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Are we team 49 still?
Main Post: Are we team 49 still?
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49.5 now. Still sorting through my emotions about the whole thing.
Singles team to get 49 winstreak battle tower?
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Looking for some team ideas already tried these Pokemon
Jolly Garchomp W/leftovers/ lifeorb/ choice scarf (sand veil): Brick break/ Dragon claw/ earthquake / Iron tail
Bold HA Milotic W/ leftovers or flame orb: recover, d pulse, ice Beam, scald
Timid levitate azelf W/ focus sash or life orb: Energy ball, fire blast, thunder, psychic
Adament gyrados W/ sitrus berry (intimidate): iron tail, d dance, waterfall, ice fang
Jolly Blaziken (blaze) W/ leftovers, focus sash, life orb: close combat, U-turn, swords dance, flare blitz
Best floor: 42
What I've lost to:
Meganium stall
Double team cheese
Stat checked by a Blissy W/ thunder
Random who crit every time they attacked :/
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Chiming in with well over 49 win streak at the battle tower. Here’s what team worked for me (assuming good IVs as well):
1.) Dragonite @ Lum Berry Ability: Multiscale Adamant Nature 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 HP -Dragon Dance -Earthquake -Outrage -Extremespeed
Explanation: Great sweeper. Pretty bulky thanks to Multiscale. Lum Berry+ Multiscale guarantees at least one Dragon Dance with surviving and no status effect. If enemy just attacks, dragonite eats the hit, gets off a d-dance, and proceeds to sweep. Outrage is stupid strong and the confusion at the end will be healed by Lum Berry (if he didn’t already use it). EQ for coverage and Extremespeed for cleaning up kills/priority
2.) Magnezone @ Quick Claw/Choice Specs Ability: Sturdy Modest Nature 252 HP / 252 SpAtk / 4 Spe -Thunderbolt -Volt Switch -Flash Cannon -Tri Attack
Explanation: This Pokémon forms a FANTASTIC core for Dragonite. It covers his fairy/Ice/Rock weaknesses so well. And Dragonite covers Magnezone’s weakness in fighting, ground, and fire. It is bulky and with sturdy will survive almost any hit and smack back with the power of Zeus. Thunderbolt is for stupid strong STAB (especially with specs). Volt Switch is super strong and gives you a free switch (since he doesn’t outspeed too many mons, which is fine). Flash Cannon for coverage and more STAB. Tri attack is super underrated. Strong move with nice neutral damage on most types with the chance to burn, paralyze, or freeze the opponent. Can’t tell you how many times this move actually saved me.
3.) Cloyster @ Focus Sash Ability: Skill Link Adamant Nature 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 HP -Ice Shard -Shell Smash -Icicle Spear -Rock Blast
Explanation: This dude is fucking amazing. Single handedly has beaten entire team all on his own. The idea is, you use Shell Smash, which boosts his Atk, Speed, and SpAtk two stages each, and lower his defense/special defense 1 stage each. Then, proceed to sweep. Skill Link means that his Icicle Spear and Rock Blast will hit 5 times, every time. Ice Shard is for priority killing/revenge killing and is powerful on its own too. Focus Sash ensures that it will survive most any hit before getting off a Shell Smash and then wreaking havoc. I typically keep Cloyster as a “late-game” sweeper since a lot of opponents’ lead Pokémon like to cripple with status effects, and obviously Cloyster doesn’t want to be crippled with paralysis or burn. The lum Berry on Dragonite I decided was more important than having it on Cloyster, anyway.
Overall: The idea for this team is: Lead with Dragonite, attempt to d-dance and sweep. If opponent leads with a bad check on Dragonite, switch to magnezone, tank their hit, and blow them up. You typically don’t want to switch Cloyster in to any Pokémon unless one of yours just fainted, so as to preserve his focus sash. Outside of this, just be cognizant of when to switch between Pokémon for advantage, and when to press an advantage hard and to sweep. I’ve beaten Palmer idk how many times now (both 21 and 49 streak versions).
Side note: On the 3rd “wave” of battles you do, lead with Magnezone and give him Lum Berry. Palmer loves leading with Milotic and going for hypnosis. I always cancel the hypnosis with lum Berry and nuke him with Thunderbolt. As for his Dragonite, your Dragonite will eat a dragon rush thanks to multiscale and then kill his with outrage (2HKO) but your Dragonite outspeeds his so you’ll win the exchange. Rhyperior easily goes down to Magnezone’s Flash cannon. Cloyster is simply there as extra credit and annihilates Rhyperior and Dragonite with icicle spear, and can hurt milotic pretty bad with rock blast too. But you almost always want at least one Shell Smash to go off before doing that. If it’s close though, don’t be afraid to just use one of his link moves because they still do a fuck ton of damage (unboosted), and then you can rank a hit with focus sash and dish out another link move for the W.
49 streak Palmer I can write up if you’re interested but I think I’ve said enough lol
Edit: Forgot to mention, with Magnezone, while it’s tempting to throw on Choice Specs and nuke everything, I’ve had far more success with Quick Claw, as it frees up his movepool and I’ve gotten so much cheese off of our speeding quicker opponents and killing them first. Not even kidding.
Daily Narumon Post #49: Itachi’s Pokemon Team
Main Post: Daily Narumon Post #49: Itachi’s Pokemon Team
Top Comment: I can’t help but feel like Houndoom would be a better fit for Amaterasu. It’s literally fire/dark type, the only one in the games that I can think of. It also meshes with Itachi’s color palette.
moz://gfx newsletter #49 – Mozilla Gfx Team Blog
Main Post: moz://gfx newsletter #49 – Mozilla Gfx Team Blog
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DirectComposition is mentioned a lot. Is it possible to enable it in Nightly?
Clocking an astonishing 3:49.63, Team USA Sets New 4x100M Medley Relay WR
Main Post: Clocking an astonishing 3:49.63, Team USA Sets New 4x100M Medley Relay WR
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I really think at the end when they do the medal counts they should also count the number of world records set. The US keeps setting all kinds of records.