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  1. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v4 [Volcarona Suspect]

    I have a few things I wanted to share regarding tournaments : First of all, I regularly watch tournament battles to keep up with the current metagame and trends. It kind of made me wonder why everyone was so scared about DeoS when it litteraly did nothing in tournament... Anyway, I try to...
  2. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v3

    Here is my personal opinion on the ban/unban topics close to DLC2 drop : I think whatever we want to do with Gholdengo /Kingambit does not matter in the slightest. What I mean is that whatever the support from community, council, whether we ban them, suspect them, let them as is, every single...
  3. Ramplestilskin

    Project [NEW] SV OU Office Hours [BACK OPEN FOR QUESTIONS]

    What is your personal philosophy on how OU should look like ? Let me explain what I mean with this question : we all have a certain "notion" of what OU pokemon should look like and this definition has certainly changed over the years as we today have an UU that is the OU of old gens. Meaning...
  4. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v3

    To be fair, ever since Uber has been recognized as a competitive tier and AG has been created, I don't even understand (apart from the fact that this is historically what has been done and people want to stay true to a pre-established order and are naturally against big changes) why Uber is...
  5. Ramplestilskin

    SV OU HISUIAN GOODRA OFFENSE - PEAKED #1, 2094 ft. Thundurus-Therian

    Hi ! First, I have to say I really like the flavor of your team. I felt in love with Cinderace in this meta, but most notably, the Thundy outspeeding Samurott and volt switching into Lando with Helmet to prevent any spikes is pretty nice. I don't really know if this team in particular is the...
  6. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v2 [Update on Post #5186]

    I personally find it astonishing that light clay is being radared before stored power. I can understand the statement that a lot of pokemon learn the move and are not uncompetitive but I do not really understand what it proves. As someone already said, Baton pass has been banned even though a...
  7. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v2 [Update on Post #5186]

    Has it ever been considered to ban Stored Power ? I mean I know we prefer banning pokemon over moves but every instance where we see stored power being used has always been quite unhealthy. It was literally the reason why baton pass teams started being banned back in the day. Without it, I don't...
  8. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion

    Following the survey and on a different note from what have been discussed over and over on this thread (mainly orthworm, and I said back before Espathra ban that shed tail was actually a problem), what are your thoughts on unending trap moves ? Do you think they are healthy for the metagame ? I...
  9. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion

    Is there actually any incentive to suspect shed tail ? If we are all being realistic, that is what got Cyclizar to get banned and I personally think that is what makes Espathra really broken. Espathra has very low opportunity to come in any move of any Pokémon in the metagame. Be it a status...
  10. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame SS OU Metagame Discussion (Usage stats in post #944)

    Hey guys, I played quite a lot lately (didn't really played seriously since Gen6, like little after ORAS I think), with different playstyles and I just wanted to share some thoughts about it. Started off with "obviously broken things" without thinking much about what i putted in my team, just...
  11. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame Metagame Discussion Thread

    "We're banning Cutiefly because the fact that a random pokemon is able to baton pass quiver dance boosts is broken" gg
  12. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame Metagame Discussion Thread

    I kind of agree with that, because it would be bad banning each pokemon getting access to BP and a move like quiver dance in the future. As venomoth back when it was banned, this is actually the fact to be able to boost both speed and offensive stats, then passing it to the appropriate pokemon...
  13. Ramplestilskin

    Metagame Metagame Discussion Thread

    There is something I really don't understand here : why would you ban cutiefly / BP when you can simply do the same thing as every other tiers : use the Baton Pass Clause ???
  14. Ramplestilskin

    On The Radar

    Porygon-Z isn't banworthy at all, it is soooo predictable. It really has a hard time switching into anything, and then has to set up. So it's probably taking two hits before it can effectively sweep. All calcs saying "it's not even 2HKO by this or this" are mostly irrelevant because of that, but...
  15. Ramplestilskin

    Smogon Usage-Based Tier Update: August 2015

    when will the stat for the month be released ???
  16. Ramplestilskin

    Smogon Usage-Based Tier Update: August 2015

    Klefki up to OU, is it a consequence to the release of Hoopa-Unbound ?
  17. Ramplestilskin

    Blindmons (revived and on Origin!)

    Does that mean it's not playable on joimslab anymore ? I tried and when my opponent challenged me, nothing happened (it didn't asked me to accept or refuse). Also I tried on the Aqua server but each time a battle started, it said "The battle crashed" so we were not able to play.
  18. Ramplestilskin

    Ladder Monotype [Read post #393 for Tiering Updates]

    That may be true but to me that makes as much sense as a HO player playing with Deo-D or Deo-S. Some want to keep it in order to continue playing as they were playing, other understand by playing it that's it's too much for the metagame. the Monotype tiers is not an exception concerning biased...
  19. Ramplestilskin

    Ladder Monotype [Read post #393 for Tiering Updates]

    To be honest I think MScizor can pretty easily decimate Fairy or Ice teams, because it has a good bulk, access to Sword Dance and a pretty strong priority almost similar to Talonflame's ability to sweep teams (and the exact same reason why Talonflame was banned in the first place). However...
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