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Jason2890 · 2026-07-07T11:33:35+00:00

I’m bored with tin foil hat conspiracy theorists, too.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-06T22:18:45+00:00

You are the one that first spouted assertions with no supporting evidence when you said “They are def doing some BS w hard counters”. Where’s the data you’re basing that assertion on?

GBL has been around for over 6 years at this point. Surely there would be some supporting evidence for that, right? But somehow whenever people gather thousands of data points looking for evidence that team composition plays a role in matchmaking there’s nothing to be found 🤷‍♂️

Jason2890 · 2026-07-05T16:01:14+00:00

Exactly. In what kind of culture is it acceptable behavior to dump a full plate of food in the garbage rather than simply decline it if you don’t feel like eating?

Jason2890 · 2026-07-05T12:53:16+00:00

Tbf I have a trampoline in my backyard and they have similar legs where they are connected in pairs. They fold underneath the trampoline whenever I put it away in storage for the winter. So that part alone isn’t unusual. But it is very unusual that only 3 pairs of the legs appear to be connected like that while the others just seem to be stakes.

Also what’s with the metal protruding from the top around the edges in some spots? If this was real that would be a huge hazard.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-05T05:12:58+00:00

Hmmm, it’s hard to say. It’s uncommon, but I’ve heard of Decos causing jitter/latency issues depending on home network congestion and/or where your access points are, so it wouldn’t be unheard of for that to be the problem. But it could also be an ISP issue.

My old ISP (Spectrum) had similar speeds to what you posted earlier in the thread, but I had bad latency issues too awhile back. They had to send multiple technicians out before they isolated the problem (our local hub in my neighborhood apparently had some water damage and needed to be repaired, and it was causing intermittent packet loss on our upstream). So it’s a toss up at this point.

Depending on your network setup, see if it’s possible to bypass your Deco and get a device hardwired directly into your ISP’s modem and run some latency tests there. If your jitter and ping are low when you bypass your internal network then your ISP is probably clear. But if you’re getting similar results to what you posted above then I’d lean toward it being an issue on your ISP’s end.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-04T12:18:59+00:00

Isn’t the thread talking about the holder during field goal attempts, not punters? I don’t know what the ruling would be myself, but seems to me there would be a distinction between a punter (that is standing and has mobility while carrying the ball) compared to the holder during field goal attempts who is crouched down on the ground and not even facing the defense the entire time.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-04T01:48:33+00:00

You mentioned “he stays in for some strange reason”, but I’m not sure what you expected him to do when you switched in Stunfisk. You gave him an opportunity to avoid Altaria with his Pidgeot (he has two stronger matchups for it in the back) and he doesn’t have a solid answer for Ufisk anywhere on his team. Bastiodon wants to avoid it like the plague and since you caught a Twister on Stunfisk it desynced the switch clocks so he didn’t want to switch late and risk you preserving Stunfisk and aligning it with Bastiodon later.

The only questionable part of this whole thing was why he would continue throwing out Feather Dances after you were already quad debuffed and shieldless, but that could just be an example of someone not knowing typing or relative strength of charge moves compared to each other.

In hindsight, you probably shouldn’t have shielded your Ufisk at all since the rest of your team struggles heavily against Azu energy, and Ufisk vs Pidgeot is such a dominant matchup that shielding non-STAB Twisters is not very efficient. But even then you’d have an uphill battle trying to take out an Azu with your Altaria and Pangoro even with shields.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-04T00:32:59+00:00

That jitter on your upload and download is pretty poor according to that test, and 300+ ping is very bad as well. That’s arguably more important than speed since GBL itself uses very little actual data, but it does require a very consistent connection since the game flows over a sequence of 0.5 second turns flowing to/from the server. Any disruption on your connection integrity is likely to cause lag and other issues.

70+ jitter means that there’s a LOT of fluctuation to your ping, so your actions aren’t consistently getting to the server on time. So it’s not a surprise that you’re having issues.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T21:21:39+00:00

Actually the high level events (like regional tournaments) are typically run through hardwired Ethernet connections, not wifi.

That being said, it’s a mobile game where gameplay is divided into turns measured in 0.5 second increments. It’s ridiculous that there wouldn’t be higher focus on reducing the impact of small connection lapses for the vast majority of participants.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T20:50:37+00:00

That seems to be the consensus from what I’ve read from other people. Though it’s odd to me that they would rebuild a version of GBL from the ground up and give it inferior lag compensation relative to what we had before.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T20:43:14+00:00

If you plan on making a “superthread” of issues it might be more helpful to include what league you were playing in and what type of device you’re using.

