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I believe "not evolving" is also an important part of being a pikaclone, because other than Pikachu itself, none of the others evolve iirc but they could've changed that here.
I don't know where else to ask about this but I believe Smogon U could cement itself even further as THE number one resource if we added in VGC analysis. We have quite a few good people at VGC and a lot more willing to learn it so can we start writing analysis for VGC as well?
Two observations to your post (i always love reading yours):
They can't add the new Pokemon to Raids because the basic raid rule states that you can only find raids of the ones you've already caught, with the exception of the promoted ones. And they promote GMax or special ones.
Also, the...