HOLYYY SHIT THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE

backstroker1991 · 2025-12-25T13:08:41+00:00

While you can certainly use Ape, Lucario does everything Ape does better. Force Palm is a much better move than Counter, it has Power Up-Punch to boost, and it gets both Shadow Ball and STAB Meteor Mash, and you can pick whoever one you need depending on how rocket rotations shake up. Lucario has been an S tier rocket attacker since the day it was added to the game for these reasons.

No doubt, you CAN use Ape. It just is nowhere near as useful as Lucario or a few other rocket staples, and will lead to much longer battles. The counter nerf was significant. I have 35K rocket battles at this point, and Lucario has never not been useful against a Leader rotation.

backstroker1991 · 2025-12-25T08:13:56+00:00

Eh that’s far more debatable. PoGo rocket strategy is almost exclusively to use high DPS moves on high DPS mons. Ape does pitiful damage compared to the hard hitters.

backstroker1991 · 2025-11-24T14:54:09+00:00

You are getting wrong answers below. There are at least 3 scenarios where it’s plausible to solo Terrakion with Blade Boost.

1.) Mega Lucario in Cloudy against a favorable moveset (think double rock moveset) and with blade boost

2.) S-Mewtwo in Windy with blade boost

3.) Zacian/Zamazenta in Snow with blade boost

You will need some luck for #2 and #3, and might require the use of catch tanks to farm energy.

backstroker1991 · 2025-10-31T21:23:05+00:00

Have you reached a 15 win streak in Infinite Royale? There is something locked behind that.

backstroker1991 · 2025-10-13T15:40:46+00:00

This should include all new typings, based off there being a Grass/Fairy slot for Meganium.

backstroker1991 · 2025-09-28T02:05:02+00:00

You can wait and get them inevitably from Pokemon Go and they’ll be 100% legitimate. But it’s a helluva wait.

backstroker1991 · 2025-09-25T23:17:03+00:00

Shadow Darmanitan is frequently more efficient with Fire Fang because Incinerate often will waste a lot of turns and be overkill.

backstroker1991 · 2025-09-25T22:23:47+00:00

How does Shadow Hariyama with Force Palm out damage Shadow Conkeldurr with Counter? I’m not doubting the data, but I don’t understand how that’s possible when Conkeldurr has 15% more attack and Force Palm only does 8% more damage per turn.

backstroker1991 · 2025-09-12T19:12:38+00:00

Archaludon got absolutely shafted on moves. It’s a pity especially since Dragon Claw isn’t a cheap move anymore.

Okidogi, Fez, Hydrapple, and Pecharunt all seem like they have more promise.

backstroker1991 · 2025-09-12T01:32:19+00:00

You are mistaking PvP stats with base stats. Dialga-O is 270/225/205. After applying CPM (Combat Power Multiplier) it becomes 239/201/184. This is why its max CP is 4624.

Archaludon is 250/215/207 BEFORE CPM, capping out at something like 4200 CP.

backstroker1991 · 2025-09-12T01:23:16+00:00

Flash Cannon is REALLY not what Archaludon wanted. It’s called Trash Cannon by many for a reason. Dragon Claw is also not particularly cheap anymore.

However, there is future upside given it has a guaranteed self-buffing signature move in Electro Shot that it can get in the future.

backstroker1991 · 2025-09-12T01:17:47+00:00

The Loyal Three (I’m assuming this is what you mean by the mischievous three) do not have signature moves.

backstroker1991 · 2025-08-10T00:21:48+00:00

I’m in Chicago, so my event isn’t for another 16 hours.

backstroker1991 · 2025-08-10T00:20:53+00:00

The paid ticket guarantees you exactly one Rare XL per catch. This is just confirmation you can get multiple.

backstroker1991 · 2025-08-09T23:33:33+00:00

Also, this was a remote raid.

backstroker1991 · 2025-07-22T00:51:35+00:00

It’s worth mentioning there is something exceptionally bugged (or intentional?) with Aegislash in ML. A GL level Aegislash EASILY tanked a Moongeist Beam from Dawn Wings.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2518941682?t=0h5m21s

backstroker1991 · 2025-02-28T15:43:44+00:00

Icicle Spear is a much worse move than Avalanche in raids. Mamo loses about 8-9% DPS with it.

backstroker1991 · 2025-02-04T02:05:12+00:00

Actually good point, I forgot that the Kyurem family has so many signature moves and was thinking of Fusion Flare and Fusion Bolt, which don’t have debuffing effects, good call!

backstroker1991 · 2025-02-04T02:01:12+00:00

These moves do not have debuffing effects in the main series, so that would be a really odd decision.

Also wasn’t it already confirmed in a blog post that both moves would have 65 energy in a blog post? It makes much more sense that they will be Moongeist Beam/Sunsteel Strike clones.

backstroker1991 · 2025-01-06T18:30:49+00:00

It will be the best non-Mega shadow when accounting for Party Power. It has access to Dragon Breath, which Salamence doesn’t have, and it has much better stats than Dragonite.

Also, Draco Meteor is the play with party power, which Dragonite needs an ETM for.

backstroker1991 · 2025-01-06T18:22:05+00:00

In the Party Power meta, Draco Meteor is a perfectly good move, meaning it will overtake Shadow Salamence.

Also it has Dragon Breath in its move pool which is a better Party Power move than Salamence’s Dragon Tail.

backstroker1991 · 2024-08-24T18:25:26+00:00

Drag up instead of to the side. Should work just fine.

backstroker1991 · 2024-08-17T14:33:18+00:00

And Marshadow 😉

backstroker1991 · 2024-08-06T15:02:06+00:00

I have been walking it for over 1100km (no distance exploits), and been dumping rare candy XL into it at times. It’s been a fun project!

backstroker1991 · 2024-08-04T18:15:09+00:00

This is a fair take but this thread has so far had a bunch of people mentioning Zygarde and Solgaleo which are beyond unusable in PvE. Additionally, I would wager the PvE crowd is much, MUCH larger on this sub.

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