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Cake day: 2023年7月18日

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  • Sylveon facing down a Hydreigon is the most “kills you cutely” thing you’ll ever see. Hydreigon has a 4x weakness to fairy type moves, and Sylveon gets STAB, so any fairy type move in this scenario gets a 6x multiplier to its base power. Let Sylveon terastalise and it’s an 8x multiplier.

    Hydreigon is an offensive Pokemon with slightly higher SpAtk, so it usually doesn’t get any defensive EVs. Sylveon can make good use of defensive investments, though. If you take a max SpDef Hydreigon (calm nature, 252 HP / SpD) and put it up against a Sylveon with -SpAtk nature and no SpAtk IVs / EVs, Moonblast would still do 69 - 83.5%. Terastalise Sylveon and it’s 92.7 - 111.3%, or a 62.5% chance to one-hit, and this is the most favourable scenario for Hydreigon.

    If you turn it around and make it a max SpAtk Sylveon (modest nature, 252 SpAtk) against a sweeper Hydreigon (timid nature, 252 SpAtk / Speed), you’re looking at Moonblast dealing 203.6 - 240.4% / 272.3 - 321.4% (terastalised) damage – it could one-hit Hydreigon not once but twice, maybe even thrice!

    Let’s assume a timid Hydreigon is on the field, you switch to Sylveon to counter it, but Hydreigon gets to boost with Nasty Plot in that turn. You’ve got a +2 SpAtk Hydreigon that’s faster than Sylveon, and let’s assume it also has a Life Orb. Its best move in this situation (Flash Cannon) only deals 97.2 - 114.8%. Sure, that’s most likely a OHKO and guaranteed to one-hit after Stealth Rock, but that’s a +2 super-effective move with Life Orb that only one-hits about 80% of the time. If you call the switch, though, Flash Cannon has a 95% chance to two-hit even without the boost and is guaranteed to two-hit after Stealth Rock. And don’t get me started on physical Hydreigon sets that could deal significant damage even without super-effective moves because Sylveon’s physical defence is way lower.

    Anyway, the moral of the story is that, unless you’ve set up everything properly or made a good call, you’ll most likely want to switch Hydreigon out or (and this is something I haven’t even mentioned yet) terastalise Hydreigon when Sylveon shows up.


  • Oh wow, that turned out so well! They look very comfy, and their beans have the perfect shade of pink. The snowfur is also a cute addition :3

    I had no issues with the file, though it finally made me upgrade to GIMP 3. Turns out GIMP 2.x can’t open (some) GIMP 3.x files? I kept getting an error message, but it worked after upgrading! I updated the “base” file and the downloads with layers, only green_copper’s collab tool seems to be down at the moment. Your name has also been added to the credits. Thank you for adding your sona to the project <3


  • 2025 felt like a pretty long year tbh. A lot has happened in my life, and even though each passing week feels like it goes by faster than the last, the things that happened in February or April feel so far away. It is also hard to believe that certain people haven’t even finished their first year in office. But I get the feeling of years passing by because, even though it feels like this year was so long, I still can’t believe I finished school over 10 years ago. Time is just weird like that, I guess.