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  1. Looking for a great Flying type.

    CB Staraptor can be a good choice since it has high-powered STAB moves and Close Combat. I'm assuming you mean more the normal/flying Pokemon and not OU powerhouses with a secondary flying type like Gyarados or Salamence.
  2. With Garchomp Now in Uber....

    Attn all people talking about Garchomp retesting: Please, PLEASE read the Order of Operations in the Policy Review forum. It's already on the slate. Stop bringing it up.
  3. With Garchomp Now in Uber....

    Try specs Jolteon out one of these days.
  4. Why did Fire Blast Miss?

    That Orange was a terrible, terrible color choice. Never do it again please. The battle was decent, but since you gave away the ending in your comment when Azelf died there was no real interest at all.
  5. Smogon Shoddy Server Statistics - August 2008

    It's not that surprising, and probably isn't that meaningful either. Removing Garchomp and Deoxys was a massive change in offensive and defensive teambuilding needs and there hasn't been nearly enough time to fully adjust to it.
  6. Garchomp Voting to start on September 5th

    It's not like they're actually continuing to monitor it; Doug will just spit out the current statistics at the time of the deadline.
  7. Garchomp Voting to start on September 5th

    Also good to keep in mind that these are only people laddering on the same account. Seems like it's common practice these days to rotate between 6 equally-ranked accounts depending on the waxing and waning of planets.
  8. Garchomp Voting to start on September 5th

    You seem... confused, skiddle. By posting in this particular thread that you can't stand Standard ladder, you seem to be railing against the idea that you should have ample experience with both metagames to be able to vote on Garchomp's status. But the entire point of the suspect ladder is to...
  9. Are we truly simulating the game; Sleep and Stadium Mode controversies - please read

    People complaining about cartridge-consistent IVs sure don't seem to know that much about them. For instance, it's absolutely possible to have an all-31 Heatran in a couple of natures. It doesn't help either side of the discussion when the complaints don't have enough specifics to be accurate.
  10. The Smogon "Suspect Test" Ladder is in full effect!

    See, there's this thing where Gyarados' base stats and movepool don't get better when Garchomp is banned....
  11. The Smogon "Suspect Test" Ladder is in full effect!

    With everyone but Gyarados, I'd guess by being faster and having STAB SE moves.
  12. On suicide leads

    Rapid Spinners are relatively rare, and ladder isn't about winning every game. Don't really see what needs discussion in the whole thing. It's just another metagame cycle: It's proven to work well; more people use it; people start expecting it and building teams to stop it; fewer people use...
  13. On chance, banning moves and the Garchomp problem

    Gliscor is part-Flying, he's no Levitator.
  14. Hey everybody! Hariyama is amazing!

    The paralysis support isn't for Hariyama; it doesn't matter what he won't outspeed. Damaging paralysis that hits Garchomp is very good team support even without using Knock Off.
  15. Close Call: Empoleon's Battle with 8 Ball

    The misclicks and misreading of move names might not have sunk this warstory if the commentary was good, but for the most part it falls into the "new at warstories" trap of just summarizing the previous or forthcoming turn instead of really adding depth.
  16. A team purged through competition, now in it's final form.

    Just a quick comment: Use Outrage over Dragon Claw on Dragonite. Dragon Dance+Outrage is one of the few reasons to use him over the other dragons and I'm not sure how well Subpunching would fit here.
  17. The purpose of the tiers

    Mewtwo v. Kyogre more fun than playing with the Regis. Also, and perhaps more importantly, many BLs already see use in the standard metagame, just not enough to propel them to OU. No Ubers see use in the standard metagame.
  18. The purpose of the tiers

    You said, and I quote, "pokemon x is too powerful for the tier below it," which is specifically what Obi was referring to. The reason you can't use OU in UU, as has been stated several times, including Obi's rather exhaustive first post, is NOT because x OU Pokemon is necessarily too powerful...
  19. New OU List

    Toxic Spikes, correlated with Wobbuffet and CP+Recover Deoxys usage.
  20. June Statistics

    Going to make an educated guess that Vaporeon's rising use also has to do with being one of the better Wishers still available with Official Shoddy's ban on Wish Blissey (which takes a lot of utility away from it and is probably costing it a lot of uses). I've found Gallade to be one of the...
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