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Does it bother anyone else that based on the announcement, Kyogre can be shiny (since it was added during its encore) but Groudon seemingly cannot be? Even ignoring my preference on them, it's an odd distinction between the two, especially considering it's not like either needs an incentive to...

Of note, some of the new Research includes Fossil Pokemon, so anyone working on Meltan should get out and find them. Catch 10 Ice Types: Kabuto Win a level 3 or higher raid: Omanyte Catch 7 Flying, Psychic, or Dark-type Pokemon: Anorith Make 3 Great throws: Anorith/Lileep Evolve a Pokemon using...

Need to see how Heatran works out, and gonna need to swap around my counter teams again. Kyogre and Groudon are gonna be big now, and Machamp's decently widespread for randoms. Curious how Heatran himself fares with Fire Spin and Fire Blast given his stats and all. No Overheat or anything.

I'm TOLD that Lick is better than Shadow Claw, but I don't know if that's for damage, gauge, or both overall or what. Also curious if Gengar can elevate much given its fragility is the main issue with it.

Basically what Chander said, with a major efficiency in practice for Gyms: Blissey is the most common defender, followed by Fairy, Flying, and Psychic types to resist Machamp, all of which Metagross is incredibly resilient against while being only slightly behind the output of the two legendary...

Staring at 6 good and one shiny trophy Metagross after Community Day. Had to dump some Rare candies to get the last one but worth it with my stash. Now gonna be walking him for a while and watching for Gym defenders to get myself some more Candy. I had two high levels and some luckies from...

This made me wonder if they'd change Deoxys's stats, maybe undo the usual 9% nerf at least, given its obviously ineffective spread compared to most legends, much less its EX predecessor. This is such a massive step down from Mewtwo that it makes me wonder if it was intentional to make people...

So the thing I'm curious about is how things will proceed a month from now when Mewtwo leaves EX Raids. Deoxys is basically just a glorified trophy compared to Mewtwo's massive meta relevance, so curious if they'll rotate him back in or simply have Deoxys run the show for a while. I'd assume...

My ideal situation would be Raid Mewtwo has Psystrike, Focus Blast, and Psychic as moves it can roll, while EX gets Psystrike, Shadow Ball, Hyper Beam, and you can only TM for the normal moves. It keeps EX Mewtwo as a commodity for Generalist fighting (and beiong a Mewtwo that doesn't cost a...

Assuming you guys are throwing Rock types, 4 should be decent at handling Moltres even without full optimized stuff. It's weaker than a normal T5 is for the special appearance, and it has a lot of common weaknesses, one a double weakness, to types that often see Weather Boosts. I've done a 4 man...

I like how you named both of the Infernape line recruits for Goku when both are female.

I'm unfamiliar with the Orre games in these types of threads, so just to check, is this assuming the only mons you make an effort to obtain are those that you plan to use, and thus Shadow Pokemon will be fainted otherwise? Obviously the latter stipulation further favors sweepers in particular as...

So I don't know if this will be a thing of major concern, but figure better safe than sorry for the Explorers thread. Do you know about the glitch in Sky where evolving a Mon with a 10 character nickname can freeze the game? Figure just in case I'd mention it before we recruit something...

I say let them evolve. I think the Secret Slab and Mystery Part CAN be obtained before Marine Resort, but I recall a guidebook for Time and Darkness (unsure if Sky changed it) specifying that Marine Resort has to be unlocked AND you have to have the item to spawn the Legendaries (which makes...

I don't have quite as much of a metaphysical idea on how the time travel works, at least no moreso than that ramble I did a few updates back, but with the questions raised on the ending and the Passage of Time's meaning, I have some more fantasy-land style ideas I'd like to pitch. A Passage of...