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What is your preferred way to earn Battle Points? (BP)

Taking on the Battle Tree	21.5%	[ 534 ]
Pushing through Battle Royal	13.5%	[ 336 ]
Building up interest in Pokemon Bank	16.0%	[ 397 ]
I don't use Battle Points	49.1%	[ 1221 ]
Total Votes:			[ 2488 ]

[Pixelphobia]

Whomper

The only thing I can say about Kangaskhan; is that I find Parental Bond to be a Downgrade from it's Scrappy Ability.
With Parental Bond; it's only move to hit Ghosts is Sucker Punch; which if expected; is easy enough to play around.

[Chainys]

Never fear
A brit is here
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Well this is a welcoming atmosphere.

[Boop Blair]

Madam Harlot

Art Imitating Life

Moving on from all of that then, how is everyone? ^^

Great, just nervous about presenting my essay on The Labeling of GMOs in class today

:O good luck!!

[lol u thot]

Chainys the skeptical

Never fear
A brit is here
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Well this is a welcoming atmosphere.

[Pixelphobia]

Chainys the skeptical

Never fear
A brit is here
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Well this is a welcoming atmosphere.

-Sighs-
Sorry about this.

[Awkward_Ginasing]

Art Imitating Life

Madam Harlot

Art Imitating Life

Moving on from all of that then, how is everyone? ^^

Great, just nervous about presenting my essay on The Labeling of GMOs in class today

:O good luck!!

Knock em dead Madam! You got it biggrin

[Whomper]

....and after catching up with the last page full of comments, I feel compelled to chime in with one very important piece of commentary:

DUMBING DOWN THE CHALLENGE FOR YOUR GYM LEADERS IS GOING TO DISCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN THIS FORMAT.

Rather than boosting your leaders and alienating Smogon fanboys, encourage your leaders to think outside the box - to improve upon their teams. A gym leader should be testing a challenger's knowledge of the type; not overwhelming them. A concession is already offered in the form of a wildcard.

Let's use Stealth Rock as an example for this, since it has been declared a target of the bans. Part of the test for Fire/Flying/Ice/Bug gym leaders would be to build a team that can stand up to the challenges they will face in Stealth Rock. Fire gym? Infernape and Heatran; Torkoal with Rapid Spin! Flying gym? Gliscor and Sigilyph; the flying type also has Defog now. Ice gym has it the roughest, but still has Mamoswine and a capable spinner in Cryogonal. Bug type? Scizor and Forretress got that s**t on lockdown.

Oh, and since I take too long to post: a Parental Bond Kangaskhan user could build with Crunch to acknowledge the Sucker Punch prediction... or they could do what I would do: use one of their other five pokemon. If I'm building a Normal team, I certainly intend to account for Ghost types. I've been saying this for years, but I'll say it again: don't try to develop a pokemon to be a "one 'mon fits all situations" pokemon. It will narrow your battling style and inhibit proper team building.

[Whomper]

Chainys the skeptical

Never fear
A brit is here
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Well this is a welcoming atmosphere.

Sometimes a heated discussion is necessary for progress. I'm certain you can understand, given that this is a league-oriented hangout thread, that these discussions are bound to take place from time to time.

That said, I'm sorry if I've offended you.

[Idha Lu]

Hi everyone! Sorry I didn't pop in yesterday. I had to make a bunch of really infuriating phone calls right when I woke up and spent the rest of the day wanting to kill things. >:c

How is everyone?

[Coffy Grier]

Art Imitating Life

Madam Harlot

Art Imitating Life

Moving on from all of that then, how is everyone? ^^

Great, just nervous about presenting my essay on The Labeling of GMOs in class today

:O good luck!!

Thank you! I'm just glad it's finally going to be over with, i've been stressed about it for over a week.

[Coffy Grier]

Awkward_Ginasing

Art Imitating Life

Madam Harlot

Art Imitating Life

Moving on from all of that then, how is everyone? ^^

Great, just nervous about presenting my essay on The Labeling of GMOs in class today

:O good luck!!

Knock em dead Madam! You got it biggrin

Appreciate it sug heart

[Chainys]

Never fear
A brit is here
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It's all good. Just trying to post here was kinda intimidating. I quit competitive battling in Gen IV so I couldn't really comment on anything.

Also in lighthearted news this advert just came on TV over here.

[Baron Von Wolfenstein]

Chainys the skeptical

Did......did I just watch a milk commercial with a British Gingerbread Man?

[Uchiha Roxas]

Whomper

....and after catching up with the last page full of comments, I feel compelled to chime in with one very important piece of commentary:

DUMBING DOWN THE CHALLENGE FOR YOUR GYM LEADERS IS GOING TO DISCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN THIS FORMAT.

Rather than boosting your leaders and alienating Smogon fanboys, encourage them to think outside the box - to improve upon their teams. A gym leader should be testing a challenger's knowledge of the type; not overwhelming them. A concession is already offered in the form of a wildcard.

Let's use Stealth Rock as an example for this, since it has been declared a target of the bans. Part of the test for Fire/Flying/Ice/Bug gym leaders would be to build a team that can stand up to the challenges they will face in Stealth Rock. Fire gym? Infernape and Heatran; Torkoal with Rapid Spin! Flying gym? Gliscor and Sigilyph; the flying type also has Defog now. Ice gym has it the roughest, but still has Mamoswine and a capable spinner in Cryogonal. Bug type? Scizor and Forretress got that s**t on lockdown.

Oh, and since I take too long to post: a Parental Bond Kangaskhan user could build with Crunch to acknowledge the Sucker Punch prediction... or they could do what I would do: use one of their other five pokemon. If I'm building a Normal team, I certainly intend to account for Ghost types. I've been saying this for years, but I'll say it again: don't try to develop a pokemon to be a "one 'mon fits all situations" pokemon. It will narrow your battling style and inhibit proper team building.

This is insightful, thanks for bringing some of this up.
Here. Here. /golfclaps.

[Idha Lu]

Edit: Is something wrong with the coding on the black/white list post?

Chainys the skeptical

Chainys, you find the weirdest videos. And I can understand that posting during a competitive debate is intimidating. Best bet is to post something completely unrelated and hope someone responds. c:

On that note. I have extra helioptile. One with HP Ice I think. Most of them are 5IV missing ATK and the HP Ice one is 5IV missing SPD but the speed IV is 24. I think I also have a 6IV one.