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Good to know Smogon's as polarized in levels of detail for its analyses as ever. Thanks for the explanation at least.

Are there specific reasons Cotton Down is not worth it or is it more of a "No one has bothered using it to find how situational it actually is since it's such a new ability and people tend to gravitate to the more familiar Regenerator" kind of thing? Aside from the mention in the first post, I'm...

I'd just like to call attention to the fact that Eldegoss has some interesting synergies with the Eject Button and Eject Pack items. Eject Button triggers after Cotton Down, so you can have Eldegoss get hit by literally any attack, and get a free switch to something that can take advantage...

FYI: EV-reducing berries seem to have changed. My Lv. 100 Corviknight has a perfect def IV and 180 def EVs, giving it a defense of 291. I applied a qualot berry and it only dropped to 288-the equivalent of a 10 EV drop.

Is there a way for me to see or contribute to the code? IMO, this is the coolest mod since Balanced Hackmons.

It suddenly occurs to me that the only stat-boosting move this guy gets is Double Team. Even Pyukumuku, who gets no attacking moves other than Counter and Bide, at least gets Curse + Baton Pass. Outside of the use of items, Evasion Clause prevents this guy from boosting the only stat the devs...

That was initially discovered here actually. Yes, it does work with Gluttony.

Technically it actually bumps you up to 2635 speed to outspeed a +6 Timid Scarfed Deoxys-S, but I felt that's a mouthful to type and kept it simple. Point is it gives you "more speed than them". Maybe you should just not use any Electric/Bug type then. Far more Electric types or Bug types can...

Well not quite. A Sitrus Berry restores 25% of your health, while Wiki restores 50%. Assuming both berries activate in separate matches, you have an effective 125% HP with Sitrus and an effective 150% with Wiki. The risk/reward factor really depends on how effectively you manage your defenses...

Well I did say "desperate". I'm not fond of items reliant on RNG either, but auto-assuming something's bad at the start of a new gen when it's literally not even re-tested in the research thread or examined in a datamine is just plain silly. What if it was buffed to a 1/3 chance of bumping you...

Quick Claw seems like an OK choice on Vikavolt if you're really desperate to move first. Honestly through my playthrough of Sun though, it felt like it triggered more often than 10% of the time, so who knows, maybe it could've gotten a stealth buff that hasn't been confirmed/denied yet. To me...

In-game, I've been experimenting with Alolan Muk w/ Figy Berry Ability: Poison Touch EVs: 252 HP, 40 Atk, something Defense. (see details) Adamant Nature - Curse - Poison Fang - Knock Off - Rock Tomb If I recall, I had it EV'd to get 2HKO by a Mega Metagross Crit EQ and Alolan Marowak's...

Consider Gastro Acid on the Toxic + Soak moveset. It addresses Magic Guard and Poison Heal, so literally the only things it can't toxic stall are Magic Bouncers.

So... is it just me, or does the Macho Brace outright not exist anymore? None of the datamine pastebins indicate any hints to where it may be... And are there no changes to the way items work whatsoever? I mean you'd think that the Metronome would get a boost or something after all this time.

So... a few posts ago, I was wondering if Cute Charm, Cursed Body, etc may have been buffed due to the seemingly unwarranted addition of the "protective pads" item. I was just chaining a few clefairy, when I got bored and decided I'd do some stat tracking. I had a Male Decidueye using False...

This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but have contact-effect abilities (Poison Touch, Static, Flame Body, Cursed Body, etc) been buffed? The Protective Pads item has me suspicious-contact effect abilities were too infrequently-triggered to be useful last gen and few people ran them, but if...

So... at the risk of being captain buzzkill here, the thing you're trying to figure out is kinda flawed here. You said this: But you did this: Since it's coupled to the design of the pokemon rather than player choice, it's kinda nixing the point of classes in most RPGs-You know, where you...

This is a very good point. Kinda need a double Imposter clause, then. Double Imposter is VERY broken. It's bad enough Imposters make scouting ridiculously easy, and that the possibility of one Imposter forces you to make all your sweepers' movesets Imposter-proof instead of something that can...

Funny, that subjective statement can be applied to pretty much anything people hate in this meta. Personally, I'd apply it to using more than one of the same pokemon. I've used a Minimize + Sub Giratina with Curse and Harvest pretty effectively once the Pixilators and Refrigerators are gone...

If Illusion gets banned, could Imposters should be nerfed somehow? Seeing that Illusion's one of the less... convoluted methods of sabotaging them. Ability clause is cool and all, but I think Imposter is simply beyond a mere ability. I mean, Trace is essentially "the" meta-ability, but no one...