What does the term "Blanket Check" specifically mean? I assume is something among the lines of "If you use this Pokemon you don't have to worry too much about Pokemon of this type" or something like that?
A blanket check is a pokemon that can check large portion of the metagame in one slot. Like, Landorus-T was used as a single check to many physical attackers, such as Talonflame, Lopunny-mega, zard-x due to intimidate and could revenge them with scarf or gain momemtum with u-turn. Aegislash was considered a blanket check to almost all fairies and psychics as well as to otherwise huge threats such as mega-heracross and Mega-pinsir. You can also consider clefable as a blanket check. Unaware is a very good check to almost all set up sweepers.What does the term "Blanket Check" specifically mean? I assume is something among the lines of "If you use this Pokemon you don't have to worry too much about Pokemon of this type" or something like that?
Why are Florges, Donphan, Heliolisk, Darmanitan, Jolteon, Milotic and Tauros blacklisted in the viability rankings? (I'd thank that threat having a little explanation of it, but it haven't) I know more or less the reason for some of them, like Raikou and M-Manec outclass Jolteon and Heliolisk, and the Pink Blobs outclass Florges as a cleric, but idk about the rest.
Tbf they get blacklisted more because they make the thread absolutely unbearable to read. Outclassed is just the word thrown around to justify blacklisting but the root problem is just turning the thread into a total nightmare. Just thought I would point this out.Alfonso Dragonlord
Pokemon are blacklisted because people nominate them for a ranking multiple times while they are outclassed or bad.
Milotic is outclassed as a bulky water mainly by Alomomola, but its job (depending on the team) can also be done by stuff like Slowbro or Rotom-W.
Darmanitan is outclassed by Victini and Donphan is outclassed by Hippowdon and Excadrill. Tauros is not really outclassed by 1 certain mon but it was nominated for a ranking a few times even though it is just a bad pokemon.
Defensive Chesnaught is much more consistent and effective. Offensive (belly drum) chesnaught is decent but shouldn't be used on full hyper offense imo, moreso like bulky / balanced offensive teams.What's more viable in the current OU metagame, offensive chesnaught or physical wall chesnaught?
Also, is serperior a pokemon that could be in a balanced team or is it just good in HO or standard offense teams?
Thanks, I also forgot to ask if defensive chesnaught could be in a balanced team, because it seems like it only fits stall teamsDefensive Chesnaught is much more consistent and effective. Offensive (belly drum) chesnaught is decent but shouldn't be used on full hyper offense imo, moreso like bulky / balanced offensive teams.
Definitely, I currently even run a defensive Chesnaught on my Bulky Offense team and it works fine, fits in better then a defensive Skarmory - kind of like Ferrothorn in that respect but it mostly checks different things.Thanks, I also forgot to ask if defensive chesnaught could be in a balanced team, because it seems like it only fits stall teams
King's Shield only drops Attack for contact moves like Knock Off or Fire Punch. EQ is unaffected by it, so it's a fairly safe move to use against it.Damn seems like i have lot of question regarding aegi
-kings shield defends the user from attacks reducing opposing mon atk by 2 stages only if its a contact move... that means that EQ hits him all day ?
-it doesnt function like protect regarding status (wow, thunder wave)
thats it for now i think
http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...ad-the-op-first.3489309/page-471#post-6172117Where can I propose a proposal for a future suspect test?
As far as I know, Defiant does not activate, because it was not Bisharp's stat that was lowered in the first place.Say a Landorus-T comes in on a Baton Passer, thus intimidating them, and then said baton passer (-1 atk) goes to Defiant Bisharp via Baton Pass : do you end up with a -1 atk Bisharp or a +1 atk Bisharp ? Ie. is Defiant still triggered despite the stat lowering occurring before Bisharp comes into play ?
King's Shield only applies to contact moves, yes, so Earthquake is not affected, and it will not block status. King's Shield cannot be reliably used in succession as well, nor can you cycle through Protect, King's Shield, etc.Damn seems like i have lot of question regarding aegi
-kings shield defends the user from attacks reducing opposing mon atk by 2 stages only if its a contact move... that means that EQ hits him all day ?
-it doesnt function like protect regarding status (wow, thunder wave)
thats it for now i think
EDIT: is it spammable ? I mean protect will most likely on second use in a row what about kings shield?
Rain relies heavily on its primary rain setter. Killing that early makes it a lot more difficult for your opponent to set up on you. However, a good rain will always have other methods to set up rain, such as klefki, or thundurus. This means that to prevent them from setting up rain, you have to maintain a constant pressure when those pokemon are in, so that either they chicken out of setting up, or they set up, and die. As for what happens after rain is up, the majority of rain-induced set-up sweepers rely on a powerful water STAB move, so it's great to have a reliable bulky water type which can come in and either wall them, or stall the rain out. The turn their rain runs out is the turn their team is at its weakest, and that is the best time to break it.Can someone help me deal with rain? For some reason, I can never win vs it.
Thanks for the help!Rain relies heavily on its primary rain setter. Killing that early makes it a lot more difficult for your opponent to set up on you. However, a good rain will always have other methods to set up rain, such as klefki, or thundurus. This means that to prevent them from setting up rain, you have to maintain a constant pressure when those pokemon are in, so that either they chicken out of setting up, or they set up, and die. As for what happens after rain is up, the majority of rain-induced set-up sweepers rely on a powerful water STAB move, so it's great to have a reliable bulky water type which can come in and either wall them, or stall the rain out. The turn their rain runs out is the turn their team is at its weakest, and that is the best time to break it.
Try carrying some rain checks on your team such as rotom-w or slowbro or ferrothorn.Can someone help me deal with rain? For some reason, I can never win vs it.
Yeah and in the event of Aegislash coming back I didn't want this time period where I get like 2 pages of people advocating half the ranks to move up or down based on aegislash being in the tier for 1 day on a thread I planned on making a new version of. I had this planned for awhile was just waiting for a time period during an event like a suspect test as thread was getting large.What's with making a new viability ranking thread? To keep it from getting too big?