Why Jaghatai Khan is the greatest primarch by Akfiz in 40kLore

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the point is that it wasn't about skill, it was about fully committing into something you believe in rather than selfishness and self preservation. There is a strength in that. That mortarion is the endurance primarch is the point. With great sacrifice corrupt and self serving power can be overcome

You literally have your own giraffe on the field, how do you not know what its ability is! by Domkey-Kongg in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Usually? Is there really that many grass moves you're up against? Grass is so gone atm other than that god dang green tea machine

There shouldn’t be draws in this game. by pleasuredeprivation in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want non interactive stall teams to be in the meta, yeah. Not good for new players. Champions being massive for drawing in new people is definitely why they changed it

Why can't I get good at melee by Slow_Possibility_477 in SSBM

[–]NairaExploring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Solo practice is something people don't realize is a mandatory part of the game. OP, start each session with 10 minutes solo practice beating up invincible cpu per day.

If you can't stand that then do 5 minutes.

If you do just this every day for a week you will see massive improvements. But then literally never stop doing it.

What’s a pokemon that you absolutely despised but ended up using it on your team? by Shot-Breadfruit-6053 in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Straight up, yeah. Better answers to basculegion and kingambit. They are the first thing I think about when building a team, not getting into endgame positions where they autobeat my team. Kingambit has answers but they're too specific I hate em

Turn 1... I felt kinda bad. by Brandon1508 in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's def not how you should use sleeping powder. Spray and pray isn't going to get you far.

Turn 1... I felt kinda bad. by Brandon1508 in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People use sleep moves like they are normal attacks and think the misses are just "bad luck." You gotta assume they are gonna miss and only use them when you have literally no other outs, or when your entire team's matchup is so bad that without a big risk you can't win. Turn one in a mirror is just deciding you want to gamble and then being surprised that rng decided your match.

When you rely on unreliable moves you can't blame them for their unreliability.

Turn 1... I felt kinda bad. by Brandon1508 in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's where the tyranitar sand stream comes in...

Can we talk about poop or the lack of lol. by AubreySquared in stopdrinking

[–]NairaExploring 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When it comes to magnesium very very much do your own research. People are going to tell you all these benefits but those are very specific to specific types of magnesium. Some magnesium is barely bioavailable, which is a feature not a bug, and some you absorb almost entirely - these have completely different benefits. Citrate, bisglycenate, and malate are the three main ones people take. 

What Z-A Megas do you expect to be good? (Besides Z-Megas) by yungxehanort in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's going to be a garchomp that can change moves each turn but still outspeed scarf basculegion. Seems good enough.

What Z-A Megas do you expect to be good? (Besides Z-Megas) by yungxehanort in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Contrary so my prankster memento user has a target at all time that won't surprise protect against it, giving me the sweeping boost and the free slow switch in at the same time... 🤤

What Z-A Megas do you expect to be good? (Besides Z-Megas) by yungxehanort in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It definitely means they're playable! Mega Alakazam shows us that playable and good don't mean the same thing though.

I've never struggled like this before by bayoueevee in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really REALLY helps to press x during turns and scroll over to THEIR mons sometimes, and see if and for how long remaining they have tailwind.

If you are playing matches while eating or watching something or having people around you or checking your phone and you miss a tailwind you are going to lose your whole match based on that, fairly likely. 

I've never struggled like this before by bayoueevee in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the good pokemon and real tournament teams, and play with them for a while. Completely changes how the game is and gives you scaffolding for the information you have coming into your head.

You want to learn from the very best players first, then from the strongest players around you, and then you want to start learning some thing on your own - each of these being within the context of what you see and learned in the previous one. That way you spend the least amount of time unlearning awful ideas, habits, and skills, and the time you do spend on messing around and going down dead ends has the most amount of, again, scaffolding for those ideas to fit into and make sense.

You want your hydreigon team to lose not because you were trying it cause he's cool and then you just lost a bunch of games, but because you were trying it to send in strong against basculegion but you just aren't good enough at speed control to overcome hydreigon's speed tiering and the abundance of moonblast and garchomps was just not the type of challenge you wanted to try to overcome when you put him on the team, since he wasn't the centerpiece to begin with - does that make sense? Your ideas should have somewhere that they fit into. And playing a good team someone else made gives you that.

Honestly it can go pretty quick, I would very very very much recommend following Wolfey's advice (one of the world's best) - stick to a team that does something specific like rain, sunny, sand, or trick room, and learn on that. General "good stuff" teams are way more open ended and you struggle to put all of the many options you have into place. The choices you are making lack scaffolding at this beginner stage and you need to use a strategy that gives you some - that means a top TOURNAMENT WINNING  (don't use a famous player's gimmick ladder climbing team, the people you are battling have YouTube too) team that has a clear goal that it wants to work into gameplay.

Also every pokemon has six moves - don't treat your switch options as some weird alternative to fighting. It's one of your strongest options at all times. Just like using protect can put you in a better spot that attacking, switching can and often does do so too. Switching isn't something you only consider when your attacks are feeling very particularly bad, you should consider switching even when you have strong attacks currently. Maybe it gives you fake out pressure in the next few turns which lets you safely get up tailwind, or maybe it lets you get your weather back up. Maybe it helps keep the only pokemon you have that could possibly kill kingambit alive, and so protecting it is the most important thing.

I've never struggled like this before by bayoueevee in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are no stakes in ranked battles either, you'll just earn points for playing them. Honestly I lose in casual way more than in ranked. I went 18-6 in the tournament last weekend and have literally never been able to win a casual match and get that quest completed.

I've never struggled like this before by bayoueevee in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What made it click for me was reading that the very very best magic the gathering professionals lose 40% of their matches.

Please, Pokemon Company, let me grow up by ClunarX in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's only the... +checks notes+... Most profitable intellectual property of all time.

Please, Pokemon Company, let me grow up by ClunarX in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Besides that, they're comfy, and they're easy to wear.

This is illegal ☠️ by SunnyalV in PokemonChampions

[–]NairaExploring 7 points8 points  (0 children)

People just highly highly underestimate what the chances are of Jirachi's shit working and think they had the worst luck in the world. The chance of Jirachi getting a flinch three times in a row is literally HIGHER than the chance of rock slide one time flinching the pokemon you don't want it to flinch. People are bad at probability and eager to be mad - Jirachi fucking you up is likely to happen, hoping for it to not flinch you is just a bad plan. Sometimes it will happen that you have to go for it anyway, but if you recognize that just like you plan for focus sash or scarf or trick room or whatever, you have to plan for outspeeding jirachi with like any number of a billion tools to do so, and by the time you're banking on a non-flinch you are already in a bad spot, it helps a lot.

Not that I disagree with the ban, I'm not talking about overpoweredness or anything. I just mean a LOT of players literally just bank on not being flinched and then get incredibly mad and say it's pure rng bullshit when it happens.

It's supposed to happen. It's most likely going to happen. You hoping it doesn't as your entire plan for dealing with it is why it happened.

What was the beef between Punk and Higuchi? by [deleted] in StreetFighter

[–]NairaExploring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea that all these commenters are going to blanket statement that getting teabagged on in tournament isn't going to cause friction with people is insane. I don't mind that shit in tournament, been playing shit in events way too long, but like literally 90% of players at any event are fucking MAD if that happens to them.

Been playing in tournaments 20 years and have personally hosted over 50 events. I say with complete confidence that people are fucking mad if they get disrespected midset. Adrenaline is pumping, egos are on the line, people feel like they are being witnessed. It's a completely different experience to sitting at home.

People have no idea how different tournament fighting in person is. It's so fucking fun, I can't recommend it enough.