It started like any other day.
I woke up with a smile, and used the bathroom. I flexed in front of the mirror while listening to Tchaikovsky. I ate my cheerios, and I played Age of War 2 for 7 hours.
I finished off with one of my favorite pastimes: browsing the Official Smogon Rate My Team Forum. It's a wonderful place — users of all manner of playing career and status share their ideas, and often find suggestions that may help both the rater and the sharer of the team grow as players. I particularly enjoy them for their analysis aspect. It's one thing to see a set of pokemon, and another to learn about what goes into its selection and spread choices.
I'm more of a past gens player, but on that fateful day I decided to look in the current gen threads. They are quite active, after all.
Lots of good stuff! In particular, Pinkacross's Hisuian Goodra offense was a very well organized and easy to follow breakdown of a successful team. Even as someone with little experience in the generation, it was easy to follow and learn from. I wonder what could be next?
Oh cool, a new take on stall by SupaGmoney that's seen success. It truly is amazing that despite gamefreak's attempts to nerf fat, the playerbase has adapted to keep an important playstyle alive. Let's take a look-
I remember a few thoughts going through my head.
"Why does it look like that???" "This shit makes my head hurt!" "Why are Anubis Warriors so effective for the cost of only 200 gold?" "I sure hope nobody else writes their RMTs like this"
So, with a fresh migraine in tow, I backed out. What a mess. I didn't waste years of my life studying English only to be electronically backhanded by an RMT. I went back to Past Gen Teams, and cooled off for the day.
That was where it ended..... or so I thought.
Yesterday, my curiosity for the new gen blossomed with the current DLC drops. Since it's too early for tournaments to give teams and I don't have a foot to stand on when it comes to building, I decided to try the RMT forums again.
I ate my after work dinner and got to browsing. Sure enough, a fresh post DLC team was dropped! Featuring Primarina, no less. User LandorusTBeatsGreatTusk had created a novel idea on a successful build! A great way to start. I opene-
oh.. oh no oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
It was spreading. It was everywhere. I must have found at least 20 teams in those harrowing few minutes of clicking around. My low sodium pea soup was lurching in my gut. The bile was rising.
These were good teams... and their explanations were in hieroglyphs. I was in shambles. I speak to you now, a shell. I had to find the source.
After some more digging, the earliest example I could find was this one from January:
Another stall team, huh. Lets put a pin in that. Regardless, this had been going back for just about a year now. I began to tear up. What a horrible loss for the new generation. Dozens of RMTs, stained, soiled like my shirt from my extra large Mtn Dew Baja Blast ™ I spilled earlier in the day.
I was filled now with conviction. If nobody else was brave enough to take a stand, then the burden fell on my shoulders.
So,
Lets take a look at a few RMTs to illustrate my grief.
This is an excerpt from Matte's rmt on their team Jealousy (links for this and all referenced teams in replies). It's simple, no nonsense, and discusses details without any visual hiccups. A little bland, but nothing that distracts my eyes. I like it.
This example is from Mimikyu Stardust's RMT "Dark-Blaze". Seeing the sprites in this one initially spiked my blood pressure, but after a moment it became easy to read. This is in large part due to the mons' names always being included, allowing for a mix of the classic style and still spicing it up visually. I now consider this a solid and inoffensive way to write an RMT.
Holy mother of Herbert Hoover. This is taken from Knexhawk's recent ladder topping Wo-Chien stall. I don't even know where to begin with this. It is relentless.
can't keep
for more than a moment with the amount of
popping from sprites. The middle of this was about 4 lines long and felt like 40.
think a
stall
would take less time than reading this and processing it in full.
did not read Gone With The Wind in 5 days for
8th grade book report to have
like this. It's a shame, cause this likely would've been a very interesting read from one of the
most inventive and prolific stall players.
.... wait a second. It's stall. Again. Let's rewind to juliusfunnel's RMT. At the end, there's a discord linked. THE STALL EMPIRE.
I could no longer ignore this consistency, and needed to investigate. And there... I found it.
