Pokemon

[fallen sparrow]

this is out now right

[mighty badger]

yes

[fallen sparrow]

oh so thats what he was doing

[mighty badger]

@fallen sparrow @blazing forum

[blazing forum]

ty 🙏

i watched some of pchal’s stream, it was awesome

[mighty badger]

boutta say why tf the caps so high but like yeah that makes sense

[mighty badger]

like

tf you mean this is the first gym???

@fallen sparrow

[fallen sparrow]

well this should be fun

I don't suppose this is gen 9 weather mechanics

[mighty badger]

yea

[fallen sparrow]

aka sand doesn't last forever

[mighty badger]

think it is

[fallen sparrow]

thats smth at least

[blazing forum]

gen 9 everything

has za megas even

[mighty badger]

Ok so

First thoughts

This hack is really fun

You do get a lot more encounters then usual

Like I understand when you say you get 100 of them

[mighty badger]

I swear the crit rate is just fucked up for htis like

bro

1/8 enemy 1/16 us

[signal minnow]

Found a shiny in the safari zone

I bet you'll never guess what happened to that seaking

[mighty badger]

kil

i presume

[signal minnow]

It fled xdd

[mighty badger]

fuckk

[fallen sparrow]

could be worse

they could have made it gen 1 crit rate lol

[mighty badger]

skill swap is a funny ability

(i skill swapped the oricorio to potentially get some revelation dances, im curious if you can actually get some quivers setup on your delphox tho

[mighty badger]

I also hard cheesed wally lmao

[fallen sparrow]

it does

[mighty badger]

atmmmm

I just beat wattson, kinda used a strat where I just used toxtricity and omastar to get past it

this fight was lowkey super fuckin tough but so fun

like honestly some of these teams are clever

there's one with trick or treat gourgeist into persuit krookodile

one of my favs is in wattsons gym which is choice band explosion electrode into revival blessing forcing you to deal with a max of 5 booms

[mighty badger]

ok sooo

@fallen sparrow you got any inverse knowledge?

[fallen sparrow]

wdym by inverse knowledge

its just all type matchups reversed

[mighty badger]

I'm up against this

[fallen sparrow]

ok

ah

I see

[mighty badger]

Have no idea on what like I can actually do

[fallen sparrow]

uhhhhhhh

thats a tough one icl

I don't suppose you have anything faster than that pory

or the squawk

cuz normal is kinda op in inverse and those things turn into nukes

[fallen sparrow]

what do you have available

[fallen sparrow]

two questions

is this a nuzlocke and are you on set or switch

[mighty badger]

no nuzlocke, set mode

if i was doing this as a nuzlocke i wouldn't be here lmao

[fallen sparrow]

how smart is the ai

[mighty badger]

We don't have much info on it, Terra said it was inspired by rnb ai tho

[fallen sparrow]

if you put manetric and noivern in front of terapagos and spammed u turn and volt switch would it adapt

cuz if it doesn't thats a free turtle

[mighty badger]

the only thing i so far see is malamar being countered easily by delphox

also I have like 3 intimidate mons but zero illuminate mons

[mighty badger]

also manectric doesn't learn volt switch yet, uturn is a heart scalable move for noivern but I could use kingdra?

[fallen sparrow]

what

the idea for using manetric noivern was it sees noivern, it uses supercell cuz ice beam bounces off

you u turn into manetric, get lightning rod

he also takes supercell recoil

volt to noivern

[mighty badger]

it's intim lmao

[fallen sparrow]

what in the fuck

[mighty badger]

also yeah volt switch for manectric isn't available yet

hangon uhh

@fallen sparrow https://nullcalc.vercel.app/

[fallen sparrow]

ig I'm gonna have to look for other creative ways around this

I felt so smart until you told me it doesn't have lrod

even without volt it could have worked

[mighty badger]

I still also gotta plan norman too which is gonna be fun

norman rnb was genuinely like really hard so idk how norman in this game's feelin but like lowkey i could probably cook with smth

[fallen sparrow]

@mighty badger are you able to change these movesets at all

and do these come out in order

[mighty badger]

Not much

Also no

[mighty badger]

ok i think i found smth kinda sick, may play around with it :3

[mighty badger]

swalot encores terapagos into conversion, mortal spin poisons, and then just acid spray knocks it down, you're kinda riskin a crit or two
Bellibolt soak's Porygon-Z, and porygon Z just uses conversion and conversion 2 kinda nullifying it
grapploct gets handled by Delphox, Squawk comes out, sees Skull bash, Delphox 2 hits it, Malamar comes in, Skill swap contrary, pivot to eggy, psybeam oneshots

[mighty badger]

Also idk fully, how run and bun switching ai works but this is kinda similar in the sense of it getting incentivised to look for fast kills to your current Pokémon if possible

This might be the best example of this

gourgeist trick or treats you, if you kill krookodile sees a way to pursuit trap so if you switch out you just get completely fucked

[fallen sparrow]

[stone void]

not saying any spoilers but I’ve been absolutely loving pokopia

I didn’t know what all the hype was about

until I spent 2 hours just building away without any major progression

[mighty badger]

holy bisharp hello???

[mighty badger]

bye maxie

[mighty badger]

I literally fucking perish songged his koraidon

[fallen sparrow]

Wolfeyvgc over here

[mighty badger]

Holy FUCK

@fallen sparrow @blazing forum @golden yew look at this fucking staraptor

no edits made this is like elite 4 material flat out

just about to get to winona's gym rn

[fallen sparrow]

What in the fuck are those ivs

That's insanely good for just an encounter

[mighty badger]

gale wings staraptor mega looks kinda busted holy

[mighty badger]

bro what

sooo apparently i can do one fight for the badge or two for the weakness policy with the same team

[fallen sparrow]

is the second one supposed to be like

harder

cuz icl the first team in general looks better

[mighty badger]

you can do either of those fights ^^

[blazing forum]

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxVr5PZhzi41YBnycux3R-YPLhdqHnxEAy?si=n6alqKJSweobzsk5 wtf

[rigid kraken]

3/5

[mighty badger]

I fucked up the save and did it again but entirely deathless

[mighty badger]

welp

getting up to Pyre gauntlet now and uihh

(Perma Misty Terrain)

Last team is just
Yourself

[hoary hornet]

that must be one of the scariest fights in the game

you can prepare for a lot of bullshit but it's super tricky to also prepare for yourself

