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Oh it was definitely a clever move on Game-Freak's part, since it saved them the trouble of creating an entirely new move for just one pokemon, balance-testing the move, creating the animation for the move, which would involve creating new textures, particles, possibly new models, and...

Pixilate, Aerilate, and Refrigerate, for a couple of reasons: 1) Kind of a boring concept. They provide a flat damage boost. Compared to an ability like Stance Change which actually adds depth to the game, the -ate abilities are very one-dimensional. 2) They encourage the use of moves with...

For me, a major selling point is learning good level-up moves in a timely fashion. Golem, Camerupt, and Whiscash may not be great competitively, but I find them quite appealing in-game because they all learn Magnitude early on, and then learn earthquake later on, but still well before you'd have...

Agreed. Would you rather have the path to the next town blocked by a breakable rock, or an annoying NPC that tries to sell you a RAGECANDYBAR and then tells you to "scram, kiddy! I aint got time for you!"? Although if they made a (violent) HM that you could use on such NPCs I wouldn't complain...

Honestly I do to. I love the overworld effects of HMs, and Rock Climb was really fun to use in the overworld; the way you'd just go zooming up the mountain, bringing an entirely new area into view that was previously hidden. I just wish HMs weren't SUCH a pain in the Arceus to put on my pokemon...

Well: 0 Atk Hustle Durant Dig vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Heatmor: 260-308 (83.6 - 99%) -- guaranteed 2HKO So yeah, one-on-one I guess Heatmor *barely* wins. Still though, the fact that with just a little bit of EV training (EV training that Durant could technically do on its own!) the ant can beat its...

That's the thing, though. Because HM moves are restricted by the badges, you can't use them until you get the right badge, even if you trade for a poke that knows an HM earlier than you'd get it otherwise. So even if a pokemon learns Brick Break (which replaces Rock Smash) before you'd get the...

Honestly I wish they'd pick moves that are at least competitively useable for HMs. Right now, some HMs are so terrible that you're basically forced to use an HM slave. In my opinion, HMs should be moves that are not the best of their kind, but are widely-distributed. Brick Break would be a...

I would like to nominate Heatmor. It's a fire-type ant-eater that preys upon the Bug/Steel Durant, which at first glance makes perfect sense. Until you start doing damage calculations, that is: 252 Atk Hustle Durant Stone Edge vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Heatmor: 406-478 (130.5 - 153.6%) -- guaranteed...

It's used on Tauros because of Sheer Force. I've heard that Tauros is a major player in NU; think it was almost banned at one point. If they ever do remakes of the gen IV games, Defog will become the best HM move of all time. I seem to recall Defog and Rapid Spin making Smogon's list of the top...

Okay, time to start actually trying to catch competitive legendaries. First thing I need is a synchronizer bank.

I love big maze-like forests, caves, and mountains. Everything about big caves, mountains, and even forests just adds to the excitement: the trip to the mart to stock up on items for the trip, that last stop at the pokemon center; if the cave/mountain is later in the game, that final Leppa-berry...

Hey jellicent, I've just got a quick question: if you were an NPC in a pokemon game, what would your sprite look like?

As boltsandbombers said, it was actually pretty effective. To give you an idea of how effective it was, gamefreak recently created a pokemon that was so disgustingly powerful that it had to be banned from ubers (Megarayquaza, in case you didn't know). So Smogon created a new metagame just for...

Smogon = cool I agree, but they banned swagplay, so I have to disagree on the swag bit.

TheFlamingSpade brought me here. He's my favorite pokemon youtuber, and in his videos he of course mentioned smogon all the time. So I googled it, and came here. This was years ago. I don't battle much; I'm mostly just interested in watching how the metagame evolves, because I want to go into...

Just had an excadrill use Drill Run on me. I may be new to battling, but even I know that EQ is better in every way. Here's the replay: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-135300680 Edit: happens on Turn 12 for those who are interested.

I ate too many skittles and now I feel like Toxic is racking up