Recent content by Coram_Boy

This actually looks like it has a huge amount of potential; the synergy that it offers is actually really impressive, and excadrill is actually quite terrifying under a substitute. I really like the mew set - and to be quite honest, Rotom-W is one of the most horrifying things in the meta today...

I'd actually consider running Analyze with trick room, or alternatively download; in all honesty, all three of Porygon2's abilities have something going for them, That said, I usually run trace to irritate mischievous heart and other abusable ability pokemon. In any case, P2 is simply impossible...

I'm afraid to say that it doesn't work like that; Giga's ability activates upon first being rotated in, and for every turn he spends in, the counter goes down one. It sucks, but that's how it works.

Magic Mirror espeon has been an absolute godsend against erefuun and other mischievous heart users - as well as shutting down practically any non-offensive lead (the joy of deflecting stealth rocks to your opponent's side off a Deoxys-S is simply the best). With calm mind and baton pass, he can...

I'd quite like to write an article for the Smog on how we've been creating a new metagame as of Black and White's release - how and why we came up with our banlist, those threats we thought would be predominant that turned out to be wet fish, and so on - but its relevancy would probably be...

I'm actually considering running Magic Mirror CM Espeon just due to these two and Erefuun. Although at present it's just theorymon, Espeon is pretty much invulnerable to Erefuun, and can easily set up on any of the three. If I'm not mistaken, it also gets immunity to taunt and encore, as well as...

I believe you have to type this IP into the advanced connection: '91.121.107.186' to get to the Gen V server.

I like deoxys-s a lot, but I'm not sure that it fulfils the criterion for being banned (if the criterion is that it can set up consistently on almost all of the metagame) as successfully any more. It's certainly going to have more competition than the last generation gave it, at any rate.

He means that random wi-fi supposedly doesn't allow pokemon with moves that they can't get in 5th gen. If that's the case, either it's a clever hacker, or an interesting consequence for the metagame (and I was hoping only the 5th gen stealth rockers would be able to be used, hmph).

Yes, I believe that that is the case. It appears that rotating out is more like going into suspension and not switching out; everything resumes as if you hadn't rotated out as soon as you rotate back in (including your opponent being able to encore the last move you made, as has already been...

Thanks, Philip - I must have missed some of them, and thought you hadn't tested those - but rereading it, you did (whoops). Actually, though, there was one thing: 'Confirmed Natural Cure does not activate upon rotating a Pokemon out. (How about Regenerate?)' Regenerate doesn't activate when you...

I have a gut feeling that there are enough almost-viable pokemon to replace borderline with a tier in between the current OU and UU, with the tier above becoming the new 'Standard'. Still, that's just theorymonning, but I'd like it all the same.

Using pursuit in a rotation battle has no effect; it doesn't 'catch' a pokemon that's rotating out. However, 'switching out' and not 'rotating' lets pursuit activate as normal. Additionally, Leftovers do not activate (and, I assume, neither do any other held items) when a pokemon is rotated out.

I'm *pretty* sure that it will cancel it out, but do we know if Lucky Chant is superseded by the auto-crit moves? By the way, I'm going to test the rotation battle with pursuit to see if that goes before a rotation, too. Also, Mien - I'm impressed at your diligence, 60! is almost a Gogol =P

Just to confirm - in a Rotation battle, the act of 'rotation' does take place before any move. I tested with Helping Hand, Feint, and Aqua Jet/Mach Punch; in all cases, the rotation occured first, followed by the move. Also, I believe that you don't take entry hazard damage when you rotate in a...