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It's funny because my first thought when I saw Beta Cacturne was Paradox Pokemon (probably because of Raging Bolt and stuff like Brute Bonnet), which now makes me wonder how many Paradoxes were "new" redesigns and how many were based on scrapped or unused iterations of the old Pokemon (whether...

This is the kind of incident that makes me really think tiering and conduct in this Gen of OU is a lost-cause. It'd be one thing if it was just the Kyurem DNB verdict, which I don't share but can respect as due process... but that's not what we got. The most obvious callout is the Fraudulent...

For clarity, is this with potential for a Suspect within a foreseeable time frame, or more along the lines of "these are the subjects to watch for Suspect Worthiness" as things continue to develop? I know we have a couple mons for which people probably have stuff to talk about, but I also...

Also a heads up if your local community is active, I think London would fall within Stonjourner spawn territory, could catch quite a few to trade with local friends (plus distance for XL on anything they send in exchange), Regionals tend to be popular trade topics in my experience and you can...

The main issue I think with an AV Roaring Moon is that it doesn't do a good deal that makes it better than most SpD Utility mons we have in the tier, regardless of if it's competent in the role in its own right. I can't quite see what its niche is over things like SpD Gliscor, Tinkaton, or rarer...

I feel like this is the first Gen in a while where we haven't quite had a "Field War" with a bunch of the Meta Mons constantly changing what state the Weather or Terrain is in. Gen 5 speaks for itself, 6 had Zard-Y and Tyranitar at least as strong stand-alones with a splash of Rain and Sand Rush...

Minor correction, Niantic is in charge of Pokemon Go, but Unite is developed by TiMi Group, a subsidary of Tencent. To my knowledge, Niantic has no involvement in Unite (Go is there bag to fumble, and boy can they).

The other thing I always find annoying about Rando farming is that I basically have to bring the Support, since even if they use the right ones, DPS are always going to be the majority of your teammates since they just have more active roles. That said it does get annoying with raids like this...

I think the issue with their thinking in Gen 8 if that was the thought process is that only really works if you assume Zacian plays by the same rules as every other mon: Intrepid Sword means you need Intimidate for it to be playing neutral compared to every other Physical attacker, and Steel's...

So something that popped up and mildly annoys me looking at Zacian and Zamazenta's level up moves as of Gen 9. Elected for here because I go way too in-depth with this despite a lot of wishlisting/theorizing that follows. Gen 8 they're reasonable enough, pretty standard "mostly...

I think he was referring to Sleep Talk calling Rest and thus wasting the turn (on top of the RNG of the other moves it picks from benefitting you at the moment) when he cited RNG, given the 1-in-3 odds, as the simple wake-up odds are a consistent hurdle to deal with in their own right. I feel...

If you're going online, bring a way to debuff Special Attack, because I swear all these players are awful bringing nothing to remove it and keeling over as soon as the Nasty Plot hits

It is, Stall is just not the most common playstyle on the latter for reasons of both practice and match-time (compared to tournaments where you only need to win a handful of matches against people at a higher skill ceiling and thus value consistency even if individual battles are longer). It...

Are you talking in terms of flavor or playstyle? Because I agree on the latter that Umbreon is an odd-exclusion (high defense, low HP support tank), but Jolteon I could follow since the Fast-Attacker archetype in Pokemon typically isn't bulky enough to take a shot and survive to do that kind of...

At the same time, as weird as this is to suggest, I kind of wish the Kyurem fusions had more moves that base Kyurem lacked (akin to the Deoxys learnsets but dropped ala how Home Transfer works between gens). I actually liked Kyurem and Kyurem-B's ranking in past gens in a way because their kits...

The Bitter Malice one is especially bizarre to me because Frostbite being a Special-Burn I figured would at least translate to affecting the same stat, but instead it lowers Physical Attack instead. Would a Hex-type have been too powerful with or without the stat drop (130 vs 150 BP for a status...

In addition to this, Kyurem's ability to pressure the team styles Gliscor found itself best at indirectly weakened it because unlike, say, Weavile or Axel Meowscarada, you didn't have nearly as many safe-switch options into Kyurem if it got in front of Gliscor, so whether it was Gliscor or a...

On the Signature move debate, my hang up is when the approach is done as a band-aid fix to the game's gaps, or even done with no clear thought behind how it functions when put into practice (whether good or bad). Most immediate example on the latter front: Mountain Gale's flinch chance seems...

In defense of Treads, Steel Roller is only its signature move because Gen 9 pared its availability down (becoming the only Level-up learner and no Tutor/TM returning). The Loyal Three I get because they share an ability that is unique to the trio (not even used by their Trio Master...

Looking for Go copies specifically or the event versions just because they're tradeable now? Also going for Living dex or just records? I have quite a few Shiny Zacian from hunting, might mirror swap and send a reject to Home at some point.