I'm thinking of this because of my sister and I's high school graduation. The counselors said each students' name aloud as they went on-stage to get their diploma. The counselors had previously asked students how to pronounce their names the day before during the graduation rehearsal, and they still got several names wrong (including my sister's, which is a common English name, and the name of the salutatorian during my own graduation).
I'm not saying they should be expected to pronounce non-English names with phonemes or phonotactic combinations that aren't present in English, I'm just saying they should do the best approximation (ie what the student is normally called during conversations in English). I'm proposing that they learn the basics of IPA, enough to transcribe names in their own English dialect. Some other transcription could be used if it's unambiguous. And this applies to anyone who has to read people who they don't know's names.
My question is, how feasible would it be to include this in some kind of training? Since I'm already familiar with IPA it doesn't seem that difficult to me, but I'm not aware of any studies on how hard it is for people to get acquainted with it. Maybe something like what the ANAE used could be used for the vowels?
We’re an (currently small) Epic shop and currently have a lackluster transcription integration. While we don’t have the funding for enterprise Nuance, is anyone working with a transcription vendor that integrates well and the users are satisfied with?
It’s Monday night and you know what that means! It’s time for Devante Parker to go for 100+ and 2Tds to get me into Fantasy Football Super Bowl!
I don’t know about you all, but holiday cup has me totally baffled. The random teams and teams that make zero sense are complete chaos for me to handle in addition to my lead taking a holiday every game on the first fast move.
I’m jumping to ML and trying to make Melmetal Lugia and Yveltal work. I will report back with my findings.
So anyway battlers, what’s working and what isn’t?
I love you guys but it is the funniest thing in the world. I'm in my fourth year now and have taken one or more of all the classes I listed in the title and have heard so many people go "uh... well like, we live in, like, a society?" I just can't help but giggle to myself every time but now that it's all online I am just laughing out loud and applauding it every time lol.
BONUS POINTS if they throw in some garbage about capitalism/consumerism for no reason at all and not explaining why
I want to practice a speech out loud and I am looking for somewhere soundproof
Intro
A year and a half ago, I introduced Shadow Tyranitar with Bite to the MLC metagame. At the time, lead frequencies were unbalanced and the uncommon S-Tyranitar was one of the ways to take advantage of that. Soon enough, the metagame changed enough to make lead S-Tyranitar much less effective. However S-Tyranitar in general remained a viable pick, mainly in the line Kyogre/S-Tyranitar/Togekiss where it was mostly an upgrade over the much more common Dialga in the same line.
Then Zacian came and the metagame turned upside down. Bite S-Tyranitar certainly didn't appreciate such a hard counter coming in. It might still have play with Mewtwo and Origin being popular as ever, but Zacian is a massive problem for it. Meanwhile I was looking at new ideas for the post-Zacian metagame. I faced many teams with Origin in the lead and Zacian in the back and then came to the idea of Smack Down S-Tyranitar. The key matchup was the one against a switch-locked Zacian: a full fast move farmdown, shielding twice and coming out with close to full health and 100 energy. I built a team around S-Tyranitar and played with it for the past week, learning different matchups throughout and raising my rating from ~2600 to 3000.
The team
- Melmetal: Thunder Shock + Rock Slide + Superpower
- Shadow Tyranitar: Smack Down + Crunch + Stone Edge
- Giratina Altered: Shadow Claw + Dragon Claw + Shadow Sneak
Given which leads I need to scare out and which ones I want to switch S-Tyranitar into, my lead should be Melmetal. To be clear, Metagross is not a substitute for it. The team is completed with Altered, providing important coverage against Kyogre, Steel types and Ground types. The combination of Melmetal and Altered is extremely reliable, also in the common scenario where my shields are allocated to S-Tyranitar.
The hard IV requirements for (L40) S-Tyranitar are 9 Attack and 12 Defense, for the Dialga matchup. 13 Attack gives a few breakpoints on top of that, the most important ones being Mewtwo and Landorus-I. You also want at least decent HP, which is concretely most relevant against Mewtwo to survive PS+IB.
Details
This team is much more technical than the one with Bite S-Tyranitar, so I'd like to show a few tricks on how to play it. This is by no means a comprehensive flowchart,
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A few days ago I hit legend with the following Team:
Lead: Melmetal (15/13/14), TS/SP/RS
Swap: Lugia (15/15/14), DT/SA/A
Back: Meloetta (12/15/12), C/P/DG
The most common threats for Melmetal in the lead are Giratina (Origin) and Zacian which can both be handled by Meloetta in the back. Lugia is the safe swap in this team and usually baits out the opposing steels, so my Meloetta doesn't face them. In the following I will describe how I play the common leads:
Ho-Oh: Land one Rock Slide, then catch an Earthquake with Lugia to preserve the Melmetal. The opponent will run most of the time also a Dialga.
Both Giratinas: Swap immediately to Lugia. Opponents bring often a Dialga and if you land an Aeroblast on it then you can win switch. Otherwise sacrifice your Lugia and take shield advantage. If they counterswap their own Melmetal then you usually lose the match.
Melmetal/Excadrill/Metagross: You need to handle it with your own Melmetal. Against Excadrill don't shield the first move and probably try to catch a Drill Run with Lugia after landing a Super Power.
Dialga: If they switch into Zacian then immediately switch into Meloetta and keep switch. If they switch into Mewtwo the you can keep alignment if you immediately swap to Lugia.If they stay, you win the lead. They probably also try to catch a Super Power so keep attention.
Zacian: Stay and double shield and try to catch their third Close Combat with Lugia.
