u/MikeBanzai38

Not that anyone here cares, but I think it's just time to quit. A long time ago I reached 2500/Veteran once. It's really my only goal every season. But since then every single season goes the same way:

I get to around 2400, then I hit the RPS wall. I start getting ridiculous RPSs on every match. Imagine, for instance, opening your Greninja into a Forretress five times in a row. Having determined that at your ELO that's what's happening, you switch to a Talonflame lead, and open into Greninja five times in a row. And the back-line is just as bad for the rest of your team. Even worse when you get RPS'd by bizarre teams that would never work anywhere except when matched up perfectly against your own.

My favorite was in the last cup, where a Quagsire running the well-known tech of Stone Edge/Drain Punch was there for my Gyarados and Umbreon.

The RPS goes hard until I hit 2000 or lower, then it stops, and I start the crawl back up to 2400.

It's not that I'm simply getting outplayed at 2400...I can accept those losses as part of playing the game. It's the impossible RPS matches that continue relentlessly until I bottom out.

I'm now about at the 2000 ELO nadir. Given how long it takes to get back to even 2400, I think it's time to just fold 'em for this season. Maybe after enough of a break I won't even miss it, and I can quit playing this time-suck.

This might be a dumb question, but I haven't powered one up yet or really done a hard look at it. So here goes:

When Aegislash changes form, there's a conversion that takes place to keep the Blade form under the 1500 cap, (Level rounded to whole level, *.05, rounded down if result is a half-level, +1, capped to 1500), because Aegislash blade form maxes out in GL around level 22-ish, while the Shield form at best PVP IVs XLs to level 50.

Here's the question. Say you had a 15/15/15 Honedge, which would be level 37.5 as a Shield form Aegislash in GL. Does that mean that when it changes form it would it strictly follow the mathematical conversion and be level 18 at 1272 CP, or would it round up until reaching it's GL CP cap at level 21 of 1484?

If the latter, then there would be no harm in leveling up a Hundo if you caught one, but if the former, it would be absolute folly to level up any Shield form that reaches the GL CP cap at under level 42.

They keep adding moves to Pokemon...which is nice, especially if the existing moveset is terrible or lackluster, but every Pokemon is starting to feel like Claydol used to. As the move pool expands, the drain on TMs for the odds of getting the moveset you want is growing exponentially.

I'm rolling into this Rocket event with a total of 7 Charged TMs. I had been saving up, but over the past two GBL weeks I burned through 46 TMs trying to get the right moveset on just two Pokemon. I remember the day after Vulpix comm day when I burned 15 just trying to get Weather Ball on a single Alolan Ninetales.

That's all. Just a complaint.