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  1. Gen 3 ban required

    Preface: I'm an old 386 OU player (I always find it funny it's never referred to as 386 anymore) who hasn't played in many many years and I know NOTHING. But was just having a read on here on a nostalgia trip around a few games I used to play. IIRC, "complex bans" didn't exist until way-post...
  2. Gen 3 [ADV] Greek Stall (Competitive Noob)

    Ingrain Smeargle was banned? Complex bans in my precious 386 metagame? As a player who only played competitively during 386 play and never again, this kind of reverse engineering irks me somewhat. I'm presuming there had to be alot of people suddenly running BP? Was it a way for those who didn't...
  3. Other Metagames Rules and Regulations - IMPORTANT UPDATE 9/10

    I appreciate the reply! I could bring it back, but I really don't have the commitment. I have quite intense work I do these days, which is all consuming and more fun than competitive pokemon (thats more a testament to what I do, as opposed to any pejoration towards pokemon: competitive pokemon...
  4. Other Metagames Rules and Regulations - IMPORTANT UPDATE 9/10

    I was gonna ask, what happened to 200 play? AKA Ruby/Sapphire pre-firered/leafgreen metagame, the one between 252 G/S/C and 386 play? I only played it briefly (played some G/S/C on the IRC bots and then skipped straight to 386 play.) but didn't think it was THAT bad to be forgotten in the...
  5. Gen 1 RBY IV catching questions

    I mention Stat exp above. I'm not talking here about making a team "pretty damn good" by just using stat items. I'm thinking more of a land of perfection, min/max'er approach. Look up base stats if you wanna understand your alakazam. This is more theorymon than practical, as obviously the...
  6. Gen 1 RBY IV catching questions

    Hey, was watching RBY speedruns the other day, and got me thinking about how one would build a competitive team in-game, just out of intruige. So after a little research, I discovered IV's are 0-15, for 4 stats (Attack, Defence, Special and Speed) and that the last binary value of each of these...
  7. Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 (DS, June in JP, Fall in EU/NA/AU) - Updated May 12th

    Thank God for that. The whole spring of the year after thing has always really bugged me. I stopped at D/P. Lets hope b/w2 are great upgrades. I'm still waiting for a reset tho (like between G/S - Ru/Saph). Am I the only one who would like to see all the mechanics revamped? (better...
  8. Your 1st Generation of Pokemon

    Pokemon Red + a gameboy when it first came out in the UK. I was nervous before I started to play it: i somehow knew this would be a pivotal thing in the makeup of my life and the person I would grow up to become. I was a very philosophical child.
  9. Eviolite

    Is it enought to outclass leftovers however? :S
  10. OU Should Snorlax count as Uber in GSC?

    RSE = subrev Linoone. DP = Tobybro the return (people just don't predict Amnesia).
  11. Control; How do they work?

    Dont forget: -PP stall teams. -As mentions Baton Pass. -Parafusion (paralysis and confusion). -TSS (toxic, spikes, sandstorm). Imprison is a good move, but not in western styles of pokemon, in 2v2 it can be powerful (with the plethora of protects, selfdestructs etc that can be...
  12. Ask a simple question, get a simple answer - VGC edition

    Toxic Spikes and Sandstorm in VGC? How will that work? your opurtunities for phazing and forcing switches are rare since its 4 v 4 with 2 out at a time surely??
  13. Ask a simple question, get a simple answer. (RoA Version + resource links)

    The metagame that time forgot: what happened to 200 play? No one even talks about it anymore. huh?
  14. The unpredictability factor.

    But sludge bomb metagross is perfectly viable? Oh, I see, I forgot about the physical/special split, I'm still living in the world of 386 play :P
  15. A Dragonite Team FINALLY!

    The guy clearly states this team is for 2v2 battling.
  16. Smogon JAA 2006: The First Smocon

    I remember reading this years ago hah.
  17. Ask a simple question, get a simple answer (Mark 3)

    *Comes out from the rock he's been living under* Whatever happened to Smogon's own competitor? Whats all this shoddy love?
  18. Differences in Competitive Play between WiFi and Shoddy

    What kind of magical, unicorn filled lucky world do you live in. I tried breeding properly... and it took me 16 hours to hatch the egg thats in my sig, and I've not touched my game since that grueling task months ago. You have some serious positive karma to breed 6 perfect in 8-10 hours (and...
  19. Clauses in the metagame

    And therein lyes the problem of Toby, who not only refers to himself in third person but also doesn't bother to check other threads before blabbering on and waxing poetic. Sorry, my bad!
  20. Clauses in the metagame

    Wow brilliant, I wasn't expecting such liberal view off the bat. Stealth rock indeed, nullifying Articuno and the lark down to crazy low tiers. The question is, if these are old left-over relics, is the course of action to remove or just leave as is? The question is, is it "correct" to have...
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