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Hello, friends! The Late Night Tournament is back, and better than ever before! Season 3 Intro: With the weekly smogon tours coming to a close, another tournament series will be grabbing the reins. It may not have the prestige of the Smogon Tour, but what it lacks in that area it makes up...

Initially I was just looking over this for Mingot's giveaway so that he would have to sponsor me in VGC but it turned out to need a pretty serious rewrite. There many sentences and even entire paragraphs in inappropriate sections, and I was able to flat out delete quite a bit while preserving...

The First Codex Tournament will take place on Tuesday, November 24 As the Late Night Tournament comes to a close, I am planning the beginning of a new tournament series. While the LNT was a casual, gimmicky tournament, this series of tournaments is intended to be highly competitive. I am...

The Late Night Tournament Welcome back, friends! It's time for another season of the Late Night Tournament! For anyone out of the loop, the Late Night Tournament started out as a series of nightly mini-tournament hosted by myself and Caelum on the Smogon University Shoddybattle server. Each...

Congratulations to Duskie, winner of Season 1 of the Late Night Tournament (and also to Hector who must now kick himself). I know a lot of people were confused when the Late Night Tournament thread suddenly disappeared...I take full responsibility for that. I meant to post this thread earlier...

I feel silly making this thread with such a glaringly obvious title...but I just logged on and locked six threads for having one sentence descriptions. Guys...read the rules and the 'How to RMT thread' before posting. It's a one-time thing you have to do that takes about fifteen minutes. I also...

This is a Jirachi that I have been using since the Latias suspect test. It was effective then and it is still effective now, and since the closest set on-site is "Superachi" (which is pretty damn different), I figure this deserves its own set. Additionally, I know a number of other players who...

I am sure that most of you have at least heard about the creation of Smogon's magazine, "The Smog", over the last week or so. The project is now very much in motion, and in order to give the magazine a "face" we are calling upon the many artists of Smogon to help us create a logo! While we do...

In each issue, the Smogon Magazine will be publishing some of the questions asked in this thread, along with in-depth responses. These should not be simple questions that can be answered in one or two sentences; they should be complex and though provoking questions that require at least a single...

How to get involved with The Smog The Smog is a magazine that runs on user-submitted content. Without intelligent, creative users to submit articles, we wouldn't get anywhere. That's where you come in! The Smog has moved away from accepting applications for staff membership. To get involved...

This article is somewhat of an extension of Wyzra's Prediction Thread. I would recommend at least looking it over if you haven't read it already. I would also recommend reading the first two paragraphs of my post in that thread, as it may help you to understand some of my points in this topic...

Over the course of talking about the DPP metagame with people, I have brought up on several occasions the fact that Diamond / Pearl is all about gimmicks. In general, the player who can best execute their gimmicks will usually be the winner. But doing this well requires a fair deal of skill, and...

It is not secret that some Pokemon are better than others. However, even within Overused there is a huge difference in the quality of Pokemon - and not even ones from the bottom of the usage list. In this thread I will discuss what I and many other players consider to be the overrated OU...

Tangerine and I were talking on irc about how a lot of intelligent Stark threads get little to no discussion since they are already "complete" so to speak. Since these threads are already essentially articles, it would make more sense to publish them as just that. So we had the idea of writing...

Like the title says, let's talk offensive status! People generally will lump Status attacks in as a "stall thing", but I am here to tell you that this is a terrible mindset to have! Offensive team and especially balanced teams can use the extra turns or reduced damage granted by status effects...

It has happened to everyone - you think you have the game won, but then an Ice Fang freeze or an untimely critical hit snatches the match right out of your hands. And I am sure that most people have heard their opponent blame "hax" for their loss, and then you smugly think "I would have won...

I will be writing the analyses for Latias in OU. However, before I get to any actual writing I need some help smoothing out the sets. Latias has a ridiculous number of viable moves, and its high defenses and speed make it difficult to come up with a "standard" EV spread. I have attempted to do...

The Infernape analysis was pretty severely outdated, still containing references even to Garchomp. Most of the sets were designed for a metagame with Garchomp, and so I changed several of the sets around and rewrote the bulk of all the analyses. Here is a list of major changes: Changed the...

The Hippowdon set was pretty outdated, still containing references to Garchomp and using Ice Fang on every set. I have updated all the sets to the more recent metagame and obviously changed the write-ups. I tried to keep as much of of the original content as I could since it was actually rather...

Now that my Substitute Heatran is on-site, it is time to unleash another Heatran upon the pokemon world! This is the lead Heatran I have been using on my suspect team, and although I can't take credit for creating it, I do have a lot of experience using it...