Lorisaur

Not weird at all to be honest... Silvally's fish tail is similar to carvanha's, he has a sort of "feathers" and the general aspect is not so far from Luxray. They are just resources to take the raw material from in the hands of the orderly. But it's for a good end I suppose

I've recently started to play online matches and I've noticed that Reborn's metagame is incredibly different than showdown singles. There are three main points. First: MKangaskhan, Aegislash, Blaziken and Naganadel are allowed. Second: there are no legendaries, this means no landorus, no heatran, no zapdos and the list goes on. Third: many important tms and mega stones are still missing. A metagame without u-turn and volt switch, for example, is way different than the regular one. These changes create the necessity to reconsider the game's threats in order to create well balanced teams. Let's start off with the pokemon I belive to be the most powerful of the entire game Naganadel Timid nature, dragon pulse sludge bomb/venoshock (not sure sludge bomb is in the game) nasty plot flamethrower/heat wave (according to field effects) Naganadel can freely switch in any Rotom form (as it does not carry volt switch), most grass types and many other pokemons with proper prediction. What is however important is that he has a very limited amount of counters as Metagrossite, Heatran, Nihilego, Celesteela and Landorus are just dreamed and also earthquake is not in the game yet. I don't think we should apply any bans in this metagame, but Naganadel is of course a centralizing force as really few pokemon can switch in, take a hit and answer properly. My best suggestions to deal with him are: Weavile lead to cripple Naganadel leads (unreliable if Naganadel is in the back and manages to get a beast boost), bulky u-turn/parting shot lead into encore MLopunny and of course his best counter, life orb/specs ice beam Empoleon. It might seem a strange pokemon, but he is the only pokemon able to tank any hit from a boosted Naganadel and kill him afterwards. This means that Empoleon deserves a place in OU on his own, as one of the best checks for this pokemon. Sounds weird. Best teammates for Naganadel are pokemon that can help him to set up a nasty plot and go rampage. Parting shot is appreciated, as well as wish support and sticky web to not let the rare MegaBeedrill ruin the party. Speaking of him, Mega Beedrill sounds great but the absence of U-Turn makes it much less reliable and unpredictable than it is in regular OU. However, let's go on with the next threat Aegislash Sdance setup set (both with and without sacred sword), toxic defensive set (usually special) Aegislash is slightly more versatile than Naganadel. In both sets, his goal is to get a free turn coming in pokemon that can be afraid of him or act as setup fodder, like Alakazam, MPinsir, Ninetales-A, Hawlucha, Ferrothorn and anything in range of a shadow sneak. The aegislash MUST use free turns to swords dance as very few pokemon can resist all of his move. If he instead has a defensive set, he can set up a substitute or use a toxic if it carries both stabs (but i would suggest to use kshield sub sball and toxic, without flash cannon, and much defensive EV investment). Aegislash can win games alone and with proper setup can even give trouble to his worst counters, like CharizardY. Speaking of counters, the first step in battling an Aegislash is to figure out his set. Silvally can use parting shot bypassing a substitute and Haze Toxapex can stall all of Aegislash variants, forcing it to switch to avoid taking too many layers of toxic spikes. Toxapex can even use knock off to take out the lefties of Aegislash or another pokemon that can usually come in to counter Toxapex, such as Alakazam, Reuniclus, Gastrodon or many others like Metagross. Once figured the set there are many efficient ways to react: Bisharp and Magnezone are perfect for the not-sacred sword variants, but if it does not have a steel move he's open to some pokemon like MAltaria or Clefable. Gengar and Weavile are good checks, but should switch out in front of an Aegislash. Speaking of the stallish variant, Alolan Muk, Toxapex and Gliscor are very good switch in for him. However, many pokemon such as Volcarona, Charizard and Blaziken are very good to apply pressure and force him to switch to his water type, maybe Araquanid, Milotic or another wall. Like for Naganadel, the key of playing Aegislash is to make him switch in with proper timing and set up as soon as possible his sub or swords dance. Be ware of the will o wisps by the way Blaziken Inferno overdrive, Life orb all out