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  1. Firestorm

    Metagame np: SS DOU Stage 1: When I Grow Up | Dynamax Banned

    This is a weird way to look at doubles tbh. Board position in Doubles is more complex than Singles. There are many tools which are useful in Doubles that may not be useful in Singles. However, the identity of Doubles as a format does not rely on any of these mechanics. It's just what new players...
  2. Firestorm

    Metagame np: SS DOU Stage 1: When I Grow Up | Dynamax Banned

    So it mentioned somewhere this was happening and couldn't help but poke my head in to read some of the reasoning. Wanted to quickly reply to this: This is a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of Dynamax as a mechanic. Dynamax is a mechanic available to every Pokémon in the game (aside from a...
  3. Firestorm

    Official Smogon VGC 17 Tournament Sign-Ups [$$$] [READ OP CAREFULLY]

    in can we use prize money towards disneyland during worlds
  4. Firestorm

    Suggestions for Pokémon Showdown

    Challenge to Best of 3 Would very much appreciate the ability to challenge someone to a best of three battle where you can't change teams in between games. This would eliminate the ability to cheat in a best of three by swapping to a second team with a separate set of moves that may not have...
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    Bug Reports v2.0 (READ OP BEFORE POSTING!!)

    Just saw on Twitter that on the VGC '16 ladder, that the nature lock on the Hidden Abilities for Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina are not being enforced. With the Blue Pentagon, they must be Timid, Modest, and Brave respectively if they want to use their hidden ability...
  6. Firestorm

    VGC 2015 World Championship

    i just realized i never met vader what the fuck
  7. Firestorm

    VGC 2015 World Championship

    I wasn't talking about traditional sports, I was talking about esports. There's a reason I also said you can have unlucky breaks but what we consider to be truly skilled in the game is based on consistency -- though I must say we've never had an undeserving World Champion in the past 6 years...
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    VGC 2015 World Championship

    Pokémon is competitive. There's a reason I used Viera as an example. I can also use Ray, Sejun, Wolfe, Markus, Aaron and many others as an example here. If this was the equivalent of a roll-a-die competition, you wouldn't have players who have displayed such a consistent level of success in the...
  9. Firestorm

    VGC 2015 World Championship

    Cool. I'll let Blizzard know that someone on an internet message board says Hearthstone isn't an esport. Maybe there's still time for them to cancel Worlds. Will also let Viera know that it was chance that had him take 1st at the Japan Cup, Nationals, and Worlds this season (100% of the official...
  10. Firestorm

    VGC 2015 World Championship

    Though I agree Masters was more interesting, as someone who has a strong understanding of esports I'm pretty sure it's one already!
  11. Firestorm

    VGC 2015 World Championship

    i'll be there!!! wow rude he's banned you insensitive fuck
  12. Firestorm

    Official Doubles OU Stage 2 Suspect Voting

    Salamencite: unban
  13. Firestorm

    Serious Blankism

    I explicitly remember a deal being brokered with Kevin Garrett who leaked the phone number of an underage girl so prank calls could be made instead of demoting him. I'm talking to someone who had to preface "i really want to know where smogon's auth was explicitly transphobic in a serious...
  14. Firestorm

    smogon irl

    WOW RUDE Aside from Pokémon-related events where I've met hundreds: Met up with other local people I met from Smogon on a fairly regular basis in Vancouver (Arti, feathers, Chinese Dood, R Inanimate, caffwin, Team Rocket Elite, Crawdaunt etc) I remember Brain visited Vancouver and I met up...
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    Serious Blankism

    Quickly running through with bullet points so you can understand them better and don't just go tl;dr: Cathy wasn't banned for transphobic reasons and that was not the implication. What's important is the amount of transphobic comments that were made by staff during the whole debacle. Cathy...
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    NP: Doubles OU Stage 2 - Monster | Mence is banned | Hoopa not Banned

    TFC already echoed my thoughts on wearing out Pokemon, but my issue with the argument of "x gets hit too hard on the switch" is that you have a second slot to switch in the Pokemon. Salamence can't cover both slots without the significantly weaker Hyper Voice or Earthquake and you do have a...
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    NP: Doubles OU Stage 2 - Monster | Mence is banned | Hoopa not Banned

    makiri is pretty correct and it would be hypocritical to say he's not qualified to vote based on his tone given Stratos' post was just as dismissive and cynical and he's the DOU Co-Leader according to his banner thingy. In any case, I just want it to be clear that anyone writing multiple...
  18. Firestorm

    Doubles OU Suspect Process, Round 2 - Voter Identification Thread

    do i get a tiering contrib badge for this?!?!?!?! Lost my first game on the ladder because I forgot I set my team to level 50 to easily check my stats :( Same team for both ladders in the screenshot.
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