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    Resource Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ratings

    While you may wish for people to not view their ranks as rewards, unfortunately it is impossible. The biggest reason people compete in showdown is to prove their skill and smartness and in effect make themselves feel competent. This means that a number or a series of numbers used to estimate the...
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    Pokémon Sylveon

    ^I think this set would work better if replacing heal bell or hyper voice with wish. My set: Attacking Cleric move 1: Wish move 2: Protect move 3: Hyper Voice move 4: Heal Bell ability: Pixilate item: Leftovers nature: Bold evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA With this set Sylveon gains a niche...
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    Gengarite Tiering Discussion [read post #383]

    Actually it is the culprit. While it is harder to counter the the other megas, they can still be countered by defensive pokemon. In fact my current team does a very good job with it. It's just when the mega gengar comes out, defensive pokemon can't do anything about it.
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    Gengarite Tiering Discussion [read post #383]

    He's pretty damn annoying. You just can't check him with any defensive Pokemon! What's a porygon2 or blissey ought to do when he can just speed in a sub to avoid paralyze and then perish song. It's like a one hit ko move! This means we have to rely on revenge kills to take him out, but that is...
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    Move Knock Off

    It's pretty annoying to switch out knowing whatever you switch into will have their item removed. It's especially annoying when I'm not expecting it and I go to Porygon2. I usually head out to my Florges when I'm expecting it, though. Ferrothorn could run this in order to act as poisonous bait...
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    Poll for our default simulator tiering level

    Get this guy a wheelchair
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    Poll for our default simulator tiering level

    So the op states that there would be changes to the amount of damage dealt. I would like to understand these, so I'm running some damage calculations This should be enough: 252+ Atk Dragonite Outrage vs. 252 HP / 184+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 121-144 (32.35 - 38.5%) -- 98.63% chance to 3HKO 252+...
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    Currently in school

    Currently in school
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    Suggestions

    Suggestion: In the lobby, maybe it should not be notified to everyone that username has been muted or banned. Should bann issuers give the spammers the attention they seek? The attention received is a part of the reason we see spammers that will go to lengths to create new accounts so spam so...
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    Lmao, nice profile pic. I always loved those facial expressions she made :P

    Lmao, nice profile pic. I always loved those facial expressions she made :P
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    Currently eating some grapes

    Currently eating some grapes
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    Suggestions

    Suggestion: Add the ability to be able to reset individual rank formats. With the current ranks system, players are forced to create a new account if they want to achieve high ranks. This takes up usernames, prevents individuals from being recognized across multiple tiers because they have a...
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    Identifying a Design Philosophy

    I wasn't competitive in previous generations so I don't want to make claims about them. I REALLY didn't want to go that route, actually =]. That part which I struck-through can almost be thought of like a question. You misunderstand what I say. Had I believed that, it certainly would be...
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    Identifying a Design Philosophy

    My post above is in response to me misinterpreting the op. I thought he was trying to say smogon should try to eliminate tactics from OU. Perhaps the fifth generation players' opinions differ from the fourth generations players'? Maybe we should model our idea of the popular opinion off of the...
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    Identifying a Design Philosophy

    OP has stated there are two different, apposing philosophies on Pokemon metagame play. Both strive toward a balance between strategy and tactics, but differ in opinion on where that balance is. We (as in all of us) do not prefer neither the tactical nor the strategical side of pokemon. To avoid...
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