offense, baton pass starter Blaziken is a very simple pokemon that has just a couple possible sets to use: he can use Flare blitz, Superpower, a setup move (swords dance or bulk up) and one among protect and a rock/poison coverage with firium Z or life orb, or can have a bulkier set like baton pass swords dance protect/sub/flare blitz and both of them are lethal if underrated. Blaziken is a common lead, after a swords dance and a speed boost can kill almost anything he finds to face. It's a bit like Naganadel, with slightly more unpredictability but also more counters. Bulky waters can apply a very consistent pressure, but are not always a solid switch in as a boosted Blaziken can easly break through the defenses of a Milotic or a Gastrodon, one among Clefable and Araquanid can stop it very easily according to the coverage move it carries, but Tentacruel Gyarados and Toxapex are just more reliable to stop him, unless it has the rare thunder punch, that does not have to be underrated either. MegaVenusaur is a very nice teammate for him as it has good matchup with most of his counters and checks, but is also needed support aganist psychic types as well supported ones like agility metagross or trick room Reuniclus/Beeheyem can break through this combo with ease. I would suggest Aegislash or Empoleon (as is also always needed a good out aganist him, none of Venusaur and Blaziken has access to the learnable Earthquale) Toxapex Absolute wall, Black Sludge Not much to say about him. I personally think it is the best non-uber pokemon of this game as able to stall almost any pokemon, even those that should theoretically stall or break thrpugh him. His monster like defenses allow him to survive almost any hit and recover back all the damage. The best moves for him are Toxic/toxic spikes, recover, haze, infestation, scald and knock off. While Recover and Haze are mandatory, the other ones can be chosen according to the teammates. He can handle almost the entire metagame by himself, only losing to the rare earthquakes and to the psychic types, most importantly Metagross, Espeon, Starmie, MGardevoir, Mamoswine, Hippowdon, Flygon and Excadrill that usually force him to switch. Not a big deal, considering that he can freely switch in and cause disaster to any kind of pokemon, like Charizard X, Gyarados, Blaziken, Aegislash, Gliscor, Salamence, Volcarona, Araquanid and anything that comes in my mind. He also has to worry about band crawdaunt and swords dance Bisharp, as their knock off raw power is just huge. Additionally, Dugtrio and Gothitelle can both trap him to death with no escape possibility. In games without team prewiew this is a big deal sadly. However, most of the players wont play traps as they are banned in regular OU, being so controversial, and for this reason Toxapex is absolutely a top tier pokemon. Good teammates for him are pokemons able to handle psychics, as MSableye, Metagross, Aegislash or Skarmory and others that instead handle Ground types, as Gliscor, Silvally-Water/Flying, Araquanid or Salamence, a pokemon that I find as greatly underrated in this metagame Volcarona Quiver Dance setupper, Bulky Defogger, leftovers Volcarona is one of the most interesting pokemons we have in the tier. After a quiver dance its power becomes huge. For the quiver dance set, I would play flamethrower/fiery dance bug buzz and one between giga drain and roost as other moves. Its goal is obviously to setup and sweep, nothing strange. However, it may require more technical play than Naganadel as more pokemon can stop him, especially after ep18 brought Rock Slide. Araquanid, Toxapex, Silvally-Water/Flying, Gyarados and Dragonite are common switch ins for him that are very solid counters and may even use them as setup fodder. Nevertheless, Volcarona is an incredibly solid pokemon and in this metagame where stealth rock is rarely used (due to less frequent switches in the game) can freely switch in and out until his counter is dead and Volcarona is ready to punch through whole teams. The goal of the Bulky set instead is to cripple what should theoretically be a counter. Volcarona can Toxic a switching water and let him die with Gastrodon, MSableye, or anything else. The main goal of defog, however, is to be safe aganist stealth rock and various hazards. Among with Skarmory, Rotom and Silvally, Volcarona is one of the best defogger of the game and provides very good utility to one of the strongest sweepers and possibly one of the top 3 megas in the game: Charizard X. I would play this core with a good flying type, maybe Gliscor, a Toxapex counter as Mamoswine, something like Empoleon because