Recent content by sophos

Is there an IV spread for a Naive nature that gives Hidden Power Ground with a power of 70 without dropping SpA IV to 18? Right now I'm looking at a spread of HP 31 / Atk 25 / Def 31 / Spe 31 / SpA 30 / SpD 30 for HP Ground with a power of 68.

I was a little hesitant about switching Swampert to the same build as the Mix lead (with Surf instead of SR) without making him my team's lead because of Azelf. I really like your idea of giving Pert SR and turning Azelf into an anti-lead that could surprise people and come back later to cause...

Thanks all for the advice and tips for improving this team. I've edited my initial post to reflect the current status of the team. After changing Swampert from the Curse + RestTalk set I am a little concerned about Infernape. Given how the team currently stands, is MixNite the best option...

Thanks for the input. I'll give both move sets a test drive on Shoddy and see which works best with my team.

Is it especially common for a Taunt + DD Gyara to carry Ice Fang? The generic Bulky DD build on Smogon lists Stone Edge / Bounce in the fourth move slot. Also, I would prefer working Celebi into my team rather than another steel type. Which of the pokes on my team would you suggest I...

||||| I'm pretty new to competitive battling and have spent the last month or so looking through the forums and articles available here on Smogon soaking in as much information as possible and coming up to speed on the OU metagame. I finally feel like I am knowledgeable enough to put a team...

Thank you for the response. My seed is 200802D4 which will give me an Azelf with a Naive nature and IVs of 31/31/31/30/31/31 at a target frame of 237, without the need of a Synchronizer. I know that I am not getting a false positive on coin flips because I have used Azelf's stats to verify my...

I am trying to use RNG abuse to catch a near flawless Azelf on Platinum, but appear to be having problems with my target frame. The target frame for my spread and seed is 237. According to the RNG abuse guide Azelf has a monster frame of 1 and my only wandering poke is Mesprit. This leaves me...

oddly enough 349 -235 = 114

After again hitting my RNG seed, to account for the 7 frame difference discussed above I performed 114 journal flips, assuming a starting frame of 7, so that the frame would advance to 235 and ultimately to my target of 237. Again I did not get the nature and IV spread that I wanted and upon...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm pretty sure I had the method set to J but I will double check it later. And according to rng reporter I don't need a synch to get a naive nature with the spread I want ;)

I am trying to use RNG abuse to catch a near flawless Azelf on Platinum, but appear to be having problems with my target frame. The target frame for my spread and seed is 237. According to the RNG abuse guide Azelf has a monster frame of 1 and my only wandering poke is Mesprit. This leaves me...