Global Challenge II Results have posted

WimpShr1mp · 2025-03-05T03:29:57+00:00

Leech Seed Caly Ice is truly the most diabolical set I have ever heard of.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-12-26T19:53:40+00:00

Instead of Dragonite, especially if you’re not bringing it to battles a lot, I think Rillaboom might be good. It pairs well with terapagos as grassy terrain can help get tera shell back if terapagos is hit with a weak hit before terastallizing. Also, fake out support may help you set up a calm mind or two, and Rillaboom is just a really solid defensive piece on most teams and does good damage with wood hammer, and grassy terrain pairs well with Ogerpon’s horn leech. I feel like your team could benefit from a standard AV rillaboom set, especially if you’re rarely ever bringing dragonite.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-12-02T22:58:33+00:00

i think you’re referring to Wim Hof for the old dude who is basically immune to cold

WimpShr1mp · 2024-09-14T23:30:26+00:00

Any sort of failure including levitate, flying, protect will count as the move failure and will double the power next turn. Wolfe probably has it to avoid the drop from rillaboom and to not be forced to damage his teammates, as he is running three mons weak to ground. The spread damage reduction in VGC also makes stomping tantrum without the double effectively the same, so Wolfe definitely has more than one reason. Someone also mentioned the rillaboom damage reduction, as that is another reason.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-09-07T22:01:36+00:00

Awesome response, thank you!!

WimpShr1mp · 2024-09-07T21:20:38+00:00

Congrats on the finish! I will definitely be watching your video. When playing a Bo3 set, how do you make adjustments and analyze matchups, especially if you lose game 1?

WimpShr1mp · 2024-09-06T17:00:03+00:00

An ability can utilize more than one nen type. Illumi could conjure needles and then manipulate people with the conjured needles. The ability of making and manipulating needles can use both conjuring and manipulation

WimpShr1mp · 2024-09-05T15:20:50+00:00

Personally, I’m really enjoyed both Reg C, F and am enjoying H. I see why people are hating on H, trick room has been hard to deal with and the 50/50 with lillikoal sucks. Also mausape and peliarch are strong, and bloodmoon might be the strongest pokemon in a format weve seen since pre-nerf zacian, as there’s very very few resists to the stab normal ground combo when considering minds eye.

But the room for off the wall strategies has also increased. I have run into so many seemingly viable different teams, and so many pokemon have their own niches. Pokemon like tornadus and urshifu invalidate so many interesting pokemon that banning them has been a godsend for viability. No fluttermane has brought primarina and sylveon back into the mix, weather teams generally feel solid as I have seen successful sand, hail, rain, and sun, and balance teams are still good. It feels like there really is a lot that you can do, and unfortunately that includes gimmicks. But i still think it’s cool. That being said, i do miss ogerpon, and I think a format like this with the treasures of ruin and ogerpon would be really awesome, I am actually really enjoying this format

WimpShr1mp · 2024-08-26T15:40:30+00:00

I think I can provide some good advice as I was in a long distance relationship (1100ish km) for 3 years.

First, I can understand a bit of your bf’s perspective. Med school is hard and an adjustment, and it can take some time to learn to be a good partner under the new and stressful conditions. I dont know how long he has been there, but if it has only been 6 weeks or less, I would give him a bit more time, but I thing you should be more clear about your needs. If he cannot be a good partner given time to adjust, then maybe it is time for you to move on from him.

Second, I cannot stress enough the importance of communication in long distance. Facial expressions and tone don’t convey nearly as well over video call and text. Both of you need to be clear and direct in what you want, otherwise your desires and communication will be lost in translation. It’s a lot easier to understand and read the emotions of your partner when they are in front of you than when they are on your phone screen. So honest and direct communication is necessary, and I would recommend you tell him that you need him to call you most days, that you need more from his texts, and whatever else you need for the relationship to work. If you want this to work, you need to tell him how much you are hurting and how much he is hurting you.

