LilOu
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Not really, but I think it's a little bit too much. However, there is no rule, so if upon testing it works for your team, cool.
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UU Simple Questions Thread
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Yes, it is considering you've got two Pokemon willing to suicide to leave you down to 4v6 and you'll usually have a set win condition for the match which shouldn't need more than 2 chances to sweep the opponent anyhow. But as LilOu said, if it works out for you then great and there isn't really any rule saying otherwise.
If you put it like that than haha yeah it sounds redundant seeing how it's very unlikely I ever will need to use healing wish twice.
Is umbreon still a centralizing force? If not, I may give UU another shot.
Why is Drought and Drizzle banned from UU? I kind of understand Drizzle but why Drought after the nerf.
Sun-boosted attackers and Chlorophyll sweepers. Anything that can take a hit from a Chlorophyll sweeper crumbles in front of stuff like Band Entei and Nasty Plot Mega Houndoom.
Umbreon has never been "centralizing," but it's fallen in popularity a bit. It may be on the rise since Zapdos' drop, though.
Umbreon has never been "centralizing," but it's fallen in popularity a bit. It may be on the rise since Zapdos' drop, though.
LilOu
PO poopyhead
This questions are kinda weird to answer, since you are asking "What's the difference between a 8/10 team from a 10/10 team". Now, if you were to ask "What's the difference between a bad and a good team", a good team is one that was made taken into consideration metagame trends. That is, having ways to deal with the top mons in usage stats and Viability Rankings + having ways to deal with different playstyles: not only do good vs. offense but have mons that are capable to pressure defensive teams to a breaking point. CTC explains this better than me, though, so catch this quote that has helped me a lot with my teambuilding since then. (quote is from XYOU, iirc)
Link to the full interview here.CTC said:
Regarding the good/meh player question, a good player is one that is capable of analyzing team matchup and identify both his and his opponent's win conditions. This will lead to the next step, which is creating a gameplan. Once the strengths and weaknesses of both teams have been identified, the good player will start thinking ahead and taking decisions accordingly to the it, so that it can be finally achieved at the endgame. Don't just make the loudest choice of each turn, but really think of what outcome will that choice bring with it, which bring us to Risk vs. Reward. One of the things that bad players do is not measure the consequences of their plays, thus sacrificing win conditions / key mons to stupid choices. A good player knows when to take the risky play and when to go for the safe one. Knows when to sack a mon and when to not. Knows what to sack. These things may sounds really dumb, but little things make the difference at the end.
Also, "How to battle and win" is a guide made by a good friend of mine in the BW era, which may help you out, as it touches every aspect a great player takes into account. I know it says that is for newer players, but you would be surprised how many "old" players that have been around for a long time lack the basic knowledge of these concepts, and it is never bad to refresh some stuff that we may have forgotten.
Hope this helped and sorry for the not so simple answer lol.
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Yes, pokemon like Metagross and Sableye should be dropping in December, here's the thread so you can read up on it a bit
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/separate-tiering-of-mega-pokemon.3546062/
Wait are we getting mons tomorrow?
#BANSABLEYE
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Two reasons, actually.
1. It's really slow and has a crippling 4x weakness to Fire, which is a common offensive type, and
2. The UU low ladder are idiots. This is also the reason why Milotic and Vaporeon are still UU even though Alomomola exists.
this means it's literally 2hkoed by stoutland's fire fang
LilOu
PO poopyhead
OHKO'ed though (not sure if I missed the joke)
the whole separate tiering of megas thing means that we're about to get a ton of new toys from OU during the quick drops right?
yet alomomola is ru, the same tier that still has ambipom and typhlosion, rofl
252+ Atk Choice Band Stoutland Fire Fang vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Mega Abomasnow: 292-344 (76 - 89.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
LilOu
PO poopyhead
Yeah. Loppuny, Venu, Altaria, Charizard, Metagross, Gardevoir, Sableye, etc. I think Alakaziteless Alakazam is at 2.5%, so not coming down.
what UU page are you referring to?
In the formats page for UU (http://www.smogon.com/dex/xy/formats/uu/), the NP thread and the Viability Ranking thread are both out of date. Can somebody please update them?
Fixed all the outdated links n_n
Is the Crawdaunt retest because of its performance in the Borderline Tournament or something, or are we starting retests for a lot of BL things??
Thanks!
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