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Showdown needs to be fixed then, because you get Null at L40 and it's not breedable, which locks it out of LC entirely for now.

So, here's how the standard Mega Metagross set (originally Hasty, but I'll give it Naive to make its Defense better, as it's facing a physical attacker; 252 Atk/Spe with 4 SpD, Meteor Mash/EQ/Zen Headbutt/Grass Knot) fares against the abundance of Landorus-T on the ladder; there are three listed...

Hey, wait! Flareon doesn't get Burned! Maybe you can use it as a physical attacker in thi- 252+ Atk burned Groudon Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Flareon: 258-304 (77.2 - 91%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ...oh.

No one, as far as I can tell, is saying that adding an hour-long timer is a bad idea. What people are saying is that we aren't getting rid of an anti-trolling measure to achieve a goal that never even existed in the first place. The reason AG exists is to let people use Mega Rayquaza, and they...

There is a difference. Stall teams have a goal--to win by having your Pokémon wear down the opponent's Pokémon via residual damage from hazards, Seismic Toss, etc. You can beat a stall team at any point in the battle, and they will usually play their turns at a standard pace because they're...

Endless Battle Clause is based on a Game Freak precedent. In Generation III, Game Freak banned Wobbuffet from holding Leftovers because Leftovers Wobbuffet vs. Leftovers Wobbuffet produced an endless battle. This also led, arguably, to the change in Struggle recoil from standard recoil to 25% of...

Yep. It's crazy. Given that Endless Battle Clause has Game Freak precedent (namely, Gen III Wobbufett Leftovers bans), this is pretty much how Game Freak wants Pokémon to be played--no rules except those necessary to make the game work.

This seems unlikely. I'm not an expert, but I don't believe Game Freak uses anything like what Dota erroneously calls pseudo-random distribution (more info here: http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Pseudo-random_distribution) anywhere in the Pokémon games. Your chance for critical hits, critical...

The fact that it's a remake has been confirmed by Nintendo in a press release. They used the term "full remake of Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire" at one point, so Hoenn, and ORAS's remake statuses, are confirmed.

Gale Wings-getting guys: Gallade (Aerial Ace) Garchomp (Aerial Ace) Genesect (Aerial Ace, Fly) Giratina (Aerial Ace, Fly) Gliscor (Acrobatics, Roost, Aerial Ace, Wing Attack, Tailwind) Gogoat (Aerial Ace, by level up (???)) Golduck (Aerial Ace) Golurk (Fly, of course) Greninja (Acrobatics...

1760 usage stats Eviolite shenanigans! 0.327% of Dusknoir. That's roughly 127 Pokémon 0.269% of Mismagius. That's roughly 84 Pokémon 0.792% of Skuntank. That's roughly 77 Pokémon 0.471% of Emolga. That's roughly 46 Pokémon. 0.768% of Hypno: 53. So, there are 387 Pokémon in the 1760 OU usage...

Not just mono-grass. Mono-Grass starter.

I'm not part of the project, and I'm not an expert on battling, but every fully-evolved Pokémon except for Wobbuffet and Ditto can learn Substitute. So while I can't say for certain that you should allow Substitute, I can say that if you're building a Pokémon and you're disallowing Substitute...

Because two Abilities has a small amount of Smogon precedent in Drizzle + Swift Swim. Politoed + Magikarp was not broken. Politoed + Seismitoad was not broken. But Drizzle + Swift Swim was banned. Ability + Pokémon has Smogon anti-precedent in the form of Blaziken and Sand Veil; they were banned...

OK. And why don't we use Focus Sash? (I just want to figure out what the flaw is; I know there's not a one-step solution we haven't seen. We're at 50 pages now; we've seen everything)