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Skeledirge made a top5 smogon player seethe

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:08:39 No.52484435 View View Reply Original Report

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https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1729898915-p76b4u1rt2hxd74r2h9g7vza54rqnsqpw

But hey guys, he will drop to UU next month. It's just a honeymoon phase.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:10:22 No.52484454 Report

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Wtf, just realize he has a dragonite profile picture. How did he do it?!
I want a profile picture with my best bro too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:11:43 No.52484470 Report

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>>52484435
>the will drop to UU next month. It's just a honeymoon phase.
Yes, just like your boring 75 meme

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:14:19 No.52484495 Report

Quoted By: >>52484645 >>52484734 >>52487755 >>52488163

Btw I'm that anon who has been saying since leak days that Skeledirge was going to be OU, Hisui Samurott was going to be OU and that Tinkaton was going to have a niche in OU.

Been laughed at by anons, but I strangely don't see them much in showdown...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:20:42 No.52484567 Report

Quoted By: >>52484715

>>52484435
Being bulkier than Quagsire while having Unaware and reliable recovery. Anyone who said this wouldn’t be OU viable is just dumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:23:21 No.52484599 Report

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>>52484435
This thing will get banned in UU

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:26:37 No.52484645 Report

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>>52484495
>Tinkaton was going to have a niche in OU.
Tinkaton does not have a niche in OU.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:28:22 No.52484665 Report

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>>52484645
She fucks up stall, just as I predicted.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:29:06 No.52484672 Report

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>>52484435
>loses
>immediately begins to criticize opp's plays

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:30:35 No.52484684 Report

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>>52484665
Stall has plenty of ways to absorb the hammer and heal off the damage. This does not happen and you did not predict this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:31:23 No.52484691 Report

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>>52484435
>lets opponent set up rocks + double spikes
>loses
I wonder why

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:34:25 No.52484715 Report

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>>52484567

Nobody runs the croc as a wall

The thing that saves the croc is torching song and tera to quit the dogshit typing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:35:51 No.52484734 Report

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>>52484495
>Tinkaton was going to have a niche in OU.
Your shitmon will be RU at best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:41:00 No.52484800 Report

Quoted By: >>52484914

>>52484435
>letting glimmora set up all those hazards to begin with
>knock off into gholdengo to block spin is obvious, opponent knows this and stays in, it works out
>even if hazards were removed, tinglu had already died to them and the switch into tusk to spin them out was already forced, hazards did their thing
>can only complain how opponent "didn't do what he was supposed to do"
So... this is the power... of a top5 smogon player

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:49:22 No.52484914 Report

Quoted By: >>52485235

>>52484800
He was 1950+ elo, so he must be doing something right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:51:37 No.52484947 Report

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Skeledirge just straight up murders anything that comes in after one Torch Song, it’s great.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 19:58:39 No.52485037 Report

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>>52484435
>Tries to parahax Glimmora and ends up with 17262817163 hazards in the field
>Subs against sound move

Whoa....

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 20:13:44 No.52485235 Report

Quoted By: >>52485296 >>52485406

>>52484914
>he must be doing something right.
Probably playing against people that play exactly like him. If you always know what to expect, making predictions and "plays" becomes much easier, but when confronted by seemingly insane or unoptimal opponents, he can do nothing but complain they aren't playing right. "The best swordman fears the man that doesn't know about swordsmanship" and all that.

Random battles and AG are unironically the only truly competitive formats, people with 2000+ elo in those are the actual good players.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 20:18:21 No.52485296 Report

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>>52485235
>seemingly insane or unoptimal opponents
1v1 pokemon is nothing but 50-50s. It takes one of these "insane choice" to lose a whole match, especially in this HO filled meta.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 20:28:27 No.52485406 Report

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>>52485235
it's a classic case of mid-level players overpredicting, high ladder is full of this

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 20:48:14 No.52485660 Report

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>>52485406
>overpredicting
What does that even mean? There are a set of possibilies by your opponent, if you guess them all, you should be the one to win.
That's the case for every single game. But not 1v1 pokemon, where every turn is just a game of dice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 21:02:18 No.52485880 Report

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>>52484435
>"woah guize, this crocodile made this player seethe/carried the game, he's truly OP"
>click on the game
>the other player is raped right at the start of the game and begs for defog to be in the game
>has to rely on the broken gimmick to even be good
lole

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 21:14:31 No.52486104 Report

