06-27-2014, 01:33 PM | #2576 | |
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Aside: if Game Freak ever decides to create the burn equivalent of Toxic Spikes (Hot Coals? ), there are a whole lot of Pokémon who are going to be screeeeeeeeeeeeewed. And now I am imagining a Badly Burned status where you lose 25% of your HP at the end of each turn. Damn. 5% of me thinks he wants this and the other 95% is like "NO! "
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06-27-2014, 01:42 PM | #2577 |
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Yeah Gamefreak is weirdly uneven with stuff like this. Like, why isn't Hot Coals already a thing? Why do we only get Stealth Rock (or why do we get Stealth Rock in the first place)?
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06-27-2014, 01:45 PM | #2578 |
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Yeah King's Shield and Spiky Shield made me panic becase LOL FERROTHORN LOL.
Fortunately it learns neither.
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06-27-2014, 01:49 PM | #2579 |
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>Hot Coals
So basically Burn Toxic Spikes? I'd approve if it took at least two layers to actually cause the Burn, it seems too screwable and spammable, otherwise. |
06-27-2014, 01:52 PM | #2580 |
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I'd be ticked off if only because it would necessitate that you have to run a Fire type along with any physical sweepers. Toxic at least doesn't cripple you.
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06-27-2014, 01:55 PM | #2581 |
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Coming soon to Pokémon: Stealth Perv (Dark) Effect: "Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you?"
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06-27-2014, 02:02 PM | #2582 | |
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wot Anyway, regarding that Hot Coal, it would still be easily disspelled by Defog (which is omni-present), and likely by Fire Types, too, with Lviatet/Lfyyesnimmune. |
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06-27-2014, 02:03 PM | #2583 | |
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On that note, I more specifically have a love / hate relationship with their decision to gimp physical attackers with Intimidate and burn status while doing nothing to gimp special attackers with a "Special Intimidate" or a "special burn". On the one hand, I value the deliberate asymmetry for helping to bring about a (more) varied metagame. On the other hand, sometimes I really, really wish that Intimidate lowered both the Attack stat as well as the Special Attack stat. I dunno. I'll probably give you a different answer on different days depending on what mood I'm in. This asymmetric split between how they treat physicals and how they treat specials is something I think about more often than I should be admitting to.
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06-27-2014, 06:59 PM | #2584 |
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Bisharp SMASH(VGC 2014)
Just goes to show how good Bisharp is with Defiant
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YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME I LOVE YOU
So I'm liking this team. A LOT. As you can see I gave up on my Deoxys idea because 4 move limit was making it awkward, and replaced it with Hannibal. Thoughts EDIT: No really I love this team. Edit 2: Here's another match because ily guys. Edit 3: Remember kids, switching resets your sleep counter, so you sleep longer! Thanks to a forfeit on a match i would have much rather finished, I BROKE 1200!!!
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Sorry Myles but Match #1 wtf was your opponent even doing.
Tyranitar AND megazard. Nothing immune to Sandstorm except Garchomp, which he only brings in later. Nothing that benefits from Sun. Switches Garchomp in RIGHT AFTER YOU USE ICE BEAM. I don't think you could have lost if you'd tried! Congrats on the rest of them though, those battles were solid. You seem to really click with all-in speedy sweepers. Re: sleep counters, you sleep 2 turns after using Rest, every time. Umbreon slept for 1 turn and then got switched out. Last turn, he slept 1 turn. Next round he would have woken up.
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06-28-2014, 10:20 AM | #2589 |
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I found this really hilarious.
If I may toot my horn...man I love making perfect choices to piss people off sometimes.
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Unfortunately, you leave us with so much groan otherwise. ^^; I'm glad to see that you're enjoying your new playtoys, but the games you've posted are mostly examples of you winning where:
But yeah, Myles ... try not to make cocky remarks during your games. You're not ready for that yet. It's not polite to do period, but if you are to do it, at least have the skill and the knowledge to back it up. (That sleep clause remark ... ugh ... so much groaning! ^^; )
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or is there some kind of coverage or synergy those two have? because I'm just not seeing it.
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06-28-2014, 10:56 AM | #2594 |
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You know how I said I love Staraptor? Here he is again putting down lots of this guy's team.
As for the sleep counter thingy, I could have sword Umbreon was supposed to wake up sooner than it did. EDIT: SO MUCH HAX JUST OCCURRED. Facing a Dragonite Batonpassed to have +2 in Speed, Defense, SpA and Spdef. CRIT ICEBEAM KO. Lady Luck continues to flip off my oppinent before he's running on a team that only has one pokemon not on 1%, and he forfeits. I feel horrible saying that i broke 1300 in that match. Link is here. I feel so bad.
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Incidentally, you see this in VGC 2014 as well. (Although there it makes much more sense since you're picking four out of six to send out and you're also scouting the enemy team.) I often will see Politoed and Tyranitar or Charizard and Tyranitar on the same team. And it's not uncommon for me to see them both sent out on the same active squad of four too. Particularly the rain/sand combo: they lead with Politoed to set up the rain and then they wait for me to raise the sun. Whether I do it on Turn 1, Turn 2, or Turn 5, they wait -- and once I've done it, out goes Politoed and in comes Tyranitar, changing the weather immediately back to a non-sun weather. I don't know how common rain is at the top of the OU ladder these days -- I haven't heard much about it so I assume it's not a big deal anymore but still decently viable? -- but I would imagine that Tyranitar and Mega Charizard Y being on the same team in OU would be intended as a counter to the rain team similar to the one I've described for VGC 2014. That stated, I don't think Mega Charizard Y is all that common compared with Mega Charizard X at the top of the OU ladder. But again, someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong.
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Say you have only Mega Charizard Y on a team, while the other team has both Mega Charizard Y and Tyranitar. In the first case, Mega Charizard Y may switch in, do something, switch out, switch back in in a couple of turns... and then see its Drought promptly fade. And Mega Charizard Y is a lot less threatening without Drought. In the second case, if you use Tyranitar's Sand Stream to override Drought, you shall get full five turns of Drought when Mega Charizard Y switches back in. Both Pokemon are solidly powerful, anyway. It also means you can freely use offensive Water Types in your team. |
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06-28-2014, 11:28 AM | #2598 |
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Lady luck i did NOT give you permission to baby me.
I feel the need to write to Smogon about how lucky I'm getting. 3 Hydro Pump misses in a row? That only happens to me after some Double teams ingame. Answer that question of his, please. My team saves my arse again.
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So um, why am I facing someone who's consistently in the top ten when I've decayed?
Yeah so in this match I faced one of the best battlers on PS, lil manaphy, someone who's consistently in the top ten. I'll let you see the match for yourself. I didn't even realize who I was facing till I saw the ELO update. :$ |
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