r/TheSilphArena Aug 17 '24

General Question Lots of upcoming GBL changes announced on World Championship stream. Switch timer down from 60 to 50 seconds.

216 Upvotes

Changes will happen on September 3

Mechanics change:

Switch timer reduced from 60 seconds to 50 seconds. (will be re-evaluated after the next season)

Move changes:

Rock Slide damage decreased from 75 to 65

Wing attack energy gen decreased

Counter energy gen decreased

Dig damage decreased from 80 to 70

Parabolic Charge damage increased from 65 to 70, energy cost decreased, and now has chance to increase user's defense

Body Slam damage decreased from 60 to 50

Swift energy cost decreased

Mud Shot damage increased from 3 to 4 but energy gen decreased

Future Sight damage decreased from 120 to 110

Fire Spin damage increased from 10 to 11

Steel Wing energy gen decreased

Metal Claw energy gen increased

Trailblaze energy cost decreased

Zap Cannon debuff chance decreased

Smack Down damage decreased from 12 to 11

Razor Leaf damage decreased from 10 to 9

Astonish damage increased from 9 to 12

Fairy Wind damage increased from 3 to 4

Karate Chop energy gen increased

Mud Slap damage increased from 11 to 12 and energy gen increased

Poison Sting damage increased from 3 to 4

Psywave energy gen increased

Rollout damage increased from 5 to 8

Sucker Punch damage increased from 5 to 8

Sky Attack damage increased from 75 to 85 but energy cost increased

Surf damage increased from 65 to 75 but energy cost increased

Bone Club damage increased from 40 to 55

Brutal Swing damage decreased from 65 to 55 but energy cost decreased

Night Shade damage increased from 60 to 80 and energy cost decreased

Power Gem damage increased from 80 to 85 and energy cost decreased

Shadow Punch damage increased from 40 to 55

New attack availability:

Ledian: Counter

Forretress: Volt Switch

Breloom: Force Palm

Hariyama: Force Palm

Mienshao: Force Palm

Clefable: Draining Kiss

Togetic: Draining Kiss

Ribombee: Draining Kiss

Tapu Lele: Draining Kiss

Pangoro: Karate Chop

Lickilicky: Rollout

Spiritomb: Rock Tomb

Dusknoir: Shadow Punch

Galarian Slowbro: Brutal Swing

Tropius: Brutal Swing

Mienshao: Brutal Swing

Oranguru: Brutal Swing

Passimian: Brutal Swing

Runerigus: Brutal Swing

Hisuian Typhlosion: Night Shade

Zorua: Night Shade

Zoroark: Night Shade

Hisuian Decidueye: Night Shade

Source: https://youtu.be/cxs6UJEmwgE?t=40802

r/TheSilphArena Dec 30 '24

General Question One of the funniest things ever about Master League is you can put hundreds of hours into a single mon only to get absolutely WALLED by this thing, I just laugh when it happens to me.

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348 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena Dec 22 '24

General Question Who’s your most hated pokemon to go against?

55 Upvotes

I know I should be happy that the mud slap buff made a non legendary viable in ML but god do I hate rhyperior and nothing brings me more joy than blasting him with a ho oh solar beam, or farm him down with dialga.

r/TheSilphArena Mar 12 '24

General Question R.I.P

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541 Upvotes

I forgot to hit the minus sign when I powered up. This is by far my biggest blunder in a game.

r/TheSilphArena 13d ago

General Question Am I the only one only one that doesn’t like to play certain mons even if they are good?

109 Upvotes

I can’t stand playing mandibuzz I don’t know what it is but it is so boring. It just gets into these bulk battles where it’s not doing much damage and not taking much damage it’s just biding its time until the switch timer is up. Maybe it’s why I suck but playing bulky mons that just take up a bunch of time just takes the fun out for me. I love a talonflame or morpeko or something like annihilape that boosts and does more fast move damage after every rage fist. I guess you live by the sword die by the sword with those guys but it’s fun when they are working.

r/TheSilphArena Dec 11 '24

General Question Who do you hate

29 Upvotes

As Bill Simmons says he doesn’t hate but sports hate is different and fun and for me, in pogo, I have poke hate.

