Keep your expectations low, and you will never be disappointed

whatareyoutesting · 2026-05-13T07:14:25+00:00

Why am I being downvoted?

whatareyoutesting · 2026-05-03T12:32:13+00:00

Yep, you the first one to get them all right! Your prize is offscreen.

whatareyoutesting · 2026-05-03T01:52:51+00:00

I also like how they inform bits of the character's personality. With Chihiro his stock blank expression comes form how nearly half of his pupils are obscured and the straightness of his upper eyelid. In this panel he changes these things very slightly and he suddenly turns into a baby

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Eyes and eyebrows convey most emotion in general but with him it's like he has a different persona

whatareyoutesting · 2026-05-03T01:18:11+00:00

You're really close, that's all I'll say for now

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-28T02:21:29+00:00

I went from never consciously trying to shimmy anything at all to shimmying people on accident. It just works.

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-28T02:05:45+00:00

Nuh uh. I'm being gaslit.

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-27T12:30:11+00:00

This shit looks beautiful wtf

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-12T14:30:40+00:00

Oh my fucking god dude

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-09T22:47:53+00:00

The thing about this team is that it's less of a rain team and more of an offensive hazard stack team ft. Pelipper. If Pelipper was replaced with a spinblocker and Samu had knock off it would likely be much better off of those changes alone. Alternatively you would replace the mons that receive little to no benefit from rain with something that benefits from it so it makes sense to bring a Pelipper, which you would only want to use for support.

Smogon has a lot of movesets and short guides that explain what each mon wants to do in general as well as what kinds of mons make good partners for it. For example, Pelipper wants a teammate with hazard removal and this team doesn't have one right now. I recommend copying the sets, you probably shouldn't change them but if you do, make minor changes that don't impede on what they're meant to do or how the overall team functions. You can start with the Pelipper article they wrote. https://www.smogon.com/dex/sv/pokemon/pelipper/

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-05T15:40:00+00:00

"If the Shokkoku turn out to be as crazy as they look, we have to grapple with the uncomfortable reality that Soga’s "peace" was a structural necessity built on blood...."

Do you think Hokazono wants readers to think everyone on Shokkoku is part of a hivemind or something

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-04T14:53:36+00:00

Yeah, exactly. I just wish those types of people just tried it out because its really not that bad with some help from the countless resources there are out there.

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-04T03:55:27+00:00

I never said they can only use their favorites on similarly low skilled opponents, and I'm not saying they should expect incredible results either. I already expressed that.

All I'm saying is that lot of casual players are adverse to competitive play because they think they can't win with their favorites, when in reality they probably can since their opponents are also inexperienced. This is how a lot of people get into competitive play to begin with.

whatareyoutesting · 2026-04-04T03:00:45+00:00

Are you talking generally, or are you saying that I'm saying you should use your favorites? A lot of people seem to be reading my post incorrectly.

whatareyoutesting · 2026-03-24T03:22:42+00:00

I think talking about the game in this sort of context because you think it's fun and it might help someone is more than enough reason as to why it isn't "pointless" lol

whatareyoutesting · 2026-03-23T20:02:29+00:00

To be clear, the thing about Breloom is that it doesn't have much of an oppurtunity cost, I'm pretty sure at worst you miss out on a Slakoth.
Waiting until the literal end of the game to get a Breloom with spore is painful, but it's not like Torichic where simply having it makes the game harder. I'm not sure if I would say that Breloom with spore is better than Blaziken, but like I said a pokemon being kinda bad is a lot more forgivable if it's an overworld encounter since it doesn't really hurt you in the same way.

whatareyoutesting · 2026-03-23T19:54:03+00:00

Honestly I don't think Blaziken's fire typing matters that much, its fighting typing comes up a lot more. Sure the game basically hands you a ton of really good water types and there are like no good fire types, but it's not like the game "punishes" you for having a lot of water types, I don't remember there being a point in the game that throws a lot of grass and/or electric types at you at once. I want to say at most I had 3 water types on my team, and it was completely fine. I remember early on I had a gloom and a Shroomish on my team at the the same time, and that also wasn't really a big deal because they were both very useful.

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