SupaGmoney — 09/04/2023 10:16 PM
good first rmt
[10:16 PM]
i also like how my use of minisprites has become standard for stall rmts now lol (edited)
[10:16 PM]
other rmts have started using it too
It was him. It was big stall.
THEY'VE FOUND A WAY TO STALL IN THE FORUMS! THEY'VE TAkeN OUR TiME OUR DIGNitY OURHAPPINESSANDNOWOURREADINGCOMPREHENSIONTOOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I woke up with a smile, and used the bathroom. I flexed in front of the mirror while listening to Tchaikovsky. I ate my cheerios, and I played Age of War 2 for 7 hours.
I finished off with one of my favorite pastimes: browsing the Official Smogon Rate My Team Forum. It's a wonderful place — users of all manner of playing career and status share their ideas, and often find suggestions that may help both the rater and the sharer of the team grow as players. I particularly enjoy them for their analysis aspect. It's one thing to see a set of pokemon, and another to learn about what goes into its selection and spread choices.
I'm more of a past gens player, but on that fateful day I decided to look in the current gen threads. They are quite active, after all.
Lots of good stuff! In particular, Pinkacross's Hisuian Goodra offense was a very well organized and easy to follow breakdown of a successful team. Even as someone with little experience in the generation, it was easy to follow and learn from. I wonder what could be next?
Oh cool, a new take on stall by SupaGmoney that's seen success. It truly is amazing that despite gamefreak's attempts to nerf fat, the playerbase has adapted to keep an important playstyle alive. Let's take a look-
"Why does it look like that???" "This shit makes my head hurt!" "Why are Anubis Warriors so effective for the cost of only 200 gold?" "I sure hope nobody else writes their RMTs like this"
So, with a fresh migraine in tow, I backed out. What a mess. I didn't waste years of my life studying English only to be electronically backhanded by an RMT. I went back to Past Gen Teams, and cooled off for the day.
That was where it ended..... or so I thought.
Yesterday, my curiosity for the new gen blossomed with the current DLC drops. Since it's too early for tournaments to give teams and I don't have a foot to stand on when it comes to building, I decided to try the RMT forums again.
I ate my after work dinner and got to browsing. Sure enough, a fresh post DLC team was dropped! Featuring Primarina, no less. User LandorusTBeatsGreatTusk had created a novel idea on a successful build! A great way to start. I opene-
oh.. oh no oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
It was spreading. It was everywhere. I must have found at least 20 teams in those harrowing few minutes of clicking around. My low sodium pea soup was lurching in my gut. The bile was rising.
These were good teams... and their explanations were in hieroglyphs. I was in shambles. I speak to you now, a shell. I had to find the source.
After some more digging, the earliest example I could find was this one from January:
Another stall team, huh. Lets put a pin in that. Regardless, this had been going back for just about a year now. I began to tear up. What a horrible loss for the new generation. Dozens of RMTs, stained, soiled like my shirt from my extra large Mtn Dew Baja Blast ™ I spilled earlier in the day.
I was filled now with conviction. If nobody else was brave enough to take a stand, then the burden fell on my shoulders.
So,
Lets take a look at a few RMTs to illustrate my grief.
.... wait a second. It's stall. Again. Let's rewind to juliusfunnel's RMT. At the end, there's a discord linked. THE STALL EMPIRE.
I could no longer ignore this consistency, and needed to investigate. And there... I found it.
SupaGmoney — 09/04/2023 10:16 PM
good first rmt
[10:16 PM]
i also like how my use of minisprites has become standard for stall rmts now lol (edited)
[10:16 PM]
other rmts have started using it too
It was him. It was big stall.
THEY'VE FOUND A WAY TO STALL IN THE FORUMS! THEY'VE TAkeN OUR TiME OUR DIGNitY OURHAPPINESSANDNOWOURREADINGCOMPREHENSIONTOOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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you say, but then why the hell did he make his "Introduction" header size 26? Why is the entire team written in size 18 font? Why are people not put off by the additional padding in-between lines when you insert one of the mini-sprites?
from now on
Is a Pokemon 
