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    Resource RBY Simple Questions & Simple Answers Thread

    I'd say the way to think of it is more: You have your big 3 normals: Tauros, Snorlax, Chansey. It's kinda weird to think of them as a combo. Each one, in isolation, is nearly auto-include on its own merits. Meanwhile, combos like Cloydonbro are how you'd try to fill out the rest of your...
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    OU Gyarados In GSC OU

    Fun idea. Always love to see weirdo Pokemon make things happen. But I'll be honest, I don't think I'll be going out of my way to use Gyarados in OU anytime soon. I guess it's a funny way to lock out your opponent's spikes game if they're relying on Golem + Cloy to do the job, but it just does...
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    Resource GSC Simple Question, Simple Answer Thread

    There's two sets. 1 - bulky swords dance. defensive stalwarts like skarmory shut it down 100%, but your typical balance team which runs Golem as its main normal resist is actually going to be a little shaky against it since those teams need to shoo such threats away, and meganium is not so...
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    Validator Kakuna/Beedrill in metagames with Gen 2 sources

    Okay then, I can look into that and see if it can also work for the other illegal combinations ETA: it doesn't work for the other combinations without breaking things. Plus the logic should frankly work without having to doctor the learnset data. I think the quickest fix here (which is still a...
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    Validator Kakuna/Beedrill in metagames with Gen 2 sources

    Would that cover the gen 1 tradebacks case?
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    Validator Kakuna/Beedrill in metagames with Gen 2 sources

    I can take this. All of those hardcoded move incompatibilities are exclusive to gen 1 but incorrectly applied to gen2.
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    If Muk was Poison/Dark starting in GSC, how good would it be?

    It'd be a pretty solid check to Egg, but a million weird things already do that. But it also shuts down Alakazam funnily enough. Not to mention Espeon if it doesn't pass. And it'd be a decent second look to Jynx. Not bad! It would lose the Machamp and Hera matchups though, which is a semi-big...
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    Other Tiers Pokemon Stadium 2 Rental Metagame

    This list is probably sleeping quite a bit on the six selfdestruct/explosion users in the tier: weezing, voltorb, graveler, geodude, pineco, and koffing. They probably end up being quite influential.
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    OU GSC OU Discussion Thread

    You're right. The "main" playstyle is probably better called "Spikes offense" than anything to do with Explosion. One might even call it "Balance" to keep things even more general. It's just that most teams in this mold have at least two Explosions that they use to punctuate the match, but the...
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    OU GSC OU Discussion Thread

    Well, if we’re gonna get meta, the goal is definitely not to make a set of recommendations for newbie teambuilders. It’s more for folks to quibble about what actually counts as a different yet *viable* playstyle and what is ultimately just a substitution of ingredients. I think my thinking...
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    OU GSC OU Discussion Thread

    Hey, so I know we have the sample teams thread and all, which currently sorts things into "Offense", "Spikesless offense", and "Stall". But I'm a curmudgeon who's not totally happy with those three buckets. What buckets would y'all say capture the variety of teams out there? If I were to start...
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    Resource GSC Simple Question, Simple Answer Thread

    The most recent official Smogon Tour round to feature GSC (and which explicitly published rules banning HP Legends) seems to have been this from 2007: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/season-5-week-9-gsc-2-won-by-fear.19023/ Funnily enough, Fear won it :) Sometimes I forget he was at this...
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    Gen 2 My first RMT! Critiques welcomed!

    This post is clearly a bit of some sort but I can't parse what that bit is supposed to be. In any case I don't really care, I just wanna talk about the team in the paste. It's good! A subtle yet aggressive twist on a standard formula, carrying 4 Explosions, most notably with one on Snorlax...
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    Gen 2 GSC OU Piloswine (DONE)

    LGTM, QC 1/2. I think if I were to play editor I'd mostly just cut down on the text, as this analysis has a slight tendency to get lost in the weeds: OVERVIEW: Cut the mentions of Quagsire and Tyranitar in the intro imo. You're already comparing to Raikou so you don't need to resort to a...
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    Gen 2 [Gen 2 OU] curseTTar w/o electrics or cloy

    Hey, a week late here, but the easiest way to go without using Zapdos or Cloy is to use Baton Pass ;) Or some other hyper-offense concept. The "Kururin Team" (as I know it from my Pokemon Online days, based on the username of the player who carried it) had Forretress / Golem / Exeggutor /...
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