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Early in AS, May tells me "sneak up on that pokemon tail and you'll encounter a pokemon with a rare move!" I do so and it's Poochyena, I catch it and it turns out it knows Fire Fang. I looked it up on Serebii to confirm that Fire Fang is one of Poochyena's egg moves. My question is, is this...

What happens when a pokemon with Choice whatever is hit with Torment? I assume that on its second turn it has to use Struggle, but what happens on the third turn?

I'm afraid I need a more involved answer than that. Is there a thread where these bans were discussed? Teams that rely on Baton Pass I could see as potentially being problematic, but I personally never saw them as overly powerful. Still, I always made sure I had a mon with Roar or Haze on my...

Why are Baton Pass teams banned? Was there a particular pokemon or strategy that made it really degenerate? And why on earth would Swagger be banned? I literally laughed out loud when I first saw that...

I'm no pro or anything, and I'm not too familiar with the XY UU metagame, but I'll just point out a few things I noticed: -Your Aerodactyl is built like a sweeper, but it only has one move capable of sweeping. Fly generally is not very good in competitive battles because it gives your opponent...

I've always felt bad for the Poison type and how underpowered it seemed to be, and so I wanted to build a team of poison types just to prove to myself that it could be done. Still, I had little reason to do it until gen VI and its addition of the Fairy type. And now here I am with a mono...

Does Thick Fat grant immunity to burn? An opponent on the simulator had his WoW miss and he blamed it on Thick Fat...

This might be too vague of a question, but here goes: Has anyone noticed any major differences in metagame trends between playing on the simulator and playing on wifi? I suspect there are certain things that are popular here which may not be popular elsewhere, and I'm trying to get a sense of...

Is Substitute + Focus Punch still viable on Gengar? I'd have to train the damn thing in gen IV if I settled on that moveset, which I'm really not looking forward to, so I want to know if it's even worth the effort...

Thanks for that formula. I ask because I plan to use a Modest Greninja and I want to know what speed tiers it could outrun 100% of the time. I plugged in some numbers and it looks like, depending on my Greninja's IV (I don't actually know it so I assume the worst case scenario of 0), it can...

"Greninja's base speed is 122, allowing it to outrun any pokemon with max Speed investment with a base Speed of X or lower." How would I compute X for this statement? Basically I need the general form of how base stats convert to actual values. I know that 252 EVs = 63 points, but how big of...

I want to make a Baton Pass team, but I have no idea where to start. Does anyone have any tips, or is there a guide of some kind I can refer to?

Since we're talking about special sweeper Protean Greninja anyway, what would the rest of its moveset typically look like?

Two questions: 1. What is the range of power for Grass Knot? Can I expect it to consistently hit in the higher end of that range given the common pokemon in OU? 2. I'm making a mixed sweeper Infernape with Work Up, Overheat and Close Combat. Would Grass Knot or Thunder Punch be a better...

If I have an Eevee with its hidden ability, that means its evolutions are guaranteed to have their hidden abilities too, correct? How about its children, if I breed it? It's male if that makes any difference.

How do I beat teams who abuse U-turn and Volt Switch? These two moves were the main reason why I didn't play gen 5 OU that much (plus the power creep across the board, but there's no getting around that). They are 100% upside and have zero drawbacks; they literally take no skill at all to use...

I discovered the move Power Split yesterday, and learned that Surskit is one of the few pokemon that learns it. Since then I've been obsessed with making a support Surskit that uses Power Split in OU. Why Surskit? I personally have a soft spot for it, and I would love it if this were a viable...

Do trapping moves continue to take effect after their user switches out? I ask about Infestation specifically, but I imagine Mean Look and all the rest behave the same way.

Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but I want to chime in on the RNG thing. There are some elements of random chance that we accept as a fact of life in pokemon battles, such as the built-in chances to miss of many moves to confusion, attraction, critical hits, duration of status, all kinds...

Hi everyone, I'm a returning player looking to get started with the XY metagame. I read the post on Blaziken's ban from OU, and it seems like the entire argument hinges upon Speed Boost. So why not just ban Speed Boost Blaziken specifically? Without it Blaziken is merely a good pokemon and...