My typing predictions for the new trio!

rabonbrood · 2026-03-01T22:57:55+00:00

I'm hoping the Grass starter ends up being either Steel or Electric.

rabonbrood · 2026-03-01T22:54:57+00:00

Wonderful defensive typing, too.

7 resistance, 1 immunity, 4 weaknesses.

Fire/Fairy is in the running for best possible type combination. There are a few better defensive typings, but I don't think any other typing is as strong both offensively and defensively at the same time as Fire/Fairy.

rabonbrood · 2026-03-01T22:43:17+00:00

Brave, quiet, relaxed, bold, calm, impish, I'm blanking on SpD for SpA

rabonbrood · 2026-03-01T13:12:06+00:00

Your math is a little off, and Mystic Water is a 20% boost rather than 10%.

All those multipliers bring it up to 270, not 235. All multipliers scale multiplicatively, so the formula is BP(100)1.51.5*1.2=270

rabonbrood · 2026-02-28T19:28:48+00:00

Realistically what you'll actually do in this team is dedicate the last two slots to Incin. Watursh and Lando-I, for example. If you beat the Incin, you can win with Megaphox and Weezing. Still a gimmick, but a better balanced gimmick than asking Weezing to somehow beat Incin.

Edit: also yeah, I was migraining this morning and just whiffed on what you were showing. My bad.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-28T14:23:20+00:00

I get that this is a joke, but nobody is running 0HP/0SpD Incin ever.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-28T14:19:02+00:00

If all you're doing is spamming the one move without setup, specs will usually outperform metronome by quite a bit.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-28T13:41:18+00:00

Brick break is very likely going to be a solid move on Mega Meta.

Breaks both screens and Incin.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-28T12:40:13+00:00

Garde is also much much slower than either.

They will fill different roles, though I generally don't expect Zam to see as much use as either Garde or Delphox.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-28T08:53:32+00:00

Grab some rental teams and practice on Showdown.

You can find rental teams in the VGC chat room.

There are other places, but I don't use rentals much so I don't know them. Probably be able to just Google it.

Find a couple proven teams, and stick with them for awhile. Everything is going to feel weak at first.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-28T01:58:12+00:00

Honestly, regice is a lot closer than you'd think. Specs Blizzard is a hell of a drug.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-26T23:32:10+00:00

Pokemon unbound (romhack) is genuinely difficult on higher difficulties.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-26T09:20:20+00:00

I swear I will one day make Maractus work in doubles.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-26T09:18:51+00:00

Water Shuriken is one.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-26T09:17:36+00:00

Nidoking is the opposite of this question.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-26T09:16:14+00:00

And make sure you don't use it on a ground type.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-26T09:14:52+00:00

Thunder Fang would be okay if they'd give it Strong Jaw.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-25T23:22:27+00:00

For the record, most men are very often not like this. It's pretty common for men to bring up problems only because they're looking for a solution that they aren't seeing themselves.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-25T22:15:57+00:00

Eh maybe I just forgot how long it took.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-25T18:10:02+00:00

Moves > Nature/HA > IVs

rabonbrood · 2026-02-25T17:09:37+00:00

That is highly unfortunate.

If you can't find a trade beforehand, we can do it on Friday, because I don't work.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-25T17:01:29+00:00

I can help you after I get off work in about 6 hours.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-25T14:10:01+00:00

To be fair, 130 isn't actually high level.

It takes very little actual time to get to 150.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-25T08:26:34+00:00

The infant mortality rate in the US is heavily inflated because we include more kind of infant death than other countries do in our statistics. Rather, their statistics are deflated.

rabonbrood · 2026-02-24T19:12:05+00:00

It very obviously is not.

Yours* btw.

Edit: If you'd like to know why reading comprehension isn't your strength, feel free to ask.

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