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Team GO Rocket and IVs A Team GO Rocket member. Screenshot taken ingame. What is Team GO Rocket?: On July 25th 2019, Team GO Rocket launched. In a matter not too dissimilar to Pokemon Raids, Team GO Rocket raids pokestops and challenge you to a fight if you happen to spin these stops...

A perfect IV Machamp, evolved from a Machop caught in the wild. Screenshot taken ingame. What are IVs: Each Pokemon in Pokemon Go have three stats; Attack, Defense and Stamina, which are used to determine their Combat Power (CP). These vary a bit between each Pokemon of the same species, due to...

While you provided your reasoning, the problem with Fairy is the lack of checks and balances outside. Now that you came in on my post specifically to disagree with my points, I will show you why and how I disagree with each of your posts. I agree with all of these points. The type was needed to...

Source Tl;dr - Fairy is stupidly powerful in general and is running rampant and needs to be nerfed.

A "Hard mode" for Pokemon games is entirely uneeded and would only take away from the core experience. If you want a challenge, don't do anything to make the game easier on yourself like grinding or using items during battle - there are plenty of ways to play the game to make it harder without...

I haven't been following competitive pokemon closely for a fair while now, but from what I gather now the metagame is unsalvagable in this current state. Anything that can be done in an effort to curb the powercreep will either fail or make it even worse - Fairy type is a good example of a...

The Fairy type was brought in to rebalance the metagame. At the time it was introduced Fighting types and Dragons were running rampant while types like Steel and Poison were rare as offensive types. That's why it was added in, but I question how well it did its job to rebalance the metagame...

The major problem with most legendary pokemon is capturing them is god-darned RNG-heavy capture mechanics. Their low capture rate exacerbates this issue to ridiculous proportions because, in most cases, you have a very low chance (I estimate... maybe 5% at most) of capturing them per throw under...

Preparation is a must for monster houses. Everything else I would have to say on this subject others have already covered. Idk about more recent PMD games, but in the first two games the main things you find in Monster Houses that have a low spawnrate anywhere else are Gummis. If you don't need...

I'd rather the OG Sun/Moon's "easy" difficulty over US/UM's poorly balanced "hard" difficulty; which includes straight up unfair fights that more or less demand bringing specific counters or straight up cheesing with Z-Moves like Kiwae's Thick Club Marowak + Salazzle, Ultra Necrozma and the...

Another major point of contention for the Gen VII hate, that hasn't been covered in previous generations, is that people harp on how greedy Gamefreak has been as of late (and really since X/Y). Paying for Pokebank being the only means of cross-gen transportation, the forced Same-gen...

Due to racking up an abundance of 5 IV Abra from trying to breed for Synchronize natures, I am giving my breedjects away. Most of these breedjects have Synchronize, but some have Inner Focus. They are all matter of natures. The pokemon being traded can be anything provided they are compatible...

There are only two consistent ways of beating Ultra Necrozma, from what I gather. Bring in a Steel type with good Special bulk that resists its whole movepool. I used a Bronzong for this, but that requires having either a Gen V game or OR/AS and trading it up from there. Going by base stats...

The Water type Continuing on from the Normal type we have the most common pokemon type in the game: Water. The type most known for being annoying to both encounter due to how often you encounter pokemon in the numerous surfing portions of the games and for being one of the most annoying types...

Orithan's Pokemon Type reviews In this thread, I will be reviewing each of the types of pokemon; going into detail about what they are and their relationships with other types, as well as briefly going over how they play out in the competitive metagame. What each review will cover: The type's...