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I'm surprised no one mention that Sap Sipper would also block status moves. The main one is currently Leech Seed which isn't worth the ability imo, but when Spore was running around it had more utility. It also blocks Strength Sap and Stun Spore I guess, and Sleep Powder but again, banned now...

Heatranator has done a fantastic job breaking down the value of randomness and how to play around and account for randomness. As they have said it is skill testing. But to add some other things luck does for games, it lets the worse player win some amount of games. Now, understandably, for a...

Chess is great, but trying to get Pokemon more chess like REALLY isn't a good thing.

What are you talking about. Sleep Talk is a great way to counter sleep. I remember giving it to my Scarf Heracross in Gen 4 because I hated Breloom and surprising people with it is great.

Wait, is bond banned?

I'm honestly curious why Legends changed sleep and freeze to begin with. The game is the most single player of any Pokemon game and there both mechanics are what ever. Why were special attackers arbitrarily better than physical attackers from the get go. It has taken YEARS for the old special...

Pokemon can only be moved into SV if they exist in the games coding. So for example no Ultra Beast can be moved up on account of them just not being in the game. Also of note with Gen 9 you can no longer move up certain moves on Pokemon. In Gen 9 the game loads the learnable move set for a...

I'm actually going to challenge this. If a Pokemon is 99% to be banned at some point in the near future, you should basically always rip the bandaid off as soon as possible. What is gained from letting it sit in the tier, maybe stumbling into the 1% that it actually isn't horribly broken? And...

Is there any consideration to using a Sp. Def nature given even uninvested it's Def is still super high? I imagine the drop in power for Body Press isn't worth it, but I'm curious for second opinions.

Hard Press does indeed seem bad. Psychic Noice could be good on less damage based psychic types. Hat's name is being thrown around as a good user. Cell seems good to let you feel not awful for using a physical electric type (I've already complained about how stupid it is that Wild Charge has the...

This is good. I can see people arguing Wild Charge's 100% accuracy is better, but it's always bugged me that electric just had NOTHING for physical options. Here's a move with the same power a Bolt, only it doesn't have an upside, it has a downside.

Electric has trash options for physical moves so I'm so happy to see that this exists. Hopefully most the Pokemon that want it can learn it. I honestly hated getting TMs in the game, so being able to just buy them is super handy.

Thank the lord. I HARD tilted when I moved my Breloom up and it lost Spore.

Literally just dropped. For everyone playing the games, have fun. For everyone waiting for all the new stuff to get to Showdown, may you be able to fill the time well and not wait long.

Yea, I will just say writing a Pokemon off because it has a bad type combination is not the best. TTar has one of the worst types in the game but everything else about it let it be one of the top Pokemon for a very long time despite that. Type goes a long way to determining a Pokemon's...

They gave Tort Shell Smash and Emp Roost and both were huge pick ups to bring life back to them. Meg needs a LOT of help, but I'm hopeful they'll give it SOMETHING since they do seem to care about the starters enough to actively throw them bones. How helpful those bones end up being remains to...

Do we know when we'll know what will drop with DLC2? It's only a couple weeks away now so I have to imagine they're already figuring stuff out.

It isn't bizarre in VGC for the reason a lot of "hidden information" tournament games make hidden information public, it's more fair. For example, Wolf is one of the best VGC players in the world, so naturally when he's playing in an event people are going to try and scout him and his team. This...

I'd imagine if Ghold gets banned in a suspect and continues being a problem after being dropped he'd be on the short list of stuff to send back to Ubers, so it would probably be easier to kick him back out again. Immunity only happens if something fails to hit the ban on the first go around...

Personally I think if by the time the suspect ends we'd only have ~1 week before the DLC not much is accomplished to go through with it, especially if it will just be dropped back when the DLC drops. IMO at that point just quick ban it and let it return with the DLC. I'll admit that probably...