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Taunt immediately shuts it down. Encore forces them to use Cosmic Power over and over. Haze and Clear Smog resets any boosts. Roar, Whirlwind, and Dragon Tail forces a switch on the opponent's Pokemon. If your team is weak to setup Pokemon, Ditto is a good option. Something I often see suggested in the forums is to ban move a, ban move b, or ban Pokemon a. Imo, instead of using the forums to suggest to ban a move or Pokemon, why not ask for ways the Pokemon/move in question can be handled? Just as an example, Clefable can use a Cosmic Power set. A good Steel-type Pokemon with Taunt, like Heatran, can win 1v1 after a boost. One last thing, if your opponent is playing like they're battling a boss, doesn't that make it easier for you to play around? All in all, -1.

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Hi @rahz Respectfully, when you were creating this thread, were you trying to: Report a bug, the bug being that a tier 8 Snivy (As seen on Reborn) feels like a tier 9, while providing no supporting data or evidence to your claim that you found 1 Snivy per 2 hours, and no comparison of another tier 9 Pokemon, such as Furfrou at Route 217 or Honedge at Cave of Justice. Suggest to fix this bug, saying, "restore the rarity tier to 8" assuming it felt like a tier 9, again, with no comparison at all to a tier 9 Pokemon. If you were trying to report this as a bug, then I can assure you this is not a bug at all. In your post, you claimed, "it is actually tier 9, since it takes 2 hours / encounter .", but we can't estimate spawn rarity by hunting time alone. If you were to report a bug such as this one, you'd need to instead provide the total encounters and total Snivy encounters you've gotten, as this is a much more reliable way to measure this. Calculating the time a person took to encounter 1 Snivy is almost always going to be irrelevant, since the time between each encounter differs. We also have to consider the fact that one might not fully dedicate their time to hunt in the 2-hour time frame, and will leave to check messages on Discord, chat in-game, get up to get a glass of water, use the bathroom, etc. In an attempt to disprove your claim of 1 Snivy per 2 hours, I've went out of my way and decided to hunt at Forest Pit for a total of 6 hours and 41 minutes, not including breaks. I've documented the spawns using PRO BetterFarm and put my data together in a spreadsheet so it'd be easier for you to understand. You can open and check the spreadsheet out here: Forest Pit Snivy encounters I only hunted during the morning and daytime to avoid Murkrows, which could potentially mess the numbers up. Following the spreadsheet, a total of 25 Snivys were found in under 7 hours. 5 Snivys before the 1-hour mark, another 5 under 2 hours, 4 before 3 hours, 3 after the 3rd hour, 4 in the following hour, 1 in the next, and 3 in the final hour. Of course, the spawn is sporadic, resulting in some skewed data, specifically between hours 4 and 6, with only 1 Snivy found in that hour. We also have to remember that the bigger the sample size, the more accurate the data and average will be. Basing this off of only 2,000 encounters will not be as reliable as say, 50,000 encounters, however, just from this data, we can conclude that the number far exceeds the Snivys you've encountered in 2 hours, which is quite questionable. There is a wonderful tool created by Kaminokage used to calculate the percentage of spawns that you can find here. I've input the different Pokemon and their rarity in the calculator to be calculated 3 times, inputting the Snivy in 3 different tiers. Tier 7, 8, and 9. The following are the results: My final result, even with this small of a sample data, when hunting the Snivys were 1.25%, which is way over Snivys tier 9 spawn rate, 0.68%, and slightly over Snivys tier 8 spawn rate, 1.12%. Note that my numbers were concluded from a sample data of 2,000, so it might not be accurate with skewed and irregular spawns. This can be evident if you look at my 6th - 10th Snivys, and my 14th - 16th Snivys. As an extra bit of information and comparison, I hunted another tier 8 Pokemon, Bunnelby. My end result with Bunnelby, in 2,000 encounters, including the spawn rate from the spawn calculator were as follows: In conclusion, no, the spawn is not bugged. Should it be changed or reduced? I don't think it should. Snivy never had a spawn before, and only recently has it been added. Plus, giving Snivy an easier spawn can potentially shake up the Serperior market, but that's up for another discussion in the future. When hunting Pokemon, especially rarer Pokemon, there is a term called Negativity Bias. This Negativity Bias simply means the tendency for people to pay more attention to negative things, and pay less attention to positive things, usually negative outweighing the positive. The same can be said for hunting Pokemon, if you do not find a good Pokemon. Just be patient and stay strong. Eventually you'll find what you're looking for. I do hope you understand, and that this post helped you. Please don't take it as an offense, as I am trying to help you understand how spawn rates work, and perhaps in the future if there truly is an error, then you will be aware of how to report it properly. Finally, if you were interested in the Snivy rates per Snivy, I'll post them right here: Snivy 1-13 Snivy 14-25 + Encounter 2,000

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I've missed my chance to get the Gengarite last Halloween but I definitely do not have the same opinion as you. It most likely won't be the ONLY chance we can get the mega stone anyways, as can be seen from previous seasonal legendaries that we could catch, like Shaymin and Darkrai. Mega Gengar is far from useless, I can agree on that. You can use Mega Gengar in Bosses, Sinnoh's Battle Tower, Suspicious Bot, etc, but I personally think that having the Gengarite stay as a seasonal quest is fine. It gives us, as players, a sense of achievement once we do get a hold of it, making it feel special. If they made a new quest to get the stone, where anyone (or people who've completed a certain region) would be able to obtain the stone anytime outside of Halloween, then that'd just defeat the purpose of making it a reward for 2020's Halloween quest. Also, just a small detail, but Umbra, the Mega Gengar you battle in the Dark Realm and Battlefield, go hand in hand with the Gengarite, so it fits the theme. I wouldn't go as far as say that only G3n's and Comrader's opinions matter. I think everyone is entitled to an opinion, each with equal importance. Both G3n and Comrader presented their opinions, and provided reasons as to why they think so, which is feedback as far as I know. This whole conversation is not useless, I can tell you that much. If I'm getting this right, he meant time as in a seasonal event. I can understand that some people missed out on getting the Gengarite, as did I, and that you want to spend as much time using Mega Gengar outside of ranked, hence why you made this suggestion in the first place, but in the end a suggestion is a suggestion. We're here to give you our feedback, take it as you will. If it doesn't get implemented, please don't get upset. I missed out on catching Darkrai for 2 years, and managed just fine. I'm sure you can do the same if it doesn't get implemented. Edit: -1

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-1 If anything, doing excavations is a good thing. You can get nuggets, focus sashes, and can catch rare Pokemon eventually. Think of it as an investment.

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