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If we are actually taking seriously Falkner through Whitney, Abra by default cannot be any higher than B either, given it is literally not obtainable/useable whatsoever in any of those fights. According to the stated rules previously. By the strongest form of default, anything not available...

The separation from items/HMs/TMs/leveling from catching/receiving other pokemon is a false dichotomy. All represent various forms of mitigation. HMs are the least impactful mitigating factor (to the extent of being almost trivial unless a sequence break is required for their effective use, and...

I think I would strongly disagree that such considerations are 'undermining individual strengths and weaknesses'. It is evaluating the consequences of individual strengths and weakness and to what level are those mitigatable. End of the day, it is a large sequence break for most players and...

So it seems that the descriptions of tiers, the expectations for number of pokemon and what constitutes 'casual efficiency' have changed quite a bit in the last few years, and I don't have quite as many complaints there. For the sake of posterity, I'd like to note that Cyndaquil's weakspot in a...

Agreed. And in the same parallel, it is quite easy to get a Gyarados before Feraligatr (or qualiava) hit level 30, and use teleport back to cover/body the few actually bad matchups for Quilava. Not that I recommend it, but it is also another extreme of pathing options.

Also Tropius is fine as a single stage, the lati's are literally forced upon you in ORAS. But yeah HM slaves no-beuno

why the heck does ditto have an alolan form??????? Ditto should only maintain the form version of the parent, unless it's a sex form in which case, random. And why would ditto ever have form priority over anything????

that is just stupid.

I really really dislike the moves to "hawaii" and "france". There is doing it well, and then there is the half-baked crap they ended up with. Hoenn felt like a more realistic place than both of these two. Also if you are going to do something like that, for f's sake, let us change language mid...

Seriously. FFS BALL BAG. Berry Pouch. All the stupid bag item inflation crap. Even with easy sorting, it is slower than any other gen with the random crap. Merge drives, remove their boosts to type. We don't need Mystic Water B, and Magnet B.

No, I completely agree that overleveling makes a lot of it trivial. Although I did try more or less to remove a decent bit of that. I think the biggest conclusion is that assuming you get to the same level as other pokemon, it does very well.

Just did a quick poliwag only run to champion. Some thoughts on it. feeding totadile exp to poliwag was a really nice boost. Had watergun before the end of sprout tower, things started moving pretty fast by that point, used cynadaquil a 2 times as swap, the second one letting it die on it (so...

90 speed + Hypnosis prevents any particular fight (outside of Karen, who is already the 1st or second easiest E4 member depending on if you grabbed a fire type at some point) from ever being an issue. It is quite literally a panacea. It isn't a needed one. It isn't a fast one. But it is with...

In fairness. "Does nothing other than potential hyponosis" is "does nothing other than render the opposing pokemon cannon fodder to setup" Fast hypnosis is really really good for either setup or just set switches. And realistically the only other useful pokemon for that is Haunter, who actually...

If you are willing to run crystal... I would highly request someone with actual rep (I've done this a number of times, but that doesn't mean anything) checks route 22 (night) poliwag w/ the easy to do water-stone manips. I think it is at least as good as wooper, if not better. Bubble is rough...

First thing's first... Furret has literally only 10% worse attack than Fearow. Furret also learns swift. Its stab return is not much worse. The instant Furret evolves it surpasses Spearow. And has access to a much stronger ground move in dig (thus notably better at both Morty and Jasmine)...

Crobat was memeing... I don't actually recommend dealing with it. Like coolness is the only reason to use it. DPP Infernape has coverage. Fearow doesn't. Fearow's mudslap is worse than Crocknaw's water gun and much worse than Quilava's ember (who can also learn mud-slap if you really feel like...

When playing through this I also always end up going with a cyndaquil + sentret combo. Typhlosion double punch + return (and eventually earthquake) is perfectly capable of clearing all threats from that point on. Sentret is a convenient early game mon that doesn't fall off since it functions as...