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Hi there! I'm Smogon member khlaylav. You may remember me from such hits as "Why is he running through Pokemon Y with only Burmy" and "Oh he failed at that Nuzlocke that one time." Well, I'm back! Way back when in the early stages of the pandemic, I noted that I'd had my friends vote on 2...

There's a "Best and worst boss fights in Pokémon" already, why not get even more granular? I'll start things off with an example from Gen 2/4: Morty. Best in Gen 2: Girafarig This was inspired by a recent playthrough. I thought Girafarig could sleepwalk through the fight thanks to its...

Wanted to create a counterpoint thread. Personally, my gold standards are Tauros, Miltank and Durant. They're simple, they tell the story and they feel appropriately powerful.

1: Gotcha Catch Em All I've been watching a lot of Pokemon Youtubers recently, some of which include Nuzlockers. A lot of them will put their own twists on things, like the use of a monotype team. For my first ever Nuzlocke: I decided to do a Mono-Region Nuzlocke, starting with, of course...

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back IN!" Let's start this off with some spicy takes: X and Y are good games, and the monkey trio gets too much hate. I know. Real popular opinions. Despite the many, many, MANY shortcomings of Pokemon X and Y, I really like one aspect of it...

Type advantage is one of the key mechanics in Pokémon. While 17 out of 18 types can hit at least one other type for super effective damage, one type stands alone: Normal. Normal type can hit everything but Rock, Ghost and Steel for neutral damage, while hitting one of those other three types...

Update 1: Why? So I'm part of a Pokémon fan group on Facebook and I recently posted a poll because I noticed there were two themed challenge runs you could do early in Pokémon X and Y. The first was a run through of the game with the three elemental monkeys from Gen 5. The second was a run...