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I took a break from Pokemon for awhile and found it interesting that I return to this when considering trying stuff out again for when I get free time next month finally. However, since my life has gotten a lot busier, I can mostly only go off of what I've seen and watched along with others'...
I've had like, no time to get the reqs myself so I cannot say much on the matter outside of getting my own thoughts out there, but I will say this:
Tera Preview eliminates where I think a lot of the issue is coming from, being the unpredictability, though others who've had more time can say...
While I haven't played Ubers since Pokebank dropped in new Ubers at the time, I think I'm noticing a trend with the sudden gripe towards Calyrex-S and Zacian-C shortly after a supermajority ban on Dynamax, and that is not only how broken the mechanic in of itself was, but the influence that it...
The fact that Thievul is probably the shortest ban in the tier, (and maybe in all of Smogon but idk there), this year is just crazy all around. So many weird things are going on and we still got 5 months after July.
Kind of curious now since the reasonings for Thievul's quickban make it seem...
It's not surprising to see a majority pro-ban now that the dust is settling, and I hate to say it, but it's well justified. I may not be voting in the upcoming vote to ban or not ban, but I do want to give my own thoughts on Dynamax as well as previous mechanics.
Megas and Z-moves had their...
I don't play singles all that much anymore, but I will say that considering the Dynamax suspect test looking like the mechanic will be banned, I genuinely think they called the OU tiering too early, since it's safe to assume that the lower tiers will ban Dynamax too if OU bans it, which seems to...
Pokémon requested: Solgaleo
Level and gender of the Cutiefly: male lvl 9
IGN: Crystal
Might as well prep for teambuilding for Ultra since Moon Series I'm likely skipping x3
Pokémon requested: Drifblim
Level and gender of the Cutiefly: level 10 female
IGN: Crystal
Wondering if you'll put up a poll soon for Moon Series, since it'll start pretty soon.
Pokémon requested: Yveltal
Level and gender of the Cutiefly: level 11 female
IGN: Crystal
Not gonna lie, I didn't think Salazzle would be good this format... but holy crap it is.
Pokémon requested: Venusaur
Level and gender of the Cutiefly: level 11 male
IGN: Crystal
Inb4 Memes take over the GS Cup and pop up over here I wish, cause Mantyke is awesome