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Damage Breakpoints
While I understand that when powering up past level 30, the DPS of your Pokemon doesn't increase substantially, there has been discussion what are the various sweet-spot levels to power up to. While all these depends on both the defender types, their levels and their...
Realistic Dodging update, now with more realism!
So its been two weeks since the realistic dodging update was pushed out and I've gotten a ton of feedback. Unfortunately, no one can agree what realistic dodging means! Some people don't like how much I penalize the super effective text. Others wanted faster moves to...
Underrated Prestigers #6: Fighting Fire with Fire – why Magcargo is the best prestiger against Fire
According to most sources (example), Slugma is the most frequent event spawn together with Geodude. It has a relatively low catch rate, so why waste Razz Berries and Great/Ultra Balls on it? Because Magcargo is the most efficient prestiger against Flareon, Arcanine,...
Realistic Blissey Counters Revisited
My recent post on Realistic Blissey Counters generated quite a few comments on reddit. Most of these comments had to do with the way Overall rating was calculated.Overall rating is composed of 50% Power, 30% Combat Time and 20% Potions. The issue comes down to, how...
Potential New Research: I just caught four shiny Magikarp using chaining.
After reading a few posts about "chaining" on The Silph Road, i.e., exclusively catching the same species of Pokemon over and over in order to increase the chances of encountering a shiny, I decided to test and see if this technique would work in Pokemon Go. I...
Underrated Prestigers #5: Beedrill and Furret are among the best allrounders for prestiging
We have to catch Weedle and Sentret anyway for stardust and XP. Everyone evolves a lot of Furret, and those of you that aren't into power leveling (e.g. being level 30+ and finding the diminishing returns of stardust investments after level 30 not so attractive) can...
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Realistic Blissey Counters
The biggest issue people have always had with Pokebattler is that the simulator is too good. It does not accurately portray a real result. It turns out that in the real world, people do miss dodges. They get death loop bugs. They can't see the special coming due to...
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[Analysis] How Good Is Vaporeon Compared To All 7 Generations Of Water Types?
EDIT: Vaporeon has been dethroned since the writing of this article by Waterfall Pokemon such as Kyogre and Gyarados. TL;DR 
Vaporeon 
is really gud Recently, I realized that whenever I discuss Water types from future generations, I repeat a certain...
Underrated Prestigers #4: Jumpluff is the tankiest prestiger against Vaporeon and Rhydon
I hope you enjoyed the Grass event and caught, among others, a lot of Hoppip. The reward will be Jumpluff, which is a very revive-efficient prestiger against two of the most common defenders in current gyms: Vaporeon and Rhydon. Stats Attack = 118, Defense = 197,...