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What do people think about charizard? He’s been carrying my most successful team so far, since he is more powerful than charizard-y with sun up, sets up its own sun, and can boost its high natural speed with a huge flying nuke with dynamax. A lot of games I’ll lose three mons to g-max while...

Sun team I’ve had the most success with. OU is currently crazy in s&s but I love how they shrank the pool of available threats, so previously powercrept mons like charizard and seismatoad are now viable. Trouble I have currently is with rain, naturally as a sun team, so any suggestions are...

Well he's a lot different than scizor and dragonite, the other two CB priority users. Those two can switch in and force certain targets out. CBloom, on the other hand, can 2hko like 80% of OU with one move, ankle sweep. This means his role is different. His job is to break down walls and...

They are the same in that they wall physical ground and fighting types. While gliscor can't WoW, burning pokes isn't a good idea with guts rohpushin being everywhere. Gliscor, unlike weezing, has the power to just KO the pokes it's designed to wall such as rohpushin and doryuuzu. It's dual...

The problem with weezing is gliscor does everything it does better. Sure weezing has better weaknesses (water/ice isn't fun, but at least is predictable), but gliscor heals 25% a turn factoring protect and doesn't lose hp to sandstorm. Also the things gliscor/weezing counter rarely carry ice...

Sand isn't broken. I actually find it quite balanced. Their main draw over rain is the fact that their 3 biggest users have such fantastic stat distribution. Both doryuuzu, garchomp and randorosu are virtually perfectly stated in terms of their roles. The problem is they with their...

poison heal is amazing. Gliscor dominates so hard with fling+acrobat it's not even funny. Acro+earthquake has fantastic coverage with high base power, and fling for a little status. Protect is great with all the choice users now that have u-turn (sazandora anyone?) No poke counters...

Huh? What steel types can survive +1 LO thunders? besides the almost never used magnezone and steelix?

Just...survived....speclatios Draco Meteor and KO'ed back with my own lefties' meteor... Can I just say that again. Specs. 130 spa. super effective 140bp+stab = 2 health dragonite that can still extremespeed. Only 252 hp ev's too LOL I'd say dragonite would make a decent bulky ddancer (I...

actually try chople berry terakion. A) it's better than balloon cuz you don't tell the enemy you have it and B) you can feint scarf. Oh with the right ev's you can survive ditto's CC and KO him back :) Always good to counter ditto.

I love this guy to death....but DAMN priority sucks so much. Seriously rock has got to be the worst defensive type in the game....man. Maybe use a chople berry? I dunno the only times I don't face rohpushin/breloom I face scizor :(. Thank god for shandera :)

The only dragonite I've faced that has been somewhat of a threat is mixed dragonite, since suicide leads aren't common anymore (especially with espeon and magic guard everywhere) leadnite is still inferior imo to salamence, who hits much harder with that first draco meteor, and has intimidate...

What pokes would you hit with heatwave that aren't ohko'd by +1 LO hp ice? Zapdos is a BEAST with lightning rod, being only weak to 2 types and resistant to both priority, making agilitydos an incredible sweeper. zapdos@LO 252spa/252spe modest agility roost thunder/tbolt (depends if there's...

I've tried rp/sd, and it's damn good. Only problem is even though he has good resistances, he's also got terrrrible weaknesses, which makes setting up on anything besides choice users really difficult :( or if you're using balloon, but I don't think the power loss is worth it. I haven't built...

HP rock takes care of all of those instantly. Urugomosu's biggest advantage by far is his resistances to most priority and decent bulk. This is what sets is apart from nearly any other major sweeper, who will get taken down by either CB tech breloom or scizor. SR weakness is a definite...