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I think anyone trying to "fake" having magnet pull is fooling themselves. It's beyond obvious if your steel type is trapped (scizor won't u-turn, he'll just switch). Is assault vest really better than leftovers? Which special attackers are you tanking hits from? The only ones I see are...

This is hard to quantify, because you never know if your opponent is really thinking hard or just browsing the internet between moves, or doing a damage calc. I admit that I sometimes try to play mind games like this, though. If I'm going to make an obvious play, I'll wait a few extra seconds...

Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't holding an assault vest negate the use of trick in the first place?

I definitely did not think your logic was flawed, except for, as I said, sacking Excadrill when the other two were only going to be fodder without the hazards removed. Your opponent made a ton of questionable moves, and when you start questioning the team composition and creation, I have to...

On a scale of 1-10, I was thinking this would fall into the 6.5 to 7 range.... before the last turn. Just too many misplays, and really the only great play was the trick that stole the air balloon and saved his Rotom. Sacking your Excadrill made no sense to me. Talonflame and Azumarill were...

In those calculations, Venusaur is barely a counter to lucario, and only if it mega evolves after the first hit. I don't understand the logic of using one of the strongest walls in the tier to make that point. Having one hard counter doesn't mean something isn't broken. Lucario has its share...

I personally voted no. My reasoning: Yes, this thing is an absolute beast, and one of the strongest mons in the current metagame. A good player that plays intelligently will absolutely wreck a lot of playstyles. The Perish trapper set straight up removes a TON of threats in itself, and the...

Can it counter aegislash? I'm on my phone, so could someone post calcs, please?

It should be a close battle, with in depth analysis on why each move was selected, and should be mostly free of luck or hax. The format needs to be pleasant to look at, informative, and legible. That should be common sense, honestly.

So is there a front runner set yet? He really likes to have both his STAB moves, and that doesn't leave a ton of room for spikes, leech seed, toxic, spiky shield. The sets I've seen in person so far are all over the place.

I think that these sets work fine without the item, especially if there is residual damage like burn or poison. Although Grip Claw basically means all you have to do is not faint and you'll win, and that's not hard to do through a combination of protect, substitute, recovery, or moves like Dig...

Even if it did get Ice shard, it wasn't that great, imo. Priority switch me to the worst defensive type in the game, GO! At least physical sets trying to run shadow sneak will gain an immunity. I firmly believe that the timid special attacker is easily the best set, outspeeds, hits hard...

Will-o-wisp does help that a bit against physical attackers, but I admit it could pose a problem. What about a Blastoise with Whirlpool, Dive/dig, protect, and scald? Dive and Protect gives you two turns of not being hit, scald gives you the same burn possibility (although 30% instead of 85)...

Not bad at all (I only read the updated version; apparently you added in some commentary after the fact). 3v3 generally doesn't make for a great warstory, imo, but this one was close at least, so... Analysis was pretty good, considering you didn't have much to work with. Format was very nice...

This is by far the best warstory I've read thus far, but I have to say I'm a big underwhelmed with your opponent's strategy, especially in a couple areas. First, there was absolutely no reason not to finish off Togekiss with a bullet punch and risk taking damage with Scizor. An unboosted...

The battle was okay. Neither opponent made any great moves, and there were some bad cases of under-predicting (if that's a thing). But it was at least close. I think volt switching with Rotom-W against a Virizion with its sub up was a horrible move. I assume the opponent expected a switch, and...

I have to say that your opponents team was overmatched by a TON. He or she didn't even have a mega stone on Houndoom? (Plus, anything that's running Electivire shouldn't really be taken too seriously). The writing was pretty good; the lack of pictures does hurt, though, imo. Minor nitpick with...

On turn 4, when did the Vaporeon get taunted? Am I misreading something (it is late here). I have to agree with most of the other comments. I started losing faith after the first taunt bad play, but it was locked in as mediocre after the second. Has potential, but a lot of stuff needs cleaning...

With that set, I imagine protect would have allowed you to be much more effective. Infestation on the switch, protect, yawn, protect. You take one hit this way, and are free to use your final move to deal damage, so you could drop either scald or recover for protect, although the former is...

Forgive the ignorance but does nature really matter? I thought Transform copied everything but HP?