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OP adapted from Mazz from xy uu research week
This Week's Research Pokemon:
How useful are these Pokemon in SuMoLC? What sets can they run effectively? What gives them trouble? What advantages do they have over other Pokemon? How well do they work in the metagame? How have they changed since last gen? If you have anything to say about any of these Pokemon, please post about them! It doesn't matter if you've used them or have just faced them in battle, anything is fine (but please, do try them). Just be sure to back up your posts with good competitive reasoning. Remember, discussion is not limited to this topic, you are encouraged to talk about these Pokemon in the lc chats well!
The Research Group Challenge:
In order to participate you must do the following:
The first stage of the challenge (the first three days) will be very relaxed so theorymon will be allowed as long as its backed up by good reasoning. During the later stage, discussion will be expected to be backed up by hard evidence, such as teams, actual sets, and logs. The winner of the challenge will be the person who has the highest ladder peak on the Pokemon Showdown LC ladder on the alt they registered at the time the challenge ends.
Keep the following things in mind during every Research Group:
Cumulative Leaderboard
ARCHIVES:
OP adapted from Mazz from xy uu research week
Welcome to Research Week!
This Week's Research Pokemon:
The Research Group Challenge:
In order to participate you must do the following:
- Post here with a fresh alt with the prefix "RW" and the name(s) of the Pokemon you will be using.
- Use at least one of the Pokemon being researched.
- Post your experiences with the Pokemon you're using, participate in the discussion!
- Post logs of this Pokemon in action against other teams - don't just tell us, show us!
- You can start laddering once the week starts.
The first stage of the challenge (the first three days) will be very relaxed so theorymon will be allowed as long as its backed up by good reasoning. During the later stage, discussion will be expected to be backed up by hard evidence, such as teams, actual sets, and logs. The winner of the challenge will be the person who has the highest ladder peak on the Pokemon Showdown LC ladder on the alt they registered at the time the challenge ends.
Keep the following things in mind during every Research Group:
- Be open-minded, don't just say something is terrible and walk away; look at its stats, movepool, and typing and think something up!
- Feel free to theorymon early in the research period, but make it clear you're doing so. Later in the period though, you will be expected to back up your posts with hard evidence like logs, actual sets, perhaps even teams.
PS Username: Ara
Ladder Username: RW Mixtape
Pokemon(s): Mudbray
Hi, I got to 1400 with Magikarp on the alt RW Mixtape. Here is the screenshot (screenshot)
Magikarp @ Waterium Z
Ability: Swift Swim
Level: 5
EVs: 196 Atk / 116 SpD / 196 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Splash
- Flail
- Happy Hour
- Bounce
I used this magikarp set to to try and take advantage of Z-Spash which can be very deadly. In practice, I found it very mediocre and extremely situational. It struggles with common pokemon like X, Y, and Z. Overall I would recommend this only as a meme as its not very good.
Ladder Username: RW Mixtape
Pokemon(s): Mudbray
Hi, I got to 1400 with Magikarp on the alt RW Mixtape. Here is the screenshot (screenshot)
Magikarp @ Waterium Z
Ability: Swift Swim
Level: 5
EVs: 196 Atk / 116 SpD / 196 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Splash
- Flail
- Happy Hour
- Bounce
I used this magikarp set to to try and take advantage of Z-Spash which can be very deadly. In practice, I found it very mediocre and extremely situational. It struggles with common pokemon like X, Y, and Z. Overall I would recommend this only as a meme as its not very good.
Cumulative Leaderboard
- 1.Fille (15 points)
- 2. All-Star Lineup (8 Points)
- 3. Rambon99 (6 Points)
- 4. Laroxyl (3 Points)
- 5.Ztstaffto (3 Points)
- 6. Yppiks123 (3 Points)
- 7. Blinkboy (3 Points)
- 8.Inscribe (2 Points)
- 9. Plasmagby (2 Points)
- 10. Svertigo (1 Point)
- 11. Cashed (1 Point)
- 12. Adam the first (1 Point)
- 13. ItzViper482 (1 Point)
ARCHIVES:
Week 1 Winner: Fille Pokemon: Pikipek
Week 2 Winner Fille Pokemon: Alolan Diglet
Week 3 Winner All-Star Lineup Pokemon : Z move Bellsprout
Week 4 Winner Fille Pokemon: Sandshrew
Week 5 Winner rambon99 Pokemon: Alolan Rattata
Week 2 Winner Fille Pokemon: Alolan Diglet
Week 3 Winner All-Star Lineup Pokemon : Z move Bellsprout
Week 4 Winner Fille Pokemon: Sandshrew
Week 5 Winner rambon99 Pokemon: Alolan Rattata
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