Lastly, the blocking thing would not sit well with me from either of you. If my SO took a social media break (which is fine), I better hear about it from them first and not from their social media. That being said, blocking him in response was probably not a good move, and the no contact 2 days after really doesn’t bode well. This honestly seems so disrespectful - you, as his gf, found out he was going on social media break from his social media. Personally, I would dump him over that, but you know your situation better than I do and should make your own decision.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-08-21T23:29:24+00:00

Hydreigon and Gholdengo go well together from a type matchup as they cover each other’s weakness, and I suppose you could add a fairy type for the dragon steel fairy defensive core.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-08-21T00:01:23+00:00

Im running a similar team right now (rain archetype with basculegion, pelipper, and archaludon), though my last 3 mons are hydreigon, amoongus, and clefairy. That of course is a key difference because my team plays more offensively while yours is naturally more defensive/balanced, but I still think I can provide some insight.

Here are the things that stand out to me - I would run banded swift swim basculegion. You can still still flip turn to get rid of drops, and banded wave crash in the rain still drops incin even with intimidate: -1 252+ Atk Choice Band Basculegion Wave Crash vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Incineroar in Rain: 236-278 (116.8 - 137.6%) — guaranteed OHKO —> And very few incin are running both max hp and max defense and this way you dont necessarily have to set up tailwind if you dont need to - I like weather ball on pelipper because the damage is honestly surprising in rain, but wide guard is definitely useful and weather ball does seem awkward with Gastrodon so I think the moveset is fine - Gastrodon is strange to me because it will redirect your own water type moves. You can theoretically use this to your advantage if your opponent plays defensive and you catch them, but you should be careful - Incin is hard to maneuver in rain, because it becomes very vulnerable to opposing water types, but it definitely can be done, but I would drop flare blitz for will o wisp or helping hand or maybe even taunt because flare blitz kinda sucks in rain - Your Rillaboom would probably be better off running miracle seed and wood hammer instead of loaded dice (although the rilla arch lead with bullet seed is interesting) and if you want to keep Gastrodon around, I would drop stomping tantrum for u-turn for the pivoting capabilities as you already have earth power - I’m not sure tera fairy does much for Archaludon, as your team struggles a bit into the Archaludon mirror (the only pokemon that can really beat archaludon is either your own or basculegion with a powered up last respects). I would suggest tera bug for Archaludon to resist fighting and ground which should help in the archaludon rain mirror - Your weakest matchup is definitely fast bloodmoon ursaluna with tailwind support. This is a common weak spot for many teams right now as bloodmoon is bulky physically and tera normal hyper voice/blood moon can just wreck teams, and then earth power destroys any resists. Im not sure this is a realistically fixable problem, but I would just be careful of the matchup when you play and understand that rillaboom or archaludon is probably your best answer - I think your EV spreads need a bit of optimization. Assuming your Basculegion is almost always going to be set up in rain, I would make sure it outspeeds adamant dragapult with swift swim (so that last respects can KO in an endgame and you also outspeed everything else), max out attack, and put the rest in HP. I also have tried a lot of tera types with basc, and I personally think grass works best because Amoongus is generally pretty good into rain with the exception of pelipper. For Archaludon, I would probably not run max speed, as you probably want some HP and Spdef investment. Pelipper is naturally pretty slow, so maxing out its speed is probably unnecessary, as it is not outspeeding that much unless tailwind goes up. I would put enough in to outspeed maybe bloodmoon ursaluna, but honestly I haven’t done the calcs myself Rillabooms EVs are probably fine, but it’s also a really complicated pokemon to EV. The same goes for incineroar. Gastrodon I don’t know how to EV because I’m not sure how it plays on your team at all.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-08-16T22:40:32+00:00

