Recent content by Celestavian

I would say Low Kick is better, since the extra recovery from Drain Punch is highly unlikely to be enough to keep a frail Pokemon like Toxicroak alive for very long. You're better off dealing as much damage as you can before Toxicroak gets knocked out.

I believe you have Play points confused with Championship points. Championship points are awarded for placing high at events and that is what determines who earns an invite to the world championships, with the top players of each region getting travel awards to Worlds.

Play points are awarded for attending events and are essentially participation points. In the past there were certain tournaments that had a Play points requirement to attend, but as far as I am aware, there are no tournaments anymore that require a certain number of Play points to attend.

As much as the recoil can suck, Lightning Rod is definitely the better option. Lightning Rod is what makes Alolan Marowak even worth using, because otherwise it's just a slow, fairly frail attacker, which is essentially worthless in a doubles format. There are much better Trick Room attackers...

https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/pokemon-events/pokemon-tournaments/regional-championships/ The official website has a list of all the currently confirmed regional and international tournaments. It seems Oceania has no regionals scheduled yet, and Internats only has "February 2019"...

Yeah those three definitely deserve to be higher. I also think Nihilego should move down to C+. Almost all of its main niches from VGC17 have basically been stolen from it by the new Pokemon in VGC18. Naganadel is almost always a better Sash, Scarf, LO, or Z-move attacker, with Nihilego's Acid...

The metagame is not established enough for there to be a generally accepted CM Fini spread. In my opinion, the spread you want should be based on what you want to KO at +1, and what kind of attacks you want to survive 2 hits of to activate your 50% berry. For example, 0 HP / 4 SDef Landorus is...

Expanding on the "it's doubles" topic, I don't think Milotic should drop below B. It does have trouble with Z moves and some of the new Tapus, but at the same time, Milotic's partner can make all the difference. You can easily pair it with Scarf Landorus for Tapu Koko, or Mega Salamence for...

Tapu Koko: I feel like this should move down to A. Landorus single-handedly prevents it from being A+ imo, being unable to KO even glass Lando without LO and HP Ice. The slower Tapus also have the problem of depriving Koko of its much needed power if they end up on the field at the same time...

Raichu: B- imo. It didn't really get anything new, which isn't necessarily bad since it already had everything it needed to be usable. New gen 7 mechanics such as the mega Speed change, paralysis nerf, and Misty Terrain hurt its supporting power a little bit. Mega Zard X: I've never seen it or...

Hey man, welcome to VGC! I know exactly what it feels like to be intimidated going into something new, so good on you for taking the first steps. You've already gotten some feedback, but this thread is kinda dead so I'd like to throw in my tow cents as well. First off, I'd like to say your...

To get any CP you should aim for at least 1710, as the top 1024 last time cut off at 1705 points. However, that's essentially worth 1 CP which is fairly useless unless you go to a lot of PCs and get points in amounts not divisible by 5. For real CP, top 64 gives 20 CP and top 128 gives 10, which...

Wow does that look familiar!

I'm staying at the International Plaza Hotel as well.