everything seemingly has an hard time aganist Naganadel and a support or an hazard setter (Chansey?) just to make sweeping more effective. Mawile Sdance sweeper, 4 attacking moves Mawile is probably the most consistent mega evolution we have so far, followed by Charizard X and Venusaur. Mawile has everything from the original games and no important moves are unreleased so far for him. While it might seem hard to get him started, it usually has the possibility to shut down at least one or two pokemon in a game and it's vast movepool gives him the chance of catching off-guard even common counters or switch-ins like Volcarona, Aegislash, Charizard or Toxapex. Depending on the playstyle, Swords dance can be used or not. The goal of non-dancing Mawile is to get in a pokemon that deals little damage to him, force it to switch and kill the coming pokemon, than switch out the Mawile. It wont sweep entire teams, but it may be better to cover more pokemon and remove specific pokemons from the opposing team with less common moves as fire fang thunder punch or rock slide. Swords dance is however the most common set. Mawile needs to get in a setup fodder and can both swords dance or attack according to the phase of the game: in the first turns you want to hide your swords dance and scout the opponent's counter to Mawile and send him back to the field when that counter is dead. If used as a late game cleaner (role that I personally suggest) he can sweep with ease the last 3 pokemons of a team or at least go rampage before being forced to switch out. Pokemon with ground immunities are mandatory to support a Mawile. Probably, Skarmory and Rotom-Wash are good supporters. Chansey is also good as he can tank Volcarona and set rocks, which Mawile appreciates so much, but than is also needed someone who can switch into a boosted Volcarona and kill it. Araquanid and Gyarados are both very good ideas, but also Toxapex is nice in teams a bit more stallish. The power of Mawile lays in the fact that while many pokemon can kill him in a 1v1, very few of them can switch in safely. For example, Mawile cannot switch in a Blaziken or a Naganadel, but they can't switch in him. This is what allows him to take down so many pokemon before dying. His best offensive moves are probably the stabs knock off and sucker, with sucker punch being absolutely crucial in playing Mawile Metagross AV/leftovers sweeper Metagames change, but in the end Metagross is always good. In this game, he finds a role as an assault vest user able to check very effectively Naganadels as he resists a nasty plot flamethrower, altough he completely lacks any form of recovery and needs a wish support. Metagross is also the best possible switch-in for Toxapex, possibly the best non-uber in the game (besides Dugtrio and Gothitelle as I'm not considering trapping for now - and some Toxapex sets might even handle them) and one of the best answers to Venusaur, as he can't even learn earthquake and its only way to damage him back is with leech seed. Metagross's good movepool high attack and great ability allow him to use very well 4 different attacking moves. Zen Headbutt is mandatory to hit poison types, while bullet punch can shut down crippled pokemon and meteor mash (or iron head) can deal massive damage to pokemon like Mamoswine, Tyranitar or MAltaria that could otherwise threaten him. As for the coverage, Bulldoze serves to lure Magnezones into death, while Rock slide ohkoes not evolved Charizards and Volcaronas switching into the Magnezone and Ice Punch covers different targets like Gliscor or Salamence. Teammates for Metagross depend on his moves, but I would greatly reccommend someone like Dragonite, Salamence or Charizard X, all good setuppers that have different weaknesses than Metagross, that can greatly shine in a metagame without Heatran, Landorus, MCharizardY, MGyarados and Volt Switch Magnezone. A great weakness of him is Aegislash, so I would suggest to pokemon to handle both sets, like Toxapex, Muk or Bisharp. Leftovers Metagross works just the same, he checks less effectively Naganadel and Volcarona but he can have a semireliable recovery in lefties and can even try to use Agility over bullet punch. Also Choice Band and Life Orb are good on him, but I wouldn't suggest playing them besides in specific teams. What's the goal of all this? As you might have understood, I find this metagame pretty interesting and we should analyze it more. These are just 7 top-usage pokemon, but I'll post other in the next days and maybe one day I'll even try to organize a tournament here in the forum. Do you think it is a good idea?