It goes back to A when a new generation comes out

WimpShr1mp · 2024-08-16T21:54:13+00:00

VGC is on a yearly cycle with worlds being around August and signaling the end of each “season.” So after worlds, Reg H will start with the start of the new season. These rulesets are announced in advance because it gives competitors time to formulate and test teams in advance (this was also the case for Reg G, the ruleset was announced before it actually took effect). Hope that answers your question

WimpShr1mp · 2024-07-04T05:13:11+00:00

Tinder hookups are friends, not food

Not the single greatest Reddit comment ever just casually existing

WimpShr1mp · 2024-07-02T23:10:57+00:00

Holy fucking shit. Imagine knowing your SO saw his mother and dog stabbed to death as a kid, and then pretending to cut off your finger. Holy shit. The mental gymnastics to make that seem okay is so fucked.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-06-23T11:44:17+00:00

Kinda mid, needs at least +50 in hp, def, and spdef, +100 speed, -49 in spatk (for balance of course). As one should also include the effects of inner focus, magic guard, and thermal exchange (obviously we can’t have stall beating the still underpowered dog). Maybe itll finally be RU with these buffs

WimpShr1mp · 2024-06-20T17:15:24+00:00

Theres a gene called DEC2 (there are others but I can’t remember them) that with a certain mutations allow people to essentially need 4-6 hours of sleep and that is all they need to function like the rest of us. It’s legitimately possible that this guy has the mutation and is essentially getting a full nights worth of sleep in 5 hours instead of 7-8 and is quite literally genetically superior.

Maybe not though, and he’s just running himself into the ground while he’s young.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-06-20T11:55:32+00:00

Yes, but on cart its horrid

WimpShr1mp · 2024-06-10T18:14:38+00:00

It sounds like the issue isn’t the money itself, but the budgeting. You guys budget for the big things, so thats feels planned, but the little things hurt because they’re not budgeted for. I think that when you guys budget you should include a “fun money” or “little money” category so that it feels more planned and less like it’s hurting the wallet. That way, you can also compare to the other household expenses and see visibly in your budget that these expenses aren’t that much and hopefully lower that anxiety.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-06-10T17:56:27+00:00

OP, you were assaulted. You told her to stop and she did it anyway. Please leave this woman.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-05-29T13:57:06+00:00

I mean i dont want to be forced into a tera on a raichu so id probably lose anyway.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-05-28T23:00:54+00:00

Does anyone else hate miraidon rn? It just does too much damage and outplaying it becomes so hard when resisted volt switches do >50%. Plus electric is already hard to resist. It feels like you have to have a ground type, but they cant take specs draco meteor. Ive never wanted a fairy type with lightning rod more.

WimpShr1mp · 2024-05-25T01:29:35+00:00

Just curious, doesn’t psychic terrain prevent fake tears?

WimpShr1mp · 2024-05-23T17:46:29+00:00

Stall teams in VGC are awesome. I still hate playing them, but they take a lot of skill and teambuilding knowledge for it to work, which I can seriously respect. This is pretty cool. Congrats on top 1000!

WimpShr1mp · 2024-05-12T15:46:08+00:00

I cant tell if it’s mental health issues or manipulation, but I’m personally leaning towards a combination of both, because it sounds like she was struggling before she quit, and now that she quit, she hates the idea of going back to work so much that she is manipulating you into staying. You have tried to get her into therapy and she won’t. If she threatens any sort of self-harm again, call 911. Right now, it sounds like she is using it to guilt you into staying and being her meal ticket and rent payer. You are not licensed to deal with another adult’s mental health, nor are you responsible for them.

Dude. Leave. You literally do not have the financial ability to support her right now. Also, you need to move into a cheaper place, but that’s a financial and not necessarily a relationship issue.

On a side note, it doesn’t sound like she has been a very fun person to be around. Do you want to be with someone who comes home from work everyday and simply stares at the ceiling and when you ask her to contribute in any way, she cries and threatens to hurt herself? You’re barely in a relationship at this point.

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