Sabeta

Dear Demon of Death. I regret to inform you that you have been Permanently banned from our site; under the pretense that nobody on this forum has "Spoken" anything. They are but mere words on a screen, and as such are not being vocalized. Thank you, and have a nice day.

Well, I would like to become an artist. Would it be too much to ask if any of you could teach me? I've been dabbling in Photoshop some, but I'm nowhere near as good as the people here. I don't even know where you guys get those cool fonts >.>

From what I understand of the first Mystery Dungeon, there in fact wasn't a vast variety of Plot. I think the game could be held similar to Portals, in that the game was meant to be relatively short, and cheap, just to see if fans would like it. It was very well received, and so they pulled out all the stops on making a sequel. PMD S/T/D (I'm just now realizing that the first letter of each 2nd gen Mystery Dungeon spells out STD >.>) This one has a very intricate and complex plot revolving around Time Travel and the destruction of the planet. Many missions are no longer save this, fetch that, but are "Hey let's go here" or "The bad guy is over that way." (I'm probably not selling you, but it really is much better than the first.) As for me personally, I love the first Pokemon Ranger Game, enough even to 100% it (Snorlax was easy) Never played PR:SoA, but I want to, and I've never played PMD:BRT, but I loved Sky.

Many people like to play UU for the very reasons you are speaking. There is a much more vast metagame going on there, so if you want diversity, I reccomend UU. Many times, UU/Bl can in fact beat OU, but the best way to achieve this is to merely create Anti-Meta teams. I mean, who is going to expect a Stockpiling Cradily on a Sandstorm Team? (Not the best example, but it is one.) Black and White should hopefully Expand the metagame, but we'll just have to see.

Rankurusu, is one of my new favorite Pokemon (Green, Jell-o-esque Critter) With Magic Guard, it shows a lot of Promise. Life Orbs and Burn Orbs. All of these things could be loads of fun; However, based on Appearence alone, this poor guy will be UU. (Of course, without knowning things like Move-Pool/Stats, this is extreme speculation.) If it evolves, it will more than likely be OU. Ofc, that all depends on it's stats.

On that first few turns, I did use Focus Blast predicting a Switch. Tyranitar is Switch-in of the Year for Gardevoir, so I almost always launch that first. Afterwords I played pretty badly, lol >.> GG

http://www.pokemon.com/us/games/strategy/vg_strategy-excel-at-the-pokeathlon/ I originally thought, that a Pokemon's Pokeathlon stats were 100% determined by the Hex Values of a Pokemon. It seemed Deceptively simple. 5 Stats, each with a value from 1-5. We know that Nature influences these, and so does ApriJuice. Technically though, it should be possible to create a pokemon whose Potential is maxed out. (The number of stars they have in any given stat.) But now I learn that Pokemon perform better on certain days than others. Where is this decided at? I know that there were some people researching this, so I decided to put this link here, since perhaps it will give people a better idea as to where to look. I don't think that it is any one byte; however, but perhaps the Contest Stats where simply Over-Ridden with this? If anyone already knows the answers, can you tell me 1) Which values, if any, control a Pokemon's Pokeathlon Stats, as seen in a Hex Editor 2) How to Maximize these stats, even on a day where the stat is supposed to be low. Or hell how is ALL of this determined, where does the game decide these things? Could it be related to PID?