[fallen sparrow]

is this doubles

[mighty badger]

All singles

[fallen sparrow]

ok I'm gonna be so real

if theres perma misty terrain these teams kinda suck

[mighty badger]

They kinda do but like just the concept of doing all of them in one go is the tough part lmao

[mighty badger]

Tbh I kinda found the fights at the top of mt pyre a lot harder imo

Never had to deal with the effect before

Perma grudge and mean look

If you kill a mon your pp goes to 0

Magma hideout instead of going for hell room has a gimmick where if you don't have a 100% move it will fail

And Bands and quick claws will hit

Every time

[blazing forum]

PERMA GRUDGE IS CRAZY

[mighty badger]

ok sooo

[mighty badger]

I understand what they mean with this now

ok this is evil

[stone void]

ive just spent 2.5 hours straight making a house for myself in pokopia

and i still havent finished it yet 😭

this is what it looks like rn, still a wip but i think its looking good rn

[fluid matrix]

I have thought about buying this game every day since its release

Criminal that it came out on the same day as slay the spire 2

[mighty badger]

uhhh may need help here real quickkkk

[blazing forum]

8 mon double battle??? 😭

my initial thought is to bait darmanitan into v-creating and/or superpowering to lower its stats over and over while focusing the other side

leave the darmanitan as a sitting duck and get rid of all of tate's side, then you can 2v1 the rest of liza's team

[mighty badger]

I think 100% the main problem is just the necrozma dusk aswell as the ape

[mighty badger]

ehh tbh it wasn't too bad

[mighty badger]

yeah I think im lowkey understanding how this romhack kinda just feels like you're hitting walls left and fuckin right

Yeah I kinda agree with terra about how the difficulty scales so much into the endgame

which if you said it to anyone on twitter they would fucking laugh at you

[blazing forum]

do they think it’s too hard early game?

[blazing forum]

i know but don't you have fully evolved mons at this point

[mighty badger]

yea, that's just twitter for ya p:

[blazing forum]

lmaoooo

[mighty badger]

twitter are just like "Zygarde on the first gym this is just difficulty slop" when zygarde's like the 2nd easiest mon of the team

you get a lapras or dewgong by fishing at 103

also brawly zamazenta gym 2 which spoiler alert, gets fucking bodied by armarouge or delphox

Delphox is one of the most fun mons in all of pokemon null tbh

like, skill swap topsy turvy

[mighty badger]

another fun mon is bellibolt, like just the concept of them using some goofy things like soak and acid spray to weaken mons to just kill with thunder

like i had problems with winona's garchomp in the double battle and just the concept of killing it with a thunder is fucking hillarious to me

[fallen sparrow]

tf is that darm

just go sheer force life orb

[blazing forum]

pretty sure the point is to do exactly not that

[mighty badger]

Yeah

A lot of teams are just not smogon to just be different

[mighty badger]

I think terra wanted to preferably go more of a unique set then that in order to not have Pokémon setups be intim or illuminate cycles

[stone void]

day 2 on my pokopia house: tidied up the roof (it looks super nice now :D)
to do: interior deco and outside gardening/detailing (windows to go in spaces in the walls)
also i spoiler tagged the images in case someone wants no spoilers :3

[mighty badger]

I love how the first fights of the victory road are just a team rocket set with

[fallen sparrow]

intim be damned, darm would hit right thru it

[mighty badger]

intim or illuminate atleast

tbh uhh idk if there's a way to optimize the 2nd team rocket guy witht he team i got

[fallen sparrow]

baton pass with nothing to pass

what even are these sets

[mighty badger]

im mainly more getting cooked by the stoutland garchomp and sandaconda

[fallen sparrow]

inferno

wtf

[fallen sparrow]

these sets are trash

that grim should have had screens too

[mighty badger]

also atm im needing to also cook a elite 4 which I have smth but zero fucking clue what i should use considering i don't know the teams lmaooo

Especially after dealing with highlights such as:

• A random team with either gardevoir mega, gallade mega or iron valient with a mega garchomp Z

• Mega Zygarde

• Multiple Arceus teams

• This lil shit

• A double with Maxie and Archie featuring primals

• And a 6v12 with both mega mewtwos

[fallen sparrow]

this little shit being the eternamax I assume

[mighty badger]

yep

[fallen sparrow]

sounds easy enough

[mighty badger]

any mons also kinda like speak out? was wanting to make a team with smth mega staraptor and shaymin related probably as an e4

[fallen sparrow]

I am definitely not overestimating my ability to outplay cpus

given I don't know what the e4 is rocking I assume I'm just looking for generally busted shit

[mighty badger]

For the E4, you get randomly assigned the teams as either singles and doubles

2 each

[fallen sparrow]

so I'm trying to build against two different teams in two different formats simultaneously

granted these don't look optimized/well built in the slightest

[mighty badger]

Granted you don't get too much tech on your end either

[fallen sparrow]

oh its pre burnt huh

[mighty badger]

Yeee, you get a way to also pre damage and status before every fight

There was a fight in route 127 I killed the gimmick of but it was 1hp burnt tatsugiri and dondozo as well as a costar flamigo

[fallen sparrow]

do you have any weather capability

or the ability to put sticky web on that leavanny

[fallen sparrow]

Scrafty looks insanely valuable tbh

[mighty badger]

lmao no

also yeah if a mon doesn't say to have it's mega stone but it does it will be able to mega, only ones that I can't get are mewtwo ray and zygarde

https://nulldex.vercel.app/ might help for showing megas

[fallen sparrow]

I'm not suggesting mega scrafty

I'm suggesting regular scrafty

I would only consider kang exca diancie for megas

manetric if you have eterrain access can also be considered

cuz spamming rising voltage in eterrain makes up for anything

but regular scrafty looks insane support in singles and doubles for this entire gauntlet

[mighty badger]

there may be a fight in 123 i'll be up to use mega manetric (it's thunderstorms) but like yea there's no eterrain

I also solt my weather setter for a thundurus :kekw

[fallen sparrow]

you-

you WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[mighty badger]

it was a castform 😭 😭

why would you not

[fallen sparrow]

did it have

Drizzle

[mighty badger]

it has forcast, rain dance snowscape and sunny day only at level 100

you could literally get any of the genies for it

[fallen sparrow]

ok fine you get a pass

so ur best rain/sun option are the pranksters

[mighty badger]

how does prim look aswell btw?

