Recent content by JonTheRed

I've been a little busy the past few days, but in the interim, I've managed to unlock Super Multi and Super Doubles with the usual Lv. 1 Aron cheese. My neighbors were pretty amused by the trick, but I was wearing my Smogon t-shirt at the time, so I was able to give credit where it was due. I...

Hello! I'm a long-time lurker of this thread, and Smogon as a whole. I got Pokemon X as a Christmas gift one year, set it down after I beat it to do other things, and now that I have new neighbors that love Pokemon, I'm back to it. (They're not terribly competitive, so they've compared me to...

I'm not going to say that rain isn't insanely good...after running a rain team in Gen IV to a success rating of my liking, I can't say it's not the best weather condition around. Then again, it also seems weird to say that Fire types aren't viable because of rain alone when usage statistics...

I was just going to poke my head in to say that PO shouldn't have rating numbers at all since people care more about their numbers than their ratings, but now that I'm here...SupaChinChin, do you really think that Infernape is suddenly completely worthless without its Fire move?

Espeon's success is going to be directly tied to Tyranitar's success, I'd assume. What good does Magic Bounce do you against a hard-hitting Crunch? I've really liked Espeon, but folks in this metagame are hitting so hard that Stealth Rock seems pretty unnecessary at this point...! On the...

Ninja'd by Benlisted. Volcarona sits right on Base 100 Speed, and there are a lot of important Pokemon at that speed or faster, including Excadrill. Being able to outpace and fry the mole (with the help of Quiver Dance) is the difference between winning and losing. Speaking of which, I love...

If all the Water/Ground types all had a third-stage evolution, they'd all have something different to flaunt. Whiscash has Dragon Dance (somehow, lol), Gastrodon has Sticky Hold and Recover, Quagsire has Water Absorb and Recover, etc. Their differences come out to more than that, but they'd...

I've been off for a bit, and I was thinking...maybe the SD card slot in the DSi will see some actual use? It would be fantastic to be able to transfer Pokemon en masse with a temporary, intermediate save on an SD card. That's the entire reason I built a new Battle Frontier team for HGSS, after...

Yeah, in HGSS, you didn't even get Rock Climb until most of the way through your Kanto journey, right? There could easily be tons of side-areas that are rendered off-limits until you get HM08 in Black/White, containing strange and exciting new challenges and tons of classic Pokemon. (I only...

Speaking of quad weaknesses, what the hell is the point of Psychic type anymore when the Ghost type is basically the same thing but better? Awhile ago, I was thinking, "Oh joy! Perhaps we can get a Psychic/Ghost! Like, some sort of seance Pokemon!" But then I was like, "Crap, 4x weak to Dark...

He used a 1.25x multiplier, which--correct me if I'm wrong--is weird because all the other multipliers are things like 1.5x and 1.1x.

Yeah, I did jump to conclusions (or, more accurately, I speed-read because this damn thread moves too fast). But even so, Technician is there to boost weak moves, its downside being that its boost doesn't apply to anything over 60 BP. Hustle boosts all physical moves, but with a fairly...

I swear to God, someone in this thread cited a 1.2x multiplier. Seems fairly reasonable, though, doesn't it? I mean, it's not going to be 1.5x like Technician, since it could affect high-powered moves like Fire Blast (again, 216 assuming STAB and Encourage being a 1.2x boost).

I also just realized that Hihidaruma would also have better elemental punches as a result of his ability. It's no Technician boost, but it brings the punches from 75 BP to 90 all the same. That's pretty decent power for non-STAB coverage moves.

Even on Shoddy itself, tournaments are an extremely rare breed. It's weird, I'd like a few more tournaments to show up even if there's no entry fee and no prize. The tournament format is just plain cool, you know?