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  1. Measure of diversity of a metagame

    I apologize, my last post was of the "Yes, but technically no" variety. What I meant to say is that you're mistaken about the importance of the D value. A D-value alone cannot give any information about centralization. The PD-value is much more useful to determine centralization. Say we...
  2. Measure of diversity of a metagame

    Not necessarily. Diversity describes the number of Pokemon commonly used, whereas centralization describes the degree to which other Pokemon are excluded from use. A metagame with 100000 Pokemon allowed where 500 are commonly used is very diverse, but also very centralized. Similarly, a...
  3. Drugs Debate

    Cancer isn't the only health problem, you know. http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html Smoking cannabis increases vulnerability to lung disease and infection, and quadruples the rate of heart attacks in the first hour after smoking, among other things. While it may not increase...
  4. Animal Cruelty/Dogfighting

    Not every animal even has the capacity to feel pain. Sponges lack even the most basic nervous system, and cannot even feel physical pain, let alone emotional. It is fairly obvious that some "cruelty" to animals should be permitted, but what should not be permitted is very unclear. Where do we...
  5. Lati@s in OU??

    The problem with this post is that Salamence's base Special Attack is 110, rather than 100. This makes Timid Salamence's SpAtk 319 (478 with Specs), and Modest's 350 SpAtk (525 with Specs). This changes the following numbers: So as you can see, Salamence outdamages Latios with the same item...
  6. Ititty hand eye coordination

    http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/2718281828459/?action=view&current=aaaaaaaaaaafail.jpg >_>
  7. Super Smash Bros. Brawl Discussion #2 (spoilers)

    Is Hammerspace relativistically linked with Hammertime? >_>
  8. Now Playing 2: The Return of Music

    >_> Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5 This song sounds really cool, and a lot of people know it, but it's hard to play. 9.5/10
  9. DP Research Thread #2 ("New")

    If you would actually look through the topic, you would see that Thunder in rain seems to have 25% Accuracy against Protect, and that No Guard appears to give moves against Protect their normal accuracy. However, no one has tested Blizzard yet. Edit: Blizzard needs to be tested by someone with...
  10. Max HP * Max Defense charts

    I wouldn't call 14th in terms of Defense and 8th in terms of Special Defense abysmal, especially because it's ahead of Skarmory and behind things like Aggron and Bastiodon. >_> Edit: I realize Skarmory and other Pokemon have more/different resistances, moves, etc., but it makes no sense that...
  11. DP Research Thread #2 ("New")

    STAB appears to have nothing to do with Thunder hitting through Protect during the rain, and there appears to be a 25% chance of it happening. Summary of all the tests I've done: Test 1- Pokemon: Pikachu (STAB) Hits: 3 out of 12 Test 2- Pokemon: Clefairy (No STAB) Hits: 2 out of 12 Test...
  12. DP Research Thread #2 ("New")

    Err, in my other post, I seem to have left out the number of times it actually hit. <_< It hit 3 out of 12 times, an observed 25% chance. Maybe you got really lucky in hitting 7 out of 10 times. I'll test it again now. Edit: After testing again, Thunder only hit the Protecting Kyogre in the...
  13. return of the gimmicks! at least possibly competitive ones. . .

    Use Seismic Toss (from the Emerald tutor) over Sleep Talk, that way you don't get killed by Taunt. Edit: Did everyone just skip over this post? SToss on that ID/Amnesia set works fairly well, actually
  14. DP Research Thread #1 ("Old")

    I did some testing using Thunder against a Protect user in the rain, and it does indeed go through. I used Kyogre and Pikachu, Kyogre's Drizzle made it rain, Kyogre used Protect, Pikachu used Thunder, rinse, repeat. Out of 12 uses (I only had 2 PP Ups >_>), Thunder hit the Protecting Kyogre...
  15. Shuckle?

    http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17644 I have a lot of experience using Shuckle, it was on almost all of my UU teams for about a year. In Advance, it could wall a lot of non-water special attackers and physical attackers without Rock Slide, but with everything having Stone Edge...
  16. Lucario Discussion

    It's not so much a summary as it is very similar moves combined using slashes. In Fight and Cross Chop are both physical Fighting moves, but one drops your defenses by one-third, and the other sometimes misses. Shadow Ball and Dark Pulse are almost the same move, having the same type...
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