u/Aggravating-Win9019

Kinda long but whatever.

I have a very surface level knowledge of Pokemon combat, so any help would be appreciated.

I wanted to make a team centered around both Latios and Latias that played to the strengths of both. Specifically, I wanted them to only use the moves that one could learn but the other couldn't, so Latios would run moves like Luster Purge, Power Split, and Memento, while Latias ran Mist Ball, Guard Split, and Healing Wish.

The core:

Latios would run Luster Purge, Power Split, Memento, and Psychic Noise (in place of heal block), and Latias would run Mist Ball, Guard Split, Healing Wish, and Wish. I know Draco Meteor and Calm Mind are more common and probably more optimal, but I wanted to see if I could make something of these specific moves. The idea is both would come in to screw with the enemy's Special Attack/Defense stats, while being bolstered by the other 4 teammates or letting them clean up after them.

The teams:

Most of the knowledge I got for making these teams comes from Smogon and calculating the total number of times a pokemon appears, so these may not be 100% accurate. I made these teams by using different sources of data, so these are just examples that probably have wildly different playstyles but we're made under the pretext of potentially having good synergy with the twins, and as such could be mixed and matched between teams.

Team 1:

This team was made by checking for Pokémon who both had a similar BST to Latios and Latias, as well as covered anything they couldn't hit. Both twins hitting steel for half damage and weakness to ice also may have had something to do with the heavy lean towards steel on this team.

Team 2:

I made this team after looking at a good handful of sample sets for Latios/Latias, and combining the most common results. I thought about adding Clefairy or Blissey, but decided against it since they didn't seem nearly as interesting, and Latias already had wish.

Team 3:

This is the team I made after checking all of Latios/Latias' Smogon strategy pages, finding which pokemon countered them, and then looking at the Smogon strategy pages for those Pokemon to see who countered them. Admittedly I suspect some of these results may be skewed towards whoever was meta at the time, like Landorus-T and Garchomp.

The issue:

As I stated earlier, I have little to no idea what I'm doing when it comes to teambuilding or anything involving the deeper mechanics of Pokemon. I haven't played any of the games proper, and the only real experience I have with the competitive scene is watching False Swipe Gaming videos and my friend tormenting me with Gholdengo on Showdown once the Gen 9 mons were made available. I don't know if any of these pokemon actually synergize or play off the twins that well, I may have just made things needlessly complicated for myself for doing heaps of pointless math and counting. I suppose I could categorize a few of my questions to give a better idea of what I need help with.

• Do the pokemon I chose work well with Latios/Latias?

• Are their movesets/EV spreads any good?

• What pokemon would you add/change?

• Are there pokemon on one team that should be on another?

• What format would this team comp(s) best fit in?

If there's anyone with even a passing semblance of how competitive Pokemon works, I'd love to hear your input, because I truly do not know what I'm doing and would love any help or advice.

Been trying to make a team that plays to the strengths of both Lati twins. I went through Smogon to see who counters them the most, then figured out what countered \*those\* pokemon, then I checked who was similarly paired up with them/covered their weaknesses, and how many of them had a similar stat total to the Lati twins. These are the 12 pokemon I came up with. They're not in any specific order, but I believe the ones on the right cover the twins a bit better.

Now all that's left is to take 4 of them and put them on a team with the twins, I just figured I'd ask people who would know. Which of these should I use? Should I use different mons? Anything I ought to change about the selected mons? What format would this even fit in?

Been trying to make a team that plays to the strengths of both Lati twins. I went through Smogon to see who counters them the most, then figured out what countered *those* pokemon, then I checked who was similarly paired up with them/covered their weaknesses, and how many of them had a similar stat total to the Lati twins. These are the 12 pokemon I came up with.

Now all that's left is to take 4 of them and put them on a team with the twins, I just figured I'd ask people who would know. Which of these should I use? Should I use different mons? Anything I ought to change about the selected mons? What tier would this even fit in?

Been trying to make a team that plays to the strengths of both Lati twins. I went through Smogon to see who counters them the most, then figured out what countered *those* pokemon, then I checked who was similarly paired up with them/covered their weaknesses, and how many of them had a similar stat total to the Lati twins. These are the 12 pokemon I came up with.

