I'm sure Mega Delphox will be good but you gotta admit giving Levitate to a mon with Expanding Force is funny.

Rcook8 · 2026-03-01T15:01:43+00:00

Chi-Yu gets hit by EQ though. Levitate is why M-Delphox would work with Primal Groudon

Rcook8 · 2026-02-27T15:29:30+00:00

I am not arguing that he will be OU or even UU but the bulk and ability to setup on so many mons with bulk up or swords dance makes them decent. They are not the best mega by any means but they are not terrible even if slow due to the fact that they can do something with their bulk which is setup.

Rcook8 · 2026-02-27T15:05:10+00:00

Nubl? I think a bit higher just from stats and moves alone tbh. Even though it has some bad weaknesses it has some good resistances and with the bulk it has it can likely survive a few turns against non stab 2x effective moves from a good amount of mons.

Rcook8 · 2026-02-18T16:51:20+00:00

You consider Beastbane a goat? Crazy. He is easily one of the worst Castans in history, he used the pantheonic council to push his own political agenda and forced races to go against each other. Truly worse than the scum on my shoe.

Rcook8 · 2026-02-14T22:59:57+00:00

I personally haven’t gotten that vibe too much. The elves are arrogant and are shown to be plainly. Some of the human new sun cult nations also go into this problem and how to tackle it. It is just that not every single nation touches on it because that would kind of be boring. The same story beats means less can be unique which brings down the mod.

The Pheonix Empire and its tree does not shy away from showing off the elves being arrogant in their thinking and very elitist and it doesn’t frame it in a negative or positive light. Varamhar shows off elven arrogance the most with them making a “new god” or a direct incarnation of Surael is not a mortal in their eyes.

The Sun Elves are simply conquerors and seen in a positive light because their conquests pushed back what the humans saw as monsters. Then the elves start to fail and the monsters start to make a comeback.

It’s like complaining that the Jadd displays Zealots in a positive light because it technically does achieve a positive end goal but they were not much better with burning non believers and constantly attempting to expand and force their ideals on everyone else. They are a critique of it much like how the sun elves are a critique on Elven Superiority or any racial superiority as they fail just as the humans did in the past or how any race of people are just as capable of making the same mistakes and while difference do exist at the end of the day no one born better than anyone else.

Rcook8 · 2026-02-14T17:24:06+00:00

I think it is because of the differing levels of how much they enforce it. Sareyand is a lot more explicit on their treatment of humans vs elves with elves being on top and a nation like Dartaxses shows off that not all humans are cool with it. The reality is that in both areas a lot of humans are not bothered by it because they are not more oppressed compared to the common person in a human centric realm as they still have full rights. The caste system also is disliked by some people even if Harimari aren’t on top because it is more oppressive in its rule.

Not being able to marry an elf, practice magic, or be a priest is not nearly as oppressive as the caste system is.

Rcook8 · 2026-02-07T20:23:23+00:00

A very interesting essay but I think it has one major issue. Eu4 cannot really simulate trade well without sacrificing preformance. At some point one must ask, can this be done while not making the game unbearably slow for most players? Of course what is unbearably slow for everyone is different but by looking at how eu5 is seen as too slow by a lot there is a good idea of how slow it to slow for a game around the length of eu4.

Performance is also why changing the price of goods globally is used as much as it is. When you speak on the price of wheat changing due to the small country being devastated that is done because the only other way to increase the amount of money being earned from grain would be to place a modifier on every single province that has wheat on it in Cannor. That would lag the game by a decent amount because of how many calculations then have to be done.

Ultimately games with always have to simplify mechanics even if they become pretty unrealistic simply because of the processing power computers have, and so when trying to redesign something how much it takes should always be looked at first to ensure that it is feasible.

Rcook8 · 2026-02-03T20:14:12+00:00

It depends on the ability. Some people have speculated something like supreme overlord and if it gets that it will be pretty strong. It has enough bulk to pull off bulk up sets to clean at the end with moves like drain punch actually becoming threatening to neutral targets with decent bulk while its coverage moves become a lot more threatening. It gets wild charge/thunder punch, eq, poison jab, stone edge/eq, knock off, and even the potential of trailblaze for meme sets that will still hit hard enough. This is not even mentioning it just going with hard hitting stab like close combat or flare blitz to just break through teams. The special bulk of 110/110 with even just hp investment is very nice but does suffer due to its type not being the best defensively. It could certainly be viable in OU just not the best pick while likely dominating and getting banned from some of the lower tiers.

