u/Better_Armadillo8703

Hey there, this is very specific and i'm pretty new so i'm sorry if it's a dumb question. Since i've started playing, i've seen that the most powerful attacks will naturally come from mons that have various tradeoffs, like: being a phase 2, giving multiple prizes, requiring many energies and sometimes different colors, and discarding energies. I'm more about doing consistent damage with less drawbacks, so i've been advised to play lucario and so far it's cool. I like that it's only a phase 1, requires 1 or 2 energy to attack and the energy is only one color, but of course you gotta be wary of losing your lucario because it gives a whopping 3 prizes. I learned about festival lead, which seems to be something i could like, but i was wondering if there's a decent option for something even more extreme: a single prize with only a single color energy and basic mons. Basically you just draw basic mons, swarm the board with it and attack consistently without caring if one is taken out. I realize this may not be very meta and will be worse than the lucario i'm playing now, but i'm playing for fun anyway

I'm an engineering msc student and i have taken a very basic quantum course, basically just the derivation of the schrodinger equation and the time solution vs space solution (i think). I know for a fact that, unlike say in EM fields where we use complex numbers just for convenience and then always take the real part at the end of every proof, quantum actually needs complex numbers to work. This always kinda bugged me but the layman explanation was that unitary complex numbers (or any isomorphic thing like idk SO2 matrices i guess) are able to change their phase while keeping the amplitude at 1, and this is necessarily what needs to happen because amplitude means probability (squared) and so it has to equal 1. Now, i'm finally taking systems theory & control theory and what i just find out is that marginal stability is exactly the same thing. For a system to be marginally stable you need to have the real part of the eigenvalues exactly equal to 0, which means you need complex numbers, and the result is that such a system will keep oscillating forever, ie only changing their phase and never dampening their amplitude. Is this not exactly what a quantum system is doing? Or what am i missing?

Hi, i'm practicing for a local and i'm having a good time with the rain team that cut the grand champions festival:

https://pokepast.es/d466236588ebde30

My only issue is that i actually never bring my mega, which is venusaur. Most gameplans seem better off with either sableye or pelipper for rain/support, and the 3 big hitters.

So my question is: i've seen many variations of this rain core with a different mega, including scovillain, dragonite, and scizor. So why venusaur? What does it do? Would i be better off with a different mega?

Thx