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Smogon name: Machina PS name: machina State/Country*: Massachusetts/Pennsylvania/USA Foreseen inactivity: Work Formats played: Any, but prefer gen 7, 8 Are you interested in managing*?: No

Won, ggs! https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8randombattle-1371940085-4suvux02xqf848oan6hz95z703xueoepw https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8randombattle-1371945904-hn706ubd1whlfax6455y1xjk5z1cxnwpw

Won, good game R511! R1: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8randombattle-1368063059-xs68tfm08vmt987i1k6ka4pp0imsigzpw R2: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8randombattle-1368069370-p0q4kj6qexe5s6pgee177srhuxvptoxpw

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assigned to double switches Username: Machina PO/PS! Username: Machina Your timezone: EDT (GMT -4). Daylight saving is hard. I live on US East Coast. Usual Hours of Availability: Weekends are very flexible Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've...

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Thank you for the suggestions and taking the time to playtest! I played around with this earlier and it is indeed a lot more fluid than the original team. Any particular reason for 8 Spe on Ferrothorn though? Thanks for the suggestions, I'll test this out when I get the chance to!

Hello. I have thought about this question for a while: Is it possible to use algorithms to yield good teams? Since I had some time over this weekend, I decided to procrastinate test this idea out. https://github.com/AntonXue/teamgen/ Algorithm TL;DR: Rank how well Pokemon A does against...

Name: Machina Tier: XY OU

Introduction: The team is based around a Dragon / Fairy / Steel trio that I wanted to try out. The core, given pure typing, has defensive coverage against all of each others' Super Effective types bar Steel's Ground. As for the Pokemon used in the core, I went with a more offensively oriented...

Slowbro can take practically any of Cloyster's moves thanks to its own monstrous defense. On this set, it only takes neutral from Rock Blast, and even that won't hurt too much, even after a Shell Smash boost. Slowbro @ Leftovers EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SAtk Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk) - Slack...

Nice battle, dual commentary, and animated sprites. Hehe, I love those. :)

I haven't had a good history with Ferrothorn. Oh god. I hate facing it so much, probably because I've ran rain for a while and only recently did I start using Magnezone. Ferrothorn is definitely scary under rain, but it can only take so much of a beating before it dies, and sacking a sweeper to...

So many things have either vanished or just shot up, it's interesting just looking at how the Metagame evolves. Has the overall playstyle changed much during the past year though?