Quoted By: >>52486196

>>52485660
acting as if your opponent will always make their highest ev move and constantly going for reads vs reacting against what is right in front of you. think someone who clicks knock every time expecting gholdengo (predict) instead of just spinning, and plays like this the whole game in every situation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 21:19:11 No.52486196 Report

Quoted By: >>52486283

>>52486104
What do you want them to do, throw out a dice?
How can they predict that that one time, this opponent will not switch out despite. They have no information to go of off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 21:24:40 No.52486283 Report

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>>52486196
>What do you want them to do, throw out a dice?
if they're not able to mix up plays without the help of a random number or have a better read on their opp than "opp will make obvious play X" every turn, sure

>How can they predict that that one time, this opponent will not switch out despite. They have no information to go of off.
note the qualifiers in my post ("always", "every time", "plays like this the whole game")

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 22:54:43 No.52487688 Report

Quoted By: >>52487718

>>52484645
Tinkaton stops Donbozo?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 22:57:10 No.52487718 Report

Quoted By: >>52487917

>>52487688
No. But you have 5 other mons to chipp out that fish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:00:14 No.52487755 Report

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>>52484495
>>52484665
the "fucks up stall and does little else" niche isn't good enough if you don't 6-0 stall like reuniclus/similar mons.
tink just can't compete.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:04:51 No.52487827 Report

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>>52484435
I don’t blame the guy for getting annoyed but when you lose and then start talking in chat you look like you have downs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:11:13 No.52487917 Report

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>>52487718
How does it fuck up stall then?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:12:54 No.52487940 Report

Quoted By: >>52487954 >>52487955

>>52484435
Why did Torch Song hit through Substitute?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:13:59 No.52487954 Report

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>>52487940
It's a sound move

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:14:00 No.52487955 Report

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>>52487940
It's a sound move like boomburst.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:14:08 No.52487958 Report

Quoted By: >>52488059

>>52487917
Necrozma and Crawdaunt both beat stall but they can’t do it without Fini support + their other teammates

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:19:44 No.52488059 Report

Quoted By: >>52488091

>>52487958
What does it do to fuck up stall that's so great? That is the question. You haven't said why it's so good against stall because Sword Dance boosting to be stall is something a lot of mons can do. Hydreigon has been my premier stall breaker since it came out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:21:33 No.52488091 Report

Quoted By: >>52488412

>>52488059
Mold breaker, knock off, immunity to toxic, typing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:26:28 No.52488163 Report

Quoted By: >>52488433

>>52484495
Bro unaware on a Pokémon immune to burn and trapping is godlike, only starter war morons were contrarian enough to not see its beauty
Tinkaton is mawile type with nice speed and great support options, I'm not surprised if it ends up with a niche

Samurott is a bit iffy, but I can see a world in which it's useful

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:40:30 No.52488412 Report

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>>52488091
>gives serious answer disproving all their claims
>no answer back
Color me surprise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:41:10 No.52488424 Report

Quoted By: >>52488639

>>52484435

whats the build?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:41:47 No.52488433 Report

Quoted By: >>52488639

>>52488163
Me too. That world is the Smogon UU metagame

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:54:26 No.52488639 Report

Quoted By: >>52488666 >>52488840 >>52488959

>>52488424
Skeledirge @ Leftovers
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Torch Song
- Will-O-Wisp
- Earth Power
- Slack Off

>>52488433
We'll see, but right now 2/3 of my predictions were right.
3/4 actually cause I also said that Great Tusk will be more useful that Iron Treads in the compfag thread, but my reasonning was wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:55:49 No.52488666 Report

Quoted By: >>52488684

>>52488639
do you think this would work well for a vgc oriented one? Mine is almost the same but has the SpD points in Def but those SpD points seem really good for the meta in it rn

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:57:14 No.52488684 Report

Quoted By: >>52488702

>>52488666
I don't know anything about vgc, but some Skeledirge bro that do use Skeledirge in Trick Room. They say he is pretty good there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Dec 2022 23:58:17 No.52488702 Report

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>>52488684
*that do uses

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2022 00:08:06 No.52488840 Report

Quoted By: >>52488927

>>52488639
how come water over fairy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2022 00:13:46 No.52488927 Report

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>>52488840
Resistance to steel (Reddit Gold) and fire (Fire Dark Fish). No weakness against Poison (Volcarona).
These 3 are all mons I want Skeledirge to check.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2022 00:16:09 No.52488959 Report

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>>52488639
>We'll see, but right now 2/3 of my predictions were right.
Tinkaton is not viable in OU.

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