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Bug Maniac Aydon said:
How bad is regular poison? I heard it's good as a side effect of another move, or when inflicted by an ability such as Effect Spore or Poison Point and... that's basically it
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It's decent. It's the most immediately damaging of all the damaging statuses, with bad poison taking three turns to outpace it. So it's sometimes the stronger option over bad poison against more offensive Pokemon who either switch often or are frail enough to get almost in range of an OHKO. Besides the methods you mentioned, you can also opt to only set up a single Toxic Spike.
 
Sole Survivor said:
Is claiming PS usernames limited to certain badges or can any badge other than Ladybug claim one?
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any Contributor other than Ladybug or Tiering Contributor (due to how easy it is) is eligible to make a request, though depending on how “valuable” the username is you might need some clout (multiple badges, community presence, etc) to be granted it.
 
This is probably not the right forum to ask this request but I will ask it anyway. Does anyone have a female mankey that is NOT English. I am looking for one with the specific egg moves night slash, encore, beat up, and spite or counter. i am trying to breed a shiny mankey in generation 7 so that i can transfer a competitive mankey to scarlet/violet to evolve it into annhilape. thank you in advance.
 
Zekrom117 said:
This is probably not the right forum to ask this request but I will ask it anyway. Does anyone have a female mankey that is NOT English. I am looking for one with the specific egg moves night slash, encore, beat up, and spite or counter. i am trying to breed a shiny mankey in generation 7 so that i can transfer a competitive mankey to scarlet/violet to evolve it into annhilape. thank you in advance.
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this is the thread you will want to post it in https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...o-here-no-hacking.3711276/page-9#post-9443143
 
I assume this would be the place to ask this since it’s regarding showdown metrics rather than questions about a specific tier, but I’ll move it if it’s wrong.

I need some insight on GXE and how best to go about raising it to meet suspect testing requirements. If I am trying to get to 80.0 and I currently stand at 71.6 with a 50-27 W-L record (1529 elo) on the OU ladder, would I be able to increase it to 80.0 with enough straight wins? Or does GXE stabilize after so many games such that the amount of play needed is greater than a new profile would need starting from scratch?
 
Odd Numbers said:
I assume this would be the place to ask this since it’s regarding showdown metrics rather than questions about a specific tier, but I’ll move it if it’s wrong.

I need some insight on GXE and how best to go about raising it to meet suspect testing requirements. If I am trying to get to 80.0 and I currently stand at 71.6 with a 50-27 W-L record (1529 elo) on the OU ladder, would I be able to increase it to 80.0 with enough straight wins? Or does GXE stabilize after so many games such that the amount of play needed is greater than a new profile would need starting from scratch?
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The more you're playing, the hardest it becomes to change your GXE. With that in mind, most people tend to make new alts for suspect if they consider they got to many losses since it'll be easier for them to get them on a new one than an alt with already a lot of games. With 77 games, and a GXE of 71.6%, I trully advise you to make a fresh alt. If you were near 80% (something like 78-79%), this would be doable, but here you'll struggle a lot with that account to reach the threshold.
 
Moutemoute said:
The more you're playing, the hardest it becomes to change your GXE. With that in mind, most people tend to make new alts for suspect if they consider they got to many losses since it'll be easier for them to get them on a new one than an alt with already a lot of games. With 77 games, and a GXE of 71.6%, I trully advise you to make a fresh alt. If you were near 80% (something like 78-79%), this would be doable, but here you'll struggle a lot with that account to reach the threshold.
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I see, thank you
 
I got to Smogon forums only fairly recently, so I hope I'm posting in the right thread for this, but I've noticed that the laughing Koffing reaction when liking posts seems to almost exclusively be used to mock people's posts. "I think this post is deserving of mocking laughter", basically.

I've seen it a lot in the OU metagame and Tera suspect thread which I've both been following closely, where people will react to arguments they disagree with using the laughing Koffing.

This feels basically like a way to get around the "do not flame, insult, or belittle other users" rule.

Is there anything that can be done about this?
 
LadyLynn said:
I got to Smogon forums only fairly recently, so I hope I'm posting in the right thread for this, but I've noticed that the laughing Koffing reaction when liking posts seems to almost exclusively be used to mock people's posts. "I think this post is deserving of mocking laughter", basically.

I've seen it a lot in the OU metagame and Tera suspect thread which I've both been following closely, where people will react to arguments they disagree with using the laughing Koffing.

This feels basically like a way to get around the "do not flame, insult, or belittle other users" rule.

Is there anything that can be done about this?
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Hello and welcome to Smogon. Unfortunately nothing can really be done about this issue. The only real good solution would be to delete the whole "ahah" emote but people would use other ones to bypass this. We would have to come back to only "like" reacts in order to "prevent" this if we really wanted to counteract these forms of mockery. In the past, some users have seen their ability to react to people's post removed because there was some "targeted harrassment" toward a certain user (basically "ahahing" dozen and dozen of post of a specific user). As far I as know, this is the only thing which can be done at the moment but this would need some proofs that it's targeted and not a one-time thing.
 
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Moutemoute said:
Hello and welcome to Smogon. Unfortunately nothing can really be done about this issue. The only real good solution would be to delete the whole "ahah" emote but people would use other ones to bypass this. We would have to come back to only "like" reacts in order to "prevent" this if we really wanted to counteract these forms of mockery. In the past, some users have seen their ability to react to people's post removed because there was some "targeted harrassment" toward a certain user (basically "ahahing" dozen and dozen of post of a specific user). As far I as know, this is the only thing which can be done at the moment but this would need some proofs that it's targeted and not a one-time thing.
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If I see something that seems like persistent abuse of the "haha" emote, what should I do? Do nothing, or report a post from that user in the thread? Seeing as you can't report reactions, as far as I can tell.
 
chartung17 said:
How do I get a gif of Legends Arceus mons? :sv/kleavor: doesn't work.
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It hasn't been made yet I assume, this thread deals with the animations, and when they make kleavor, it will eventually be added here. You can also insert what is currently in there with insert image by choosing the "By URL" option, and pasting the gif link from there for what is currently available. So to answer your question, I don't believe you can right now.
 
I just got messaged that I'm not allowed to have two accounts. My new account is KaylaPops/this one and my old account is Vampcakes. I don't use Vampcakes anymore because I lost the log in info/I got rid of the email address associated with that account. I already messaged a few staff members to see what I need to do. Is there anything specific I need to do? How do I erase an old account that I don't use anymore?

looking into this - kaede
 
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