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  1. jackm

    Ladder Balanced Hackmons

    Hey guys, I'm returning from a pretty long break from BH (~6 months). Anything I should know about new bans/metagame trends?
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    Balanced Hackmons Community Create-a-Team (Testing post-Protean team)

    OM Room Forgot to contribute during this phase, but the contribution pool was strong anyways.
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    Balanced Hackmons Community Create-a-Team (Testing post-Protean team)

    An old standard. Dialga @ Adamant Orb Ability: Tinted Lens EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 Spe Modest Nature - Doom Desire - Tail Glow - Recover - Spacial Rend
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    puppies itt

    Oops, sorry.
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    puppies itt

    I suppose I can write something on Balanced Hackmons. Perhaps a teambuilding 101 article or something of that nature? I'm open to collaborating with someone who is competent in the metagame.
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    Other Metagame of the Month Archive

    Something Borrowed
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    Metagamiate!

    I don't really have much experience with this meta, but what the hell, sure. It seems like a nice, intuitive way to freshen it up.
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    Ladder Balanced Hackmons

    Sorry, I'm a little late to the sleep discussion, but I suppose I'll weigh in. I think it's important to remember the nature of the Balanced Hackmons metagame as it relates to the danger of sleep spam. There are two primary ways that sleep becomes an issue in BH: as an incidental way to bypass...
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    Balanced Hackmons Viability Ranking

    I've been giving it some thought, and I think that Ho-oh needs to be higher than its current residency in C. While the focus with Ho-oh is often the fact that it can run Magic Guard to override its otherwise horrendous SR weakness and abuse STAB Flare Blitz/Brave Bird, its excellent special bulk...
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    The Imposter Laddering Contest

    In as ILC 1 Jackm
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    1v1 Resources Thread

    Thank you guys for clearing this up and explaining.
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    1v1 Resources Thread

    Soo I don't play 1v1, but given my limited understanding of the format your proposed limit on megas per team is ludicrous. It doesn't alleviate the stress of dealing with Megas AT ALL. In order to have success on the ladder, your team will still need to be able to deal with every common mega or...
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    Gods and Followers

    I just started playing this today, but one thing which I've found to be quite effective is hazard-stacking around a rather uncommon Dialga set which works surprisingly well: Dialga @ Leftovers Ability: Pressure EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpD / 8 Spe Careful Nature - Sleep Talk - Rest -...
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    Ladder Balanced Hackmons

    Additionally, a fun Offensive unaware set can consist of taking something decently tanky (we'll use, say, Xerneas) and giving it Unaware+Heart Swap, allowing it to operate not only as a pinch check to a lot of random shit but also as a potent countersweeper. By virtue of its nice typing, Xerneas...
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    Ladder ORAS 1v1 [3v3 Team Preview]

    Of course--I was intending for a universal statbase as it seemed to be more what Goob121 was looking for. Regardless, http://www.smogon.com/stats/ has whatever stats you desire from the past year.
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    Ladder ORAS 1v1 [3v3 Team Preview]

    Why not just refer to the 1v1 usage stats?
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    350 Cup

    I say Ban on Rufflet. It functions much in the same role as Kyogre functioned in Ubers before the introduction of Groudon-Primal (this is the best relation that came to mind) but it has an extra ~10% buff to power. Yes, checks and sort-of-counters existed to Kyogre, but they barely avoided the...
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    Inheritance [Prime Council Elected]

    I actually played some of this with xJ the first time Inheritance was OMOTM. I'll share some of my non-obvious sets, I suppose. Kyogre @ Blue Orb Ability: Multiscale EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 Spe Modest Nature - Surf - Hurricane - Thunder - Roost Inherits from Dragonite. Bulky...
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    350 Cup

    The big issue is that there are key members of birdspam that can easily blow through a team's dedicated Flying wall. Shaymin-S with Earth Power, Air Slash, and Seed Flare easily smashes through Rhyhorn and Honedge, and those which can take on Shaymin-S--such as Bronzor and Skarmory--are...
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    Inheritance [Prime Council Elected]

    These are good points; I've run into quite a few Defoggers which, as consequence of their overall passivity, fail to present a credible threat to Heatran in the manner which Heatran and Kingdra act (as you pointed out). The Cresselia I mentioned is one example--others which I can recall include...
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