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On paper, that is Smogon's tiering philosophy. In practice, we have almost never banned moves, items or abilities merely for being "uncompetitive". We ban them for being broken. There are numerous examples of "uncompetitive" strategies that were considered fine (and are still legal in old...

There's good reasons to think that Cloyster is unique and Cinccino wouldn't take its place. After a SS even Adamant Cloyster outspeeds every other viable mon and all Scarfers underneath base 95 Speed. Cinccino is itself pretty fast but the meta has plenty of tools to handle a +0 115 Speed mon...

What are some partners for Volcarona that can lure in and wear down its counters? It seems like the majority of teams on the mid/high ladder have Heatran or Unaware Clef or Dragonite and I'm basically left playing 6-5.

The bar for being a good defensive Pokemon is so much higher than being a good offensive Pokemon. You need at least two of great bulk, a great typing and a form of recovery. The latter of which is uncommon compared to nearly every Pokemon having high-BP STABs and boosting moves. Offensive...

Magnezone is a waste of a slot against any team that doesn't have the Pokemon it removes. At the same time, Magnet Pull means that it's is almost 100% effective at beating the Pokemon it's meant to. Winning the match becomes less about the individual skill of the players and more about the team...

guys i think it was a joke the joke being that " Urishifu is so powerful and impossible to chip that wildly unconventional/gimmicky mons are needed to counter it without getting worn down". it's not even necessarily that it does sky high amounts of damage, it's that most of the usual methods...

I'm pro-AT ban but "it makes an otherwise unviable Pokemon OU" is the weakest argument this side has. A lot of powerful abilities and moves are limited to Pokemon that would be shit without them. That's the point. It keeps them balanced. For instance (and the specific ability doesn't matter...

I was not arguing for or against a ban of Arena Trap/Dugtrio. I was arguing against one specific point the pro-ban side is making, the "you know Arena Trap is broken when it makes a shitmon like Dugtrio a threat in OU" argument. I believe that, regardless of whether Dugtrio actually is busted...

Game Freak balances out powerful abilities by giving it to otherwise-weak Pokemon. If simply making a weak Pokemon OU was enough to warrant a ban, Huge Power would have been gone a long time ago. By ignoring that and thinking along the lines of "what if an actually good Pokemon had it", we are...

As someone who was pro-Dexit I'm dissappointed. I liked the fact that SwSh OU wasn't dominated by Legendaries and Megas anymore, and that you weren't one wrong guess away from a Kartana or Volcarona sweeping your team. I liked that the game wasn't tying itself in knots trying to be forwards...

Jgnore evasion for a minute. I think a better equivalent to what Glalie does Pokemon that have the ability to pick and choose their own checks, like Greninja in Gen VI and Zygarde in Gen VII. There's a similar mindset of "I can check it with this Pokemon unless this very plausible scenario...

Because when things are nerfed, it's never a bad idea to test if they're still broken. When Moody boosted evasion, a lucky user could end up getting +6 in all stats. It's why evasion boosting is banned in the first place, a +1 to evasion makes further evasion boosts even easier to get. With that...

I can't wait to try it out, but if your opponent has haze Pex, it's almost like you're playing 5-6. Hawlucha, another Seed-dependent Pokemon, merely needs its checks weakened. This Clefable set needs them gone. I wouldn't dare use it without something like trapper Heatran.

Banded Greninja babby genesect (Greninja) @ Choice Band Ability: Protean EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - U-turn - Ice Beam - Gunk Shot - Shadow Sneak / Spikes For lack of anything good to post, a set for people like me who can't predict for shit and want the safe, predictable...

Regular form Latios can do the same thing with Life Orb and 40 Attack EVs. I guess what I'm asking is whether the lack of competing Megas made that much of a difference.