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Resource SV OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers Thread
- Thread starter ironwater
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both screens, curse, last move has a lot of different options dragon darts, wisp, u-turn
My comment on Apprentice Program Signups: SV OU was over a month ago. Is that average?
I don't think anyone can answer that it's quite opinionated but if I had to say good is anything above 1800 is good (if you're in the top 500) I would say that's a solid mark for being good.
Thank for your feedback!
The reason I am asking is: I started with compeditive pokemon many moons ago but only played Ubers in I think it was Gen5. There I only played a pretty onedimensional playstyle and had good success with it for what it was, but usually did not stand a chance versus players with a gameplan
After coming back to pokemon in BDSP and building multiple compeditive OU teams ingame, where I got very rarely beaten online, I did the same with SV, where after a little time of finding a fitting team, I had good success there too.
In both games, I tried my very best to build balanced teams with good coverage, chose pokemon with good synergy etc., inspired by smogon.
Since a few weeks now I started in Showdown to battle the most compeditive opponents possible.
Currently I sit at around 1450 ELOafter I played around 70 Games, but I feel there is more potential once I made a little tweaks in my team that I used like 15 times now.
I now want to know if thats „good“ or if its not that big of an accomplishment :)
In addition to to Andviet's answer, 1500-1700 elo is often where the average player lies. The ones where they know the metagame well but just don't tryhard as much as the 1800+ elo players do
is it possible to get your account back/change your password on sd if you forgot the original password?
It's available since the HOME release, available in SV OU (Pokémon Showdown)
Best place to study about team building is probably the SV OU RMT subforum as well as the SV OU Sample team thread, in terms of strategy I would say Battling 101 or just practicing on the ladder.
Sorry if this has been asked before, but when can we expect the first VR to be posted ? I know we have the viability list right now, but it's not really the same.
Hopefully sometime next week. I am currently on a brief LoA due to a busy IRL week, but after I return, we should have both seen enough development and have enough time to get it going.
I wonder if Iron Treads legitimately got better or if people are just stubborn after Regieleki and to some extent Magearna got the boot.
I had a massive post in the old Meta Discussion thread about how Iron Treads on paper has several useful traits that are held back by the Meta simply lacking a lot of what that typing capitalizes on. I'll link-quote it here but only directly including the 2 Paragraphs that I think have changed a bit with Home
Namely as noted here, Treads would get a bit better in the current Meta with a couple new Fairy and Flying types like Zapdos (Enamorus Choice sets can be exploited but it has to watch for Earth Power and Superpower), plus other benefits like Glowking overtaking Slowking as a common defensive Pivot (and adding a weakness/Neutrality to its STABs), and I could see it as an anti-Meta pick to things like Flying/Fairy Kingambit sets that capitalize on Tusk.
That said I think the true test is going to be if Zama-H stays or goes, because Treads could not be free-er food for that thing if it tried. It also is inevitably going to have the issue of overlapping with Tusk and Lando as a Bulky-Offensive-Utility Ground Pokemon, unless DLC updates bring Hazard Removal to a better place to potentially reduce Tusk's ubiquity (not necessarily his viability, but there's no arguing that being one of literally 3 useable Hazard removers in the tier is increasing usage a lot over even his Predecessor Balance Tiger)
This might've been asked before, but it seems like Pult has become the main screen setter, why? Is it in response to some recent meta developments or was it just underrated and recently discovered and popularized. Also, besides G- Articuno and G-Moltres, what are the best Pokemon to use on screens.
pult is very fast to reliably get screens up bring allies in by sacrificing itself with curse, and has some useful utility for some opposing leads like darts, wisp, thunder wave, and u-turn, also any settup mon makes lot of good use under screens like cm iron val, baxc, etc
I think Curse is also a good "Screen-icide" move because compared to a direct attack like Explosion or Memento, it also does well discouraging defensive Switch-ins that might otherwise stall some of the screen turns if they try to predict the set-up sweeper and go to the answer early.
I think it would be a bad idea because the idea is to always have 1 screener with light clay and have 4/5 mons setup (Booster Energy, Dragon Dance, Swords Dance, Calm Mind, etc) if you're going with a 4 sweepers + 1 screener the last mon could set up entry hazard like a Glimmora for example. But usually the preference would be 1 Screener + 5 Sweepers ideally or you start to waste slots on your teams it's best to just keep the screener in good health throughout the match to re-use it.
I just lost to a TR team, the turning point in the match was his Ursaluna recovering to full health out of nowhere.
His Cresselia used Lunar Dance around 5 rounds before that it must have somerhing to do with that…
In the round before the recovery I Made the first kill of the Match…
came someone please explain to me how exacly Lunar Dance works… ?
His Cresselia used Lunar Dance around 5 rounds before that it must have somerhing to do with that…
In the round before the recovery I Made the first kill of the Match…
came someone please explain to me how exacly Lunar Dance works… ?
Was that the first time the Ursaluna had hit the field, or had it been chipped earlier?
Bulbapedia said:
So without seeing the rematch, my hypothesis is that after Cresselia fainted, they sent in something totally healthy which didn't use up the Lunar Dance (perhaps to set something else like Screens up or to weaken a Luna check), which you fainted without another weakened mon coming in after, and then they went into the Chipped Luna being the heal recipient.
5 Turns is quite a time for that to last, depending on how it interacts with Hazards
Since Gen 8, Healing Wish and Lunar Dance buffer when you use them and don't take effect until you switch in a 'mon that has taken damage and/or has a status effect to be recovered from (hazard damage procs after the Lunar Dance check/recovery). On certain teams or in certain match ups, it can be really useful to fire it off early with several healthy mons so you can choose who to bring back later depending on game flow.