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Dexie posted:For some reason this fills me with joy to hear. There's almost always a few pokemon who are surprisingly effective in ubers because they are so anti-meta for the metagame at the time. Bronzong seems to be one of the big examples this time around.
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Dexie posted:Yeah but gently caress Bronzong. Bane of my existence during Gen IV. If you like Alomomola, he's surprisingly high up in the current ubers viability as well.
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Aug 26, 2016 03:40
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Kelp Plankton posted:at the very top there's this weird tier of attempting to counterplay the metagame and a lot of weird picks emerge due to that. but thats like your top 0.01% of players playing against eachother. anything below that generally revolves around the same set of like maybe 20 pokemon that are just superior to everything else The funniest thing is that a lot of people realized that those two were anti meta. Looking through the lists of top players Raichu and Hitmontop were pretty common!
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Aug 28, 2016 03:38
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RC Cola posted:What if your favorite Pokemon happen to be good? Tyranitar, Metagross, Venusaur, Chestnaught, Skarmory, Gliscor, Heatran, Empoleon, and Terrakion are my friends. The best is when your good taste and patience is rewarded and your favorite pokemon get big buffs that make them a lot stronger. Like what happened to Altaria.
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Sep 18, 2016 04:27
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Are you kidding me. The list of pokemon who OHKO Dugtrio in OU is almost certainly longer that the list of those who don't.
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Sep 23, 2016 02:55
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Decus posted:If I'm reading that thread correctly the argument is that he locks in core stall-break pokemon who can't function if they slot roar and are so hyper-specialized that they also can't slot a move to OHKO Dugtrio? If I recall, when they were initially banning shadow tag, they were hemming and hawing about whether the problem was shadow tag or Mega Sableeye combined with Shadow Tag. Now that this suspect has come up it seems that they really don't want to play against one of the pokemon who is one of the cornerstones of most stall teams.
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Sep 23, 2016 03:45
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It is so tempting to give the hiker who wants a Haunter for a Graveler a Haunter with an Everstone as revenge for what they did in DPP.
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Nov 27, 2016 07:44
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Blocking Guzma's Golisopod's First Impression with Tsareena's Queenly Majesty and finishing it off with a Trop Kick is probably one of the cooler things I've done in an ingame pokemon battle.
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Nov 29, 2016 21:16
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It was pretty recent but I think one of the more ridiculous bans Smogon made was the Mega-Sabeleye ban right before Sun/Moon came out. From what I can tell, they determined it was fine if a bit annoying in OU, but people whined so much that it was suspected again.
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Nov 30, 2016 03:25
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http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7challengecup-486204679 Z-moves in challenge cup are rare but pretty cool. Still doesn't beat the one time in Gen-6 I got a Gardevoir with Gardevoirite in challenge cup.
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Nov 30, 2016 05:08
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:E2: Actually wild Stuffels that get called in will kill each other. What the gently caress is their problem. Also, I'm pretty sure the E4 have min-maxed EVs and IVs. I switched in my Pallossand to create a Pallossand mirror match. Despite my Pallossand having a couple levels on the opposing Pallossand, I only did about 75% with Shadow Ball and got one shot with Shadow Ball in return.
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Dec 3, 2016 05:34
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I'm kinda impressed by how long I was able to keep this slow frail starting two alive. http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7randomdoublesbattle-489292121
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Dec 4, 2016 08:07
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Countblanc posted:Pokemon Showdown just added an alpha test UU format. I can't find any info about it on Smogon but hey, neat I guess. This seems extremely premature given that most of the Sun/Moon players haven't been using it much due to the focus on using the cool new pokes. Also the ban topic is kinda irritating since it talks about about how few counters it has and then includes 0 calcs for Celesteela.
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Dec 11, 2016 05:51
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Kurtofan posted:where does wimpod go!! how do I catch it You can catch it with a well executed Tauros charge or if you're patient, you'll eventually get a way to get behind it. Also, it feels like Fire should be a more viable type this generation. As of right now OU is filled with bugs, fairies and steel types because of the UB and Tapus so fire might not be as bad a type as it's been in the past.
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Dec 15, 2016 19:46
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Parrotine posted:How does a Psychic/Fairy spank a Bug/Steel type so badly it drops down a tier? I'm not 100% sure but it may also be an instance of Mega-Scizor interfering with regular Scizor. If everyone in OU is using Mega-Scizor I think it's possible for Scizorite to be OU but regular Scizor to be UU.
