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you can find them here; for future reference, at the very bottom there's a link for "Thread Cryonics->Closed Forums" where all old gens go once a new generation is fully implemented.
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hii, i´m not sure if i can ask this here, but can someone help me, i have to do a team for gen7 with this pokemons: magearna, butterfree, incineroar, turtonator, hariyama and cradily, could someon help me pls
are you wan't to just test it out or
there is one ban that I don't fully understand: king's rock.
this item has been banned in gens 5 8 and 9 but for some reason it is allowed on every other gen.
I understand about gen 4 allowing it because only the last strike of the multy-strike moves has a flinch chance, but why is it legal on gens 6 and 7?
wasn't it banned due to cloyster's 40% flinch chance?
this item has been banned in gens 5 8 and 9 but for some reason it is allowed on every other gen.
I understand about gen 4 allowing it because only the last strike of the multy-strike moves has a flinch chance, but why is it legal on gens 6 and 7?
wasn't it banned due to cloyster's 40% flinch chance?
King's Rock was quite broken on Cloyster and probably even more on Maushold
maushold didn't exist in gens 8 and 5.
and cloyster was still available at gens 6 and 7 but king's rock wasn't banned there. why wasn't it banned there?
(also I don't think that cloyster abused this item thaaaaaaat much, not compared to dpp jirachi's paraflinch which had 70% chance of success each turn compared to cloyster's 41%. dpp jirachi was very ban worthy.)
I mentioned Maushold because King's Rock is also banned this generation. As for 6 and 7, I'm not sure. Perhaps the addition of Mega Stones and Z-Crystals invalidated using King's Rock.
There is not always pressure to look at RNG items (King's Rock, Bright Powder, etc.) because their unreliability tends to result in low usage. However, it's implicitly understood that if usage ever picks up (which hurts the competitiveness of the game), they can be banned at will by the council because do not have a legitimate competitive usage. Removing it does not change the metagame beyond removing an unreliable cheese strategy. The only reason it's not banned in Gen 6 and 7 is because nobody spammed King's Rock Cloyster enough to cause an outcry from the userbase.
The situation of Jirachi is incomparable because it is heavily bound into the metagame Gen 4 OU. It cannot simply be removed because it may heavily disrupt an old metagame, so there has to be agreement from the competitive playerbase to take action. From a practical standpoint, it is also easier to find checks which can take an unboosted Iron Head than it is to find checks which can repeatedly take +2 Icicle Spears and Rock Blasts.
not in a million years, no. the item is far from overbearing, and the broken special attackers that do use it would rather be banned themselves.
Is it possible to change the names of imported sets in the damage calculator?
You can give the Pokemon a nickname in the importable, and that nickname will be used for the custom set name.
Just edit the "custom set" part. I think if your set has a nickname (example of a sableye set with a nickname), it will give the nickname to set as well
But is it possible to change it after importing it or would I need to delete it and import it again with a different name?
In general, is there a particular reason to Smogon disliking complex bans or even bans of a move as opposed to a Pokemon? I understand it's part of "Policy", but is there any actual rationale behind this rule?
-You could unban pretty much anything with complex bans
-There probably are billions way to balance a metagame if you include complex bans as an option: tiering policy already often can be a mess, if people also have to debate how a broken threat should be handled it is going to be nightmarish. If a mon is broken, just ban it
This post also reflects the general sentiment of our current tiering policy.
getting picked up for SPL/SCL. You don't need to do anything besides be a good player.
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there is a clear disparity in the quality of espathra sets in randbats that lets the calm mind set be level 80 when it really shouldn't be. I heard that randbats does not intentionally nerf a pokemon and therefore i wonder why sets like specs are in the pool given how inferior they are to calm mind. Calm mind speed boost is literally banned to ubers and yet it is allowed to be level 80 in randbats because it is nerfed by how bad the other sets are. Either remove the other sets or remove the broken set.
That's not much of a question. Also posts like this are better meant for the Random Battles Section. Specficially this thread: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/scarlet-violet-random-battle-sets.3712619/
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