Seel The Deal

Actually, it's pretty common to run defense/special defense EVs rather than HP on a fast attacker spread (especially if it's a revenge killer) since you take one more switch-in to die from hazards. ANYWAYS my accomplishment was a no-damage Adrienn fight - lead with Tailwind/Defiant Braviary and Defiant Bisharp, both opposing 'mons miss, I get up Tailwind, and via Intimidate boosting my attack stats from Defiant I just OHKO'd xyr entire team with Slash (Braviary) and Iron Head (Bisharp). Only other 'mon to get off a move was Whimsicott because Prankster + double targeting Mawile, but the Tailwind it used (somehow) wasn't enough for it to outspeed me with its 126(127?) base speed on the next turn? Eh, whatever.

Weird, because I know it wasn't there. Maybe I should just re-download (though I'm not doing much in Reborn rn so I might wait for the E17 update and the respective Sandbox update to drop).

Probopass: Just... why do you have to wait so long to evolve this garbage? By the time you get back from Agate Probopass' only niche not better fulfilled by something else is being traded for a Togepi egg, and even then you're forced to fix the Railnet first to do that! If you want bulky paralysis, Stun Spore <insert bulky Grass or Bug type here> (hey, it's not like Probopass' defensive typing is any better lol). If you want suicide Rocks, literally any other SR 'mon with Sturdy is likely to have more offensive/defensive use and/or a stronger suicide move. If you want a Steel/Rock type because you like getting one-shot by a Fighting- or Ground-type sneezing on you, Aggron is actually pretty good. Machamp: You get it late enough that you already have access to Conkeldurr(?), Hawlucha, Medicham, Chesnaught, and Emboar... which I'd argue are all better than Machamp in one way or another. No Guard Dynamicpunch is funny though. Sceptile: Not as a starter choice (since I'm pretty sure Treecko is one of if not the fastest starter with an advantage vs. Julia and Florinia (Fury Cutter and resist to both Grass and Ground moves)), but from the event. It's a fast, specially offensive pure Grass-type, and sure, it gets some solid special moves (Giga Drain, Leaf Storm, Dragon Pulse, Hidden Power, etc.), and even a great ability in Unburden. But we don't have the Mega Stone yet (or the Mega Ring for that matter, though we'll probably get it fairly soon, within E17 or E18, since we're getting some stones atm), its typing defensively is meh (being noteworthy because of Electric, Ground, and Water resists) and its stats besides Speed and Sp.Atk aren't too great. Why does this come so dang late? Just stick to Lilligant for a specially offensive Grass sweeper. You don't need coverage when setting up to +6 in 3 bloody stats is made so easy. For a physical or mixed Grass sweeper, as odd as it sounds, Simisage. Acrobatics, Crunch, Seed Bomb, Shadow Claw, and idk probably some decent special moves too. There's also Roserade who has a 90 BP coverage move of any type due to Hidden Power + Technician, and also has other amazing moves like Venoshock, Toxic Spikes, Giga Drain, Leaf Storm, Extrasensory, etc.

As far as I can tell, the Life Orb item is missing too. Triple-checked all the first floor shops for it and found nothing.

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Ambipom doesn't do the same thing as Cincinno, it doesn't benefit nearly as much from Skill Link and doesn't get as much coverage, instead trading it for raw power (110 base rather than 95) and I think a tiny bit of speed and bulk. It wouldn't make a great flinch haxer, and would probably be better suited to a Technician set with moves like Double Hit, Pursuit, Fake Out, Doubleslap and Aerial Ace. On the topic of Cincinno countering Fire types: yes, it does this, but... it can do this WITHOUT King's Rock, which is why I personally consider it annoying (rather than the annoying thing being the flinch hax itself). Giving it something to offensively boost Rock Blast (or all its moves depending on the item) would make it just as threatening without the BS flinch hax. ...and this is coming from a guy who abused King's Rock Cincinno although I used Choice Band more lol back in the ORAS RU days of Showdown, and with all the salt you see in the chat, it almost isn't even fun using it yourself.

Thanks for the warm welcome y'all! @Yagami Oh boy, another Pokemon game to add to my list. Reborn E17, Insurgence 1.2, Rejuvenation v9, monolocke-Fairy Sun/Moon, Desolation... yeah I think that's gonna have to get in line XD

I have a lot of team members in rotation and I use them all pretty often so I don't really have a main team. Might as well just post my 6 MVPs (guess that can be my "team") and all my rotating 'mons. In rotation: MVPs (ordered from best to slightly less than best): And just for funsies, my first team: Typhlosion/Noivern/Manectric/Crobat/2 other irrelevant mons that honestly did very little. I'm only saying that because I don't remember them they probably did a lot lol

...or something like that, anyway. So uh, hi, I guess. I sit on my lazy behind and play video games all day while still somehow getting good grades in school (particularly Math and English). I'm also not afraid to say I'm not exactly light, but eh, whatever. Maybe I can pretend I'm a heavyweight champ one day lol right. Favourite games? Pokemon games (particularly Reborn, it's an absolute masterpiece and I can't help but check in every day to see that the community is 1% closer to experiencing greatness. Main series is good but a bit easy for my liking, and I guess stuff like Insurgence and Zeta/Omicron are good too. Haven't tried Rejuvenation yet but I really should), Terraria (in which I've managed to log over 1600 hours because who needs a life? Eh, doesn't beat the number of hours I have in the Pokemon or Guitar Hero series anyway), Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock (on PC because custom songs, also I have like 1700+ hours in the series lol) and the Dark Souls series (because I feel the need to torture myself because they're fun, challenging and fast paced action RPGs with about 20 million different ways to play). I also enjoy various other games, but I kinda have a lot so maybe let's not mention them? I've been lurking these forums without an account for Arceus knows how long now I only started around the release of E15 but shh but never really got around to making an account. Played through Reborn a few times now and never once failed to pick up a Durant and just barely managed to drag myself away from the trap of using Granbull again on my most recent run. Currently have a rotation of 25 team members; will back up the save and replay real quick in E17 before going back to the main save because I am NOT EV TRAINING AND IV BREEDING 25 POKEMON AGAIN NO THANK YOU SIR HAVE A NICE DAY. Anyways, still young now but in the future I'm going to be developing video games (probably). I could go down one of many routes tbh, but I'm only particularly interested in singing (which I'm really not that great at), game development, and sorta chemistry, though people tell me I'd like physics. ...I'm running out of mildly entertaining things to say so, uh, here's some favorites of mine. Favorite hobbies: singing, video gaming (duh), being lazy (super duh) Favorite subject: mathematics (because everyone likes math, right? ...Right?) Favorite bands: Dragonforce, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica (aka the objective best bands in the history of the universe) Favorite food: meatloaf (because it's yummy in my tummy) Favorite way to spell Favorite: Favourite (because I'm good at Inglish) ...So that's me. A guy with dreams and a passion for gaming. And a Youtube channel with no videos that I've been planning to start uploading on for ages but never got around to it. Maybe tomorrow. Or the day after. Or a week later. Or in a year... eh, give it two years.