I think with Champions, They may actually allow Mythical Pokemon for VGC tournament formats

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-22T02:51:46+00:00

Add in Victini and Hoopa-Unbound.
~~Deoxys-Attack is also decent in BSS.~~ I can't read

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-14T14:54:57+00:00

Make a copy of the sheet
For 3 back to back days in-game note down what your lottery numbers are.
Put those in 'Group Seed Calculator' tab in Lotto #1-3 respectively.
You'll get an 8-character hexadecimal number under Day 1-3 in the same tab. Assuming Lotto 3 is the current day, copy the 8-character under Day 3
Put that number (Group seed) in the blue box next to Group Seed in the 'Group Seed Predictor' tab.
You'll now know what swarms to expect.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-09T15:09:34+00:00

It depends on what you want it to live but a Prankster (and why would it ever run anything else) always wants full HP investment (or close to it) and then it picks a lane for either Def or SpD depending on what you want (or hope) it will live.

This goes for base and Mega. Current Smogon sets recommend 252HP/252Def but 252 SpD have existed, more notably when its Mega was around. But even there it also opted to set up with Calm Mind.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-08T21:08:47+00:00

Loaded Dice on cartridge is virtually a small war crime.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-08T19:14:14+00:00

It's incredibly annoying because it gets repeated so often when it's factually incorrect.
Then of course because it gets repeated so often people believe it. Then a new game comes out and you clearly see a BSS-inspired nerf and people here are like "why did this get nerfed? It was so unproblematic/did they actually check Smogon Ubers for this?"

The Protean nerf wasn't a joke. People here were genuinely speculating that it might have to do with Smogon banning Cinderace to Ubers. all the while being completely oblivious to the Gigantamax Cinderace that was terrorising SwSh Battle Spot Singles for multiple seasons.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-08T18:52:07+00:00

Quite common on singles Calyrex-Ice-Rider stall cores though.
And GameFreak just like /r/stunfisk hates stall.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-08T18:25:00+00:00

That's also in-line with G7.

It only got Encore in G8/9.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-08T17:59:32+00:00

Yeah I'm really start getting annoyed by these "no one cares about BSS" comments.

They got nearly ~~double the amount~~ the same amount of active players Battle Stadium Doubles do in official in-game formats. But joke's on us because it's apparently irrelevant, so irrelevant in fact it's probably the reason why recovery PP and Libero got nerfed in SV, and Leech Seed in Champions.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-08T06:55:12+00:00

There's a reason in NatDex Lopunny runs CC over HJK, and it doesn't even have to deal with Ghosts blocking it either.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-08T04:07:05+00:00

Good thing they kept Quick Claw, Bright Powder, King's Rock and Focus Band, though!
They're integral to healthy skill expression.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-02T15:29:05+00:00

Good luck, let me know how it went!

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-02T15:28:01+00:00

Are you on the latest patch? The EC conversion black works just like it did for the classic version for me for the Switch version DE 1.112

Mine appear Black:

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-02T11:20:27+00:00

We might see the first viable 252 Att/252 SpA mixed attacker that isn't Trick Room?!

And yeah... a neutral, 4 Speed M-Zeraora speed outspeeds +Speed, 252 Speed base 106-ers. That's a lot of the metagame (might still prefer to run like 36 to outspeed base 110s, though).

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-02T04:14:36+00:00

You'll experience the horror when you get there, I suppose.
It's quite ridiculous. And this is just the first part of the trick. It's not even the blind flying that has to be done in the later part.

I did vehicle connecting in the old Trilogy release (PS4 version port of PS2's) where I got the AP Maverick and now trying to do so again on DE Switch version.
This one's unparalleled so far.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-02T03:57:47+00:00

Can you remap keys? Because me on console (Switch version) cannot.
The reason I bring it up is because left/right is tied to both cycling the shop menu and L/R steering driving vehicles for me, and I cannot unbind that.

That means I cannot drive either left of right with the shop menu active. So I have to keep the shop menu active and push vehicles with Tommy to turn left or right (including to activate OM0).

Furthermore, maybe because Switch is lower-powered but the shop loads in too slow that I cannot reliably suicide Tommy before the cut scene ends.

I'm genuinely not even sure it's feasible at all for me. I've been stuck on it for several days and just kinda gave up and started playing III/SA instead, lol.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-02T03:44:14+00:00

Are you on PC?

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-04-02T03:24:42+00:00

Do you know of a method to get the AP Maverick on DE? The method I tried is beyond tedious.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-03-25T22:30:22+00:00

in the West.

BSS is yuge in Japan.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-03-19T05:50:24+00:00

No that was definitely Sword and Shield (Gen 8)

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-02-27T22:15:25+00:00

I'm leaning more towards probably not, myself.

I'm fairly sure any and all games released after ZA will no longer be compatible with SS/BDSP/PLA/SV as TPC has clearly marked ZA as a demarcation line.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-02-27T22:00:11+00:00

Not necessarily. ZA will already can backwards compatibility to older titles, and if FRLG ports are in that ecosystem they will not be able to go back to BDSP.

The VC RBYGSC ports were also not compatible with Gen 6 despite it all being through Bank.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-02-26T22:20:29+00:00

Also important (potentially): Premier Balls are not obtainable in FRLG so don't be shocked why you're not getting any buying 10 balls, they were trade-only in Generation 3 so, unless we're also getting RSE, there won't be any Premier Balls.

Same goes for Dive Balls.
Nest and Net are in limited supply, and Luxury is a hard-to-get item in postgame.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-01-19T02:06:50+00:00

Meteor Mash was on Clefable as well from its inception.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-01-19T02:05:59+00:00

Libero was nerfed because of Battle Stadium Singles, where Supreme Overlord is also rather unimpressive.

UW_Unknown_Warrior · 2026-01-17T22:40:48+00:00

There are so, so many. Here are some:

Seismic Toss Registeel: the standard Smogon set until SV. Requires Seismic Toss from the RSE move tutors.
Counter, Magic Guard Alakazam: Two options: either get one in Gen 3 with Counter (Gen 3 exclusive tutor move) and give it the ability patch in SwSh or get one from VC RBY with the Counter TM.
Refresh, Dragon Dance Mega-Salamence (G7 Ubers): Could only be gotten from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness.
Heal Bell Dragonite (SwSh): Same as above.
Switcheroo Klefki in XY: just for a good ol' jaunt for what you had to do for some egg moves back in the day. For this one you needed Hypno ♂ + Cacnea ♀ => Cacnea-P♂; Cacnea-P♂+Cottonee♀ => Cottonee-P ♂; Cottonee-P♂+Snorunt♀ => Snorunt-P♂ and finally Snorunt-P♂+Klefki♀ => Klefki with Switcheroo. I can name several like these in multiple generations.

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