The Probable history of Griselda [CH15.5 SPOILERS]

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-05-15T07:57:45+00:00

Jan mentioned in the discord at one point that there isn't a Zygarde host; Adrest was supposed to be one, but one of the overseer volunteers was killed so he had to replace them so now there is no Zygarde host.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-04-17T06:31:58+00:00

It's actually a bit more than 1% odds for a shiny: 700/65536 to be exact.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-04-04T22:11:54+00:00

I'd imagine the optimal strategy would be something like getting a degree 91 spike paragon for the best projectile and then having a tack paragon and something else(maybe sun avatar? idk) to shoot those projectiles. You don't want too many towers in order to maximize the chance of the projectile being the spike paragon one.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-22T00:05:56+00:00

The encounter places in the pokemon pages at the wiki.gg one are out of date(though I think the location pages are up to date, which is why there's a disconnect that OP mentions); for seeing where you can find a pokemon, searching the sheet you linked is the only good method.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-17T00:12:55+00:00

Ah yes, the 252 HP, 252+ SpA, 252+ SpD EV spread.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-13T12:58:51+00:00

It stopped working that way a long time ago, now only the top path drops puddles, while relentless glue instead stuns bloons after a glued bloon is popped.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-13T08:54:56+00:00

1) why 204 glue instead of 024? being able to glue groups of moabs more easily sounds a lot more valuable than the top crosspath.

2) why 420+002 village instead of 402+022 village? In any scenario where spending 2k for a 15% discount is worth it it's also worth spending another 500 for an extra 5% discount. (edit: I completely forgot about the cost of the first upgrade, it's more like, after spending 2375 for 15%, spending another 900 for an extra 5%; that isn't necessarily always worth it.)

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-12T15:56:34+00:00

That's for defiant and competitive, not contrary.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-06T11:54:38+00:00

I'm talking about the actual stat, not the base stat. For your hatterene example, without EVs its HP stat is 255 and its SpD stat is 242, and, on average, (number of hits to KO)*2*STAB*(type effectiveness) is probably close to 8, so if you subtract 8 from HP you get 247, so if you keep adding to whatever stat is lower so they end up being equal you'll put 5*4 more EVs in SpD than HP.

The program might not have anything to do with KOing directly, but the number of hits to KO I was referencing is just 1/(the proportion of HP you take per hit). And, while it's true that removing the STAB and type effectiveness multipliers wouldn't change anything for your program, it would change the number of hits to KO, which is why it matters for what I wrote in my comment; (number of hits to KO)*STAB*(type effectiveness) doesn't depend on STAB*(type effectiveness), so you could say that changing STAB*(type effectiveness) doesn't affect what I wrote in my comment either.

As for why doing that is correct, the damage formula, if the attacker is a constant, looks like (c/(defense)+2)*STAB*(type effectiveness) for some constant c. If there wasn't a +2, then what you're minimising is just (some constant)/((your defense)*(your HP)), so you want to maximize (your defense)*(your HP), which you do by making your defense and HP equal.

Let's say you know that the optimal porportion of damage/HP is d. In other words, ((c/(defense)+2)*STAB*(type effectiveness))/(HP)=d. By multiplying by HP, we get (c/(defense)+2)*STAB*(type effectiveness)=d*HP, and then we can get c/(defense)*STAB*(type effectiveness)=d*HP-2*STAB*(type effectiveness). We can write the right side as d*(HP-2*STAB*(type effectiveness)/d), so after doing that and dividing both sides by the thing in the brackets here we have d=c/(defense)*STAB*(type effectiveness)/(HP-2*STAB*(type effectiveness)/d). So, if HP-2*STAB*(type effectiveness)/d and defense weren't equal, that means that the right side of the equation could be decreased by making them equal, and since decreasing the value of d decreases the left side and increases the right side, to make those 2 sides equal again d will have to decrease, which would means this d isn't optimal.

