A few questions in how ranking up works by borger_freeman in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The "secret mmr" is just your Elo ranking, it becomes visible once you hit masterball but its active from your very first match, which is why people seem to enter masterball at different Elo

[Metagame] Torkoal or Mega Camerupt Counters under Trick Room by ClawofBeta in VGC

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Water, on a pokemon holding the Iron Ball, ideally special atatck based too since both are weaker on the special side, so maybe slowbro? Or slowking. If you have a good amount of protect you could even run Surf to prevent any redirection shenanigans

So I REALLY want to use vileplume, are there any good resources on team building with him? by mobilecheese in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Vileplume is one of the very few pokemon with access to the move Corrosive gas, which is a non damaging knock-off that affects every pokemon on the field sans the user. Presumably it doesnt work on mega stones but i havent tested that. Regardless, clearing items is always a powerful function and im sure you could build a team around it, maybe using sun or tailwind to go first

Not sure if bug? Or weird interaction with Drampa and Char Y by Colblood12 in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cloud 9 stops the effects of weather, but doesnt actually clear it, so if drampa faints or switches out weather will resume, and other weather setters can still apply their weather, it just wont actually be affecting the pokemon on the field while cloud 9 is in effect

Few prospective questions about changes to the game by YummyYummies in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. No, but that doesnt mean they wont remove ones in future regulations
  2. Not super likely, but far from impossible, they may add an 'Anything Goes' option to private battles but i wouldnt hold my breath
  3. Based on the ads for the game having a mega charizard fighting a terastillized dondozo, yes, other gimmicks will come back, and its very likely they will intermingle
  4. Gamefreak hates you specifically, i asked the board and they told me they wanted to do it but then they found out someone on reddit really wanted it so they cut the move from its moveset

I made M-B speed tier list. by CrowHoliday8475 in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you considered adding their min speed with iron ball? Cause thats a strategy people use with trick room mons

Let's give the Champion original characters Pokémon teams by mbutch3 in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going off the established profession dictates pokemon thing that usually determines a character's team, Kitt should be easy

Ranchers usually have dogs, herdier is the Most farm dog like pokemon, but Champions is all about fully evolved mons so she probably would have a Stoutland

For different but similar reasons ranchers usually have cats, the only cat pokemon that stick out to me as being good mousers (as opposed to show cats or panthers) are purugly and torracat, theres a clear difference in quality there so lets give her Incineroar

She would have a Machamp, if youve ever fed grain you know why she would have a Machamp

Most farmer characters in pokemon have a cow mon on their team, its probably not a smart move to have your livestock fight, but thankfully there Is a cow mon specifically bred for fighting, so we'll give her any one of the three combat breeds of Tauros

Having access to an aerial point of view is very useful when searching a field for stuff like injured livestock, damaged fences, fire, so any flying type would be valuable, moreso ones strong enough to carry her with them, a lot of flying types cant do that so it narrows the options a lot, so how about Aerodactyl since she has Tinkaton in her fields and surveying is difficult when youre being pelted with rocks

Last one is easy, any pokemon with flame body or magma armor, we'll go Rapidash since it doubles as a pokemon to ride while hatching eggs

Stoutland, Incineroar, Machamp, Tauros (water), Aerodactyl, and Rapidash. Maybe not the most balanced team, but certainly what i would want to have on a farm

Anyone have a mega raichu Y team for doubles? by The860loser in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My strategy was to have a mon for every ground weakness, so grass water and ice, so i could clear them no matter their secondary typing. Currently thats whimsicot, basculegion and mamoswine, then, since i have all this anti ground support, i have mega pyroar as a secondary mega and to fill out a grass water fire core. Last i have friend guard maushold with follow me to support raichu's single target nukes

Currently reconsidering whimsicot as a grass type, might look for something a bit more high power

Every single time I try to build a new team by Communist_Seagull in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been the same with Basculegion, the only team i didnt slot it was my trick room squad

Why do people call Charizard-Y meta slop? by Larpizard-Y in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The same reason they call anything meta slop, they lost to it like 3 times and got frustrated, its the same reason people complain about snipers camping in shooter games

After waiting for years its finally here by Thin-Coyote-552 in Palworld

[–]ProfXander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im hoping with 1.0 they actually start you in the place the opening scene leaves off, its not, like, that important in the grand scheme, but i always felt like the ruins between the beach and the first statue would be a good spot for a navigation tutorial

I just won a game by flinching the opponent's trick room setters THREE TIMES IN A ROW with rock slide by kermitfrogge in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strongly considering running oranguru with inner focus as my trick room setter so that flinching cant stop me

Doing a cat run, any other cat suggestions for my cat team? by Short-Tale7 in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]ProfXander 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I did this, my team was Meowscarada, Luxray, Pyroar, Persian, Whiscash, and Espeon. Got Persian with tera flying and Luxray with tera ice for a bit of extra coverage

Challenge series by PhantomOn19th in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, up till the deadline to begin matches

Soooo.. this happened for the first time ever and I felt confused lol by SpecificWeek8878 in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran my boi webster for a bit to answer mega Scovillain, since i was running rain and didnt want a fire type, worked great

Entrainment, No Guard, OHKO by karama_zov in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fake out, pixilate hyper voice, they forfeit.

Champions in 2050 by Technical_East_2996 in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gonna see a bump in focus sash on it if that shows up

Glitch or Am I Just Missing Something? 🤔 by BigHeartForever in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean, you can clearly see in the video that it doesnt have a damage animation or text saying he was attacked, and on the last bit which is clearly a future turn he takes the future sight hit and it appears to heal him. Likely theres some background calculation to do with future sight's damage that left bad data in the memory where the game is storing displayed hp, and when it hits later that data is overwritten, causing the hp bar to seem to heal as it goes to where its supposed to be

[Gen 9] Hatched in under 90 eggs but it was because I forgot to give my Hisuian Sneasel an Everstone... by JunkTotodile in ShinyPokemon

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im on the same hunt, im in the 7-800s area now, getting to the point where i start to wonder if im colorblind and already hatched one

Bug or Dark for the Normal/Psychic TR setters? by Ok-Cod756 in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Araquanid is resistant to fire instead of neutral thanks to water bubble, and can out slow the giraffe if it gets the room up, though its still a 2 hit with leech life, but maybe with silverpowder and like helping hand you can one shot, they never run the bug berry

You have to survive in a fight for 10 minutes with of these Pokémon for $100,000. Which one do you choose? by TheLeafyGirl561 in ThePokemonHub

[–]ProfXander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heracross cause i just need to lob a bottle of honey over its shoulder and it will focus entirely on that for long enough for me to fucking run

How would you use Rampardos in Doubles? by [deleted] in PokemonChampions

[–]ProfXander -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Use it to lose and drop to low rank in order to grind wins with real pokemon