Recent content by LatentSanity

Only one pokemon learns Detect and Imprison, while all pokemon that learn Imprison can also learn Protect. Don't know if it's worth the PP drop, though.

This. Aqua Jet on Smeargle will do the job, providing you also attack Smeargle with your second pokemon on that same turn. (If you don't, and Smeargle Spore/Dark Voids your Aqua Jet user, you lose both of your dudes pretty readily.) Even if Smeargle Fake Outs the non-Aqua Jet attacker, the...

Right, completely forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder. That probably means the moveset would have to be Surf/Thunder/Dragon Pulse, then. I was also considering Lucario to set up Rain, since he's the only other Inner Focus pokemon I could see myself using besides Alakazam. The fact that...

Fake Out is pretty solid, but I feel like people rely on it a bit too heavily to get their strategies to work properly/disrupt opposing strategies. That in mind, here's the team I was pondering. I'm not sure exactly how they should be EVed/Natured, for the most part, as I've got little...

This is never a good idea, at least to my knowledge. Starly (1 Spe) has a base Exp. value of 56, and Bidoof's (1 HP) is 58. The only other Pokemon able to be found in the wild at level 2 are Sentret, Nidoran M, Doduo and Growlithe (1 Atk), Surskit (1 Spe) and Nidoran F (1 HP) via PokeRadar...

Looks like you're about 700 miles off. Getting colder... :P I ended up making an Astronomy-themed team a while back, and it's probably still the most well-named team I've ever made. Probably not the best team as far as winning games is concerned, but I'm still pretty happy with it...

Focus Sash on Ninjask doesn't really do much for you as far as stopping priority moves goes. You will generally be Protecting first turn with that set, which lets them switch in their priority move user. If you try and SD, you take the hit down to 1%, but then can't Baton Pass the boosts out, as...

There is literally NO point to running a mixed Weavile set unless you really, really, REALLY don't like Forretress. You don't even OHKO Forretress with HP Fire without a Nasty Plot, and if you Nasty Plot on a switch-in, they're not going to keep Forretress in to see what you're trying to do...

WALLS OF TEXT INCOMING: Thank whatever god you pray to that at least my formatting is good, and proceed. Starmie @ Choice Scarf - Natural Cure Timid (+Spe, -Atk) 252 SpA, 216 Spe, 40 HP - Hydro Pump - Ice Beam - Thunderbolt - Psychic Starmie - as a quick and relatively strong...

People only seem to think this because non-Shoddy matches don't have a log to fall back on. It's harder for warstories to be all-log-no-commentary when the person has to write out the entire log by hand.

Fair. It could have easily been an SD Luke or something anyway. But Shadow Claw over Crunch, USING BRONZONG TO EAT +2 ATK FIRE PUNCHES, and other stuff sort of proves the point.

For gods sakes, he'd have to be using a neutral natured, 0 Atk EV, non-boosting item Lucario to hit for that kind of damage. 'Professional' my ass.

I think you need to change your team around a bit so that you don't get swept by anything with Toxic. Try this in your team somewhere. Wobbuffet @ Choice Scarf +Spe nature of your choice. (Jolly or Timid) 252 Spe, 188 SpD, 68 Def Mirror Coat/Counter Encore Charm Safeguard These EVs let you...

The only thing I can think is that if you had brought in Electivire instead of Gliscor after exploding your Heatran, you actually could have won this. We'll assume that your 'vire against his would have turned out the same way, since there's no sense in hypothesizing that the speed tie would...