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Got outplayed/was messy in G1, won the set in 2. ggs and wp, sorry bout the first
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I think a lot of people are underestimating how Volcarona continues to evolve with the metagame. Volcarona’s set mix some months ago is different than it is now and it will continue to evolve, spiraling to unreasonable lengths and adversely impacting our metagame.
Tbh I’ve been toying with...
To be clear, I view your entire post as "overly semantic" and it is sad that this type of discourse cannot be divorced from regular metagam banter. Your underlying point about "central threats" is right to the mere definition, but not everything needs to be a fight just to make any given point...
Yea, this is why I avoid posting fun things like this in metagame discussion (which is funny considering half the posts here are shitposts/funny posts, and they tend to go by without any issue). People always take it as some larger tiering statement, despite precursors saying it is not, because...
Nothing is being redefined. I implore you to read my posts rather than just take in the graph.
Really the only damning correlation would be in the back-half of the broken quadrants, and even then it is much harder to make an argument on stuff like Pult/Gamb/Zama right now. And my opinions on...