NikhilR

OP looking sexy Bowser, thank you :) Also best of luck Joey, you got this.

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Haha probably that :P

650k to start off with.

I guess you're right Think. Atm it feels like priorities have changed. I just feel that people run banded dugtrio mainly for heracross/metagross and yes it seems to take out a lot of other pokemon like blaziken/medicham as well making it strong. The reason I come to the conclusion of banded dugtrio being used for hera/metagross, is because if both get banned, then banded dugtrio would be seen far more less and we'd either see a spak killer dugtrio or probably none at all.

Yes those values are the ivs of your meowth. IVs stand for individual value if I'm right, so your HP IV, could be anywhere between 8-13. When you level up your meowth, the iv range changes thus helping in narrowing down the exact iv. Say at level 10 I get something like 10-19 as my hp iv, it means that the HP IV is now somewhere in between 10-13. Like that you keep narrowing it down till you get the exact value. Narrowing can also be done through gaining evs but that's a whole another part.

Where is the super in Skarmory? :P But fair enough I honestly didn't know about that and though Xcel gave his own team a cool name. Fair enough on the strategy, And that superpower team is terrible, I could still set up on a flygon that is locked to EQ. I reach +2 or sub and gengar tbolt is a 3hko and shadowball probably a 2hko putting myself in salac and swarm range. Of course I could always make sure your gengar is damaged by running any pursuit user and then put you at a health where gengar could die from megahorn. An aero or flygon locked into EQ could even set up a bellydrum zard and the whole team gets rekt by a jolteon. In a general basis, that team is bad, really. More importantly, you're running an entire team just to stop Heracross? If your team has another purpose or so then let me know. (apart from taking spikes dmg) My mistake then Robo. I'd term it more in a way as a skill-less strategy. Imo sub reversal has a lot more options sometimes for eg, it helps in taking out almost any spdef wall ranging from Ludicolo to Blissey and takes out pokemon locked into superpower with ease. It probably won't work for Heracross but it works vs Metagrosses locked into Tpunch since they spam that to take out vapo/slowbro. So I guess depending on your strategy as in if you want to take out strong threats in general or take out the spdef walls and then use some calm minders or rain dance teams to sweep. But I guess this is off topic so best not to discuss this further I guess. Imo banded Heracrosses does it's job of taking out a pokemon one at a time, that is when it comes out, something is surely gonna die or take a massive hit. But it doesn't sweep, so in that sense it isn't nearly as powerful as a reversal one. Also shoutout to Arcanine for helping me ease past all the gengars without having to get mindfucked by its set :P Which is exactly my point Excel. All you do is simply state things without any actual proof of practice. Like how you said Gengar psychic kills Heracrosses, Arcanine isn't a counter to Gengar. Most people run a standard counter for a particular pokemon, not an entire team. If you ask me for some counters for most pokemon, I will give it to you. Stopped reading the rest of your post when you said heracross isn't a major threat.

I'm sorry if I was being hostile, I'm usually openly blunt and I have a very low tolerance towards stupidity. If you call trapping a strategy, then your definitions of strategy are different from mines. Strategy is something that involves thinking and planning and more or less there are risks at times. There is no huge thought process of using Dugtrio and me using it is basically me abusing it while I can. Just like how people did with Dragonite but still used it because it was too good to not use. If your counters do not exist, then what was the point of mentioning gengar and skarmory? You said they hinder the strategy so I don't know what else you mean by it. Are you telling me no one runs a pokemon below 137 speed in a team? Because if they do, all Heracross needs to do is come in and continue to sub till it reaches salac. How fucking hard can that be? Your one layer of missing spikes means nothing when you still have access to swords dance which makes a lot of difference. Your superman team lol, the name itself is bad, can't imagine how much worse the team could be.

Running Aerial Ace on dugtrio is solely for Heracross. Your ordinary sub reversal dugtrio doesn't ohko it. Banded dugs are nice to take out things when you have done certain damage to it. This doesn't apply to Heracross though because of it's 4x weakness. You know what, you honestly know nothing. I don't care what teams you have been running because unless you put your so called theories to a test or practice, it's not worth listening to. Robo has pointed out that gengar and skarmory are not counters, yet you selectively choose what you like from it. It has enough speed to hit salac and sweep and enough attk stat to tear through walls especially with access to swords dance. Your faster pokemon like Aerodactyl, Jolteon, Starmie don't have moves that increase it's power by a factor of 2 so they can't actually sweep. I used trio to STOP other Heracrosses, not support it. Heracross doesn't need support, it's pretty insanely powerful on its own.

Honestly, if I rng'd someone that bad and especially when they deserved to win, I'd dc since it really would be unfair to my opponent if I claimed the win and hid behind that lame quote "RNG is part of the game" (would hide in TT though). The only times when I find rng acceptable is when I make the right prediction and get a crit or so because of a bad play from the opponent/insanely super duper amazing move from me. Most of the guys know how I skillfully trapped piata's Blissey yesterday, too good. Sometimes it's moments like these that make you sad when you know you're the better player but you lose the match because the opponent had a better team or some weird gimmick. OP needs a lot of updating Bowser, like removing some of the old members and adding new ones like Quint and Kay, and finally accolades. Pls get crackin' If you need links to the accolades or any help, let me know.

I still can't believe ppl don't think Heracross deserves a ban. I went into 2 straight OU official finals because of that thing and dugtrio. Dugtrio helps in killing banded ones with Aerial Ace and I'm willing to sack one pokemon to Heracross rather than an entire team. The only reason I lost in the final is because my heracross was slower than a starmie and hence I mispredicted the sub and got killed by my opponent's Dugtrio. If both finalists are running a banded dugtrio, it means that taking out Hera/Metagross and a few others, are more important than taking out blissey/snorlax. More importantly with it's high insane attack stat and good enough speed, it can set up for sub reversal with so much ease and proceed with a sweep. That's one of the beauties of it, since you can hide it throughout the match and then finally reveal it.

Pretty much what Keith said. The time and money involved into breeding a comp is huge considering how you need to catch your breeders, buy the necessary pokeballs/braces etc. So all in all, most people are reluctant to sell their stuff because they don't want to undergo the whole process all over again. Unless people are willing to overpay for comps by paying a mill + or so, it wouldn't be worth the effort. As for the money involved in making comps, it took me about 200k to make my adamant heracross. However if you want to breed eggmove pokemon, it takes about 300k or more.

Welp, back to back would've been nice. Need to team build better I guess.

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Well that's a problem isn't it? Since Arcanine then can't switch in, tank the hit and then use morning sun. Imo it should be a 3hko so it's best to run some spdef evs on it.

help a poor guy out :(

That moment when I search for the movie "The Drop" on torrents and I get xxx movies "When the panties drop".

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Nah, OT is SSjon or something. Now it's with a guy named Spike.

Goddamn Kiz not informing us about anything. jk, happy bday brah :)

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With pc expansion, I get max around 9 boxes. This isn't enough to fill your boxes with comps from OU/UU/NU and at the same time accomodate things like caught pokemon which you need to breed with, your previous breeders and dittos. My idea was that I could use the box expansion for my main solely for my comps and use my alts to keep my breeders. Gift shop items should be more of a luxury but imo this right here is almost a necessity. You can get up to 9 boxes and imo it is only enough to store your comps. It would just be one alt to store the breeders. And the only reason I'm able to afford a box expansion is through my 2nd place in officials. Otherwise I wouldn't pay real money for it. Saying they're trying to discourage alts without doing anything about it is imo wrong.

Pretty much yeah.