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I think there needs to be a way to prevent players from wasting turns. Like clicking fake out at the end of the game they know they've lost and can't win with a critical hit.

Only defensive Zygarde can switch in. Banded takes about 50 percent from Fire Blast. Also Dragon Dance/Earthquake can beat Toxapex without haze. (Which is not a terrible set as it turns Charizard into something that destroys offense.)

It's not a good wallbreaker. It's only advantage is outspeeding fast pokemon. If it was electric/fighting it would be so much better, but it's just a decent fast pokemon. However, a pokemon that is very good in the metagame is Charizard Y. Due to its vast movepool, the only true counter is...

I don't think Mega Alakazam should be in the same tier as Hoopa. The only advantage Alakazam has over Hoopa is speed. Hoopa is a better breaker that can actually beat stall and one of the most versatile pokemon in the game. (To the point where it can't be countered and is actually one of the...

The problem with Scarf Magnezone is that it really struggles beating protect seed Ferrothorn and won't do anything if the opponent is using rain.. Sure trapping offensive heatran can be nice, but I don't think it's worth it. Sub is probably the best set since it allows it to actually beat...

So I've recently discovered that Hoopa is a really good stallbreaker. You don't run to run a choice set because those have to switch out. The best set I think is Hoopa-Unbound Fightinium Z/Psychium Z Timid 252 Speed 252 Special Attack Nasty Plot Dark Pulse Psyshock Focus Blast Unaware Clefable...

With Dugtrio gone, we may see the rise of Hoopa as a stallbreaker. While it does have a bit of Four move slot syndrome, a set with life orb hyperspace fury, psychic gunk shot and fire punch can two hit ko anything on stall. It's not perfect, but it's also not completely reliant on its item like...

So I've found that Marowak is an excellent stallbreaker. It's one of the only ones that can't be trapped by Dugtrio. This is my set Marowak Thick Club Adamant 252 Attack 216 Speed 40 HP Shadow Bone Swords Dance Flare Blitz Brick Break The speed is enough to outspeed uninvested Skarmory. Brick...

I was doing a battle with Zygarde vs Moltres on random battle. Zygarde used Thousand Arrows and Moltres proceeded to take neutral damage from it instead of super effective.

I've recently been using this Chandelure set to great success Chandelure Choice Specs Modest Nature Infiltrator Fire Blast Shadow Ball Energy Ball Trick This set has no switchins. Teams without a ghost resist are usually forced to sacrifice one of their walls and Chandelure has something other...

If you said Breloom, I would get that because Bisharp isn't a threat to Garchomp especially since Jolly is less common.

Reuniclus has one big problem that other calm down users don't have: Weavile. Clefable, Slowbro, Suicune and even Sylveon, don't fear Weavile the way Reuniclus does. Considering how omnipresent Weavile is, Reuniclus doesn't really have a place in the meta.

That calc ignores max defense Garchomp, which is a thing.

Charizard X also has the speed issue. If you run Adamant, you get outsped by Kyurem and Base 100s. If you run Jolly, you don't have enough power to take out Garchomp, even at +1. Charizard X can be a monster if it gets to set up, but there are so few things it can set up against.

This may have already been discussed but can we talk about how the games improve Zygarde. It goes from a subpar dragon dancer to an optimal one with the release of Thousand Arrows. It also gains the ability to be a stallbreaker with Thousand Waves trapping something like Chansey or Quagsire or...

Why not use Jirachi and Latios? Because Latias does both jobs and actually has the bulk to get a defog off. Latias lives a non-life orb shadow ball from Gengar while Latios doesn't and also has a chance to live Lopunny's return after fake out with leftovers. Latias gives you more room use a...

With all of the Volcanion, I'm a bit surprised that Specs Chandelure never caught on. I know its bulk is worse, but it hits neutral targets harder due to higher special attack and also boasts 3 immunities or the ability to hit through substitutes.

If you're running double dance, you need smack down because it hits skarmory and and reliably beats talonflame. Also you can't run leftovers over soft sand because you lose out on two hit KOs of quagsire.

Well the rise of zapdos really hurts klefki because unless klefki has toxic, zapdos spits in its face.

What is unfortunate is that defensive starmie gets more usage than analytic despite being so much worse. It has far less spin opportunities because they usually don't even run psychic coverage. Meaning all gengar has to worry about is a weak scald and sableye is always a free switch.