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Has anyone ever gotten the 10% sp def drop from focus blast?

Funny you say this because I had the same thought the other day

I’ve noticed you’ve brought up GF’s win rate often in your recent posts and I’d like to expand upon on how you could present this argument to make it more convincing to users like myself and others. Tbh, I’m not sure how to interpret win rate in the context of something being broken. It makes...

Not to single you out since I’ve seen similar takes often, but banning something to “ease teambuilding” has never made sense to me. For example, we banned Arch so one might think teambuilding got easier since you don’t need to account for rain as much, except the lack of Arch/rain made waterpon...

On the topic of survey scaling you guys raise good points and I’m sure a lot of people do vote 1 or 5 to maximize their impact even tho that’s not really the spirit of the survey. To fix this, I would redefine 1-5 and put less emphasis on using the overall average to report results. 5 = Vote...

Prior to Arch’s release, I’d used some niche stuff on rain to patch up some common rain weaknesses that had been somewhat successful high ladder (Tauros-Aqua for gambit + bax; Toxicroak for waterpon + rillaboom). On paper, Cobalion has potential to fill a similar role cuz it can check gambit...

Since the reqs topic is up: My one major criticism is that a reqs run is mostly about dunking on mid ladder players opposed to playing the best people consistently. If I’m gonna vote to ban X, I’d ban it because it’s overpowered at the highest level of play and not because the mid ladder...

I see your point, but I respectfully disagree. Imo banning King’s Rock instead of Cloyster is like banning Air Slash instead of Shaymin Sky. King’s Rock can be held by essentially anything, while Air Slash also has a wide distribution. King’s Rock has a 10% flinch chance, while Air Slash has...

Would banning Cloyster and unbanning King’s Rock ever be considered? My understanding is this goes against tiering policy. For example, Houndstone was initially banned and not Last Respects because Last Respects was only broken on Houndstone. Once Basculegion received Last Respects, now Last...

I’m curious how much of this is just trendy vs. actually being good. For example, I’ve been using hypnosis Golduck on rain (wide lens with hydro pump, np, tera psychic psychock) not necessarily cuz it’s good, but because I wanted to test it out to better understand the sleep discussion going on

I haven’t played much recently so I haven’t experienced facing too many hypnosis Darkrai. For people who have, do you think this strategy is actually good to the point of being potentially overpowered? Or is it more along the lines of a decently viable set that’s just really uncompetitive? If...

My experience using AV arch under rain is that if I commit to my Tera to it, it consistently gets 2+ kills against a lot of teams. Kinda like blood moon in a way but not as blatantly overpowered. Whoever had the hot takes of Archaludon (and meow fwiw) potentially being busted might not be...

Overall I like the meta nothing seems too broken yet. I do think part of this is because we haven’t had quite enough time for everything to stabilize since DLC-2. To keep it short: 1) I’m not a fan of koko tiering for reasons other have said many times, 2) I don’t think Kyurem is broken just...

How have you guys been preparing for iron boulder? It’s definitely been putting in work against me recently

Huh I never realized how buns Lugia’s movepool was until I checked rn. Def would be broken with toxic, but now it’s gonna be much harder to make progress. I’m not gonna waste time reiterating all the points you already made, but as I see it Lugia’s only real shot of being broken is a set of...

Are all of the new mechanics, Pokemon, moves, etc. compiled anywhere? Id rather not sift through 30+ pages of this thread

I was already in favor of dropping watershifu (probably because I’m in favor of dropping things in general), but I never thought of it that way. Sure, watershifu has the freedom to mix up it’s item/tera, is slightly bulkier before tera, and its stabs can’t be walled by a single tera type, but...

I would like to see Bax drop and get another chance. People were clamoring for a ban cuz of the veil and scale shot buffs before that DLC even dropped. Plus screens HO is always spammed the first couple weeks of a new meta and like others have said Bax does have positive contributions. I don’t...