Recent content by Blatreutka

It got pushed to the side when school started up. I've been insanely busy and didn't have time to keep up with the metagame enough to make it worth it. I'm probably going to be back for a few weeks over winter break though

Alive, not on smogon much at all anymore if you haven't noticed haha

If only I had the time... school is royally kicking my ass this year. I barely have time to do anything other than work in the studio and sleep let alone spend the time figuring out the new metagame haha. I'll see if I can get back into it in about a week when I'm home on break. I haven't...

Yes but barely. I won't be able to rejoin CAM though. I barely have enough time this summer let alone when I'm back at college. I'll check it out when I get a chance though.

Not to sound like a broken record, but I haven't had much time to test due to some personal matters, but I tried out ginga's team for a bit earlier today. Overall the team works sort of well, but there are definitely still some issues. First of all, I guess my biggest concern is that I...

I think the main issue with the concept of switching in is that most people think of it defensively (ie your opponent brings in Scizor against Terrakion and you switch to something like Gyarados to take the BP). The reason we need something that can switch in to say Starmie is that without...

I think that sounds like a solid plan. At this point the last 'mon would just be a placeholder and would be pretty much guaranteed to change later on. That said, I think I'll start with trying to find a better option over Donphan before looking at Mence. I don't know about the rest of you...

I'll start off by nominating a 'mon that Katakiri used in his Donphan testing team that covered a few of the team's weaknesses well. Jirachi @ Leftovers 252 HP / 224 SpD / 32 Spe -Iron Head -Body Slam -Fire Punch -Stealth Rock It beats many special attackers that would otherwise demolish this...

I tried out Katakiri's Donphan test team and so far its working really well for me. jc and Ginganinja mentioned earlier that they didn't think Gyarados fit with the team, but honestly I'd have to disagree. I haven't really needed to use it as a pivot too often and most of the time I just set...

I'm with pharaphcalvin, I don't think this actually happened. That said, it brings up an issue with the whole slippery slope debate. Even though there haven't been any more complex bans, people have still voted on several and many think that we have implemented more complex bans than we have...

I've been thinking about design and design processes a lot lately since it has been taking up the majority of my time for the last year and I think it applies here since we're basically designing a metagame. The best designers, I found, are those who come up with iterations, those who aren't...

Not sure about BW, but it was fixed in platinum. http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2157593&postcount=21

Gyarados (Dragon Dance)

Timid is a good place to start, but if you want to use it competitively, then I would suggest looking into its IVs. A general guide to what they are and how they affect stats can be found here and an IV calculator that helps figure out what IVs you have can be found here (links to Serebii.net)...

Characteristics themselves don't define anything for the pokemon, they just represent what IVs a 'mon may have in one specific stat. For example, the characteristic "Loves to Eat" means that the 'mon has one of the following IVs in HP: 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30. They're much less informative...