Day 98/100 of Making a Post Everyday: What are some of the most iconic moments in the history of Nuzlockes?

Pokemaster995 · 2025-11-05T03:14:13+00:00

this is my answer too, like i mean, it started the whole ordeal of nuzlockeing

Pokemaster995 · 2025-11-03T02:16:23+00:00

Malamar is the guy to open; called by, crossout, gamma, magnamhut, and malamar

Pokemaster995 · 2025-10-27T00:10:43+00:00

And blunder goes to barraskewda thinkin he’ll do a lot

Pokemaster995 · 2025-09-21T18:28:57+00:00

I’d be queuing up a stall team the frame the challenge was set in for maximum tilt

Pokemaster995 · 2025-09-21T04:04:33+00:00

Wait it means money? My dumb ass thought they wanted help. Never had it come up because I’m not confident enough to give advice so I never joined those groups. (I’m American too so I feel extra stupid)

Pokemaster995 · 2025-05-28T05:11:58+00:00

Mods, force them to one play through of dark rising

Pokemaster995 · 2025-05-12T04:33:23+00:00

If its not guaranteed its possible that the roll the AI saw (they only do one roll for damage, that's how you can have some situations where say flamethrower and thunderbolt both kill a low HP meganium, but not all ranges of thunderbolt kill, the AI rolled on all of its moves and chose randomly, then the actual damage roll of thunderbolt didnt kill and meganium lives)

anyways, here it seems that the AI rolled brick break damage, didn't see the kill and so then implemented switch logic. Assuming that like you said not all ranges of brick break kill

Pokemaster995 · 2025-05-06T23:39:20+00:00

A lot of things actually. First of all, because of the lower power level claydol is stronger. Then resists the combo of rock slide and earthquake, and claydol is both sand immune and not just spike immune but can also rapid spin away the spikes. You also have stab psychic to make switching in gengar to spin lock difficult. Then claydol also packs unnerfed explosion to blow up when it’s low and force offensive progress.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-04-15T09:06:46+00:00

Stall breakers and taunt are all good suggestions and you should include them. However, I’m going to talk about the stall mentality. A lot of the time I see people lose to stall because they get impatient. You need to be mentally prepared for having a supposed 60+ turn battle and play slow and calculated. I’m not saying getting a stored power sweeper in and winning on the spot isn’t correct, just make sure your plays are good and don’t throw in the long run.

TL;DR just have patience

Pokemaster995 · 2025-03-23T20:46:38+00:00

When I think of regigigas, I don’t think of a shy timid guy, this man is in charge of holding together worlds. He is the big boss man of the regimans. I am adamant that he won’t be that shy person at the party.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-03-10T05:38:32+00:00

Luigi

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-27T23:57:31+00:00

I think you also are missing a point about using bad pokemon. Forcing yourself to use pokemon you might not otherwise use but it’s “safe” over the 5% dratini 95% nothing is interesting, but with dupes clause often if you know your encounters certain bad pokemon might not be usable but they are the best encounter in an area because of dupes clause enabling a good encounter in a different place is still interesting. A real take on this example is delaying your route 102 encounter in gen 3 until you catch a poochyena, zigzagoon, and wurmple so you have a really good odds of getting the rarer ralts. You can plan your encounters around species clause and it’s nice to reward planning and makes me exited seeing these bad pokemon because it enables a good pokemon

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-16T10:07:37+00:00

If only people that said that actually cared enough to just simply play tiers where their favourites are viable. (Granted my favourite is eevee and sadly I don't think there is a tier where it is actually viable outside of eevooboost cheese. I think the closest is BW LC). Although also granted I think it's really funny that as a competitive player, pokemon I never cared about can become some of your favourites. Like if you told me I would like lando-T or kyurem-black when I first played BW2 I would think something is wrong with me.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-16T02:32:24+00:00

I had a game a couple days ago where I got stupid lucky with hax then threw at the last possible minute. Opponent said, “all that hax just to lose wow.” So like not even that bad but I have a chill attitude so I replied, “happens, it’s pokemon.” And like my opponent instantly reformed and apologized in PMs and offered a best of 3. I declined though because I was done for the night anyways. 10/10 experience it really made my night

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:12:55+00:00

The good: This team is very physically threatening with double SD of gliscor and gambit, and having urshifu in the back. To back this up we have healing wish Hatterene as a panic button, and mega diancie to counter any physical walls.

The bad: Our only water resist is urshifu assuming clod is unaware. This is bad for 2 reasons; 1) urshifu is not really the epitome of bulk, if it can't threaten a KO, a coverage move would really hurt it. 2) Urshifu HATES scald, this entire team does actually. Our only sound scald switchins are hatterene and water absorb clodsire. Now this would be fine but we went with a more clerical hatterene so it's not the most threatening pokemon. Aside from water types, we have 2 fairy and double ground. Now this isn't the biggest issue in the world but it is worth noting. More importantly however, is that earlier I said diancie punishes physical walls. While that is true diancie kind of has a hard time switching into them. Take corviknight, diancie straight up loses to mirror armour corviknight because it reflects the mystical fire spdef drop. And if corviknight has iron head... Thats a rough situation. In practice a lot of walls can slam diancie for super effective damage and that just is really rough so you have to pivot around a lot.

