LonelyNess
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My Sunday Smogcast this week will be discussing and speculating on XY. If you have any questions you'd like to see addressed, use this thread to ask them!
I would also like to hear commentary on the effect of Parting Shot (which I don't like in the slightest)How much would Parting Shot benefit/weaken teams such as VoltTurn, Stall, and Hyper Offense? Is it likely that it can bring on significant metagame changes alone, or will it be mostly inferior to other moves/strategies?
Also thisHow do you guys think we should tackle the initial banlist going into Gen VI? Many have said that we should start with no banlist whatsoever and if we find that metagame to be balanced, we should keep it. Others say that there is no point in unbanning certain things (Kyogre, Arcues, etc.), because they are already known to be broken. What are your personal opinions on the subject?
Supporting this question. Are we getting a clean slate or will all prejudices return from day one?How do you guys think we should tackle the initial banlist going into Gen VI? Many have said that we should start with no banlist whatsoever and if we find that metagame to be balanced, we should keep it. Others say that there is no point in unbanning certain things (Kyogre, Arcues, etc.), because they are already known to be broken. What are your personal opinions on the subject?
I know... I wasn't thinking straight I was just thinking oh yeah i need to switch up moves and i didnt wanna let Heatran get a sub and wanted to keep Rotom in range cause I wasnt sure how much Stone Edge would do. Oh well.He chocked in the end when he went into Keldeo over Wash vs. Heatran. Scarf Secret Sword won :(
You played good the majority of the match though, good job ;)
Thanks! I wanted to try out KeldTar post Landorus-I meta to see if it was still as efficient with other supporting sweepers like Breloom and Latios instead of the beast that is Special Lando.Yeah, GGengar I thought you played pretty well.
I agree but that's because my point that I made was that everything gets "better" with Landorus-I leaving. It's like Blaziken, everything suffers. When that's the case, it's hard to explain how the meta changes.It was an entertaining cast, but I gotta say, I don't really feel like l actually learned anything about team building for the suspect ladder. The general consensus seemed to be that the meta wasn't all that different, but I still think emphasizing what got better / worse in the team building stage instead of just a post teambuilding discussion would have been a good idea.
To be fair i wouldn't make that inference simply because I just snagged the Bulky Attacker Spread from the onsite analysis because I always liked that one more than Choiced Rotom from my experiences in BW1. I was watching the podcast because ever since BW2 OU came out I've had a hard time getting back into the game cause the meta is terrible/really hard to team build for so I was really hoping to get some insight to what the good players actually do, but unfortunately I didn't really learn anything. The cast was still really entertaining and fun, but yeah it would have been cool to see some more familiar faces from the OU forum. Its all a learning experience.Oddly enough, a change that did happen that we actually discussed was changing spreads, especially on Rotom-W. The one LN faced (and should have lost to) was running Speed, so maybe we can expect a lot less SDef Rotom-W now that Landorus is gone. But yeah, it didn't show too much and I wouldn't have expected it to, but I think we spent too much time thinking about Landorus rather than spent enough time thinking about how to actually team build. We went right into it without even discussing tips or how to teambuild and it showed when my style is totally different than LNs.
I think this was probably the biggest problem with the cast as a whole. The cast was fun to listen to but ultimately, the team was bad and teambuilding was the entire point. Everyone had distinctly different teambuilding styles (I personally cringe every time people make references to stuff like "water-type coverage" and "fighting-type coverage" instead of trying to beat specific mons and playstyles lol) and the team just ended up being a compromise between what everyone wanted and ended up being pretty bad.2.) Lack of chemistry between guests. I still don't know the name of the 4th guy on the Cast.