Recent content by tobiuo

It’s over, I didn’t make it—the dream is dead at 9226 without even the satisfaction of a loss. I steamed the last few stretches from 9141-9160, 9161-9190, 9191-9220, and 9221-9227 when recording started acting up midway through #9227’s Donphan4 lead and the game didn’t return to the overworld...

Protect is the second most common move in the Maison; other common things that sometimes prevent a straight Entrainment setup include: Protect (15.4%)/Detect (2.5%), Fake Out (3.2%), Toxic Orb (1.3%)/Flame Orb (0.9%), Explosion (4.3%), U-Turn (2.0%)/Volt Switch (1.9%), HJK (0.9%), Bright Powder...

and you get to have one!! hundred!!!! (100!!!!!!) battle videos at a time!!

#8964 vs Ranger Meganium4/Victreebel/Serperior. This goes exactly according to plan. This could've been six days ago, but I stalled it to what it is...

Going on six months since last update, the streak yet lives. I’m sitting at 8840. There were a couple of months where stuff came up and I wasn’t playing, then I eased back in with other formats and non-serious runs and stuff, and then I got back to it and just kept grinding out the next 2k (ok...

... unless you're thinking about the type-theme trainers scattered around the Resort with the randomly selected level 60 teams that are sometimes useful for oval charm pokedex seen filling, those are once per day and also don't use megas. The facility within the Battle Resort is the Battle...

Link Castle goes infinite absurdly easily and the challenge is overwhelmingly staying focused enough to not throw while you’re sitting on more skips than battles you actually played. This is a streak of 109 (1-105, 106-110) with Drifbim/Garchomp//Azelf/Gengar: Drifblim Ability: Unburden EVs: 30...

I was grinding out attempts with the above team to assess its 1-49 reliability (actually pretty okay, if you're paying attention and not Just Clicking Buttons... but I was tbh) and just?? got???? a run that made it to 75 wins?????? The stream is actually watchable this time, I wasn't playing...

I did a pretty underwhelming streak of 51 in 1v3 multis. More on that later, but what I really wanted to write down is that gen 4 in-game multi partners are subject to “species/item clause” constraints wrt your team. This implications for scouting partner sets, e.g. if you’re holding Lum and...

I want to take a moment to push back on this take a bit. This is something that might be hard to appreciate if your experience of facilities is dominated more by the early rounds where the difficulty is still ramping up overall than the phase where the opponent distribution is near-constant, but...

I’ve been in a “I should really write a progress report soon” state for weeks now, but have characteristically been procrastinating it. There is … quite the dearth of cute numbers in the 5k+ range, but I did have Things Happen to report. It still took longer than it should’ve to get writing but...

For what it’s worth, we recently confirmed that opponent team generation does not sample unifromly from the space of legal teams (as Act’s earlier scripts generally assume), but rejection-sampled at each team slot to satisfy (in the case of gen 3 Factory in particular): (this never actually...

ok but then you have to admit that switching out before they even hit you with a move your backrow resists is definitely cheating

Hi? It’s been like three months since I last updated, about two months of which were varying degrees of quasihiatus, but the steak lives. Given the loss of 3DS online services to pass battle videos around, I tried streaming handcam a few weeks back but the screen glare turned out laughably bad...

A small update: #4689 vs Cabasa Ludicolo1/Seismitoad2/Aurorus4 was a little scuffed from the inside view, but I guess the ultimate artifact correctly reflects that this is a stall down to Toxic for an Aegislash setup, which is a satisfactory wincon against the rain pool. Actually, this happened...