Recent content by MathRobot

Putting on my mad scientist hat (something something Gyarados ate the lab coat...) I decided to try some teambuilding. I suck at teambuilding. Theory: Marathon isn't a specific team as much as a mindset. We want to PP stall the lead until it can't hurt us, set up a sweeper, and sweep the...

Alright, you sound like you know what you're talking about here, and I definitely don't. Are there any resources on how the AI works (both in general and for move-specific stuff like this)? Pretty sure this is at least one level past Bulbapedia, and I don't think there's anything detailed in the...

What specifically do you think the correct line is from here (Lickilicky4 backup against +6 Aegislash)? Intimidate switches into Gyarados (and Gliscor once if I don't have orb yet) until EQ's gone, then re-set Aegislash? I'm less worried about Explosion killing something and more worried about...

More Marathon! I made some (mostly inconsequential) tweaks, and I'm continuing to lose in preventable but not outright embarrassing ways. Changes from last time in bold. The team: ("variation on 'a minor variants of a minor variant &c. of Team Marathon'", I guess?) Gyarados @ Gyaradosite...

I can't do math. This is 3 mod 8. Why do people not just use max SpD? (Smaller PH number, so that's not great, but...) On review, this was exactly tobiuo's original spread, and apparently the higher PH number gets you better sub and switch-stall survivability. Which seems plausible; I hadn't...

Yeah, I've since (might've been doing it the whole time actually) started something like that line against known Gyarados4. Except that I've been going to +4 before first WF so I can 2HKO if things go weird (specifically, in case they start spamming AT randomly for some reason) regardless of...

I hadn't even thought about this. Makes sense given your Gliscor; I've been running pacifist Gliscor, which was supposed to be an extreme variant of tobiuo's DT+Bulldoze set, and even DT+bulldoze probably doesn't want to be KOing anything. (I get the point about the Veteran matchup, though - my...

Amusingly, I've got a Jynx3 video where both my notes and my video have me making the same plays you do here, except I don't get this level of bad luck so it works fine. So that's scary. Do you have a full plan in mind here, or is this just "hope for no freeze (in which case start sweeping with...

Interesting. Definitely worth a try; you're probably right about that. Agreed that Empoleon's not that scary in general. Storm Drain Cradily technically exists, but is terrible. To be fair, +6 Gyarados with sub can 2HKO anything even with EQ, so it takes Leafeon or two backups that can survive a...

(First time poster, sorry if formatting's wrong or whatever.) I had too much time on my hands over the past few months, and was looking for a fun XY breeding project for nostalgia's sake. I noticed the top Maison team (Marathon) is mostly single-cart XY, and stall is fun, so I decided to try it...