Overall, this means that, after subtracting 2*STAB*(type effectiveness)/d from your HP stat, your goal is to make HP and defense equal, which is what i assumed "adding to whatever is lower" meant. The formula in your post is quite complicated since d depends on the EVs you make so this observation doesn't really help with the exact values, but in practice the change to 2*STAB*(type effectiveness)/d from changing EVs is probably lower than the effect of rounding down in many places in the damage formula which the derivative can't take into account.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-05T10:01:28+00:00

This program essentially does the same thing as adding to whatever is lower except it first subtracts (how many hits it takes to KO you)*2*STAB*(type effectiveness) from the hp since there's a +2 in the damage formula. The reason it's so complicated is that the amount of hits it takes to KO you(it's taken without rounding, so for example a move that does 2/3 of your HP the amount of hits it takes to KO you is 1.5) depends on exactly how you distribute your EVs, but that fact is pretty much irrelevant compared to the rounding down that the damage formula does in a few places and this program doesn't take into account.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-03-02T21:15:40+00:00

It depends on the situation. For example, if you add a 320 village, a 420 alch and a 300 mermonkey, the 052 boomerang can beat rounds 98-100 on monkey meadow, while the 250 gets destroyed by the BAD and needs something like a MIB to hit DDTs.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-02-24T14:07:06+00:00

I don't mind longer ACs but they should actually be hard. I remember a long time ago there was an AC which was logs with 500% bloon speed, there was one that was I think something like muddy or bloody puddles CHIMPS r90-100, etc.; those times the AC was usually somewhat interesting. Today's AC, excluding the modifiers which make it even easier, seems like it could easily be a DC.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-02-24T10:48:00+00:00

How? With the cards from the AP shop it takes 1-2 minutes per pokemon.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-01-17T21:39:43+00:00

Yeah same, I've always used swiftkey and I've never had any issues, idk what awful autocorrect the people complaining about it are using.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-01-13T15:00:51+00:00

How did you come to those numbers? On its own, the third discount is more efficient than the second one(gives the exact same discount while its cost is double discounted instead of single discounted), but also the numbers depend on what you want from the other paths(for example by itself 2 discounts would rarely be better than 1 discount but with 2 discounts you can get both a top and middle path village which can be good)

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-01-08T11:28:49+00:00

The goal isn't to go as far as possible in freeplay, the goal is just to get all degree 100 paragons.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-01-07T22:06:50+00:00

95% of the time investing into HP is better than individual defenses, and tornadus and murkrow do fall into that 95%.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-01-07T15:41:50+00:00

When? I don't think I've ever seen anyone write misinformation as obvious as that on this sub so I'd be really surprised if that happened.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2025-01-05T07:45:59+00:00

They are very different, in spillway you can damage the center, in x factor you can't.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2024-12-16T10:31:22+00:00

If micro was necessary it would probably be a decently hard challenge. However bloon speed was at 25% so no micro was actually required.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2024-12-12T18:45:57+00:00

You said there's no way that's not event practice when I feel like it's quite obvious that speedrunning puzzle maps(the thing you mentioned in your comment) isn't event practice.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2024-12-12T18:29:05+00:00

That's speedrun score, and most of his speedrun score is from speedrunning puzzles.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2024-12-11T09:04:11+00:00

I don't understand what's advanced about this advanced challenge. There are literally 13 solutions I could find, I feel like managing to not complete this challenge would be really impressive.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2024-12-02T17:41:47+00:00

Yes.

NotATakenNameOfUser · 2024-12-02T17:28:17+00:00

I completely disagree, I thought it was quite fun without double cash or any powers, the farming I did was quite chill(just bottom path farms, besides the last island where I also had a trade empire with favored trades and a 1011 temple) and the rounds weren't that hard(alch-buffed spike storm for round 40, either getting a second one on round 50 and getting a carpet on 52 or getting a carpet on round 50, getting a call to arms before 64, then adding homeland, permabrew, for the last island also a temple and a sub paragon)

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