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Great progress dedede. It's interesting to see which individual choices people end up figuring out a feel for through personal experience, and I tend to like asymmetric teams too. I feel like I personally underrate Good as Gold and can't help but opt for Magic Bounce after so long, but I do like...

Good finding. On Firefox the first post actually doesn't work but the second works for me, but I get the opposite behaviour on Chrome. EDIT: Actually now it's the opposite on Firefox so I guess this is just inconsistent.

I honestly feel like this is just because they started off as copy pasted Squirtle lines as seen in the betas and nobody looked back to change it. I also feel like they don't really care to align past starters with modern learnset design that much until they need to for a relevant game/remake...

Your perspective comes through vividly and I actually empathize with some very similar frustrating experiences, aside from happening in high school and other things that seem culturally different in the US. But if this marks up to the worst day you ever had only now, then I'd say it's at least...

It's been an uncertain month. Yet the Pokemon Forums have shown resilience despite the internal turmoil within and outside. https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13689/massive-leaks-delays-and-consequences-for-leakers/p5 Some have given up altogether. Hey_PIKMIN couldn't take it any...

Actually I think you could make a reasonable reach for each outbreak having a connection to its respective raid as well. Tinkatink and Corviknight (I don't have anything for Bellibolt) Wooper with Clodsire/Gen 2 waters Girafarig with the Gen 9 cross gen evos

The newsletter/website mentions the 5 star raids are generally raid worthy mons like Azumarill (all Paldea native as well) and the outbreaks during Rayquaza all have black shinies. There's no thematic explanation for the other outbreaks though.

Torterra is pretty scary in an absurd way, so here's an Azurill solo clear for what may be its last hurrah for now. It was both more and less viable than I expected in some ways, but overall it took longer than expected, mostly because I saw the path to victory very early on but Torterra kept...

Obscure Torterra raid stats from https://stevecooktu.github.io/sv_raid_lookup/ for documentation: Yet another 550s raid, 40% HP size shield, and the usual 50% double attack rate past 50% HP. Again I do like how the raid kind of ramps up in a tricky way. Probably will not be doing Marill if...

2 Shell Smashes and dealing with mixed coverage was kind of scary to see blind and I almost doubted Azumarill could take it for a moment. But for all the early timed resets Torterra has, it still leaves a vulnerability to Mud-Slap as long as you can get one hit off. The successful clear came...

The end of the starter cycle approaches. After Infernape was Rock, I figured Torterra would be something simpler like Ground. Hopefully this doesn't spam Curse with no crit vulnerability but I think Azumarill will still manage to the end. Also this is the first time I've seen tera Torterra's...

Oh hey. I don't really see it as that much of a problem myself, just another factor to take in account as to why things are happening, which is interesting enough with not much else going on in the way of the meta. Personally I don't mind bot games just to have more games going since the quality...

On a related topic I did a personal challenge in Gen 7 to try winning with each level decreasing after a win using Simple Shaymin and got down to level 75 before I decided to stop (replay), though I think a lot of people may not have been using full EVs still so that might be harder today. It...

Shouting out NR7/Nrom7 from discord for a successful if not tight Azurill clear with a very locked in NPC team among other crazy things. Depending which rumours you believe lately with the Switch 2 and the leak stuff, I could see SV support going on for a while longer, maybe more spread out...

https://stevecooktu.github.io/sv_raid_lookup/ The obscure raid stats for documentation: Another 550s one, an odd 45% HP shield, and the usual 50% double attack chance after 50% HP. Overall this boss was pretty lightweight, but I prefer the straightforwardness of Sheer Force to getting haxed...

Marill solos too. I tried Charm and Chilling Water here just for variety and to test it out as a viable option, which I feel is fair with the debuff reset being midway. No Intimidate AI here, but I had Umbreon's Thunder Wave early on to outspeed. I did have to take an early death due to...

First try light work for solo Azumarill as expected with solid AI support. I set up Defense Curl, then 3 Mud-Slaps, belly drummed and tera Play Roughed the rest of the way. I just had to Defense Curl and Belly Drum once more after the buff reset but it was smooth sailing while he was still debuffed.

Yeah, I believe that's just accurate to the games. Technically ingame the weather also stays visually but since Cloud Nine is public info PS can just not show it.

The order doesn't matter. Cloud Nine doesn't remove weather, it just nullifies its effects while active.

It's the reasoning given in the linked image.