Recent content by faith_grins

2. Mega Kangaskhan is the easiest-to-pilot strong lead sweeper you can field in the Maison. Return, Power-Up Punch, Sucker Punch, and Earthquake make for a moveset that requires only a small amount of skill to effectively pilot against the AI, and Mega Kanga rarely fails to make even trades...

Wikisend's links have a 'time to live' which apparently those files have exceeded, and the service has decided to re-use those particular link IDs. Here's a link to the .ods file in Google Drive. As I did not download the original .xls file I cannot provide it, but Libre Office and Open Office...

I've been working on a python script that sort of does that. I'm still sort of figuring out a good way to handle all the data (currently everything is an individual file, which is great for lookup but terrible for searches, and mostly what it needs to do is searches) so all it can currently do...

I think the answer to 1) is that she is just so specially bulky that there isn't anything in the Maison that credibly threatens her. Even with the physically bulkier spread, most Focus Blast users can manage at best a 3HKO. Alakazam4, Tornadus1/2/4, and Gardevoir4 all fall into this camp...

Without knowing the rest of your team and assuming you're talking about Singles, I would say if you're going to run Jolly, you should hit 133 speed. (12HP, 4Atk, 196Def, 252SpDef, 44Speed is what I'd run.) That's just after the first stat bump for Jolly, and it outpseeds Medicham4, Tornadus2...

After running two mock battles (small sample size, I know), Tickle does not seem to remove the "stop at 6 Curses" behavior: Steelix1 used Curse 6 times, then proceeded to throw Earthquakes at a physically defensive Tangrowth despite 5+ Tickles putting its attack and Defense well below +6, only...

For what it's worth, Starmie4 has ridiculously good offensive coverage: it has super-effective coverage against 239 different pokemon, and 4x effective coverage against 25 of those. (For reference, there are some 360 fully-evolved pokemon.) All with base power 90 moves. I would bet there...

-does double take- Nope. I must have been looking at Set3. OK, so Iron Head sucks, too. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

With Adamant Nature and perfect IV's, Flamethrower performs identically to Fire Fang for all practical purposes in the Maison except against Skarmory4, which is 3HKO'd by Fire Fang (~86% chance after miss chance factored in), but can only be 4HKO'd by Flamethrower without crits; and Ferrothorn4...

Am I misremembering this, or aren't there multiple Trick Room teams in the top 10 of Doubles? Like, at least two? Whose Trick Room setter has other, non-damaging moves? Or is that the beer talking?

I lost a Super Singles streak at 170-something to a stupid error with a team that had nothing but offensive moves - all-out aggro is viable in the Maison. It is not as reliable as having an all-around solid team synergy with the ability to pivot on a variety of enemies, but in my opinion it is...

Head Smash's poor accuracy is its great downfall in the Maison. 80% chance to hit is also a 20% chance to do nothing at all at some critical moment, and a 4% chance to miss twice in a row. Over the course of 200+ battles, that will happen, and when it does, it will be every bit as disastrous...

I've been testing a SubSeed Rotations team for the past month or two. It's not as ridiculous as it sounds, but I haven't been able to punch past 100 yet, so I haven't posted anything.

I think the Maison doesn't include the "Ubers" because Nintendo doesn't want the battle facilities to require you to have more than one cart to be successful within. Xerneas, for example, is basically unchecked by any of the pokemon available in Alpha Sapphire. (The best response I can figure...

No mention of Carbink4? Featuring such things to recommend it as an absolutely pitiful Explosion, a +crit item with no high-crit moves, and for reasons which escape me, Psychic, instead of some sort of useful support move? Is an exploding mon really that bad to get yourself set up? Even if...