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https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9monotyperandombattle-1767890778 Zoroark disguised as ape being hit triggered a rage fist boost. Unsure if this is intended or not, due to illusion weirdness.

I've been meaning to make this post for awhile. I'm not 100% sure I'll have it fully written up in any reasonable time frame, but here goes. I will preface this by saying these are *not* randomly generated teams so please don't throw things at me: Unrandom battles (Unrands) The premise is...

You may also pet the dogs as much as you desire. (Also Blitz and nui and verbatim and Surgo and really most of the rest of the discord, y'all are good people.)

I am honored. You are welcome to come to my home and pet my dogs if you ever decide to brave the post apocalyptic hellscape that is Texas.

Hi everyone! I recently stepped down from Discord Lead as my IRL has gone crazy. While we transition, these apps may be delayed (they kind of already have been). We will continue to review them as they come!

There is something fitting about you using one of the first niche mons I played with in LGPE OU. Return to monke.

I do like giving my thoughts in these threads, but Zamazenta is a mon that is perplexing me greatly. To be frank, I was always of the opinion that the dog should never see OU. On paper, it has too many ways to abuse too much stuff to be worth adding it. In practice, after playing it, I found...

Again, that's very clearly not the point of the post. It's a single example showing that a previous statement (that I was quoting!) is incorrect. There are other examples in this thread that could be swapped in - does changing the calcs in that post to spectrier vs mandibuzz change the main idea...

That post wasn't me saying "spect always beats hydreigon in this manner" that's me specifically refuting the "spect can't touch dark types" by listing an extremely common series of turns involving spectrier and hydreigon. As for revenge killing, spectrier can swap now that it has broken the...

I'm realizing now that I haven't actually put my thoughts down in this thread - my posts here have been mostly correcting obviously false information/surface level analysis. Since life hit me pretty hard a few months ago, I hadn't had much time to really engage in any particular meta (barring a...

This isn't even remotely true. Spectrier frequently uses hex, hazards, burn damage, and weather damage to break past opposing dark types. Normal types are typically much more difficult to break, but many of them are just as abused by sub+calm mind, or are worn down by hazards and status over the...

The majority of the time, you will see a set that isn't specs + wisp. And since sub+ disable (really just many sub sets) beats specs + wisp counters, you lose to the second most common set, congratulations.

This would be a valid argument if all of the sets being listed weren't being used frequently and viably by spectrier. When your "counter" loses to a frequently run, viable set, it is not a counter.

This is a pretty 1-dimensional mon, so it's hard to add much here. I would add that Zapdos is a decent check, switching in and denying the sweep - either kingler clicked crabhammer and Zapdos roosts (it lives rocks+ crabhammer + crabhammer on the roost, so it's not a super solid prediction...

Ok fine, actual hot take: Each one of us is aggressively average despite longing to think of ourselves as special. If you're reading this, the overwhelming likelihood is that you're closer to the top of the bell curve than to either end, in any given metric.