Recent content by finnaggann

Yeah, “Hustle wouldn’t be broken without No Guard” isn’t an argument that No Guard is unbalanced. And a team reaching number one is not really a sign of what is overpowered at all. Reaching number one is a matter of being reactive to the meta, innovative in team building, and putting in the...

I must admit that I was perhaps looser than may be appropriate with the term “balance”. I am native to vgc, and it seems I have misused this term that is native to singles. substitute “bulky offense” for most uses of “balance” in my orginal statement and I think most of my points still have...

I think I disagree with your analysis. The idea that defensive abilities are limited to stall is kind of absurd to me. Balance archetypes run defensive abilities in SP, and they always have. You need both defense and offense for a balance team, and the easiest way to get either in SP is through...

It would definitely be a radical move to lower the power level across the board by banning Ubers/legends, but the current state where a number of them are banned and the rest remain free felt odd to me when I first started playing. The power level of the meta isn’t really increased in the same...

Ah, I guess as a (mostly) stall player I don’t use shadow sneak at all. I never find room on Giratina (too many good support moves and shadow ball is just better for chip) and houndstone doesn’t actually fit very well most of the time. It doesn’t apply the kind of persistent threat stall needs...

it strikes me that sheer force is kind of diluting the identity of a prio-spam team, because the priority moves themselves don’t benefit (and fake out and upper hand lose their flinch which is bad), plus it takes away from slots for other support abilities you might want like guts, scrappy, or...

So, I built a dumb gimmick team a couple of weeks ago and then somehow I took it to 1500, so I guess I am posting it here now with a bit of a write-up for anyone who hasn’t had the displeasure of facing my annoying stall gimmick team. Some games with this team are no brain, just do the...

I think shed tail might have been accidentally banned again when wish got banned. It’s not working again.

I definitely agree that motor drive would make rotom-w OP very few things work particularly well against it and it is easy to build a team around, also I don't want it eating my heliolisks parabolic charges, that is one of two ways I have been able to beat it in NEXT so losing that would make me...

Ampharos-mega now has base 95/100/110/170/115/50 It can pull off parafusion then spam charge beam as set-up and use dragon pulse for an incredibly powerful stab. it essentially both walls and sweeps at the same time. just have to avoid fairy types. Accelgor has an insane base 160 speed and a...

It's not clear what is a better type here I assume positive is better than negative higher is better? and what was your formula, just curious because i am still trying to figure out how to make it accurate instead of generally spitting out seemingly random values. and are you taking into...

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Final Submission Volkraken, the Shifting Pokémon X: Volkraken's body can reach temperatures that can boil water in seconds or even light water on fire. Y: Volkraken lures in prey by changing its body's shape and pattern of bioluminescence, then crushes it with enough force to turn sand into rock.

Took your advice and made the thing with diamonds much more believable. My intention with that was too have the beak cause the pressure but I can't find a way too fit that in.

I tried to take a crack at this and immediately noticed that dual type combinations are necessary and that this would take me several days to do the math for just one single type. to accurately do this you must solve every type at the same time including all the double and single types for both...