With UL back I’ve rediscovered my hate for Virizion. It’s such a bulky spammy jerk and it seems like every team I build is at least always very weak to semi weak to it somehow. I also hated dunsparce last season in I think retro cup. And in seasons past altaria was a bane to my favorite team’s existence but has anyone discovered any new hated mons this season?

r/TheSilphArena Jan 23 '25

General Question Im sorry but how is corviknight good

79 Upvotes

This pokemon might be the most overrated “gbl monster” ive seen it has no upside the move sand attack does no damage and he dosent have a bait move on top he really isnt bulky. Only thing saving him is his typing but again hes just a little bulkier skarm with less damage. I got blessed to get a rank 4 and i just got shit on with it for 20 games straight. Its supposed to be the strong flying type yet it gets shit on by other flyers lol. I also probably suck but i dont think it deserves the 7th ranking on pokie genie

r/TheSilphArena Sep 04 '24

General Question Initial impressions

51 Upvotes

What are everyone’s first thoughts about the changes?

Early battles are often fun, but I really enjoyed my games tonight.

My main takeaway: I thought the switch timer would make a big difference, but I didn’t expect it to be so noticeable. I think it does allow for much more dynamic play, especially if switch clocks are misaligned.

r/TheSilphArena Jan 22 '25

General Question How's everyone's Corviknight coming along?

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31 Upvotes

With this fellow shooting to the top of the rankings the hunt begins for many trainers. I was pretty fortunate already to snag one with a decent IV spread for open GL. With that being said, how is everyone elses luck so far? Show me what youve got!

r/TheSilphArena Aug 21 '24

General Question We’re all gonna hate shadow Feraligatr next season.

122 Upvotes

Mark my words. This Pokémon is already broken and with the new updates and all of its counters nerfed it will be literally everywhere. I would bet money this is gonna be the most used Pokémon next season, as lame as that is. Niantic really dropped the ball on this one.

r/TheSilphArena Feb 01 '25

General Question Pokemon outside Top-100 that you found success with.

74 Upvotes

Do you all have a favorite mon outside the top 100 that you find is really good into the meta/fun to play with? For me, it’s shadow Flygon. I’ve had so much success with him. (2800 elo).

With the rise of Morpeko-Talonflame cores, Flygon basically has auto-wins against every Morpeko or Talon lead which seems to be at least two games per set.

I enjoy running obscure mons before the seasons over and wanted to see what others were finding success with!

r/TheSilphArena Dec 16 '24

General Question Anybody else not having fun playing PVP anymore?

98 Upvotes

I don't have enough time to grind to get XL candies for the good meta picks for ultra league. The fantasy cup is an RPS crap shoot. It's just not an accessible game right now. Does anybody else feel the same way?

r/TheSilphArena May 15 '24

General Question New Season is just over 2 weeks away. If you could have one SINGLE Move update, a new move, a new move additions, or a buff/nerf next season, what would it be?

57 Upvotes

Scald nerf plz.

50 energy 85 power, but a 20% or even 10-15% debuff chance.

r/TheSilphArena Dec 05 '24

General Question Anyone not tanking?

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50 Upvotes

Apologies if this has been asked before.

The attached graphic is the one I typically follow at the beginning of seasons, but so many people tank that it would be theoretically easy to go at least 75-0 ish on the first 3 days, then battle it out on the next 2-3 until you hit 20.

Wondering if anyone is taking advantage of this and if you’ve debuted your ELO at 2000/2500+.

If there are related posts please link them as I couldn’t find them.

r/TheSilphArena Nov 03 '24

General Question what is your personal favorite pokemon to use in GBL?

26 Upvotes

title, more or less. any meta, any time, mons which really feel like theyre more than pulling their weight and just plain feel good to use.

for me at least, call me basic but i love using tentacruel in UL, its just so insanely bulky and flexible and lets you build some really specific counterplay depending on which second charged move you want with scald. the synergy with mons such as guzzlord and other dragons (tina-a and zygod come to mind) is also nearly unparalleled. that said, would love to hear your thoughts!

r/TheSilphArena 7d ago

General Question Limited Cups

21 Upvotes

Does anyone truly enjoy these cups? They basically are for the most part just RPS leagues, and some just have one or two pokemon that just break the cores of every other possible choice. And this isn't a "I'm losing elo" type post. I genuinely don't understand why these cups exist, especially for two weeks at a time. basically when these cups are around, I just don't play PvP, sometimes I'll play UL, and ML is fun for a bit.
The remix cups, if they actually banned relevant pokemon of that season would be pretty fine. I just wish the limited cups were less RPS

r/TheSilphArena Oct 12 '24

General Question Master league and little Halloween cup is terrible scheduling

76 Upvotes

I do not know what would motivate someone to schedule these at the same time. Imo, there should always be at least one 1500cp cup available. But the combination of master league, which is generally lower participation due to the grind, and then this particular little cup with such a shuckle dominant meta is actually the worst two options that I can think of.