[fallen sparrow]

seems too slow to me

[fallen sparrow]

it can work if you have like

follow me

thats not togekiss

singles its whatever you just swap out of whatever it loses to

its doubles where it concerns me

cuz prim doesn't output amazing damage without a boost, and scrafty only protects it for one turn, and it doesn't even protect from gengar

[mighty badger]

@fallen sparrow I was also thinking would absol or absol z be tech too?

absol z could be easy baiting

[mighty badger]

also @blazing forum

[fallen sparrow]

Follow up question then

What do you do after you bait

[mighty badger]

either stall to see clean kills with others in doubles or for singles battles try to kill back with knock off or sucker punch

[fallen sparrow]

So we're baiting fighting types

And we're going to kill fighting types with dark type moves

[mighty badger]

ehh true

good poiint

[mighty badger]

yepppp

[fallen sparrow]

This looks pretty bad tbh

Just exca alone clears most of this

[mighty badger]

how tf do i kill this eternatus 😭

the only idea i had was destiny bond but like

most of the mons i have aren't fast

[fallen sparrow]

I'm pretty sure there's some way of letting excadrill solo this fight tbh

Minus crobat

Cuz no sand stream to enable sand rush so can't out speed gengar and hit crobat at the same time

[mighty badger]

ok i just got out

yeah destiny bond worked

Also @fallen sparrow I got a mega dragonite from vr so I may consider looking at that too

[blazing forum]

sick teams

[fallen sparrow]

it might work but idk if I love the idea

[mighty badger]

@fallen sparrow it's SDSD

[fallen sparrow]

What is

[mighty badger]

e4

singles sidney, doubles phoebe, singles rival, doubles drake

[fallen sparrow]

Ah

I thought you meant swords dance

I was like what's swords dance swords dance

You got unlucky for phoebe, lucky for drake

Unsure for rival probably lucky for sidney

[mighty badger]

It has to be 2 of each, that's the main gimmick of it

[fallen sparrow]

Yeah I got that

But some of those are definitely harder for doubles than singles or reverse

[mighty badger]

yeaa

[fallen sparrow]

Phoebe's doubles lineup being insane

[mighty badger]

I got info on what i can use anyways as there's been a few new additions since last time i posted

[fallen sparrow]

Scrafty still looks like your best friend

Altho are you able to swap sets between each fight

[mighty badger]

yes

[fallen sparrow]

Cuz singles and doubles scrafty is wildly different

[mighty badger]

well

I have some tm's but like

not much i can do otherwise

[fallen sparrow]

Well do you have like knock parting shot on it

[mighty badger]

I could scale parting shot on scrafty but it has to be before the e4

[fallen sparrow]

Yeah that's fine

Oh wait need fake out too huh

[mighty badger]

it's knock off, head smash, fake out, cc rn

[fallen sparrow]

Ehhhh

Are you willing to devote more of scrafty to doubles and sacrifice dragon dance?

[mighty badger]

Dragon dance?

[fallen sparrow]

Scrafty in singles is either bulk up or dragon dance sweeper

[mighty badger]

you get zero setup lmoa

[fallen sparrow]

Doubles it's insanely good support

Oh

Alright NVM fuck it

Fake out parting shot knock off combat

Gg

[mighty badger]

any other mons kinda speakin out rn?

i was trying to come up witha goofy team for it but like i got bodied by yveltal myself

[fallen sparrow]

Load up mega diancie then

[mighty badger]

actually yeah good shout

atm the team I was visioning was Shaymin, Scrafty, Mega Diancie, Mega Excadrill, Walking Wake and maybe Gholdengo?

[mighty badger]

@fallen sparrow after looking with a friend, yveltal and calyrex are like the big problems, this is kinda what i think we've figured out?

[fallen sparrow]

and why you think I told you to bring scrafty diancie lol

[mighty badger]

what would you have taken out on that team for scrafty diancie

[fallen sparrow]

I don't even know how you got 8 mons in the one team box

[mighty badger]

the megas? x3

toge kills yveltal with av moonblast, calyrex is the big issue tho

[fallen sparrow]

toge seems very bad tbh

[mighty badger]

really?

[fallen sparrow]

I would never bring it

[mighty badger]

follow me is just useful as a whole and maybe having smth a bit more defensive always works

it's kinda like why rnb players always have primarina

[fallen sparrow]

I'm staring at a mega gengar

among other things

[mighty badger]

delphox psystrike oneshots

[fallen sparrow]

ttar miraidon

mega lucario

[fallen sparrow]

I'm just sending fake out at that slot

nice psystrike

togekiss really is not good into this

too slow and vulnerable

Scrafty is INFINITELY better support than togekiss into this

[mighty badger]

also toge is a palkia counter

[fallen sparrow]

togekiss also does zero damage into this ngl

if I'm on the other side I am not scared of a toge

[mighty badger]

we'll try it and if we eat shit from drake then uhhh

i'll eat my fuckin words ig

[fallen sparrow]

why the fuck are we bringing gholdengo

legitimately all 5 of those teams eat gholdengo for breakfast

screw togekiss just bring scrafty primarina

fixes all your problems

[mighty badger]

wait uhh

how does throat spray work

does it work on alluring gvoice

[fallen sparrow]

if you use any sound move

[mighty badger]

it doesn't show on the calc which is annoying

[fallen sparrow]

skill issue just know all your pokemon mechs

says the person with tens of thousands

[mighty badger]

what would prim's moveset be?

