u/Beaivimon

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(Metagame) Do you prefer Tailroom Meganium or Sand Meganium?

Hey everyone! I've been playing both Tailroom and Sand Meganium and both have their individual strengths and flaws.

https://pokepast.es/bf2ddc93876a47c1 This is the paste of my Tailroom Meganium team.

Pros:

  • Uses many of the strongest mons in the game.
  • Dual modes ensures that you don't have any true bad matchups.
  • Less punishing if you get bad RNG or misplay.

Cons:

  • No true good matchups either.
  • Despite the lack of true bad matchups, many of the mons are heavily scouted and thus easier for opponents to play against.

https://pokepast.es/699173e30f3686c9 This is the paste of my Sand Meganium team. Essentially just JoeUX9's team with Mimikyu replaced by Meganium.

Pros:

  • More cohesive synergy.
  • Has some excellent matchups that allows you to just spam Earthquake or Rock Slide.

Cons:

  • Lots of bad matchups especially against Sneasler and double Fakeout teams.
  • Lack of Ghost-type makes it much more prediction reliant as well.
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u/Beaivimon — 8 days ago

There's a tremendous difference in choosing to or to not use a comma in a situation that can be argued as either a dependent or independent clause and using their/there/they're wrong, etc.

Let's provide an example for both scenarios using a random Digimon Adventure headcanon scene:

  1. Hikari and Miyako had a tough choice to make and they had to understand the stakes at hand.
  2. Hikari realized that they're about to enter a realm of unknown and danger.

The first sentence can be argued as either a dependent or independent clause because while it looks like the "stakes at hand" portion depends on the "tough choice" part, you can also argue that the last clause can be a separate sentence. Neither is incorrect. The second sentence clearly requires you to use they're as in short for they are. Using their and there makes zero sense.

No one is perfect when it comes to grammar. I make a ton of mistakes, but the mistakes I make all happen to be the former not the latter. English isn't my native language either. Please, please, please be extra diligent when it comes to not making grammar mistakes on the second example.

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u/Beaivimon — 18 days ago