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Welcome, and congrats on the streaks in the pike and factory! In the pike (unlike in the pyramid) you can run from the wild pokemon and will always succeed in doing so unless you are slower or the opponent is Wobbuffet. So it is almost always optimal to take that room. (You may well already know...

Update to post #431: The team of Dugtrio, Gyarados and Dragapult has reached 263 consecutive wins, equalling Suspicious Derivative's record in the Dynamax Singles category. Beginning from the 101st battle, Dragapult ran life orb rather than choice specs, but the team was otherwise the same...

Reporting an ongoing 100-consecutive win streak (with each fight at the 'MAX' rank) in the Dynamax Category of the Sw/Sh Battle Tower (Zacian etc. not allowed but Dynamax allowed). General comments on the team: The main novelty/selling point of this team is that it is easy to obtain on a...

Hey all, I've been experimenting with variants of Adedede's (excellent!) team in the Dome. But before I post anything about this, I have a more general question about the Dome's mechanics. Does anyone know how CPU chooses which 2 pokemon (out of 3) to bring into battle? According to Bulbapedia...

This looks like a good team! Explosion seems like a great move in the arena (not on the last pokemon of course!) for exactly the purpose of getting a bad matchup out the way. Regarding the Lati Sandwich team, I now believe that the particular run of 10 tests I did was unusually lucky, and the...

How do you obtain a Registeel with such a specific IV spread? Waiting for the right method 1 frame to come up is surely impractical?

Sapphire battle tower is easier than Emerald's, as the former only consists of Hoenn pokemon (at least, I think this is the case). As a kid I managed to get 100+ wins using a team of Latias+Metagross+Ludicolo. The team was produced purely on a Sapphire cartridge so Latias had the obligatory bad...

This has certainly got the cool factor. Charm Latias as a lead seems to me more reliable than anything with trick due to being less vulnerable to hax on turn 1. (That being said, comparing the win probabilities for these types of teams is very hard, since the probability of a loss is small and...

Hey all, I too am stuck inside, so decided to take a look at the battle arena. Latios and Latias do fantastically well in the arena, because of their great stats and coverage (the judges in the arena favour super effective moves). Also, Latios learns memento so I tried to construct a good team...

I did not know this! I guess there's always something new to learn, even in a generation as old as this one :)

No problem! (And lol @ the final comment quoted above :-) ) In most rounds, wild pokemon are inherently less risky than trainers because (i) they have no EVs (as far as I know), (ii) with high probability have a suboptimal nature, (again, as far as I know) (iii) they don't hold things like...

It's mostly not necessary to "fit" your team in each round to the wild pokemon (although of course it could be fun). All you need, really, is the following: Slaking @ Choice Band (find this in rounds 2,6 or 9) Adamant Nature 252 Atk / 252 Speed Return Hyper Beam Earthquake / Brick Break Shadow...

This is impressive and a great read! (Minor nitpick: you can't always switch to Skarmory against Dugtrio because he might have Arena Trap, but I guess you were assuming that your readers are knowledgeable enough that this point was understood.) Incidentally, I had been thinking about what the...

Hey guys, does anybody have detailed information about the RNG in the Emerald Battle Pike? There is some information on Serebii (https://www.serebii.net/emerald/tube.shtml) which may or may not be correct. In particular I'd like to know what the room probabilities are if you "decline" the...

Hi shiny finder/NixHex/LegoFigure11 Thanks for replying! I wasn't sure anybody cared about gen III nowadays, so it's good to see a fast response. To answer your questions: (1) I am running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, version 6.1. (2) Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0 beta (3) I presume English...

Hi all, I've been playing through pokemon emerald (the Trashman version on an emulator) and have been using the RNG Method 1 (see link below) to try to get a latias with good IVs. The csv file which lists the outcome for each frame contains the following data: Frame Time Nature IVs 3424...