Mmkay, let's see. This is your standard Azelf Lead. It's been a favorite of many people for quite a long time. I've seen them used in nearly every battle, and because of this, many people pack a numerous amount of anti-leads. Now, there aren't a huge number of pokemon who can outspeed you, especially from the get-go. One Problem you may encounter is Trick-Scarf Leads. You go for rocks, and get stuck with that move. Thankfully though, Azelf can switch out and abuse it's new found speed later on. Watch out, Tyranitar completely obliterates you. Resists two of your attacks, and is immune to the other. A well placed Pursuit and your gone. So your going for the Jolteon and Gyarados Offensive Core. With near Perfect Synergy, not alot can get in your way. The problem with this Core though, is Skarm Bliss completely walls it. Not only that, but a Skarmory vs Heatran can start juggling your team around with Whirlwind. Of course it will switch to Blissey as soon as you get back to Jolteon, but it has already scouted many members of your team, and putting you at a disadvantage when it comes to playing mindgames. I see you have Mixnape later on though, so this weakness is covered. Your standard DD-Dos. Might I ask why you choose Bounce? It's a completely terrible move, it takes sero prediction for your opponent to bring in a counter. I reccomend Ice Fange, nearly the same coverage, handles the likes of Gliscor better, and has better accuracy. It even has a Hax factor to help with it's lackluster power, even though with enough DD's you'll be all set. I have used Agilisubpoleon on numerous occasions, and it is quite the effective sweeper. Keep in mind though that you are walled by most any bulky waters, such as Vaporeon or Suicune (Especially the latter in the form of CroCune) I would reccomend squeezing Grass Knot on there somewhere, if you ditch Sub, I reccomend going with Life Orb in it's place. Okay then, more or less your standard Gengar, you really should be using ScarfGar or Specsgar. Trust me when I say that the little extra power/speed is very much needed for Gar. Exploding is fun, but watch out for enemy ghosts, they can ruin you, if they are scarfed (and you aren't) you'll be in for a hurting. A relatively nice pokemon though, especially with it's good coverage. Well this guy is commonly seen on Hyper Offense teams. You always want one mixed attacker, and Infernape is one of the best. I have zero complaints about this particular pokemon. Watch out for Gliscor though, it might not be faster, but it can survive a hit and KO you with Earthquake. I noticed some minor errors. Such as Offence (Pretty sure it's Offense), and Kamakazi (Actually Kamikaze [Kah-mee-kah-zay] Japanese for "Divine Wind") On a pokemon related note, It would almost seem like you've missed some crucial aspects of Hyper Offense. Where is your Choice Scarf Pokemon? as well as a Choice Band. You should have one of each if you are running Hyper Offense, the entire point is to Obliterate your opponents as fast as possible, without giving them the chance to do anything in return. It feels like you might have missed that point, otherwise, it's a good team, just not quite Hyper Offense. A few notes to remember also, is that you have no priority moves. This will severely dampen your chances for success if you opponent manages to set up a sweep. I believe it takes gyara only 1 or 2 DD's to outspeed your team, and run right through it. To rectify this, at least in part, run a good priority abuser like Lucario or Scizor. I think that's all I have to say about this team. Also, to help with the team rating process, it hellps to include lengthy paragraphs on how the pokemon fights, as well as many scenario's it's been in, it shows us you've actually battled with it, and you will also be able to tell us it's weakpoints, for fixing.7/10

Well that's pretty much where you can find me. I'll keep an eye out.

Yanmega should stay BL. I've seen his sweeping capabilities as a lead in OU, and they are quite outstanding; however, it will never be good enough for OU, unless SR gets nerfed hard. The fact that it can only join the frey a maximum of Two times, is quite hard on him (Less if we factor in SS) not to mention the abundance of priority users (coughscizor) Will leave him sorely hurting. Very short repy, but it seems everyone else has made better points already. As for Umbreon, it really depends on the metagame it's in. I mean, if we still had Salamence, Latias, and Garchomp, you can bet it'd be UU, but for now it seems to be OU. Perhaps, due to the flip-floppyness of it's nature, it should just take the middle ground and go BL.

I was once on a site with a reputation system. They called it "Karma" There. I personally thought that it was a good idea, but it was Horrid in practive. Many people were abusing the system to their fullest potential. The admins had it set up so that anyone with-10 Karma lost posting privlages, and they ended up with -50. For no reason at all. Many other members were recieving negative Karma on extremely well thought out and considered posts, simply because the ideals of that post differed from that dealing karma at that time. I think it is a decent idea, but one that is far to easy to abuse. A system like GameFAQS, would probably be better, but I've no clue how it actually works.

Sure, I suppose, if you catch me on Smogon's Server, feel free to drop a challenge.

