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  1. GreatEclipse

    Pokémon Abomasnow

    Protect should be used over Substitute on the defensive set. Abomasnow has always been too slow, and forced out by too many things, to make an effective sub-seeder.
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    Pokémon Gengar

    So every Pokemon, from Mewtwo and his forms on down, will be tested first in OU before being banned in gen 6?
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    My Rain Team for Messing Around in BW

    Seems odd not to run Recover over Ice Beam/Thunder for Starmie, on a team you consider semi-stall. If you insist on 3 attacks + Rapid Spin, try Choice Specs over Leftovers. Also, move 40 EVs out of Spd and into HP or DEF, you don't out run anything important passed that point. For Jirachi...
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    Pokémon Gengar

    If you're running sleep on Mega Gengar, it's better to just take advantage of the free switch and go to your Dragon Dance user or something, rather than trying to stall them out with Dream Eater (think Encore Wobbuffet). Really, do we even need to test this guy to see that he is broken? I know...
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    Other Looking Ahead to Gen VI Mark II (SEE POSTS #818 & #858)

    With you completely, except I also think most look much worse compared to the pre-evolves. "Overdesigned" is the perfect word for almost all of them. Also, many have pointed out that power-wise, Megas tend not to be much better than the original forms without Choice Band/Specs or Life Orb, but...
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    Other Looking Ahead to Gen VI Mark II (SEE POSTS #818 & #858)

    The power-creep does look pretty bad when you consider the mega-evolutions, though. It's not the concept itself I have a problem with, it's that all but maybe 3 are designed for the sole purpose of being sweepers/wall breakers, and it will make building a stall team almost impossible. I would...
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    Stealth Rock Less Ladder

    The problem is Dragonite, not lack of Stealth Rock. Most of the offensive SR-weak Pokemon have also gained new counters, or find it harder to break through old ones now that rocks are gone; however, there are also a few that would have ended up in Ubers were it not for that weakness, Dragonite...
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    Stealth Rock Less Ladder

    As someone who plays stall exclusively, I find the absence of SR has made the style 10 times more enjoyable, to the point where I can't imagine going back to the old meta-game after playing this one. It creates so much more freedom when choosing Pokemon, for one. An OU rain stall team used to...
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    Suspect Discussion: "Hail"

    I did not know how things were done in the past, but it still does not make sense to me. When I build a team, I think first about responding to the most common stuff, and try to deal with the less common stuff when it arises. If a majority of people want to ban something for some other reason...
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    Suspect Discussion: "Hail"

    A Pokemon can certainly be heavily used without being broken, but I cannot see a Pokemon as broken if it is not heavily used, in the context of a competitive meta-game. That's just my view on it. What August posted looks scary at first, but from my experience, it is almost never that easy to...
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    Suspect Discussion: "Hail"

    While it's true that usage is not a perfect correlation for quality, for reasons like what you mentioned (though I find stall the most interesting strategy to play), it is when dealing with what does and does not centralize the meta-game. When it comes to suspect discussions for OU, it focuses...
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    Suspect Discussion: "Hail"

    As someone who has played RU hail stall teams to death, I really don't think they're that good. Walrein is great for sure if you can get him behind a sub with a decent amount of health left, but providing the proper support is really hard with only 6 team slots. Snover is of course mandatory...
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