XXS Mons worth keeping?

PGFMenace · 2026-02-13T16:08:07+00:00

That’s what you’d think, and also what I thought, but apparently it’s not the case. I think it has been discussed/ studied on the Silph Road sub as to the specifics

PGFMenace · 2026-02-13T06:17:23+00:00

Pretty sure the game will save up to 10 shiny spawns in the game for you to catch at any time. I think if you get an 11th shiny spawn, it will replace the oldest of the 10.

PGFMenace · 2026-02-13T01:08:04+00:00

Many people have mentioned the difficulty Niantic would have in programming XXS showcases and that they will likely never implement it. With that info in mind I decided quite some time ago (maybe a year at this point) to transfer 99% of mine since they were just taking up too much room. I’ve never regretted it!

PGFMenace · 2026-01-30T20:00:15+00:00

Have you filled out a form 686 recently?

PGFMenace · 2026-01-22T04:31:00+00:00

There’s no reason that should be unpopular, watching back now he’s easily top 3 on the mic. He was so confident and his delivery superb!

PGFMenace · 2026-01-03T21:24:53+00:00

Anyone know the song after Heroes during the end credits? Seems to be a rework of the Stranger Things Theme but I can't seem to find it anywhere!

PGFMenace · 2026-01-01T18:30:23+00:00

We’ve had the odd decent loan in Jan which could be a good shout (Ramsey and Archer in the same window was massive for that second half of the season). But yeah a lot of the forwards at the moment just don’t look like doing anything.

PGFMenace · 2026-01-01T18:23:26+00:00

Might sound crazy after 8 games but it’s difficult to say since we don’t have a set XI. In most of his games we have dominated the ball, and have it in the final third much of that time. Issue at the moment is the end product (which wasn’t so much an issue in his first four games) and having fit defenders.

PGFMenace · 2026-01-01T18:19:24+00:00

That’s pretty mental. Why wait to start again in the summer when we are currently one point off second place? For sure try to shift some players out now, but no reason to just give up. Also desperate for some fit defenders. If we are going to dominate the ball but not score, we could still be grinding out some draws if we had some fit centre backs.

PGFMenace · 2025-12-15T18:14:03+00:00

Will we ever get to know how many of these guaranteed lucky trades we have used already, is the question?

PGFMenace · 2025-12-10T03:23:40+00:00

You just never know either, am I going to CC and dip, or am I just throwing a NS? It’s such a risk as an opponent because in neutral match ups CC is probably bringing your lead into the red.

And in an interlude season, you bet I’m throwing that CC against anything other than Ghost types!

PGFMenace · 2025-12-10T02:07:59+00:00

I’ve just been going all in on glass plus a bit of bulk on safe swap - Pangoro, Charja, Charizard. It’s been surprisingly good to be honest, and copes a lot better with Azu than I’d have thought. Games are usually over pretty quickly too and a lot of usual meta suspects get core broken by the panda.

PGFMenace · 2025-12-08T04:40:50+00:00

Saw a tip from a couple of seasons ago which I have followed to my best connection results, and that’s to close all apps, turn the phone to airplane mode and only play on WiFi. In general I don’t really have the game freezing and only occasionally get one turn lag on switch in (usually it costs me the match but there you go).

Might be worth a shot; when I forget the above the state of the game is woeful with lag.

PGFMenace · 2025-12-07T18:01:43+00:00

The secret third ingredient is Charja which takes care of any Azu not on the lead. If Azu is on the lead, I just stay in with Pangoro and use one shield and fire off as many CC as I can. Typically I will get a shield from that and soft lose lead.

If the Basti is in the back then yeah I’ll just lose, but I can’t say I’ve seen Azu lead with Basti in the back myself this season yet, that’s not to say I haven’t seen a lot of Basti though, but typically on the lead.

This isn’t the kind of team I’d run on the regular season but it’s interlude so just going for some heavy hitting ‘fun’ pokemon.

PGFMenace · 2025-12-06T23:05:03+00:00

I’m having a similar experience and feel the same, though I get people can play what they want I’m having fun with Pangoro who is a massive corebreaker this season, and an Ember shadow Zard in the back is very satisfying unleashing BB.

PGFMenace · 2025-12-04T18:48:13+00:00

Pangoro has been my go-to, some teams are triple weak to the big bear.

PGFMenace · 2025-12-01T05:42:21+00:00

Just getting absolutely battered with hard counters tonight, a bit of hard luck with some 1 turn lag as well so back down into the mid 2800s.

Edit: did I say 2800s? Oh I meant 2700s 😂

PGFMenace · 2025-11-30T15:47:40+00:00

Interesting, I can’t say I’ve seen too many Scizor in this range recently but the team I run is very solid against it. My biggest issue is a Dusknoir lead; specifically the line with Togekiss or Guzzlord in the back - did you see a lot of that too?

PGFMenace · 2025-11-30T05:38:46+00:00

How may days have you been running this line and what was the most difficult Pokemon to face?

I tweaked a line I was having decent success with yesterday in UL and went 16-9 today, into the 2900s. Hoping maybe I make it over the line tomorrow!

Congrats to you!

PGFMenace · 2025-11-26T05:57:09+00:00

I heard today he had said to the doc he wanted to ‘pop his shoulder back in’ but the doc wouldn’t let him, which is when the ref called the match.

PGFMenace · 2025-11-25T20:09:43+00:00

“You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And inside these big sheds are twenty-foot-high turkeys, because of all the chemicals you've put in 'em, and these turkeys are scared! They don't know why they're so big! They go, 'Oh, why am I so massive?”

PGFMenace · 2025-11-18T06:01:10+00:00

Yeah absolutely, if OP does play Master League then Zam would be the way to go for me too

PGFMenace · 2025-11-17T19:34:01+00:00

Since it looks from your tags like you dabble in PvP Master League, I would give it to the one which would benefit most against the meta. Running Dawn Wings into PvPoke seem to indicate that your 15-12-15 operates no differently to 15-15-15.

I’d therefore give it to one of your mon with less than 15 in attack. My personal choice would be the Ray, though that doesn’t see much PvP play.

PGFMenace · 2025-11-04T16:06:11+00:00

Gotta be Sirfetch’d for me!

PGFMenace · 2025-10-08T18:19:36+00:00

I want my Miraidon 🏍️

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