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  1. Rarycaris

    Pokemon Day Presents 2024 - Pokemon LZA 2025

    Another thing that gets overlooked here aswell is that it seems very much like BDSP created a massive technical nightmare with Home compatibility that took around a year to solve. Partly because of lazy intentional coding and partly because they needed to implement a bunch of restrictions to...
  2. Rarycaris

    Pokemon Day Presents 2024 - Pokemon LZA 2025

    I wouldn't say this is them skipping Unova. No reason every Legends game has to be a remake stand in or tied to one -- there's every possibility they'll do something for Unova later on, and I'd rather they give such a remake the love it deserves (especially with two games of plot to consider)...
  3. Rarycaris

    Pokemon Day Presents 2024 - Pokemon LZA 2025

    Kalos had interesting lore but feels like the least complete region both in terms of releases and chronologically -- it had a total of one year as the current "main region" before getting upstaged in its own generation by ORAS for two years. I'm here for them filling out this stuff and getting...
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    Metagame SV Monotype Metagame Discussion [Indigo Disk]

    Speaking from a position of unfamiliarity with the meta, has anyone found a way to make Sun work on dragon? It doesn't have any Drought users, but having four very good Protosynthesis abusers and a decent number of fast things that can learn Sunny Day seems like it ought to be worth considering.
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    Metagame Ubers Metagame and Set Discussion v4 - DLC 2 Edition

    I'm not convinced Terapagos is good, necessarily (principally because of its poor matchup with the best mon in the tier), but Tri Attack seems worth considering on it? It hits harder than Tera Starstorm on anything that doesn't resist or negate it, and basically nothing that does resist it...
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    Research Scarlet & Violet Battle Mechanics Research

    Will Tera Starstorm that becomes Stellar type when used by Terapagos cease to be boosted by Silk Scarf?
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    Pokémon Terapagos

    Is Tri Attack worth considering on this guy? It hits harder than Tera Starstorm against targets neutral to Normal, can easily fish for status given Terapagos' insane bulk, and is unlikely to get PP stalled.
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    Research Scarlet & Violet Battle Mechanics Research

    This is a complex question where Koraidon and Flutter Mane are concerned because they will usually speed tie. Does this mean the answer to the question is a coinflip, or is there a consistently reproducible result here?
  9. Rarycaris

    Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - 18th Nov 2022! **OFFICIAL INFO ONLY**

    Does the "new run of the event" mentioned with respect to Walking Wake and Iron Leaves mean anyone can catch them, or will it be limited only to people who were affected by the Bad Egg bug? Asking because I still haven't completed SV and am unlikely to do so before this event expires, but I'd...
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    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion

    The accuracy loss hurts on a mon like Zoroark, but losing the 20% flinch chance is a pretty big deal aswell (for comparison, Night Daze has a little under 10% chance of negating an opponent's turn via its secondary effect once your own accuracy is accounted for). Not to mention that Night Daze...
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    Research Scarlet & Violet Battle Mechanics Research

    How does Hydro Steam under sun interact with the utility umbrella (both on the user and on the target)?
  12. Rarycaris

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion

    Given that Protosynthesis boosts speed by 50% and other stats by only 30%, I think you'd get a lot more power under Sun with the same speed by dropping a few points from SpA and running Specs instead. This does mean you lose speed outside of sun, mind you.
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    Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - 18th Nov 2022! **OFFICIAL INFO ONLY**

    Definitely no knock on the idea of this sort of divergence -- I really liked how Xerneas and Yveltal were very similar "on their face" but ended up playing extremely differently -- but I wonder if the simpler explanation is that they were only considering the weathers/terrains that provide...
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    Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - 18th Nov 2022! **OFFICIAL INFO ONLY**

    Fair point, yeah. On an unrelated note, I think the otherwise baffling "design" of Iron Leaves is meant to be that it can function well in any of the terrains. It has Grass and Psychic STABs which directly benefit from the relevant terrain, one of its STAB moves also directly benefits from...
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    Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - 18th Nov 2022! **OFFICIAL INFO ONLY**

    Praying against all hope that neither of the new legends have a "combine with another form to unlock its real power in one of two ways" gimmick. Those mons are always enormously obnoxious to optimise on cartridge and I don't get why GF loves the gimmick so much, especially given one of the forms...
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    SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics

    With the reveal that Revival Blessing loops can cause up to 100 increases on Last Respects, how is Smogon going to deal with that with the Endless Battle Clause? Letting people do the loop indefinitely is obviously a problem (currently only in NatDex), but in formats where Last Respects is...
  17. Rarycaris

    Unpopular opinions

    I more meant as opposed to buffs that equally apply to every Pokemon, like every other mechanic. Things like G-Max and specialist Z-moves might work, but in practice GF doesn't seem greatly inclined to do much with that. I'd definitely agree that not tying such buffs to mechanics at all is the...
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    Research Scarlet & Violet Battle Mechanics Research

    If you Transform your Ditto into an opponent's Zacian and get the Intrepid Sword boost, and you subsequently send out your own Zacian for the first time, do you get the boost or not?
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    Discovery IMPORTANT SPOILERLESS

    This is a result of Ability Patches now being able to change a Pokemon's Hidden Ability back to its normal ability.
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    SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics

    As in certain specific story battles, or are all items effectively one use per battle but never actually consumed now?
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