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  1. Hipmonlee

    Announcement Slowbro and the OU/UU cutoff.

    The RBY OU council have been discussing where to draw the line between OU and UU. Previously, this was working on the basis of anything ranked B or above would be OU and C or below would be UU. Unfortunately, the VR system does not automatically assign names to ranks. Up until now this had...
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    OU RBY Invitational II - Discussion & Team / Set Dump

    I promised to use wild stuff for this tournament, so I figured I would share some of the ideas. I was thinking that since I knew I was going to be playing at awkward times when I would be tired, and I wouldnt have time to practice, I would be pretty crusty. So I figured I would make up for that...
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    Resource RBY Prediction Guide

    Here is the Prediction chapter of my RBY Guide. This is version 0.2. As I have mentioned to a few people, the goal was more or less to share everything I know, but it turns out after playing this game for 20 years I know a fuckton, and this whole thing got a little out of hand. I want to thank...
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    Crowdsourcing Replays for my RBY Prediction Guide

    As some of you know, I am looking at updating my RBY guide. But the whole project has kinda grown out of hand, and at the moment I am just trying to get the prediction chapter done before the baby is born (that one chapter is gonna be at least 20 pages at this point). A while back I hosted an...
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    Brief Life Update

    Baby: They're due the first week in December.
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    Question for Game Theory Experts

    Hi, I'm working on the prediction part of my RBY guide, and I think I am wrong about imperfect information games, so if anyone can correct me I'd appreciate it. So I am using the example of Countering Snorlax with a Chansey. So assuming Chansey has Counter and Lax has Body Slam and Earthquake...
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    RBY Counter

    There is a specific case where the RBY community has understood that PS has had a buggy counter implementation for a while. However, while investigating this Enigami has discovered that the correct implementation actually causes a desync...
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    Updating my RBY guide

    I'm gonna write an updated version of my RBY guide. I'd like to go much more in depth, and talk about a few real world lessons you can get from pokemon. Cover things like prediction theory and stuff like that. My last guide was basically "this is how I think other people play" and I want to make...
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    OU SPL IX RBY Metagame Observations

    So to prep for WCoP this year I started going through the logs from the SPL and taking notes on the current state of the metagame and what I could expect to be facing. I got up to about round 6 before I got bored and started really half-assing it. On the whole I was massively impressed. The...
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    All girl bands

    I was drinking with some friends of mine the other day, and one of them was talking about the band Haim. Anyway, when they mentioned it was an all girl group I made some joke about how that is a bad sign. I was just being a dick and I apologise to everyone reading this thread. Anyway, Haim...
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    Attn: Douchebags

    I dont want to read all your treatises on theology. So if someone posts something completely out of line, then instead of insulting all the mods, just pm one and point the post in question out..
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    All Gens For in-game discussions go to Orange Islands

    Have a nice day.
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    Gen 1 Endgame analyses

    This is partly inspired by something I have seen at RBY2k10. But I am hoping this will develop into something much more. Ok, RBY is a pretty simple game and all, and when near the end of the battle and are down to just one or two pokemon, there are some scenarios that are probably a little...
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    Innovators

    A normal day on #smogon, and rodan was linking to things, as he tends to do. Anyway, he linked to this image: And the general reaction was that this list is ridiculous. So we had a little discussion about who we thought actually were the greatest innovators of all time, and came up with...
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    Smogon book club

    Me, Fishy, Brain and definitely Ninahaza are gonna read Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Ok, we arent sure how hard this book is really, so we are gonna try and read the whole thing in a week, then negotiate a point to talk about it. Possibly on skype, possibly on irc.
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    Extreme Pokemon Makeovers

    While there are shittily designed pokemon in RBY and GSC, I - and as far as I can tell most people - feel that in general, standards have declined significantly since then. In particular there has been a change in direction toward far too many fiddly details. Adding stupid stripes as well as...
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    Predictions r3

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDF0SnlnUmxMbUdRWVVUSHNVSTF6VHc6MQ 3 points each this round.
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    Smogon RBY analysis challenge.

    The idea behind this game: who can spot the most egregious lines in Smogon's RBY analyses? Here is a starting point: Good luck!
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    ST8 Predictions; Round 1 - post 110 has R1 stats

    Predict. You get one point for every correct prediction. Part way through the form you will notice that it changes from selection based on a persons name to selection based on First Player and Second Player.. Just to be explicit the First Player is the one whose name is first in the pairing...
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    ST8 Predictions; Pre-Tournament Round

    Points for this are double whatever you get for predicting correctly in the final round. Points for predicting a match correctly in every other round is equal to the number of that round. Good luck everybody! Also, your predictions will be made public, so be aware of that.
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