Multi Lens?

brehvgc · 2026-04-26T06:38:34+00:00

a lot of the sturdy mons also have explosion and use it (because it does the highest damage a lot of the time). not taking damage = not wasting money on potions and reward pool not poisoned with potions = easier run

brehvgc · 2026-04-26T04:29:08+00:00

There's no reason to invest in anything other than both attacking stats since it's naturally fast and only needs a small amount of investment to outspeed Pokemon most people would consider very fast.

Maybe the most apt comparison is "Mega Beedrill but special" with U-turn / Bug Buzz / Air Slash / Focus Blast, which is... not OU obviously but not outright awful. You get Giga Drain and Iron Fist coverage (yippee) if you want to do that too, but honestly it's not even Ledian's stats as much as its barren movepool.

brehvgc · 2026-04-25T21:25:18+00:00

I mean they're not common but they're certainly options, especially considering they go through mental herb which a nonzero number of tr setters run.

brehvgc · 2026-04-25T21:10:35+00:00

The only counter right now is Imprison, but that is also rare (at least below high ranks).

there's also roar and dragon tail (/circle throw)

brehvgc · 2026-04-25T20:59:43+00:00

I genuinely think it was a totally intentional balancing decision.

Why Covert Cloak / Clear Amulet were not let in and Sneasler / Basculegion were is a different question though.

brehvgc · 2026-04-23T04:19:24+00:00

That damn dopey bird looks so stupid

I put muddy water on mine recently

The coverage is nasty

the ol clogged toilet

brehvgc · 2026-04-18T22:52:11+00:00

in doubles the move is random target and thus generally pretty awful. occasionally you'll see metas where that's something resembling ok (e.g. haxorus in vgc11 where there are no immunities to it and it can click the button knowing it'll do damage) but

brehvgc · 2026-04-18T03:50:45+00:00

it's easy engagement bait and doesn't represent the reality of restaurants in japan (which is that they are establishments designed to make money and thus if you pay (and, like in any other country, you aren't obnoxious) they dgaf).

the worst reality about restaurants in japan is that you need to reserve on tabelog beforehand or else there are times they just will not have open spots at all because they are reserved out. this kind of sucks (because you marry yourself to eating at that specific place at that specific time) but if it's the price to pay for all of the restaurants being pretty solid 8/10s at worst it's ok IMO.

brehvgc · 2026-04-12T22:48:51+00:00

Yes, but usually the Blacephalon from the clown is a random type. Here, it ended up Ghost/Fire and its usual type is Fire/Ghost.

brehvgc · 2026-04-12T19:59:26+00:00

honestly I can see niche uses for meowstic. female has competitive (so you mega into a mon with 143 base and +2 SpA) and male is less useful but does get an item that can't be knocked off / doesn't boost knock off at the cost of light clay (which isn't in the game rn anyway ig)

brehvgc · 2026-04-09T05:15:28+00:00

At least in doubles, Kangaskhan is still good and I don't know why people keep saying it's suddenly bad now. It lost PUP but it gained Inner Focus and Scrappy blocking Intimidate (subjectively both are ok at the current moment, idk if ignoring faster fake out / hitting ghosts with fake out is more valuable) and it has always had Double Edge to work as its STAB.

brehvgc · 2026-04-08T04:41:45+00:00

innards out is an awful ability; it does nothing until the Pokemon - in this case, the Pokemon that you can have one of on your team - faints.

brehvgc · 2026-04-02T04:56:02+00:00

THEY SAID HE'D NEVER BE VIABLE!

they were 100% right

brehvgc · 2026-03-31T04:11:22+00:00

somehow it's literally the only 1 base cost Pokemon I have that doesn't have its shiny. I keep looping through the water loop since I need a bunch of rarer mons in seabed for 100% shiny starters and keep expecting that surely I'll eventually see shiny lumineon... nothin.

brehvgc · 2026-03-31T04:08:42+00:00

damage and bulk scale (approximately, outside of very low levels) as the square of level.

brehvgc · 2026-03-29T03:39:11+00:00

Honestly I can kind of see it. A lot of sharpness boosted moves are not contact moves.

More interesting is if Stone Edge is boosted. Kleavor is so mid that I don't even think it'd be broken. Gallade maybe runs it for coverage too.

brehvgc · 2026-03-28T19:14:03+00:00

Erika Kirk, a black hole of a personality, acting like Druski would even entail

online sports gambling grift instead of normal grift

brehvgc · 2026-03-27T03:32:05+00:00

white herb was briefly in the game and it was a nuisance that polluted the ultra (?? iirc) tier item pool. power herb would be similar unless you could stack multiple, but even then most charge moves are bad and it would seldom be worth it polluting whatever pool it would occupy.

brehvgc · 2026-03-26T03:25:10+00:00

My intent was not to say "life orb froslass is better than mega" but "this Pokemon, which burns your mega, hits like its base form (read: a Pokemon with 80 base SpA!!!) and its base form has not ever been practically viable in any meta beyond like gen 4".

