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LE CURRENT YEAR EDIT: Please just use Mega Pidgeot if you want to use it as a special attacker! It was meant for that! Brave Bird: A Pidgeot Warstory We all know Pidgeot is a subpar Pokemon when it comes to competitive battling. But somehow, I was able to pull two Pidgeot "sweeps" that day. Okay, it may not be impressive to anyone else, but I found it quite amusing, so I decided to share. There are two battles in it... but yeah, nothing all that interesting unless you just want to read about Pidgeot wreaking havoc. First Battle Second Battle FAQs: 1) Is Pidgeot your favorite Pokemon or something? Not really, but it's certainly not my least favorite either, and it's certainly up there along with some of my other favorites. But I think it's wrong that it evolved twice and has stats lower than the other birds who only evolved once. I play Pidgeot in-game a lot too, despite its weakness. 2) You really rant about Pidgeot? What's so bad about Pidgeot? Click me 3) Like that Luvdisc battle, you won with hax! It's not impressive at all! I don't know, I rather enjoy seeing weak Pokemon take down the big bad bullies of the standard metagame, whether it happened by hax or not. And I get haxxed quite a lot too... which flusters me sometimes but it's part of the game unfortunately and part of the unpredictability. If you don't find it impressive and like to see pro players, don't look at me. I only play with gimmicks now... but then again, I always did. But they're not cheese gimmicks like Evil Clefairies in Hail or FEAR... they're Pokemon I want to try fighting in standards with. Obviously they cannot do it alone, but it's rather fun. I haven't been on Shoddy for quite a while, in all honesty, let alone battle much, but I'll try to improve myself somehow by adapting to the standards of the current metagame. But you WILL see me use ridiculous Pokemon as always... just don't be surprised. Also, if you have a favorite Pokemon that "isn't standard" or you wish to see them shine, do not be afraid to use one! In fact, stuff like Seaking can tear Pokemon apart if you play them properly. But as always, make SURE you have the proper support, or it will not work too well. That goes for anything too, even standard Pokes. Notice how MANY of them have 4x weaknesses, such as Gyarados, Tyranitar, Dragonite, Swampert, Gliscor, Heatran, etc... and here is a guy who almost beat Ubers with babies! 4) You copied Blue's team!!!!!!!!!11111oneoneoneexclamationmark!!! I also did Red's and their manga teams as well. I also made a custom Blue's team (Blue the girl, not the rival Blue, I believe you call her Green here). If you want to try them out, feel free to PM me and I'll send you their Shoddy files. 5) Okay, I'm convinced. Can you show me your Pidgeot's moveset? Smogon doesn't have any special Pidgeot sets. Pidgeot @ Life Orb Modest Nature Tangled Feet 72 HP/252 SpA/4 SpDef/180 Speed - Agility - Hidden Power Ground - Heat Wave - Air Slash All right... with modest nature and 252 SpA, you're maxing out Pidgeot's 70 SpA (don't look at me, Pidgeot's 80 Attack isn't much better although it is much stronger overall). If you can't breed for Hidden Power Ground, just do it on Shoddy, or replace it with Roost. With 180 Speed EVs and 31 IVs and neutral speed nature, you're hitting 263 speed, and with Agility, you are hitting 526, enough to outpace Choice Scarf Timid Gengar, which is crucial. You can go ahead and raise it higher to get it outpacing Choice Scarf Azelfs, although I don't know if I ever see those. Just a warning, even with Life Orb and max SpA, Pidgeot's attacks are quite weak, as its STAB move Air Slash is only 75 base power. Hidden Power is to hit Magnezones and Heatrans in case they want to switch in. Heat Wave hits Scizors for massive damage, and I think it can OHKO them... not too sure. For people just starting with Pidgeot, I'd just try a physical set... it's a lot more effective, has stronger moves like Brave Bird and Return, and even useful ones like U-turn and Quick Attack. Yes, it is outclassed by stuff like Staraptor, but Pidgeot can still hurt too... kind of. In terms of damage, think of it as Marowak with a nerfed Thick Club, because that's what it basically is (or a Marowak with Choice Band)... Thanks to: Pidgeot: For pulling some amazing sweeps... I haven't seen you do that at all until now. There's no way I'm underestimating you... ever. Gyarados: Gyarados always seems to work somehow... one way or another it will take some beatings and deal some great damage the other way as well. Rhyperior: Rhyperior had some uses on both battles I guess. I don't know. Machamp: Machamp's confusion helped buy me some time in the first match. Arcanine: I don't know, but surviving a Flare Blitz recoil, Life Orb recoil, and a STAB Body Slam critical hit from a Snorlax seems rather amazing. Exeggutor: The Trick Room lead... always has some funny parts in battles, such as being the comedic sleep and KO fodder. Heh heh. You: For reading

Nah, Nidoqueen is more defensive, Nidoking is much better for in-game... stronger, faster, etc, everything YOU would love... but I just like Nidoqueen because I had one since Blue version, and continued getting one in every following games I could get her in.