Kyogre/Groudon: Throw a Super Power and Switch to Lugia.
Zarude: Stay and try to get shields or get it low. Zarude can be though for this team.
Landorus (Therian): Very though lead. Try to chip it with Rock Slide and catch a Super Power with Lugia.
Mewtwo: Tricky because you don't know the backline. Either chip it first with a Rockslide and then catch a move or swap immediately to Lugia.
Togekiss/Lugia: They will most likely switch. If they swap to Dialga throw two Super Powers and switch to Lugia. Otherwise counter swap to keep alignment.
Zekrom/Palkia: Stay and see how the opponent will play. Usually I no shield their moves.
Mamoswine/Avalugg/Yveltal: Not that common. You stay and win lead.
Garchomp/Landorus (Incarnate): Also not very common but can be tricky. Probably try to catch an Earth Power with Lugia.
You can watch me using this
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Hi all, it’s a hot take but I generally really like MLC! I’ve been running Melmetal/Groudon/Dialga (BB) this season, got up to 2300s quickly and then hit a hard wall. Gira-O and Kyogre already aren’t fun leads for this team, but I could reliably win 50% of those matches. Throw in Zacian and the odd Landorus swap I see now and it’s 2/5 all day long. I know there’s benefit to sticking with a team and learning the matchups but I’m wondering if it’s worth making a swap (either for the next few days or when S11 rolls around)? Here are my options, appreciate any help!
Current Team:
- Melmetal 15/14/13
- Groudon 15/14/15
- Dialga (BB, with Thunder) 15/15/13
PVP ready (with CD moves):
- Metagross (BB) 15/15/13
- Dragonite (15/15/15 with hurricane and 15/14/13 with draco)
- Garchomp 15/14/13
- Gyarados 15/15/15
- Swampert 15/14/13
Working on candies for next season:
- Shadow Snorlax (BB) 12/10/15
- Gira-A 14/15/15
- Mewtwo 14/15/14
- Kyogre 15/12/14
- Lugia 14/15/14
- Excadrill 13/15/15
- Zarude 14/10/14
- Reshiram 15/15/15
- Lando (incarnate) 15/14/12
If there’s a team comp that jumps out here, either for the rest of this season or next would love to hear it! I’ve only been playing a couple years but happy to work with what I’ve got. Thank you!
edit: formatting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K7c4YBcPLmgXrKPKjF9N11ZfIv0JpfqV/view?usp=sharing
As promised, here is a transcription of the forensic interview with pest. No new information, really. Listening was very telling of his psychopathic tendencies.
In listening, you can hear him trying to 'join' the agents by joking around, yet also agreeing to the serious nature of their visit. Towards the end, you can feel the shift when they basically advise him to shut the hell up.
You can also hear him 'fishing' by asking if they found someone uploading or downloading, or "communicating" --- it's as if he wanted to know how much they already knew.
He also attempted to back track and play stupid when he mentioned Tor and IP flagging and the agents immediately realized how incriminating this was... he then played dumb like he wasn't really sure what it all meant.
Hey trainers, help needed please!
I'm really struggling with Master League Classic at the moment - I'm running Kyogre (waterfall/surf/thunder), Mewtwo (confusion/psystrike/ice beam) and Groudon (mud shot/earthquake/fire punch). Unfortunately I don't have the candy to power up any other legendaries right now, but I have access to all the non legendary ML meta picks.
Do people think it would be worth changing my team up? I'm particularly struggling with Giratina and Zarude, so maybe I should add DB Gary or Sylveon? Or with the options I have available, maybe I'd be better off just sticking with holiday cup until the 31st and then sitting out?
Any advice would be much appreciated! My ELO is 2100-ish.
Thanks 😊
I read on the wiki that the amount of MLC increases by your highest boss floor and your BLC count, considering I don't have the upgrade so that I can go above floor 100 I started grinding some BLC, I have 1,26 b BLC right now and no extra MLC? How much BLC do I need for my MLC to increase?
I know ML can be expensive, so I have been trying out cheaper options this season to see what works.
This is a fast move oriented team, and for the most part you stay in on leads unless they swap.
Lead: Kyogre - waterfall/surf. I’m literally running a level 37 13/14/13 IV Kyo and it’s working fine. There have been 5 or 6 matches that I would have won if I had Thunder as a second move. Lugia leads and Palkia closers are the ones that this would have flipped, because they never shield against Kyogre.
Togekiss: Charm/AA or AP. Doesn’t matter that much. AP gives a boost chance, AA hits harder against some things like Kyogre which can flip the match if they don’t block it. You can fake out a flamethrower vs Melmetal/gross and get a shield by overcharging.
Dragonite: Dragon Tail/Dragon Claw. There have been maybe 2 or 3 times when draco meteor/outrage or hurricane would have flipped a match. But it’s very uncommon.
Things to know:
Kyogre can take a wild charge from Zacian. Don’t panic. You win this.
Kyogre also beats Mewtwo if you let the psystrike go through and block the focus blast. (Dragonite is still the better Mewtwo counter, so if they safe swap it you safe swap, too. But Kyogre can also win Mewtwo leads).
Dragonite beats Excadrill in the 2s.
Good luck!
I have never played MLC and am wondering if similar folks are creating teams for the first time or are just waiting for the next league rotation? I am at 2475 ELO and would like to avoid spending significant resources just to get crushed by better teams. I have cheaper stuff like Gyarados, Excadrill, Dragonite, etc as options, but I am not sure that will do much against the likes of Zacian/Lugia/etc.
