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when do you want to game for adv cup? I'm CST and can be reached via smogon or on discord at .verb

could not establish contact with opponent on smog profile, they said to take the win over discord DM's

hey, when do you want to play for adv cup

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I have a confession, I knew this song as "the one from that animation that apparated onto my hard drive one day" for at least a year or two before I found out it was TSwift.

Gale of Darkness had these chess like puzzles where i.e., the opponent's pokemon all alternate using protect on your two slaking's off turns and you need to sack a garbage mon in the back to desync one of your slakings to win. Would be cool to see stuff like that return.

anyone else getting "The Fire starters are the Chinese zodiac but only if Typhlosion is a rat and Skelidirge is a snake" flashbacks?

This is a very interesting point. Playing to win as often as possible is obviously different from playing to stop someone else from winning once. If you're confident you skill gap your opponent you want less variance, if you know you're the underdog you want more. Restating the obvious here but...

To some extent the lead metagame, where most of the Medicham resurgence is coming from is slower than the game itself, such that you can get away with having a lower speed so long as you match up okay into the common leads you can't outrun. az I'm going off of October gen 3 OU elo 1500+ lead...

While we're on the subject of everyone's favorite beagle, I've been toying around with this on and off for the past couple of months or so: :Smeargle: Smeargle @ Lum Berry Ability: Own Tempo EVs: 88 HP / 168 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Dragon Dance - Spore - Encore -...