Aerun Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 135 days until c h r i s t m a s Parke, MaatthewMLG and Draekyn 3 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 6 hours ago, Aerun said: 135 days until c h r i s t m a s liar. its christmas today. updates in mmo are just as rare as xmas Link to comment
razimove Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 1 minute ago, calidubstep said: liar. its christmas today. updates in mmo are just as rare as xmas it is for @Aerun, he got a new shiny! Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Just now, razimove said: it is for @Aerun, he got a new shiny! tru, shiny coal in his stocking <3 razimove 1 Link to comment
razimove Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 How many days to christmas exactly? Link to comment
Aerun Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, razimove said: How many days to christmas exactly? 134 days until c h r i s t m a s MaatthewMLG 1 Link to comment
cchiovitti527 Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Parke said: 133 days. BUT FIRST Edited August 15, 2018 by cchiovitti527 Link to comment
OrangeManiac Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 49 minutes ago, cchiovitti527 said: BUT FIRSTlet me take a selfie ftfy Spoiler KOHHuiXIN, cchiovitti527, Draekyn and 7 others 10 Link to comment
Draekyn Posted August 16, 2018 Author Share Posted August 16, 2018 On 8/15/2018 at 8:25 PM, OrangeManiac said: ftfy Hide contents I love you OrangeManiac 1 Link to comment
cchiovitti527 Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 1 hour ago, Draekyn said: I love you This was your photoshopping peak, nothing else will ever come close to it. Link to comment
RysPicz Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 Happy birthday @OrangeManiac ! OrangeManiac 1 Link to comment
Charderp Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 130 days until c h r i s t m a s Link to comment
Draekyn Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 22 minutes ago, Charderp said: 130 days until c h r i s t m a s comic sans, stepping up your game I see Link to comment
Charderp Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 Just now, Draekyn said: comic sans, stepping up your game I see gotta spice it up ya kno Link to comment
KOHHuiXIN Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Counting down to Christmas atm Link to comment
Parke Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 cant even post a pic/video. you're such a shit asian jeez also 128days MaatthewMLG and KOHHuiXIN 2 Link to comment
calidubstep Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 On 8/17/2018 at 8:35 AM, RysPicz said: Happy birthday @OrangeManiac ! @OrangeManiac late but this should make up for it KOHHuiXIN and OrangeManiac 2 Link to comment
Charderp Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 On 8/17/2018 at 3:35 PM, Charderp said: 127 days until c h r i s t m a s KOHHuiXIN 1 Link to comment
OrangeManiac Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 (edited) Ayyy, as some of you might know I won the unofficial Finnish nationals in VGC for the VGC 2018 format a couple of weeks ago. The reason why this was unofficial is that Finland is part of the European region, which means we qualify to World Championships through European Championship points threshold and for those countries there are no official nationals (like for Japan, Korea and Russia for example). Thought I would just share you guys with the team so you can try it out if you so wish. Gyarados-Mega @ Gyaradosite Ability: Mold Breaker Level: 50 EVs: 84 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def / 4 SpD / 164 Spe Jolly Nature - Waterfall - Crunch - Dragon Dance - Protect Gyarados was the Pokemon I wanted to build this whole team around. It's currently not very meta and it has around 1-2 % usage depending on the platform. I personally found Gyarados to be a very solid anti-meta pick as a Pokemon. Although it gets Intimidated, it really threatens Incineroar and Landorus-Therian leads because it has the better position on the field against those Pokemon due to type advantage. What this means is that I kinda force these two Pokemon rather stay in the back than in the front and this opens up opportunities for lots of other anti-meta picks. Also I want to mention that Mega-Evolutions with different typing are such an asset: You make your opponent in such awkward mind game situations. There was lots of times my opponent doesn't know whether to Rock Slide or Fight-move my Gyarados and this allowed me to play much more offensively while my opponent has to take the passive approach. Also why I liked Mega-Gyarados is because Mega-Metagross is broken but very commonly built against and Gyarados also serves as a great counter to a standard Mega-Metagross set. Nihilego @ Focus Sash Ability: Beast Boost Level: 50 EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Timid Nature - Power Gem - Sludge Bomb - Protect - Grass Knot Nihilego was my immediate second pick for this team. The main reason for Nihilego was that the most crippling weakness Mega-Gyarados has in the VGC 2018 format is Fairy-type weakness and basically every team has a Tapu or two. Nihilego has such a great matchup against every Tapu in the game, I don't think there's a better Pokemon against the Tapus. Outspeeds everything but