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What are the unique strengths of our typing and conditional move? Dark/Flying has hybrid strengths: it offers surprisingly solid and complimentary 2-move coverage, which is a boon to both more offensive and more defensive builds, and it also offers a number of important resistances for teams and...

Dark Water / Flying Grass / Flying Dark / Flying Steel / Flying Flying Rock / Flying Dragon / Flying

Dark Everyone here agrees that non-flying types at a minimum need a higher degree of scrutiny, so I apologize for the length but I felt it was necessary given a lack of faith in non-flying builds. I've thought through basically every other non-flying Dark typing and I actually feel that...

Just gonna comment on this for now, but may add more thoughts later on if I have time. While non-flying types deserve a much higher degree of scrutiny here, there is a non-STAB path and we should leave that window open if it's well-justified. Flying is great for the "good resists physical tank"...

Double Shock

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Did some thinkin. Stomping Tantrum: I don't fully agree with Dex, because part of the function of a move like this is to make the rest of your moveset more clickable. You're not trying to make a move fail, but you're much more free to click a threatening move that might fail knowing you haven't...

Proposing Tera Blast. This is a "conditional effect" move: it changes its typing and category depending on the user's tera type and stats at the moment of terastallization. Every pokemon gets this move, but if we're going to build around it, there are a few reasonable routes in my opinion...

What counts as a conditional move? My original list had "conditional activation" moves (move doesn't go off if the condition isn't met) and "conditional effect" moves (additional effect is guaranteed to happen if the condition is met, move goes off either way). I think "conditional base power"...

Which Road Leads to Rome? When All You Have Is A Hammer Perfect Conditions

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Final Submission Omooga Omega + Moo Pronounced: "oh-MOO-guh"

Final Submission Name - Only Room For One Description - This pokemon is a offensive Trick Room User. Justification - "Offensive Trick Room" is the usual name of the archetype, but "selfish Trick Room" might be a better descriptor. This pokemon should be fully designed to both set and take...

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