pyrromanis

What is your darkest desire? You can choose to enjoy only one for the rest of your life: food, sleep or sex? What superpower you like but you'd never want yourself to have?

Would you ban Bibs for 2 hours, 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years or forever? If you controlled all the amethyst crystals in the world, would you keep them or would you sell them and become rich? Do you fall in love in 1st sight or you need to know someone better until you understand you love him? It's the end of the world! What you want for dinner, who would you hug until the end and are you going to survive?

Mountain or sea? Ionion or Aigaio sea? Punch, kick or headbutt the most annoying person you ever met? How would you hide his body?

Are they really gonna give us the ability to raise IVs??? That is awesome and disturbing at the same time for all the breeders out there that have spent million hours to get their perfect mons in gen 6...

I really don't get the Dark Void ban and not the Spore tbh! STABmons is only singles, so Spore is definately better than Dark Void. Also Smogon tier bans are made base on THEIR metagame, pokenations is a copletetly other thing! I'm not saying that an unban is needed for sure, but lets be honest here Gaia's pokemons are all hurt the most from these rules (again I'm not saying that we have no chance to win this week due to restrictions, but almost every week we get restricted to our already low in quantity fairy types!)

True! Maybe I shouldn't consider Shell Smash is the same as Geomancy... They really did a great job making it a 'signature move'!!! #not

Not that much if you consider that they lose an attacking STAB and the fairies in RU and under are not that fast or bulky to abuse it at full!But ofc dual fairies in higher tiers, like Whimsi, are a thing... Also, I don't like to complain, but the Steam Eruption spam looks more broken than Geomancy or Shell Smash. But maybe that's just me...

As a Gaian myself I don't like the nerf, but I have to say that this time is not in Jeri's hand! These are the rules of the tier we are playing...

Time for a not so good mega... Mega Bastiodon Steel/Rock Ability: Bulletproof/Iron Barbs HP 60 Attack 52 -> 82 Defence 168 -> 180 Sp. Attack 47 -> 83 Sp. Defence 138 -> 160 Speed 30 Bastiodon is a pure defensive mon with high defences but poor HP and typing. Rock/Steel gives it two very common x4 weaknesses and another really common x2 weakness in the form of Water. Its mega evolution is not going to help it a lot, but it's going to make it a bit better from what it is now! Stat wise, its already high defences become even better patching up its very low HP. Its offensive stats now are somewhat viable to use the plethora of coverage moves it posses to do damage, outside of Toxic and Metal Burst. Ability wise I wasn't very sure what to give it. From one hand Bulletproof makes a lot of sense for a living shield, helping it against Focus Blast/Aura Sphere users and shutting down Gengar completely. On the other hand I can imagine a more spiky look for its mega evolution, that will punish physical attackers and racking up even more indirect damage outside of Stealth Rocks and Toxic! What do you think is the best ability fitting for it?

Maaaan this game sound very, very, very interesting!!! It feels bad that I can't try it until the end of August :'(

I really like the idea of this Mega Weezing! But I wouldn't say that its stats are low. 125 Sp. Attack is quite high for such a defensive pokemon! I'd say reduce it to 105 with no speed drop, or 115 Sp. Att and 110 Sp. Def. I'm relly not a fan of useless stat reduction just to make the pokemon more stronger...

I see! I misread Jeri's post and though those were ADDED to the already existing rules of the tier,

Since a pokemon can use only 1 STAB move (or 2 if it's dual) regardless if that is a status or attacking move, why don't we unban the set up moves? I mean, if someone wants to give Geomancy to his Slurpuff that means he can't use Moonblast. So I don't see the reason to keep them ban since you are giving up on an attacking STAB. Just a though, not that if the moves stay banned is a bad thing...

What about Judgement and Techno Blast? Are only normal types available to use them and can we change their typing with a Plate or Drive?

