol

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its ability with rock polish solos a lot of things

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Hes a beet ?

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free ride is maybe something for late game doubles

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i

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relicanth recommend it more

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Bella vs setup is gonna be the new jess vs trapping, i can see it

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literally like

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this is my jess arc

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soon bella will go on an anti setup crusade

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Twinkleberg

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tbf this is something that is less immediately obvious but like

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listen i did my crusade for a reason ok, it was actually kinda pressing for internal reasons

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it feels like an issue tbh
it's just both (a) less obvious (b) more importantly gamefreak has canonized it to the point where people expect it

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Idk i feel like setup is mostly fine in this game, and even a little weak at times

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now to run around and look for a lugia for the funi

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if you roll shiny lugia can you keep it

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i mean yeah

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no gleaming for it

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i guess I mean, if you go around looking for shiny lugia can you keep it lol

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wait

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just realized.

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shiny hunting is against the spirit of the rules, but also lugia plays by its own rules

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i mean you're just waiting for the contest to end

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Like yeah you can build your strategy around it you can get a big payoff and sweep fights but like
Idk if thats a bad thing
Anyway not the appropriate channel and allat
Good night its 3am

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you can guarentee wingull heree

shy stump
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No luigi

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have we ever had a random shiny in one of these runs?

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PAO

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PIDOVE

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no, somehow

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despite all the sewer grinding

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yeah somehow not

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she is about to get kerploded

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I uh

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may just need to run then

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or master ball a koffing

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i generally haven't seen them do that much, but it is a potential issue

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funnily enough if you roll meary she's just immune

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G!Weezing seems solid into Victoire

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Steel immune and can bonk fairies

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weezing itself used to be solid into victorie too

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used to?

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well it was a great anti-blastoise lead

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not sure how it does with hymnus now

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(you just gassed the on-hit rain)

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makes sense

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It probably just scares out Hymnus with stab poison

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this is really just 'hit all the dev team's least favorite things' night huh

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take weezing to use the neutralizing gas oooooh

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Kung Pao Pidove ain't it lol

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yeah quick into master balling koffing

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I have taken unfezant in two playthroughs and used it exactly once I think

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it's fine

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I just don't think it's more than that tbh

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yea

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anyways Arsenic caught

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lol

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I may have named mine COVID

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Question

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why is there wild monkeys running around prizca west

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. . .

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that is an excellent question

worthy minnow
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I need a dev comentary track on the decision that led to Aipom in Priz west

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Ok that's enough game for how

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now

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ok

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was gonna do some money grinding in another game but

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autism

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And exhaustion disallowing me from focusing on mindless tasks

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real

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melted down due to strobe lights last night and still kinda recovering

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can't cook but can click "approve" 160 times on a find/replace function

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@grave steppe if you are around, did you ever use Bounsweet at this point in the game?

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I used her against Victorie but I don't think on anything else

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starter matchups are all kinda awk at this point I think except for specific things

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yea

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So gonna roll for Skarm I think

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well tbf tsareena also had to compete against. like. litereally every good grass type in the game at this point for me too

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I have so much weather that having a flexible weather mon is nice

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like tsareena would look better in a box without meganium and ferrothorn XD

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yeah

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so I think I would roll on split peaks like normal yeah

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So I was talking up Skarm

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but

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Sand rush and duping out

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da driller

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oh right you have the sandstorm team

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skarmory does get weather fwiw

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but it's not sand rush

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*weathered

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yeah it has weathered I know

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noting for the record, but also I think your instinct is right

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looking for axew right

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works better with my moonglow stuff, but ground steel sweeping goes crazy

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axew in stone nest also sets up a dupe for Eldegoss which is obviously relevant

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eldegoss is indeed bananas

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only thing is I could get drilbur in stone nest if I wanted, whereas that's not an option for skarm

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but skarm is kinda outdone is a lot of ways by Corvinight who is also avaliable later

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skarmory is extremely strong and versatile

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but that's a 1 in 5 (well less if you catch yamask before I guess)

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So yeah I think its a Drilbur angle

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....poor Hawlucha though lol

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I think 1 in 5 is probably like a 60%? something like that?

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we really have to do the simulation on those chances at some point

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but

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efffort

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dw hes gonna get something for that new mega

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yeahhh well whatev

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this is a tough choice...

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thought on it.

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commiting

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bye skarm.

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Rolling Sewer

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Uhhh careful

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That Spiritomb WILL mass destruction and kill the yamasks

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Doesn't get MD till 60*

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It is 48

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i'm baka

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Ohhhh

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I got Chroma clarioned

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LMAO

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aha lol

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either way killing it quick

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Yamask just seems better tbh

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agreed

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Ghost/dark has a little utility but yamasks is both a dupe and a really interesting defensive piece

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(and Rotom can be a ghost/dark if you CV)

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....spiritomb disagree

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encounter failed.

