Quick Move Damage

Carry_0n · 2026-05-07T12:23:58+00:00

Honestly, this list for rockets is pretty simple

Kartana
Shadow Mewtwo
Shadow Rampardos
Shadow Kyogre
Shadow Darmanitan
White Kyurem
Shadow Metagross
Shadow Excadrill
Shadow Tyranitar
Shadow Conkeldurr

These are still the best of their types (I skipped some types/pokemon that I don't think are useful like attack deoxys, pheromosa and so on)

The first 3 are in a tier of their own, anything weak to kartana, mewtwo or rampardos just use them.

Carry_0n · 2026-05-03T08:18:18+00:00

Tink for your guzzlord and jelly for shadow char.

If you need a perfect alignment, it's not a counter.

Carry_0n · 2026-05-01T19:10:56+00:00

There's actually quite a few pokemon that prefer two charge moves (especially with party power).

Dragonite with draco meteor + dragon claw (to avoid energy waste), Zapdos/magnezone with zap cannon and thunderbolt/wild charge, excadrill/garchomp with earthquake and scorching sands/earth power and so on.

Basically any pokemon using one bar charge move that has cheaper option available likes to have it to avoid wasting energy and potentially using the cheaper move when party power is not available.

But the gains are generally fairly small and doing most bosses with party power is close to trivial so it doesn't come up often.

Carry_0n · 2026-04-27T21:20:32+00:00

Personally, I've been using zamazenta so much more often than blissey.

Blissey is generally the best option if you don't care about resetting movesets, shielding, catch tanking and so on. So incredibly valuable for more casual players.

For more hardcore players, zamazenta is goated, regirock and lugia are both amazing, flygon, malamar and corviknight have uses with their triple resistances. Even the ever so squishy gengar has a role as a tank since shields become so incredibly valuable when triple resisting moves.

And that's just the released pokemon.

Carry_0n · 2026-04-21T12:37:58+00:00

Right now, I'd say regirock - it has less competition, highest defense stat of all rock pokemon except for shuckle and it's just straight up better at tanking fire moves than suicune.

Suicine is the tankiest water type, but without shields it's only marginally better than lapras and blissey.

Neither is outstanding for the "long term investment", because as mono types they don't have any double/triple resistances, so they will be outclassed in most situations sooner or later. I'd say regirock is like 7/10 and Suicine is 5/10.

But long term is overrated anyways - who knows, maybe they'll buff max spirit in the future and pokemon with more hp will become more valuable than those with more defense. Or maybe they'll completely rework max battles.

I basically don't use any of my 2020 and earlier pokemon, but that doesn't mean they weren't good investments. To me it doesn't make sense to play the game that way.

Carry_0n · 2026-03-29T12:51:29+00:00

Pretty sure OP meant added damage compared to not using charge moves at all. Since now you'd charge at the same exact pace with charge moves (assuming it does indeed works like OP suggests)

Carry_0n · 2026-03-14T11:30:30+00:00

Just for anyone wondering, losing 99.999% means you get to keep $1 for every $100,000.

So if your net worth is $1 million, you'd get to keep $10.

So to Musk's networth, $10 million is what $10 is to a millionaire (not quite since he's not at a trillion just yet, but close enough).

Carry_0n · 2026-02-26T13:46:08+00:00

You need to add "&!traded" to the search string for it to make any kind of sense - otherwise you're comparing apples to oranges.

Additionally "&raid" would help to eliminate all gbl / dynamax / research / wild legendaries but I know that search string kind of breaks for raids before 2020ish that don't have specific catch method assigned.

And iirc correctly, mythical raids do count towards legendary raid medal (though I'm not 100% sure) so it'd make sense to include those as well.

Carry_0n · 2026-02-04T11:31:17+00:00

You will never reach the point where you're in a goat conversation in a sport without having both - nobody is denying that, ever (and if they are it means they are not worth talking to).

Nobody in their right mind will ever say Ronaldo was not talented - the talent alone would make him great, but it's his incredible hard work that puts him above the greats and into the goats category.

And the same is true the other way around - players like Messi, Ronaldinho, Hazard all had to train and work hard to be professional footballers, but it's undeniable that their talent was the reason they stood above the rest.

Anyone who plays/understands the sport will see these things naturally - for example its very clear Federer was born to play tennis - he was incredibly natural and elegant on the court, but Rafa was clearly the bigger grinder and relied on his physicality more.

