Recent content by Drifting

Username: Drifting PS! Username: Drifting Tiers Preferred: Gen 9, Gen 8, Gen 6, Gen 5, Gen 4, Hackmons Cup Time Zone: GMT+11 Foreseen Inactivity: Should be OK

If any managers want some free ORAS ball knolly hit me up

Username: Drifting Primary Eligibility Oceania Secondary Eligibility Kiribati Tiers Played USUM Ubers, ORAS Ubers, BW Ubers, DPP Ubers Interested in managing? No

Username: Drifting Tiers NOT Played (binding) None Tiers Preferred (not binding) SV OU, DPP OU Time Zone GMT+11

In SS LC some players (read: Acehunter) would use Metronome Abra for decent odds to kill low HP Pawniard while bypassing Sucker Punch Generally speaking I disagree with the philosophy behind this thread. RNG is not inherently uncompetitive. On the contrary, evaluating and managing odds is one...

Player Name: Drifting Region: World Formats played: SV, Masters, DPP Are you interested in captaining?: No

I don’t think it’s really that deep Pokemon is too contextual, shifting, and protean a game for what you call encyclopedic resources to be useful beyond a surface level. Analyses are by necessity broad in scope, slowly updated and often written by younger, non-jaded and accordingly lower...

Would it be possible just to have bot owners register the accounts via some means on Showdown/Smogon and then have those accounts not count towards usage stats? I can only speak for Playing Foul since it’s the only bot I get matched with in the 1900s-2000s but the owner to my knowledge is a...

Feels like Deo-S should be even lower I swear I see it in like 1% of games and when it does show up it’s usually as a mediocre screens merchant.

I hate to triple dip in the thread but I would really really really like to insist that Mystery Box not be brought back and I think I am with the majority on this one. It's a massive pain to draft for, it sucks for the players relegated to it who spend most of their season sitting on the bench...

I just wanna preface this by saying that I have nothing against doubles as a format. I think it's fun and a lot of my wins in circuit playoffs last year were in Doubles. The reason I'm posting is because a lot of doubles players are (understandably) flooding the thread to try and make an easier...