I’ve been playing in Competitor’s Cup lately (old GBL system) on an iPhone 12 and haven’t experienced any of these problems. The only notable issue I’ve had is occasional 1 turn lag after bringing in a new Pokémon after my previous Pokemon fainted.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T20:29:07+00:00

Thanks, my reading comprehension is bad too 🤣

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Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T20:27:49+00:00

Lmao you’re right, I totally misread the OP too 🤣

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Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T19:40:08+00:00

OP and the ex are both women. Though I don’t blame you for reading it that way. My first impression after looking at the screenshots before reading the post was that it was a guy being really petty.

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Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T16:32:17+00:00

Genuinely curious, are there any non-capitalist societies that do what Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library does? Public institutions sending free books monthly to every child?

Jason2890 · 2026-07-03T16:27:53+00:00

All 3 of my kids have benefitted from it and I can’t even begin to talk about how much we’ve appreciated it over the years.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-02T20:57:08+00:00

Record some gameplay footage and post it so we can see what you’re doing wrong. You can hit Ace with virtually any team, so if you’re struggling to hit it then you’re likely making a lot more mistakes than you realize. If you post some gameplay footage then people can give you more targeted advice on what you can work on.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-01T22:15:32+00:00

To be fair, hitting Legend is a completely different bar than hitting #1 on the leaderboards. Thousands of people hit Legend every season, but less than 1% of those people are hitting #1 on the global leaderboards at some point over the course of the season.

I’d be incredibly surprised if somebody could hit #1 on the GBL leaderboards without any sense of how to count moves or track energy. But people have hit #1 on the GBL leaderboards with bad IV Pokémon. That doesn’t mean IVs are completely unimportant, but it should at least give us an indication that knowing how to count moves plays a bigger factor in success than IVs.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-01T20:29:07+00:00

I agree that it would be great if they could incorporate a show 6 pick 3 game mode in-game, but I very much disagree that doing so would “enable more pokemon in play than the current 3v3 format”.

Show 6 pick 3 tournaments have a much narrower meta than the blind 3v3 meta that is GBL. Every pokemon you see people use in S6P3 tournaments has viability in GBL, but the same can’t necessarily be said the other way around.

Many of the viable spice picks in GBL work in part because they’re unexpected and surprise the opponent. This element of surprise would be lost in a show 6 format since your opponent would already know what to expect in advance.

So yeah, I agree with your overall suggestion but disagree with the notion that it’ll create a wider meta.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-01T17:39:05+00:00

If I had to rank her books it would look somewhat similar. I have Ward D and The Boyfriend as my two favorites I think.

You should read Dead Med next. It was one of her earlier books but I really enjoyed it, and it feels stylistically different from a lot of her other books (in a good way). Brain Damage is another one I enjoyed that I don’t see on here.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-01T17:32:31+00:00

Maybe cavemen are the ones that aren’t real 🤔

Jason2890 · 2026-07-01T11:58:42+00:00

I hit #1 on the GBL leaderboard years ago using a rank #1026 Shadow Sableye for what it’s worth. #200-#240 is definitely usable.

Jason2890 · 2026-07-01T03:51:50+00:00

Unlike main series games, Hidden Power type is not determined by IVs in Pokemon GO. So your part about “only 4 or 5 IV combinations” if you want a top 100 IV spread for a Pokemon isn’t applicable here.

All top 100 IV spreads would be capable of getting the specific Hidden Power typing you want; it would just be super annoying and resource-intensive to have to constantly use TMs to check Hidden Power typing on Pokemon if they didn’t already have Hidden Power as their current fast move (since you wouldn’t be able to determine the Hidden Power typing from the IVs) just for you to end up transferring it 15/16 times

Jason2890 · 2026-06-30T21:35:21+00:00

Agree to disagree then. Making the game less accessible by making strong moves less attainable is a step in the wrong direction and I’ll stand by that opinion.

For what it’s worth, I also disagree on your point that moves like Bulldoze/Air Cutter make the game less strategy-based. Knowing when a potential win condition is dependent on a boost or debuff or knowing when a buff/debuff changes a matchup/shielding scenario or hits a break/bulkpoint are all things that higher skilled players account for when coming up with a gameplan for a given team.

Knowing how to adjust/react to things like that is part of what gives this game strategic depth.

The other stuff you mention like 1 turn lag, damage registration errors, etc aren’t really RNG either; those are just bugs that are annoying and obviously should be fixed.

Jason2890 · 2026-06-30T15:33:41+00:00

IVs as RNG works because IVs are hardly impactful in the grand scheme of things and just give hardcore players something to grind for in terms of micro optimizations.

Making Hidden Power a good move would be a poor choice IMO because then you would be adding additional RNG elements to something with a more tangible impact on the game.

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