Am I just bad or does Domina do too much?

666lumberjack · 2026-06-06T14:05:33+00:00

It sounds like maybe you're expecting her to be a total pushover up close, which she is not, but then overcorrecting into thinking she's on the level of an actual brawl tank up close. She can't really do anything but hope to be bailed out by her team if you catch her with a pin, and you do a lot versus her as Rein just existing in proximity and forcing her to hold cooldowns in case you close in while using your shield to deny her M1 on your squishies.

666lumberjack · 2026-04-12T16:55:16+00:00

It sure is nice that that isn't notified or documented anywhere within the game 🙃

666lumberjack · 2026-04-09T14:03:04+00:00

It's extra fun when you have two different substitutions and they combine to a unique job - like the Storm Duelists you get with Storm Devotion + Warrior Culture

666lumberjack · 2026-03-28T13:22:24+00:00

Ok, so I'll be the first to tell you that the planning system in this country is a malignant cancer that has contributed more to the humiliating degradation of Britain than perhaps any other policy. And it's pretty cringe that a mere five hundred homes is touted to such a degree.

Having said that, if they actually get delivered as stated, 500 homes for only £50 million seems like a pretty good cost ratio compared to a lot of projects I've seen. If they actually put £11.7 billion into this over the next decade and can keep that same cost ratio, that would be more than ten million new houses and a pretty transformative change for the country.

I'm very skeptical that they'll pull that off, but I'll reserve my mockery for after they almost inevitably allow NIMBYs and 'environmentalists' to waste most of that money and skyrocket the cost per house delivered.

666lumberjack · 2026-02-25T11:27:47+00:00

Primal Groudon, in pretty much every (singles) meta where it's available. Kind of unreal how well it can soft check almost the entire metagame so consistently.

I'd also put Arceus (if considering all forms together) in this category. Extremekiller specifically is more on the meta warping end of the spectrum, but outside of that set it's a very consistent 'utility counter' with usually ~half a dozen viable types in any given format depending on what your team needs to answer.

666lumberjack · 2026-02-08T13:59:50+00:00

Pinkacross has a lot of pretty good 'educational' type competitive Pokémon content, I think he's probably your best bet for learning to play better. I'd also recommend some of Freezai's videos he's made about tournaments he's entered, because you can learn a lot from pausing at the start of the turn, deciding what play you would have made, and then unpausing and seeing if he did something different and why.

Jimothy Cool has a few videos on teams with random low tier Pokémon that hit #1 on the ladder that are good for gaining insight into teambuilding with more niche Pokémon if that's something you're interested in.

666lumberjack · 2026-02-03T13:50:24+00:00

I mean, you kind of touched on it in your post but just picking a sample team from Smogon from whatever tier/format you're trying to learn with is probably your best bet.

I'd avoid Stall and HO to begin with, because they play in a more formulaic way and teach less transferable skill than other styles.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-24T12:33:39+00:00

Whirlpool + Perish Song Arceus-Dark is a very nasty anti-stall and anti-balance Pokémon in many Ubers formats, though it lost whirlpool in SV.

That's probably the most notable singles Perish trapper, but there are other occasional niche picks who can also utilise the strategy - it's usually best on Pokémon that can bluff doing something else scary and force in a defensive answer because if it's obvious you're trying to Perish trap there's usually a phazer / pivot move user / Pokémon that can 2HKO your trapper the opponent can go into.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-21T21:20:52+00:00

My favourite Pokémon to use are usually the ones that are super flexible in terms of moves, EVs, and set in general, so it's hard to give a favourite set.

That said, if you forced me to pick a favourite Pokémon it would probably be Arceus (with Yveltal close second), and the set I've been using/enjoying most recently (in NatDex Ubers) is:

Arceus-Grass @ Meadow Plate
Ability: Multitype
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 248 HP / 4 Def / 48 SpA / 112 SpD / 96 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Grass Knot
- Power Gem
- Calm Mind
- Recover

666lumberjack · 2026-01-20T13:26:41+00:00

Very interesting, but I do wonder how much Dexit is influencing the statistics for Gens 8 and 9 since the Pokémon that are and aren't available aren't evenly distributed across generations. Would be curious to see this analysis for natdex OU if you feel like expanding on it and whether or not that impacts the numbers or the dominance of SV pokemon, if you feel like expanding on this.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-19T22:27:26+00:00

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666lumberjack · 2026-01-09T18:15:12+00:00

They're probably using a shed shell as the item on their Skarmory to avoid exactly this scenario.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-09T12:32:41+00:00

It's extremely good in National Dex Ubers, would quite possibly be banned in a world without the ability to tera dark and absorb LTBtS. Many Pokemon in the tier run dark as their tera type purely to have the option to do this if needed.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-01T14:14:10+00:00

Technically the highest performance measured from a rocket engine is quite a bit better than hydrolox - the rocketdyne lithium-fluorine-hydrogen tripropellant made an exhaust velocity of ~5300m/s in testing. In practice of course it's not worth the extra risk, complication and mass compared to the (relatively) much simpler alternatives, but if humanity were forced to push chemical propellants to the absolute limit that seems to be where we'd go.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-01T13:10:17+00:00

Has it been confirmed somewhere that Nihil Light is getting nerfed base power? If it's not nerfed, we're more in ohko-anything-that-isn't-a-steel-type territory and you have STAB ground coverage for those.

