RysPicz

Time changes, I'm sorry for inconvenience, I tried announcing it multiple times today D:

Since it's a player friendly tournament I've allowed everyone who signed up and came to play, to participate http://challonge.com/aurasbirthday

Why are you doing this to me Golden, I thought we were friends...

Sign ups in 50 minutes folks! Fuark I'm so hyped I feel like i'm gonna explode soon. Not like them suicide bombers in Paris doe. #supportforparis

Congrats Doc, get the Yen going. Ima start you off with 15m

Uwotm8 E: Also I don't want Golden "early". I want him all the time.

2 hours 45 mins wut

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A lecture worth reading https://forums.pokemmo.eu/index.php?/topic/54492-worried-shiny-encounter-rate/

Timezones now after time change are confusing me a lot

Sign ups are in 8 hours 56 minutes from this post. Don't forget em!

Forfiter

Jose apparently is "The Special One". At losing oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Do you? Have you tried playing offense in UU? I doubt you did. I did multiple times and it's just not effective. Because you are a wall player who got scouted and your opponet brought stuff to spank your team? Sunny day sets are unviable once more because of houndoom that blocks sunnybeam combo. A meta where I send out Houndoom to block my enemy Houndoom ain't what we were dreaming of. All 3 pokes you mentioned are getting under my point 2. where Houndoom limits the teambuilding a lot with exception of Absol 0 SpA Houndoom Fire Blast vs. 4 HP / 4 SpD Absol: 109-129 (77.3 - 91.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO Although Absol itself is paper and cannot even swich in. Zangoose is actually stronger than I thought but only set I see as dangerous is SD Silk Scarf. Zangoose is paper though but it might work as a wallbreaker. Also most people run Omastar to block Swellow, AND Scizor to pursuit trap and kill it. I didn't want to hear abut zangoose cuz I underestimated it. And Chansey debate in OU is different but I'm tired of arguing about it since you seem dense and blunt for our arguments about it. No special attacker beat chansey and some of us already told you that and proved multiple times but I guess you will defend stall and wall pokes from OU even in UU viability thread. Girafarig, Xatu, MisD, Hypno, Grumpig. Practically every psychic type that otherwise would be viable in UU, gets blocked from using because of Houndoom, killing tier's diversity. Also wtf, how +6 MisD can't kill Clefable if even +4 can do it? +6 0 SpA Misdreavus Hidden Power Fighting vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Clefable: 142-168 (70.2 - 83.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery +5 0 SpA Misdreavus Hidden Power Fighting vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Clefable: 124-148 (61.3 - 73.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery +4 0 SpA Misdreavus Hidden Power Fighting vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Clefable: 108-128 (53.4 - 63.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery Even +4 does it. And HP Fighting on it is absolutely awesome (perfect coverage ftw).

I've seen and played some UU battles lately and came to few conclusions. 1. Offense and hyper offense are totally unviable in the tier. UU is filled with powerful walls with instant recovery or 1-turn Rest (Clef, Exegg, Slowking, Kanga, Vileplume, Scizor) and they bulk/ typing allows them to effectively wall the whole tier. Problem is, it's not one poke that blocks the playstyle, it's the whole bunch of pokemons. 2. Houndoom is more problematic than I could even imagine. I talked so many times with players about their teams and they were like "no I can't run this and this because Houndoom". I saw teams being built in a way to avoid being trapped by Houndoom. It's not on the top of the usage but I see it as a very problematic poke that has an insane influence on the tier and limits the teambuilding a lot, making pokes like Xatu, Grumpig, Hypno and few others that atm I can't think of, unviable, while I think they would get some decent usage. 3. Lack of power. We lack fast, strong, hard-hitting offensive powerhouses with a good STAB and stat distribution or movepool. Kingler is strong as fuck but gets walled by omnipresent Plume, Slowking or Exegg. Granbull is also strong af but it's very slow and gets outspeeded by a lot of pokes and only viable set is CB. WEELEE gets walled again totally by Slowking or Plume or Exegg (latter 2 get 2shoted by Blaze Kick but w/e). Don't tell me about Zangoose or Pikachu please. A while ago Robo suggested bringing down some BL pokes to check out how they would do. Only 3 I'd see as worth testing are Medicham, Dodrio and Sceptile. I'm on the fence with the first 2 but pretty sure that with Plume and Exegg in the tier, Sceptile would be manageable. Dodrio might seem scary, so does Medicham, but something has to be done because this tier is just absolute shit compared to what we used to have back in 2014 when most of players left OU to play UU.

I'll buy a bar in monday before work and show you the pic Also I don't smack talk, I'm bad at it

Let's just say it Kay, ur so bad you don't wanna sign up. Do it or I'm gonna visit you and you won't come out sober from that visit Also you know what I realised? Our favourite Galaxy chocolate is fucking produced in... Poland.

Daniellegal

These must be quite expensive

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POKEMON AURA! Don't be misled- birthday is today, tournament happens in Saturday. Brace yourselves!

That guy has no hat though. But I heard he is taking care of a nice tree.

I gotcha with PP ups/ maxes, love

That guy in a blue hat on the poster is cool.

TOAST GET IT

Since I feel like the thread somewhat aims at me cuz I got countless alts, I will make a short response before someone catches me stealing the toilet wifi. Alts were always my main source of income. Not because I like going through storyline (which I actually do) but because of the profit I am making out of them In a short timespan. Do not blame the alts. We are left without choice. How did you intend to get storyline items. Tms and pp ups in the past? Things did not change much. Alts yearn insane profit compared to all other forms of getting funds and most of updates only make them more profitable although I don't feel like that is the intention. I got a very simple and a very good solution of diminishing the alt power but... why would I even share it? =)