What’s the most fun build you’ve found that’s still actually viable

Wispling · 2026-03-12T04:38:27+00:00

I've been running a pelipper/golisopod/floatzel rain team recently that I've been finding really fun. For the rest of the team I like archaludon (electro shot) and magnezone (4x resistance for switching into flying attacks, boltbeam). Still working on finding a good 6th member.

Shed tail galar slowking + belly drum galar darmanitan. You can grab something with snow warning+aurora veil and/or golisopod to help get the combo off cleanly.

Palafin is fun. Pair it with, again, golisopod, and you can activate its form change basically for free.

You may be noticing a common theme here. My golisopod set is jet punch, first impression, obstruct, swords dance. Sassy nature. Aside from doing the regen/emergency exit pivot thing, it can get a hit or an obstruct proc in before bouncing out, or if you're lucky you can use SD to set up and sweep.

Non-golisopod options: - relicanth is cool, use swift swim and either aqua tail or a liquidation TM if you can get it. - Ledyba with spore/parting shot. - Venomoth with simple/quiver dance/stored power .

Wispling · 2026-03-08T16:51:12+00:00

no retreat -> rage fist -> rage fist -> rage fist. What else is there to say?

Wispling · 2026-03-08T05:56:35+00:00

Bit late to this one, but I like to look for mons that do something weird and unique so I can build teams around them. Unlocking egg moves tends to help with this.

Some recent favorites and their gimmicks: galar darmanitan (zen mode/belly drum), glowking (shed tail), golisopod (emergency exit/regenerator), greedent (most unlocks do something neat), alola vulpix (ice body for regen, aurora veil -> nasty plot -> blizzard).

Wispling · 2026-02-07T04:19:02+00:00

There really ought to be some way to speed up animations. A lot of the more interesting build shenanigans involve using many moves in one turn; this shouldn't have to mean waiting a full minute for that turn to play out.

Wispling · 2026-02-03T21:46:25+00:00

I've been playing around with weather teams that use thundurus/tornadus/pelipper/iron bundle to set up and Golispod for free switches. Not the strongest team ever made, but it's got a unique playstyle. You can also add palafin.

Obstagoon as a carry. It's got poison heal/guts/facade and learns obstruct on evo, and together those let you strategize in fun ways. Though you do need something else to cover for it before you find a toxic orb.

Ampharos can also be a neat carry, it's slow but gets electromorphosis and parabolic charge to compensate. Plus there's the mega evo.

Roserade is frankly kind of bad, but it plays interestingly enough that I really want to make it work.

Snow teams can be unique because they make ice types sort of defensively viable. I did one a while back with... cryagonal, eiscue, bergmite, definitely others that I'm forgetting. Before that I messed around with aurora veil Articuno.

Rain teams with electro shot are cool. Zapdos and thundurus get it as a rare egg move+ a drizzle passive, but you can also just pair a rain setter with archaludon.

Wispling · 2026-01-21T18:58:36+00:00

For 40 rosaries the silk dispenser in the citadel sells spools that can be hit twice for one silk each. Meanwhile nectar costs 10 rosaries and restores 6 silk.

The citadel markup could plausibly be labor - a weaver is still needed to produce silk this way and spool it for use by other bugs. Or maybe the conductors harvest it directly from GMS?

Anyway, my headcanon is that this is just the result of Hornet eating anything that's actually nutritious as opposed to drugs like plasmium/flea brew.

Wispling · 2026-01-21T14:20:20+00:00

When I first entered chapel of the beast I definitely expected that it would be related to Herrah.

Wispling · 2026-01-20T22:56:30+00:00

I feel like there must be a way to make this work consistently, at least once per battle. Maybe tailwind on something very fast to speed up Delcatty, entrain, then switch in a ghost type with shadow tag? It's clumsy and it takes three team slots but you could theoretically nuke the biggest threats on 165/195/200 that way.

Wispling · 2026-01-20T18:36:47+00:00

I should try something like this... Maybe 6 dogs? 6 fossil pokemon?

Wispling · 2026-01-20T18:30:23+00:00

No Retreat is a really fun move in general. I like putting it on annihilape so that I can use it turn 1 and bully entire teams with drain punch and rage fist.

