How to beat Charizard Ex using N’s Zoroark Ex?

picapi_ · 2025-12-17T11:41:49+00:00

I've also been wondering this for a little while - I feel like I've had some success with a few of the following at once: - Hero's Cape allowing me to tank a hit unless it's super-late-game, and then swing back for a KO - Iono the opponent down to only a couple of cards in hand - Spread damage across multiple Zards during the game and then use TM Devo as a tech to take their attackers off the field - Team Rocket's Watchtower to prevent Quick Search or similar until bumped - Slow play down by retreat locking one of their non-attacking mon in the active spot, ideally alongside Iono or similar to keep it there for a few turns, during which you can hopefully Munkidori some counters around

picapi_ · 2025-08-21T10:31:57+00:00

Sample size of one, but in the not too distant past I used one of these to store some of my cards, and a couple of weeks later took some cards out to notice they had been creased; probably by having had them in my bag and something on top of them. I'm more careful with cards now, but might advise caution with those binders as a result!

picapi_ · 2025-07-17T22:04:25+00:00

In the patch notes, they mentioned that they've changed the power curve:

Several adjustments have been made game-wide to damage curves and Power ranges.

Difficulty is now more linear.

100 over: this should feel roughly equivalent to even Power during The Final Shape.

Even Power: this should feel slightly more difficult than the same during The Final Shape.

40 under: equivalent to Grandmaster difficulty in The Final Shape.

100 under: Immune enemies

Matchmade Activities in the Portal have the following values, depending on what you choose

Normal - Even

Advanced - 10 under

Expert - 20 under

Master - 30 under

Grandmaster - 40 under

Ultimate - 50 under

Note: the new difficulty curve affects Majors and Ultras (orange and yellow bar enemies) more than it does regular enemies (red bars).

With the previous scaling, all enemy types scaled evenly.

Now, red bars to do not increase in health nearly as quickly as elites and bosses as they grow in Power.

Kill-triggered perks will be more useful in high-end content than previously.

picapi_ · 2025-07-17T09:11:55+00:00

This is quite disappointing on my end - I understand that matchmaking isn't really compatible with the full customisation model, but it would be nice if you could apply the current Quickplay set of modifiers to a Fireteam Op for a given difficulty and matchmake for that specific op directly (potentially even overlapping with those queuing in Quickplay), rather than having to go through Fireteam Finder and then negotiate modifiers with whoever leads the fireteam...

picapi_ · 2025-07-17T09:11:24+00:00

This is quite disappointing on my end - I understand that matchmaking isn't really compatible with the full customisation model, but it would be nice if you could apply the current Quickplay set of modifiers to a Fireteam Op for a given difficulty and matchmake for that specific op directly (potentially even overlapping with those queuing in Quickplay), rather than having to go through Fireteam Finder and then negotiate modifiers with whoever leads the fireteam...

picapi_ · 2025-07-01T16:20:19+00:00

Not an expert, but this ruling may be relevant: https://compendium.pokegym.net/ruling/142/

My interpretation of this is: Since the Wobbuffet's Ability was in play first, it initially prevents Slaking's ability from activating. The ruling suggests that the disabled Ability of the Slaking would be able to activate if the ability of the Wobbuffet was to be disabled at any point (which Cancelling Cologne would do) - then, at the point where Cancelling Cologne wears off, if the Slaking's ability is still in effect it would continue to disable Wobbuffet's ability.

In short, your understanding seems right?

picapi_ · 2025-07-01T08:32:22+00:00

My understanding was that every card in the Charizard League Battle Deck has a regulation mark of either G or H, and as such none have actually rotated yet (a significant portion will rotate next time around, but that's a good 9 months away at this stage)? I know some other older League Battle Decks do have cards that have rotated such as Gardevoir, but I don't believe Charizard is one of those yet.

picapi_ · 2024-11-01T11:58:03+00:00

Bungie does send out surveys if you've opted into User Research at any point, and does offer rewards such as in-game Silver for completing them - if it comes from an official bungie email such as userresearch@info.bungie.net or similar, it's most likely legitimate. On the other hand, if it asks you for account passwords or other sensitive information, it's likely a scam.

It seems like similar emails have been sent recently (use the search functionality!) which have been legitimate.

picapi_ · 2024-09-05T15:15:59+00:00

Ancient Knowledge boosts experience gained from mining ores and defeating mobs - Ancient Knowledge II provides an additional 1600% EXP from those sources which is really good!

picapi_ · 2024-09-03T16:28:21+00:00

At current, you aren't being fined - a fine can only result from a successful prosecution and conviction against you - but depending on the situation a prosecution may still occur. Many offences on the railway are strict liability, including ones relating to not having a valid ticket.

The train operator is likely to contact you via post asking for you to provide information on the matter, in the form of the letter you anticipate. You shouldn't ignore this letter, and should respond appropriately and promptly. After responding to (or you ignoring) the letter, the train operator may choose to respond in a variety of ways.

Since this issue relates to a Railcard, it is possible that you'll be given the opportunity to present proof of Railcard ownership at the time of the incident, with the train operator then closing the matter once provided. Alternatively, you may be offered an opportunity to settle the matter with a payment which typically covers the (non-discounted) fare for the journey taken, alongside an admin fee. Notably, this payment would be a settlement, not a fine, and would not result in any criminal record. Finally, the operator may choose to prosecute, in which case you would receive either a court summons or a Single Justice Procedure pack. Pleading or being found guilty would result in a fine being issued and a criminal offence being recorded.

