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-your No. 1-5 problem is Rocks. Also, Roost is great. Knock Off is also great. These are the two last moves battling for the last slot. U-Turn is just awesome! You just spare one of your most important Pokemon a hit (unless you're faster). Don't drop Turn. And prefereably keep KO, since Items are really important to leaders and you'll do a lot of crippling that way. -speaking of rocks: Magic Guard Reuni! Regenerator is good mostly for singles, but then again, MG lets you absorb all kinds of status, not care about Rocks, or Spikes, and also, no LO Recoil! In TR, you hit like a fat, blobby, green, hideous version of LO Alakazam! Also Flash Cannon is bad. You kill Ice with Focus Miss + Bullet Punch + Bird anyway. Ice is your last worry as a defensive type. Also, without Shadow Ball it gets walled by Doublade, Sableye/Spiritomb, Aegis. Doubs gets crippled for good by Knock Off. Sableye and Spiritomb die to Sylveon. Aegis, you can WoW it and then Flare Blitz in a turn when it can't use King's Shield. Unless they hax you. WoW first in any case. -you can always spare 44 EVs from Def to give them to Sylveon's SpDef. I have played against that spread. Was super-annoying. Also you gotta keep Wish for support. Its coverage moves are far weaker without Stab Pilixate backing them. Just support your main stuff. -also, standard TankChomp EV spread over that maxing out you've done if you want the defensive variant, or just go max speed and attack for some monos. Say, Ice. What's TankChomp gonna do there? Or Max HP + Att for TR. Or whatever. You have options.

-Scizor: Defog at all costs. Save your Talonflame! Also U-Turn+Knock Off >>> Bug Bite. You lose a stab with nicer base power, and get much more flexibilit by pivoting and bringing things in safe. Like, how many Sitruses you think you'll eat in all the league matches? -Reuni: PsySHOCK and Focus Miss are musts. I'm not fond of having only one TR setter if you wanna do TR things. Last slot can be Recover or Shadow Ball. And recovery is always nice. I'd say Recover allthough I love me some better coverage. Consider a max Def spread to let it actually live to set TR. -Jelli: TR over Blizzard. Seriously, you need setters for it to work. -Talon: Literally anything else over SW and U-Turn: it's a wincon and you're playing TR. You can go to a number of options: Tailwind for alt. speed control, Will O Wisp because burns are awsum for you and bad for the opponent, Roost because prio recovery is great for that suicidal thing, Natural Gift for one bullet or insane coverage options, Bulk Up to run a spread with Max HP and Max SpDef and make the Bird bulky. You could even drop Flare Blitz. Or run SD for set-up. Or run Taunt! Seriously tho, drop Steel Wing and U-Turn. And be careful when you decide for your final Talon set. Think of what you want it to do for the team. And always remember!: Step1: Recognize Talon checks and counters. Step2: Kill them. Step3: Sweep. Unless you want to support your team by spreading WoWs or semi-sacking it to get a Tailwind off or you want to Taunt your opponent to break stall or whatever. Just know what you want to do with it. -Sylveon: run max HP no matter what because bulk is good and HP investment comes before Def or SpDef investment. And Hyper Voice is really strong anyway, so consider strongly running a defensive spread, either with SpDef investment, or, surprise, Def investment: most people try to hit that thing physically and its natural SpDef is amazing anyway. Psyshock/Protect is your call. I guess you can afford PS (or Shadow Ball?) over Protect better with the Def investment, since your only spread move is EQ. Again, your call. Protect is great too. Edit: Shit shit shit I forgot Taunt and SD as options on Talon OH MY GOD

I am so pissed right now. I find an awesome animated MMV of one of my favourite manga, Dorohedoro, which I'm currently rereading, and there's another MMV for it from the same creator which appears to have been taken down. DAMN. anw enjoy

And a LO Alakazam for me please.

I have an incredibly soft spot for Gen 1-2 Pokemon, Mind Reader Skitty confirmed. Or it was just Skeesus all along. Anyway, this squad will be incredibly neat if Mega Sableye stays around, with Rocks Clef and Defog>Spin. Also what's up with KamxMag? Also didn't really get that line. You just prefer Guts over Moxie for OUCross in general or should I consider switching it to Guts for that team too? Again, many, many thanks and much love!

Sweet Jesus Christ and Mother of God Skitty calm the hell down! This squad is pure murder! Welp, can't dislike a nice and dandy mad offensive team, thanks a lot Also, I guess one of the Rock moves on Terra should be EQ, right? Or is it Rock Slide for more safety, and Stone Miss together in case I really need to hit something as hard as I can? *eyes the team of his confused friend from a nearby country intently* If we can get more requests per person, what about Scarf Moxie Heracross and stallbreaker fairykiller Gengar? PS. Any and all trolly EV spreads for Gengar are very welcome.

Well, let's do it! DD Gatr + CM Raikou. Pick whatever coverage moves you want for Gatr (Ice Punch, Crunch, Super Power, Aqua Jet all are game)

I know what I'm saying. That's why I'm giving Kam a Munchlax. It IS the best, after all. munchmunchmunchmunchmunch

A critical hit! Anyway, this forum is a dangerous place to walk alone. Here, have a Munchlax.

Doubles because they are actually faster (20 turns max, pretty much), and double elim. because doubles are faster after all. Screw singles stalling, that's what I say.

This is why we need the headcannon thread at that point, to explore all these different scenarios with you, Shin-senpai. Gyarados is a completely different beast from a simple Karp. The endgame's the same, but the in-between phaze matters: -Gyarados is weakened by the parasites inside him and becomes a shell of itself -Gyarados' energy and nutrients are mostly absorbed by the parasites, making Gyarados raise its food consumption to insane levels to satiate its needs, eating anything in sight and annihilating its ecosystem -Gyarados goes insane from the pain and strain caused by the parasites, going into blind rampages even more often and more violent than ever -the parasites-infused Gyarados takes on a new form, or even an evolution, Slowpoke+Shelder=Slowpokevos kind of thing -a combination of the above

The juicy bits left out that really shouldn't be -memeist extraordinaire who managed to become a meme herself here H O T L E G S -the status-nickname-avatar wars with Jan (creme brulee, yummy!) -the flower chariots parade! -and the unrequited love for the fluffy lamb of god, Amphy

Mercedes Xenova Seriously though, the Mercedes-shaped eyes are an amazingly good-looking bit. Looks really cool anyway. Kinda sad that it's blue and living in water but not a water type. The important question: if Magikarp evolves before getting destroyed from the inside, how do things go between Xenova and Gyarados?

Quoted from the thread that announced the merging of the two subforums... I really think that the subforum should split back to its two former parts. It's getting cluttered and chaotic, completely different things co-exist (the old theme tours threads mixed with the teambuilding workshops and other topics about comp battling and the Redemption threads and whatnot. The saddest part is seeing these specific threads get downgraded. They were pinned for a reason, and that's because they are a very valuable resource about competitive battling in the community. They are not topics that will gather replies and discussion, and that's not their point. Their point is to be there for everyone to be able to take a glance or more at them. I think that we as a community should rather look to upgrade the competitive battling knowledge and resources part instead of burying it further and further with the merge of the subforums and then the unpinning. If you think they don't gather much attention or views or replies or are outdated: find someone to update them. Create more about other formats and playstyles. Why shouldn't we as a community try to amass knowledge about it for the members that want to get into it, instead of having them rely on other forums like Smogon for everything. A great example of this bizareness: the VGC guide, getting pinned immediately after it was made, depined after three months. What changed?! (and I think that Redemption league could get a subforum pretty soon to get its own space instead of the current happy mix we've got here)