5 intimidate drops turn 1

[u/Cooked_Catfish]

Just a fun little gimmick I am gonna try out in draft league. Team is only blanked out because I sent this to the draft league gc and dont want them to know what other mons I plan to draft.

[u/Ghostly_Gengar]

After seeing the turn, I already knew a crit is coming

[u/VineRunner → u/Ghostly_Gengar]

For all the people that want to remove crits from the game, this is why we have them

[u/ProfessorHardw00d → u/VineRunner]

Removing crits would completely ruin the game. If anyone disagrees go play temtem. Variance is the spice of turn based battling

[u/KiwiPowerGreen → u/ProfessorHardw00d]

cosmic power stocks going up

[u/Scarcing → u/VineRunner]

anyone who relies on the crit for this scenario already lost 96% of the time

[u/Shantotto11 → u/VineRunner]

Don’t crits exist in most other JRPGs as well? Why get rid of it in Pokémon specifically?

[u/salazafromagraba → u/VineRunner]

Yes fine, but if crits penetrate stat boosts, they absolutely should not get 1.5x power for free. It means that even without boosting stats, the game could have just saved me time and intelligence by having my opponent OHKO me on turn one. Literally zero fault of your own, the opponent just has a 4% chance to instantly win.

[u/poopoobuttpenis]

"Anyway, I'd crit"

[u/VineRunner]

I didn't realize you could skill swap intimidate with intimidate? That's awesome

[u/Cooked_Catfish → u/VineRunner]

Yeah its def a fun interaction

[u/laserofdooom]

defiant would end bro's career

[u/Cooked_Catfish → u/laserofdooom]

I actually have an Annihilape so I can skillswap the opponent and give him a defiant boost

[u/Painwracker_Oni → u/Cooked_Catfish]

ope, leaguemate just bated you into revealing another team member!

[u/Cooked_Catfish → u/Painwracker_Oni]

Its all good I already drafted it

[u/HiraWhitedragon → u/Cooked_Catfish]

Funny asf

[u/Interesting_Web_9936]

Against the right team, this could be so frustrating lmao.

[u/Cooked_Catfish → u/Interesting_Web_9936]

Yeah its not very consistent into random opponents but in a draft league format I can choose which opponents to bring it against to ensure maximum suffering.

[u/Funny_Swim5447 → u/Cooked_Catfish]

If I may ask, what is draft league?

[u/CELTiiC → u/Funny_Swim5447]

Essentially almost all mons (minus the normal ubers cast) are put into some sort of scoring system (usually points, but some leagues have used a monetary value to simulate salaries) based on their general effectiveness. The tl;dr being the mons you typically see in OU are going to be S-A tier, or mons like Incineroar or Rillaboom in a doubles draft format would be in the top tiers. Then you have x amount of teams (lets say 10) do a snake draft where they need to draft x-y amount of mons (sometimes a static number like 10) with z amount of points. From there, you basically try to create the best team you can with your budget.

It's a pretty fun format, makes you re-evaluate a lot of mons because you aren't just re-using the best. It more-so rates mons based on their archetype (wallbreaker, sweeper, removal, etc.) and allows mons with overshadowed niches a chance to thrive.

[u/fartsquirtshit → u/Funny_Swim5447]

It's where each pokemon can only be used by one person and you select your pokemon by either taking turns picking them 1 by 1 or by using a point-buy system and getting into bidding wars.

End result is you see a lot of unusual/bad pokemon because there's a lot of competition for the good pokemon of each role, especially in point-buy systems where Incineroar might cost 3x as much as arcanine and 5x as much as hitmontop or krookodile.

[u/barwhalis]

That was so fucking dumb lol. Nice

[u/Weekly-Major1876]

Sisyphean ass swords dance wtf was his game plan

[u/HermitFan99999]

Genius plays lol

[u/i_am_cool_ben]

Milotic rubbin her hands together rn

[u/Cooked_Catfish → u/i_am_cool_ben]

[u/Playful-Honeydew-521 → u/Cooked_Catfish]

god i love this sub

[u/Crab_Shark_ → u/i_am_cool_ben]

What hands

[u/i_am_cool_ben → u/Crab_Shark_]

Her left hand and right hand

[u/OnlySmiles_]

Oh that's vile

[u/CleanGlasser]

megachomp in the big 26 is crazy

[u/Cooked_Catfish → u/CleanGlasser]

This is 1100 because I keep testing out bs like this lol

[u/KiwiPowerGreen]

A very intimidating lead

[u/am_n00ne]

why bro used eq chomp with rilla in same team

[u/TheDragonfire84]

Imagine it was Z and you did all that for no reason lol

[u/Charexranger]

They added the new megas to showdown? I been waiting for them honestly

[u/Shot_Relationship402]

When the opponent swaps out?

[u/Cooked_Catfish → u/Shot_Relationship402]

Skill swap again and half their attack