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Some other moves like Encore, Disable, and Torment also turn the situation into a pure 50/50 if your opponent knows you have them. Substitute is the best one of these moves for sure (besides like Spore and such obviously). Protect also helps. Exactly--if you want to hit the highest possible...

Hi Finchinator, just wanted to make you aware that a friend and I did some math on Sucker Punch that I thought might interest you--we found that in a 1v1 situation where both mons can KO, the Sucker Punch user will win 89% of the time if they use the optimal strategy, with no possible...

TLDR: If you're using Sucker Punch in a 1v1 last mon scenario, your best strategy is to calculate 1/(1+Sucker PP), generate a random number from 0 to 1, and use your non-sucker attack if the number is lower. For example, you should use your non-sucker attack 1/9 of the time if you have 8 Sucker...

Very awesome idea for a meta. Initial thoughts: Braviary-Hisui is a great Sheer Force + Life Orb donor for stuff like Iron Moth and Enamorus. Provides way more SpA than anything else with the ability. Baxcalibur donating to Dragonite or vice versa rips through offensive teams. I haven't messed...

So what does this team do against taunt calm mind resto chesto tera ground earth power enamorus exactly. Just kidding, sick team, you seem to have a gift for solving OU like a math problem. Very cool to see all the little ways you've found to squeeze so much matchup coverage out of these 6...

Wowwwwww thank u so much <3<3<3

Happy to report that I've finally made a fun and good team for this OM, built around what I consider to be the best (balanced) moves in the format in Transform and Encore. I'm 1400 with this right now but wanted to post before the meta gets too old...

Just reporting a little bug: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9forceofthefallen-1896415799 In this game, my landorus-therian with Swords Dance in its fourth moveslot uses trick room from Hatterene on turn 2 followed by its own EQ on turn 3, then dies to scizor's bullet punch on turn 4...

I think urshifu-r should probably be banned. before that happens I wanted to post this urshifu team that has yet to lose. I'm currently #6 with it https://pokepast.es/ca73e55ba8d1e98a Adamant banded tera water urshifu-R at +1 in the rain is guaranteed to: - OHKO offensive Zapdos with aqua jet...

Quanyails Cynda Great job on all four of these! Spriting sounds so hard.

Mockjaw Scorpheus Vyrmandible Elydron Stingshot Carabdomen Miasmaw Carbozoa Buzzooka Grandible

Final Submission Scorpheus Combination of scorpion and Orpheus, a figure in Greek myth associated with the Scorpio astrological sign. The myth part covers the dragon typing. Pronounced: SCOR-fee-us EDIT Oct 14: I decided I liked Scorpheus better than Scorphic because it sounds older I guess.

Thanks for this great rate! Thanks HyperFlux as well. I do appreciate that you guys understand it's a deviation from the core concept to suggest hazard setters or screen setters for the team. I personally have found that considering the goal of the team is to overwhelm the opponent with...

Hi! So this team isn't doing anything particularly revolutionary but I wanted to share it because I think it's super fun, I feel like it's reflective of current hyper offense teams in this very early meta, and I have played every single one of my ladder games with it since the DLC came out...

Hi! I made this name years ago and I don't like it anymore because it sounds juvenile. I'm returning to Smogon and I'd like to be posting as something more recognizable that won't cause anyone to make assumptions, so I'd like to request that my name be changed to bbg, a shortening of my longtime...