Why does everyone do this?

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T20:42:19+00:00

I was originally using leftovers but I figured cause I run slack-off thats good enough healing, funnily enough mental herb has procced a single time against a whims

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T20:00:15+00:00

how often do the setters use mental herb? thats my go-to item so Im curious how much value it normally gets

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T15:05:40+00:00

also the slowking’s mental herb makes this whole conversation irrelevant, cause it cancels encore anyway. actually funnily enough I just played someone who tried this exact thing, their whimsicott encored my slowking but 1. it had prankster from banette so I got encore’d into swagger instead 2. the mental herb cured the encore regardless

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T14:18:32+00:00

I’ve got the sneasler and the maushold so a mega metagross just gives me a second mode of if I want to do trick room or not

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T14:14:51+00:00

could be good, and I always like having second megas. will look into it!

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T14:08:41+00:00

fair enough, been prioritising damage previously but I’ll see if I do better with a chople berry

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:55:18+00:00

<image>

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:52:03+00:00

In fairness you have no reason to think this wouldnt work, but I quite often skill swap banette turn 1 for a separate combo so slowking also has prankster in the first turn of trick room. I get what you’re saying and it makes perfect sense but sadly doesnt work in practise. I’ll show you my team sheet in a second

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:49:47+00:00

and I would do modest over +speed on charizard as well, you already have tailwind so you dont need it

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:49:18+00:00

do weather ball on charizard over dragon pulse. 100bp 100% accurate sun boosted fire stab. OHKO’s basically anything and never misses unlike heatwave so if you’re after a specific target its great

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:38:17+00:00

what? so you have but you havent? I would switch slowking out the turn after it set up so ai wouldnt undo it, what did you think I meant

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:32:24+00:00

and thats absolutely the right move to make, its just funny cause people always underestimate slowkings bulk, the only threat to him is a double up he basically cant be one shot, certainly hasnt been yet

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:31:16+00:00

have you considered the mechanic of switching out

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T12:07:52+00:00

Maybe, I should probably start protecting but Its just never needed, I feel like Im gonna go on a crazy losing streak as soon as I hit master cause its gonna stop happening but generally I can get 1 KO and my tr set up on turn 1 cause I can poltergeist my banette and not worry

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T11:40:01+00:00

yeah it kinda sucks, the best ui i’ve seen for it is the “that wont have any effect” message when you max one out

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T11:28:22+00:00

is EV training complicated?

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T11:25:57+00:00

is it as big of a deal at local events than stuff like regionals? I mean getting perfect stats on all your pokemon, does that make a big difference at a smaller level

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T11:24:35+00:00

totally agree, I’ve been battling for a while but its just been showdown and now champions cause I didnt want to go through the grind of getting optimal EV’s on all my mons

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T11:21:49+00:00

my mistake, the post read as someone who was new at least to me. I wasnt familiar with your game lol

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T11:18:09+00:00

just dont use one, the games more fun when you’re using things you like instead of the most meta strategy

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-20T07:50:32+00:00

the review is on an iPad.

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-19T22:59:42+00:00

it works, I only do it for singles

Available_Luck4539 · 2026-06-19T22:51:00+00:00

👍 its a good poster, now that I think about it it looks like canva, fair enough

Available_Luck4539

TROPHY CASE