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    Resource ORAS OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers MKII (Read the OP First!) (Now with 100% more Rules!!!)

    Right, but that's how it has always been. Is it even less viable now, in your opinion, than it has been since its release?
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    Resource ORAS OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers MKII (Read the OP First!) (Now with 100% more Rules!!!)

    I saw that you referenced Mattybrolic's build in there. I helped him with that, actually. I was never super impressed by the team and not sure why. Who knows, maybe my play-style doesn't go with Trick Room anymore like it used to. Also, perhaps I'm just bad. I'll send you a PM.
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    Resource ORAS OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers MKII (Read the OP First!) (Now with 100% more Rules!!!)

    But hasn't that always been true? It's been fine in the past 2 generations.
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    Resource ORAS OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers MKII (Read the OP First!) (Now with 100% more Rules!!!)

    Is Trick Room the least viable it's ever been in this generation? It seems I've been able to have some luck cracking the shell of the ladder with it in the past, and can't seem to find a good formula this time around.
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    Resource OU Playstyles

    I have been using Trick Room exclusively for three generations now. I can add a few useful tricks to the discussion: Slowbro-- Sporting Yawn is actually huge. Using it on the last turn of Trick Room actually ensures that Trick Room will be set either by Slowbro the next round, or by your switch...
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    Interest in a Smeargle Solo Run 'Blog'?

    Hey everyone! I'm doing a Smeargle Solo through X, and was wondering who would care to read as I go through? If some people want to read it I would love to type it out, but if it's just something I'd be doing for myself I'd rather not document it! Let me know!
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    Data Attacking Type Effectiveness for ORAS OU

    A sum and an average are essentially the same thing, with an average just being more complicated and convoluted. If you're looking for a low number, it doesn't matter if you have the list 1, 100, 1000 or take those and divide them all by 68, the first will still be the smallest. If you divide...
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    ORAS OU Chess-- A Full Trick Room RMT

    Hey MikeDawg, thanks for the rate! I, as I'm sure you expect, have things I agree with and things I disagree with :D First off, the Colburr Berry and Heatproof I think is a great idea! Heatproof "gimmick" is exactly the sort of stuff a Trick Room team needs to run, as the whole concept is a...
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    ORAS OU Chess-- A Full Trick Room RMT

    The Exquisite Game of Chess The Board -- A Preview The Opening -- How the Team Was Made The team started as is, with two minor changes: Diancie was in Bronzong's spot, and Slowbro was in Jellicent's. However, this offered me a couple of huge problems: Diancie has a ton of easy to...
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    CAP 21 - Part 1 - Concept Submissions

    Name - Anti-Meta Conditions Setter Description - A Pokemon whose typing and moveset allow it to run unconventional moves that turn the meta on its head, such as Trick Room, Wonder Room, Tail Wind and Magic Room. Justification- There are several strategies that are often seen as "gimmicky" but...
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    Sir, may I have permission to write a Trick Room guide? The current WIP is barely started and...

    Sir, may I have permission to write a Trick Room guide? The current WIP is barely started and hasn't been edited in months. I speak English well and have huge amounts of experience with Trick Room teams, including a top 100 team that got nominate for the archives last generation.
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    Move Trick Room

    The spotlight should be taken entirely off of the Dusc line, because they're all rubbish. Jellicent is a better ghost in almost any situation, unless you somehow stack an electric or grass weakness.
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    Move Trick Room

    Trick Room got a few (not even super bulky) fairy setters, but that's about it. The only Megas that will be very useful at all are Mega Mawile and potentially Mega Bannette, but only as a lead, pigeon holing your team. It's going to be much of the same as last gen, and the gen before-- well...
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    Other Is Weather Still Viable?

    You mean you have an opportunity cost in your team building now in return for your 1.5x boost to powerful water and sun attacks, as well as potential Swift Swim coming back? Oh, you have an item that extends the duration and pokemon that automatically cause your weather still? If people like ben...
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    Other Item Clause

    You can use the item clause on your teams... I often do. it's whatevs, really.
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    Poll for our default simulator tiering level

    You're notable a believer that Smogon isn't a simulator of in game battles, but is a separate entity that develops its own rules. That's where we differ in opinions. People aren't going to follow any Smogon rules for ANY battles in game. People who battle in game often don't know Smogon exists...
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    Poll for our default simulator tiering level

    Smogon offers a double format on its server. Are you a proponent that only certain setting should be set to level 50, all else remaining 100?
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    Poll for our default simulator tiering level

    But not in most formats. You can't auto-level 50, you can't set Battle Maison to level 100, you can't just agree with your VGC opponent that both your teams will be level 100. These are all things in cartridge that can only be level 50. Level 100 makes sense only in that it's the "highest...
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    Poll for our default simulator tiering level

    That's how battling with other players (HINT: What we're simulating) is in cartridge.
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    Poll for our default simulator tiering level

    Much of the arguments for level 100 seem kind of like a chess piece argument to me. "Well, I mean, this 2 dollar thrift store plastic chess set IS the same game as this $200 Staunton set, but it's just not the same to play on..." If you're a real lover of chess, you'll accept that the game is...
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