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I dont know if this is the place to put this but i have a suggestion about the damage calculator for showdown. i have been training this NU heavy metal aggron w/ heavy slam (dont question it :P) and i want to calc how much heavy slam would do with heavy metal, but choosing heavy metal for the ability is not an option. could one of the developers for the damage calculator add in the heavy metal ability to the list? all heavy metal does is double the user's weight, so basically heavy slam would do more until it reaches the max base power of 120, but moves like low kick and grass knot do more to you.
 
Hi, I have half of question/suggestion and I didn't know where to post, will it ever be possible to have the option to have the gxe ranks on the ladder alongside the elo ones ? (like you click on gxe and it gives you the rankings by gxe)
 
I'm having a weird issue on one of my alts. I currently have a record of 52-1 but my ELO is only 1489 or something like that. The issue is I keep getting matched up with players at the very bottom of the ladder. Nearly every one of my opponents has had an ELO of 1000-1100, so it's been almost impossible for me to climb the ladder since I'm only getting a couple points for each game. Just wondering if anyone else has ever experienced this.
 
My question is one many of us ask a lot, Why isn't Aron banned from everything? Or is the FEAR tactic banned? I may have been away for a long time. so I may not have seen it yet
 
DarkraiMN said:
My question is one many of us ask a lot, Why isn't Aron banned from everything? Or is the FEAR tactic banned? I may have been away for a long time. so I may not have seen it yet
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It isn't broken or anything, it's a gimmick that only works on people who haven't seen it before. There's a lot of ways to beat it without it doing much damage to your team.
 
Is there a damage calculator out there that calculates the best EV distribution in order to survive some specific moves as often as possible?

(Example: I want my arceus to survive 3 specific attacks as often as possible. 252 EVs are in attacks, so 256 EVs are avaivable. How should these EVs be distributed between HP, Def, Sp.def. ?)
 
Artic said:
Example: I want my arceus to survive 3 specific attacks as often as possible. 252 EVs are in attacks, so 256 EVs are avaivable. How should these EVs be distributed between HP, Def, Sp.def. ?
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Some Pokémon have a really high HP stat, in which case it doesn't make sense to put EVs into HP, and some have a really low HP stat, in which case it only makes sense to put EVs into HP. However for something like Arceus it's quite simple:
  • If you only need to maximise Physical bulk, put all your EVs into Def
  • If you only need to maximise Special bulk, put all your EVs into SpD
  • If you need to maximise mixed bulk, put all your EVs into HP
 
So I was wanting to know if there's anyway to recommend tier changes to the head honchos at smogon. One example would be torrent Greninja. He's way too weak to be in ubers I feel. His main gimmick is the instant stab off everything and he has respectable attacking stats. Though with protein gone he only has moderate damage output. Anything non stab is not going to secure a kill on even neutral hits. While he has the move pool to make him a serious threat in ou I don't believe he belongs in ubers
 
I don't think smogon does tier changes based on abilities. It complicates the process too much, not only greninja but lots of mons like blaze blaziken etc have same problems, but this issue has already being discussed on lots of threads, you should check them out.
 
Fraki said:
So I was wanting to know if there's anyway to recommend tier changes to the head honchos at smogon. One example would be torrent Greninja. He's way too weak to be in ubers I feel. His main gimmick is the instant stab off everything and he has respectable attacking stats. Though with protein gone he only has moderate damage output. Anything non stab is not going to secure a kill on even neutral hits. While he has the move pool to make him a serious threat in ou I don't believe he belongs in ubers
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First off, I noticed you're new on the forums so welcome to Smogon!

Secondly, Smogon tiers all the sets that a pokemon could run as one single entity. We don't take one specific set from a pokemon and decide it's ok, while any other set that pokemon could run needs to be banned. Tiering things that way would get extremely convoluted extremely quickly, so we keep it simple. The only exception to this would be mega evolutions, which are tiered separately from their base forms.
 
Is there something wrong with the ladder algorithm seriously?
Every time I register a new name and play I only get matched up with 1000-1100 players no matter what, last week I won 32 games in a row and climbed 300 points because I don't play anyone higher than 1100

Same thing happened to my friend two weeks ago, 120-20 and 1500 points
 
Putting this here because I don't know where else to. The PS damage calc puts damage calcs in the 'wrong' order when doing a One vs All or All vs One calcs. Trivial but thought it should be pointed out.

Lowest to highest:
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Highest to lowest:
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