Smooge

Name: Slowking Current tier: C+ Desired tier: B/B+ Reason: Slowking is incredibly underrated, in PRO’s current meta rain is literally everywhere, and Slowking can switch into any unboosted rain abuser with ease, although Ludicolo can cause issues. 252+ SpA Choice Specs Kingdra Draco Meteor vs. 248 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Slowking: 174-205 (44.2 - 52.1%) -- 16.4% chance to 2HKO 252 Atk Kabutops Stone Edge vs. 248 HP / 68 Def Slowking: 166-196 (42.2 - 49.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO Slowking can switch-in and OHKO Kabutops with scald, and force Kingdra to switch. On the switch, you can future sight and potentially force another switch a turn later, disrupting a ton of momentum and wasting their precious rain turns. It can also 1v1 many pokemon relavent in the metagame with the correct set, such as gliscor, gengar, and even scarf hydreigon if they dont flinch you. It even hard walls some giant threats such as Suicune and Heatran. Another place Slowking shines is against sun abusers; it can beat both ninetales and torkoal 1v1 and beats just about any unboosted sun abuser besides shiftry, and sometimes victreebel depending on its set. Dragon tail is an amazing option as well, if a future sight has been forseen, you can force something to take an unwanted 120bp stab psychic attack, potentially opening the door for a sweeper in the back of your squad. Name: Dragalge Current tier: Not currently listed Desired tier: B-/B Reason: Dragalge has virtually no switch-ins besides ferrothorn blissey and chansey, but struggles against basically any physical attacker.

Player name @ Showdown name: Smooge Server: Blue Rank on ladder: 1

Why do you want to join NoMercy? - Well I figured at this point I might as well just try to join the best guild on blue, and most of the members are pretty cool. Other than having fun playing the game, what are your goals in PRO? - To learn how to not get salty after a loss and to stay consistent. How old are you and other than English, what languages do you speak? - 20, only speak English. https://prntscr.com/hr2ool

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NPC Name: Carbon Starting Dialogue: All I ever get for Christmas is Charcoal... My Pokemon seem to like it though. Losing Dialogue: Maybe I should stop using fire types... On Cooldown Dialogue: Maybe I should change my name? Team: Charizard, Typhlosion, Blaziken, Infernape, Emboar, Torkoal Special Request (If any): 20% chance for Carbink spawn near the player (Coal turn to diamonds under pressure) ;)

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Blue Rank on ladder: #11

Re: [All Servers] ||PRO|| Monotype Showdown Tour++ <t>Showdown name: Smooge<br/> Server: Blue</t>

I'm kind of on the fence about this, PRO is very unique, having a gen 6 metagame with a gen 4 mechanic of not having team preview. It's one of the only places where you will find something like this and personally I love having no team preview, yeah its definitely more stressful but it can also be much more balanced. With team preview there can be some games where the match is literally decided before it even starts. For example, lets say my team gets annihilated by Garchomp. My opponent could capitalize on that and keep their Garchomp hidden until it has the ability to start setting up, but at the same time he might not know that my team loses to Garchomp, and decides to send it in and get up his Stealth Rocks and maybe even lets me weaken it. Now at this point, I know that I need to be careful what I have on the field so the Garchomp can't come in for free. As the match goes on, it basically becomes a gen 6 battle with "team preview" because more and more team members get revealed. In a battle with team preview, my opponent could recognize this before even making a single move and shift their playstyle to be more careful and observing so they can pick the right moment to send it in and end the game. The entire game could be 5 of their Pokemon supporting their Garchomp sweep, where as only 1 of my Pokemon would be able to deal with it unboosted, meaning it would have to be sent in at the same time. Essentially the opponent would have X amount of turns to send in Garchomp and end the game while I only have 1 turn to predict that switch-in, or else I lose. (Of course you could just make sure your team has checks for common Pokemon like that, but it was just an example, and no team can check everything.) Obviously all of this could just be voided by writing your opponents team down for the next time you fight them, but I feel it would still remove a layer of strategy from PRO.

One thing I want to see is the most forgotten PvP item: the Shed Shell Magnezone and Dugtrio are becoming more and more common, and without team preview it makes these Pokemon much harder to play around, but the Shed Shell would give people the option of giving up their item in turn for not being able to be trapped. There's other PvP items I'd like to see as well, such as Rocky Helmet, but I think Shed Shell is one of the big ones that should definitely be implemented.

Re: Origin guild -TOP 3- (Blue and Red server) recruiting active players! <r>Ign: Smooge<br/> Hours of played?: <URL url="https://prntscr.com/gzgrnn">https://prntscr.com/gzgrnn</URL><br/> Favorite pokemon and why? Tangrowth, I love it's design and use in pvp. I remember a few years ago in gen 6 it used to be RU and it all of a sudden it got a ton of usage and jumped up to OU, I was so happy because I had already been using it with great success in OU. Also Regenerator is an amazing ability.<br/> Are you able to visit our discord server? Sure, my ign on discord is whomst'd've'n't#3665 <br/> Why should we accept you to our guild? I have a vast knowledge of Pokemon and pvp in general and I think I could be a good asset to have. Unfortunately I haven't finished my comp team yet, but I'm getting there (4/6)</r>