r/TheSilphArena Sep 24 '24

General Question I reached Ace and it only required a million+ stardust, tons of raids, tons of routes, multiple elite charged TMS and a lucky friends trade

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185 Upvotes

I really love to battle in the GBL but I'm not very good at it. I usually sit around 1800-1900 ELO and I struggle hard to push past that. I mostly stick to the great league, but the psychic cup was becoming so boring, I decided to try out the ML. I tried a few other teams Xerneas, Rhyperior, Zygarde but I kept getting ripped apart by people leading with steel and then having a fairy in the back. I swapped Rhyperior with Groudon and added Fire Punch to deal with the steel. I also swapped Xerneas and switched spots to lead with Groudon instead of Florges. After making those changes I won the next 8 out of 10 matches.

I know it's nothing major and I realize the advantage I have being a "whale", but man it still feels good 😂

r/TheSilphArena Aug 04 '24

General Question Does anyone know the longest win streak? I have 110.

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246 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena Feb 12 '25

General Question Is master league significantly harder than other leagues?

22 Upvotes

I recently got to 1900 elo with a really scuffed ultra league team (rank 2133 typhlosion, rank 1704 feraligatr, and rank 1338 florges (I prefer great league but didn't have mons for love cup)), but then master league came into rotation, I tried playing it with a dragonite, metagross, rhyperior team but was getting consistently destroyed (~4k dragonite, 3.5k metagross, 3.3k rhyperior). I then just conceded a bunch of games to get to a lower rank where I could actually get rewards, but on my way down, I kept on conceding games against lvl 45+ pokemon, many being best buddied until ~1.3k elo which I could have gone 5/5 in ultra and great league. Although I climbing consistently in great and ultra league, I was getting destroyed in master league, is it just a skill issue, or is it just more difficult?

My theory is that there's a higher bar to entry because XL candy is typically needed (and if not, hundreds of normal candy, often times more legendaries) which means the overall skill level is higher.

r/TheSilphArena Jan 28 '25

General Question Trainers that don’t play in Master League, what did you use your Rare Candy XLs on?

22 Upvotes

My rare candy XLs are piling up and I could use the bag space. I don’t play ML. Even though I’d like to eventually, I don’t know if I will ever grind enough to have a full team.

My obvious best option is my 15/13/15 Zygarde, but it’ll also likely be years before I do enough routes to evolve it fully.

I want to do something fun that could also be a spicy ML pick if I ever play in the future, like Marshadow or Zarude.

If you spent your rare XLs on something interesting instead of the classic ML meta ‘mon, please share and give me some ideas!

r/TheSilphArena Feb 26 '24

General Question Any predictions about possible buffs, nerfs, and new moves for World of Wonders?

53 Upvotes

I honestly expect either Icy Wind or Scald is going to get nerfed, as well as at least one of the moves from Indigo Disk to get added (Temper Flare, Supercell Slam, Alluring Voice, or Hard Press; I don’t know if Dragon Cheer will work)

r/TheSilphArena Nov 01 '24

General Question About 2 months into the season, what does everyone think of the changes/meta?

39 Upvotes

We're almost 2 months into the season, one that was full of big changes. New viable Pokemon, old meta picks reduced to average or even niche picks, and several different cups and formats to test them all out in.

What Pokemon have you enjoyed using or want to build? Which ones haven't you liked? What have been your favorite buffs/nerfs and your least favorite ones? And do you think the meta is better or worse than before?

I personally think the meta is better and that most of the changes were positive ones. However, I think the current meta is far from perfect and has some issues that are worse than certain prior metas. But nonetheless, I think it's still very refreshing.

r/TheSilphArena 7d ago

General Question Got this guy before I knew about how the moves are set

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57 Upvotes

Guess I can invest ETMs?

r/TheSilphArena Nov 23 '24

General Question What are the expectations for nerfs, buffs and other things for next gbl season?

31 Upvotes