Recent content by dgice

Oh yeah 5 is such a small sample size, probably just need to use the assistant and practice. You worry about getting haxed if they wake up while you calm mind, but I don't see how dragon claw is helping you at all in that scenario. In a facility that directly rewards you for type...

The iv's increase at battle 49, so while it might be totally feasible to spike 7 wins to get to battle 56, I would say it's possible there is something missing from his strategy to really claim mastery. I've had a similar situation in the past where I designed a team that was really consistent...

"but despite how consistently it gets to 42+ wins, 85 wins remains my best attempt" - I read the team description first and this lines up completely with my expectations, easy gold but 85 is actually quite the lucky spike. Milotic can carry hard, Latios looks like it is a coin flip whether it is...

Come to the dark side and use different teams for different challenges so they perform better and you can enjoy exploiting each frontier challenge as an individual puzzle. Snorlax is an interesting one because it's so slow you have to care about both defenses, so HP is important. But you have...

I think Dusclops is underexplored- but for a good reason, it has fewer strengths and more weaknesses than a pokemon like suicune when stalling. And stalling actually introduces a lot of risks and doesn't combine well with tag teaming with other attackers like milotic can. I don't think it would...

It's a great team. It doesn't lose to any one thing in particular, just "hax" which is pretty common. It sounds like your goal is to make it fun, and it will have broader appeal with the team you suggested than a grindier stall team that has better odds. I think lum on milotic is more forgiving...

Restricted stab mons is hard. Tower seems like we could get close to a cripple sweeper team that would be take a long time to play and have some heartbreaking weaknesses but inevitably wins. Arena is already hard before removing type coverage I would be impressed by even just 42 Arena wins with...

Plus speed nature and 156 speed evs to outspeed other base 100's. But what you need to do is take the list of wild pokemon and figure out which ones linoone can one shot and adjust linoones moves each round so you can actually grind wild pokemon for pickup items with linoone. Protect to further...

One method to decide on using a worse legendary is to compare it to a non legendary pokemon. For latios compare it to like a starmie with like 31/31/15/15/15/31 The real method though is to use the 1 vs all calc and check if your latios still 2 shots most threats like water pokemon with OHKOs...

I prefer thick fat because salamence tends to bait ice beam, unless I'm running a struggle snorlax that can back door curse+leftovers struggle, as immunity is absolutely crucial when you run out of pp.

The dumb choice random move being from the move group that has the most moves of that type was something werster had mentioned when he did his emerald frontier speedrun. I operated on the assumption it worked that way for a long time until after not finding any evidence to support it, I assumed...

So just to be clear, is your list exhaustive or are their other unrecognized immunities?

For the gen 3 battle tower ribbons you can do the RS tower which is much easier. (fun fact you can also do emerald doubles for the same ribbon). I typically recommend slaking and latios as ribbon master partners as slaking can carry the RS tower on it's own with double edge. Colloseum TTar...

Ah, I'm so happy to hear about how the targeting is applied after the move is selected. Because now there is actual planning that can be done on a big enough scale to have an effect. Love how complex palace doubles is, but it was looking like another situation where the format was just too...

Congrats! Status moves like toxic do seem to have some added utility in doubles due to having access to a second target in case they repeat...except from what I'm reading now it seems the Ai target choosing is different in the palace. Actually it seems smart targeting might be completely...