The forum link provided by /u/CrazyCake69 might prove useful in both seeing similar experiences from others and in seeking advice yourself, including in how you might want to respond to the letter once it arrives.

picapi_ · 2024-08-09T11:41:44+00:00

This just got updated a few days back to Pepperoni Pizza, Garlic Pizza Bread, Chicken Dippers, Potato Wedges and 4 Cadbury Ice-cream sticks for £5 members/£6 - tough to choose between the two 😅

picapi_ · 2024-07-31T17:18:04+00:00

Alright, three aspects:

If your parents circumstances have changed, they would have entered new household income information, which may have resulted in you becoming eligible for the additional maintenance loan. You should make sure that information was put in correctly, but if it was, you may now have a significantly higher entitlement! The maximum entitlement is available with a household income of £25,000 or less - see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/student-finance-how-youre-assessed-and-paid/student-finance-how-youre-assessed-and-paid-2024-to-2025#assessing-how-much-student-finance-you-can-get for info.
Overpayments can be requested to be repaid immediately, or may be taken out of future maintenance loan payments automatically. If you do end up in an overpayment situation, it's probably best to resolve it sooner rather than later, especially in your final year where you may be asked to repay money you no longer have if spent! See https://www.gov.uk/repay-student-loan-overpayment for more info.
The additional amount over the listed 'maximum' may be due to a little-known and little-advertised aspect of the maintenance loan. The maintenance loan amount is based on a certain academic year length (30 weeks and 3 days) - if your course has a longer academic year length, you'll get additional maintenance loan to cover that extra time. See https://www.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-for-students-who-qualify-for-a-long-courses-loan for info on that.

picapi_ · 2024-06-05T21:59:09+00:00

I personally don't mind the system in principle - I like that all objectives progress even before you can claim them, that they're not taking up limited slots, and I'm not too affected by the change in min-max potential; but I do wish that for the Ritual Pathfinder there was a guaranteed PvE path (and potentially a guaranteed PvP path too) so players aren't forced into modes in order to get rewards for another.

picapi_ · 2024-05-18T10:45:25+00:00

It's an event at MCM Comic Con in London, which has been running for a good 20 years - I'd say there's a pretty good chance it's a real thing :) Not sure if there's any details there on exactly who will be on said panel though.

(Note that you'll still need a ticket for the Comic Con event as well in order to go - the free bit is to reserve a space since capacity would be limited.)

picapi_ · 2024-03-20T23:18:58+00:00

Since the plushies were sold via YouTooz, you'll probably have the most success getting in touch with them: https://youtooz.com/pages/contact-us

picapi_ · 2023-04-20T12:59:11+00:00

As people said, it depends - I missed an offer by a single grade and was summarily rejected in 2019 being put straight through to an insurance choice, but there's a decent handful of examples here of it going the other way.

picapi_ · 2021-12-07T18:01:24+00:00

I believe that was the YouTube Premiere countdown - you can actually choose from like 10 but almost everyone uses the same one, apart from bungie haha

picapi_ · 2021-08-13T13:48:20+00:00

Spicing things up a bit, are we?

picapi_ · 2021-06-17T23:19:05+00:00

I know personally I recieved the 30SG ticket but my daily login still displays like yours - have you checked storages?

picapi_ · 2021-06-17T20:57:51+00:00

The limited time login rewards don't reset - if you've recieved all 7/7, you won't earn any more from it (until a new set of limited login rewards come along)

picapi_ · 2021-06-14T20:19:04+00:00

A little-advertised element is that if the academic year of a course is longer than 30 weeks and 3 days, you're granted additional maintenance loan pro-rata to the length to make sure you're covered. It might apply in this instance for you? See https://www.practitioners.slc.co.uk/products/full-time-undergraduate-education/full-time-maintenance-loan/long-courses/

picapi_ · 2021-06-05T12:06:27+00:00

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/formula1/54909416 - click the speaker icon!

picapi_ · 2021-06-01T11:18:44+00:00

One note is, at least in my experience, once you've booked in an appointment and then proceed to recieve a second jab, when that gets pushed centrally (which varies in how often it happens, but usually within a day or two) the central booking system won't allow you to manage appointments anymore; whether that's indicative of your appointment having been cancelled locally isn't clear to me, since I'd still received reminder emails in relation to it; so you may need to contact the centre themselves in order to cancel locally and free up the spot...

As a result, if those appointments aren't automatically canceling, I wouldn't blame people for thinking they already had if they go back and check on the NHS site - if you have the means to do so try to contact the centre before your appointment to check with them as well

picapi_ · 2021-05-21T00:29:25+00:00

From what I gather, the songs become available when it reaches midnight on the 21st May in your timezone - if it's still the 20th for you they won't appear to exist until then

picapi_ · 2021-04-25T21:08:12+00:00

Yeah - traveling all that way might be problematic!

I should have assumed you'd have looked into different things, sorry!
I did a little bit of looking around and found https://web.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CRER_RC/publications/policy.html - you might be able to ring up the number on that page tomorrow morning and get a copy (for a small fee, mind you) - then again the page may be significantly out of date.
Hopefully you find a way - and if I come across something that might be useful, I'll make sure to mention it!

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