r/TheSilphArena

Spammy normal/flying types with strong charged attacks seem a bit too strong yea? It's getting boring seeing fearow/toucannon on every team. Seems like the pacing needs to calm down a bit.

If you only had the resources for 3 ML mons, which would you pick and why?

Since the beginning of season, new system had a few hiccups now and the mostly functional. I wondered what a bad day looked like. Now I know. Consistent one turn lag at the beginning of games. Pauses where I would suddenly be a couple turns behind. One turn lag when switching in. Not to mention the switch GUI popping up so fast making me misalign when I have switch. I also don't like the 0 turn switch after charge moves. Literally removes the aspect of predicting a snipe and now it's just whoever wins CMP wins the game (assuming your move icon even pops up, that was fun.) In conclusion, can't believe they thought ts was ready for full implementation despite nearly universal negative feedback.

Edit: I almost forgot, when starting battles I don't see the opp pokemon until 1 second on the countdown. Anyone else have this?

Why do I either go 5-0 or 4-1 for a period, then in a little bit go 0-5 or more rare 1-4? I used to get more 2-3 or 3-2 sets but now when I climb elo quickly I run into a ton of bad matchups and shoot down quickly. It’s just odd and maybe I’m looking into it too much but I either have an extended period of good matchups or an extended period of bad matchups, never evenly dispersed.

I was curious to see people's thoughts on this season 1 month in. The new system, the move updates, the meta, what's working for you, what isn't, etc.

I never thought I would say it, but this is the least engaged I have ever felt with the Go Battle League, and that hurts as someone who loves to theorycraft around it.

The new system is far from perfect and feels janky, as I'm sure most would say. There ARE improvements within it, but many would agree that it feels poor in areas. New issues AND old issues.

And the meta... Man it feels stale imo. Energy Ball buff was honestly the only major buff this season that (in my opinion) was a positive. I need to play more Ultra and Master, but Great feels abysmal to me, in both the new format and competitors cup.

What is your experience/thoughts?

pidgeot (twister, feather dance), azu and bastidon set up at 2200 elo (i dont remember the order) against my altaria, pangoro and stunfisk.

I catch a twister on my U-fisk, he stays in for some strange reason. I tanked about 6 feather dances, correctly shielded 2 twister and as mentioned ate the first. Lost count tbh but he tanked like 5 discharges exept 2 shielded ones and put me at a ~10% remaining hp. Even kept throwing several feather dances after shields went down almost like a BM.

I knew something was wrong here because that pidgeot woulda literally won an impossible matchup if he didnt BM/i hadnt shielded correctly by chance. Still eeked out 2 discharges into an azu he put out there without a care in the world. Again, looked like resisted damage. I go on to lose handsomely, despite correctly investing shields on a stunfisk of all pokemon and catching the right moves. How?

Wish I had recorded.

I don’t see a lot of concrete discussions on the caries and inconsistent GBL bugs I am experiencing and so I’m wanting to ask if I am “the only one” Seems like there’s a lot of

- swap lag
- missing charged move symbols
- shield lagging
- no buff/debuff animations
- etc…

It’s basically unplayable for me. Can we get a clear answer from scopely about what could be happening?

This year seems especially like this, it feels like I’ve seen just about every Pokémon possible. I’ve seen even things are aren’t relevant like, macargo, Lokix, trevenant, and even an umbreon. I’m not at a terrible elo 2130, so I don’t think I’m in the hell zone yet. How do you get around this? I try using Pokemon that are strong neutrally but that doesn’t always help

With a pure UL rotation next week, anyone curious what this fantasy cup meta will look like?

I assume a Tinkaton/Mimikyu fest?

Fire types always feel strong in the GL version of Fantasy cups, but not a lot of high ranked options in UL...

Anything you are keen to run? Or are you simply planning to run open UL?

Edit: Also, do we know why the league isn't up on PVPoke just yet? 😅

Can anyone explain to me the thought process as to why they buffed Lickilicky to where it currently is?

I find it very confusing how they nerfed Vigoroth into the ground because it dominated every cup it was available in, they then also nerfed all fighters and pseudo fighters with the counter nerf, which they really still haven't made up for, so, why would they buff Lickilicky? Bulky, spammy with multiple different viable move sets with no real hard counters besides other normal types which just devolves into this boring normal type meta every special cup.

Any thoughts?

I Really want to hear y’all’s thoughts on Mimikyu in GL. That’s my take ^^^ The bonus shield ability is cool and all, but dang, they paired him with some AWESOME moves and I believe it’s a bit overwhelming… maybe if the devs started Mimikyu off with higher energy charged moves, or lower stats or something. At this moment he just seems like an easier to use Aegi. Popping off strong ass charges rapidly. Makes it feel like the game is evolving into a “Rock Paper Scissors” and not so much “Chess” kind of game.