Don't worry, I hate sugar-coating. While I do understand you are trying to help, I will in fact defend my reasonings. I do this Primarily, because if I didn't justify anything I did, then I'd just be listening to what any idiot tells me. While I doubt you are any less intelligent than anyone else here, I will still uphold to this. If you can prove your points over mine, then I can see clearly how I was wrong, and will listen as needed. There may be times when I agree, so it's not like I am going to completely set myself against everyone, just to make a point. Most weather teams are Gimmicky. Especially Sunny Day and Hail. (Rain sees some use thanks to Swift Swim) Sandstorm; However, is not. With the ability to completely negate most Leftovers users (Namely Blissey, Celebi, and Suicune) Their ability to stall is already cut down. Constant wear and tear of the Sand, will damage a large portion of the rest, such as Gyarados and Infernape, both of whome typically carry Life Orb, adding onto the Damage. When you count SR Damage, Gyarados really can't stick around for very long. Added to this, is Rock Types (Tyranitar) gain a 50% Special Defense boost, allowing them to take hits much better. Plus, some really killer abilities like Sand Veil (Actually I think that's the only one.). Keep in mind Sand Veil was one of many reasons Garchomp hit the BanWagon. I find Sandstorm to be "Super Effective", and Tyranitar wouldn't be in the Top 10 OU if that weren't true. I realize that THIS team in particular is Gimmicky, as you said, it's like shooting myself in the foot, but I find that I don't use Rain as much. Here's how it would work in a real-scenario. If my opponent has a Sandstorm Team, I could shift gears to Rain Dance, robbing them of their advantage, and giving me one as well, whereas if they were anything else, I stay Sandy. I did the best I could to keep pokemon who could function in both weather's adequetly, and feel that I lived up to this quite well, albeit, the team is now compeltely out of date, which is partially the reason I brought this over from where it was orginally posted, as to help it recieve a sort of "Makeover" . The strategy, if you will, is Bulky Offense. It is how I always used to play, since my style typically involves lots of switching around. I have tested a more recent version of this team, an example of which can be found in the Warstories section. The team still isn't quite up to snuff. I would actually, be interested in a battle (I almost always am). I'm on most days from 10:30-6:00 GMT-5 (I think, whichever one is Eastern Atlantic Time [uS]) Shoddy Server would be prefferable.

I got around to rebuilding this team on Shoddy, with some of the changes you suggested. I liked what I saw, the results were pretty impressive. For a lackluster example I posted a Warstory in the Warstory section. As for weathers being Gimmicky, It's completely untrue (At least for Sandstorm.)

Uhuh... ~Pulls out Light Sabre~

Hello. I felt like posting a War Story up here. It's nothing special really, just some battle I had on Smogon's Server. Enjoy The teams, in order of Appearence~ Sabeta's Team Satos' Team I wasn't paying attention this match, like at all. Hell, I wasn't even playing as well as I normally do. Anyway, this is just here so I can have something to show off. Enjoy reading it, it was more fun typing this up than the battle itself. Ciao

Hmm, I see. Ah well, I was mostly hoping to put the aforementioned things up there for my own Personal use, and for those who needed it as well.

Another name that mine is only one character away from. The other is Sabata, the Dark Boy, from the Boktai Series. (Sabata, is if i'm not mistaken, a common Spanish name)

Hmm, I was attempting to create a page on Abilities, it would include a list of all the abilities, by Index Number, as well as a brief explanation on each Ability's function in or out of Battle. As well as some small sections regarding PID relations to Ability, as well as mention of Pokemon who can have Multible Abilities; However, it would seem I do not have access to the Editing Feature on the Wiki. Would someone please allow me to make Edits (Not sure if this is even the right place to make posts), my User account there is the same as here. I also wish to make an Attack List, also sorted by Index Number, since that too is missing.

Well if you need help learning Hexidecimal and Binary, I suggest going to www.mathsisfun.com, it appears to be a kiddish website, but they cover some extremely complex stuff (and often in ways kids would understand) It might take a bit of searching to find details on Hex and Binary though.

Welcome, I've recently learned alot about Hex Editing, and Pokemon Hacks, but I doubt I'd be a good teacher, lol. Welcome to the Site ^-^