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I feel like this argument would be one of the best arguments AGAINST TERA in the fact that in tournament is one of the places where we'd see the most variations in teraing to cteam or to target very specific pokemon you know your opponent likes using or styles. That is one thing I think would be...

Feel like calling it uncreative is disingenuous to the mechanic. With a mechanic with 18 different variations per 6 pokemon on your team we've only now after about a week are seeing the common sets, what certain pokemon like to tera into and what-not to patch defensive or offensive holes in...

How do you even link battle someone without communication? If you put a code in a random chat and say "battle me" and someone randomly connects you are by that point forfeiting ANY rules whatsoever are you not? Your opponent could bring 6 arceus with legend plate with illegal EV's you don't...

also if ur playing on cartridge and by smogon rules if your opponent lied about their tera that'd be them forfeiting the match so it doesn't really make sense as an argument

my guy really said I made my first account to regurgitate things my favorite content creator said as a joke but I took it seriously and also have no idea what it even means or what I'm talking about like gtfo bro your account was literally made to try to be antagonistic

Didn't both players in the finals of the most recent gen 8 ou tournament bring toxapex? :blobthinking:

This would make perfect sense if we didn't ban both cover legendaries before the game was even playable on smogon so this argument just doesn't make sense

No, it is not impossible to prove that any pokemon having access to a 200-300 base power move with absolutely 0 drawbacks bar being immuned by normal types is fucking absurdly uncompetitive and clearly not meant for 6v6 singles lmaooo tf

Think alot of people are refusing to accept the idea that new mons being viable in a dex-cut gen with a whole new pool of pokemon = a meta shift and the same playstyles and team compositions will still work just as well as gen 8. People are also refusing to accept the idea that aslong as we're...

A lot of peoples arguments just seem to come down to "hazards are going up and I can't get rid of them without my mon being weakened!". My question is; is that not the point of spending precious turns in an offensively orientated meta-game where spinning comes at a potential cost? Its not like...

was gonna type something but glad someone said it better than I could. The mon literally gets beat by most hazard setters. If people wana cry that their opponent is using an entire team slot to block you from coming in and just clicking defog then slow-turning out and instead actually makes you...

Palafin is literally what Chien-Pao is trying to be but can't. Its strong, its priority isn't hinge on any of your opponents actions unlike sucker punch. It can tank virtually any unboosted hit in the tier from full and KO back. It has a recovery move (granted its reliant on its damage output...

Bundle until he terra steels and 1v1s you anyway

I personally think if we're allowing tera in the meta then we should also accept that using tera to counter certain mons (esp if your tera is a commonly used tera) is a legitimate argument against and for their viability (not talking about bundle in this statement just in general). I just don't...

I think consistency does play a part in a pokemons viability, if corviknight (one of the most common pokemon right now) comes in healthy on your bundle and you need to weaken it for something else to come in and 20% of the time you made NO PROGRESS thats a free u-turn or a free defog or a free...

You don't need a preview on cartridge to be able to preview eachothers tera types, it can just be a rule that both players tell eachother their tera types before you send out leads kindof like a gentlemans agreement. If both players agree to the smogon ruleset ingame, then they would be required...

I think bundle is a very good mon in the tier but not over centralizing at all. Its choice sets get beat by common defensive cores that can switch around it or just outright beat it if it clicks anything than pump which can miss since it doesn't get any other good water stab. Seen some people...

sub/dd gyra is at the very least a soft check to empoleon assuming that he doesn't get the burn when going for sub because a non offensive empoleons coverage moves can't break a sub on first hit AKA scald/ice beam, making empoleon setup bait for gyra.