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welp

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death knell killed everything around it and then crimson storm killed spiritomb

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oh it was death knell not mass destruction

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yea lol

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right memory wrong move

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for whom the bell tolls

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funny that this happened to both of us now

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exact same setup too . . . game literally has to roll yamask spiritomb yamask for this

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scurry

worthy minnow
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Aegislash rolling up with the squad

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we got m. ninetales at home

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(Noivern is kinda insane though and theoretically wins the finale on its own once you get to the 2v1)

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also like
dusknoir

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honestly these are all great lol

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Tough...

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Aegislash goes so crazy, but Noiverns ability seems disgusting

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I can get Meary so aegislash loses some value

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Already have an Aggrevator so Dusknoir loses some value.

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I think I'll try Noivern

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ok, enough for now

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What other encounters do I have to do.

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Volcanic,
Abyssal (gonna do it in a bit when the trainer is easier)
Boiling (same as above)
Eleig Stretch (need to cash in a grass and Crobat to aim for better mons)
Sweetrock (want to cash in a fairy for Milcery)
Stone Nest
River Crossing (do Stone Nest First)
Prizca East (don't want smeargle so maybe relicanth worth?)
Battle Plaza: (need to buy Skitty)
Circuit Cave
Alloyed Thicket
Below Stone Nest
Mirror Tundra
Steamy Valley
Cave of Hatching

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Stone Nest, Eleig river crossing, Prizca East?

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argument for cashing in a ghost for better duping odds on sweetrock as well if you particularly want comfey (or to dupe comfey)

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Cave of Hatching grass is also available now without having to fight any trainers

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The way that Herding works (or just the rolling of already caught encounters), you'd still get better odds of a non-Applin Pokemon even though it's not an uncatchable dupe

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because the formula only counts whether a Pokemon is registered in the dex or not

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Ahh

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oh, also, the other sewer grass should be on your list. Circuit cave too if you want to fight your way in there (probably not the system itself though?)

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woo

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dupe time

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da boyz

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axew nabbed

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wiffed

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aww

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. . . the other choices here are really something aren't they

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yyeahhhhh

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drednaw is fun

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hypno is maybe mechanically interesting idk

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Drednaw is pretty FAT and

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....huh

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the only biting moves it learns by level up are its signature (trapping crunch) and... crunch and bite

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that feels wrong

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it's weird for sure

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,....the only other move biting move it has is ice fang...

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better as a trapper imo

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there aren't any water or rock biting moves so it's kinda just pseudo stab crunch if you think about it

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yeah

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That

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should be replaced

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oh wait

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it also gets stab boosted strong jaw boosted Snap

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which is decent but still 65 bp

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oh right I remember that

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It's technically superior to standard 90BP stab

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by like, 2.5BP

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yeah

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and its worse than big water moves

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hilarious

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idk, I feel like it having trapping and biting synergy is also weird

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gonna float this I think

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recommend a LOCK IN set with a water balloon

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this guy is fat asf

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yeah he's big bulky

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can you just run mending spring

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and a grip claw or binding band or something

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Doesn't get it

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probably for that reason

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who needs a grip claw when you can lock in

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yeah

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unfort

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jaw lock is permanent trapping bb

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ah that's how jaw lock works

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traps everyone involved

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until someone goes down

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nice

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ok 20 minute segment of staring at chewtle and drowzee

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it is clearly Very Important that we discern which of the C-tier options is better

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I swear drednaw is actually mildly interesting as a trapper

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and uh, he's a bulky water type and y'all love bulky water types

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Nah I believe in Seismaw

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Just.... its like a low B verses a low D

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wasn't a decision tbh

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yeah seems about right

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Just me being offended at biting moves, like normal

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What are your thoughts on frostflow bella?

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Durant or gamba?

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ummmmmm

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so here's the thing

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spheal is a trade, right? very valuable, but fixed

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Frostflow encounters are surprisingly dupable, for what it's worth

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so there's exactly one thing here that I think is like really really good, which is togedemaru

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the problem is that it's the only really amazing thing

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(well cottonee but that's also fixed)

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Sensibelle seems pretty nice

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forgot about sensibelle

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not sure how it does tbh; never used it

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Is audino in Frostflow now??