Now all that's left is to take 4 of them and put them on a team with the twins, I just figured I'd ask people who would know. Which of these should I use? Should I use different mons? Anything I ought to change about the selected mons? What tier would this even fit in?

Been trying to make a team that plays to the strengths of both Lati twins. I went through Smogon to see who counters them the most, then figured out what countered *those* pokemon, then I checked who was similarly paired up with them/covered their weaknesses, and how many of them had a similar stat total to the Lati twins. These are the 12 pokemon I came up with.

Now all that's left is to take 4 of them and put them on a team with the twins, I just figured I'd ask people who would know. Which of these should I use? Should I use different mons? Anything I ought to change about the selected mons? What tier would this even fit in?

I already play these characters a ton, and I can't help but notice a few similarities, and I can't tell if they're intentional

• Both have green glowing demonic hands they use to Siphon Life from their enemies

• "Essence" used in a few of their abilities (essence bomb and essence theft respectively)

• Both have white hair, potentially tied to their powers

• Both use "death is coming" during their abilities, Graves' bio even making note of it

• Not really related but Both have similar titles they use for themselves, "Death Sovereign" and "Reaper's Handmaiden".

I don't think the two are necessarily related, but it does make me wonder if Oathkeeper is/was a lich, or if Graves' mentor draws from powers similar to Oathkeeper. Thoughts?

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I imagine these questions get asked all the time, but I haven't been up to date on Fnaf lore since MatPat's last video on Fnaf and stopped understanding since learning about the Mimic, so help me get up to speed.

• Are the withereds supposed to be retrofitted into the Fnaf 1 characters? What location did they come from? Were the Fnaf 1 characters supposed to be retconned into looking like the withereds?

• Is Nightmarionne supposed to be CC's vision of the Security Puppet? Or is the Puppet that resembles Nightmarionne supposed to be a different Puppet entirely?

• I know the Nightmares aren't physically real, but are their designs based on animatronics in-universe? Going off of Fruity Maze/Withered Chica's dialogue in UCN and Fredbear & Friends, I would assume they're the Withereds, but they look nothing alike.

• Are the games in the Help Wanted/Security Breach continuity the same timeline? I remember in one of MatPat's earlier videos he said the Fnaf games existed as games in this universe, so I was confused.

• Was the Bite of 87 just retconned into not being important? In Fnaf 1 it was set up like this big deal, but it seems like it was sort of swept under the rug after Fnaf 2.

• Is Shadow Freddy real? Is he an unrelated ghost? William Afton's stand?

• What is Nightmare supposed to be? I can accept him being a harder version of Fredbear, but his existence just seems odd.

• During one of Dawko's livestreams ages ago, the Fnaf World website was updated a handful of times and got people talking about the dream theory. Did this actually go anywhere? Or was it just a red herring?

• What happened to Fnaf: Into Madness?

• Was Gregory actually a robot? Or was that just a fluke.

• If Henry made Lefty, did he make the other Rockstar animatronics too? Or were they just used as a base for Lefty?

• What was with the dancing figure in Dusting Fields in Fnaf World?

• What are the implications of Fnaf World original characters appearing in the mainline games? (Lolbit, technically Brow Boy and Porkpatch)

• Did JJ ever actually exist in-canon? Was she a hallucination?

• What was with the miscellaneous masks from Happiest Day? I've seen people try to say they ended up being the Mediocre Melodies, but there's always that blue mask. Did Scott just make these up and forget about them?

• What was the deal with the Pink Guy sprites? Did Scott just not have a final design yet?

• Does Baby killing Scott have any significance other than to aura farm?

• What are the implications of the Fnaf 4 bedroom being in Sister Location?

• Has it ever been explained what the shadow animatronics in the Fnaf 3 minigames are?

• Was the Fredbear plush haunted? Did it just have a microphone? Was Cassidy already dead at that point?

• Why did William Afton inject Remnant/Agony or whatever from the Fnaf 1 characters into the Funtimes? If that's the case, how did he find the time to dismantle the animatronics and inject them into the Funtimes before he became Springtrap?

