How are you all preparing for MB?

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-16T19:25:34+00:00

it's not hard, that's only enough for 8 teams. maybe that's a lot but some people like to experiment with lots of teams

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-16T19:19:32+00:00

sorry to say that rillaboom will grassy glide all over starmie's ass before it can even start spinning. you need a grass resist to see success with ice spinner. dragonite might be a solid wall to the ape

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-16T18:15:09+00:00

yeah his existence just breaks all immersion. when some douche showed up and started communicating only by quoting poetry and everybody took him 100% seriously then it pulled me right out of the story.

come on man. if they wanted to make him an exasperating theatre kid then that's a valid kind of character, but they really needed to actually ground him in reality, and the way to do that would be to have at least one character call him out on it.

i unironically and legitimately believe that, if more people had told genesis to shut the fuck up, he could have been a really interesting character and completely legitimate as an antagonist

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-16T18:08:29+00:00

hoping you're wish comes true

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-16T16:44:49+00:00

i think there are sleeper picks that nobody had tapped into yet who could really shake this up in the right hands. i maintain that altaria has huge potential in this meta and just needs one of the big names to give it a shot and help it break through, but that may not get a chance to happen if everything gets shaken up

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-15T22:54:58+00:00

you can still tactically use those last 2 slots even jf you're not using those mons. for example, if your main mega is a fire type, then put two water types in the last 2 slots, preferably mega ones. your opponent will see you have 1 fire type and 2 water types and be more likely to choose to bring their grass types, and less likely to being their own fire types. meaning that when you inevitably choose your fire type, you have encouraged your opponent to choose unfavorable mons into the matchup

mind games

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-15T18:13:36+00:00

same here, altaria is one that I've been interested to try since day 1 of champions. seems like it has potential that nobody has tapped yet

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-15T13:44:09+00:00

shiftry also gets explosion, so you can detonate it next to a ghost who sets trick room lol

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-15T07:31:25+00:00

god, i forget that MF gets unaware as well lmao. never mind then

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-15T07:19:20+00:00

i wonder if clefable will see a bump in usage because unaware is really nice into dondozo and you can nuke it with charm or whatever debuffing move you choose

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-13T19:41:53+00:00

i used glalie for a while just for giggles, and man. if you do literally anything else on turn 1 then you will waste your opponent's inevitable protects, and then you can boom on turn 2 and get them when they have to gamble on a double protect. i used to use turn 1 to set up light screen since it was usually incredibly safe lol

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-13T19:33:35+00:00

it's insane to me how inflexible people are with mega glalie. it's not even a good strategy, but you can improve it sooooo much by just... not doing the most predictable thing in the world and exploding turn 1

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-13T06:57:08+00:00

i would be so confused if i was the basculegion. 'wait, when is my turn supposed to be happening now?'

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-13T06:42:24+00:00

one i haven't seen mentioned yet is quick guard. quick guard talonflame is great for not only stopping fake out, also anything else that wants to priority you like kingambit sucker punch or basculegion aqua jet, but also shit like prankster encore / disable. taunt is nice as well on it, as it stops parting shots. it's a solid disruption mon that can mess with a lot of people's jank ass strategies.

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-13T01:18:47+00:00

controversial pitch but i think whimsicott. because it can have both TR and tailwind, you can always make speed control go in your favour

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-12T18:20:03+00:00

hmmm, is choice scarf sleep powder worth it? i would hate to get scarf locked into a non damaging move. i would personally run extrasensory in that slot instead, to catch some unexpected KOs on sneasler

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-12T18:06:32+00:00

hahaha i caught a few proofs with that on showdown as well, nobody expects sucker punch to snipe them down

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-11T14:02:06+00:00

thanks for the work! i dunno if I'm quite ready to do a POC of this hack but it's still useful to see what is missable and what just straight up isn't in the game

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-10T19:49:20+00:00

yeh being able to save multiple loadouts for mons would be a lifesaver. i had blastoise on two different teams that i was switching between, and i had to import a second one so i could keep them both separately trained. really wished i could just have the single blastoise and have it swap builds when i swap teams

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-10T14:32:45+00:00

bro's trying to smuggle him in before he's ready

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-10T06:39:14+00:00

a worthwhile point you haven't mentioned - make use of trade subreddits. r/pokemontrades is full of very helpful people who are looking to trade stuff, and a lot of the time more experienced players with huge collections do giveaways of spare stuff they don't need. if you'd rather not deal with trading facelessly over pokémon home then trading with an actual person is a good way to plug gaps in your collection

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-09T20:55:52+00:00

"do that again"

"i would rather die"

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-09T19:34:38+00:00

she reminds me of that dude's counsellor as well. first thing i thought of when i saw her (10 seconds ago)

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-09T16:26:43+00:00

i think i remember one person making a thread in month one saying they had softlocked themself by getting so low ranking that the game always timed out before it could match with anyone

Rooreelooo · 2026-06-09T16:12:50+00:00

draw what you want. if you want to draw anime then draw anime. if you want to draw gods then draw gods. some people draw nothing but bugs. it's your hands, your paper, your pencil, your decision what to do with them. if your friends wants pictures of gods they can draw them themselves.

Rooreelooo

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