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Also allows the player to choose the pokemon to switch out to, with more information than the one available with normal switches. You can potentially one of your opponent's attacks, or what mon they switched out to themselves. This advantage is shared with U-Turn and volt switch, by the way...

Nice. Is the Kang purely a sandbagging Tauros replacement? Or did you try to exploit its counter advantage? Looks like Kahn vs Tauros would be a common endgame here, have you done the math on what the winrate in a 1v1 scenario is? If I had to guess I'd say Tauros has an advantage, but I'd...

Can I start writing a draft in a forum thread, without necessarily submitting it? Or is there a minimum requirement to draft in private before prepublishing it to the forum?

Looks like the competition is stacked, less entrants than the last cup, but the High Elo player density is much higher. Question: If two matches are next to each other, does that mean that the winner of each will face each other next round? e.g: PHB11677  vs  phoopes mjfblaze  vs  Soda Eesti...

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PS! Username: Totomimi Nation(s): Argentina Formats played: RBY Are you interested in captaining?: no Foreseen Inactivity: none

Where is a good place to ask about or suggest forum moderation policy?

Optimal vs exploitive While thinking about how to exploit X frequency of Y is an interesting discussion, it assumes you know what the ideal frequency of Y. We don't even know what the optimal frequency is (or frequencies, if there's multiple equilibrium strategies exist). So the question of...

If I may poke beyond the question and into your understanding of game theory and mixed strategies. Are you assuming that 60% chansey/lax is exploitable? This is a longshot but I believe you have a theoretical misunderstanding that you believe usingn 60% chansey is exploitable because chansey...

See original thread in Github for full details. https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/issues/12182#issuecomment-5017262660 I'm using the replay feature, there are two main ways to see a replay, one is with autoplay, and the other is with the "skip turn" button (and corresponding previous...

2-0 vs Ego https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen1ou-956380 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen1ou-956387 good games

What type of bug are you reporting? Teambuilder What is the bug? Search bar doesn't search team names. Ideal solution is for the search bar to look for team names. But better than leaving as is, would be to disable the search bar entirely, as it would allow the user to use the browser...

Won by resignation https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen1ou-2647305934-974wpwq489lr5halelk590jsoa943ngpw https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/pink-chez.744227/#profile-post-2796911

why does elo decay with time in pokemon showdown ladder?

Why does ELO decay typically? And is this applicable to RBY where there are never rule or tiering changes?