Yeah, it's been legal since XY since weather has no longer been permanent since Gen 5
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Is it ok to be bad at laddering but good in other areas like teambuilding, tours, etc?
I mean, I don't really understand what answer you're expecting to that question when it's a bit subjective. The ladder is the ladder, some people find if easier to rise than have success in tours and vice versa. There are some ladder players who don't have a good history with tours. You can have knowledge of a metagame and have understanding of the game, but sometimes applying this practically doesn't work out for some people. (I.e Very big on C&C, RMT and Tutoring etc. But not good with actually battling)
ik 3 pokes have just been banned, but is there any idea when the next tiering survey is?
Around or a little under 2 weeks from now
Good evening, I would like to participate in the tournament on Monday 23rd and this will be my very first Smogon tournament, so I have a question: at what time will this tournament start (I live in France, I specify)?
Thank you for your reply^^
Thank you for your reply^^
OST isn’t a live tour
Oh okay, what does that mean? I know absolutely nothing about smogon tournaments?
You will have a set opponent each round that you will be able to schedule with. It’s outlined in the signups post.
Likely suspects
I know that it looks like most people are asking for a Pao suspect, but do you think that a future Garg suspect is possible? Either having to run an item mostly for it or having to resort to PP stall salt cure in several match ups doesn't sound like a healty thing in my opinion.
Depends on how the metagame shapes up and the community surveys. I personally voted ban on Garg, but there’s a lot of time and a lot of decisions left.
I have got a question about the tournament that is happening right now, does it place the bad players with the bad players and the good players with the good players?
my rank in pokemon showdown has never exceeded 1300 (or at least not for long) so I don't want to be crusshed from people whose rank is in the 2000's
my rank in pokemon showdown has never exceeded 1300 (or at least not for long) so I don't want to be crusshed from people whose rank is in the 2000's
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Not sure about which tour you are talking about but i assume it's OST or a seasonal. Almost every individual tour on the site has a randomized bracket created by a "public" smogon tool (to avoid hosts helping some people) so it could happen that you get paired with someone more experienced and usually stronger than you
this one.
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/official-smogon-tournament-xix-signups.3714213/
any way thanks, I guess I am not going to join it then.
It's not a seeded tournament. This means that all matchups are randomized. When a tournament is seeded, it matches certain players against other certain players, i.e in a seeded tournament of 16, the #1 player would first play #16. To read more about tournaments, see here
the question has already been answered but thanks.
this tournament does seem pretty unfair.
This is ridiculous js. OST is randomly generated pairings, which is as fair as can be. Your ranking on the ladder doesn’t suddenly classify you in some specific segment of the playerbase — we all play the same game. If you’re only able to reach rank 1300, then ofc someone who is more experienced and has achieved a higher rank may be favored, but that’s not unfair as you’re both still playing the same game.
To add on to the above, I think you might be confused. I said that OST is NOT seeded, which means randomised. I also answered your original question which had not been answered.
But as Finch has said, there are gonna be good players, there are gonna be bad players. Better and Worse. If they happen to be matched up against each other then that's just the game, and its not decided on the matchup.
The moveset stats are a good resource for questions like this. The 1695 stats from last month show the following spreads for Scizor:How common is Speed investment on?
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| Spreads |
| Adamant:248/252/0/0/8/0 17.529% |
| Adamant:252/252/0/0/4/0 17.289% |
| Adamant:240/252/0/0/0/16 13.783% |
| Adamant:0/252/0/0/4/252 7.391% |
| Adamant:232/252/0/0/0/24 5.136% |
| Adamant:0/252/4/0/0/252 4.074% |
| Other 34.797% |
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How do I make sprites/3d models appear when I post something on here from pokepaste? Like this image for example.
you can do so with text code
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I'm after something specially defensive with the the ability to pivot preferred. I have a team of tusk, meowsca, cinderace, kingambit, azumaril and dravopult and I was wondering how effect a specially defensive rotom-w would be in place of azumaril and how viable is such a set in general?