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Won't be able to join unfortunately, but I would love to do replay analysis in post!

This isn't wrong if you approach the games as RPGs, but basically these challenge games are retooled to not actually function as RPGs anymore. They're made into something I'd best compare to a strategy game rogue like. In that framework, the games are succeeding at what they're being designed to...

Having my hands in many different pools of pokemon player communities has given me the absolute worst brainworms about IVs as a mechanic. So many people (or a very loud vocal minority at least) are incredibly confident that they're totally useless relics of game design, and that nobody really...

For this... you gotta outline more details. When it's happening and where it's being hosted at the very least. I can't commit to joining without a timeline. Could it be a distinct thread? I also think it might be more productive to do a standard tiered draft board format rather than the style...

I forgot to vote in this, I had my votes on Frosmoth-M and Golduck-X so I guess that works out. (Though Volt Tackle on Golduck-X is kind of a lot I think, Zing Zap / Supercell should be fine)

...run a more direct offense set despite it's low Attack. Together, these tools make for a pretty gimmicky kit that can force prickly positions. *This is aiming to be a variant of Honchkrow, which itself has 505 BST. I could change it to be 500 if we want to be sticklers, or wait to submit this...

Avalanche Buff: Yes Chip Away Buff: Yes False Swipe Buff: No Metronome Distribution: Abstain Pretty negative on this batch but that more speaks to how thoroughly the vanilla games fill out niches than anything.

My votes are for Ubertrainer's Solastor and Lullux PalpitoadChamp's Possmortem and Cashatrew

I do think a draft / tournament follow up would be very fun, but in the meantime I also just want to run more games of this format, and I'm not quite sure of the best way to do that. I can try just loitering on dh2 a bit more I suppose, but in the meantime I'll also accept DMs if anyone wants to...

The ground types in FRLG bit is also crazy because it means that any Ground type obtained after Lt. Surge does not have a single strong match-up against an important boss for the remainder of the game, aside from a very unstable Blaine (not a single ground type in Kanto can take a Fire Blast...

My vote is for BlueRay's submission, Dukion. Wizareetin: Conductive Spell has no effect vs airborne targets Keisberg: Eternal Ice provides immunities from Fire + Water Magikite: Nerf Flying Dive to 55 BP + Remove Earthquake Orbeetle: Remove Hypnosis, make Psychic types immune to Hypnosis...

I don't know if I agree with this entirely? With complaints of game speed, I definitely understand - it's pretty grueling to play sessions of these games when you start to feel how long each turn takes and track how many loops the battle theme has done in fights that take place before you leave...

Go for it, I'd say. I do sort of like the soft rule that Levitate remains a mono-ability where it exists but we've already got Flygon with Tinted Lens. I will also say that it does feel a bit weird to design a new mon with respect to the meta without having playtested the results of recent...

I will message her. I did apply for Sitrus but I wasn't totally certain of my schedule before the draft so I didn't advertise myself too much. Now I've got the itch to look at this format again and not too many ways to scratch it outside silly statistics like this. This is basically incomplete...

Is there a way to view draft boards / teams from Smogon Draft III? I want to make a Reg F overview / team retrospective but all the documents are privated at the moment so I can't double check information.

Protonema seems somewhat interesting, especially as an answer to Spore / Wizarteen, but it's also a dud without any Grassy Terrain setters at the moment. Ancient Tool is probably just a no to me. Kagunawa with Ancient Core seems really well designed around leveraging unique move effects tied to...

Time for Words! Lots of Words. Lots of Reading. Too much, perhaps. There is no tl;dr. Have Fun! The additions to what is already in the live builder are mostly niche tools and flavor, stuff like Skill Swap, Tar Shot, Haze, etc. With the attacking stat adjustment, tools like Rock Slide...

A kind of reasonable cherry pick, except you didn't even pick it right. Seedot has an explicitly gimped movepool compared to Nuzleaf, and ORAS Nuzleaf's movepool is basically to a modern standard already. RSE Nuzleaf's movepool is a point worth making, but even then the line gets a ton of use...

The Paradox Mons, especially the future ones, are huge victims of having their appeal stuck in Scarlet and Violet. Not just meaning Gen 9 as a whole, but those specific games. When people make comments disparaging the designs of the Quark Squad and they refer to images like these Well, yeah...

Definitely no to this. For competitive, you really only need the high or top tier damage attacks to make things work. Ingame though it is even worse. A whole lot of the fun can come from pokemon being pulled in different directions than their stat lines directly imply - using off attacking...