Recent content by Spork

Schooling is the least detrimental handicap ability ever, it's rarely noticeable. It would've been dead in the water at below 25% end-of-turn regardless of ability since it's usually moving second anyway, and it can still get strong hits in on the turn it goes below 25% because the ability...

Ancaw anchor + caw Pronounced: AN-caw IPA: ænkɔr ipa is so silly.

Magistrum Mos would be second choice :)

Unburden Yikes :/

Regenerator Water Absorb Unburden

Steel/Flying Dragon/Steel

Normal/Steel just doesn't feel right to me at all; pretty much the only way to justify its use it "oh, STAB ExtremeSpeed", which is not only polljumpy as fuck, but is also sort of irrelevant considering that base power is far from the only thing that goes into damage calculation. We can get high...

On my hands it manifests as something called "pompholyx eczema" - basically gross blisters that burn and sting :/ It DOES inhibit sex for me because it affects my groin, too (super gross) but, as you likely know, eczema comes in waves and flares. It basically just means that I'm denied...

^Do you do it for fear of UNSPEAKABLE EVIL or APOCALYPSE or something? Could be OCD. I have eczema covering my entire body and I'm literally on a continuous course of steroids to keep it at bay :|

The reason RegeneratorDrum is so nifty is because it gives the move greater utility - CAP6 can still primarily be a sweeper, but can also act as a wallbreaker in a pinch, which it can't really do without some form of recovery. The aim is still to sweep, which differentiates it from Cube. Of...

The overwhelming punishment for foolish use of Belly Drum (leaving the user with not only a loss of momentum, but a crippled pokemon, and the likely assurance that any hopes of a future BD sweep have been dashed), as well as the more narrow window for its use (it basically requires that all...

fascinating stuff! the timeline for the fourth gen is ridiculous :| can you imagine if they pulled that nowadays?

Gravity has soooo much potential utility. 1) Ground-move spam is ridiculously powerful in OU when nullifying immunities. Few teams carry plain old resistances to the type at all. 2) The user can put pressure on switch-ins that rely on the immunity, facilitating switches and grabbing momentum...

Yeah no. I'm pretty sure the worst moves for optics would be the moves that conjure images of noobish ladderers and oversimplified battle tactics (i.e. Belly Drum, Inferno). Doom Desire and Heart Swap are some of the more multifaceted and interesting competitive moves in the game, and the...

Explosion is an excellent choice for this cap. It is an exceptionally useful move, nothing in OU used it effectively, and it has heaps of potential. In a similar vein, I'd like to perhaps nominate Healing Wish. I'm especially interested in how the move might be utilised to turn the tide of a...