Koko and nukes them with Sludge Bomb. Meanwhile takes very minimal damage from special Koko, which is by far the most common Koko in VGC due to Intimidate. Power Gem and Sludge Bomb are the obvious STABs, but Grass Knot was very niche pick in my opinion. In doesn't have super amazing coverage in terms of VGC metagame but it covers any possible Ground-types I might face, especially Mega-Swampert could be very threatening. Tapu Lele @ Psychium Z Ability: Psychic Surge Calm Nature EVs: 228 HP / 4 Def / 156 SpA / 116 SpD / 4 Spe IVs: 0 Atk - Psyshock - Dazzling Gleam - Protect - Taunt My words can't explain how much I like Tapu Lele as a Pokemon. The most obvious reason Lele was the immediate threat over any possible Fight-types imaginable, albeit that Fight-type isn't currently super common. However, I did not want to take any chances in this regard and you can't really go wrong with Tapu Lele. Psychium Z + Psyshock opens up for a wonderful option to deal damage on the physical or special side of the opponent. Dazzling Gleam was to make sure Kommo-O + redirection wouldn't beat me (which is super broken, by the way). I really didn't wanna play against Trick Room in my standard mode so I had Taunt for that, although Z-Crystals could become problems. But that I shall deal with other Pokemon. Oh and the EVs and Calm Nature? Made to live Sludge Bomb from Mega-Gengar. Zapdos @ Psychic Seed Ability: Pressure EVs: 252 HP / 68 Def / 12 SpA / 156 SpD / 20 Spe Calm Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Tailwind - Thunderbolt - Hidden Power [Ice] - Roost I knew already at this point I'm going to be fairly weak to Ground, so I needed something that flies. Lele + Zapdos is one of the most common tandems in VGC and you can't really go wrong with them so I didn't really give it a second thought. Psychic Seed is amazing item for Zapdos because very rarely do you need to even switch Zapdos out. Also because my team is kind of a bulky offensive one, I really could need Tailwind so there's that. Hidden Power Ice is to deal with Landorus-Therian, which I am more weak to that I want to be at the moment and it is the #1 most used Pokemon after all. (And pseudo BoltBeam coverage) Aegislash @ Leftovers Ability: Stance Change EVs: 252 HP / 180 Def / 76 SpD Sassy Nature IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe - Toxic - Substitute - Shadow Ball - King's Shield I can't help it, I love Aegislash. I've been using it all year long. This was way more defensive than my previous ones and didn't carry Wide Guard. To be perfectly fair, I had been trolling my opponents previously so much with Wide Guard shenanigans and this time I wanted to people to prepare for it in team preview. Aegislash mainly was here to deal with Mega-Metagross and Tapu Lele, you can honestly never have enough counters for them. This set was made for longevity and actually majority of the damage was done with Toxic. Toxic has been a bit sub-par move in VGC due to prevalence of Tapu Fini and Misty Terrain but with Lele and me using it 90% of the games, getting Toxics up is fairly easy and can be a win condition in lots and lots of games. Got called a staller lots of times with this during the day but it is what it is. :) Incineroar @ Firium Z Ability: Intimidate EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe Adamant Nature - Fake Out - Knock Off - Flare Blitz - Low Kick Incineroar was my last pick for this team and well, Incineroar is the kind of a team you can slap into every team. The main reason I brought this instead of Amoonguss (which was my pick in my first editions of this team) was that I noticed being very weak to Kartana with this team. I've been able to outplay Kartanas earlier but when I practiced against a player who has the points equilevant to 5 World's Invites and he was able to beat me mainly with Kartana, I acknowledged I needed to do something. Firium Z is to surprise troll Detecting Kartanas because it goes through Protect. Flare Blitz w/ Firium Z hits for enormous damage in general and no recoil is nice too. Also I realized I had no Fake Out by then (which I wanted to avoid thanks to Psychic Terrain) but I realized this would help me with Gyarados + Fake Out lead setups and get my Gyarados set up for turn 2. Correction* Incineroar had Knock Off, not Darkest Lariat obviously. Knock Off was amazingly good trolling Trick Room teams and is mainly there for Snorlax + Cresselia combo. Ah well, here it is. Hope you have fun trying it in Showdown or whatever. Oh yeah and special shoutout for Parke for the comps. Even though he's a uguu. Edited August 22, 2018 by OrangeManiac Summrs, razimove, EmoDuck and 7 others 10 Link to comment
Charderp Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 On 8/20/2018 at 4:09 PM, Charderp said: something something days until c h r i s t m a s Draekyn 1 Link to comment
Aerun Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Welcome to my boy @Sadeko REEVS, razimove, Sadeko and 2 others 5 Link to comment
razimove Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 uguuRA HOW MANY DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS @Charderp WHY YOU FAIL ME LIKE THIS. Link to comment
Sadeko Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 (edited) ty <3 Aerun Edited September 6, 2018 by Sadeko Link to comment
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