Pokemon Discussion Information & Guidelines

Pokemon Discussion Information & Guidelines Dec 8, 2020 12:31:56 GMT

Post by Plague von Karma on Dec 8, 2020 12:31:56 GMT

Pokemon Discussion

To provide a staple source of discussion on the forums, the Pokemon Discussion forum is designed to give areas to talk about a specific one's place in a given metagame. This can be anything from RBY OU to OMs. I predict that it will mainly be RBY OU for now, but as discussion expands, players will likely touch on other bits and pieces.

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The general format is as follows;

Butterfree
HP: 60 (323, recovery fails at 68 HP / 21.1%, SToss 4HKO)
ATK: 45 (188, 125 min, 33 / 12.2% Max Confusion Damage)
DEF: 50 (198, 63954 Phys. Defensiveness)
SPC: 80 (258, 83334 Sp. Defensiveness)
SPD: 70 (238)
BST: 305
Type: Bug/Flying

Notable Moves

Sleep Powder
Stun Spore
Psychic
Mega Drain
Reflect?
Double-Edge?

Pros

Double Powder is cool for support
Only Sleeper with an outright Ground immunity
Winning with it is the ultimate flex

Cons

Movepool that would make Kingler feel privileged.
"Best" attacking move is Psychic, which somehow deals less damage than Psywave a lot of the time.
Stats are awful, with the sole benefit being a somewhat ok Speed stat for Sleep Powder?
Its typing is horrific and gives it some pretty nasty weaknesses.

Resources

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You can add however much detail you want, but linking analyses and other resources related to the Pokemon is strongly encouraged. If you need help, the RBY Resource Hub will be of great utility here. You can make the discussion dedicated to a certain tier if you want to personalize discussion.

To get sprite images, you can insert images from the following URL: rby2k20.com/images/sprites/pokemonnamehere.png. To use RB/RG sprites, you can insert this after /sprites/ as /rg/ or /rb/. You'll know if you did it right, as the image will show up. There's also back sprites under /rgb-back/ and /yellow-back/. I'm currently working on adding SW97 sprites if you want to use those, too.

Regarding the content in brackets if you want to include it in your post

To calculate Recovery Failure, take 255 off your Max HP. For Snorlax and Chansey, do 511 as well. For the percentage, divide it by Max HP and multiply by 100.
While NShade/SToss KO should be obvious, divide by 100 and round down if you really need to.
For Confusion Damage, use Pokemon Showdown (or sulcalc) and take damage from a 40 Base Power Typeless move, like Scratch set to ?-type. These don't often let you minimize Attack though, but it'll do.
To calculate Defensiveness, multiply the defensive stat you're looking at by the HP. This is the actual stat number, not the base stat. For
To calculate RBY Critical Hit rates, take Base HP, divide by 512 and multiply by 100 thereafter.

General discussion guidelines

Keep personal attacks and flame wars off this forum. They will only inhibit discussion.
Remain constructive: remember, we're all here to develop RBY.
If making some kind of big claim, try to back it with some evidence, such as calculations and replays. This helps establish your point to other participants.
Commenting on resources provided is encouraged, especially if they're ones we have edit access to. This allows us to develop and improve them.