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I love your stories ! I've read a couple of absurd Pokémon playthrough but yours definitely take the cake. For Emerald, you can probably save a few PP by attempting to flee against a faster wild Pokémon. While the odds of escaping become greater after several attempts, they eventually roll back...

There has been little activity since the end of the OMotM ladder, so I thought I could share two sets I had fun with. Keep in mind I did not play this meta extremely seriously so they're probably far from the best, mostly just funny to play with.

I have a question regarding the concerning the consistency of some abilities. If Trace (once technical difficulties are solved out) only copies the natural ability of the active pokemon, shouldn't Mold Breaker and Neutralizing Gas also negate only one ability at a time ? This would make these...

I may not have played as many SP games as some of you, but I think that dismissing a valid concern by calling it a fallacy is a poor way of handling things. I actually think that Fur Coat and co, while certainly quite centralizing, are actually a good thing for the meta, as they require HO...

Assault Vest : it's really stupid. It puts the other player at an immediate disadvantage because they have to immediately go to Swoobat/Accelgor (and risk a Toxic on the switch) or risk losing one mon to it. Other countermeasures include faster Sub and Weezing, but Swoobat has 114 base speed and...

I'm really excited about this meta being LCotM ! Many mons regained Magic Coat thanks to Home... including everyone's favourite cancer : Gothitelle @ Choice Scarf / Leftovers Ability: Shadow Tag EVs: 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 1 HP / 0 Atk - Magic Coat - Heal Bell - Toxic - Trick /...

I think we should actually try to play this meta before talking about bans... Anyway Inferno has substantially better distribution than Nuzzle (it's hard to be actually worse than "all your users are in PU and most of them are not even ranked there"), with at least three decent users in...

The op does say that moves retain their regular types, but I guess the typing-changing thing is part of Weather Ball primary effect so you're probably right. However, it actually makes Victreebell much better because it has pseudo Fire STAB from Sunny Day, and I'm not sure wether Weather Ball...

The problem with Vanilluxe is that it is neither fast nor bulky and will probably be walked over by everything and anything in this meta which will probably be oriented towards offense. I would use this instead : Victreebel @ Weather Ball Ability: Chlorophyll EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe...

Accelgor can escape Goth with BPass, even if Webs are up. But anyway since Sandstorm isn't great anyway, running Snore (so that Tailwind is not a problem) is ok. Magic Coat Espeon is better for handling Hawlucha. The only inconvenient compared to Snore is that you cannot switch on Moldy Taunt...

Just a question : why do you run Snore on Espeon ? isn't it strictly inferior to Magic Coat (bar Skill Swap but it's rare)? I've never been a fan of Snore. It's actually abusable because it means you can be trapped and Taunted something for many turns, without the possibility of Struggling. I...

Nice team ! A few remarks : - Your team doesn't really need Tailwind support (apart from Wak), you could use Baton Pass on Hawlucha instead. It is a very good BPasser for abusing MAbsol's Perish Song. - Gulpin is... meh. It's very safe but it's really a sitting duck and its passivity can be...

Don't underestimate the pityfulness of base 5 Def. To give you an idea, it reaches a friggin' 13 Def at level 100... Happiny is actually frailer than Abra : 0- Atk Poliwag Struggle vs. 0 HP / 0- Def Happiny: 336-396 (108.3 - 127.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO 0- Atk Poliwag Struggle vs. 0 HP / 0-...

Just theorimoning as I have never used nor seen any of them : - Electrode has a blazing fast Taunt (as well as Sub). It also gets Magic Coat for whatever reason (and Telekinesis and Teleport, it's really weird). I guess Thunder Wave from 150 base speed is also nice, and Electrode is immune to...

Actually there is a very efficient way around Goth : Skill Swap. Until now, I thought it was only a gimmicky strategy on Espeon and MDiancie to get rocks on your side of the field, but stuff like Skill Swap Abra can destroy Goth if used correctly, especially if you have you own scarfed Goth (and...

Yeah Scarf Goth is very frustrating when you lose to it, and this king of strat (3 trappers or more per team) is not very healthy. It's pretty much obvious from team preview an there are some ways around it, but they all require lots of prediction or a Mega, and it can win a game on turn 1 if...

I just wanted to share my thoughts on the meta : I love how it's completely different from all other existing metas with just one simple change. Also, I feel that it's remarkably balanced, mainly things are trying to kill themselves (you cannot be "swept" by a single op mon because it will just...

I haven't tested Clawitzer but it looks kinda bad. It's slow af, has a bad movepool (no Taunt), and can't do anything against Sub or Taunt Smeargle (and almost any Smeargle will run either of these moves). Comfey is better with Grassy Terrain + Floral Healing, and fast Taunt (and even then, it's...

We don't know the exact mecanism behind Dazzling, but if it blocks things like Prankster Tailwind (ie priority moves that don't target the user of Dazzling), it's likely that it will also prevent your opponent from using Fake Out on your other Pokemon. If it does block any priority move from any...

How do U-Turn and Volt Switch work in this meta ? Can you switch out immediately ? or does it allow you to switch your active mon two turns later ? The second option sounds silly, for it will mess with phazing and it would allow you to switch twice in the same turn (you switch out, your...