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Question regarding the Drizzle+SwSw ban: I can run swift swim on my team, as long as I don't have a Drizzler, correct? So if my opponent runs Drizzle, my swift swimmer is not breaking any rules?

Probopass traps Steel Poke. Probopass uses Magnet Rise. Is the Steel Poke still trapped? Other resource sites have me confused...

I run Clefable(Flame Orb), who is completely awesome at what it does. I run Encore/Trick/SToss and Cosmic Power. Clefable can run many many different sets, can switch into status(usually already being burned). I use Trick to ruin Physical sweepers that switch into Clefable and eat it. I...

I used Psychic over Whirlwind on my Specs Tinted Lens Yanmega, mostly for Gengar. Seems like Gengars usually try to sleep instead of Tbolt (if they even run it). Without any rocks of spikes, Phazing seems silly. The best thing against CM Suicine that I've ever found is Encore. If he is a big...

I can't believe I have to ask this, but I'm blanking. In what ways can a Steel Pokemon escape Magnet Pull? Baton Pass? U-Turn?

Knock off is good for when the opponent switches into a trick-er so your tenta doesnt get stuck with a scarf. You might also wanna use Black Sludge, just don't let it get switched back onto your team later.

Elitism, on Smogon?!? I am shocked and appalled. It's funny how even Pokemon gets so political. The numbers don't side with you, and since numbers don't lie and you can't attack them, you attack the people behind the numbers. Claiming the people behind the numbers you don't agree with are...

I use the female version of this type of a set as a lead, Gardevoir with double status and Psychic and TB/HP Fighting. It works pretty well.

The chances are the same as Fire Blast on Heatran, which is the staple Heatran move, and rarely seems to miss. Fire Blast still has a 10% chance of burning the opponent, just like Seed Flare has an 80% chance of dropping special defense by two stages. In an OU environment where Bulky waters...

"a lot of people on the Uber side believe that Skymin should be banned because of its luck." an 80% chance of something happening is luck? You are right, just the other day the weatherman said "there is an 80% chance of rain today, so if we are lucky, it will rain." It's probably going to...

This thread is full of a lot more "stupid" then I expected. Maybe just resurrect the old Manaphy discussion posts where there was at least some thoughtful discussion. There are like the same 4 people posting over and over that it's broken because of wah wah wah. So with a couple of Tail...

Does Haze effect Slow Start?

Our teams are slightly similar, mine was built with my distaste for CM Suicine in mind. I dropped HP Elec for Haze on Vaporeon, which people surprisingly don't expect. I use Encore to encore CM or Rest then I switch to my Togekiss and start NP'ing after a Sub(or in your case Twave). Easy +4...

Has anyone given this a go? Seems like it'd work well, but the most common lead I encounter: trick-scarf Azelf would make my mind explode. For Trick you'd wanna Copycat, for SR you'd wanna Copycat, for Flamethrower you'd wanna counter. In theory it sounds great, has anyone practiced it?

I think it would be quite interesting to null SR on the Suspect Server for a month or so. I think the most interesting thing would be the new pokemon one would see, and the ones who pretty much just SR go unseen. I would think it would take more than a month of testing an SR-less metagame for...