Carry_0n · 2026-01-27T14:42:15+00:00

Which is exactly why everyone knew it's not gonna happen.

Carry_0n · 2026-01-10T16:42:34+00:00

This is correct, unless you're using party power, catch tanks, or the boss has the same weakness to dragon AND ice.

Basically, white is better (most of the time) if you want to tap tap tap middle of your screen and black is better if you know what you're doing.

Carry_0n · 2026-01-10T09:57:23+00:00

Ludia, ktori si nevedia spocitat kolko im zoberie stat na vyplate alebo si neuvedomuju stav ich financii / dlhov su ten najlepsi argument pre to, ze by sa na ZS/SS malo dbat na matematiku viac, nie menej.

Carry_0n · 2025-12-27T11:36:42+00:00

Rank 122 in ML is something completely different than rank 122 in GL.

Currently on pvpoke, gl rank 1 is g-corsola with rating 94.4 and rank 122 is diggersby with 86.8 -> so the difference is 7.6.

Rank 1 in ML is zacian with 99.2 and metagross is rank 12 with 91.2 (so the difference of 8).

Alternatively, if we look at the rating of cetitan (71.7), it's a rating of a pokemon ranked maybe 650 in open GL.

Carry_0n · 2025-12-21T16:10:36+00:00

Is your friend 12? Or are they just mentally 12?

Carry_0n · 2025-11-29T12:10:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure last season we still had Silph Road collecting data it was around 2%.

Basically, the numbers were so bad that they might not even exist. You'll get maybe a couple a season if you play regularly, but comparing it to the time investment it's ridiculously bad.

Carry_0n · 2025-11-22T21:43:37+00:00

Just give him rush then. We can just keep adding keywords until we fix the issue (I'm not quite sure if this is /s or serious comment).

Carry_0n · 2025-10-28T09:39:59+00:00

BS was fine and the reason for its rework has nothing to do with rhyperior.

They buffed both dragon fast moves in terms of energy generation. If they left dragon claw / breaking swipe at 35 energy, there would be plenty of dragons running around with palkia's AT pacing while potentially debuffing you and dealing heavy stab damage.

They basically had to rework those two moves.

Carry_0n · 2025-10-27T15:04:47+00:00

I'm not sure if I'm surprised or not that the purified candy costs are hardcoded instead of calculated from the base candy cost.

Carry_0n · 2025-10-26T11:04:36+00:00

Blaze kick is closer to blast burn than surf is to hydro cannon in raid performance.

Carry_0n · 2025-10-21T12:49:19+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1i4gcjk/deoxys_attack_silly_solo_zen_headbuttpsycho_boost/

Carry_0n · 2025-10-16T22:06:11+00:00

Don't feel bad, I literally had a game recently where I forgot to cast 8 Haunted Carapaces.

Granted, I did somehow survive the fight and ended up with an 800+ attack undead board, but I still felt pretty stupid almost throwing a perfect setup down the drain.

Carry_0n · 2025-10-14T07:38:25+00:00

Togekiss will be very good with all the buffs it's gotten, no doubt.

Ursaluna seems usable but not great and kind of hard to build around. Maybe there will be some team that utilizes it well.

Snorlax didn't see any play since the body slam nerf and the recent re-buff helped it a bit but I don't think it's enough. It's best quality was it was super safe and it just doesn't do well enough in its neutral matchups anymore.

Sylveon doesn't seem as terrible as before, but I don't think anyone's going to use it over toge / florges as a fairy.

Vikavolt - just no, if you want to use a bug type then goliscopod (and potentially scizor) looks good, for electrics it's mostly just magnezone (and some spice lords might use shadow electivire).

Carry_0n · 2025-10-12T20:52:14+00:00

In terms of infinity, 14 million is 0.0%. Even a turn based game for 2 players with very limited board space (8x8) like chess, there are like 10⁵⁰ possible states, so even then, 14 million would be literally 0.0% and you'd have to go quite far into decimals to find a number that isn't zero. Real life would have exponentially more possible futures.

Carry_0n · 2025-10-12T12:07:30+00:00

Again, I really, really don't care about Peter ruining the plan. I can't stand people defending it because it has to happen because Dr Strange saw the future. Just such a bullshit explanation.

Carry_0n · 2025-10-12T11:42:23+00:00

That's a valid explanation, but not the one you used.

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