Pokemon General Discussion Thread - It's Lit(ten)!

I’m slowly getting back into this game. Breeding Pokemon is an almost therapeutic process somehow, lol.

Has anything been banned since I’ve been gone that my Water team needs to worry about?

I could also use some advice on breeding a Cloyster. I have some ideas, but I’d like to know how people usually build him.

Greninja from OU but not on our wifi rules.

http://i.imgur.com/pzEGC.gif

Are you serious?

it really limited team building for smogon so they told it to GTFO, it had like a 85% vote

They’ll beg for the frog to come back soon enough.

nah, most likely they gonna ban more stuff, especially after the third installment coming out hopefully this november (Z, X2/Y2 whatever). Once they release Mega Flygon or the new Zygarde forme having Sand Rush and +150 Atk they are gonna go ban hammer faster than people raging on baton pass teams

Meanwhile, in Talonflame-land…

Don’t forget Landorus and Goddamn Washing Machine cowardly attacking+switching out every turn…

landorus and that goddamn washing machine are nowhere close to limiting as greninja was and thanks to them, talonflame isn’t a huge problem anymore. it’s really good but it does struggle in this metagame

Limit the usage of versatile Pokemon so that you can further limit your options when fighting equally versatile and annoying Pokemon…Smogon never ceases to amaze me.

At least Greninja was able to change it up and do some cool stuff to surprise everyone every now and then. But I guess people would rather see Landorus faceroll over everyone instead…

Who works better with Smogon unofficial mascot Tyranitar?
Who are the biggest threats to ol’ sandy drawers?
Who is allowed, and who is not allowed in relation to their ability to threaten/defeat the Rock/Dark Tyrant?

When you look at the history of the bans in regards to those questions, you will see that, as always, I am absolutely right in my assessment that everything those people do is in defense of the bastion of scrubbery that is Tyranitar…

if that’s the case then Keldeo would have been banned by now. I think he is the no 1 enemy of sand teams

On a side note, do you think LO Modest Analytic Starmie would be decent as a “wallbreaker”? I mean, 115 is not that good anymore. Only benefit imo is to outspeed Lati@s

starmie’s speed tier is amazing right now and analytic is no joke, it does like 40% to latios with hydro pump on a switch-in. it’s totally worth using

115 outpaces the golden tier, it’s a great spot to be in

Starmie ban plz

I’ll have to breed up some Staryus then…and then I realize I somehow don’t have any in the hole.

At this point I’m just breeding random Pokes, I haven’t even gone back to the team building phase.

tbh since I haven’t bought ORAS yet I’m also just breeding whatever I get my hands on. Like literally RU/NU/PU pokes, doesn’t matter. Big Daddy doesn’t discriminate against lesser pokes. I’m actually looking forward to having more money and buy ORAS to get my hands on move tutors. I’m also waiting for a day to catch @KaboXx so he can do the massive cloning I have planned lol.

I guess I need to learn how to do Dream Radar abuse so I can finally get over with Tornadus and start catching Analytic Starmies. I’m gonna ride that starfish like Danny DeVito rode that fake batmobile (like a harp from hell lol)

Can they ban themselves?

@locoghoul and @saitsu at this point you guys will have to catch me on the weekend xD

Coming out in a few months. MEGA GENGAR deck tin.

February 17th…HA Tyrunts will be unleashed on the world. Finally…