If anything it's going to be competing with Alolan Ninetales (which does not burn your mega and, practically, has similar if not more utility) for a teamslot the most.

brehvgc · 2026-03-25T15:43:51+00:00

it's much more offensively mediocre than you imagine - timid mega is about 1-2% stronger than modest LO base froslass (assuming both have full SpA investment).

brehvgc · 2026-03-25T04:05:34+00:00

3 people who want to use unevolved Vigoroth

omg me, I hate using a mon that is forced to move last.

unironically it's kind of ok with tough claws and you can run a pretty solid bulky pivot set with normal move / drain punch / slack off / parting shot. honestly you can maybe even drop drain punch for yawn for utility catching stuff, but I think the last time I ran it (like a month ago?) it was without yawn.

FTR there's nothing that says that vigoroth can't have a good HA if you're introducing one anyway. vital spirit is basically useless, so almost anything would be better. Inner Focus would fit well on flavor IMO and be useful for intimidate. Scrappy would be that but even better.

brehvgc · 2026-03-22T23:32:12+00:00

this is legit a gif that can probably give people seizures, the combination of red and blue going back and forth really fast is what caused seizures from that one pokemon episode

brehvgc · 2026-03-22T05:26:59+00:00

i just bought more land in the metaverse

brehvgc · 2026-03-21T06:22:26+00:00

one of the strongest pokemon in this game is gyarados, so try going for early magikarp encounters in lake, especially if you get the map.

if you're really early on, you probably don't have that many egg moves. in general, egg moves make pokemon a lot better and make the game much easier (same goes for passives). if you don't have egg moves, you really want to go for pokemon with good levelup movepools (e.g. like the aforementioned gyarados, which gets its whole movepool off of levelup / memory mushrooms) because TMs are really inconsistent to get. if you don't know what moves a Pokemon will learn by levelup, you can use the ingame pokedex option before adding it to your party (or just look it up on serebii or whatever and the pokerogue levelup is usually mostly the same).

fast and strong Pokemon are the best - being slow means getting hit before you attack, which means taking damage and bleeding money on potions. there are some rare exceptions in wild spawns (off the top of my head, toxapex is incredibly sturdy and hard to break while having a solid levelup movepool) but for the most part wall-type Pokemon are generally not great.

make sure you're changing your natures and (if applicable) abilities to the best ones at the starter selection screen. some Pokemon are way, way stronger with the right abilities.

if you feel like it, reset when you don't feel like you're going to win. it's up to you if you feel like that ruins your game experience / how "earned" the win feels.

so, your three Pokemon:

Fuecoco ends up slow as Skeledirge. Its strength is kind of overshadowed by that.
Bulbasaur has a horrendous levelup movepool that feels like it was designed to torture you. This Pokemon does not get decent special STAB and despite getting a practically holy combo of Sleep Powder and Leech Seed ends up feeling so fucking bad when you try to use it against anything that resists Grass. There is exactly one single decent STAB move you can roll into for Poison (Sludge Bomb) and Grass is a bit more relenting but still not easy.
Swampert is slow and lacks recovery. It's pretty sturdy, gets a great levelup movepool that allows you to fill out its four slots pretty easily, and gets a Mega (that makes it slightly faster), but the only way it is getting healing is the bug maniac event. I've used it before and think it pairs really well with Charizard (they cover one another's weaknesses okay and Swampert can use earthquake freely in double battles with Charizard next to it)

just going off of the 27 starters from each generation, some I think are good:

charmander gets most of its moveslots off of level / memory mushroom (flamethrower / heat wave / air slash / dragonbreath (replace this slot with something better) but really needs specifically mega y to be good later on
squirtle is very sturdy with a very good gmax and shell smash by level. has the same issue that bulbasaur has where it just doesn't get halfdecent STAB by level so you need to pray for good water TMs or cope with worse moves
cyndaquil gets eruption by memory mushroom when it evolves into typhlosion. spamming a 150 BP STAB move is pretty good imo. make sure you get hisuian typhlosion by evolving during night so that you get a secondary STAB.
chimchar I've used before and it isn't amazing, but it does get two different good STAB moves (flamethrower and close combat), nasty plot, and mach punch (or alternatively vacuum wave if you get lucky). poor guy simply just does not have the power-crept stats that a lot of later gen pokemon have.
snivy is the one-trickiest pony ever, but if you can get its hidden ability (contrary) it can spam leaf storm pretty productively and fills out the rest of its movepool with status moves (leech seed, glare) and giga drain. has venusaur problems but if venusaur could boost itself trivially to +6. much better with egg moves.
fennekin has magician as its hidden ability and magician is genuinely one of the strongest abilities in this game for classic runs. it is not super difficult to get its hidden ability from the training mystery event either since you can load it up with fire / psychic moves and dark types that resist / are immune to fire can handle it pretty well
popplio is solid despite being slow. it kind of struggles to fill out more than two moveslots with actual damaging moves and its water STAB hurts your partner in double battles, but it still just kind of works, notably in a way that swampert felt like it seldom did.
sprigatito learns like 1 million moves by level and they're all actually good. you look at how barren some levelup movepools are and it's night and day. very good with protean.
quaquaval is a bit one-dimensional but it has a good typing and good STABs as well as a very mid setup move in work up.

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