RicePigeon

Baton Pass teams are a rare occurence in competitive play nowadays and even if they were, Scizor functions fine without it. Also because over 50% of everything is gonna take 25% minimum from Stealth Rock, I'm also expecting a lot of Forretress and Armaldo use. And Vivillon looks promising as well... On a side note, I'm curious to post this over at guild as well, since I'm noticing a lot of players there as well. EDIT: Because I forgot to, I added a Self-KO clause in the first post to prevent any sudden death shenanigans.

I figured it would be easier to make this a separate topic.

Figured this should go in its own separate topic from the main Pokemon thread. After some deliberation with a few others, I finally decided to organize a tournament here on MFFA for people to sign up. Right now we're aiming for about 8 people, but will expand to 12 or 16 if necessary. General Rules All eligible Pokemon must be Bug-type, or have a Bug-type in their evolutionary family tree. All Battles will be done as 6vs6 Single battles. Participants will be required to post battle videos as proof of their victories/losses. Single Elimination style: if you lose, you cannot progress to the next round of the tournament Item Clause: OFF (you may use any number of the same item). Species Clause: ON (You cannot use two of the same species). Sleep Clause: ON (only one Pokemon may be put to sleep at any given time. This does not include sleep induced by the move Rest) Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize cannot be used. OHKO Clause: The moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, and Sheer Cold cannot be used. Self-KO Clause: In the event of a tie caused by the use of Selfdestruct, Explosion, Destiny Bond, Perish Song, Memento, Final Gambit, or any similar suicidal move, the user of these moves will be considered to have lost the match. Self-KOs caused by recoil moves and Life Orb also fall under this category. Genesect and Arceus are banned. 7/24/14 UPDATE: Pokemon Showdown may now be used as a substitute for the 3DS games, which can be found Here List of Eligible Pokemon Caterpie, Metapod, Butterfree Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill Paras, Parasect Venonat, Venomoth Scyther, Scizor, Mega Scizor Pinsir, Mega Pinsir Ledyba, Ledian Spinarak, Ariados Yanma, Yanmega Pineco, Forretress Shuckle Heracross, Mega Heracross Wurmple, Silcoon, Beautifly, Cascoon, Dustox Surskit, Masquerain Nincada, Ninjask, Shedinja Anorith, Armaldo Kricketot, Kricketune Burmy, Wormadam (All Formes), Mothim Combee, Vespiquen Skorupi, Drapion Sewaddle, Swadloon, Leavanny Venipede, Whirlipede, Scolipede Dwebble, Crustle Karablast, Escavalier Shelmet, Accelgor Joltik, Galvantula Durant Larvesta, Volcarona Scatterbug, Spewpa, Vivillion Participants Xan Ricepigeon

Dante vs The Tourettes Guy: TG: Fuck you! Donte: Fuck you! TG: I SAID FUCK YOU FIRST, SO FUCK YOU! begin fight

I'm pretty sure that's NOT what the Anal Arts are...

Cannon Spike Horizontal Rising Tackle on Terry Bogard

Decided to go with her alternate outfit this time, I see... And its not the shampoo she uses, its the hair cream *shot* So I guess the "cadet" is gonna get spoilered too?

Also either Royce's FC is incorrect or he hasnt added me yet :S

The way I did it in that Yukari was outdated, heres a more refined version: You'll want 3 states: A beginning state, the actual state, and the armor gethit state. Beginning State: basically you define the animation and anything you want to happen before the armor takes effect, such as powergains in the statedef. For the most part, this will be an empty state aside from a single controller that immediately puts you into... Actual state: Basically code this as you would any other attacking state. The only difference here is you dont define anything in the statedef aside from movehitpersist =1. Here is where you put the hitoverride for your armor gethit state. Additionally, you must use animelemtime triggers instead of time triggers or else you'll get improper false positives in your state controllers that use them whenever you come back from the armor state. Armor Gethit: should be rather self-explanitory. Make sure to have it send your character to their regular gethit state if theyre no longer alive. This state should include a copy of the hitoverride from the Actual State, as well as a changestate back to the Actual State once the hitshaketime is over. As is the case with the actual state, make sure movehitpersist is set to 1 and dont define any animations in the statedef. Also make sure to simulate the animation freeze using the changeanim controller by setting it to the current animation element for the duration of the state.

