Recent content by sarysa

I've been inactive the last few days since I've been completing a long and grueling technical scuba diving course. (that + pokemon + tf2 = I am weird) Too tired/busy tonight, but I'll be more active tomorrow and this weekend. :D I have 6 mons to steal and I still don't really know when people...

Won with a freeze hack. http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/smogondoublesbeta-66982303 Stole Zygarde and Aromatisse.

I have an errand to run in the mid-day but I'll be on within an hour of you. I look forward to it. :)

Oof, I almost missed the 3 day deadline. I'm surprised I got subbed in. I have a team ready. What times are people usually most active on IRC on a Monday?

I played around with Mega Abomasnow for awhile when I was messing around with a weather (ice + water) team. (NOT a HailRoom team) My experiences were that MA was very hard to keep alive, defensively built but susceptible to OHKO from many sources, the most threatening being Talonflame's Brave...

d'oh, well put me in for sub as well... this one would've been good for me since I'm already bad at team building. :P

I'd like to nominate Meowstic-M for the A rank. Not only does it counter A-rank Hitmontop nicely (and fills some of its roles), it has a decent enough moveset that you can't be certain what it will do. (much like Rotom) That element of uncertainty is what makes it dangerous...and that goes...

Haha, I probably should've added some kind of ;P after mentioning Blissey. I was only intending to poke fun at the reduced role of physical attacks, since this generation adds priority Will-O-Wisp to neuter physical attackers along with the old Intimidate and Reflect. It's really the 4x fire...

Fair enough. I tend to have only Specials out when Hitmontop shows up (usage has declined greatly in the last couple weeks on PSS) so I guess it's serendipitous. That said, NPC/Battle Maison usage of Substitute is atrocious, but human players seem to misuse it a bit as well. I've just never seen...

I've been on the other side of Mega Banette a few times on PSS...priority Destiny Bond seems to be really nice to have...but no one ever uses it, and it's fragile enough to be OHKO'd by any number of non-STAB moves. It looks great for singles as a sweeper eliminator, but it will take a lot of...

Mega Abomasnow is squishier than its stats would indicate. I can say with personal experience that building it as a tank is a bad idea. It seems like anything can pierce through that defense and OHKO it. (most notably the bird) A lot of fighters OHKO it, non-stab fire does it in, Brave Bird...

Assuming there's no Fake Out to ruin this, you could do something crazy and stick the Eject Button on one of your speedier Fire/Water mons. It's mildly risky, but it'd allow you to switch to that Shaymin/Togekiss and troll the enemy as you stated, only sooner and with less risk. :) (you might...

The threat of Wide Guard seems to have led to decreased usage of multi-target moves (that, and multi-target moves tend to not faint anything), but Quick Guard remains a star. Is it predictable? Yes. But I've managed to use it in multiple ways: - To cover my taunter when countering Trick Room...

That's pretty interesting. It would work against you if you got sucked into a Trick Room, though. (which are everywhere, btw...) In general it seems like Weakness Policy was almost made for Aegislash, but it depends a lot on the element of surprise. Aegislash's movesets are predictable and...

...who is a good candidate? In my match, I used Togekiss, and it did a decent amount of damage before it was put down. Then after the match, someone told me I'm wrong for putting it on a defensively built mon. That said, I've had a lot of overall success with it because of these philosophies: -...