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...which means you have to restart if your single Friend Ball fails to catch it (+ the short backtrack, but I'd argue that's much better than the circumstances surrounding early Teddiursa). I think this one is *arguably* more convenient, seeing as early Teddiursa is nothing particularly special

I assume I haven't shared this, but just to be clear, I also support Flareon in D (I think I nominated it a long time ago for C-tier), seeing as Cyndaquil dropped to C-tier and it's leagues above Flareon, no matter how you look at it (and even if you didn't want to compare, the arguments laid in...

small correction: Remoraid does not have any D-tier nominations whatsoever, a quick search suggests all nominations have been for E-tier (and for a good reason, Remoraid has nothing good going for it), so it can be regarded as concluded

...early-game was bad, then just wait till you see Exeggcute (for real, though, Exeggcute manages to be more painful for 9 levels than Gastly for 15-18 levels). You could theoritically teach Exeggcute Rollout to *somewhat* circumvent this, but I feel like the early grind will still be painful

I can confirm that reaching level 35 for Jasmine is indeed not feasible in "standard" play. For Gengar to win against Jasmine, the only condition to be cleared is "survive one Iron Tail". My experience tells me that Gengar typically lives one. The only way to even lose the fight is if Iron Tail...

since IVs were mentioned, idk how relevant it is, but I don't think IVs really impact anything's performance meaningfully, if my experience with some of the Odd Egg Pokemon is anything to go by. In particular, I remember once using the Odd Egg Jynx and Magmar and their offensive results didn't...

TM "dependency", the way I understand it, would be an issue mostly with finite TMs that are particularly contested. The only finite TM Gengar needs is Shadow Ball, but save for Normal-types, Shadow Ball isn't particularly contested as far as I remember "off-limits" would suggest that...

I think the differences in performance are caused by the fact that Gengar is a bit underleveled in the endgame, which is what would bump its tier up otherwise. I assume the lower levels are caused by the fact a lot of early-game Pokemon were used (as well as the overall large team). I remember...

...past, I considered Gengar more of a support Pokemon with a few good endgame matchups. However, I decided to try "braver" strategies utilizing Curse *and* attacking together and this led to a few positive results (most notably Togedemaru and Lurantis), proving that Gengar is far more than a...

...wishiy-washy matchup with all the rolls Guzma(49): can 1v1 Pinsir Kommo-o(54): lol no Ultra Necrozma(55): Dragon Pulse puts Krookodile near red *even with a Roto Boost*, yeah this is not doable in any reasonable manner Ribombee: lol Hapu(57/58): Crunch 2HKOes Golurk, which typically sets...

Because Flabebe is terrible in major battles. You are stuck with a Floette until basically Poni Island (you get Shiny Stone either after beating Nanu or after fighting Lusamine, depending on your game version). Floette's only remotely good matchup is Nanu and even that one isn't a sweep if I...

Sure! Oricorio While you are correct in that Oricorio doesn't have much of a coverage, it arguably doesn't need it. Flying is a great typing in USUM with the early Flyinium Z and this allows Oricorio to perform well against a huge amount of major battles. In particular, those are Hala...

...they are and would probably need more arguments to budge them up (and I am pretty set on Oricorio and Grimer's rankings, as those have received a *lot* of attention). Regarding your Marowak points, Flame Charge can always be used in matchups where Speed is needed and most of what I'd dub...

Regarding Lurantis, Torracat should easily win with Z-Fire Fang alone, if you somehowly feel like it will miss the KO, you can set up a Work Up to guarantee it (we do not penalize usage of Z-Moves in major battles) For Togedemaru, I feel like most people should have an Incineroar at that point...

Code Live preview As always, CSS code is copy/pasted, almost everything was generated with a script, blah blah blah, you know the drill it's been a while since I last coded anything for Smogon, but validation seems to pass. Once this is about to be deployed, I will also edit the RBY article...

you are a legend, thank you for your hard work as always the situation is that it's available in both games with Super Rod, but in LG, SR ones are at a 4% encounter rate. I tried rewording it to make this clearer :Smogjynx: most of the other comments have also been addressed, but figured...

Alakazam doesn't exactly have "bad matchups", unless you count losing against very specific Pokemon "bad matchups". Anyways, from a run I did a long time ago, Alakazam truly loses only to Karen's Umbreon and Houndoom (maybe Archer's Houndoom too, though never confirmed it, since Team Rocket...

I haven't tracked my grinding time, but the Swift TM with Pink Bow allows it to deal decent damage. I did use skipped trainers, though, but that was moreso cause I had them and didn't want them to go to waste. If you don't use skipped trainers, you either set up more Curses (which is even more...

...you risk being paralyzed Clair(39): PB Return is a 2HKO on rolls on Dragonair. Their Dragonbreath is something of a 9HKO. With one healing, it is *possible* to sweep, but not too guaranteed Silver(40): can muscle through most of his team, for most parts, can even sweep if it gets insanely...