Recent content by Xing

EDIT: Streak just ended at 121 wins. My ongoing streak is currently at 120 with a team of Kartana, Salamence, and Tapu Fini. I was planning to farm 50-win Gold Caps and did not expect to go this far at all. It turns out that smashing your keyboard A button with Kartana is a viable strategy...

Hi Smogon, I'm Xing (showdown name: Bernkastar) and I recently made onto the 500 of the ladder with my Balanced Mega Diancie team. During my climb, I noticed several common Pokemon that my team has major issues with so I thought of coming here to ask for advice and insight on how to improve my...

In the original post, I'd suggest removing the comment on Shadow Ball hitting neutrally on Metagross and Jirachi since Aura Sphere does more damage to them. @banditking: Having Psychic/Fighting attacking combo will have Mewtwo walled by the dozen Psychic types in the Uber tier, but I can't...

I used this: Victini @ Life Orb Adamant 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 HP - V-Generate - Nitro Charge - Brick Break - Wild Bolt Come into anything that cannot harm it and use Nitro Charge. Unless your opponent switches into a Flash Fire Pokemon, you'll be getting a surprising speed boost. Brick Break...

^It's mainly for opposing Excadrills. It also makes an easier switch-ins. The max speed is there so opposing Excadrills, who will be running max speed for the same reason, won't outspeed you.

Breloom has base 70 speed.

After a speed boost, very, very few taunter can outspeed Octillery/Smeargle. If you want to Taunt an Inconsistent Pokemon, you are essentially forced to use Sableye/Erufunn/Tornelos/Voltlos. Let's not forget that Taunt can miss if they get an Evasion boost. Lastly, Taunt only lasts for 2 turns...

A few years ago someone whom I frequently talked to on another forum (and he's a moderator) suddenly stopped posting after a holiday break, so I wondered what happened. Even on AIM, he has never signed on since then. The logical conclusions are that he died during some trip or, in the best case...

I finished applying to the following schools yesterday: Princeton (crapshoot but better than not applying...) Stanford ^ditto UPenn ^ditto Tufts UMichigan BU Colgate Carnegie Mellon UChicago I addition to 4 UCs: Berkeley, LA, SD, Santa Cruz. I will be applying to UWisconsin soon. I really...

This ability is absolutely broken. I was down to 1-6 with Glalie remaining. I used protect to get a +2 Evasion and swept.

The moment I saw this law I knew that it is the result of foreign activism. Japan is trying too hard to be politically correct. I want those foreign, retard lobbyists out of Japan.

Current Senior year grades: AP Statistics: A- (92%) French III: A- (93%) AP Calculus BC: A AP Physics B: A (94%) AP Microeconomics: A (94%) AP English Literature: A (95%) I messed up my freshman year, however, and thus I currently have a 3.67 W GPA and a horrible rank. Hopefully my rank will...

When I was rejected from Cornell 3 days ago. I had a rough start in high school and in the past year I tried as much as I could to improve my academic record. After I got 2300 on the SAT, I really felt that I had a chance at the top schools, but I guess my GPA, rank, and ECs are just too sub-par.

I'm pretty sure Tyranitar, Warubiaru, and Seismic Toss Blissey can perfectly wall this and KO back. Darkrai can switch in and use Dark Void.

Rotom-F is the only Pokemon to have STAB Boltbeam, which is only resisted by Magnezone, Lanturn (not really used), Shedinja (lol in Gen 5 metagame), Thick Fat Mamoswine, Lightning Rod Seacking (FCK YEA lol), Rotom-H, and opposing Rotom-F.