• Why does Baby have an air hose attachment?

• Does the Scooper have a purpose outside of dismantling animatronics? Why does it have a remnant injector?

• Was the Wolf from the Twisted Ones a real character? I know they were illusions created by those discs, but was he based on an existing animatronic at the time?

• Where is the Pizza Sim Pizzeria in relation to the building where the scrap animatronics are held?

I'm sure there's more I could think of, but that's all I have off the top of my head. 😵‍💫

I imagine these questions get asked all the time, but I haven't been up to date on Fnaf lore since MatPat's last video on Fnaf and stopped understanding since learning about the Mimic and that the Help Wanted/Security Breach timeline is a different universe or whatever, so help me get up to speed.

• I can make peace with the idea that Fredbear and Golden Freddy are one in the same if UCN is any indication, but I still see sources that say they're two different characters?

• Are the withereds supposed to be retrofitted into the Fnaf 1 characters? What location did the withereds come from? Were the Fnaf 1 characters supposed to be retconned into looking like the withereds? Why would Fredbear/Golden Freddy be redesigned in-lore if he was never actually going to be used?

• Did the Toys actually have facial recognition? Or were they also haunted

• Is Nightmarionne supposed to be CC's vision of the Security Puppet? Or is the Puppet that resembles Nightmarionne supposed to be a different Puppet altogether?

• Are the Nightmares based on pre-existing animatronics? I would think Fredbear and Friends is supposed to hint towards that, since the withereds look nothing like the Nightmares.

• Who bit who in the Bite of 87? Was it actually Mangle?

• Is Shadow Freddy real? Or is he just an unrelated ghost?

• Does Shadow Bonnie have any significance outside of just looking creepy?

• What is Nightmare supposed to be? I get he's a harder version of Fredbear, but... /why/ is Nightmare?

• Did the Fnaf world website teasers during Dawko's livestream actually mean anything? Or were they just a red herring?

• What was with the Withered Foxy game in the Fnaf World Halloween update? Did that mean anything?

• What happened to Fnaf: Into Madness?

• Was Gregory actually a robot? Or was that just a fluke?

• Why does no one talk about the Rockstar animatronics? Other than them having no real significance besides being used as a base for Lefty

• Did Henry make Lefty? Why? Did he make the other Rockstar animatronics too?

• Is the Sister Location actually hosted as a Freddy's location? Or is it just storage?

• What was Chica's Party World?

• What's with the dancing figure in the ice world in Fnaf World?

• Is Pigpatch supposed to call back to Porkpatch?

• What was the deal with the miscellaneous masks from Happiest Day?

• Are all the Funtimes possessed? Or is it just Baby?

• Why was there a separate Pink Guy sprite in the first place? Did Scott just forget?

• Was Baby actually the one to kill Henry? If so, did he let Baby kill him? Or was it a direct order?

• What are the implications of the Fnaf 4 bedroom being in Sister Location?

• Is it ever explained what the shadow animatronics in the Fnaf 3 minigames are?

• Was the Fredbear plush haunted? Did it just have a microphone?

• Why does William dismantle the animatronics in the Fnaf 3 cutscenes?

• Why does Springtrap in the first Fnaf 3 teaser look nothing like Springtrap? Was he just redesigned?

• Why does Baby have an air hose attachment?

• What was the Scooper's real purpose? Other than dismantling animatronics, of course. Why does it have a remnant injector? (I still don't really even know what Remnant or Agony are)

• Why was Funtime Freddy made to capture children?

• What is RASC from Pizza Sim?

• Where is the main pizzeria in relation to the building with the scrapped animatronics in Pizza Sim?

That's all off the top of my head, though I'm sure I could probably think of more. 😵‍💫

I haven't seen many people talk about this, but it seems like the voicelines you hear from the patrons aren't actually from the patrons? I know it's common for godly figures to refer to themselves in the third person (King of All Cosmos from Katamari), but there are some lines that indicate that whoever is talking is talking to/for the respective patrons. Especially interesting that the Amber Hand/Sapphire Flame both usually talked in the first person. So if this is the case... who are the announcers?