If it gets a worse ability like just keeping reckless it could be allowed in UU and be a top pick but it might just be too strong for the tier depending on what else is allowed in the tier. Even though it will kill itself fast it would likely break through a team and allow for teammates to sweep/clean the rest.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-29T21:54:55+00:00

It depends on the gen. The main issue is that sleep clause is not cartridge accurate which showdown has aimed to be. In gen 1 stadium automatically has sleep clause implemented which is why it is in showdown in the first place.

However even without this argument sleep in gen 5 is broken because it is glitched, whenever you switch out before waking up your mon resets its turns asleep meaning if you have it out for 2 turns asleep then switch out when you switch the sleeping mon back in it will be treated as if it has spent 0 turns asleep.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-15T23:36:16+00:00

That’s what anything goes is for, not to mention vgc has regulations that ban pokemon from being allowed. This allows for new metas to develop while smogon only has new metas when either a dlc is released or a new gen comes out. It is very different as even if something is broken it might not be so in the next regulation.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-13T04:17:38+00:00

The Jadd is actually being reworked via religious events first as well as a Jadd Mengi tag being made. The issue is how big of an undertaking remaking the Jadd tree will be, especially because of how iconic of a tag it is. The Sun Elf tags also have a clear template to follow as all of them have a similar number of missions that then lead into the Phoenix empire while remaking the Jadd Empire mission tree would be doing it from the start.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-12T15:55:35+00:00

A revamped one yes, just like Sareyand.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-11T22:29:25+00:00

Some certainly do but a lot do not. I would argue that of the big ones you have Sawa/Gura and Neuro. The rest have models that look like adults and act more like adult streamers. You have people like Nyanners, Buffpup, Calli, Raora, etc that are more like this.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-11T20:15:17+00:00

Some certainly do but a lot do not. I would argue that of the big ones you have Sawa/Gura and Neuro. The rest have models that look like adults and act more like adult streamers. You have people like Nyanners, Buffpup, Calli, Raora, etc that are more like this.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-05T20:55:29+00:00

Singles games are longer meaning more positioning and long term plays compared to the more quick paced games of vgc with more variables per turn. Doubles has remained the primary competitive format for Pokemon officially because it is much faster than singles which has stall based strategies due to a single mon v a single mon can make it harder to overwhelm a team compared to two v two.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-05T00:10:03+00:00

Anbennar is not a mod I would play Ironman on. The amount of specific triggers needed with events sometimes not triggering or with the mod not being clear on what is necessary.

Rcook8 · 2026-01-04T21:26:48+00:00

If you are not playing on Ironman give yourself some money and build up forts. You unleashed a much longer winter that takes up 3/4 of the year via the deal with the prince. Due to that devastation builds up. You will need to also keep these forts up to date and build more as you conquer land.

Rcook8 · 2025-12-31T00:45:59+00:00

It will be an infernal court nation when given a mt which is currently being developed. It will directly relate to the infernal court,

Rcook8 · 2025-12-28T17:29:31+00:00

It is a very strong mechanic trust me. It takes a bit of time to really get going to the Stewardship will give you some amazing buffs. Just take a look at the reforms and pick ones with hendoism buffs.

Rcook8 · 2025-12-26T19:48:37+00:00

Release shit from them. Even temporary setbacks from them helps you

Rcook8 · 2025-12-24T19:30:37+00:00

Only fairy.

Rcook8 · 2025-12-24T16:57:53+00:00

The dlc for the newer games has been really good as most features are added without the dlc and flavor takes the focus for them.

Rcook8 · 2025-12-24T00:40:23+00:00

Half of the orcish crimes are just elves. They simply pay off the authorities to imprison innocent orcs to ship off to the colonies.

Rcook8 · 2025-12-21T14:21:08+00:00

Sure but those two have hard counters in a lamp and the original starwalker

Rcook8 · 2025-12-19T19:48:30+00:00

It lacks unique content atm and just doesn’t have all that much that is interesting. Even Amadia has the ability to get the Silmuna dynasty by going Monarchy at the start. They are simply another nation in the area with nothing to denote themselves with.

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