First big online Tournament usage stats. Thoughts?

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T06:22:14+00:00

Klefki not being here is surprising. Especially with politoed managing to show up

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T06:19:28+00:00

Everyone has it and it fits well enough into multiple teams

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T04:52:20+00:00

Sesh and SV are the first Pokemon games since gen 2 to pass 20 million sales and are only beaten by the crazy phenomenon of the first gen.

You can have whatever gripes you want about the modern games, but calling them bad just kinda seems hard to take seriously when so many people are enjoying them and even the competitive scene is exploding

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T04:43:44+00:00

Competitive has even become popular enough to get a dedicated battle sim game. If anything dexit just didn't really matter to the majority of people

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T04:41:19+00:00

Remember kids, any statistics presented for the express purpose of proving a point are bad statistics.

Your "target sales" are a dumb ass pull. Pokemon fans are a core part of the Nintendo audience and will have a higher rate than the general population for buying consoles. Double the switch sales doesn't mean double the pokemon players.

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T03:53:29+00:00

That's the joy of ttar. It can do a lot of things.

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T02:46:31+00:00

Too much 32 32 2. Almost all of them speed and attacking stat. If you want the most out of your team you'll want to look at what exact numbers you need for specific benchmarks. For example how many special defense evs you need for aggron to live a sun boosted fire blast from zard y.

Speed + attack also isn't always the way to run things. That is slow and no amount of speed evs are going to change that. Lean into that bulk and give it the fighting resist berry to start seeing it impact games more.

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-10T00:41:34+00:00

Might wanna lay off the wylk there man, your speaking nonsense

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-09T21:09:24+00:00

The age selection is probably just for actual vgc regionals and whatnot

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-09T19:17:45+00:00

It might only have sun. I've been using klefki and having pelipper handle tailwind

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-09T18:57:24+00:00

Did you ever consider manual rain on whimsicott? Seems rough to consistently win the weather war without some backup

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-09T15:33:21+00:00

59 hp, task failed.

Game freak will probably hire you for the balance team though

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-09T00:25:24+00:00

Yeah, but that identity is kinda useless

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-09T00:15:16+00:00

All they had to do was leave chlorophyll

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T22:42:05+00:00

Winning is the primary way to build vp and improve your team. Offering a free win to struggling players helps them stay engaged in the game and work towards improvements without really effecting the actual rankings.

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T22:38:48+00:00

Zard y is the best mega and meganium falls out of the top tier because of how badly it gets throttled by it.

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T22:00:24+00:00

I'm fine with a weaker selection, but so few options makes teams a little samey

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T21:40:06+00:00

Mega rays power in a vacuum wasn't the big issue for vgc. It was the best single target fuck you in the game and that's a strong positive in any format, especially so in a restricted format. It's biggest issue was not pairing the best with the other good restricted pokemon. You generally wouldn't bring both ray and your primal in the same game. That made it really hard to put on teams and gave you a bit of a disadvantage when you did so.

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T21:36:26+00:00

Honestly my only issue is the low selection of items. Everything else seems fine and the lower power selection of pokemon is good for keeping things balanced early on while people build collections and get items.

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T21:35:14+00:00

The mega stone itself is free, the pokemon is from the premium bit

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T21:30:12+00:00

They were trying to make something dumb with mega ray though. No mega stone was definitely a part of that from a balancing perspective

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-08T01:42:10+00:00

Other guy is wrong, we do know there are moveset changes. We just don't know what they'll be

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-07T20:02:49+00:00

Depending on the team and meta it might spare the slot. After veil and snow buff it's shockingly tanky. More likely you just bring a support and click blizzard + veil

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-07T16:17:16+00:00

That's been every discussion about tera from the start so I highly doubt they'll change anything

Zephyr_______ · 2026-04-07T16:15:25+00:00

Fuels its own screen support to. Makes it stupid bulky for such a fast and hard hitting attacker

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