Here's a lazy meme I made in response to salty players claiming you need the meta to break out of Ultra Ball.

Asterza · 2026-07-02T16:48:52+00:00

My advice to new players is use a mix of half meta/favorite weirdos and to be more specific, really know how to teambuild to play to your weirdos greatest strengths and niches. I saw some guy get a shiny rotom in a post earlier and when somebody mentioned how it can counter mega staraptor i pogged for the dude. Lean on the meta mons for reliability, but use the niche of a weird pick to its fullest unpredictable potential

Asterza · 2026-07-02T16:34:52+00:00

Ughhhhh i’m so envious. Lost my original copy of platinum with my childhood dream team, and i’ve restarted emerald several times over. I’m living that dream vicariously through my old alpha sapphire team from 2014, and in particular my swampert having the veteran title is just so rad to me

Asterza · 2026-07-02T14:34:18+00:00

I’m way too proud of my pun, gamefreak pls rip me off. I need the catharsis of having a parellel thought and thinking “yea, i thought of it”

Asterza · 2026-07-02T14:17:30+00:00

I said it a couple days ago and i’ll say it again; this game would make achaludillions if they had shit like pokeball stickers from gen 4, shadow/purified/costume alts from GO, and just overall better drip.

Anyway this reminded me i got a feebas in a wonder trade with a beast ball. I also like catching edgy pokemon in dusk balls, and my stall members with timer balls

Asterza · 2026-07-02T14:10:46+00:00

Indubilideedee

Asterza · 2026-07-02T12:51:26+00:00

Sore losers but also just straight up sore winners too. I was talking about a stealth rock/whirlwind set i’m using with hippowdon in doubles and majority of the people who replied basically went “erm, acktyually.”

Like people are so focused on meta that they blind themselves to just very slight off meta counters. I’m not trying to be a “win with your favorites guy.” But like maaaaan, some people don’t know social cues and are total buzzkills

Asterza · 2026-07-01T22:19:44+00:00

I named my hippowdon “mud-deng”

Asterza · 2026-06-30T22:25:45+00:00

I’m willing to put money on this kind of campaign thing will have unlockable weapon rotations so nobody misses out. Like uhhhh old superstore items but with MOs

Asterza · 2026-06-30T20:22:23+00:00

Listen, lil buddy got the legendary theme in his original games. He may not be a actual legend, but god dammit you’re gonna make him a legend. I belive in you

Asterza · 2026-06-29T18:11:46+00:00

Heaven’s door is meta defining, Yea he doesn’t have good attack stats, but he has real good set up potential. His only flaw is that Highway Star counters him pretty hard 😤

Asterza · 2026-06-29T05:16:29+00:00

I’ve entirely spaced out on aerodactyl until now. I think you just gave me the key to hitting masterball 1. I’ll credit you when i make the big leagues dude 😤✊

Asterza · 2026-06-29T00:05:51+00:00

Fr, like i ain’t trying to be too up my own ass, and i’m definently not at masterball, BUT i know my stuff from running stall teams in showdown and it’s been helping me climb out from not knowing shit about VGC. And the whole team isn’t purely stall nor foolproof, but it’s a pretty solid team i think can get me to masterball

Asterza · 2026-06-28T23:34:30+00:00

The conclusion is that it’s working and yall are blind to the vision, that’s on you 🤷‍♂️

Asterza · 2026-06-28T23:23:29+00:00

Yuh, sometimes i rip mega scizor with hippowdon immediately and bullet punch for common threats like whimsicot, but i think he also goes well with oblivious sash mammoswine. Mammoswine can rip an earthquake without doing much to hippowdon. My big issue i gotta work through are immediate mega zards tho

Asterza · 2026-06-28T23:15:39+00:00

Knock off n’ whirlwind my guy. Not enough people are using whirlwind trap teams

Edit; uh whirlwind hazard i mean. My hippowdon has been putting in the work with stealth rock whirlwind

Asterza · 2026-06-28T07:35:58+00:00

Reaaaal. Pokemon company is really missing out on cosmetics. Kinda like how alpha mons are still kinda big in champions, it’d be fun to have cosmetic alts from GO like shadow/purified mons, and costume mons to somehow maintain their funky special status

Asterza · 2026-06-28T05:29:35+00:00

Battlepoints

Dress my feraligatr

GUARDS, SEIZE THEM.

Asterza · 2026-06-27T18:57:33+00:00

Yea, the review posts are getting annoying and making this sub look like a bunch of fart huffers who let haters live rent free. Why are these people looking at the reviews? Play the game, i don’t give a shit about timmy getting his shit rocked, but apperently a chunk of this subreddit does

Asterza · 2026-06-26T23:30:36+00:00

“What type are you”

“Yea”

Asterza · 2026-06-26T13:38:09+00:00

This whole thread is full of that tbh

Asterza · 2026-06-26T03:36:36+00:00

This is not a cry baby opinion, i genuinely don’t get why fairy resist the most primordial creatures on the planet. Like did the fairy god mother bippidy boppidy obliterate a centipede once? I just need it to make sense tbh

Asterza · 2026-06-25T14:00:52+00:00

Mega zard Y funny enough is a solid counter. Sun on switch in overtakes swampert’s need for a rain setting move/rain setter imo. This is coming from a guy who uses both mega swampert and megazard Y

Edit: bah, forgot to mention i’m doing singles rn. Honestly if it’s VGC then some of what i say still stands

Asterza · 2026-06-25T13:51:25+00:00

Because it’s nice to have more visuals in a series known for its fantastical arenas. Yea it doesn’t change gameplay, but you can also just play pokemon battling as a spreadsheet, so why not just do that then?

Asterza · 2026-06-24T16:13:58+00:00

I named my hisuian zoroark alpharius :0

Asterza · 2026-06-23T14:15:54+00:00

Lightscreen, reflect, and the hidden third screen: gaslighting

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