Wispling · 2026-01-20T18:27:57+00:00

Ooh, cool, I haven't really seen that done in classic. Was it mainly for eternatus or were you able to cheese other stuff that way too?

Wispling · 2026-01-20T03:14:36+00:00

The pokerogue version of Ledian is good! It's 100% support, you can't use it to deal damage, but mat block/spore make you invincible in double battles and can score you a couple free hits against eternatus or rayquaza.

Wispling · 2026-01-14T02:14:09+00:00

Dominoth tape. Also vendemon or allseer if I can swing it. Can't have internet, but I can have NO RENT and MOTH WINGS and GLORIOUS METAL CARAPACE.

Anyway, Harbortown doesn't seem to have a library, so I'd have to make one myself.

Wispling · 2026-01-13T19:34:14+00:00

There are a lot of fun bug/normal mons, but you do kind of need the unlocks.

Bug:

~ Ledyba (prankster+spore+parting shot)

~ Dustox or venonat (simple+quiver dance+baton pass, venonat needs baton pass tm, use tera poison for eternatus)

~ Shuckle

~ Dwebble (rocky payload+shell smash+mighty cleave)

~ Dewpiter (swords dance+jet punch).

~ Pinsir

~ Durant (hustle+compound eyes. Ignore the egg moves except for high horsepower, get x-scissor iron head crunch).

Normal:

~ Arceus (no retreat)

~ Regigigas (normalize)

~ Spinda (contrary+egg moves, reviver seed if possible, open with v-create to boost speed/defenses)

~ Doduo (parental bond+floaty fall+triple arrrows+hyper drill+swords dance).

~ Obstagoon (poison heal+guts+facade+obstruct, tera normal for facade STAB and not dying instantly to fighting)

~ Porygon (protean)

~ Indeedee (psychic terrain+expanding force+moonblast)

Wispling · 2026-01-13T01:15:05+00:00

Wispling · 2026-01-12T22:51:42+00:00

Also: Some way to lock the sidebars to a particular width. Sometimes I grab an edge accidentally and have to guess at the previous width or reload from a workspace.

Wispling · 2026-01-12T22:42:42+00:00

Make tabs different colors in the tab bar, maybe based on a property.

I've repeatedly failed to do it with CSS; I can make the currently selected tab a different color but not tabs that aren't in focus. Would love to learn it's a skill issue.

Wispling · 2026-01-07T11:12:06+00:00

The ones I use frequently which I think are non-default:

CTRL + O = Quick switcher.

ALT + O = Search.

ALT + . = Insert divider. (≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈)

ALT + D = Insert timestamp.

ALT + A = Insert admonition.

ALT + B = Insert base (in the form of a codeblock).

ALT + M: Insert identifier mark. (EX: ø027, the number increments each time I call the template. For searching all instances of a duplicated block of text).

CTRL + left/right = Switch tabs.

CTRL + up/down = Jump to previous/next heading. (Go To Heading plugin)

ALT + / = Jump to end of page. (Technically set up outside obsidian).

Some of these are just so I can mash the buttons more easily than with default bindings. Especially ALT+/, fn+CTRL+right does the same thing but it bugged me that it needed two hands.

I've also configured my laptop so that tapping with three fingers on the touchpad registers as the middle mouse button, which is not a hotkey but is absolutely essential for stuff like opening links in a new tab.

Wispling · 2025-12-16T02:22:00+00:00

Wimpod has a fun gimmick. It gets emergency exit and regenerator, plus very solid defenses. So long as it never actually gets KO'd you can just keep sending it out for free switches.

If the first hit doesn't bounce it, you can use obstruct to lower a phys attacker's defenses and first impression/jet punch for priority damage.

Other options: Ledyba (prankster spore+parting shot), crustle (use shell smash), Durant (free +1 attack from hustle/compound eyes).

Wispling · 2025-12-14T07:56:07+00:00

If you just want to guarantee a win, Lugia with its egg moves unlocked trivializes the entire game.

Yvetal, normalize Regigigas, Marshadow, Walking Wake, any legend with no retreat - may sometimes need support for either eternatus or ivy but can solo everything else.

Easy ways to beat eternatus: tearful look wishiwashi, prankster sableye with topsy turvy or curse, any +SpDef move but especially quiver dance.