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Dec 16, 2016 00:23
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lmao smogon is considering banning Dugtrio from OU.
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Feb 12, 2017 07:42
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Countblanc posted:what's their reasoning? he seems super good this gen The main issue seems to be that there's some stall teams that use him that are pretty good that nobody likes playing against. It looks to be a bit of a rehash of the Mega-Sableye/Gothitelle stall team argument from last gen.
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Feb 12, 2017 08:43
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The Golden Gael posted:Gonna play through Yellow with only lovely Pokemon, like Rattata and Paras I did something similar to this once. Golbat was pretty horrible.
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Feb 20, 2017 07:08
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Ariong posted:There's also Pin Missile and Twinneedle, but good luck seeing those without Beedrill. Is beedrill any good in Gen I? I used it once in a "bad pokemon" challenge and it held it's own pretty well in game. Gen 1 has a lot of poison types that STAB Twinneedle can do a lot of damage against.
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Feb 20, 2017 23:46
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I know Aaron Cybertron used it, but I'm not sure if he came up with it originally, but apparently Drifblim has been showing up on VGC teams as a lead with Tapu Lele because it can use psychic seed to activate unburden and easily set up Tailwind. If it's still alive on the last turn of tailwind it can then use Destiny Bond to either force a 1-1 trade or put itself in a position to set up tailwind again.
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Apr 1, 2017 05:58
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Eox posted:Sometimes you really just win the lottery in random battles huh If I recall, that Sigilyph set is notorious for being extremely good in random battles. The level advantage it gets over OU mons really does it a lot of good.
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Apr 15, 2017 07:21
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Dr. Fetus posted:Megagross. Which is kinda funny because last gen they suspected Meta-Gross and kept it and then it kinda fell out of style because the meta-game adapted to it pretty well. This gen, the only buff it got was the new speed upon mega-evolving, but with all the fairies, the meta-game is a lot more favorable to it.
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May 9, 2017 04:55
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The Golden Gael posted:Also when the gently caress was Mega Metagross banned in OU, and why? cheetah7071 posted:Smogon is full of cowards
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Sep 27, 2017 03:37
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Filthy Haiku posted:I've been replaying gen 2 on virtual console recently and I've honestly come to like it way more than I recalled. Problem is there is still the problem of horrible move sets for a lot of Pokemon (I almost gave up on Xatu in gold). I've decided to pre breed a team for crystal, just as sort of a gently caress you to the game. So far I've decided on Chinchou, Houndour, Swinub and Zubat. I'm also going to roll with the Celebi you can catch, even though I usually never play with legendaries. Not really sure what to do for my last spot, I'm just looking to roll the game and have a strong team for catching gen 2 stuff. While the original games did have signifcant issues with balance, they were actually better than a lot of other gens about making most mons viable in game if you know what you're doing. Gen 1 gives you a ton of really good TMs early that can make up for bad level up movesets. Gen 2 and 3 are not nearly as nice to pokemon with bad level up movesets.
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The White Dragon posted:can you even do koga before sabrina The original pokemon games gave you a huge amount of freedom in the mid game. You can do gyms 3-7 in pretty much any order with the only restriction being that Koga has to come before Blaine so you can surf to Cinnabar. It's part of the reason I still replay them now and again.
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Nov 3, 2018 15:33
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Dehry posted:They're in the game code. No one has actually finished the game to see if they show up later. That last move sounds like it's Melmatal's signature move and based on the description is a two hit move where each hit has 60 BP and has a 30% chance to flinch.
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Nov 12, 2018 02:00
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:You know what I'm liking about Let's Go that I wasn't expecting? After you get the second gym badge you can pretty much just blow off the other gyms and explore the rest of the world for a while if you want. You don't need badges to swim or fly or anything like that. I'm really digging getting to play the game in a way that's a little more open world and MUCH less hand holdy than Sun and Moon. The original games really opened up after you got the Poke Flute and that's a big reason why I still return to them more often than the later games. I'm glad to hear that they didn't remove the non-linearity in Let's Go.
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Solumin posted:It sounds like Let's Go is pretty fun! I like the idea of candies letting you boost weaker Pokemon up usable levels. They definitely did. I was skimming some of the level up movepools and the stone evolution pokemon tend to learn their good stuff earlier so you don't have to make them wait forever to evolve. For example, Growlithe now learns flamethrower at level 17. It looks like they actually simplified a lot of pokemon's movesets so most only learn STAB attacks and various support moves, but then they added in some really odd moves like giving Beedrill Outrage and Kadabra Night Shade.
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