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PokPokémon Showdown Username(s): animenagai
Tiers: Whatever they want me to play
Country / State of Residence: Oceania. For life.
Do you guys know how overgrow/torrent/blaze works on the turn something megaevolves?
My blastoise has torrent and less than 30% health. I mega and scald. Does it get the torrent boost?
Interesting result of the format: there are only so many old gen players on each roster, so each of them are really good (it's harder to earn that spot). That makes those groups really stacked. Just look at Manchester and Jerusalem for example... good god.
Thanks. I'm feeling the love already. :D
Just for the record, Skylight had no idea what I would write about when I made the proposal lol. The conversation pretty much went:
Skylight: What are you up to?
Nagai: Just trying to deal with writer's block.
Skylight: Oh. You should write some...
OK, so skylight has asked me to write some articles for the smog. I'm keen, but I'm not sure how much of my article idea has already been done.
1. This is just the intro. Pokemon is a game of checks and counters. We often build and polish our teams by adding checks and counters to major...
I'm not quite sure if this will be helpful, but defog gliscor is always an option. EQ, defog, u-turn, SR/ice fang/toxic. That sort of combines lando-T and kiss into one pokemon -- cutting the fat. Gives you an extra spot to work with.
The population in the developed world is aging rapidly. Here's an excerpt from an The State of Aging and Health in America 2013:
These figures are pretty comparable to the rest of the developed world. Countries like China (one child policy) and Japan (population is actually decreasing because...
Ugh don't just go with the suggested spreads on PS and fix your EV's. With Charizard and Talonflame, you want an HP stat that's one number less than something divisible by 4. Give them 0 HP EV's and 29 IV's, that will allow them one more switch in with SR on the field.