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I wanted it to resist dark. I don't remember why I picked bug over fighting, but I remember thinking I cooked when I did, so there must've been some reason.
"Stop talking about funny niche weather strats and/or the ongoing kyurem suspect test! We need 10 more pages of sleep discussion!"
Anyways, what do you guys think about NP :deoxys-speed:? I get why alot of people are using Deo-s to set hazards, but I find the sweeper sets are the best variants...
I agree that hypnosis darkrai isn't the best set, personally I think NP + 3 attacks is the way to go. The real shit is :ninetales-alola: :darkrai:. Alolatales can set vale, then put the opponent to sleep, giving darkrai a free switch in. If hypnosis misses, at least you still have vale up. This...
Could you give some examples of "stupid mod suggestions" that fixing sleep turns would invite? I understand that it would be somewhat breaking precedent, but I think if we make all sleep work the way rest does, it would remove the more uncompetitive, rng based aspects of sleep and allow for...
I think the best course of action might be to put in a fixed turn limit on sleep. Throw out the 1-7 turns bullshit and make it so that sleep only lasts for like 3 turns or something. This way you can actually strategically play around sleep since you know exactly how long your pokemon is...
Is it a hot take to say that Kingambit is the most banworthy thing in the meta right now? It still does the same shit it's always been doing, and it gets really fucking annoying when the difference between winning and losing is just guessing if your opponent is gonna sucker punch or not. That's...
Yeah, I haven't used crown yet, seems pretty underwhelming, but its signature move seems neat. Heat crash Gouging fire sounds cool, didn't realize it was that thicc
DLC2 has been out for almost a day now, so I'll give some first impressions on some of the new pokemon I've been using.
⭐:squirtle:⭐ Terapagos is pretty fucking good. Absurd bulk, multiscale, and a 120 BP signature move that hits everything is ridiculous, and it's deep movepool makes it super...