Recent content by spookysocialist

Dropping in to ask if anyone knows wtf is up with teleport's tm distribution. Is there any rhyme or reason to it at all or is this overworked 90s game freak tossing darts and figuring who cares, it's a field utility move. Like you've got a bunch of psychic types, that mostly makes sense, I...

We'll need to ban Snatch + BP since you could snatch multiple boosts to pass. And recycle and baton pass since you could recycle starf berry repeatedly. Oh and trick + baton pass since you could trick a stat boosting berry an opponent is holding. And Role Play + Baton pass since you could copy...

Here is the Showdown mechanics thread where is was first brought up: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/gen-3-on-ps-final-fixes.3527268/ And here is the PR thread where it was debated how to resolve the issue: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/adv-switch-priority.3622189/

Just dropping a fun metagross tech I've been using Metagross @ Leftovers - Meteor Mash - Earthquake - Reflect/Light Screen - Explosion Just standard bulky attacker but with a screen over protect. This is used on a team where metagross blowing up into a bulky water is extremely valuable and...

Kitsunoh Kerfluffle Volkraken

I mean, the fact of the matter is that all it takes in gen 3 is a pokemon on each side that have a defense boosting move that isn't bulk up like iron defense or cosmic power. These obviously are incredibly rare but it's more to just bring up the point that in a generation with proportional...

I mean, I think it makes a lot more sense when you realize the position organized crime in general had in Japan in the 90s and the decades prior. Strict anti yakuza and anti police corruption laws have been passed in the time since release but at the time of the original games release, the idea...

The pokedex also says that Lanturn produces enough light that it should instantly produce a black hole several times larger than the visible universe. So either accept the pokedex is wrong or the pokemon world operates on fundamentally different physics than our own.

For what it's worth, no trainers in the story mode had EVs and they all had 0 IVs and neutral natures. I tried to use the Colosseum + GoD hacking tool by Stars to check the trainer data to verify the battle mode trainers but I've only ever used it for editing XD and when I tried to use it with...

BTW I'm kind of late but I'm going to drop an alternative explanation for Bug and Poison being SE against each other - I think the intention was to literally speed up the early early game. These are two of the most common early game types and them being super effective against each other was...

Not sure how much more difficulty you are looking for, but quickly looking at available hacks, X/Y Rebirth ups the difficulty to the level of the hardest mainline games without changing anything outside of vanilla.

Generally the best first nuzlocke game is considered firered/leafgreen since it's very easy and short but honestly whatever game you want to play is the best. Even the harder games like BW2 are not difficult with proper planning. Also as far as Whitney goes, she is not difficult at all. You have...

I've been binge watching a lot of "speed run X pokemon game with all pokemon" videos lately and one thing I've noticed is that in gen2, most of the TMs seem pretty universal - I feel like most pokemon in gen 2 learn about 75% of the tms and there's a lot of overlap in that 75%. Also, a lot of...

Bit late but a lot of the weird NYC pokemon moves coincided with irl holidays and seasons. The lovely kiss distributions happened around valentines day, the seemingly odd petal dance distributions happened during the cherry blossom blooming weeks in Japan, cute pokemon got scary face before...

I think there's two possibilities regarding Celesteela: A: in battle visual change, probably just with it's thrusters B: originally the Ultra beasts may have all been planned to have A/B forms for which version you played but were scrapped due to increased dev workload, and buzzwole and...