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Choice Band + RestTalk seems like an interesting combo? GSC Rest resets your sleep counter when called by Sleep Talk... so with a little bit of luck, a sleeping CB mon gets to enjoy RestTalk shenanigans with a "free" +1 Attack. You have to play a bit conservatively to get it ready to go - you...

Raichu-A seems like a solid, straightforward upgrade. It's Raichu with slightly more Special, a Psychic type - and with it STAB Psychic - and a nice Speed tier bump. Psychic/Thunderbolt/Surf/Thunder Wave sounds legit. Muk-A might work (despite its garbo Special) just because it's the only one...

I guess? But if you come out of Victory Road and you're not ready for endgame that's a pretty damning indictment of the party you're using right there.

If you're talking about "weighting stats" your philosophy is wrongheaded, anyway. Stats don't matter. Good stats can be valuable, of course - but there are plenty of really good ingame Pokémon that work with decidedly mediocre stats. RBY/FRLG Clefairy is the first thing that comes to mind -...

This... isn't ACE? The only code being executed is the code that's supposed to be. It's just that Platinum sets Giratina's form without recalculating its stats, if you set/remove the Griseous Orb from the right menu. It probably wouldn't be AG legal (infinite movepool glitches and the like...

Between Zoroark, trappers, (note: Zoroark is also a really scary trapper, come to think of it - set up Swords Dance as something switches in and then Pursuit whatever you baited in. Illusion is a completely obnoxious ability in a blind format, and lets even a mediocre mon like Zoroark play a...

First thing that come to mind as being much better in a non Team Preview format is Zoroark, which I think gets bumped from "lol" to "actually pretty legit." It's more or less a nonentity in standard BW play because it's really hard to surprise your opponent with a known Zoroark, right? Hazards...

I actually did the Wishiwashi writeup back in November, but it's not really concise, so I went and cleaned it up a bit? Name: Wishiwashi: Availability: Brooklet Hill. It's a mandatory event encounter early into the game, so you may as well catch it - you have to fight it either way...

It's not even just Pelipper. I'm just going to list off everything that plainly outclasses Politoed which you can get easily before Politoed bothers to show up. This assumes you don't take Popplio, too: -Pelipper -Gyarados -Wishiwashi -Araquanid -Starmie -Feraligatr/Azumarill if you wanna mess...

I'm gonna back up Ribombee pulling its weight lategame. It has acceptable power, a typing that lets it one-shot the Dragon totem (add and all!) and sweeping potential with Calm Mind/Quiver Dance. And it outruns everything. There were times when its power was a bit iffy late in the game and the...

Extreme Speed and Blaze Kick on the Band set are from the event Genesect, which is locked to Hasty. (And shiny, fwiw, so "this set has Shift Gear, Extreme Speed, and/or Blaze Kick" is telegraphed, which probably warrants noting.)

Nitpick and quite possibly a dumb question, but: why -Attack instead of -Speed? If a large part of Pelipper's utility is in its slow U-turn... is there anything it actually wants to outrun? -Speed (and a 0 Speed IV for good measure) doesn't actually outslow anything particularly important off...

I don't think Greninja is eligible for tiering? Yeah, it's infinitely repeatable, but it's still an "event" that you have to get by connecting to a separate piece of software. It's like ranking bonus disc Jirachi in Ruby/Sapphire. Well, except that Greninja isn't nearly as broken as WISHMKR...

Island Scan came up earlier. Since the mons that appear are predictable (based on day of the week) I'd argue it should be allowed? 10 quick scans and then an island scan to get a specific mon isn't so bad at all. But, unfortunately, where on the island a mon appears seems to be random. So you...

Grimer-A was my big surprise; dittoing the "rad mon" thing. It has lots of immediate power and way more bulk than you expect it to have, and Poison/Dark is a really nice typing, to boot. It has a fairly short dead period, as these things go, but it just about keeps up by acquiring Crunch and...