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Ok thanks for that. One other question though. How and when did Garchomp become Suspect? Speaking of which, how did a "suspect" metagame become the way to tackle these sorts of problems?
Well... Fine. :P But mine used only the first two. I think Cherrim's cuter of the two.
If you change the time on your DS clock, I know that the Pal Park stops working for 24 hours. Does this affect other things as well? Because for some reason, I can't get any of the Joggers or Policemen to battle me, even though I tried changing the DS to the correct time of day/night...
Or alternatively go here.
MagicMaster87: The clock may have to roll over on its own for that to work. Set your clock for like 11:58 PM, then wait a few minutes then try it.
Edit: or a few minutes before the time you need.
Be careful about accusing someone of theorymon though. Unless, you are stalking them, you can't really be certain that they haven't playtested their ideas. The person in question could could have playtested with a string of good luck or bad luck that influenced their ideas. Every so often, someone accuses someone else of theorymon, then the accused rebuttals with "F-U. I did test it out." I remember that everything starts as a theory, so theorymon doesn't irk me as much as it does other people.
As the devil's advocate, how do you know that SpecsDugtrio is a theorymon counter to Garchomp? Have you actually seen or used SpecsDugtrio yourself before? What's on paper (damage calcs) doesn't necessarily translate into the playing field, based on the rules of theorymon. You should provide several thorough battle logs about the uselessness of SpecsDugtrio against Garchomp. Otherwise, you are theorymoning that SpecsDugtrio is a theorymon. Don't flame me; this is sarcasm.
Do you see how tossing aroung theorymon can get muddled and pointless? I don't need to playtest to know that Surskit isn't useful to counter a Gyarados, despite taking neutral or resisted hits from everything but Stone Edge. However, I would be guilty of theorymon, because I have never actually used the peewee Surskit to take the atrocious Gyarados hit. For the most part, theorymon is generally used to say that an idea is not viable. "Theorymon" is just a cutesier yet more astute way of telling someone that he or she is an idiot.
Ummm, yokie...this is SQSA, not a place to get heated about these discussions...
yokie didnt sound heated. I think he was explaining in more detail what is "Theorymon"
three IVs in total are randomly passed from both parents.
and no, not that i'm aware of. it's best to use a pokemon that's already learned all it's level up moves.
or have plenty of heartscales to relearn the moves (unless they're egg moves of course...then you're just SOL).
Yea but one the question was already answered and two, it's a simple answer shouldn't be more than four lines.
Does CBArbok need Pursuit still with Aqua Tail, Seed Bomnb, and Gunk Shot at it's disposal?
I think Garchomp was banned in the middle of Sep 2008... Although they had been testing him for yonks before that. As for why... say the word 'Garchomp' in Stark and you'll either get 'shut up' or 'don't start that again, we don't want to hear about it' or a thousand different reasons why Garchomp was banned (I've tried it).
Some say it's because he was overpowered, some say it's because he was overcentralising the metagame, and DougJustDoug (and therefore the current majority of Smogon) says it's because his usage did not match his versatility, or something. Result, nobody really agrees. My opinion, of course, is not valid since I failed to reach the required rating and all that.
I think a "suspect" metagame became the favoured way to deal with these problems since it allows most of the community to experience what the new metagame would be like first-hand, and also to exclude those who had little experience with the suspect metagame but plenty in the standard metagame, so as to only include those who know what they're talking about.
Depends on what you need to hit if Rotom, Missy, and Froslass are covered already then most likely no, because you still will only be scratching Hypno and Claydol the Hypno is harder by Gunk Shot, while Claydol is hit harder by Aqua Tail or Seed Bomb.
Does whirlwind or roar hit ghosts?
Yes.
(Now for my own question)
This seems like a fairly obvious question, but does Castform get the SpD boost of being a Rock-Type when in Sandstorm?
EDIT: oh my gosh nevermind.
Or you could've deleted the post entirely. XD And thanks.
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