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Ok, I've recently started doing a show called "Learning with Jim" on Smogon's official Twitch channel. It's a weekly-ish show where I get tutored live on stream by experienced players, with each guest covering a tier for a few shows before we move onto a new tier and a new guest tutor...

Long, Rambling, Probably Unnecessary Introduction Way back in the heyday of the Scramble challenge, around 2011-2012, I used to do something special with my Scramble challenges. In fact, I sort of set off a trend that endured right up until the Scramble Challange began to lose steam in 2013 and...

This thread is the place to go if you want to find a new challenge run to undertake, or just a place to quickly hop to one you've heard about without having to mess with a search engine. Just for clarity, "challenge run" refers to rulesets for playing through the stories of Pokemon games that...

**New distribution method, Read before posting!** Introduction: Welcome to my new and hopefully long-lived Give-away thread. I've been breeding and catching stuff to give away over wonder-trade for some time now, though I only recently realized there was a whole section of the Wi-Fi forums for...

The Pokemon series has done something few video games series have truly done; stand the test of time. It's been around for 18 years in Japan and almost 16 years in North America now, and shows no signs of stopping any time soon. An entire generation of people have grown up with the Pokemon games...

Some of you might remember The Gauntlet Challenge from waaaay back in 2012. Well, I'm bringing it back, with new and improved instructions and rules that hopefully won't confuse the shit out of everyone this time. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! Seriosuly people, Gauntlets get HARD and get hard...

A Brief Introduction and History... So some of you who've been around for a while might remember OI Plays, which was a short lived but well received weekly community event, where members of the community got together in #orangeislands and Skype to play a Pokemon game together. It ended up...

Introduction: Hello everyone! Recently I've been having issues with getting myself to complete my various Pokemon playthroughs. The biggest draw for me is sharing my experiences with others, but I've found that writing up updates or editing together videos takes too long, and that G+ hangouts...

(taken from the 10th issue of The Smog, made by Cartoons!) Introduction: Well, it’s been a while since I made a topic here. A long, long while. Since then I like to think I’ve gotten a lot better at team building and just playing in general. I’m doing better than I’ve ever done on the ladder...

Obviously this is an important (and freaking huge) analysis. Make sure to point out anything that I might have missed that needs changing! Old Analysis in its entirety Introduction toUpdate on the process: Alright, so I got all these skeletons written up and ready to go through QC. See this...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Gauntlet Challenge! If you're tired of playing the same old in-game challenges over and over again, then this is the thread for you! Read the next 5 sections before posting! What is a Gauntlet? A Gauntlet Challenge is a playthrough of any Pokemon game of your...

Hello fellow Smogonites, I've noticed the distinct lack of Let's Play on our forums and decided that I'd make us a nice big topic for all of us that enjoy watching, discussing and even making Let's Plays. "But hey now," some of you are thinking, "what on earth is a Let's Play?" Well hello...

Never saw it coming. [SET] name: Classic MixNite move 1: Draco Meteor move 2: Fire Blast move 3: Superpower move 4: Roost / Earthquake / ExtremeSpeed item: Life Orb ability: Multiscale nature: Rash / Mild evs: 64 Atk / 252 SpA / 192 Spe [SET COMMENTS] <p>While the classic...

Viva la Revolution! QC Approvals: [Iconic][Pocket][Bloo] GP Edits:[Jellicent][SkullCandy] Introduction: Some of you will remember the stir that was started around Tangrowth a couple months back with it being put forward as an effective anti-meta Pokemon with the popularization of Volt-Turn...

Counter That OU Pokemon! Alright, so I was looking around and noticed and noticed that it seems every tier has a "counter that Pokemon thread... except for OU, the biggest and most played tier of all. A quick search confirmed my suspicions. And so I thought "Hell, why don't I start one...

*~Breaking Down the Walls~* So, you know how there was a thread a while back called The WALLS thread? Yeah, this is like that, only about the Pokemon and techniques used to demolish the Pokemon on that thread. These are the Pokemon that give the likes of Skarmory and Blissey nightmares...

Introduction: Hello everybody and welcome the second warstory I’ve actually finished writing! Yeah, I’ve actually started writing up something like a half dozen warstories since my first one and then decided that the battles weren’t good enough and stopped. However, I’ve finally had a battle...

Introduction: Hello everyone, and welcome to my 3rd OU RMT! Hopefully this one will get a little more attention than my last few. So anyway, as you can probably tell from the title I am among the people who have a bit of a beef with Volt-Turn. But unlike a lot of those people, rather...

Alright everyone, it’s time for my second OU RMT. This one is all about the king; Nidoking that is! He’s really underappreciated and something I’ve wanted to use competitively since last generation, so when the OU CCAT selected him I was really pleased. Unfortunately, that ended up taking more...

Introduction: Well I don't know if my idea is completely new or not, but I noticed a couple days ago that a huge number of Trick Room sweepers were rock type. That got me thinking; Yah know what would really help a Trick Room team? Sandstorm! So I decided to make my first RU team a combination...