[fallen sparrow]

just live lefties or av with attacks and maybe prot tbh

normally I'd say cm but

uhhh

[mighty badger]

😭 calm mind

deadass

[mighty badger]

HOLY

@fallen sparrow scrafty wasn't the play deadass crazy plan 😭

we got cooked hard by calyrex and found the only counter was staraptor

there was a plan with togekiss using roost to avoid kill with head smash marowak

[fallen sparrow]

scrafty destroys their squads

like unironically

if you couldn't make it work its not a mu issue

[mighty badger]

I think like

unironically the speed kinda just hurt scrafty quite a bit unfortch

and the lack of setup

doesn't get fclose to calyrex with tailwind

[fallen sparrow]

its not supposed to

if you're familiar with incin

its just another incin

[mighty badger]

[mighty badger]

https://xcancel.com/AphexCubed/status/2030721407038951583#m

[fallen sparrow]

https://youtu.be/1QwPt9YsnOE?si=Ciajj0dT04fKrctB

ermmmmmmmmmm

[mighty badger]

platinum kawizo todayyyy

[mighty badger]

https://www.twitch.tv/pchal/clip/ArborealResourcefulQuailCoolCat-rusuoPuDKu6CY7sY

LMFAO

https://www.twitch.tv/moxi/clip/CloudyPoisedBibimbapKreygasm-8H1XqMI2oDdE7rP_

[hushed temple]

Pokemon

[stone void]

I’ve started doing up my pokopia town now

I’ve got a lot of work to do but I’m seeing the vision

[stone void]

pokopia spoilers

ive been working on ||making a new home for professor tangrowth and i think ive done better on this house than my own 😭 ||

here are some photos of the bottom floor

[fallen sparrow]

LOLLLLLLLLLLL

[hushed temple]

Was playing legends za earlier and I was just randomly running through wild area 12 and heard the shiny noise... I turned around to try to find it and I just see a shiny Delibird disappear as I turned around

Because since I was running through it saw me and started running immediately as it was loaded

It was so tragic

[full kayak]

i watched the entire thing

and somehow missed the part where my favorite was ranked

so now i gotta watch it again

[fallen sparrow]

[mighty badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOfW-qdsvpU

||sol cannon meganium, dragonize feraligatr 👀 ||

[signal minnow]

As someone who doesn't play Pokemon competitively im excited for champs. I do enjoy some comp Pokemon content.

[mighty badger]

im mostly just interested inw hat the za legends abilities are

im def trying champions tho

[mighty badger]

||FR: Sol Cannon - Permanent sunlight effect on Meganium (Synthesis, Growth +2, one turn solar beam), even in any weather that isn't sun
Dragonize - Dragon Pixelate)
Mega Emboar gets Mold Breaker 💀 ||

[blazing forum]

i didn’t realize ||growth gets +2 in sun||

[fallen sparrow]

don't tell them about not learning one of those moves

[signal minnow]

Growth

i do think moldbreaker lowkey wont be that bad but it def could have been cooler

[hoary hornet]

yeah mold breaker is at least a solid silver bar i'd think, compared to the diamonds the other two got

[signal minnow]

I mean it makes sense for meganium at least

that boy was useless

i think feraligator is still pretty usable without mega and with so it has a chance, emboar is just

not much gonna change but i could see it gettings some use maybe if you stretch lol

[mighty badger]

it should've been what pokemon null did being supreme overlord

[chrome basin]

playing a draft league with only mons with 17 points or less and 90 points to use. Im the green goodras. Hows my draft

[fallen sparrow]

mfw the green goodras is the yellow column

it looks good but hard to pilot imo

[fallen sparrow]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randomdoublesbattle-2566723886

we love meming LOL

[chrome basin]

What are the rules that these are the Pokémon?

Also quilfish seems so much better of a pokemon than the rest

[fallen sparrow]

wdym rules

[fallen sparrow]

ehh, I find Chi Yu better on average

I'll agree for the rest

[chrome basin]

Oh never mind I thought this was a draft match

[chrome basin]

I didn’t see the random bats tag

Sorry I’m dumb

/blind

[fallen sparrow]

welcome to your people

[mighty badger]

some others

• ||Dragonite - Multiscale||

• ||Froslass - Snow Warning||

[golden holly]

NAH AINT NO WAY I JUST HIT THR NASTIEST 10 PULL OF ALL TIME

[rigid kraken]

this has gotta be the worst pack i’ve gotten

[blazing forum]

erm why don’t you have me added

7053509623555268

[mighty badger]

Guess I'll add too

[blazing forum]

absolutely

i’m a great sharer, and i also am looking for a few cards from past packs

and if you have anything from my wishlist, please share/trade!

[mighty badger]

0453625727298514

[rigid kraken]

this is very true, pepper be giving me a bunch of shares

[chrome basin]

Are you guys going to play champions?

[golden holly]

probably not

[blazing forum]

why play paid game when can play same game for free online

[mighty badger]

I will

[timid trellis]

crazy to me that u need to pay money to have more than 5 teams

like if im in a game solely about pokemon battling im gonna want like a dozen teams

[mighty badger]

Honestly wanna do some in person Pokémon battling so may do something w that later

[digital quartz]

Just realized that no ivs means hidden power is never coming back lol

[mighty badger]

rip unown

[digital quartz]

They're gonna make the type based on its letter or something 😭

[stone void]

for my pokopia enjoyers

i have started a big project

i am ||removing the volcanic ash from rocky ridges||

||at bare minimum i will also clear a full pathway to the mansion||

heres a photo for the scale ive gone to so far

[mighty badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4OoeJh5C4
@blazing forum @fallen sparrow

[blazing forum]

i’m watching rn!

it’s sick

[fallen sparrow]

https://youtu.be/CEvVzrzias8?si=Ref0hpuGTYuI_i5i

[fallen sparrow]

https://youtu.be/edv_-k3fFb8?si=b6I4pMsqqBG-8Hj6

Huh

[stone void]

ive done some mining off camera

this has taken like 10 hours of my life ong

and that photo is like 33% of the total amount ive excavated

[fallen sparrow]

Freezai won Orlando

[chrome basin]

saw that kind of crazy

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2576790404

I was playing as all pseudo man and got goodra h to get 4 of the 6 kills

[warm spire]

lost my old account and had to start again, first shiny is a red lol

[signal minnow]

Crazy that the mystery gift code is champ 10 n

Shout out 10n

Also, I thought this special lucario was gonna be a straight meme but its kinda been super useful because everyone expects physical lucario

[chrome basin]

Is this rare?

[stone void]

shinies are somewhat uncommon but I’ve heard they’re way more common than mainline games

good find tho

also u can’t transfer them to home if u get them in champions so that kinda sucks

[mighty badger]

I nearly fucking lost to a snowgrave team holyyy FUCK

[hoary hornet]

oh yeah the entrainment no guard sheer cold

i was hearing that go around lmao

[stone void]

meanwhile victreebel getting ||innards out|| 😭

[hoary hornet]

ironically, a great counter to this entrainment ohko strat

[signal minnow]

Despite focus blast being 70% accurate I think I missed 70% of them

I have missed back to back focus blasts so many times

[digital quartz]

30-70 is the most evil ratio in pokemon

Everything bad has those numbers istg

[fallen sparrow]

really now? welcome to my every day

[fallen sparrow]

Stone Edge.

