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Sort of. So they've had the rating system on console since gen 5, but they've spruced it up a bit by adding a rated mode, having seasons every month or so so you can ladder and get ranked each month, and they penalize people for disconnecting (which used to happen all the time) by preventing...
Yeah I believe I was a junior in high school. Currently I'm a sophmore possibly looking at a computer science major (or something along those lines). Solidus and golden piloswine are the same person if I remember correctly. I think you are right about tikidude and ducttapejack's relation. I...
Pretty good! I was actually gone for a couple of years and came back to find that most of the grouos and people who used to be here were gone, but I've chatted a little with a few people like Golden Piloswine and gave BattleStar a try. Right now I'm just trucking through school as I figure out...
Yeah I'm mosly worried about Kartana and Xurkitree. What kind of team are you running? I've been working on an idea of mine revolving around Oranguru alongside Pheromosa, Garchomp, and Tapu Lele (there to stop priority from killing Pheromosa), but I haven't quite trained everything up yet.
I may try my hand at it as well. The new abilities look like they'll keep the meta game quite dynamic, though I do worry about some of the ultra beasts.
I haven't messed around on uu much, though I've been meaning to give it a shot. I've mostly done battlespot singles and doubles, then done ubers and ou on showdown.
Yeah I've been playing pretty much since I got back. I've been going between battlespot and showdown pretty evenly. This generation has been much kinder to me, as I've had much better luck with team building. I'm not a huge fan of the vgc ruleset this year, so I haven't touched it. What singles...