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:hippowdon: :skarmory: :heatran: :reuniclus: :clefable: :latias: BW musing: I really dislike how clunky Bronzong feels on this sort of Hippowdon superman comp, and imo Heatran vastly outperforms. Heatran facilitates a lot more offensively, weakening Reuniclus's checks while maintaining a...

mwahh

There are a litany of players who bench without the added stress of managing every year, and many certainly are not intended to ever play. This feels like a boring gotcha.

how about you just let me lock myself out of every tier. that wasn't an option in sign-ups

Managers get trophies too.

Because if I'm helping a team win, I want a trophy.

I know a policy thread hates to see me coming. *What I want to flag is that my signup wasn’t an attempt to game prices, manipulate an auction, or mislead anyone about availability. I'm being transparent: I don’t have the time/energy to start, and I don’t want to play games this year. At the...

song of the year

fwiw I think packaging potential bans together as a future vision is somewhat interesting. I just wonder how you make it practical.

part of my issue as well is that, in every iteration of “test tournaments”, ppl often just use existing teams that are still legal. not trying to be thoughtful about the metagame or ban implications. unless a ban is official, the effort is just not the same (or existent). I understand what...

mass changes to metagames with exponentially less games and far fewer players doesn’t seem very feasible to me. at this point, we’ve mostly accepted that change has to be somewhat glacial for oldgens. don’t think crowdfunding some one off tournaments changes this fact, even if it would be more...

what does it actually mean to be anti-meta in a tier where everything already feels cracked? here’s my latest attempt: peaked #1 and maybe even glugged you on ladder. :hippowdon: :xatu: :gliscor: :slowking: :ferrothorn: :weavile: I started refining this during BWLT, when ladder teams leaned...

heya im -4. most free on the weekend. i can do 1 pm - 7 pm on saturday or sunday, what’s the best time for you?

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-861248?p2 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-861254?p2 won vs vileman, ggs