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Random musing.. is it just me or is the Battle Arcade actually the least random facility in the whole Frontier, despite being advertised as the most random? I mean, - you use your own pokemon - your opps don't have items so no QC/BP hax (unless you accidentally give them items) - you get to...

Just lost at 37 in the battle factory, really pissed off. I had Machamp (Cross Chop, Bullet Punch etc), Eggy (Trick room etc) and Gastrodon (some all out attacking version). Lost to an Electivire whose TPunch paralyzed and FP'd my Machamp, then criticaled with Fire Punch on Eggy (after I...

Forgot to check this thread before I went - was in Leicester Debenhams today. There wasn't much going on except for the give-away - noone was battling, which was a bit of a shame. SR'd for my Shaymin, got a timid one with 31 Sp Atk, 29 speed, OK SpD and awful HP and def and kept it since it...

And what happens when you get that one predict wrong because your opponent outpredicted you? Or forced you to predict without knowing his 6th poke? I mean no matter how good you are you're going to mispredict nearly as often as you predict against an opponent of the same calibre. Why...

Pokemon battles are about having fun. If all your opps are getting pissed off because they feel they're being haxed unfairly (e.g. Brightpowder) then they're not having fun (and the majority of people don't like being Brightpowder haxed). If your opps aren't having fun they will either...

Even Focus Sash Aggron/Bastiodon with Metal Burst aren't unbeatable - Breloom will always beat them seeing as Metal Burst has no priority modifier and so can't reflect back Focus Punch. There's always Speed Boost Yanmega with Hypnosis, Sub, Bug Buzz, Air Slash, probably @ lefties for more...

Adding my 2p of "this is a stupid idea". Unfortunately if the Infernape player does his calcs, he will realise something nice. After he comes in on the Sub, he will realise that his standard LO Mixape does 26-31% to standard (4 HP/0 Sp Def Bold) Blissey. He will therefore Flamethrower...

One of the problems I'm forseeing is the fact that many of these potential switchins could very well be holding a CB. Coming in on a CBTar's (or CB Rhyperior's) SE makes that a guaranteed OHKO even with these EVs, which is no good at all. Coming in on a either of their EQ still doesn't tell...

astrohawke - unfortunately this just isn't good enough compared to Rhyperior. Rhyperior can come in very happily on T-tar not knowing what the moveset is. Even Boah's Ice Beam isn't a 2HKO most of the time. DDtar gets raped if it tries to DD as Rhyperior comes in. He just doesn't care what...

Just reading through this - I find Dragontamer's numbers on the raw stat potential of Rhyperior vs Aggron a little hard to believe actually. Specifically I can't believe that Aggron takes special hits better than a poke with 45 more base HP and only 5 less base Sp Def. According to my numbers...

That wasn't a personal attack on you. That was just a general notice to all those people (and there are many) who think that quick egg hatching is not hacking at all. Personally I believe that in many ways, quick egg hatch is actually worse than just hacking obtainable pokes. Most of the time...

OK, just putting in my small amount of non-denominational currency: This is why I think think that quick hatch is 100% hacking. I am going to illustrate it with maths so if you don't care about that just skip to the bottom line. To hatch a quintuple flawless poke from 2 triple flawless...

Max power Gyro Ball without item boost = BP 225. Max power Meteor Mash with CB = BP 225 (or close enough). I just can't be bothered to hit Weezing/Swampert/whatever with a Hammer Arm only to get forced out before I can even attack with Gyro Ball. The fact that most of Gross's counters are...

Anything with Explosion tends to be an excellent stallbreaker. Usually it will rip a hole in stall teams which you can then proceed to exploit with your other pokes. It also has the distinct plus side of allowing you to use LO quite safely. E.g. Metagross with Meteor Mash/Grass Knot/HP...

I think part of the resentment towards Nintendo comes from the fact that most of the competitive community can be considered "die hard fans" (look at how long breeding a single competitive poke takes, for example), many of whom have stuck with pokemon right from the start and have been...