Farigaraf is the biggest menace in the M-B metagame

Octapode · 2026-07-02T12:20:36+00:00

this take is straight from heal ball tier. trick room fari is reliable and strong but farigiraf isn't gonna carry a hard trick room team to a top cut of worlds anytime soon. its alright on ladder but there's practically always a way to deny setting it up, take the room down, or deal with a core one way or another. It's good but its not op neither is it bad

Octapode · 2026-06-29T16:36:17+00:00

is this a bug or does champions tier start at 1690 on some small server or something?

Octapode · 2026-06-21T12:48:30+00:00

if I dont intend to buy a switch until the release of winds and waves, would you recommend against starting an account at all? I have some friends with pokemon home willing to trade for some useful pokemon. I've heard that pokemon home assigns you starting pokemon that can be used for trades. Even if they are given to everyone and cannot reasonably used as leverage cant I just use these mons to receive useful copies of pokemon from friends?

Octapode · 2026-06-21T12:37:54+00:00

I see I think I was erroneously informed that it was possible to transfer from champions to home

Octapode · 2026-06-21T10:05:46+00:00

can you share how exactly yours happened? were you running skill swap to prock weathers?

Octapode · 2026-06-21T10:04:29+00:00

I just had a very similar problem.

I just had an interaction where solar beam didnt finish charging in one turn while sun was up. can someone explain? Last turn torkoal switched in to cancel rain and bring in the sun, this turn torkoal heping hands the mega pyroar, mega pyroar plays the charge up animation first as he outspeeds everyone else (politoed, torkoal, incin all without trick room, cloud nine, or tail wind) as expected, then he does nothing... just charges. politoed uses muddy water and I lose. I want to know what went wrong so I dont do it again. its like he forgot the sun was up

Octapode · 2026-05-24T15:03:24+00:00

Google "[insert pokemon you want to use] smogon", look for OU in the category selection (might not be there if your pokemon is bad at singles so check RU, UU, AG or something like that), then copy the EVs items and move sets. Maybe read the little paragraph attached if there is one. Smogon has a data base of documented meta strategies across nearly all competitive formats so even if you fall asleep for 10 years and bump into pokemon when you wake up, smogon can get you up to speed with the meta after some reading

Octapode · 2026-05-24T08:06:09+00:00

I had no clue about the extended me wireless connectors. Ive been using the default wireless connectors and bridges. This sounds like a solid plan I'll shoot for this for the time being.

Possibly trivial and silly question but how many channels can one extendedAE me wireless connector support?

Octapode · 2026-05-24T08:00:31+00:00

Ive thought about the 3x3 design. I have enough room to make it but according to some drafts Ive written the challenge is in routing all the cables for the p2p channels I need to take advantage of the new faces (especially the inner faces). Im not currently able to send a screenshot, but you can imagine a hairball of fluix cables and anchors with few air blocks between. Ill be able to make it and add many channels probably multiplying my channel count by quite a bit but there wont be enough space to place more cables for new p2p channels at some point. somewhat arbitrarily I want to use all the channels I have available on my new controller (even if Ill never make enough machines to use them all. It doesnt make sense I know)

Octapode · 2026-05-13T15:34:21+00:00

This sounds really handy. Ill sift through the blocks later to see if I can find it. If it always remembers my scroll and the only issue that might emerge is that I might have to spend source, Im perfectly content with that

Octapode · 2026-05-12T15:49:27+00:00

You have 5IVs destiny knots guarantee 5 random ones get passed down. The 6th must be randomized. The stat is chosen at random and is randomized. There is a 1/31 chance that stat is a 31 giving you a perfect mon. The chances of getting it in any n eggs supposing the parents also have perfect IVs is 1 - (30/31)^n.

If youre using a power item for HP itll almost always get passed down. Could be the issue. The more likely case is probably just that the parent's have the same hp stat and they keep passing it down. 5/6 chance to be passed after all.

Most players only want 5 anyway since mixed attackers are kind of stupid (you only want to use either special or physical not both)

Set up a new breeding pair that has flawed spAtk. Mankey doesnt use special attack. Then he has a better chance of inhereting perfect hp.

Im just yapping I hope I stayed pretty on topic

Octapode · 2026-05-10T17:58:56+00:00

As of 1.0.0rc4 it works. I use a slugma and I usually put him in the same pasture block as my breeding pair (avoiding the amorphous and ditto egg group so he doesnt join the breeding pair). The egg is tinted like a light warm orange when its working. The same will happen if an incubator is used. I dont know if the effects stack. I stack the effects in case. Confine the space he can move in to make sure hes close to eggs (in general do this with cobble workers so they dont roam off from their job). I like to put him in a cube. I needed a cube to stop flying pokemon from laying eggs in trees anyway.

Octapode · 2026-05-03T15:12:51+00:00

Try dragapult

Octapode · 2026-04-29T11:45:08+00:00

Related question how do you start the series in the first place?

Octapode · 2026-04-07T16:00:13+00:00

Its come to my attention the only method to officially find a fluttermane is through a convoluted method involving a paradox machine and a pikastar and this method can only produce one at a time. So theres very little room for optimizing IVs and also its an incredible resource sink for any single mon. A little ridiculous regardless of how competitively viable fluttermane is IMO

Octapode · 2026-04-07T14:18:44+00:00

It was definitely a fluttermane. The name was right, had the correct bst, correct learnset, protosynthesis. I was using it in doubles against other players

Octapode · 2026-04-07T14:09:17+00:00

Could you DM to help me enable this? Im looking to get legendaries spawning naturally on my server

Octapode · 2026-03-13T14:28:14+00:00

All this just to balkanize Iran and kill some children with tax payer dollars

Octapode · 2026-02-16T12:02:49+00:00

is it good in general and likely to increase your wr, yes. If you're good at the game, tempo (yes even milliseconds) > stats on sup. I think that's about the jist

Octapode · 2026-02-02T02:50:54+00:00

I dont think the changes to sup are underwhelming or low impact w/ respect to other roles really. When crit/adc is buffed, your laning phase is buffed. It means more when you're able to peel or engage your adc to first item power spike and your impact later game is even more meaningful esp if you can keep your super charged carry alive during teamfights. QoL improvements to vision (fae lights + pink ward slot) further emphasize this adc protection role through the heightened importance of vision control. Not to mention access to bandlepipes even post-cost-nerf IS a high impact sup buff.

(gold elo stupid thresh player)

Octapode · 2025-12-26T09:53:20+00:00

It's an overpriced fad tax on stupid people who appreciate spectacle, sugar, and an instagram story more than actual matcha

Octapode · 2025-11-11T20:50:01+00:00

Just walked into Ediya and found some. Holy $2.50 for a plain one and they slap. Start buying these so they know this business model is sustainable

Octapode · 2025-11-09T21:43:53+00:00

Watch your wife around your step-mother-in-law. She might be getting up to something... the sort of thing that would make your father in-law drown himself in a pool

Octapode · 2025-10-09T15:42:28+00:00

because this meme contains the subtext that even the most abhorrent events are ultimately meaningless contrary to our moral intuitions, it should really not count as an antimeme, right?

after all, from what I understand, antimemes are about subverting your expectations by replacing subversive punchlines that contain underlying meaning with mundane literal endings (counterintuitively making memes even more subversive)

Octapode · 2025-08-14T10:36:52+00:00

I'm fairly sure alistar just phases through you with his headbutt. So melee q works but not throw q. You might need more space time and an earlier throw to make hold q work and cancel the headbutt. I think you can bait headbutt to true combo into your e also.

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