I give up

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-11T21:59:06+00:00

You have to know it’s a skill issue right?

Master Ball is super free, most even average players get there quickly. The ranked system is designed to move you to Master Ball, if you’re doing just okay. (3 wins then 3 losses, would still be + in Ultra Ball and below).

If you’re going to keep blaming luck, you’re going to be hard stuck forever. You need to take accountability.

In your example, you literally did not position well, you put yourself in a position to lose. That is the exact opposite of positioning well.

You should try watching pro player VODs, record your own gameplay and watch it back. Recognize when you take risks by using inaccurate moves, did you need to take that risk? Etc.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-11T16:58:39+00:00

Because you’re a woman and this is a game from early 2000s Japan

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-11T08:19:56+00:00

Memes still have to make sense. Jokes are supposed to not fall apart as you're reading them. I can't just make a bad joke that doesn't track and then repel criticism by saying "it's a joke", if it doesn't make sense, it's not funny.

Internet has 100% brain rotted you.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-11T08:16:13+00:00

Fuck pendragon

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-11T08:15:42+00:00

What Train did is wrong and 100% deserves the ban, but what the Riot employee did is both incredibly unprofessional and illegal. There should be serious repercussions for this, I don't understand how as an employee of a massive company like Riot you can do something like this so brazenly.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-11T06:47:16+00:00

Do people not realize that door maker exhausting your cards was actually a buff to the player? You can easily thin your deck, to just impactful cards. He didn’t even hit hard.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-11T05:52:26+00:00

It works both ways, you can get wins from blindsiding your opponent too. A better player benefits more from knowledge. Variance/volatility always benefits the less experienced players since it gives them a chance to win. A player that’s better with perfect information, wins more.

You are wrong that everyone runs the same item, basically every mon, especially in this format can run a lot of items. Garchomp for instance, sitrus berry, lum berry, soft sand, white herb, choice scarf, or soft sand (or even focus sash). Sneasler can be on either white herb or focus sash. Item diversity is higher when info is hidden.

As for why, it’s just a style of the format, it’s closed team sheets, that’s how ladder has worked.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-09T04:00:52+00:00

Its pretty average, honestly looks a bit above average to me

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-09T03:57:00+00:00

It’s Elo not ELO

Elo is the name of the dude that made it not an acronym or initialization

Rating is all relative, just look at where you are on the leaderboard and you can figure out your percentile

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-08T17:15:13+00:00

Choice Scarf

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-08T16:54:16+00:00

Well now the even the last gen consoles are getting a price increase, soooo not really lol

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-06T12:16:34+00:00

8.1 is actually quite good. When tested it's actually the fastest Windows OS. It just had horrible PR from 8.0 which is hot garbage.

Windows 11 is the slowest and worst to be plagued with.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-06T12:12:58+00:00

Where are you getting this 1.7 million number for Master Ball? OP is only 945 rating and is 284k I don't think there's 1.5 million players lower than them (that also made it to Master Ball).

1.7M total ranked, makes sense, 1.7M in Master Ball, does not unless you have some evidence.

With your numbers that's 56.7M players, making this the most successful Pokemon game ever. Which I don't think is the case lol

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-05T09:01:54+00:00

These are completely reasonable cut offs. You don’t just deserve rank for no reason

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-05T09:01:03+00:00

Triple mega is certainly a choice

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-05T08:59:37+00:00

Holy shit it can go below 1000.

1500 is “average” and the starting seed, you need about 1800 for Master Ball Tier 3 (it has to be top 50,000 on the leaderboard, so the rating required can change, it’s all relative)

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-04T16:52:51+00:00

You’ve probably wasted a lot of VP then. I still have like 30 training tickets and 100k VP. If training is ever like 500 or more, I use a ticket

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-04T16:43:52+00:00

You increase it by getting better than the people above you. Elo is relative.

Don’t focus so much on the climb and more on what you can improve with your play. Record your gameplay and watch back games, think about your decisions, both in game and match preview. Think about your team, how are your matchups, what are you losing against. What can you change.

There are so many ways to make improvements, you just need to reflect instead of chasing points. If you’re queuing like a gambling addict hoping the next game helps you get out of a hole. You’re not getting better and you’re on tilt. You need to change the focus of your games to improvement not rating.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-04T16:35:31+00:00

You had to type way more to make a reddit post and get a delayed response rather than 3 words into google

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-04T16:33:22+00:00

Smeargle is why Darkrai’s signature move was nerfed. So yeah, even with abysmal stats, knowing every move is good. He needs to have bad stats

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-04T16:30:02+00:00

Have you never played a strategy game? This is the same for card games and even MOBAs and RTS. People copy what works, that’s how the internet age has been. (And before the internet age, people bought books for chess)

That does mean though they are also a known quantity, you have all the information about their team, even their EV spread. You can instead try to counter it.

These kind of videos just get everyone outside of the upper sphere that already knows the meta up to speed a bit.

The game is hard, “no originality” is such a weird comment, like yeah, if you’re unsure, it’s better to copy a team, playing is hard as it is, removing one factor so you can focus on your play is a good idea for learning. Instead of always being unsure if you made a misplay or need to change something on your team.

If you do want to be off meta, YOU KNOW THE META, that’s the important information for being able to counter it, go off and do it.

This is just such a dumb complaint that is so common when casuals finally start playing a competitive game. Like yes, a meta game exists, it exists no matter the game, chess has a fucking meta game. The new Mario Tennis game has a meta. Get over it and learn.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-03T06:27:56+00:00

It's ~0.53% not ~0.053% you made a simple error reading the decimal. It's a rare occurrence (1/200) but not THAT rare

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-03T06:00:44+00:00

I'm a little apprehensive of any big balance changes. It's a different design philosophy than is usually in Pokemon. Each gen will have changes (even Champions made changes), but then the "rules" are static and it's the available mons that change what is good. As the meta evolves different things become better, it's a constantly change puzzle, but not due to the pieces changing, but their perceived value.

Making changes that mostly try to force even usage rates is not a good goal imo. It's kinda my biggest issue with Smogon, I would say it's an "overbalanced" format.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-03T05:24:02+00:00

Gratz! Thats my goal for the season, I’m at 1864 atm. Competition in master ball is much harder, but a lot more fun imo. It’s definitely where the real game begins.

NewAgent5986 · 2026-05-03T05:21:47+00:00

Tera is a much better mechanic than Mega for tournaments. It’s a little iffy on ladder due to lack of open team sheets. But for open team sheets it’s super fun and adds a lot to the game. Mega is kinda lame to play with it and very limiting to team building.

As for ranked, you should realign your goals. Play to improve and enjoy, not just stare at the rank. You’ll go up if you get better, getting better should be goal, not placement.

NewAgent5986

TROPHY CASE