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I've been wondering about the Fire Blast strategy in Tauros vs Tauros. Do maths actually back it up that Tauros is more likely to win the mirror by using Fire Blast turn 1 instead of BSlam? I'm not saying that the guide is implying anything like that, but I'm mainly curious about this because I...

My opinion might be controversial and most people will probably disagree with me, but I would like to hear other peoples opinions on this and create discussion. I'm very open to being wrong here, please don't attack me no matter how much you disagree. I personally think that Lapras is the worst...

First case: Both pokemon are without status, Tauros is around 51-82% HP (dies to crit Psychic or two non-crits), and Alakazam has enough HP to survive a non-crit Hyper beam from Tauros. Should the Alakazam use Psychic or Thunder wave? And a second case, non-statused Alakazam who is in range of...

Ah tyvm, very interesting.

This is confusing to me and this forum has a lot of RBY experts so I was hoping that someone in here knows. Take a look at this clip at 37mins 05 seconds in Dugtrios Dig does super effective dmg VS Vileplume. So I was thinking that maybe his emulator is working incorrectly? So I found...

I'm only asking this out of curiosity and I really wonder if any NFE pokemon is almost OU viable. I guess there's two reasons why you would use an NFE pokemon 1. You already have it's fully evolved form in your team and want to have both of them 2. Sometimes it can have a better stat than the...

Ah mb, I never knew that. Stomp can't be used turn 1 without boosts to get a setup turn unlike BSlam then. So the situations where this matter in favor of Body Slam are if you have to predict a switch into a non-paralyzed non-normal type pokemon who is faster than you on your Kinglers 1st turn...

You Flinch the enemy when they switch-in and then you get a free turn to Swords Dance when they are Flinched.

As a long time huge Kingler fanboy (see my name) and over half of my all-time games played with him, I do believe that Stomp is way better than Body Slam. Kingler is definitely the best Stomp user in the game, way better than Tauros. There's a TL;DR at the bottom if you don't want to read the...

I want to try Persian, have you had good success with it? And what kind of team would you build around it to really win as hard as possible vs these teams?

It seems that almost everyone is running Reflect+Ib or Reflect+Stoss Chansie and Reflect+Rest Snorlax on the ladder nowadays. Starmie lead with Psychic is of course quite decent as Chansey's usually dont have TBolt and it forces switches with the spec drops and prevents Snorlax from resting...

Yea, I tried some games with Jolteon lead and boltbeam Chansey to alleviate the weakness to Zapdos, Starmie, Lapras and Cloyster a bit. I think I lost every match though. Does anyone have any good replays where Victreebel does really well, I would like to see how to use it in action and also in...

So does everyone who uses Victreebel replace Exeggutor with it? And never use both of them? I have no experience with using Victreebel so I'm clueless here, but using both of them sounds interesting. Victreebel could open up an opportunity for Exeggutor to use a set without Sleep Powder. Or even...

Without cancel button, you can't alter your decisions based on the wait time. The only way to check how long your opponent is thinking their move is by selecting your move and then cancelling it. Edit: forgot when writing this about the 2nd way, the timer in Showdown battles which in certain...

It influences my decisions in almost every match. In both ways, not only do I try to get information on how quickly the enemy chooses their move, I try to mind game my enemies with my own wait times. I'm actually really surprised that you say this, if you think about it again I think you'll...