Masahiro Sakurai always wins

Ouch it says "waiting" to me too However I have to go now, we can battle this evening I will send a pm this time

Are you still there?

It says you are offline

Ok! Can I challenge you? Thanks for the shinies btw

I think you could see it

The bidoof hold the fossile

I've sent...

Would you like to play a game afterwards? Sent trade request

Yup coming online

Ok that's good, I don't have tyrunt and amaura's fossiles but for the others it's ok

Ehm... gen 2 does not have fossiles

Ok I'm back what do you need?

I'm sorry, i was asleep. I come back home in 4 hours, I'm at school. I'll pm you

Of course I can! However, I think you can find 5gen fossiles in agate. I can give you an Aerodactyl and trade some fossiles if you like, but not before this evening (8pm gmt+1?) As I'm busy right now

If you can't solve it I have a spare ice stone too

There are a couple characters I would really like to see in smash, but alredy know they wont. One of these is Hitmontop and I would even have some ideas for his moveset B: mach punch. 2%, extremely fast, a bit like pikachu's jab but with more range. Useful to B-Reverse or wavebounce to gain momentum SideB: triple kick. Multi-hit attack similar to bayo's F-tilt. 2.5%, 5%, 10% damage for the hits. UpB: jump kick. Jumps high ready to kick having an hitbox on the knee, than kicks by pressing again the button. A bit like Shulk, but better and faster DownB: rapid spin. No damage, Hitmontop rapidly flips and changes his battle stance to fight upside down. He has same specials, but all other moves and properties are completely different. Stalls a bit in air when used first time, like water shuriken Running speed: avarage (normal) very high (reversed) Jump height: medium/high, medium/low Falling speed/air speed: medium Jab: Mario's (with a kick from up if reversed) Ftilt: Zss, a quick kick from up if reversed Dtilt: a low kick like zelda but slower (hits down with one hand very fast and with little lag if reversed) Uptilt: Ivysaur (jump + hitbox), Olimar if reversed (spinjump) Fsmash: Mega Punch. Laggy amd with not much damage, but incredible kill power, weaker and faster if reversed Dsmash: new Snake's, Peach if reversed Upsmash: Fox, Greninja if reversed (2 hitboxes with feet) Nair: old Ness Upair: Mario, Sonic Dair: Corrin, Bowser Fair: Pac-man, Diddy Bair: Falcon (backward arm hit, but much smaller range), backward kick from up Final smash: All-out Pummeling What do you think about it? Do you like the idea of having a character that changes according to the stance? While the normal Hitmontop has better combo tools and a slightly better aerial mobility that also helps him in neutral with some attacks like the very fast Fair and Bair, Reversed's very high running speed and incredible downtilt makes it much better for ground game while also keeping some aerial tools like Nair that can combo into each other at low% and are useful in neutral game. I hope you could enjoy this! If you like it I may post one of my other ideas, like Palossand or Mii Spellcaster Best b&b combos: upair strings, Nair/Dtilt into things when reversed

Budew does not exist.

Where is TM90 substitute?

Wait I thought that slowbronite was alredy in the game Which mega stones are we missing? By the way, Garchomp is always a solid pokemon and is very good in competitive play, you can even run stealth rocks. Froslass i a bit of a glass cannon, but if you want to use a similar pokemon you have Ninetales, that is extremely useful with light clay and aurora veil. As Ciel the Deal.. I mean... as Seel the Deal said, Aegislash and Gengar are great mons, but also Naganadel would be great (sspecially if you don't play garchomp) However if I had to choose 6 pokemons for your team I would pick Chest, Tales, Chomp, Magne, Vapy and Naganadel. If you want we can also have some test matches

You are right, but Haxorus is pretty bad. As I said in my reasonings, Tyranitar would fit very well to her team, also if Luna and Solaris have it

This is a bit like what I was thinking... but I hoped to be missing some other options I did not see to solve the puzzle. Looks like there are not. Thanks for your help

A bunch of gba games: all pokemon games, F-Zero maximum velocity in japanese, Mario&Luigi superstar saga, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo and Harry Potter and the Azkaban Prisoner Nintendo ds games like blue rescue team mario 64 DS dppt and hgss pokemon link dash and ranger, mario & luigi partners in time and bowser's inside story and mario kart DS Mario kart Wii and Mario Galaxy Age of empires II Gran Turismo 4 (don't know english name actually, maybe Grand Tourism 4?) With "as a child" I mean below 10 years old Oh my... I had so much fun, so much time passed... I want old good times again Videogames have reeeaally been so much for me... but I really needed them afterwards, when struggling the first times for weird love stories. I've been helped so much by Metroid games and Pokemon Reborn