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    Dodrio Cup - Week 1 Pools

    2-1 for John Bob vs Jackofspadesman g1: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8vgc2021-1277519507 g2: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8vgc2021-1277519583 g3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8vgc2021-1277519658
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    Dodrio Cup - Signups

    Team Players: john bob, Darius_Esq, MoreThan5 Team Captain: john bob Team Name (Optional): (undecided)
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    Bug Reports v3 [READ ORIGINAL POST before posting]

    Lagging Tail when Prankster Tricked against an opponent will sometimes not force the opponent to move last, despite the changes to how speed is done in gen 8. The reason why I know this is a bug, is because sometimes it will work as intended, and force the opponent's mon to move last in the...
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    Official Smogon VGC 17 Tournament ROUND 5 [See Post 276] [Extension Deadline 3/9]

    Calling activity on my opponent. It's been an entire week and no response from them.
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    Official Smogon VGC 17 Tournament ROUND 4 PAIRINGS [Deadline 2/17] (See Post 357)

    I'm low on time going forward, can you drop me from the tourney?
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    Official Smogon VGC 17 Tournament ROUND 4 PAIRINGS [Deadline 2/17] (See Post 357)

    My opponent hasn't responded at our arranged time, what happens now?
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    VGC 17' Secret Santa Sign Ups

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    Bug Reports v2.0 (READ OP BEFORE POSTING!!)

    There's a problem with using Pikachu in VGC2017. It says it can't learn volt tackle, but there's a move tutor that teaches it to you so idk what's going on.
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    what I have learned and why it helps me enjoy this format

    basically the reaction I expected but you're still disregarding the reasoning behind why VGC players have been using Hypnosis on Bronzong and other inaccurate sleep moves. It's effectively swagger in how its a chance to immobilize your opponent, but is more likely to do so as compared to swagger.
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    what I have learned and why it helps me enjoy this format

    On the topic of the swagger ban, something that most VGC players who have been playing the 2016 format (such as myself) have been resorting to is actually inaccurate sleep moves (the biggest one being hypnosis on bronzong [yes most people use gravity with it, but the goal of a blind hypnosis, as...
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    Doubles UU

    I'm not the one having the trouble, but as a person who has used TR since he really started competitively battling in 2014, I understand all of those tactics and all of my teams have multiple ways to mitigate those problems. Slow spore users are really the only way opponents can reliably at...
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