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Weavile and Tinkaton rising to save us from Roaring Moon just as it gets banned. Time to annoy the rest of OU instead.

I wonder if maybe this was supposed to be a versatility/choose your style thing. Run a very wide Physical coverage pool vs a narrower option set with Geomancy for monster boosts. Yveltal mostly gets Special moves to contrast this despite not really mirroring the "small but buff vs...

So I can't comment on VGC, but in Singles formats, honestly the dominance of the Paradoxes is overblown. The most prominent ones in OU are Tusk (who's moreso a glue to cover bases than a Meta Warper), followed by Raging Bolt (who's an alternate take on Kingambit's heavily centralizing style)...

You know what annoys me? People who only join in a topic to "um ACKSHUALLY" other statements rather than having anything to contribute to the topic at hand. In the anime itself this always felt like a major reason I didn't care for Misty or Max in earlier seasons. The snarking/know-it-all...

My guess is they just didn't want the Starters having their Pinch Abilities since depending on the Lobby and Shield, they could spend significant time in said phase nuking hard with their Elemental moves and ruining a run halfway through if they also did things like a 50% HP Stat buff or...

There's also the argument to be made they would start with some dubs and it'd come down to how high the demand for specific languages to receive them once the prospect of Voice Acting itself is even on the table. It's possible the relevant territories would only be concerned with LatAM Spanish...

To be "fair" in this case, the conflict with the turn-around-times on the game development would probably be another reason people advocate against the latter: the games' short dev cycles are considered a factor for many of its technical shortcomings or overly simplistic design decisions, so the...

Admittedly I didn't check the closest since I was just looking for quick ideas that didn't appear in their level up movepool to go over the overall point (and also why my Sylveon examples were flavor focused since even Mystical Fire was a TM, albeit a fitting one). Detect does feel odd as an Egg...

My thing about the Eeveelutions is that their lack of coverage gets more and more limiting on their design space if they're just a "type" rather than focusing on other aspects of what they are or look like. Not even just useful coverage the adamant refusal to do more than dip their toes...

In this case the issue is that Strategy A is not worth dedicating resources to because the resource demand is excessive compared to how often it will return a benefit over its alternatives. Despite this, Strategy A will show up 1/100 battles, and in said battle, not dedicating the resources...

Saying underwhelming meanwhile I'm sitting in the Singles comp crowd and Tinkaton's getting a lot of mileage is kind of a funny experience to watch. Most mons with those stats are lucky to break NU unless they're really more than the sum of their parts. The thing to remember is that the Hammer...

My mindset is that the game seems loosely inclined to have you encounter Cresselia before this moment since Darkrai is a payoff to the Child having Nightmares, meaning she's either Roaming Sinnoh or captured by then, while release order of Mythical Items (assuming the Azure Flute ever came out)...

For Mythicals, I think story and a place in the setting is fine and even to be expected. What distinguishes it for me is how widespread that story is within the universe vs a Legendary. To go over what I think is a good and what I think is a bad example for some comparison (mostly going off main...

So my take is that the one case of a true "Sidequest" Mythical is DPPt Shaymin, since the extra Victory Road section and Route 224 would only have reason to be traversed to reach the encounter, while also being more substantial than "walk through a no-encounters area" or "speak to this NPC with...

One alternative I'll shout out for Iron Defense (in case the party has other debuff bots to neuter Quaq's damage faster) is Sunny Day to get rid of the Rain boost, which discourages Aqua Step from the Tera STAB damage option late in the fight when your own Teras might otherwise encourage it...

I swear from memory a lot of the "20 Bear Asses" type side quests, the ones that are just collecting things without a sub plot, would often just resolve when you grabbed/had the items, to the point of several sidequest rewards coming in the middles of walking through a map or looting a battle...

Did some GMax Kanto starters today and yesterday. Admittedly when you have a group to play with it is fun to just shoot-the-shit while plowing through them, much like Raids, and I got a couple good ones plus Shinies and spares I could trade later for friends who missed out (even traded a...

In general I notice the most consistent strategy is to create a field state where Torch Song is not Skeledirge's preferred attack option (AI doesn't seem to actively account for the boosting) with things like resistance + Rain to outweigh the Tera stacking, then stack Debuffs, hence the Dachsbun...

I am aware of the gameplay motivation behind the weakness, but the flavor is much weaker for Steel than for Dark.

Personally I just always found the Steel Weakness to Fighting a bit absurd. Steel is made for weaponry/armor specifically meant to be more effective than flesh, to the point that a fighter breaking through such (as opposed to avoiding a weapon or getting a hit through a gap in armor) is supposed...