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this is actually somewhat impressive

It would be a simultaneous game with incomplete information because you don't know your opponent's "preferences", which translated to pokemon terms means your opponent's movesets. The term perfect information means that a player can observe the other player's actions before making their own...

I'm interested in seeing this topic pop up because I learned about game theory in my political science class. Most of what I will say will be directed to McGraw since he's probably the only one who will understand some of the terminology I'm gonna use. As McGraw probably knows, the point of...

Although that is definitely true, I would still rather have the 31 IVs to squeeze out the last bit of HP. It's pretty much impossible to make 11 attacks without ever getting hit/taking damage.

Agreeing with this post. Is it really that hard to use a goddamn mouse. I dont really care whether or not the cancel button is removed, since the arguments about "being able to predict better" is bullshit anyway since prediction is just luck when you get down to it anyway. FFS though, some...

lol thats because you dont know how ev reducing berries work. i could be missing something but this is how they work: the first berry will reduce any evs over 100 back down to 100. for example, if you had 252 evs in speed, the first berry will reduce it down to 100. after 100, the berries will...

please dont use nicknames in warstories. no one wants to constantly scroll back up because they cant remember who is doing what.

Nononono. You dont know brilliant until you see Hip's victory.

I predict Hip will win because I know his brilliant strategy.

Holy shit both of you guys had excellent prediction.

Hmm I just saw this and I have to say I'm glad that there's a wifi tournament happening. If there's another one Id be glad to join.

Guys, I think Ambitions wanted us to discuss the DP metagame from a year ago and now. Stop talking about how X got better from ADV to DP.

Use the Ask a Simple Question Thread located here for these kind of questions.http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38824 As far as your Vaporeon goes, stick with Electric. The reason why Vaporeon wants HP Electric is so that he doesnt get completely walled by Gyarados.

so what makes this arcanine better than something like weezing, who is not only immune to eq, neutral to stone edge, and gets wow. youre overestimating intimidate on a pokemon that is weak to two VERY powerful physical moves. an arcanine switching in on an EQ is a dead arcanine. a weezing...

i love how people think anything with intimidate can automatically be bulky. at least gyarados is immune to EQ. this is weak to both stone edge and EQ. awesome. i dont see how this set is going to work without willowisp being mandatory.

Haha sorry, I didnt mean to attack you personally or anything. You were just the first person with the longest post that I saw. Yeah this topic does need to get back on topic though with a discussion of the metagame.

I assume we're talking about the competitive wifi metagame, because otherwise what the hell is the point. None of the reasons you listed would even remotely affect the metagame. The ONLY reason why a wifi metagame would be different is the availability of pokemon (ie. hidden power and things...

everything you said except the sharked pokes thing is a good argument. as for me, i prefer wifi over shoddy for no particular reason. i really cant explain it because even i cant figure it out, but i just do.

Instead of trying to make them "work" together by giving Mence things like Sunny Day and Roost, just USE them together. What I mean is dont try to purposely have them support each other, because if you do that with a pokemon as diverse as Mence, you lose out on his offensive potential. Instead...

I think the issue the TC is talking about is leaving early in matches. As I stated before, in deep or high level play, your opponent could have thought far enough ahead to realize he lost within the first few turns, but something makes me doubt that this is what's going on in the majority of...