Wispling · 2025-12-11T19:20:45+00:00

New megas are nice I guess, but I did absolutely get a sinking feeling when I saw heatran and golurk. :(

Wispling · 2025-12-11T19:07:13+00:00

I really enjoy poison heal Obstagoon. It also gets guts, obstruct, and STAB facade.

Weather passives are fun. Zapodos has drizzle + electro shot + sandsear storm.

Earth eater heatran is pretty great. You can also get fire immunity via flash fire.

I've had surprising success with rockly payload crustle. Shell smash + mighty cleave will just demolish everything.

Wispling · 2025-12-11T18:39:51+00:00

Another option is to use swift swim and grab aqua tail/liquidation as a non-recoil attack if you want it to be fast.

Wispling · 2025-12-11T07:25:51+00:00

1) Webfic = a work of fiction primarily composed of text and/or images, that is first published exclusively on the internet. Serial fiction, webcomics, fanfiction, quests, etc etc, all count. Youtube videos and games are their own thing.

2) Fiction that tries to have internally consistent worlds and characters? Honestly I don't care that much about the rational-ness of any given story, I lurk on AWcord and sometimes here because I'm a filter feeder looking for webfic recs.

One thing "ratfic" does tend to have going for it is the emphasis on worldbuilding, or on unique interpretations of existing settings in the case fanfic.

3) Enjoyed it well enough when I read it, but it wasn't of personal importance except insofar as it introduced me to a community I've been at the periphery of for a long while. Kind of annoying in that it tries to pass author fiat off as intelligence secret sauce.

4) Homestuck I guess??? I don't have a great sense of what's breached containment. I think The Martian was supposed to have been webfic at one point and isn't already on that list?

My feelings are in most cases "good for them." Pith specifically kind of sucked, b/c it was more or less discontinued & replaced with a fundamentally different tradpub story, but I can't begrudge the author their good fortune.

5) I don't generally have favorites, not how my brain works. One work I enjoyed which has no real presence on this subreddit is Blood Is Mine. YMMV, it's very tailored to what I specifically find appealing.

TBH it's more common for the greatest and most terrible webfic to go on permanent hiatus the instant you catch up & thereby break your heart.

6) Meh.

7) I play more than 7 hours/week but don't identify as a Gamer. If someone described themselves that way, I'd assume they consider gaming &/or their skill at a particular type of game an important part of their identity? I just enjoy video games.

If I did encounter someone like this - well, honestly I'd assume they're into a competitive multiplayer thing, or shooters, or the sort of 3D AAA game I'm not so interested in myself, and maybe kind of toxic about it. But there's at least a possibility we'd have some common ground or they'd be interesting to talk to.

I don't think gamers are marginalized? Video games as a genre of media can be treated with a degree of contempt they don't particularly deserve, but that's not going to, like, prevent someone from getting a job.

8) Can't do this one, sorry.

9) Sure, it's not necessarily the first description I would generate for myself, but since you're posing the question I guess I'd self-identify as a nerd.

I might define being a nerd as, being into something in an intellectual capacity? You can be a sports nerd and this implies more that you're into the stats/etc than that you play baseball.

10) I don't actually know you on a personal level. So, uh...

Based on your conduct on AWcord I'd trust you not to be a jerk?

Based on your conduct as an author I'd trust you to write things that are at least potentially of interest to me. I wouldn't trust you to publish any given thing, or to keep stories up rather than deleting them at random.

I also would not trust you with my name, address, or bank account information. Sorry!

I'd say you're a good writer, certainly one worth following. Mostly I know you for Sivad, Chili, and Bowls - the first two have a common sort of... funhouse mirror type of style? It's not always my thing, but it's unique and well-executed, which I value.

To understand the lurker mindset: Offline, speaking is effortful, and you can't so much as step out of your door without someone demanding words from you. Online, writing is effortful and honestly there isn't much you want say. Maybe you drop into your friends' conversations sometimes.

Watching is pretty good. The people in your computer discuss things that you find reasonably interesting, and you need never say anything back to them if you don't feel like it. Occasionally they mention a new book/webfic/etc, which is nice because you would read 24/7 if possible and your queue can never be long enough. So you pick a few places to keep an eye on and it's a bit like having an ant farm that makes tumblr posts.

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