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  1. Metagame Metagame Discussion Thread v3

    No, because the Species Clause is determined by Pokedex numbers: you can't have two Pokemon with the same Pokedex numbers, even if they are different forms. For instance, you can't have two different Rotom forms either (even though they are tiered separately).
  2. Data Pokemon Sun/Moon Battle Mechanics Research

    Those sample sizes aren't even particularly small. They're obviously not as conclusive as a sample size of 1000, but they're enough to make it extremely unlikely those samples were obtained if the actual chance was 33%. For instance, the probability of getting at least 47 self-hits out of 93...
  3. Resource Simple Questions, Simple Answers Thread (read the op before posting a thread)

    Solar Beam Heatran now runs Grassium-Z instead of Power Herb, which gives it a much more powerful one-time Grass move and also a Knock Off resistance.
  4. Resource Simple Questions, Simple Answers Thread (read the op before posting a thread)

    I don't know what this second replay is supposed to show. In the first replay, you never used Knock Off, the Tapu Lele did have an item at team preview, and its item was never revealed, so there's no reason it couldn't have been Shed Shell.
  5. Data Pokemon Sun/Moon Battle Mechanics Research

    No, that's not what the question was at all. You're the only one who ever mentioned Ground-type moves. The question was whether Mold Breaker priority (of any type) affects a mon with Levitate under Psychic Terrain. This is totally possible and it is not obvious how these will interact: does...
  6. Resource Simple Questions, Simple Answers Thread (read the op before posting a thread)

    The confusion test that was posted in the research thread was 47 self-hits in 93 attempts. The sample size is smaller, but it's still highly statistically significant (there is about a 0.04% chance of getting a result like that by chance if the actual rate is 33% as has been reported, and about...
  7. Resource Simple Questions, Simple Answers Thread (read the op before posting a thread)

    No, confusion hasn't changed (that was just a rumor that went remarkably long without being seriously tested until it was debunked recently, see http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/pokemon-sun-moon-battle-mechanics-research.3586701/page-48#post-7104791). Apparently multiple tests have been...
  8. Pokemon Sun and Moon Demo Datamine + Full Game Leaks Collection (Read the OP)

    That seems rather unlikely, given that among the moves that have data in those last two slots are Tackle and Sand-Attack. I doubt those are getting special Z-moves.
  9. Other Metagame of the Month Archive

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

    Keldeo changes to Resolute form when you teach it Secret Sword, and changes back to normal form when it forgets Secret Sword. However, I believe it's possible to get a non-Resolute Keldeo that knows Secret Sword by doing some tricky thing involving trading back and forth between BW and BW2...
  11. Data Viability Ceiling: A Measure of How Far a Pokemon Can Take You

    One thing these numbers aren't really taking into account which is a big part of what "viability" means is outclassedness. Often, a Pokemon has low viability not so much because it is bad and using it will make it a lot harder to win, but because there is just a better option available which...
  12. Data Attacking Type Effectiveness for ORAS OU

    I think counting 4x effective as the same as 2x supereffective is going a bit too far. A 2x supereffective move will not always kill, especially if it's some coverage move that isn't getting STAB. Treating 4x supereffective as twice as good as 2x supereffective is definitely ignoring the...
  13. Bug Reports v2.0 (READ OP BEFORE POSTING!!)

    There seems to be a similar bug in old gens: the revealed-moves mouseover always displays the Gen 6 PP, rather than the correct PP for the generation you're playing.
  14. The Signature Meta (TSM)

    Salamence: Dragon's Breath (MegaGallade) Garchomp: Aerodynamic (zerobreaker000) Hydreigon: Villify (noobcubed)
  15. Other Metagame of the Month Archive

    Same Type Stealth Rock
  16. The Signature Meta (TSM)

    Dialga: Power of Time (runbabyrun) Palkia: Clear Space (noodcubed) Giratina: Distortion World (runbabyrun)
  17. Smogon Usage-Based Tier Update: February 2015 (See Post 222 for April Quick Rises/Drops)

    One comment on the percentile idea is that the idea of removing Jirachi (and other rises) from the UU stats is really completely orthogonal to using percentiles instead of 3.41%. You could just as well keep the current system but also remove any rises from lower tiers before computing their...
  18. Skillmons [Coming back soon™]

    To further elaborate this point, there are two reasons that +1 accuracy is not well-approximated by +1 in attack and special attack. The first is fairly minor: +1 accuracy gives a 33% increase in accuracy, not a 50% increase. The second, more important difference, is that accuracy is...
  19. Skillmons [Coming back soon™]

    Surely High Jump Kick should give some recoil even when it hits; specifically, it should normally have recoil of 5% of the user's HP (since it normally has a 10% chance of doing 50% recoil). However, if the move fails to do full damage to the opponent (because of either Ghost typing or a...
  20. Smogon Usage-Based Tier Update: January 2015

    Shadow Tag is banned in UU (and below), so Wobbuffet is useless. Similarly, Politoed is in PU because Drizzle is banned in UU.
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