He also called us scrubs for using 252/252 EV spreads on certain Pokemon, which is lol.

So me, Xan, The Answer and _DataDrain_ from guild all had a rather "interesting" conversation in Skype last night about this video and where, tl;dr, the guy argues that Smogon had no clue what they were doing when they decided to ban Mega Lucario last week. He then goes on to argue about nonsensical things such as how Slurpuff is a solid counter to MegaKangaskhan, despite being 2HKOed by Return, and that MegaKangaskhan should be unbanned on those grounds. Then a 3rd party intervenes and calls us all scrubs for not using Protect and/or Bulky Greninja to counter Mega Lucario, in spite of me posting damage calculations to prove him wrong (in his defense, a Life Orb Hydro Pump requires a minimum of 128 Sp.Atk EVs to OHKO, while max Sp.Atk investment is still only a 68.8% chance, while Greninja always dies from Life Orb recoil if +2 Extremespeed fails to OHKO, but that only makes him a shaky counter at best, which is not what he was claiming at all).

Flavens's "youngest" nonuplet sister, in case anyone was wondering...

Even if its Doubles?

Oh and... Smogon is considering banning Prankster + Swagger Anyone who thinks this ban shouldn't happen clearly hasnt had a match this fucking stupid before. You tell me if that's fun or not.

Ahem... You were saying?

Because They encountered technical limitations that prevented them from using direct DS to 3DS communications Nintendo's financial situation is in deep shit, so they need all the pocket money for sports energy drinks or whatever that they can get

He wont battle me unless its Doubles... ...and then Typhlosion'd

Battle with Xan: 5SYG-WWWW-WWW5-Z6EL Pinsir scared the crap out of me...

Substitute also allows them a safe buffer to let them set up without taking too much damage, not to mention the fact that it blocks incoming status conditions which would otherwise cripple Klefki, especially if its Foul Play is only 50% as effective (burn still halves FP's damage even when its using the opponent's attack stat) or if its not doing anything while Asleep or once every four turns on average with Paralysis. If Klefki can keep a substitute up, it turns a potential 3H, 2H, or OHKO into a 5HKO with Leftovers. That's a pretty damn massive benefit.

Machamp without AssaultVest is outclassed by Conkeldurr, though... Machamp's main niche over Conk is 100% accurate Dynamicpunch, and most Klefki aren't going to be running Dazzling Gleam, anyway, and even if they did: 252+ Atk Machamp Dynamic Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Klefki: 138-163 (43.3 - 51.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery 0 SpA Klefki Dazzling Gleam vs. 188 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Machamp: 110-132 (29.8 - 35.8%) -- 30.2% chance to 3HKO 0 SpA Klefki Dazzling Gleam vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Machamp: 110-132 (28.6 - 34.3%) -- 2.1% chance to 3HKO

I just timed it and it takes me precisely 10:01:73 to take a shit. I am quite disappointed that I no longer have to luxury of being able to go afk to take a shit and be able to immediately resume the conversation upon my return, whereas before I had around 18 minutes to spare...

I believe he was walking about Machamp, not Klefki. Assuming Adamant with max attack investment, if you're using Assault Vest, 188 HP / 68 Def might be the best way to utilize his remaining EVs, otherwise a 252 HP / 4 Def spread is better. 152 HP, 252 Atk, 52 Def, 52 Speed could also work...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbjG7Yrg8oY

50 -> 50 150 -> 150 50 -> 100 150 -> 150 50 -> 100 150 -> 150 Pressure -> Pressure 50 -> 50 180 -> 230 20 -> 20 180 -> 230 20 -> 20 150 -> 150 Pressure -> Sheer Force 50 -> 50 70 -> 70 160 -> 210 70 -> 90 160 -> 210 90 -> 70 Pressure -> Multiscale 50 -> 50 95 -> 125 90 -> 110 95 -> 125 90 -> 110 180 -> 180 Pressure -> Speed Boost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBc6RtW9y0 Dragon/Fairy Mega Latias deconfirmed. Adaptability on Mega Latios deconfirmed. Multiscale on Mega Latias deconfirmed. I'm kinda disappoint.