Recent content by L3W

softshellcrabcakes Merry Christmas! Here’s your SD or CB ninjask team: https://pokepast.es/d0018b00dbff8f35 The jask ev spread lives a super effective hit from timid starmie in sand, so you can switch it hard in and force starmie out once. I actually gave a decent amount of thought to making...

most disappointing thread of all time ngl

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At the end of their VR posts, everybody says that they don't want to take the time to rank shitmons, so I thought giving them a serious look would be amusing. Since I invested a lot of time into the 4BL challenge this year and seriously considered almost every mon available, I feel uniquely...

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I achieved speed pass suspect requirements last week, and I will be voting Do Not Ban. I encourage others to do the same. As much as possible, I am going to try to lay out my anti-ban argument objectively and be clear when I'm giving my subjective opinion. 1. Speed Pass Use Cases in ADV I...

I do not and will never support a speed pass ban in ADV OU. I have a lot of thoughts on this, but I’ll be brief here. Speed pass is valuable because it provides counterplay to Aerodactyl and Dugtrio. Dugtrio’s impact on slower, grounded mons is obvious, but Aero deserves a mention, too. It...

Introduction If you don't know, the Muks 4BL challenge is simple. Climb from 1500 to 1800 elo on the gen3ou ladder using one team with four BL or lower ranked mons for a cash reward. Provide a string of replays as proof. Hclat won the challenge quickly, but he offered the money to anybody else...

I find myself agreeing with Siglut here. Dugtrio offense is not very important. I’ll address it in more detail, though. Giraffe said dugtrio offense is problematic because it forces stall to use two (non-claydol) special checks. He also shared offenses that employ the same idea of stacking...

Platinum Spirits Team: https://pokepast.es/3dd85fb1b4ccc5ab Thoughts: Building for this was interesting. I am surprised aero didn’t make the final cut here, but given how much ttar, dd mence and cm bliss threaten mono flying, I think mence makes sense defensively. Offensively the power is...

Surgical strike: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-2282849489-9qqy495allh4nwp4hpp70rz0x79n7yypw (See previous guts post for alt confirmation) I’m not sure if this counts because even though I was for sure winning (rules say this is the condition for forfeits to count) swampert lives 1...

Platinum brave, platinum knowledge, and a couple luck challenges Guacamole: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-2285559420-3dcgccopbxleqvwf66cohpl8rkxp1g3pw?p2 Sweepage: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-2285564836-hfaiik2fcbj862ddswzcqdaxg6159vppw

Post in thread 'ADV OU Creative Sets, Synergistic Cores, and Concepts' https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/adv-ou-creative-sets-synergistic-cores-and-concepts.3687815/post-10411856 Claiming Platinum Guts

Recently, ThisGuyMuks started hosting a challenge, offering a cash prize to anybody who could reach 1800/1900 elo on the ADV OU ladder with 4/3 BLs on their team respectively. Naturally, Hclat hit 1900 with 4 BLs almost immediately, but he offered to pass the money forward to anyone who could...

Wasn’t able to qualify for the suspect test, but I reached some nifty milestones along the way so I’m posting them here. Claiming whatever these get me