-Obtainable at level 5? check.Hello ppl, I know this is gonna sound stupid, cause of course there will never be a world where Duraludon is allowed in LC, but due to the new reveal of Archaludon, would it be "elligible" to be LC? By that I mean, does it now fulfill all the criteria required to be LC?
DM on discord to discuss (megatyler30) to discuss, I've talked to Coco about this previouslyI want to build Random Little Cup for Smogon to grow interest in the meta game. Anybody know who I should talk to about doing this?
glad to hear that you didn’t get lucked out of the game!they were used against me by a 1100 and I missed 2 100% accurate moves in a row and wouldve lost the game if I missed a 3rd one
It'd generally be a Spikestack team or an offense with Swords Dance Tera Fairy/Flying Pawniard, as it lacks the natural breaking and utility option in Knock Off that previously made it top tier as a support pokemon.How would one build around Pawniard these days?
it hasnt really been a viable pick in any generation of lc ever afaik. while some theoretical viable trick room pokemon like craniados, etc may be pretty good with it, its just a hard playstyle to make work. mienfoo fake out stalls trick room turns, and clicking trick room does have an oppurtunity cost alongside most trick room pokemon just not be going considered goodIs Trick Room a viable playstyle (or was it ever in the past)?
I want to elaborate on this by saying that historically there's only ever been 1 actually good Trick Room mon, being Otr Spritzee in gen 7 that could Nasty Plot + Trick Room to sweep lategame. There was also at some point a viable Trick Room team for gen 7 lc, but it is long gone as it relied on currently banned pokemon like Trapinch. Otr Spritzee is, however, still relevant, and was used in the last LCPL by Fragments .it hasnt really been a viable pick in any generation of lc ever afaik. while some theoretical viable trick room pokemon like craniados, etc may be pretty good with it, its just a hard playstyle to make work. mienfoo fake out stalls trick room turns, and clicking trick room does have an oppurtunity cost alongside most trick room pokemon just not be going considered good
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-eric
It's most likely because Little Cup is already a fan-made concept (kinda, it was in Pokemon Stadium, which is where the idea originates, but it is only in the stadium games, nothing mainline even references it I believe) so creating a subset genre of a subset genre is a bit.... difficult to try to get people into.Hey yall!
How come there is not a Little Cup VGC format in Smogon or Showdown?
- Lovac
Little Cup mons (lv 5) with VGC rules.to be fair there already is doubles lc, its just not 4 vs 4 but 6 vs 6. that is the most liked format of the 2, and even then its pretty unpopular in the grand scheme of things.
also how would vgc lc work, is it lv 5 or lv 50? when tpci made lc tournaments, they were at lv 50 bc vgc is at 50, but lc is not lc if it isnt at lv 5 so
This is the first generation where Gastly has had access to Nasty Plot in LC since it was banned in Gen 8, but it was quite common earlier in the meta as a sort of Misdreavus replacement. Here are two teams from my builder that made use of it as an example (ignore the tera types they broke for some reason)Has Nasty Plot Gastly ever been used
it was used successfully used in lpl (discord side tour) to win a crucial endgame! heres the link: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9lc-2091466890-tf4jk7am2vnti2gkpcc2ltz8eczdwn5pwHas Nasty Plot Gastly ever been used
honestly it might have a niche, its definitely not the worst thing ever, but i find it p hard to believe its better than shellder, as shells coverage hits quite literally everything + doesnt risk missing hydroIs Shell Smash Squirtle usable in this meta?