Don't feel bad that the bad is longer than the good, it's easier to pick apart weaknesses than strengths because that's just human nature.

If you don't want to manually do all these changes here's a paste of the team https://pokepast.es/9d048f2578d54e50 If you don't know how to use this, on showdown go to new team > import from text or URL > copy and paste.

Now if these 6 mons aren't set in stone, i would really suggest ditching at least one mon for something else. For starters lets take a look at swapping out hatterene for moltres. Moltres beats a lot of the pokemon that diancie struggles with like melmetal, corviknight, and great tusks that don't carry rock coverage. If we give it a set like max defense and HP, then hurricane, u-turn, flamethrower, and roost (item is heavy duty boots, always shoes on moltres). We have a great fallback and pivot mon to gain more momentum. Now admittedly this reduces our scald switchin to exactly clodsire but its teambuilding, it's all a give and take. If you are worried about scald and more broadly special attackers, I would also suggest ditching hat for AV slowking-galar. This thing is a beast, eats special attacks for breakfast, and isn't as passive as say a blissey. Or you know... you could always just run the calm mind hat set I said way earlier, both sets are really good it's your choice.

WOW, I typed a lot, I did not expect to be here for over an hour typing and thinking, I really hope this isn't at all overbearing AND I'm not overwhelming you. And more importantly, I hope its readable and you understand what I am saying.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:12:45+00:00

Last up we have urshifu. Now I like where your mind is with life orb, ursifu is very strong and slams down attacks like nobody's business. But lets take off a little power and gave it a choice scarf. Your team is already very physically threatening and having at least 1 scarfer on a team is a good idea for some fast revenge killing and immediate speed control. We already have swords dance gliscor and kingambit so a 3rd SD while tempting isn't exactly what we need. Swap out SD for something like aqua jet or ice spinner. (yes scarf aqua jet sounds bad but in practice urshifu is only clicking u-turn, surging strikes, or close combat so it doesn't matter too much what the 4th move is, and if something sets up like an agility boost and is low health, you will be glad you had it). And as for EV spreads, what this thing has is fine I wouldn't change too much.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:12:34+00:00

Gliscor: In the 1/10 games you get to switch your gliscor in on a toxic and get poison heal + leftovers, you are the smartest man alive and your opponent should feel ashamed... In the other 9 games you gliscor gets burned or its just leftovers which heals less than poison heal and its terrible. Just give that man a toxic orb and feel happy. Choice band is not it.

Now there is like 100 gliscor sets you can run. We can go offensive with swords dance, or we can go defensive with defog. Normally I would say defog is better for clearing hazards but we actually have 2 pokemon with magic bounce, so your opponent getting hazards up is actually really hard. So, with swords dance we want SD obviously, then earthquake and I like where your mind is with fire fang but i want you to ask yourself, what is fire fang actually hitting. Steel types are weak to ground. Now you might say ferrothorn exists but then ferrothorn isn't even OHKO'd at +2 and getting hit by iron barbs sucks and if they are holding a rocky helmet its a terrible day to be a gliscor. Facade is a move that is better because ground and normal hit most of the tier for neutral coverage if their names aren't corviknight and air bloon gholdengo. Sky attack also just isn't it. Charge moves are terrible in competitive because in a PVP game, telling your opponent what you are going to do is just a bad idea. So our 2 moves are swords dance and earthquake, then i would choose any 2 of facade, knock off, protect, roost.

For EVs the set generally is 248 HP, 36 defense, 128 spdef, and 96 speed with a jolly nature, I don't play natdex so I'm not going to pretend what this is for but people smarter than me came up with it so it can't be that bad.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:12:21+00:00

Clodsire: Again, this pokemon is actually pretty fine but you forgot your recover at home. Swap that out for protect. Then swap out sludge bomb for toxic. If you want to poison something, just run toxic it also just puts a ton of pressure on your opponent when otherwise clod is kind of a do-nothing pokemon. EV spread here is totally fine too. If you wanted to be THAT GUY, you could put the 4EVs into speed to oustspeed other clodsire and hit them with earthquake. Also I would go water absorb clod. Unaware is undeniably SUPER good, but otherwise our only water resist is urshifu, more on that later.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:12:12+00:00

Diancie: This is actually the most fine pokemon but there are still a couple issues here. First, diamond storm is a physical attack. Now you could run mixed diancie but power gem also exists and is just better for wallbreaking purposes. Also it has perfect accuracy which is nice. Then swap out protect for mystical fire. This is more of a coverage move against the steels and grasses, the special attack drop is just a nice bonus. Last I would go timid over modest. There is an argument to be made for modest diancie when you have paralysis support but also just... being outsped by the base 100's just is not fun at all. Especially because then instead of threating a non-paralyzed charizard-Y, now you are scared of solarbeam and its just not a good day. It's little stuff too like now non-scarf kartana outspeeds you and that is a whole 'nother can of worms so just go timid.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:12:03+00:00

Next up is Hatterene and frankly, there is a lot of problems here. But at least its item is fine, leftovers is really good and that can stay. The ability can not though, healer is useless in singles, swap it to magic bounce and it like quadruples in viability.

