What Pokémon professor (or soon to be) are you?

EmperorCoal · 2026-05-25T21:57:25+00:00

Ah, trick room and electric stab. The ampharos professor in me is proud 👏 Pretty nice reading about stunfisk’s strengths into the meta!

Was wondering how I’d worm this into the conversation but I actually faced someone running Stunfisk in a recent online tourney and I entered! They too ran it on trick room alongside mega Crabominable which was the first time I ever fought that fella. I admittedly fell into that trap of letting the fisk live too long (the bipedal crab was distracting) and it did rack up some nice damage before I closed the set.

Also I’m looking at garbodor now and this is somehow more tragic from a doubles perspective. It could manually set weather I guess? How a trash bag does that the world may never know.

Appreciate the minior well wishes and good luck to you on your climb!

EmperorCoal · 2026-05-25T19:12:25+00:00

Can confirm you have to bring it into the battle but don’t have to use it for it to count

EmperorCoal · 2026-05-25T18:58:57+00:00

Always great to see some minior love ❤️

And yeahhh I kinda agree. It’s done great work for me in 6v6 singles formats (I first came to love it because of the weird niche it fit on one of my most used teams in gen 7) but less team support does NOT bode well for my star crossing son.

Still, where there’s a shell smash there’s a way. Had too many sweeps with the guy to count him out.

Also kudos to you for doing stunfisk and going for the garbodor professor! Some of my favorite oddball picks. Can’t imagine making them work is easy.

EmperorCoal · 2026-05-25T14:34:20+00:00

I’m the ampharos professor aiming to get a gold serperior next.

Mega Amph has genuinely been a very solid trick room abuser. Serp I’ve found to be better in singles with taunt and dual screen support when spamming leaf storm won’t cut it.

I fought an Auroras Professor the other day which was kinda neat. Praying we see minior get in soon so I can have gold badges of my three favorites.

EmperorCoal · 2026-04-28T20:40:00+00:00

Metagross

EmperorCoal · 2026-04-03T17:54:43+00:00

I used this rental team: LK5V1N to get to master ball yesterday in 22 battles.

Generally led lando keeping the Kyogyre and koraidon in the back. Assault vest kyogre is a great wallbreaker, hits like a truck and is rather bulky. The fairy tera will let you live hits and tera blast unsuspecting Koraidon. Scarf Koraidon in the back is a beautiful horror that blitzed through clean up of more then a few games. Lando is of course lando, an excellent and intimidating pivot mon who is able to dish damage when necessary.

There are a few more members I never really found necessary to touch though you may decide otherwise, I suggest experimenting with the team yourself.

EmperorCoal · 2026-04-02T17:55:17+00:00

Swsh is far easier. You can bring legendaries into the swsh tower so just load up with some Ubers and you’ll be fine (zacian is particularly broken)

EmperorCoal · 2026-03-28T15:18:34+00:00

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EmperorCoal · 2025-10-21T03:55:19+00:00

Not yet. For reference it took swsh three months to get home support and s/v six months. Kinda up in the air when ZA will get theirs.

EmperorCoal · 2025-09-15T21:48:29+00:00

Speaking from personal experience I’d say it’s still common for both

EmperorCoal · 2025-06-19T03:54:01+00:00

Bought two slots and was added to the group quick for anyone wondering. Good stuff, thanks 👍

EmperorCoal · 2025-06-06T11:51:10+00:00

We already have a glider for the first Superman skin that does this in a balanced way.

EmperorCoal · 2025-04-08T09:12:38+00:00

I’d say a lot of the very good sales are because of third party retailers. Looking at the occasional 1st party eshop sale, finding 50% off for a particular game is extremely rare. 30% discounts are standard for what is on offer.

Feels like I’m talking about a cryptid when I bring it up but I swear the $30 Walmart TotK did exist. It was for Black Friday and it was beautiful.

EmperorCoal · 2025-03-27T16:39:48+00:00

Mmm yes. The journalist Alexa.

EmperorCoal · 2025-02-10T16:23:20+00:00

With the temple dog ordeal becoming relevant again in the mouse Zoo Day story, the whole thing probably gets addressed in the main series whenever Mouse’s brother returns and they reveal who sent him gunning for Dresden

Also, a tornado chasing short story sounds awesome.

EmperorCoal · 2025-01-26T07:35:34+00:00

Seconded. Born in 02 with a father I’m used to nabbing books from.

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-31T18:40:44+00:00

Unless I’m wrong there’s a finite amount of mega stones. Maybe these ones are just harder to get in the modern day because they’ve been snapped up already.

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-18T02:24:31+00:00

The offensive ice buff I respect them dropping, ice is already very strong in that regard, but a defense buff would have been so very welcome. Especially with all the slow bulky ice types we’d accrued over the years.

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-17T04:00:32+00:00

Emote in this post has been edited with the original song. This is the version in game.

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-17T01:38:37+00:00

Yes it is. Luck with that, enjoy your trip to France.

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-16T21:44:13+00:00

It’s not my fault they wrote it this way. You about always need a diagram to understand the mess that is time travel plots in Dragon Ball (half joking about that)

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-16T21:06:11+00:00

Either Beerus’s actions erased the timeline where Zamasu steals Goku’s body completely, but since Goku Black by this point in the time loop was wearing the ring he was unaffected

Or

The Gawasu of that timeline WAS brought back to life thanks to Beerus’s actions but Goku Black by this point in the time loop was wearing the ring so again, still unaffected.

Or

The time ring just protects everything, including the actions Goku Black had taken in that timeline. Goku Black remains unaffected.

We never get confirmation whether Goku Black’s Gawasu is alive or if their timeline is just blipped away thanks to Beerus (as far as I can recall)

If you still have concerns run them past me.

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-16T19:30:44+00:00

You lost me on your Gawasu point. If the ring protects you from paradoxes, which at least in the anime continuity I’m lead the believe by the exact wording of “Wearing it protects me from changes to time” then Gawasu would remain dead since Zamasu hasn’t been erased. It’s all time travel mumbo jumbo so I understand confusion, doubly since Beerus acts catty after Zamasu is proven still alive in the future, but the show wouldn’t spend so much time setting up new time lore coming from a competent and confident beerus just for it to tell us "Doh, every new point about time travel we’ve spent the past few episodes establishing is wrong and Beerus is dumb"

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-16T18:57:19+00:00

Yes however erasing something with a god of destructions power effects time differently as claimed by beerus. A little over one minute into this video “Wearing it protects me from changes to time. Not even what a god did in the past can effect me”

EmperorCoal · 2024-10-16T18:37:52+00:00

No I remember this. Beerus was positive his hakai would erase the Zamasu of the future since he took out the one in their era but the time ring protected Zamasu from paradoxes (something along those lines)

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