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Drat, and I had a whole spiel ready for Magearna. Oh well, into the wastebin it goes. Anyways, it's been a minute since I've had anything to say so I figured I'd give my "extremely relevant" opinions on things. I'll go ahead and just put out the (most likely) popular sentiment of Pidgeotite...

Righto, time for me to make some inputs. Bans and Metagame Health: I'm in full agreement on Eternatus being unhealthy for the meta as a whole, same as last gen. Offensive sets are as potent as ever and it's ridiculously bulky for its speed and power, while still being able to run...

Well, now that we're in a post-tera meta, I guess it's time for some good old meta discussion/breakdown. Ordinarily I'd give the meta some time to settle after a ban, but a lack of tera hasn't really changed much overall outside of there being less existential dread every time you see a Rusted...

Alright, well it's time to discuss Terastallization. Prior to the release of the Rusted items, I was extremely pro-tera, choosing a tera user over a mega had genuine drawbacks in regards to bulk/speed or power depending on item choice and I considered the general tradeoffs of being able to...

Well, now that the meta's had some time to stew, I'll add my two cents to the mix. While I'm not going to go and point out some immediate threat that completely breaks down the meta because at the time, there isn't one that quite breaks the meta, I will say that the current pressure on...

Hello again folks, it's time for another stupidly long post by yours truly where I talk about anything and everything. On the topic of the current suspect, I'm of little opinion. Sandy Shocks before Zap Cannon was already a very strong Pokemon with its Manectite and Glalite sets being of note...

Hello everyone, it's me, who has crawled out of his hole in the ground to discuss my favorite OM. In this post I'll be covering various trends in the meta, as well as a few individual 'mons. So, let's rattle off a couple of discussion topics(note: these are all my opinion based on current...

I'm gonna disagree with a lot of this here. I feel like the majority of your argument isn't really "Espeed is unhealthy for the meta and overly restricts viable choices in team comps and build styles" so much as "These specific espeeders vastly outclass the other, less powerful espeeders and I...

Been a while since I've done a tour I'll go in

Ahhh, sweet justice, Zeraora is no more! Well, now that it's gone, it's time for thdhted's meta forecast! I'll talk about some stuff that's more likely to get better as well as some stuff I've been messing with because science. First off, let's give a warm welcome to our new overlord...

Gengar: Ban

Whoooo boy this laddering attempt was cursed, but I finally got the reqs needed. Opinions on Gengar: Still not entirely sure about it, but leaning a more towards the ban side of things. Ghost typing is super favorable this gen due to a lack of really solid dark type answers to it, and gen 8 MnM...

Suspects and Bans are entirely at the council's discretion after all. I'm honestly in agreement with it(for the most part). Melmetal was ridiculously strong and bulky at the same time, being near impossible to land OHKOs on while it often 2HKOed just about every possible switchin with either...

Both of these sets run into one common problem: Arcanine, who more than happily switches in and proceeds to OHKO back with Espeed. Corviknight also doesn't care at all about boosted Dragapult unless it's the Last Resort set, but that set is also going to find itself dealing with a variety of...

"No way! What's this?!" >An absolutely fantastic poster! "Exactly! Bob, with his brilliant smile, must be part of the legend!" "Wait, what are you on about?! Don't confuse me!" I died at this. Sometimes the little touches of humor where they aren't expected are exactly what you need.

Can we just talk about THIS for a second? This is actually just mildly disturbing on the level of X/Y's Fairy Tale Girls. Dude looks like he hasn't slept or eaten in a week and I don't think I EVER want to meet him in a dark alley.

I'll follow up on some of the stuff I and others have been playing with, starting with this bad boy: Tyranitar @ Pinsirite Ability: Sand Stream EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def (252 Speed and Jolly are also viable) Adamant Nature - Stealth Rock / Dragon Dance - Stone Edge - Body Slam /...

My guess is that they'll have to add in an all inclusive Pokemon transfer at some point(look at X/Y where we had to wait on Pokemon Bank) in the game's lifespan, and it might just be that they haven't worked out the cross-compatability feature to get the transfer done.

I'd like to say that Malva being a Team Flare member was a nice touch, despite them not going anywhere with it.

One thing I will say is that the Kahuna AI seems to be fairly smart for whatever reason. I recently finished a US Egglocke and the Nanu fight was surprisingly smart for what it was. He consistently went into sableye both times I tried going for a fighting move(from a Kommo-O), which really...