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so the team I encountered was like encore salac spore spikes smeargle (probably BP too but I didn't see because I killed it before it could pass) and then like, offensive sub endeavor pert, sub zapdos, aerodactyl, and I can't remember the 5th and 6th, might have been a blissey in there. Needless...
I tilted 200 points today and lost twice to the same awful smeargle team in that 8 game loss streak. How do people kill smeargle instantly because I guess encore smeargle is like the set now
I actually encountered your Magneton set earlier today, and it... did not kill the full health Dugtrio trapping it with Hidden Power. In fairness I did force them to commit to it way earlier than it's probably meant to be used but still, that's another downside of Timid over Modest. I'm pretty...
Hidden Power type is effectively independent of IVs in gen 7 due to hyper training though, it's why you don't see weird shit like 2 atk 30 spatk Zapdos to have HP Grass for example
Note that I used a Gen 3 IV spread for this HP grass so it very well could be different in like gen 6
So I've been thinking about Doom Desire. Not only does it have one of the sickest move names in all of Pokemon, it's also a move that I think might be underexplored/used. Now I'm speaking with the hindsight of Future Sight being good in future gens in conjunction with pivot moves, but Jirachi...
in my years of playing SM OU, the weirdest ditto interaction I've ever had was a ditto copying my thundurus therian and then having the same hidden power type. I've been told that's not how it works on cart and I was running HP Ice at the time so it was definitely strange
I know I'm restating the obvious as well as my own opinion but I feel the need to gush. Zapdos is so GOOD. Like if Tyranitar didn't have Sand Stream I am 100% convinced that Zapdos would be top 1. It just does so much and compresses so many roles into one slot and does them all well. He can be a...
Frustration just isn't a problem, and the rng you think of is just a mind game. The real reason frustration shouldn't be legal is that it implies we are abusing our pokemon before the battles