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  1. TheMantyke

    Pokemon's Grand Accessibility Failure: A History of External Device Usage in Competitive Pokemon

    This is a big thread, covering a topic that's been pressing into me lately. I apologize to the mods of the in-game play forums if this is a hassle to deal with. I've wanted to talk about this sort of thing for a very long time, and I felt the need to speak about it somewhere as best I can. A...
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    Resource Pokemon Home Update Adds Ability "Tradebacks" To SWSH

    Hey! So, I'm not really an ROA guy, so pardon if this isn't the right way to post something like this, but I wanted to get the word out about some interesting additions that just happened and will be happening with Gen 8 thanks to Pokemon Home updates. ---- ^ This is now 100% legal in SWSH...
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    Jump Scared by Forum Paleontology

    Casually browsing smogon.com and I receive an alert "hmm I wonder thread this is for" and I get teleported back in time to this. BIG ASHLEY what are you doing down there ma'am. why are you spelunking through vbulletin era posts. There are users on here who were three years old when...
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    Is there a major disparity in Gen 9's version of choice?

    A whole bunch of anecdotal evidence has been piling up in my peripheral vision lately. I go to my local Pokemon League and we have two Scarlet players vs six Violet players. I try and round out my Pokedex using the version exclusive trade codes and getting Scarlet Pokemon feels like pulling...
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    What are the Faces of Gen 9?

    (hit the post button a bit prematurely on accident thanks to mobile, pardon any mess) Each generation has a few Pokémon seemingly actively pushed by Pokémon for advertisement purposes. Two months into Gen 9, what do you feel like are the faces, potential “shillmons” if you’re being cynical, of...
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    Dual Shiny Hunting: Double Up Your Masuda Method With These Techniques And Recipes

    This information would not be possible without building off the hard work of: happylappy#5231 for their excellent sandwich guide helping to get me up to speed on sandwich mechanics Anubis and Kaphotics for datamining information on sandwich stats Cecil Bowen's sandwich calculator and anyone...
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    Post Your Scarlet & Violet In-Game Teams!

    It's the launch of a new generation. It's always fun to mull around and share what team you want to use! Will you head into the game dead set on a certain squad? Or will you roll with whatever the game gives you and savor the surprise? Share your thoughts! Of course, once you've beaten the...
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    Good April Fools Jokes 2022

    It’s that time of the year where people get goofy. Sadly, too often, attempts at jokes just come off as lame “gotchas” or a company testing reception to a weird product they might actually want to make. Those jokes suck. I’m expecting lots of dry crypto stuff this year in particular to strangle...
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    Playthrough Elusive Pokemon

    Let's talk about Pokemon that are hard to use for an in-game playthrough. It's not necessarily because they're difficult to use or train, though that can also be true. These Pokemon show up in very few routes, in very few games, at very inopportune times, and / or come at such low encounter...
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    Now I've heard there was a secret chord

    Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you dont really care for music, do you? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor falls, the major lifts The baffled king composing ITT put Pokémon in song lyrics and put the Pokémon in hide tags...
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    Battle Spot Toxtricity

    [SET] name: Shift Gear move 1: Shift Gear move 2: Boomburst move 3: Overdrive move 4: Fire Punch / Snarl / Drain Punch / Sludge Wave item: Life Orb / Throat Spray ability: Punk Rock nature: Rash / Modest evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS] Toxtricity’s Punk Rock-boosted sound moves...
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    Hidden Power IV Combinations

    8:55 PM] TheMantyke: I am uncertain if this is the right place to ask this, but I will momentarily treat this place as "ask C&C staff questions" [8:56 PM] necraMancer: This feature is only available on Tuesdays [8:56 PM] TheMantyke: Whenever I google "hidden power IVs", the only information...
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    Heavy Ball Beldum / Tapus

    Hey everyone. This morning, SciresM revealed that the Heavy Ball catch formula had been revised. This revision makes it completely impossible to catch light Pokemon with a low enough capture rate. It was previously thought the heavy ball worked as it did in Gen 4, reducing the catch rate to a...
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    Smogon Wi-Fi Discord Channel! https://discord.gg/wBamhYd

    Click here to join Smogon's Wi-Fi discord channel We set up a discord channel as a way to make chatting more accessible outside the old #smogonwifi IRC channel. Most of you are probably familiar with chats like spp-wifi and the showdown trade chat (who we're not associated with in any way)...
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    SPOILERS! Sun and Moon In game experience thread

    Since these conversations were scattered amongst a few different threads, I thought I'd create this. This is a thread for discussing how your in game play through is going. How far are you into the game? What's your team looking like? Pokemon that surprised you? Pokemon that underwhelmed you...
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    Resource [SPOILERS] Early VGC 2017 Interesting Pokemon

    So with the datamining last night, a number of Pokemon sprites were left unscrubbed out of the game and make for what is very likely the Alolan Pokedex. I decided to breeze through the dex and try to point out all the interesting Please let me know if I made any mistakes or neglected something...
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    Pokemon Generations: Anime shorts series featuring game highlights from all generations

    Edit: I've gotten multiple reports of users outside the US not able to view the trailer. Here's an alternative upload by IGN: It looks like every generation is getting a little bit of the origins treatment for the 20th anniversary! Pokemon Generations is an upcoming series of short running...
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    Ongoing Event Announcements and Alerts (Last Updated: 10/3/16)

    Ongoing Event Announcements and Alerts What is this thread? Every so often, rare Pokemon with competitive implications are distributed through Mystery Gift. Several websites have event databases, but many skimp out on a few important details that can impact Pokemon legality. We've decided to...
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    30/31/31/30/31/31 Jolly Self-Destruct Mewtwo Giveaway!

    FIVE YEARS OF RNG! MEWTWOS REMAINING: 7 BACKGROUND: Hey everyone! If you're new and aren't too familiar with me outside of being that guy with the hack check post OP, let me tell you a little about myself. I'm TheMantyke and I use to RNG and give away a ton of Pokemon back in the first half of...
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    Lapras

    There isn't a Lapras analysis on site and we're trying to fill in the blanks. Lapras is reasonably viable in VGC so I thought I'd go ahead and write this [OVERVIEW] Freeze Dry makes Lapras very useful against rain and other teams heavy on Water-types, turning Pokemon with solid defensive...
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