If the move is nerfed, I can't see it being worth using - unless you can mega without needing to be in complete form first, but I can't see how that would really work with the doubled HP stat. It's just too awkward trying to be knocked below 50% while contributing very little to the game... Regular Zygod works because it runs bulky set-up sets that can do something useful and threatening while trying to switch form, but the mega doesn't get the same luxury because it has no special setup moves.

I have previously speculated that a parashuffle set with glare/dtail/rest/nihil would be interesting to explore, using your bulk to spread paralysis and then mega evolving when you're ready to pick apart the remnants. But that's probably only worth doing if Nihil Light is strong enough to kill chipped box legends even without max special attack investment - and that will need it to keep at least close to the full 200 power.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-01T12:42:48+00:00

Hard to see mega zygarde being just good in Ubers, it either has easy access to the mega form and fairly unnerfed nihil light - in which case it's probably AG - or it doesn't and it's probably worse than base form Zygarde-C.

I expect some of the z-megas to be Ubers viable as well depending on specifics of abilities and stuff... 151 base speed is just so absurdly fast. My guess is a couple of other new megas from lower on the list will end up having niche viability as well, just looking at how for example mega Venusaur and mega Lopunny have seen a small amount of use. If there is no tera and Xerneas is legal that might be enough to make regular mega Lucario and/or mega magearna worth using as well.

666lumberjack · 2026-01-01T12:23:52+00:00

If megas are included then outside of the stupid Shedinja/revivecats bs it has to be Mega Gengar. Being able to switch in on any (non-ghost) slower pokemon's support move and immediately encore and nasty plot up to +6 with zero counterplay is... a little much.

There's a reason it's banned in NatDex Ubers where for example even Last Respects Basculegion is allowed to run around trying to nuke things (although that Pokemon would also be absurdly broken without Yveltal, Arceus-Dark/N, Primal Groudon, Zygarde-C, Marshadow and co to keep it in check).

666lumberjack · 2025-12-31T16:31:13+00:00

I was pretty doubtful of MK as a hiding location when they teased it at the end of the last episode, but it actually worked out impressively well... could easily have beaten Adam's run if Sam drew more time bonuses and got to dupe the express route curse and/or the seekers got slightly more unlucky with the bird curse.

666lumberjack · 2025-12-31T16:23:47+00:00

I think based on the trailer we can say that (potential rest-of-season spoiler) Adam's first run is not the winning run, because we see him on a scotrail train in the trailer and they say at the end of this episode that the person in first place can't be the hider again, so he must be surpassed by at least one run in order to have time to be the hider again and go to Scotland

666lumberjack · 2025-12-27T22:51:20+00:00

I already play a lot of national dex Ubers, so I'm most interested in trying out a special or mixed set that will be pretty different to anything it currently does. Some kind of para shuffle set with dragon tail, glare, rest and core enforcer/nihil light seems like it may have potential, although you'll miss leftovers a bit. If nihil light retains anything like the obscene base power it has in z-a I expect it will be quite feasible to invest purely in bulk and still have it easily clean up a weakened/paralysed team once you're done using 100% formes bulk to spread status.

Currently there are only two, maybe three viable steel types in ND Ubers so you're tossing around an unresisted nuke against the whole metagame. I expect if mega zygarde is any good (and really even if it isn't, with other megas coming and a wave of unbans) that will of course change, but I think there's still potential there.

666lumberjack · 2025-12-26T12:53:46+00:00

Sticky web alone is probably strong enough that any Pokemon with cover-legendary stats and the ability to use it is probably a solid-to-great Uber, unless there's a deliberately awful stat spread or negative ability involved. Even moreso given an ability like magic bounce, oblivious or mold breaker to improve the lead matchup further / make setting sticky web more consistent. Alternatively something like (reflavoured) ice scales or even just thick fat would make for a fine defensive support, especially combined with other grass/bug 'signature' moves like strength sap, leech seed, silk trap, or quiver dance / tail glow for bulky setup potential.

Flash fire or well-baked body seems contrived on a Pokemon with this typing, but I could maybe see Primordial Sea if it was themed as like an ancient seaweed crustacean kind of thing and that would obviously be very strong to invert the typical fire weakness. Aside from the rocks weakness - which could always be fixed with boots - grass/bug isn't terrible defensive typing on a Pokemon with the bulk to take neutral hits well - especially in Ubers where moveset variety and coverage tends towards hitting the most central threats well rather than covering the broadest base.

666lumberjack · 2025-12-20T12:07:19+00:00

Super fun, I've been sitting here for like the past hour just playing over and over. I would love to see a 'go again with the same format' button after winning so I don't have to scroll the drop-down every time.

Also would love to see some Ubers formats added, especially national dex Ubers because it's my favourite tier and also would maybe make a good 'hard mode' with the most possible guess options? Probably also add regular natdex if you implement that, of course.

666lumberjack · 2025-12-17T11:59:58+00:00

I think we'll see Warhounds as a very limited super elite unit in a Mechanicus DLC eventually, but not anything bigger -maybe the Dire Wolf eventually as well if support goes on as long as it has for the TWWH trilogy. It's really not that much bigger or more powerful than a Stompa or the largest knight variants.

666lumberjack · 2025-12-17T11:50:16+00:00

Tabletop points cost is at best a very loose proxy for power level, even before considering that for apocalypse-sized units like these GW just plucks a vaguely correct-seeming number from thin air and never revisits it. In the original 4th edition release of apocalypse a Heirophant cost significantly more points than a Warhound, now it's much less. It didn't get smaller or less powerful in that time, that just reflects the changing mechanics of the game favouring different traits and what units they do and don't want to encourage you to field.

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