[golden holly]

new tattoo

[hoary hornet]

tattoogiri

[fallen sparrow]

https://youtu.be/MDTT8szI7ko?si=gfijO8JDGnYR44We

....

[mighty badger]

Honestly a wack ass team I would do

I've done a team on showdown with like contrary hydrapple recently

W skill swap malamar

[fallen sparrow]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randomdoublesbattle-2581825553

I don't even know how I won

[sleek yew]

Flinched 4 rock slides in a row xdd

Next game got froze for 3 turns by ice beam

[fallen sparrow]

Me when I just got quad flinched by slide on showdown...

[mighty badger]

this is kinda the team im rockin for vgc rn

idk what ppl think but like maybe there's smth?

[fallen sparrow]

I feel like theres not enough sun synergy

weak payoff put it that way

[chrome basin]

reminds me of this

[fallen sparrow]

https://vxtwitter.com/WolfeyGlick/status/2045188135504494998?s=20

Wolfey (@WolfeyGlick)

I am the #1 ranked player in the world in Pokemon Champions with Mega Scovillain - went on an 11 win streak with this Pokemon to close it out

Full video soon (probably next Saturday?), full 5 hour vod of the run available early on Patreon later today

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 17, 2026, 5:10 PM

[stone void]

i just hit masterball tier in 2v2's on champions

LETS GOOOOO

[fallen sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-damn-im-good-sideswipe-im-good-revenge-of-the-fallen-gif-18561884

[signal minnow]

https://youtu.be/zvbzkcInbG0?si=kJoZmXtryLHP3h0K

Mythical pull

[chrome basin]

Insane

gen 9?

[fallen sparrow]

Ye

[chrome basin]

Weid that it doesn't just say it on top

Wired

[fallen sparrow]

It's cuz it's current gen

[chrome basin]

Wierd

[fallen sparrow]

The older gens say the gen number

[fallen sparrow]

I went for number 1 btw, immediately got miraidon into rhyperior Raichu

So that was a rip

[fallen sparrow]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randombattle-2590469899

behold

the mythical scarf umbreon sweep

(that was not the best idea from my friend, in tournament no less)

[chrome basin]

crazy game

also crazy to talk that much in a tournament game

[fallen sparrow]

we are friends and former teammates to be fair

[chrome basin]

cool custom as well

[fallen sparrow]

often we train together

hes usually a little better than me actually

[fallen sparrow]

mine?

[chrome basin]

yeah

[fallen sparrow]

thats the one I got this year lol

[chrome basin]

do you have multiple/

[fallen sparrow]

yes

[chrome basin]

the gredant one is great

[fallen sparrow]

I never use it

I think its cursed af

actually world cup should be in a few months

[lofty nest]

@fluid matrix pulled the Mega Dragonites back to back LOL

4 booster bundles so I’m pretty happy with that, net profit

Plus the cynthia card is sick

[fluid matrix]

Oh shit fucking nice

The salazzle too

Great pulls

Ive been patiently waiting for them to drop the aet they teased on pokemon day with all the cards in the old styles

[lofty nest]

I ordered these bundles like in January too lol

Didn’t realize it would be the last Ascended Heroes product to drop 💀

[fluid matrix]

I think im gonna grade some of my pulls soon, just for funsies

Not planning on selling them, but i wanna get em graded and have some slabs of my own

[lofty nest]

the zard SIR I have rn is up to 850 ungraded

[fluid matrix]

[lofty nest]

Perrin has also been going up a bunch which is funny

was usually hovering around 90-100 and is now at like 175

[fluid matrix]

Actually the value of my collection also shot up kinda recently and idk why

[mighty badger]

Got up to ultra ball 2 with this :3

[mighty badger]

Idk what mons to more or less eye for as counters to this team tbh

[mighty badger]

:3

[chrome basin]

I honestly haven’t played much champions so feel free to correct me but would light of ruin not just be better than moonblast most of the time?

I know about the damage to the user however I feel like it would be worth it

[rigid kraken]

worst 10 pull of all time

oh shit you can hear my music

[fallen sparrow]

Zard Y plus support looks pretty good into that icl

[mighty badger]

Honestly a lot of the zard teams I've seen Rotom and Sneasler absolutely can take care of zard

[fallen sparrow]

I said zard y plus support for a reason

[mighty badger]

yeah probably

im also like fairly shit against trick room

[fallen sparrow]

idk what tr mons are in there atm so

can't say on that one

[mighty badger]

Farigiraf, Sinistcha, Hatterene, Mimikyu, gardevoir and alakazam are the only ones I've seen

[fallen sparrow]

the last two are not tr mons

tho the first 3 are pretty good

[mighty badger]

I've seen gardevoir used as a trick room team

[fallen sparrow]

not a good one

[mighty badger]

and also slowking sometimes with some goofy sets

[fallen sparrow]

slowking is also bad for that

the mon has to do smth other than set tr, slowking is too passive

[mighty badger]

There was smth I kinda wanted to test from a foofootoo video that just looked very fucking wrong the more you look into it

being this

[fallen sparrow]

that looks

unbelievably dumb

[mighty badger]

you paralyse your feraligatr to just

facade

[fallen sparrow]

hes not even running fucking respects

[mighty badger]

yeah im not sure about the rest of the team

but like

the idea of paralysing your own feraligatr because of the 1/8 para nerf to turn facade into a 140bp+dragonize+stab nuke is funny to me

[fallen sparrow]

I may be scarred by gen 9 randdubs

cuz that format is saturated with para

but I am never doing that shit

para has robbed me of so many wins

[fallen sparrow]

incredibly funny to me

(gen 6 sucker)

[chrome basin]

Is absol actually usable gen 6

[mighty badger]

I think I made some improvements to this? can't tell

[fallen sparrow]

What is weavile for

[mighty badger]

Sneasler bait

It's the same reason sneaslers for incin

[mighty badger]

Psycho cut. Triple Axel, Fake out, Knock off, 2nd fastest fake out in the game

[fallen sparrow]

sash?

[mighty badger]

yea

weavile's naturally faster then sneasler

[fallen sparrow]

fastest being....what, lopunny?