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huge

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yea3

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togedemaru is crazy and specifically really good on the tournament because free rapid spin on steel type with caretaker

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Tropius is also really beeg

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moon blanket is very fun on sensibelle

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Caretaker with unique double berry synergy

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I'm not sure about tropius but only because I haven't used it/seen it used much

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Durant is a known quantity so you could just shake it up, it seems like the wild stuff is also at least theoretically good

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119 123 108 bulk

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it's super bulky but not sure if it like . . . does much? though you can just do the normal leech giga drain shit

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I mean potentially stab 150 move

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it's one use though right

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Durant clowns on Victoire iirc, so the choice probably depends largely on how prepared you are for that fight

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oh true you could just use two of the same

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also can just spread leech

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(though alloyed forest is a little scary to clarion)

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also, ferrothorn is there

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maybe I should roll forest first

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maybe

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oh right

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the big man

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yeah I think in that case rolling forest makes a lot of sense

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because if you just catch durant then totally roll frostflow

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lol

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i mean yes it's obvious when you put it that way but also like

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yeah

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that's a thing

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yee

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(there's an argument for amoonguss instead because +1 stink bomb, but i think that's less relevant at this point?)

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yeah a bit

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I have enough options that can balance most fights

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amongus

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I dislike that

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da goop

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I see very little reason to grab ditto

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so uh yeah durant

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yeah

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you get a free Imogene anyway

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Dur-ant

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releases the free Imogene because it's a dupe

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lol

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hm

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don't have a good trade for spheal tbh

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Turtonator, Dromeupt, and Emboar

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and rotom ig

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uhhhh hm

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could uh

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there's always the volcanic beach encounter, and the steamy valley for torkoal

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trade a dark for heatmor and then heatmor for spheal

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also that

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heatmor does do some things, but its main advantage is victorie, who durant solves, and then its main thing is firefighter and spheal does that better

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yea

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energy lock pure energy heatmor does go kinda hard in parts

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make sure you get strength sap off him first

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but not enough that it's an incredible pickup

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darks are murkrow, obstagoon, shiftry

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already burned your free cat and other cat?

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oh yeah alolacat

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I can just buy that\

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and a. rat

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I uh

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a cat a rat and a dogcatthing

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have had bad luck with dark types

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yeah so just turn a cat or a rat into strength sap and spheal

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sounds good to me

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also fragmentation if you don't have it yet

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oh wait

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traded cat for G!cat

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need to figure out how to get to snowbird

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its arbok right?

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yeah

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That's sewers?

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and snowbird is just like right there, first house in prizca west coming from the south

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oh wait no its just a house

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#-------------------------------
[ARBOK]
Ability = CONSTRICTOR
Moves1 = TOXICTASTE,CRUNCH,PRIMEVALSUNSHINE
Moves2 = FIRELASH,SOLARGLIDE,EMPOWEREDMYSTICALFIRE
#-------------------------------

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had it opened and it was easy to copy/paste

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NO WE ARE PROTESTING Y'ALL

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eepy protest

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Protest succeeded

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Pike w

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where's heatmor again?

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Hotel

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Prizca

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Rat has no notable move except u-turn

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Yoink

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feel kinda bad for trading rat, but I hope this is better than being stuck with an arbok

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Hey it's called facilitating an adoption

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Problem

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I do not have a mon to pass strength sap onto

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skull emoji

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i was about to say you get it on absolus at 63 anyway but

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uh

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Could trade falinks for sudowoodo

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what?

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isn't the bonsly trade only riolu?

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I do have sand going

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oh is it oops

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yeah it's exactly riolu

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curse of the too-specific trades strikes again

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I will end you too specific trades

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gee it sure would be nice if we took a look at those

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well ain't that what the thread is for right

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that's the joke

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...frillish?

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any grass

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that would work

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jellicent is also pretty decent so not a terrible trade

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oh

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do you have Tea from the Tea Store

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whims (no), Ferro (no), Roserade, Shiftry, Chesnaugh

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OH!

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no I do not!

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yea that'll do it

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it's funny because I should have even realized that because I kept seeing things going 'shouldn't I suggest tea from the tea store' on battles

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and then uh
forgetting

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passed onto tea

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gamba time then sleep\

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toge!!

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Veryyyy spicy for tourney

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yeah its nice

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one of my favorites so would be very cool if its good for you

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I'm also a huge huge fan of Toge

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Was a massive player in my first playthrough of Pokemon Reborn

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Including killing ||PULSE Arceus||

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nice

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I've only really used it in tectonic but it way overperformed when I did lol

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lynchpin of my first bence & zoe perfect clear strat before I learned the dark arts

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it has the very funny sturdy endeavour tech lol

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. . . honestly it gets follow me so it could also just do the dark arts

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lmao

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ok, goodnight <3