Recent content by Toby

Preface: I'm an old 386 OU player (I always find it funny it's never referred to as 386 anymore) who hasn't played in many many years and I know NOTHING. But was just having a read on here on a nostalgia trip around a few games I used to play. IIRC, "complex bans" didn't exist until way-post...

Ingrain Smeargle was banned? Complex bans in my precious 386 metagame? As a player who only played competitively during 386 play and never again, this kind of reverse engineering irks me somewhat. I'm presuming there had to be alot of people suddenly running BP? Was it a way for those who didn't...

I appreciate the reply! I could bring it back, but I really don't have the commitment. I have quite intense work I do these days, which is all consuming and more fun than competitive pokemon (thats more a testament to what I do, as opposed to any pejoration towards pokemon: competitive pokemon...

I was gonna ask, what happened to 200 play? AKA Ruby/Sapphire pre-firered/leafgreen metagame, the one between 252 G/S/C and 386 play? I only played it briefly (played some G/S/C on the IRC bots and then skipped straight to 386 play.) but didn't think it was THAT bad to be forgotten in the...

I mention Stat exp above. I'm not talking here about making a team "pretty damn good" by just using stat items. I'm thinking more of a land of perfection, min/max'er approach. Look up base stats if you wanna understand your alakazam. This is more theorymon than practical, as obviously the...

Hey, was watching RBY speedruns the other day, and got me thinking about how one would build a competitive team in-game, just out of intruige. So after a little research, I discovered IV's are 0-15, for 4 stats (Attack, Defence, Special and Speed) and that the last binary value of each of these...

Thank God for that. The whole spring of the year after thing has always really bugged me. I stopped at D/P. Lets hope b/w2 are great upgrades. I'm still waiting for a reset tho (like between G/S - Ru/Saph). Am I the only one who would like to see all the mechanics revamped? (better...

Pokemon Red + a gameboy when it first came out in the UK. I was nervous before I started to play it: i somehow knew this would be a pivotal thing in the makeup of my life and the person I would grow up to become. I was a very philosophical child.

Is it enought to outclass leftovers however? :S

RSE = subrev Linoone. DP = Tobybro the return (people just don't predict Amnesia).

Dont forget: -PP stall teams. -As mentions Baton Pass. -Parafusion (paralysis and confusion). -TSS (toxic, spikes, sandstorm). Imprison is a good move, but not in western styles of pokemon, in 2v2 it can be powerful (with the plethora of protects, selfdestructs etc that can be...

Toxic Spikes and Sandstorm in VGC? How will that work? your opurtunities for phazing and forcing switches are rare since its 4 v 4 with 2 out at a time surely??

The metagame that time forgot: what happened to 200 play? No one even talks about it anymore. huh?

But sludge bomb metagross is perfectly viable? Oh, I see, I forgot about the physical/special split, I'm still living in the world of 386 play :P

The guy clearly states this team is for 2v2 battling.