[mighty badger]

mega lopunny ye

it's mega lopunny, weavile, sneasler

[fallen sparrow]

I wonder if you're weak to tr

other than that can't think of anything

[mighty badger]

yeah probably am weak to trick room

fuckin swear it's impossible to actually find some semblance of good mons in this game considering literally everything is just counterable

like unironically ariados won the grand challenge

[fallen sparrow]

https://youtu.be/bNx1LsyCJ4Q?si=-V4NrSQkM4LP4guP

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

[mighty badger]

I went up against that exact fucking team in ladder and lime

Like

They probably were a bit of a dumbass with a few questionable plays but I feel like they just stalled a bit much

Internet was acting up too which made me tailwind twice and realised I lost

Also, the team I made felt like it was a fucking revolving door, like

I used aegislash a lot, charizard Y, sylveon, even fucking meowstic M, but like kingambit and delphox worked the best

Meowstic has some niche on non psychic terrain teams but it feels like a sableye at home

I see meowstic works for a lot of setup teams tho, veryyy underrated Mon that has a lot of cheese factor

You get prankster screens, yawn, helping hand, fake out to name a few

[fallen sparrow]

did you win

[mighty badger]

no i got cooked

[fallen sparrow]

imo that team is very hard to pilot

its obviously good, but perish trap usually takes some insane footwork to actually outmaneuver

[mighty badger]

https://youtu.be/14KtTLx94gI

what the fuck is this team

@fallen sparrow

does healing wish actually work on your partner pokemon that's just out rn?

wait wtf???

for reference

[fallen sparrow]

I'll look at it later

[fallen sparrow]

its because a new mon technically entered that slot

thats cool tho, never saw that interaction before

[mighty badger]

https://youtu.be/nBXg1oz7v4k?si=oQkGFvxixN9dgeUx

[fallen sparrow]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randomdoublesbattle-2616299778

having full attack is a myth

[mighty badger]

mega scovillain has sauce holyy

[fallen sparrow]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen4randombattle-2619225908

When you realize you have a free win

[mighty badger]

welppp

got hit by a massively weird team and just got kinda cooked

tf do you mean gengar trick room 😭

[mighty badger]

Brooo

I just hopped on one Pokémon champions game

Espathra and Tsareena, Tsareena with acupressure and espathra with stored power, fuckin hits the +2 special attack

Bro I've had enough of a heart attack today jfc

I fucking 3/0d them cause sylveon but like

Wtf

[fallen sparrow]

god damn it wolfe actually has world champ diff

wtf was that lmfao

[mighty badger]

what happened?

btw, uhh

trying to see if I can come up with a team featuring espathra rn

anyone have any ideas on combos i can use?

[fallen sparrow]

alex has unburden active wolfe does not

[mighty badger]

omfg

[fallen sparrow]

ttar is at +2

like on command

[mighty badger]

oh fuck 😭

[fallen sparrow]

this ttar is taking mad names icl

haven't seen steelix once

[fallen sparrow]

he burnt corv with matcha.

[fallen sparrow]

Wolfey has finally fallen

[real socket]

be me
starts playing pokemon comp for the first time
has fun
grinds to master ball in 2.5 weeks of playing every day
constantly lose in masterball
lose 4 games in a row today, on the last one you only got to hit the enemy team once and all of your mons got one shot
quit comp pokemon

well it was a fun ride guys see you all in gen 10 ig!

[fallen sparrow]

u sure that team was good

can't imagine master ball being that hard to win in

(always take my opinion with grain of salt from massively different perspective)

[real socket]

yeah it was a team that I had seen other people run very similar things just with some subitutions, overall a good team (tr giraffe + mega blast + another mega ((i chose ttar as an alt mode))

I think master ball just has this thing of once you're in it you're in it, and so you're kinda forced to play against people in that tier even if you kinda lucked into it, which i kinda feel i did given my wr

I might give the game a try again in another reg, but this one feels like it's just whoever sets up first and then can click the most spread moves will win

and like most games are decided in the leads alone

[fallen sparrow]

Really

I might just be unable to grasp what master players are like

[real socket]

yeah like

once you reach master ball, you can't derank out of it just fall further into masterball tier itself

[fallen sparrow]

My perspective of "good" players is like Marco Silva Emforbes Nails

[real socket]

it's either the most hyper meta of meta teams where it's just okay cool GG you played the team with the 70%+ wr you're so cool bro, or teams where it's backed by the most degen of degen strats you've ever seen

and I don't really blame them, cause rn there is only like 180 pokemon legal and half of them just blow ass

[fallen sparrow]

I meant the skill level

[real socket]

oh uhhhhhhhhhhh

[fallen sparrow]

Cuz I struggle at judging skill level, my perspective has been very warped

[real socket]

kinda hard to tell cause master ball can vary a lot between the tiers

[fallen sparrow]

I've played so much and watched so much anything below like top player idk how to really split

[real socket]

yeah i feel ya

that's how I feel with most fps games

since i'm from the aim training community and watch a lot of pro play

[fallen sparrow]

I think I have like 40k games on showdown

[real socket]

that someone saying they are immortal makes me go "bro everyone is immortal"

[real socket]

yeah you're in a different skill bracket entirely I feel

for reference master ball at it's lowest is like, top 100k

global

[fallen sparrow]

I mean, I am a top player for most random battle formats

[fallen sparrow]

Pfttttttt

That's really low

For randdubs I like to sit around top 30 minimum

[real socket]

remember it's an official pokemon

where like

millions of people are trying champions

cause it's free and it's pokemon

and even more will when the mobile app drops in a couple weeks

so top 100k is still like

top 10% at least

[fallen sparrow]

When the mobile app drops I'm gonna hop on and farm everyone

[real socket]

oh me too for the ego idfc

but one thing I try to remember having gotten good at other popular games

most people are really fucking bad at video games

[fallen sparrow]

Idk what percentile I am

[real socket]

like if you pick a random guy off the street

just some guy

and forced him to try to climb champions

[fallen sparrow]

Maybe like .01 or smth

[real socket]

he'd probably struggle to stay in greatball

[fallen sparrow]

Believe me I know lol

I've been over here facepalming watching someone who's not a top player play

[real socket]

ofc you'd know, that's you OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway

I think i'm not like

forever quiting

just quiting this regulation

[fallen sparrow]

