Recent content by probationsmack

Asking if poltergeist counts as a contact move. All of the serebii entries for new moves lists them as non contact which doesn’t make sense for quite a few of the physical ones.

If dreadnaw has trapped an opponent with jaw lock can he switch out with Shed shell?

I dunno if it was ever answered. Someone asked if stakeout worked on special moves now and after taking like 80 percent from a max overgrowth thievul in the battle tower because I thought I could switch in safely I’m gonna say that was definitely from the Stakeout ability. For reference I was...

Endure might be an option somewhere to actually deal with max moves I also think sunny day might be good for sun teams and negating harmful weather after max ice or max rock has been used previously

Maybe I’m misremembering the circumstances but in my playthrough I *think* I was paralyzed by a static Pikachu using a normal type contact move on me while I made no contact. Again I’m not sure but thought it might be worth testing as a possible buff to the static ability.

Does burn effect the damage output of body press? I believe burn diminished foul play damage so I assume it’s the same case.

So I was thinking of using boots shedinja to force a Dynamax to go for a specific coverage move. Endure would be better than protect against a dyna in this situation. Like if your up against gyra it has to airstream or uhhhh darkness (crunch). Does max guard go off the same mechanic of double...

I just tested Utility umbrella ingame using a damaged Umbreon holding the item. I sent in Umbreon after setting sandstorm and used moonlight. Only 25 percent was healed and I was buffeted by sandstorm. So as per usual. I’m guessing the item only negates damage boosts from weather while...

Can someone do a full rundown of utility umbrella? Does it negate bonus damage from weather ie water in rain? Does it negate sand force? Does it allow the holder to negate damage reduction ie using water in sun? Any hidden interaction with terrains? Etc.

Appreciate it. One of the first dex leaks I saw didn’t have regular Yamask so I was confused.

So assuming Persian is in the Dex because the special meowth can be bred for regular meowths, what’s the deal with Cofagrigus being listed ? Regular yamask is not in the dex so is there a split evolution being indicated stemming from galarian yamask?

I was looking through the items txt dump trying to make sense of it before I realized it pretty much includes every item that has ever existed in the franchise. Soooo what I’m searching for in vain is the existence of an item that CLEARS EVs. I didn’t play sun/moon so I don’t know if there...

Wouldn't the simplest ban be against iron defense? It sounds silly, but we've banned specific moves all the time before and i does the job of necessitating a pass to Vaporeon before defense boosts occur. I doubt any other team archtype would miss it.

My point is the scolipede usually isnt doing offensive things. You could make this exact same type of team last gen substituting in Ninjask while still using a vaporeon for physical bulk. Hell, galewings didnt exist either.

One more thought, since the distinguishing characteristic between ninjask and scolipede in a baton pass chain is iron defense- is the culprit here that one move or the fact that weather was too overwhelming last gen for thenear exact same type of team to work? OMG BAN IRON DEFENSE