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I made a list of Pokemon added to the format in a naked attempt to farm karma on reddit. I replicate it here in a spoiler tag. Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Beedrill, Pidgeot, Arbok, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Vileplume, Venomoth, Rapidash, Farfetch'd, Dodrio, Dewgong, Onix, Kingler, Electrode...

My entire experience with Doubles prior to Friday was a dozen or so matches on the VGC ladder on Showdown. This showed as I routinely had no idea what my opponent was doing, or that, say, Pikachu knows Lightning Rod. (Given I don't remember the outcome of that match, I can only assume my loss...

I'm reasonably certain I read an explicit 'they are not allowed in competitions or tournaments' somewhere, but the best I can source is the absence of online competitions on the manual page of the PGL.

I improved considerably from the Battle of Alola - I was in the top 9% then, top 3% for the Alola Friendly. (I would feel better about these percentiles if I knew how many people were just throwing three matches for the BP.) I also noticed participation in this one was down by nearly 10,000...

I'm pretty sure I wound up somewhere in the upper-mid 1600s, which is certainly a higher number, and hopefully a better placement, than my performance in the Battle of Alola. My W/L is, apparently, 29/15 (vs a 25/20). I assume this is because someone disconnected during Team Preview. (I had one...

I was reading the reddit hysteria over this ('oh no I'm going to be banned because of my breeding ditto / 6IV Shiny I got through WT!'), and after reading from folks who actually got banned, it seems like the common thread is hacking trainer information. So it was primary people changing their...

Apologies, Internet has been spotty lately. I've already gotten the Modest Lele both EV and Hyper Trained (except for the Pretty Good attack), so that won't be necessary. I assume it's just a matter of getting it cloned. I'll try to catch one of y'all later this evening or tomorrow. I assume I'm...

Well, I managed to get a Modest HP Fire Tapu Lele (after a rocky start of Synchronize failing eight times in a row and making me think I was going insane). Currently working on maxing it out for Hyper Training. I assume the procedure here is someone takes it, clones it, and returns a copy? The...

I've finally decided to bite the bullet and work on SRing an HP Fire Tapu Lele. I've been looking around on the Timid vs. Modest debate, and I haven't really seen anything beyond 'both are good'. (also the WIP Analysis seems to have been invaded by a Salamence analysis). I'm assuming Timid lets...

I know there were a couple of folk other than me who almost missed signups for the last competition, so I wanted to post to let people know that sign-ups are open 'til the start of the competition on the 27th. As far as links go, here's the announcement and here's the PGL competitions page...

Yeah, I've been trying hard to make it work because I have one that is my first viable competitive shiny (well, it has max IVs). Focus Sash is basically mandatory - Golem is hideously vulnerable to Ground and Water attacks, and as 6tennis said, can't really afford the bulk as it needs all the...

Here's my competition profile. My win/loss ratio was 25/20, and you already have my rating of 1592. Apologies for the hacky crop-job on this Side note: I was curious, so I looked at the bottom of the usage stats, which includes gems like Clefairy and Zubat, and it reminded me that one of...

I mostly just collected the wisdom of others for my own purposes. I did see HP: Ground floated but thought Water was the better honorary mention because it still hit Ground types. On reflection, I'm not sure I saw many Ground types that weren't Garchomp in Battle of Alola at least, and that'd...

As for Hidden Powers on the Ultra Beasts, I settled on Hidden Power: Ice for my Nihilego and Xurkitrees. The primary reason for this is that Ice is one of the more common results when you have Pokemon with 3 IVs of 31. The discussion threads for these two also seem to more-or-less settle on Ice...

Just curious: how commonly did you guys actually face Mimikyu? I saw it on tons of benches but almost never in play, and a friend and I basically reasoned that was because Solgaleo and Lunala's signatures are both super effective and pierce its Disguise and both are potentially faster (one...

At 1592, I'm 'only' 2,771 worldwide (426th in USA apparently). That's still in the top 9% so I'm fairly chuffed even if a lot of folks were probably hastily assembled or gimmick teams or just newbies.

My Mudsdale was an 11th hour replacement for a Kommo-o I realized wasn't going to accomplish much with all the Fairy and Psychic attacks being thrown around. I actually fully invested in Special Defense because I figured at least one of my Pokemon needed a little special bulk. She survive to...

I personally haven't had much of an issue finding matches. Timed out maybe three times over the course of the competition. This was asked quite a ways back, but my Incineroar build is taken straight from the thread here on Smogon - 252 HP/Defense, Impish, Darkest Lariat / Leech Life /...

This is my first competition, pretty much my first attempt at remotely serious competitive battling at all, and also my first post on Smogon. I had a couple of disconnects and my win-loss is something like 8-5 or 9-4, which I'm reasonably proud of. I think I'm weakest on predicting what the...