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There is a bug with stat-boosting moves in RBY. Here is a video from Crystal_ explaining how stat-boosting moves are weird. Note the correction in the video blurb. The short version is: - If a stat is already at 999, +1 boosting moves will have no effect and +2 boosting moves will boost by +1...

Well, as I recall the idea is that you've got a Skarm that's harder to wear down with Drum shit because of the one free Rest, but then you don't lose out on Lefties in the long run because lol Thief. Used to be the standard Skarmory set; probably still better than what the Smogon analysis claims...

With Item Clause, Marowak becomes rather handy. Skarmory might consider Thief. Less useful with Item Clause on, I'll admit. Apparently it's really easy to get Hidden Power Ice Zapdos legitimately thanks to its constant location in RBY. Starmie isn't as good as you seem to think it is. It's...

No. I am entitled to my aesthetic preferences.

YES. I really hated the XY sprites when playing RBY.

If you don't want to play cartridge RBY, don't play cartridge RBY. Play Stadium or GSC or ADV or a billion other metas. Or for that matter, play one of the dedicated hacked metas like RBYPlus. But pretending that a hackjob which is not cartridge RBY is in fact cartridge RBY is silly. What...

I agree that parafusion is better than confusion alone, but my point is that the rationale for Confuse Ray is in fact improved by having fewer paralysed opponents (and therefore Lapras being able to para less things does not mean that Confuse Ray should drop in usage on it; Lapras itself is...

Analogy falls flat. It's a different interface to enter choices. The choices offered and the results of those choices remain the same. (In fact, the one situation I can think of where it does matter is ironically the cartridge's own cancel button being crucial to certain Wrap-related tactics...

As I've said before, Lapras does not WANT to paralyse Chansey. It wants to freeze Chansey. Lapras should only be trying parafusion if Chansey is ALREADY paralysed. If Chansey's healthy, Lapras should be going for CRay/Blizzard (CRay slightly raises the chance that you'll get a freeze). Well, I...

Yes it does, and no it wasn't known about. But it's not as relevant because nobody spams Tbolt into Electrics hoping for a para (as almost everything besides Electrics that uses Tbolt also uses Blizzard, which does over twice as much damage to Electrics and has a much nastier secondary, and...

I think you mean they paralyse the target. I've never been burned by any of these moves.

It's certainly better than Double-Edge on Tauros (a. Chansey. b. Tauros has just barely enough bulk to avoid 2HKOs from almost everything; any recoil severely degrades that) even without the para (and if you calculate "net" damage, it comes out lower than Body Slam). Snorlax there's more of a...

Your counterexample would only work if I played DPP and agreed with Acid Rain being claused out. I don't play DPP, so I can't legitimately agree or disagree with it. If multiple freezes are really so terrible that they degenerate the game into a luckfest (the only case where it even comes...

Specifically, there's a situation I'm curious about; does DrumLax reach +5 or +6? I've heard Belly Drum increases Attack in jumps of +2 (and forgets to check the first one, hence the glitchdrum), but does that mean it can hit +6 when boosting from +0, even though +5 is already capped? (It...

(Okay, there's enough argument about this that it needs its own thread as opposed to clamouring for a quickfix as SOME PEOPLE have done.) Freeze Clause should not be used in simulators attempting to simulate RBY cartridge play. It is a perversion of in-game mechanics to suit whiners. Sleep...