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Balanced Hackmons is unique in that one has full agency over the moves, abilities, and role of any given Pokemon. As such, pokemon randomizers pose an intriguing challenge as one can still leverage teambuilding skills and creativity to overcome the challenges that the ladder presents. Even...

Unlike in standard play Baton Pass strategies have historically been legal in Balanced Hackmons metas. For someone not familiar with Balanced Hackmons this might seem paradoxical. When every Pokemon can learn moves like Victory Dance, Quiver Dance, Cotton Guard, Cosmic Power, Substitute etc . ...

One would think that the healing nerfs in tandem with stronger offensive threats and the new mechanic in terastallization would mean that stalling in Balanced Hackmons would not exist in generation 9. However, stall has actually turned out to be by far one of the most consistent strategies so...

Having created a few Fake Stall teams in generation 8 Balanced Hackmons, I realized that gen 6 Pure Hackmons perhaps had the perfect storm of elements necessary to create a Fake Stall team that would be consistent enough to peak ladder. From its established meta to the availability of strong...

The Challenge / Introduction: Pure Hackmons is unique in the respect that it’s an open meta, in that almost anything can succeed. Since I haven’t seen anyone in the Pure Hackmons community attempt a mono-type challenge run (At least successfully), I thought it would be well worth seeing...

Introduction: Since I’ve done many laddering challenges in the past for hacked Pokemon, I thought I’d try a laddering run of Gen 6 Pure Hackmons. The objective of the run was fairly straightforward: try and get 1st place on the Gen 6 Pure Hackmons. However, as with the vast majority of my...

At Death's Door ( Final Gambit Spam, Peak #20, 90.9% Gxe): With the unique attribute that every pokemon has access to nearly any possible ability and moveset, Balanced Hackmons has among the some of the most sophisticated and bizarre interactions between pokemon. However, among the endless...

Eons ago a Balanced Hackmons legend remarked, “if Scald is typically used over Steam Eruption for the extra power points in Balanced Hackmons wouldn’t it make more sense to use Water Gun over Scald.” I was bestowed upon the wisdom of our Lord and Savior Purple Frog from his disciple and...

Recently, Pokemon Showdown added a ladder for BH for Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl, which essentially combined generation 8 mechanics with the Pokemon, moves, and abilities of generation 4. When the ladder dropped, I decided to take a break from Sword and Shield, to explore some of the unique...

Following the challenge I did prior with the mono-ghost team, I decided to attempt something even more difficult: trying to get 1st place on the ladder without incurring a single loss. It began well. With the help of some good RNG, I was consistently winning game after game. Well, that is until...

Ages ago, back when the Balanced Hackmons for generation 7 still had a player base, I decided to do some trolling on the ladder with a team composed of mostly Unowns. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, the team legitimately worked on ladder for some reason. Totally because Unown is the...

This RMT is a bit different in that I'm not showcasing a unique mechanic team idea or build, but a BH challenge. The rules I set for the following challenge are as follows: I am only allowed to use a team that consists of pokemon that each shares a typing. I also am prohibited from using pokemon...

Since the beginning of this generation, I've attempted time and time again to try and get HO to work. Following many failed experiments I came to the conclusion that to have a chance against the tiers walls Belly Drum was really my only shot. So my next challenge was how I was going to get Belly...

When I first started playing gen 8 BH (Post Crown Tundra), I instantly observed that the Meta was both predictable enough and possessed the defensive tools to make stall a serious contender on ladder and at tours. However, following the bans on Darminatan and Intrepid Sword, I quickly realized...