Brb

[real socket]

cause it's just a flip of the coin

of either they play m-zard y and click heatwave and kill both mons that aren't even weak to fire

or they are playing something crafted by satan himself

[fallen sparrow]

Who you calling bad bro

[real socket]

only 4th 🙂

c'mon lil bro

[fallen sparrow]

Fine

[real socket]

get 1st

[fallen sparrow]

Brb

[real socket]

you the goat like that

[fallen sparrow]

Again

[real socket]

wtf even are these metrics btw, i'm sure they matter a lot to be listed but "glicko-1" sounds really random 😭

[fallen sparrow]

There that's one

Now to find where TF I put the other two

[real socket]

I gotta say random battles sounds like the biggest yet weirdest flex

[real socket]

like saying you have a shooting percentage of 50% at full court

[fallen sparrow]

Now to find gen 5

[real socket]

btw how come you don't seem to compete in like, anything official I've never seen you mention going to a regional or anything

just not your style?

also please explain wtf glicko-1 is

[fallen sparrow]

Jesus finally found it

[real socket]

okay now EXPLAIN WTF GLICKO-1 IS

I can only guess elo but elo is right there

[fallen sparrow]

Glicko is essentially a more accurate elo

[real socket]

soooooooo then why have elo?

[fallen sparrow]

The lower the deviation the more confident it is

[fallen sparrow]

Primary rank

[real socket]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh I see

neat

[fallen sparrow]

Glicko is basically is it a fluke

Gxe is your chance to beat average opponent

Average is assumed to be 1500

[fallen sparrow]

It's the biggest format on showdown

Have also hit 2477 for gen 9 singles which iirc was 5th

[real socket]

clicking this crashed my discord

[real socket]

really???

[fallen sparrow]

Well it's a priv server

[fallen sparrow]

Yes and not even close

[real socket]

still discord should've just opened it 😭

[real socket]

damn

[fallen sparrow]

As for this

Time investment and travel costs

[real socket]

ahhhh don't live near any major cities?

[fallen sparrow]

I do

But regionals are still travel time away

I've never seen a regional here either

[real socket]

ohhhh i get you now

yeah i'm kinda the same

the nearest major city is 2.5 hours away

[fallen sparrow]

Plus given I'd likely make day 2, add in hotel and food stuff

[real socket]

which is like, doable but that means I HAVE to make it a day trip

[fallen sparrow]

And then add in the time of going through all the shit to actually make a good team

The ev training and grinding

It's just never been worth it to go to anything

[real socket]

oh all official things are now on champions

so that grind is over

[fallen sparrow]

Yeah that's the only reason I'm even considering it now

[real socket]

that fact is the main reason I even started playing

cause seeing how it could take days of dedicated grinding just to make a single team put me off so hard

but now it's really easy to just test stuff

[fallen sparrow]

I've beaten Marco Silva in a set before, that's my crowning achievement

[real socket]

like today I swapped my bulky stats on slyveon for rah damage, clearly that was a terrible idea given the lose streak

but the process took literally a minute

[real socket]

Goatedrogue strikes again

[fallen sparrow]

Ok I don't teambuild even I could say thats a bad idea lol

Sylveons built for bulk and just sitting there with boosts

[real socket]

I thought it sounded interesting when someone offhandedly mentioned it in the champions discord okay 😭

figured i'd give it a try

garbage idea I'm never-

[fallen sparrow]

Honestly probably the best doubles I've ever played

[real socket]

actually fuck it I'm being evil next reg

meta all the wa y

not a single original thought

[fallen sparrow]

Lemme go find game 3

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randomdoublesbattle-2392193944

I'm so happy with my play, felt perfect

[real socket]

daaaamn

went from down to winning

clean

also I know it was a different format but I deadass have seen more team diveristy in this single match than every match of champions i've played combined 😭

[fallen sparrow]

3x international champions free to beat confirmed?

[real socket]

by transative property this makes you a 3x international champion

[mighty badger]

@real socket Im also in the 90k area and like yeah it's pretty tough

[real socket]

yeahhhhhhhhhhh

I think in time it'll get better

I firmly believe it's the fact that 82% of pokemon (yes I did the math) are missing

[mighty badger]

The team more or less involves mega scovillain, espathra, sylveon, kingambit, sneasler and something???

I've been using mega aero for a bit, froslass could make sense, basculegion makes sense

[real socket]

yeah what you just said perfectly sums up what I meant

sylveon, kingambit, sneasler, basc

it is EXTREMELY rare for me to see any less than 2 of those

and like I can't blame anyone, me or you either

cause they are just so insanely strong you are lowkey shooting yourself in the foot not running some of em

but that's sooooooooooooooooooo annoying after the first 5 matches

[mighty badger]

Imo it's just a case of finding smth that beats them

Like

My goto is espathra calm mind baton pass into sylv

Imo ya just gotta find something goofy that you think works

Ya seen haydunns content?

His teams are weird but in a closed team sheet format they can kinda cook

[real socket]

I knoooooooooow but the problem is is that the best counters for those mons are each other 😭

[mighty badger]

The most recent one was a fucking belly drum mega slowbro and a alakazam with speed swap

[real socket]

basc kills itself
kingambit kills basc
sneasler kills kingambit

idk

I just think i'll just play passively instead of grinding

until this season ends

and hope the new toys in m-3 shake things up enough

[mighty badger]

Scovillain seems to be the best bet from what I found

[real socket]

I'd try it but i'm kinda broke rn

sorta spent all my vp (again)

and you get genuine piss vp for losing

[mighty badger]

It's a very different mega to what you expect, ya can greed with moody if the matchup is not threatening, but rage powder, leech seed, protect, giga drain or flamethrower is my goto

Ik ppl use overheat but I don't agree with it

[real socket]

I did get the idea of mega scovillian and sableye

as your lead

sableye makes it tanky af and scovillian protects the sabeleye while it does so

but again, broke xD

I think the mega stone alone is half my money

[mighty badger]

I see one or the other heree

Not both

I'll do calcs when I'm home but uhh

They're good but I worry having both on one team is a bit too passive?

