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Have you ever been in a truly dark cave? Some people can't handle it, the silence, the utter lack of light. Their mind invents monsters to be afraid of, just so there's something to see. Me? I know what lives in the deepest reaches of the earth. My mind doesn't need to invent monsters. This...

I think this demonstrates different types of weak enemy AI problems. Larry using E!Revelation Dance despite Lightning Rod is a complex issue to solve. That specific edge case might be fixable, but there's 900+ moves, 300+ abilities, and lots of weird edge cases. Programming to avoid all of them...

Galvantula was on my team for a while, but I swapped it for the other spider(technically for Durant, but eventually for Araquanid). Also props to the one Umbreon, that's an obvious pick that everyone else including me overlooked. I was also expecting to see a few teams with Nidorina+Nidoking or...

The 3 mythicals would make sense for filling the role traditionally filled by sub-legendaries TBH. Base 600 BST isn't that far from 580, and you could do a lot with each of them. Tulip makes sense as either gym 2-3 or 8, but nowhere in between. Early is obvious. Gym 8...the way things are...

There's a few separate issues with using the official terms. Inertia. People have been using Starter Pokemon and Effort Value for so long that changing them isn't going to happen for a lot of people. Wikis are better at this than most sites, because redirects are so powerful, but you can still...

I try to avoid TOO MUCH internet drama, which means avoiding a lot of the places where it ferments. Also apparently they link your Smogon account and your Bulbapedia account if you use the same username on both forums, since it snagged my avatar for there when I created an account to complain...

They're moving to match the official terms for most things instead of the terms fans use, I assume the color changes are for the same reason. And it makes sense from the perspective of a wiki that has to track a LOT of detailed info, but also those colors suck and the official terms are ones no...

Of course not, Miss Jenny, I haven't seen my husband in over a week. Oh, I do hope nothing's happened to him. If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. Spot of tea? This trainer is a perfectly respectable woman with a team of mons she loves very much. No, of course there's no sort of...

Run more than 6 mons. My 3-team run was great(and actually needed grinding at points), but even just running 2 teams is a big help against overleveling.

I wouldn't call this a mystery exactly, but what is UP with the SV Dex entries for the Florges line? Why did they bother with a different entry for each color? Why are the Red and White entries so consistent while the other colors seem random between evolutions? Why is there no solid format...

3 people used red(default, no surprise). One used White for a wedding-themed party. You used Blue because Poni Island. And I used Orange to color-match with Lilligant. I'm mostly annoyed no one found a reason to use Yellow and complete the set.

This week feels like the most Doubles teams since the mandatory Plusle/Minun in Kalos round. Was it just because Grass is so good at supporting other mons? My concept definitely could have been doubles, but in all honesty I was not up to that level of movesets this time around. There were a lot...

It was definitely a "we want a pure-steel with middling stats" decision. It's the counterpart to Sableye(the single type with the best defenses and the dual-type with no weaknesses, both based on monsters), so they were probably very constrained on how much they could deviate the flavor or the...

Legit my favorite challenge might have been the non-voted FRLG Dark one, where we had no Dark mons to choose from. I burned a really good team concept there and do not regret it at all.

One thing to keep in mind is that it's a team game. I don't expect my Psychics to be 1vs1ing Darks, if I have to stick Kadabra at the back of my team for Piers/Karen/etc, it's fine. But Psychics route sweep very well and are great for walking into most gyms with SE coverage and a potent STAB...

The thing about the Psychic-type in-game is that Abra is just busted whenever it shows up. You don't have to baby it as much as Magikarp(especially given it has the best early-game XP curve) and it comes with a useful utility move, and then at lvl 16 it gets 120 Spa, 105 speed, and a good TM...

"Every Pokémon occupies it's own niche in the environment. But they can do so in very different ways, even if they end up looking similar." So we have 2 flowers, 2 trees, and 2 seaweed. Each of those pairs has an internal symmetry(normal setup, berry-based stalling setup w/Harvest, potent...

DexNav is my go-to "y'all should have kept that" mechanic. A thing that shows you how many different mons you have yet to encounter on that route, which also lets you force encounters with a specific mon and offers a way to get egg moves and HAs in-game? That's a lot of useful stuff in a small...

Oof. Any of y'all who are new to the thread who are discouraged by a couple low placements, I've been here every time and just hit 2nd-to-last with a team that I thought fit very well. The voters want what they want, build teams you like and don't chase the high score.

Gyms really suffered when "heal team to full" got easier. If "wear the player down" is an acceptable way to make the final boss more difficult, then fighting trainers is a reasonable punishment for screwing up a puzzle. But now, with forced heals before the Gym Leader and an abundance of...