Recent content by johnnyg2

First of all I want to say I 100% agree w you on BP smeargle. I think when Abr’s BP clause was implemented (BP only allowed w one type of boosting move per team), bp smear never should have been freed. It was just a ticking time bomb until someone figured out a consistent set up with its tools...

Forgive me for throwing in some replays at the end that didn’t make my argument the best and using your replays for a pro-ban perspective when I should have been more careful. I think the argument for banning speed pass should be divorced from how banning it impacts the metagame and tackled...

I wanted to post here to give a different perspective on speed pass as someone who’s been around a long time and has faced just about every variant that’s ever existed, from full pass chains when I started playing w ingrain smeargle, to the various taunt chains in the mid 2010s, to RIENaRIEN...

I thought I'd resurrect Linear's original purpose of the thread by doing a team dump and showing some sets/spreads that I particularly like. I've always wanted to do a 100 team dump, partially bc i never really liked the teams i released previously and bc i love building new teams -- I've been...

I wanted to push back a little here bc of how rote you describe reaching the top echelons of the ladder is. I may not be in the upper crust any more, but I’ve been laddering adv for a long time. I’ve enjoyed reading your posts on how you reached 1900+. But there are a lot of ways to do it. I’ve...

I wanted to say roro’s use of yoloskarm (he didn’t reveal Hp ground/taunt but he was heavily attack invested and so I’m calling it a yoloskarm) on his spl tiebreak team was genius and might see a resurgence on the set. Here was the game: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen3ou-833278...

Double dpp tiebreak let’s go! Two great mus between bihi and bkc and then the third christos vs void pairing. Should be great! Bkc vs groudon: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-826872 Bkc: :Zapdos: :starmie: :Roserade: :Flygon: :Metagross: :Hippowdon: Groudon: :swampert...

There were some great teams used the last two weeks, particularly wtk’s w8 team is something I thought was very cool. However, I thought something cool to do would be to breakdown of both semifinal mus and think based on the regular season how I would prepare for the game. All four players are...

W7! Dridri vs Groudon https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-822922 Dridri: :Zapdos: :starmie: :tyranitar: :Flygon: :Breloom: :Jirachi: Groudon: :kingdra: :heatran: :Latias: :Metagross: :Breloom: :rotom-wash: Dridri: Dridri brought a team very similar to the team wtk used...

You got it tycarter, this was a long one, W6! And a w7 game :) I’ll start w the pkel vs bkc game and do the rest. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-822103 Pkel: :starmie: :Empoleon: :rotom-wash: :Flygon: :Lucario: :unown: Bkc: :Skarmory: :Latias: :Clefable: :jirachi...

W5! I like the dynamic tycarter and I have of videos plus written analyses. Dridri vs crucify https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-820429 Dridri: :azelf: :Metagross: :Tyranitar: :Gyarados: :Latias: :Bronzong: Crucify: :uxie: :Flygon: :heatran: :rotom-heat: :Empoleon::unown: I...

Void vs Bkc: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-818918 Void: :Bronzong: :starmie: :Jirachi: :Dragonite: :Tyranitar: :unown: Bkc: :Hippowdon: :Magnezone: :Clefable: :Latias: :Jirachi: :Flygon: I like void’s team, seems like a pretty cool physical dd spam (I’m assuming the tar...

https://pokepast.es/0a199c02c8aa53f3 :uxie: :Scizor: :heatran: :Togekiss: :Latias: :suicune: I saw the team above and decided to adapt my preferences for nasty plot Togekiss for this challenge. I unironically think hyper beam is the better move on offensive np Togekiss over air slash. Why? On...

Back again! Void vs Pkel https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen4ou-817150 Void: :Zapdos: :suicune: :Flygon: :Tyranitar: :heatran: :unown: Pkel: :forretress: :Flygon: :starmie: :rotom-heat: :Lucario: :kingdra: Void brought an interesting kind of old school offense built around...