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An image, for those confused: Courtesy of: http://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/1po4j7/possible_perfect_iv_egg_exploit_may_have_been/cd4auhx

A minor point, but this underestimates Scyther's changes between the generations. HG/SS Technician Scyther gets a STAB, Technician-boosted Wing Attack at level 21, while in GSC, it gets it at level 30. This is basically Wing Attack after Whitney or Jasmine - a very big difference. Pursuit...

Spectating a match: Ninjask's Quick Claw let it move first!

Abra and Ampharos can learn Fire Punch as well, which is an alternative to a Fire type. For in-game purposes, Kadabra hits about as hard as many Fire types anyway with it, even without STAB.

I think Totodile is better if you are soloing the game, as it is one of the few that can solo even "by accident". While it doesn't exactly "beat" much with its typing, not as much as Cyndaquil, pretty much nothing can hit it super-effectively in Johto (as long as you teach it Dig to take on...

Geodude is pretty good against Team Rocket (it beats Zubat, Koffing and Magnemite, and resists most other things). It can also contribute to beating some of Koga and Karen's teams. I think the biggest reason why it should be High is the fact that even Graveler has a great Attack stat and it...

I think Tentacool should be in upper-mid, at least as good as Poliwag. As a Tentacruel, it hits fairly well on the Special side, and gets STAB Sludge Bomb later on. Besides Twineedle (does anything use this in GSC?), it can't be poisoned, which means it has a good matchup against several...

Someone here did an AI program that could competitively battle: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/technical-machine-a-pokemon-bot.3455783/ It looks like a bog-standard minimax implementation. Having said that, since you are writing one for a game, rather than a competitive metagame, you...

Water/Electric is good-enough coverage in GSC, given the number of water routes and caves. You can basically have a complete moveset at level 25 (Surf, Spark, Thunder Wave, filler). Sadly, Lanturn is fairly average offensively (about as good as Feraligatr in terms of Special moves, but...

They might not be completely useless competitively, but might would be comparable to, say, Eviolite - you gain extra power, but lose the ability to carry other items that might help. In this case, it's stuff like Choice items and Life Orb rather than Leftovers.

The one I've been looking at is the chi-squared statistic. An example with a fictional Obama/Romney survey is here: [PDF] http://www.upa.pdx.edu/IOA/newsom/da1/ho_z-test.pdf at the bottom. As an example, the recent Landorus-I test had 145 votes (ignoring abstainers), meaning at 95% confidence...

Picking a supermajority point shouldn't be something done lightly. How was 2/3 picked? There are other supermajority systems out there in the world, such as 3/5, and 2/3 where "yes" has to be double "no" plus "abstain". Don't quote me on this, but I thought that supermajority voting was...

I managed to clock over 200 hours on this game. I think the best part of the game was the music - which I think is easily one of the best on the GBC. I'd argue it's second only to the Oracle series on the GBC. I think it has the best rival, too. The decks I used were abusive...

I agree - it's more important to experiment and learn from it. If there is a reluctance to change the Generation V metagame, then it could just be an experiment for Generation VI. That is - if this experiment results in a metagame with desirable characteristics, then suspect it early-on in...

Personally, I don't think the aim of such a test should necessarily be to (definitely) ban Stealth Rock (and possibly associated others) - if the test shows there is a possibility that banning Stealth Rock is a good thing (i.e. a Stealth Rock-less metagame actually plays pretty nicely), then...