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Since time isn't especially tight on this one, I went with my previously built max HP, max SpD calm Skeldirge, and had no difficulty, though a crit on the turn Sunny Day dropped meant I did have to use Slack Off once. The Unaware + Torch Song + Shell Bell combo is just so potent in so many...

I'll note that DougJustDoug 's set yielded a first try solo (albeit surely more tenuously) with a 252 Speed / 252 Special Attack Timid Glimora that I was too lazy to re-IV or even nature change.

If you're blindly Entraining on turn one into something that might have a faster Taunt, you're playing it wrong. Selecting Entrainment and having it fail to work due to Taunt or the like is indeed one of the easiest ways to lose, as you've now discovered twice. A team like this isn't something...

Metagross does indeed play pretty well with Mega Salamence. Absent the Hoenn Dex limitaation, I'd push Suicune or Chansey for the third slot, but since those are out, Milotic can fill in okay, and I used it to modest success in the Subway. Note that its inability to set up on things it dominates...

I'm still sad that Star Brite, my ribbon master Starmie from original Emerald, is shut out in Scarlet and Violet. It will be an even bigger bummer if Atrapos, my Leaf Green Suicune is similarly shut out, so I'm really crossing my fingers on the Indigo Disk. Atrapos has almost all the available...

I've updated through here. Makes me happy to see that people are still giving the Maison some love. Very sadly, I've had to start cutting a couple of the lower win streaks because we are out of allowed character space in the opening post, even with pretty aggressive cutting of the intro and...

Not quite sure where to put this, but there was an interesting piece in a reasonably prominent magazine, the Atlantic, on a pokemon playing AI called Athena2023. Although the article was posted today, the extremely eccletic mix of Pokemon and moves referenced suggests that it was either a...

Figured I'd pop my head in here and show I'm still alive! Crossing my fingers that the eventual DLC for Scarlet/Violet will give us something fun to compete at a la restricted sparring. I'd love the return of a traditional battle tower with a restricted eligible pokemon list, but fear that ship...

Yeah, I'm slower than I should be on this, but I'll get things updated today! Edit: Update complete

I'm confused by your reference to your Bulldoze Gliscor recommendation. I liked your suggestion when you made it. I posted that I was intrigued by the suggestion. I still am. Definitely didn't see your advice there as uncollegial or rude, and indeed, it was exactly the kind of response that I...

Gah, this is maddening. Planned to post thanking turskain for taking over and getting this going, and to express my excitement for building some new teams, and boom, turns out the facility is a joke. I bought Sword yesterday, and was thinking of starting tonight. Just totally lost all...

I'm sorry for the acrimony of late. It's especially unfortunate because basically everybody involved in the recent bad blood has substantially inspired/instructed/motivated me during my time in this little "battle facilities" corner of Smogon, and I hate to see ill-feelings on an endeavor that...

Painful, true. But a price worth paying. Always had a soft-spot for poor old Farfetch'd, who had so much style but was so incredibly weak. As far as style goes, Sirfetch'd is a worthy successor, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will at least be passable in-game.

As you are aware, you'll definitely do fine with the Eppie special in Doubles. As for singles, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that if you are just trying to get to 50, just running a reasonable mix of Pokemon with a reasonable mix of attacks can get you there. So you should be...

Done! And thanks!!

I've finally updated the leaderboard here! Glad to see the Maison is still getting some love!

Assuming there will still be a Tower/Subway/Maison/Tree equivalent, I'm hopeful that the local Dex will at least spawn some interesting "limitation breeds creativity" teams for the battle facilities. We already got a small taste of this in this generation, as until Pokemon Bank arrived we were...

First, welcome! Always good to have more Tree discussion. Sadly, as to your question, the answer is "it depends." I got to four digits with a pretty stallish Gliscor / Chansey / Mega Slowbro. Gliscor, while more oriented towards physical defense just due to base stats, was essentially a mixed...