Recent content by onionchowder

Hey Smogon, I'm mostly a Melee player, but I tuned in for a lot of the Pokemon livestream. The commentary was lively and informative, though I wish Ray did more analysis; having the players able to hear the commentators seems like a bit of an oversight. Are there other Pokemon tournaments with...

I've seen a lot of hail stall, but what pokes would you run on a hail semi-offense team?

Oh, okay. How/when are tiers updated? Where can I read up about this kind of stuff? I'm new to Gen V, started playing again a few weeks ago.

I played a UU ladder match against somebody today who had a Tornadus on his team. I checked the team builder later, and Tornadus is not categorized as UU, RU, or NU. Is this a bug?

Sometimes, when I launch Shoddy, I get a pop-up box with the error message "Splash: recv failed", and Shoddy won't run. Other times, when Shoddy is up and running and I am on the Smogon server (whether battling or just chatting), a similar error message appears and I am forced to disconnect...

so if i'm thinking of using reversal, i ought to have 281 HP? funny... i THINK my scyther ATM has 281 HP, and i think it was killed by 2 SR, maybe i'm wrong...

OK, so i was thinking of running reversal on my CS scyther (to "abuse" SR), and i was wondering how the damage calculations work for example, if scyther has 280 HP, and it comes in on SR, it loses 140 HP. but if scyther has 281 HP, will it lose 140 or 141? what about 282? 283? i just need to...

Just a comment; It seems that most of what you're doing is moving the "over-powered" UU pokes up to BL, as those are the ones that people actually use and get a lot of attention (AKA complaints) You say you're discussing the line between UU and BL, but there don't seem to be many requests to...