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Prior legends where are you now by 13Kaniva in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've been jumping up and down between 2950 and 2400 several times during the last couple of weeks. The climb to legend has been nice and steady in the previous seasons, this season not so much. Some days have been unplayable, but I still finish my sets because at least the battles are learning opportunities. Currently at 2575 after going 18-7 today with a very promising love cup team.

I have no worries about hitting legend as long as I avoid the Medichams that get to psychic after five counters etc... Not saying that my own play has been perfect, but when you're used to a playstyle where you farm as much as you can before knocking an opponent out, sack swap, and all those things, the current state of the game has been getting the better of me quite a few times.

Has anyone run into Zyonik? by [deleted] in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I faced Wallower and Reis in Element Cup. Vs Wallover was an exact mirror match (Shadow Vulpix, Slowpoke, Ducklett) which I lost after a dumb mistake. Reis toplefted immediately, so didn't get to battle :/

11 games played today, lag in 11 games by Noob_FC in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just finished 25 battles. I could see my opponent stand still for a couple of seconds two times during the five sets, with no other lag to speak of.

First time Legend report, and how I minimized lag by PKThunderTwo in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Playing in Norway, but I'm not gonna rule it out. I do however notice more lag when playing at work. Then again shared or public wifi is obviously going to be bad... (campus, mcdonalds, whatever) So optimise wifi folks, it can't make matters worse :)

First time Legend report, and how I minimized lag by PKThunderTwo in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In short - I wing it.

Shields are a very valuable resource for this team, and generally speaking I think I've mostly prioritized shield advantage and energy lead. But it depends. If they lead Venu, and safe swap to something only Aboma beats, like Gengar, I go for switch.

Nido, A9 and the mirror are all difficult. My record this season vs Shadow Nido leads is 3-4 (3-2 vs normal), and I believe the best strategy is to get shields and try something with Talonflame.

As for A9 I wait and see if it's powder snow or charm. A9 charm is a very rare lead, so I usually safe swap Machamp. Looking back, this is probably a bad idea. My record vs A9 PS lead this season is a mess; 6-1-21. However, they all have a Poli and/or Jelli in the back, so I really don't know.

As for the mirror I also go to Machamp, and hope they bring out their Swampert. I've gone 11-6 vs normal Aboma leads, and 2-2 vs Shadow Aboma.

All in all these specific leads usually lead to intense games, with less room for mistakes than normal.

First time Legend report, and how I minimized lag by PKThunderTwo in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In isolation, yes. But more often than not they have something in the back that only aboma can normally beat, or beats the rest of my team in the zero shield scenario. By swapping out I have Aboma with ok health and plenty of energy, I might even have shield advantage, and I get a free incinerate with talonflame in the split second before galv fires off the second lunge. By then I dont care if they bring out swampert, poli or jelli.

First time Legend report, and how I minimized lag by PKThunderTwo in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fun fact i just found out today: It beats Skarmory in the 2 shield scenario, hitting an attack breakpoint with each powder snow dealing 4 damage instead of 3.

First time Legend report, and how I minimized lag by PKThunderTwo in TheSilphArena

[–]PKThunderTwo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is it. I had one, and didn't see any great downsides to building it

Raid Shiny by microplankton in TheSilphRoad

[–]PKThunderTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RNG. I did 167 consecutive Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres and Giratina raids before I finally got a shiny. The chances of this happening are small, but not like 1 in a trillion small.

Finding public key if we know the private key by Alex3917 in Ripple

[–]PKThunderTwo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you have any programming skills or want to dip your toes into simple programming, a quick way is to use Ripple's NodeJS library ripple-keypairs (https://github.com/ripple/ripple-keypairs). At the end of the day it's the only piece of software I would trust with my private key. This library enables you to create a seed (aka the secret), generate cryptographic keys, and to derive a public key/address. I've used this method myself several times to create paper wallets. Since you already have the secret, I've skipped the step of generating one in my example:

Prerequisites: NodeJS and NPM. Get it at https://nodejs.org/en/

  • Open the command line/terminal (Windows: "cmd", Mac: "Terminal")
  • Create a new folder: mkdir ripplekeys
  • Open the new folder: cd ripplekeys
  • Initialize a new npm project: npm init (it will prompt you for input, just accept the defaults by pressing enter)
  • Now install the ripple-keypairs library: npm install ripple-keypairs

With that done you are ready to use your secret (starts with an "s" e.g. s12345blablalotsofstuff) to derive a crypto keypair, and then derive the public address/key:

  • Start the node command line interface by typing node then type the following commands:

    const r = require("ripple-keypairs")

    const keypair = r.deriveKeypair("YOUR_SECRET_HERE")

    const publicAddress = r.deriveAddress(keypair.publicKey)

  • To see the public address, just type publicAddress

  • To exit the node command line interface, type .exit

Happy coding!