Since Tbird is gone for a week, he baton passed his role to me All right... metagame changes. Here goes nothing... let's see if I'm doing this right. 1) First off, we have some OLD effects/Pokemon changing. A crying shame that Vaporeon's sprite is blocked off... but I like her new sprite. The ability Sturdy now prevents any form of one hit knock out from maximum Hit Points, leaving just 1 Hit Point Vaporeon gets the Hydration ability if you get it from the Dream World Heh, so Sturdy isn't nearly as broken anymore. Mind Reader + Sheer Cold + Ice Shard Articuno anyone? I guess it didn't make sense for something like Donphan to not even feel Sheer Cold... I don't know. And Vaporeon with Hydration? Okay, so she isn't able to heal from water moves with that ability, but if rain is in effect, it means Vaporeon is not as vulnerable to Toxic Spikes anymore. Pretty neat option if you ask me. Hydration will probably take Ability 2's slot... and it probably means the other Eeveelutions will get a second ability as well if caught from Dream World (whatever that is). Now I'm wondering what the other six will get... 2) Some NEW Pokemon stuff We have an angry fish! His name is Basurao (バスラオ), and he is shown to be using Aqua Jet, Headbutt and Roar. Yeah, I think he'll evolve... This is Mamanbou (ママンボウ), who looks awfully similar to Luvdisc. Although... Luvdisc had a terrible design and was not impressive in any way and its only redeeming factor is Heart Scale hunting. This one though, looks cute and actually looks like a fish. She is the Nursing Pokémon and is 1.2m tall and weighs 31.6kg. Her two abilities are Hydration and Healing Heart (いやしのこころ), which removes Status Effects on your partner Pokémon in battle. This new ability seems incredibly useful for double/triple battles. Mamanbou somewhat functions as an auto-cleric, but Healing Heart is probably like Hydration, works once per turn. I just noticed... Luvdisc was supposed to look like a heart... and the ability is "Healing Heart"... hmmm... it could be! Hello Luvdisc, I will so evolve you. But darn... you're not Water/Fire. Burning heart! Oh well. Shikijika (シキジカ) is a deer Pokemon and she is a Normal/Grass Pokemon. We have a Normal/Water, now a Normal/Grass... hoping for a Normal/Fire? Meh, we'll find out soon enough. This thing has a neat gimmick, as it has different color schemes like Shellos/Gastrodon, but it is not affected by which region it was caught in. Rather, it is dependent on season: Spring Form is Pink, Summer Form is Green, Autumn Form is Orange and Winter Form is Brown. It is classified as a Season Pokemon (not deer?), and is 0.6m and weighs 19.5kg. It has the abilities Chlorophyll and a new one called Herbivore (そうしょく ) which raises Attack when hit with a Grass-type move, very similar to Flash Fire. Hopefully she can find some use in the competitive battling scene. I can see her paired with bulky grounds and waters to take Grass attacks aimed at things like, I don't know, Swampert. Hello totem pole mouse! Here is the Raticate/Furret/Linoone/Bibarel of this generation, Miruhoggu (ミルホッグ), the evolution of Minezumi. He is the Precaution Pokémon (huh?) and is 1.1m tall and weighs 27.0kg. He looks rather angry... but his abilities are Illuminate and Keen Eye. It is rather fitting, but unfortunately neither of them are all THAT useful. If Illuminate changes effects into something like an Intimidate-esque lower your accuracy during the initial turn it is sent out, he may prove all right. But the rodents of each generation were not too useful (with the exception of Linoone and Bibarel... somewhat), maybe he won't be all that different. Swana (スワンナ ) is the elegant Cygnus of this generation. He is classified as the Swan Pokemon (not Fluffy Wings or-*gets shot*) and is 1.3m tall and weighs 24.2kg. He is Water/Flying (great another one) and has the abilities Keen Eye or Pigeon Heart (a swan is a pigeon? Maybe the localized version will change it to Avian Heart or something...). He looks like the Pelipper of this generation... only he looks a lot more elegant. There is a new move called WindStorm (ぼうふう) where the Pokémon's Accuracy changes with the weather. Ugh... I wish it was power, not accuracy that changes. Hopefully he will see some use in battles or get some useful supporting moves... or else competitively he's another Pelipper, who wasn't all too impressive. Mantine is at least a great special wall (akin to Skarmory in terms of stats) and Gyarados... well who wants to mess with him? Kurumiru (クルミル ) is 0.3m tall and weighs 2.5kg and is classified as the "Sewing Pokemon" (not Silkworm or anything?). He is Bug/Grass type and has the abilities Swarm or Chlorophyll. He also has a new attack called Bug Resistance (むしのていこう). Not much is known about it... except it attacks two opponents at once in double battles. Yeah, Kurumiru looks like it's a baby form... it's definitely evolving. But he seems different from his fellow Bug/Grass fellows Parasect and Wormadam. Well, he seems similar to Wormadam more than anything, but not sure what kind of a role he will play... probably another generic bug Lastly, we have Moguryu (モグリュー), the Mole Pokemon (finally, a real classification!). He is 0.3m tall and weighs 8.5kg, and you guessed it, is a Ground type Pokemon. He has two abilities, Sand Throw (すなかき) and Sand Power (すなのちから ) which boosts the power of moves in a sandstorm. It looks like another weather boosting ability, much like Solar Power I guess? Expect him to play in sand teams, but if the happy mole turns out outclassed or whatnot, we may have lower tier sand abusers! Hello sand teams! Yeah, I'm a bit late with the "updates", but I have finally posted. Any questions? Comments? Feel free to post. ~ Wraith Out Source(s): 1. Serebii.net

I don't know... I actually thought that a "third" would be Ice/Dragon since the other two are Fire and Electric... but we'll see. lol Mewtwo, I'm one of those people who think with mostly extremes... I see things in Black and White... but a third version, if it came out, could be the balance between the two? Anyways, an Ice/Dragon would be cool... and I was kind of hoping Reshiram would be... but I guess not. Meh, we don't really know the dragons' roles yet, but Team Plasma/Neon? Looks like someone's arguing about power source or something? I don't know if it is a theme about unity or anything... Ewww, if it was a game about economics, I'm ready to drop out of my economics class 9000 times over...

The all female was just coincidence I have male Pokemon too... but notice that stuff like Nidoqueen is 100% female and Ninetales is like 75% female... I don't know what happened to Meganium, who is 87.5% male