Recent content by Sheaz

Phew. With Litwick captured I finally have my full team. Dewott, jolly, level 35 Excadrill, adamant, level 34 Archen, jolly, level 35 Gothorita, modest, level 35 Joltik, Modest, level 34 Litwick, modest, level 27 Probably going to train Litwick up in the tower for a while. Is is true that...

Is there anyway to briefly describe the relationship between HP and defensive stats? I know there's pokemon with jumbo HP stats, like Wailord or Drifiblim, that have poor defenses and generally seem pretty frail. Then there's pokemon like Shuckle who has insane defenses but a depressing HP stat...

This is kinda vague, so I'll expand. Wide Guard only guards against attacks that target the entire party, like earthquake. Similarly, fast guard protects the entire party from priority moves. It has a speed priority of 3, so it goes before extremespeed and ties with fake out.

Do you not know how to stall either? Outside of the usual, with a damp rock team one can make sacrifices that actually matter since a position to take down the inducers and prevent rain from going up is much easier to attain with proper planning. That strategy is completely moot under drizzle...

This simply isn't true at all, but it's cute that you think that. Stalling out eight turns of rain isn't too bad at all, and it really limits how effective the team is with constant shuffling and setting up. It limits movepools and options. To say that these pokemon are the exact same with a...

Since the fire weaknesses have been covered, I'll expand on some new things. I would run Return over X-Scissor. Return allows you to deal a solid chunk of damage to Gliscor, who is all over the place due to Dory. As for your balloon question, it pops and is never usable again while in battle...

The difference is that Politoed provides infinite rain, which is the very thing breaking these sweepers. How the hell can you not see that? Outside of Drizzle, they're not broken at all.

Magnezone is worse now than ever with team preview. Even if he does his job of getting a steel type out, there's still many hurdles for these dragons. Hell, the first two can (and commonly do) carry fire and ground moves, meaning they can take care of steels all by themselves. Magnezone does...

Exactly. Think of the number of people who actually play pokemon on simulators. Then think about how they're separated into multiple servers, with with LC, NU, UU, OU, Ubers, and even dreamworld variations. I see no reason to further fragment the player into even smaller groups.

The "test" is the vote. Having two separate metagames just cuts down on the userbase overall and fragments the community. I don't believe this is a good idea at all.

Of course the sensible thing to do is change the definition to your liking.

Dear God, are you seriously saying that SR is anything like drizzle? It may have been all over the place, it may have pushed some (as in two) pokemon down a tier, but it's really nothing like rain. It's not a playstyle, and it doesn't severely change the battle in the way perma-rain does. Again...

No, not at all. Sand and rain are both great ways to play, (too great, it seems), but people are just focusing on the rain aspect because it is inherently more divisive. Should we ban drizzle, Politoed, the trio, etc. There's far less abusers of sand, and it would actually make more sense to...

fidgety, I wasn't even responding to you. What the hell?

You used a horrible analogy, and I pointed it out. That's how debates work. Don't be a dick simply because you don't know the etiquette.