Recent content by Ryota Mitarai

in Crystal, you can circumvent this by getting an Ursaring directly post-Surf and those come as high as level 30, which is neat. The only caveat is that you want to catch it in a Friend Ball to enable a few sweeps later on (most notably Clair), which means you have to restart if your single...

I assume I haven't shared this, but just to be clear, I also support Flareon in D (I think I nominated it a long time ago for C-tier), seeing as Cyndaquil dropped to C-tier and it's leagues above Flareon, no matter how you look at it (and even if you didn't want to compare, the arguments laid in...

small correction: Remoraid does not have any D-tier nominations whatsoever, a quick search suggests all nominations have been for E-tier (and for a good reason, Remoraid has nothing good going for it), so it can be regarded as concluded

the only reason to catch Slowpoke at your earliest convenience is if you are going to evolve it into Slowking and want to use Curse to sweep Bugsy and Whitney (at a fairly slow rate, might I add). Theoritically, I think you could still catch a Curse Slowpoke post-Surf and directly evolve it into...

I can confirm that reaching level 35 for Jasmine is indeed not feasible in "standard" play. For Gengar to win against Jasmine, the only condition to be cleared is "survive one Iron Tail". My experience tells me that Gengar typically lives one. The only way to even lose the fight is if Iron Tail...

since IVs were mentioned, idk how relevant it is, but I don't think IVs really impact anything's performance meaningfully, if my experience with some of the Odd Egg Pokemon is anything to go by. In particular, I remember once using the Odd Egg Jynx and Magmar and their offensive results didn't...

TM "dependency", the way I understand it, would be an issue mostly with finite TMs that are particularly contested. The only finite TM Gengar needs is Shadow Ball, but save for Normal-types, Shadow Ball isn't particularly contested as far as I remember "off-limits" would suggest that...

I think the differences in performance are caused by the fact that Gengar is a bit underleveled in the endgame, which is what would bump its tier up otherwise. I assume the lower levels are caused by the fact a lot of early-game Pokemon were used (as well as the overall large team). I remember...

Did my run with Manectric, Electivire and a bunch of others. I will hide those in their own section below: my run consisted of Gengar, Blastoise, Steelix, Golisopod, Manectric, and Electivire. Those are either reevaluations of ancient tests or I discovered new strategies for the Pokemon that...

okay so finished the run with my aforementioned team and here are the results (with logs!). Some of the endgame matchups are missing, this means that I either didn't test it thoroughly or found nothing interesting. Charmander Charmander Hala(17): Charmeleon either takes out 2/3 of Hala's team...

Because Flabebe is terrible in major battles. You are stuck with a Floette until basically Poni Island (you get Shiny Stone either after beating Nanu or after fighting Lusamine, depending on your game version). Floette's only remotely good matchup is Nanu and even that one isn't a sweep if I...

Sure! Oricorio While you are correct in that Oricorio doesn't have much of a coverage, it arguably doesn't need it. Flying is a great typing in USUM with the early Flyinium Z and this allows Oricorio to perform well against a huge amount of major battles. In particular, those are Hala...

(Late response) Krokorok and Mankey could admittedly receive some reevaluation, since those were placed a long time ago and have never really received much attention. I don't think they'd raise to B and A, respectively, but C and B could work if better strategies in regards to their usage are...

Regarding Lurantis, Torracat should easily win with Z-Fire Fang alone, if you somehowly feel like it will miss the KO, you can set up a Work Up to guarantee it (we do not penalize usage of Z-Moves in major battles) For Togedemaru, I feel like most people should have an Incineroar at that point...