I know about the damage calc and the basics of EVs. My issue is trying to figure out how to find ideal EV spreads for mons like Snorlax who have more nuanced defensive stats. If I go to Snorlax's ADV analysis the sets have EV investment in HP Def and SpDef. Is there an easier way to find the ideal numbers for this stuff besides trial and error?
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No, it's trial and error. As I mentioned, the "ideal" EV Spread of a Pokémon is dependent on what you want that Pokémon to do. For that reason, "ideal" EV spreads don't actually exist, as they depend on metagames and other factors independent of the Pokémon itself. So because EV spreads are tailored to the opponent, you have to trial and error with the opponent's moves to figure out how many EVs you need to tank the hit. Even Smogon's Dex Analyses don't have "ideal" EV spreads, they have "standard" ones. Depending on how you build your team, EV spreads are often different to the ones in Smogon's Dex because different Pokémon are capable of answering different opposing Pokémon based on their EVs, and teambuilding is about having an answer to as many relevant threats in a metagame as possible. So what EVs you choose to run on a given Pokémon can depend on what other Pokémon are on your team.
The more you teambuild, the less complex you realise it actually is.
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OK I think that I worded my initial post very poorly. I was already at the point where I am trying to calc for a specific move from a specific mon. What I want to know is if there is a way to find EV spreads that meet certain milestones while using as few EVs as possible. FOR EXAMPLE:
I want my Snorlax to always survive an Earthquake from Adamant Marowak after a layer of Spikes AND always avoid the 2HKO from a +1 Modest Raikou Thunderbolt after 1 layer of Spikes. How do I balance investing in all 3 defensive stats to achieve these goals while saving as a many EVs as possible?
The thing is is is, ultimately, the fastest way to figure this out is to use the damage calculator with various EV totals to figure out the minimum EVs you need in HP and Def / SpDef to take each respective hit so that you can put the rest in attack. There is of course a damage formula, but it’s essentially impossible to do in your head and so no competitive Pokémon players memorise the formula when they can have a damage calculator open in another tab which is faster at telling you how much damage is taken than manually calculating damage with a calculator and the formula is. Not least because you would already have to keep doing the formula over and over again for the Marowak’s damage with various EVs until you get the right distribution, and then the Raikou’s until you get the right distribution... using the calculator is so much faster and the programmers of the calculator really do a service to the rest of us by engineering it.
So it’s trial and error. Doing anything else is both slower and less efficient, but also way more complicated and is information I don’t have on-hand to give you because as a competitive Pokémon player, it’s information no one actually needs.
There's a tool that could help with this at https://pokeasc.appspot.com/
The EV spread it gave me was 60 HP/28 Def/164 SpD. This seems to be correct when plugged into the Showdown calc (assuming the item isn't Leftovers; you need to tweak the "survive at %" to make it work if it is).
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Hello, one and all! I have some questions about the custom title.
So I had been told that custom titles required badges, maybe they didn’t maybe they do but since I recently gained a badge, I thought I would just go and get a custom title. I was told that I could go to account details. However, it says that my full account details are not currently editable for some reason. Why is this? How do I fix it?
So I had been told that custom titles required badges, maybe they didn’t maybe they do but since I recently gained a badge, I thought I would just go and get a custom title. I was told that I could go to account details. However, it says that my full account details are not currently editable for some reason. Why is this? How do I fix it?
There isn't a simple or uhh correct answer to this, but what I will say is that ELO doesn't mean all that much. You can go on a losing streak and drop from 1800 to 1500 ELO in half an hour with a stream of bad luck, and similarly you can go from 1500 to 1800 ELO if you go on a lucky streak. The stat that judges skill much better is next to your ELO -- your GXE. GXE calculates how likely it is that you will win against an average player in a battle. It's never 100% and very rarely even 90% due to the variability of Pokémon (specifically, getting haxxed to death lmao), but tbh I think you can say that you're truly good at a tier or metagame if you have over 80% GXE.
The most "formal" or perhaps "correct" answer is that if your account could vote in a suspect test, which if it has more than 50 games played on it requires a GXE of 79% or higher, then you're certainly good. For a full breakdown of how it works, check here (I just used ZU because I know they're having a suspect test right now, it's the same in every tier). Maybe it could be fun to start an alt account and see if you would qualify for reqs at some point just for fun ^^
It didn't. It removed hazards (and screens and such) from your opponent's side, but not your own. Gen 6 changed that to make it affect both sides which made it viable.
Sorry for the text wall, but I'm running into an issue with spoilers. How can I make it so that a spoiler end so that this doesn't happen?
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Banned deucer.
Close the tag with [/SPOILER]
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Banned deucer.
I have a question regarding the sprites myself: Can you put them in the name of a Spoiler?Assuming you mean a sprite like this, then just
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Hello I can't see the like button near the reply button on other's posts, how can I fix that?
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Can you screenshot? This sounds like an odd problem.
I don’t know the answer so I’ll test it right now and we’ll see what happens
it should show 
Edit: unfortunately not, by the looks of it.
What do you think about sticky posts? i know several threads that have more complex rules that could benefit from having a post at the top that explain rules. Here are 2 examples:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...st-post-pet-mod-of-the-season.3671140/page-36
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/metagame-workshop.3657154/page-29
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...st-post-pet-mod-of-the-season.3671140/page-36
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/metagame-workshop.3657154/page-29
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