You're putting a lot of weight to the back 2

[mighty badger]

@real socket @fallen sparrow yeah i think the problem i get is I keep on seeing bullshit teams here 😭

not in particular good teams but like

[real socket]

wolfey ran steelix ONCE and now everyone thinking it's goated 😭

[mighty badger]

Oh that was not the problem😭

The bitch ass sandaconda

[real socket]

did it run uhhhh

the fucking evasion move

blanking on the name

[mighty badger]

Minimize

[real socket]

ye that

[mighty badger]

Yep

[real socket]

riiiiiiiiiiip

[mighty badger]

The sinistcha and zoroark Also knew trick so it massively fucked up the team 😭

Was using rage powder on trick so that my espathra didn't get scarfed

Cause you can't trick mega stones

[fallen sparrow]

What you running again

[mighty badger]

Espathra, sylveon, mega Scovillain, Mega Aerodactyl, Kingambit, Basculegion

[fallen sparrow]

Scovillain basculegion should eat that for breakfast

Plus Gambit for ttar

[mighty badger]

@real socket @fallen sparrow bit more detail on what im trying atm

Farigiraf, Archaludon, Sableye and Whimsicott are like the big issues i have i find

it also suprised me to see incin 7th and sneasler 5th

[real socket]

I am a huge advocate for quick attack on sylveon, the amount of times I've wished with all my might I kept quick attack when trying other moves is too many to count

the rest looks pretty solid

though I'm interested in why you go protect over wideguard on aero

I feel I see aero run wideguard way more

[mighty badger]

I feel like imo?

With espathra quick attack doesn't really come into play a lot unless ik the other Mon has any form of stage one priority, especially if espathra baton passes

[real socket]

i run it mainly to stop being annoyed by math

where they just happen to be left on 1-5 hp

[mighty badger]

I could try quick attack over hyper beam maybe considering the setup?

Idk

The entire idea of mystic fire is more of a steel counter

Assuming the setup If they're a plus 2 sylveon mystical fire can just break steel's kneecaps

[mighty badger]

Ok sooo

New mega raichu abilities dropped

Raichu X seems kinda cracked

Y idk

WAIT

@fallen sparrow

I just realised

Both may have sauce

||X electric surge

Y no guard||

[real socket]

very underwhelming

X's has some potential

[mighty badger]

I might try Raichu Y tbh?

fuckin no guard zap cannon

[fallen sparrow]

it does learn rising voltage

[real socket]

oooo wait you might be spitting

[real socket]

funny zap zap go burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

that could be interesting

self set up elec terr

click rising voltage every turn

140 power 100% acc

and then stab and any other boosts

yeah x might be going crazy

[real socket]

okay I was thinking on it some more

70 base power, then doubled to 140 cause of electric terrain

stab so 210

and the 30% boost from eletric terrain itself

so that's 273

100% accurate

normal tbh

[fallen sparrow]

plus spread

[real socket]

yep

[mighty badger]

actually uhh

have a team idea

it probably will be replaced with like raichu X

[mighty badger]

what if I change this team to instead of aerodactyl kingambit basculegion, using the funny bellibolt :3

[fallen sparrow]

I don't understand everything they say but man jp commentators get so into everything

(also I know enough to get by)

wait they give you the hp numbers for both sides wtf

give us this we missing out over here

[chrome basin]

That’s crazy because right now top 1 is like high 1900 or low 2000

[fallen sparrow]

I believe the ladder broke

I remember hearing that today

Number 1 is usually minimum 2500

[chrome basin]

It’s been like that for a few weeks

[fallen sparrow]

When the grinders really get going it's 2600

[fallen sparrow]

Are you looking at ou

Ou ladder is tiny

[chrome basin]

Oh I thought you were talking about ou there

[fallen sparrow]

Hell nah ou ladder is tiny

Rands ladder plays on orders of magnitude larger

[chrome basin]

Partly because it is just faster with no build time

[fallen sparrow]

Like pretty sure we get 10s of millions of games

[chrome basin]

How much does Rand bats skills transfer between generations

[fallen sparrow]

Ehhhh

Depends

Some people can't transfer between gens at all

Some people are like me and can play basically anything

[chrome basin]

Is there like on best Rand bats player?

[fallen sparrow]

I can extend to doubles and play that too, others despite being extremely good flounder in dubs

[fallen sparrow]

Michaelderbeste2

He plays everything and is insane at them all

He topped every ladder simultaneously

No I'm not kidding

[chrome basin]

That’s crazy

I can’t even imaging do two gens

[fallen sparrow]

I've done 3 gens at once

[chrome basin]

Do early gens have formats?

[fallen sparrow]

Yes

We have gens 1-9

Plus doubles blitz and other shit

He topped all of them

[chrome basin]

I have played a bit of random doubles and it was pretty good. Still more of an ou guy though

[fallen sparrow]

I've done gen 5-7, I've hit second in 4, fifth in 9, 4th in doubles

(I'm pretty sure I'm positive on Michael this gen)

[chrome basin]

Could you maybe explain how season rankings work? I don’t really get it

[fallen sparrow]

Oh, if you watch vgc

His name is Michael Kelsch

The 2023 runner up and 2024 top 4

[fallen sparrow]

You basically just get stuck on a picture of a leaderboard if you're there 2 months after the season started

You don't get anything for it

It's bronze for 100th to 31st, silver for 30th-4th, gold for top 3

[chrome basin]

Looking at Michael’s profile is so funny because he is 1500 elo in like 30 formats

[fallen sparrow]

Decay threshold is 1500

[chrome basin]

Have you ever played any lower tier current gens because I was thinking about getting into it but I was worried about loading times

[fallen sparrow]

I have not

I wouldn't worry about loading times if it's current tho

I can safely tell you you don't worry about loading times unless it's a really niche/old format or you're ridiculously high up

Source I've done both

[chrome basin]

I want to aim for a top 10 in ou this summer because my peak is still top 200 which is just kind of eh

I should make a new team though because I am still using a team of only pseudo mons

[fallen sparrow]

I'm gonna try champions vgc when mobile comes out

Simply cuz doubles is insanely fun

Singles team building is such a chore and doesn't look nearly as fun

[chrome basin]

To me it feels like there are more top Pokémon in singles in doubles but almost every mon can do something in doubles but not the same for singles

Doubles building doesn’t make sense to me at all. I have done a doubles draft league where I got third so I can do it a bit but still

[fallen sparrow]

Oh I don't get it either

I just have access to the best doubles players lol

Can pick their brains

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https://youtu.be/STP803DBlLk?si=dRUmBI6zlPQHz8UN