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BL : Gallade, Staraptor, Abomasnow UU : Froslass, Crobat, Raikou

I'm going to have to disagree with the above poster... commenting on things like "the opponent complimented me, how nice" is not really what we as readers are looking for. It'd be okay if your other comments on the battle had a bit more depth to them, but, when most of your lines are you...

Confirming as Dados. I should have my paragraphs in either today or tomorrow.

Can't or unwilling to adapt to the metagame? Vote the troublesome pokemon away, and make the metagame adapt to you! Brilliant. That's all I'm going to say on this subject though, as it's blatantly obvious that some people just aren't going to change.

I agree with you Heysup - I was trying to emphasize the speed thing though, which is something I feel people overexaggerate a bit too much. As far as revenge killing as a check for Mismagius goes, I see people using Choice Scarfers much more than they use the eight or so pokemon between Raikou...

Your statement is about as vague and uncontributing as it gets MapleSandwich. "Proper Moveset" - care to elaborate? Maybe it's just me, but I don't see a Sub CM moveset that can cover nearly as many pokemon as you seem to imply. Also, if your team is unprepared with checks to stop a Raikou...

lol, well Heysup was talking about Slowking, not Slowbro in the original post you quoted. Jumpluff can encore Seed Flare on the switch in, which is the point, not leech seed or anything else. Yes, Shaymin can predict and use Hidden Power, but then same goes for Crobat with Psychic, etc.

328 Atk vs 169 Def & 641 HP (120 Base Power): 325 - 384 (50.70% - 59.91%) Meh, seems around 50% to me. ?_? When factoring leftovers? Whatever. Anyway, someone else mentioned it, but it really helped Shaymin's cause that a lot of its checks were the ones banned for this testing period. I...

If by 2HKOing you mean it does around 50%, then it still stands that Shaymin will need a second Sp. Defense drop to win one on one against a Wish Chansey. 40% chance for one, 40% chance for another, taking in consideration the accuracy... yeah, not good. Point taken about the 'counter' though...

I thought this had been brought up before too. With a combination of Wish and Protect, Chansey can easily survive a Shaymin's attacks while Shaymin loses valuable PP and takes LO damage. Chansey still only takes around 50% after a defense drop... so I guess maybe if it gets the drop twice...

Altaria? Not that many pokemon run Hidden Power Ice anymore - especially LO Blaziken, who usually can't afford to go without Electric or Grass. I don't know the extent of your team so I dunno, but it can Heal Bell / Perish Song if that helps to fit over another particular member. Hariyama is...

My experience so far has been that stall teams have been good, but not very common. I've honestly run into only two or three all-out stall based teams so far. That being said, Intimidate Hitmontop is a beast on defensive teams, so if you're considering a spinner then this one's definitely a...

Sorry, you just showed that Camerupt is not viable? With what, theorymon? I used a Camerupt on a lot of my teams, so I can say from experience that support Camerupt is far from inviable. It does a good job in getting up Stealth Rock, and very few bulky waters like coming in on a Toxic or Lava...

We should be around the half way point of the test now, so there's still a long way to go. Crobat and Froslass are the ones I'm looking at keeping in UU right now. Froslass is an annoying bitch though, so TBH I would be okay with it leaving. :/ Stall has been pretty good the times I've faced...

No, that has STAB factored in. Without STAB it's only 33% max.

Most Registeel I see don't. Stealth Rock/Thunderwave/Toxic/Other Support Options are just too hard to give up.

For Registeel, I was using Perishtrap Mismagius early in the UU test. Registeel is commonly a first switch-in to CM Mismagius, so you mean look on the switch and get down to work. @ Lemmiwinks That looks like a Shoddy bug to me too. :-/

They are often countered by the same group of pokemon (Gyarados, Zapdos, Rotom, etc.), so if you use one to eliminate those threats you can safely sweep with the other.

Have you actually been able to keep Gigas in for five turns? Just curious. The support part is definitely cool though.