Time for the Unova starters to shine! Mega Serperior Grass/Dragon Ability: Contrary HP 75 Attack 75 -> 95 Defence 95 -> 110 Sp. Attack 75 -> 100 Sp. Defence 95 -> 110 Speed 113 -> 138 This mega evolution works pretty much like the base form with a few perks! Gaining the secondary Dragon type is a double edge sword, since it gains 1 more STAB and a few more resistances but it also gains a x4 weakness to Ice and a weakness to Fairies that are almost dominating this meta. The speed boost it gained now makes it faster than Mega Lop and Mega Mane, meaning that you now need strong or SE priority if you need to revenge kill this thing. Thankfully it dies from any Ice Shard and Mega Pinsir and Talon keeps it on check! Mega Emboar (are you really surprised) Fire/Fighting Ability: Reckless HP 110 Attack 123 -> 150 Defence 65 -> 80 Sp. Attack 100 -> 110 Sp. Defence 65 -> 80 Speed 65 -> 88 Who said that every mega needs a new typing or a new OP ability? Some pokemon just need some stat boosts to shine! Mega Bacon God works exactly as the normal one, but now is bulkier and as fast as Excadril, cause gambling about speed tie can make a game very interesting! It may be my favorite pokemon, but making it OP as hell feels bad somehow... Mega Samurott Water/Fighting Ability: No Guard HP 95 Attack 100 -> 130 Defence 85 -> 95 Sp. Attack 108 -> 130 Sp. Defence 70 -> 80 Speed 70 -> 98 New moves: Focus Blast, Sacred Sword, Secret Sword Ok, now we can talk about broken mons! Samurott is left behind the other 2 starters cause gamefreak doesn't know how to handle an awesome design! Samurott now becomes a true samurai, gaining the fighting type that should have from the start. But what kind of samurai would it be without some cool new sword moves? Mega Samurott now tries to become a Sword of Justice and somehow rival Keldeo! It's ability now lets it spam stupidly strong moves like Hydro Pump, Blizzard, Focus Blast and Megahorn with no drawbacks. But ofc it's not everything so good. Mega Samurott is hindered by its base 98 speed that lets it speed tie with Hydreigon (cause as I said, praying at RNG can make a match from boring to awesome!). Fortunately Samurott has Aqua Jet for priority, but that still doesn't help it against Bird Spam...

There was supposed to be info today (17/7) from pokenchi, which is a tv show aired every sunday. Unfortunately it showed us the video from Wednesday, so we got nothing new :/

I share the same thoughts as Masquerain for the series future! I think the writers are trying to make Ash fulfill his dreams and end his journey with him ending with Serena and a league title! As for the Alola saga I want to either see Eureka/Bonnie as a bit grown up starting her journey or Manon looking for Alan after he departed Kalos to search for Mega Evolutions (or whatever evolution Greninja's form is) in Alola! Also, I want to really point out that I enjoyed this saga due to Harimaron (Chespin), Dedene, Eureka (Bonnie) and somewhat Horubee (Bunelby)! They really make it hillarious with their personality and expressions, bringing me back memoreis from Dawn's Piplup Edit: I also forgot to say that if they replace Ash, they should replace Team Rocket too as the villains. That's why I think we might see Giovani taking action and reward TR for any 'acomplishment' they might succeed in the middle of the Kalos crisis...

Do you think that Team Rocket will play a big part against the Team Flare showdown? The psychic leader's vision said that they will be in the middle of crisis too. Is there any hope that we might see Giovani taking any action since we saw him getting really interested about Zygarde?

Heracross needs 252/252 att/speed and ability wise guts is prefered, although swarm is still good! For coverage moves you probably need Night Slash for psychic types and since you can't have Stone Edge yet (dunno about Rock Slide, can't remember where you get it) maybe Aerial Ace for fighting types. I didn't know you had access to other Rotom forms other than the normal, otherwise I would have suggested it.

I can't think myself playing gen 4 without using Lucario as soon as it becomes available! But in case you don't want your whole team be OP (pretty strong as it is rn), I suggest to use mons you never used before. Frosslas (I think it is available before Candice), Abomasnow (I really want to see someone using this thing), Medicham, Drapion or Roserade are all some really nice options. Ofc there are always the very common options of Staraptor, Luxray, Toxicroak and Togekiss

I haven't seen the trailer yet, but from various screenshots I saw, we can see Eevee's pokedex. And it has around it 8 spots for possible evolution chains, meaning we will not get a new eeveelution this gen

I was actually joking

Who would have thought that we will get 2 pika clones in this gen?

I don't want to turn this thread to another 'why should/shouldn't talon be in game' thread, but brokeness is not always what matters! Ame has make a wonderful work to make us use the less used mons more and that imo is what make reborn unique!!! Let's say adding Talonflame after Kiki/Samson is a good idea, what will make me use it over other flying or even fire types at that point? Amazing speed tier and priority makes it better than any other bird and most of the fire types at that point. And priority Roost makes healing items less used, thus more money efficient (at this point I want to say to Ame to reduce the money earned from daily trainers at Grand Hall now that they became a grindfest).

Do we know if corocoro will leak today? It usualy leaks between 10-13 of each month... This month's magazine will probably confirm that these leaks are fake!