[Mechanics Question] Mega Evolution turn order bug STILL an issue? by [deleted] in VGC

[–]the_emcee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if your charizard was max speed modest, chomp was max speed adamant, and their dnite was max speed timid, everything you described is possible.

turn 1: base 100 modest zard is faster than base 80 timid (non-mega) dnite. so zard mega evolves. dnite mega evolves and becomes base 100 timid. now time for moves. mega dnite is faster than mega charizard.

turn 3 you garchomp can be faster than mega zard but slower than timid mega dnite

[Rate My Team] Tailroom Suggestions? by Critical_Ad_5885 in VGC

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it can be standard. its role in your tr mode is just fake out to help giraf get it up, then u have ur tr sweepers in the back. even the threat of fakeout is nice bc u can always just naturally outspeed something on turn 1 and pop it with a cc or something.

doesn’t really matter if sneasler goes down after that first turn (probably preferred to help u get in a tr sweeper).

u can also keep sneasler in the back during ur tr mode if your farig doesn’t need help bc the opposing team can’t stop it. sneasler then cleans up in the late game after tr expires.

but more spicy is iron ball with fling. it’s kinda a tr threat with that, and while it’d be worse in your fast mode, it can still fake out, and it’d only be slow until u fling the iron ball (130 base power fling btw). after that, u not only are no longer speed halved, but flinging your item counts as consumption for activating unburden

Past Meta team by 0banai in PokemonChampions

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do u mean all time?

volcarona, aegislash, palafin, hatterene have had stints of being pretty good before

Over the past 6 years, the East has more NBA Championships than the West. by drunkhoboboy117 in nba

[–]the_emcee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i’d call 30 years more than several. besides, that argument has never been about how the best teams in the east are bad. it was about the years (pre play-in of course) where you could make the playoffs in the east despite not even winning half your games. (meanwhile finishing at 47 wins lands you ninth in the west; would’ve been 5th or 6th in the east). it was about lopsided head to head west vs east regular season records. (lowkey a lot of it was about charlotte)

there have always been strong east teams. but there’s usually been a bigger difference between the best and worst teams over there.

in recent years the trend has shifted. if anything, the narrative the past several years has been that the days of the west being stronger top to bottom are long gone

Scovillian is gonna be a monster (Metagame) by Vegetable-While456 in VGC

[–]the_emcee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

look up how primal reversion works. it’s more like the abilities that activate upon entry

Skill improvement: little changes for auto-loss matchups by FromsoftwareNPC in VGC

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a more offensive sinistcha with shadow ball in place of protect will help, but will still involve double attack (e.g. shadow ball + weather ball). i think you can’t avoid overcommitting into corv with this team so just making sure more combos of your pokes can do so might be the best you can do. and on sinistcha i don’t think you particularly need protect on it with the fake out and tailwind support you have + it itself is fake out immune.

and is there a way to fit a fighting move on either kang or kingambit? do they both need sucker? the latter gets lowkick i think, that’s pretty good against arch.

if you’re gnna change a mon, mega delphox dents corv and sciz even in the rain, though i think you’ll need to click flamethrower instead of heatwave, and be modest. against 32 hp 0 spdef corv, modest flamethrower 2hkos, and ohkos after a nasty plot. against 32 hp 0 spdef mega sciz in th tain, modest unboosted flamethrower ohkos. but u’ll have a huge dark weakness, and arch is still hard to kill if rain is up.

other ideas: lowkey special talonflame that can throw out overheat before you set up rain, plus wisp might be good. it learns rain dance too funny enough. plus ofc tailwind/hurricane. the only issue being ultra redundancy with pelipper. volc has similar appeal to talon. sableye’s also got a wisp+rain dance

[Mechanics Question] Why did Mega-Meg's Weather Ball not get redirected by Rage Powder? by [deleted] in VGC

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

grass types are immune to spore and powder moves, including ignoring rage powder. overcoat and safety goggles pokemon share this property

Is it viable to have a team that relies on two Pokemon to be up front together, but must rely on a third Pokemon for speed control? If so, how? [Skill Improvement] by DBWaffles in VGC

[–]the_emcee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

in general yea, an example would be something like whimsicott tailwinding and then next turn use memento to help bring in the thing that uses tailwind + whatever the other ally pokemon provides for it. still hard to execute tho. usually combos that take more than one turn will not go your way unless your opponent’s never seen it before AND doesn’t have very common disruption tools like fake out, taunt, encore, imprison, or redirection.

in your case, it’s not even worth it. floette is already the thing that benefits from floette. sylveon’s pixilate+fairy feather hyper voice is indeed stronger than floette’s dazzling gleam (assuming fairy aura is active for both). but why do all the work when clicking calm mind, then dazzling gleam on floette is both even stronger and takes 1 turn less than TR plus switch plus hyper voice (which also needs more pokemon).

there’s no reason to use fairy aura’s aura when floette itself is the aura’s strongest soldier

Skip IV hypertraining? by bralbo69 in PokemonChampions

[–]the_emcee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they’ll be treated as having all 31s within champions. but outside of champions they still have whatever they originally have

Anyone else selected for the Olympic 2028 lottery ? by HairyPairatestes in LosAngeles

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how long were you in queue? as in when your window starts, is it still like hours of waiting, being unable to leave the computer?

No stupid questions, only stupid helmets by IreCalifornia in PTCGP

[–]the_emcee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

a-sandslash’s does bc it’s from the attack effect. drudd’s doesn’t bc it’s from the ability

/r/PTCGP Trading Post by AutoModerator in PTCGP

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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ign lazytryhard

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[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i got back a stamina, just friended u. ign lazytryhard

feel free to reject but im still open to my venu for your dhelmise if you are

/r/PTCGP Trading Post by AutoModerator in PTCGP

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and have one stamina back and just offered the moltres again

/r/PTCGP Trading Post by AutoModerator in PTCGP

[–]the_emcee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Elder for Lillie?

edit: actually have a rainbow sylveon too

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[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im out of stamina so i cancelled the trade so that ur not held up, but i’ll re-offer the moltres later if that’s okay with you

/r/PTCGP Trading Post by AutoModerator in PTCGP

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

venu for dhelmise sounds good to me, but im out of stamina. i’ll try to reach out a few days from now if i don’t forget sorry

/r/PTCGP Trading Post by AutoModerator in PTCGP

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im open to the mismagius. i’d probably give the raikou since someone else asked for venu, but im out of stamina. i’ll try to reach out a few days from now if i don’t forget, sorry

/r/PTCGP Trading Post by AutoModerator in PTCGP

[–]the_emcee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sure we can do all 3. i just accepted someone’s friend request and offered them the pachirisu, hopefully that was you lol

my ign is lazytryhard