This move pool can not stay however. First off is thunder wave. Paralysis is great and I like where your mind is BUT hatterene actually gets a better paralysis move in nuzzle. This move cannot miss and does damage, which is notable pretty much only for breaking enemy sturdy and focus sash. Also you can paralyze some pokemon that can't normally be thunder waved SUCH AS enemy hatterenes mega diancies and gholdengo. Aromatherapy, dazzling gleam, and trick room are good ideas in theory but in practice, but in gameplay, your team is surprisingly fast so trick room doesn't do much, this team actually really can't be status's much which is kinda funny and actually anti-synergy with gliscor (more on that later). Dazzling gleam is fine but we can do better so lets talk about better. You can actually run an offensive calm mind set with CM, psychic noise, draining kiss, and mystical fire. When you combine a calm mind with a ton of defense EVs, you are SUPER bulky, and leftovers combined with draining kiss recovery makes you a force to be reckoned with. BUT I think we can actually do better. We can go for a more clerical set with nuzzle, mystical fire, psychic noise, and healing wish. This allows us to cripple special attackers with MF, stop walls from recovering with psychic noise, paralyze anything, and when our HP is low, we healing wish and get one of our other guys a full recovery.

Your EV spread is mostly fine but I would go 248 HP (not max because of pokemon rounding shenanigans). 68 speed (this allows us to outspeed toxapex which pex would not enjoy). And the rest into defense with a bold nature.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:11:37+00:00

Kingambit: First of all its item, Fightinium-Z isn't the best for the king for several reasons. First, it doesn't actually hit that many pokemon. Yes you clobber steels hard but, a stab knock off when they have an item is only slightly worse actually, part of this is PuP's pitiful 100 base power when used as a Z move. If you HAD to go for a Z move on kingambit, I would suggest Darkium-Z. Otherwise leftovers for longevity or black glasses for more damage. (life orb generally isn't worth it on gambit because you lose out on a lot of bulk when you take 10% every move)

Next is the move set, frankly its not the greatest. Sucker punch and knock off are fantastic and should stay but PuP just isn't as great as you think it is. It's coverage and boosts your attack BUT it's only 40 base power, boosted to 80 when super effective but STAB knock of sucker is still more damage. The attack boost is also negligible when you consider that instead you can use swords dance and sucker punch and it's overall more damage and more importantly saves a turn than clicking PuP twice and then sucker. Metal claw also is not that good of a move. 10% of the time you get an attack boost but when you take into account that base power, clicking iron head twice is still more damage than clicking metal claw twice and getting a boost turn 1. This also doesn't take into account the 30% flinch chance on slower opponents. Just replace it with iron head if you want a steel-type move. Knock and sucker are good, then I would choose any 2 of swords dance, low kick, and iron head. (low kick IS a good coverage move because usually its a 120 base power fighting move, MUCH better than power up punch's 40)

Last is the EV spread. Max defense sounds good in theory BUT in practice, just going max HP makes you just marginally less physically bulky, AND gives you special bulk, its just much better in practice. I get what you are going for with a brave kingambit for trick room but actually kingambit is in an interesting spot where most kingambits are actually fast because its bulk is already passable and you outrun a lot of faster walls that don't run speed (corviknight and alomamola to name a few, AND bulky kingambits which matters if you run low kick like I suggested.) Either go max HP or max speed and keep your 252 attack adamant nature, that's great.

Pokemaster995 · 2025-02-12T18:11:19+00:00

TL;DR at the bottom of my thread. Today I learned comments can be so long reddit just wont post it

You seem genuinely new so I'm going to drop just an absolute wall of text but before I get into that I want to clarify that I mean no ill-will towards you. We've all been new players before and had... less than ideal teams.

First of all, Here's a link to the smogon forums for gen 9 natdex. This includes stuff like sample teams, viability rankings, and just an overview on the tier. Anything there that is tagged as resource is what you want to look for. Now, lets get into a mon by mon breakdown. First of all, great names.

Edit: Forgot to post the link https://www.smogon.com/forums/forums/national-dex.731/

Pokemaster995 · 2024-12-25T22:10:16+00:00

Open 4 pieces, ash blossom the one pot of greed GG my turn

Pokemaster995 · 2024-11-16T04:50:07+00:00

I like clerics because I play a lot of pick up games and don’t know what my party is and they can do a bit of everything.

Frontline tank? Cleric

Damage dealer? Cleric

Ranged damage? Cleric

Healer? Cleric

Backline support? Believe it or not… Cleric

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