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Hey everyone, Thank you so much for your suggestions/criticism. I know that my teams are a bit weak to Imposter users; I think that building against Imposter-centered teams leaves me weak to some of the Hyper Offense builds that I have seen on the ladder, but I am hoping that further experience...

Hello All, I would like to present some of my favorite Balanced Hackmons teams, and ask for criticism of one specific team. Along the way I would like to discuss some of the most central concepts that I feel are present in the Balanced Hackmons metagame. BH is an incredible metagame due to...

I don't mean to oversimplify the issue, but I think the biggest reason to avoid banning on Metagrossite is the multiple options for practical elimination. There are three methods of trapping in the OU metagame (Magnezone, Dugtrio, Pursuit Trapping), and Metagross is vulrenable to all of them...

Hey man your team composition seems viable, but the EV spreads on Landorus, Pyukumuku, Ferrothorn, and Zapdos are all kind of nonsense. If you are trying to have a more offensive opproach to stealth rocks landorus, I would heavily recommend more speed investment, also known as "speed creep"...

If im not mistaken, pressure is seen as plenty viable on that team to (a) bluff defog and (b) pp drain stall teams

Thanks for the reply Gary, I definitely agree with everything you said. I guess one easy change to fix the zard/volc issue is mantine over fini, but mantine loses a ton of initiative and is generally bad in the current meta. As far as your point about lack of scarfers, I haven't been able to...

Hey so this is a team I made a couple of weeks ago, and has been very consistent against most common builds, but is a little bit weak to Zard Y, Bloom Doom Tran, Volcorona, and Venusaur as well as a couple of other things I am struggling to think of. I'll note that Pokeaim posted a video on...

I know I've played you on ladder, I like pink mons. I didnt mean to offend you so sorry if I came off a bit harsh. Of course TTar uses pursuit, we are both on the same page. If you feel like you can't outplay a bandtar, maybe you should put protect on chansey over toxic, so you can scout for the...

I think this is called a slippery slope fallacy; the idea that a detriment to one playstyle will surely result in the ultimate demise of that playstyle is speculation at best. We have seen stall adapt multiple times; a trapping element for stall teams is an extremely valid win condition, but...

I largely disagree with the notion that dugtrio and arena trap itself are uncompetitive, due to the fact that Dugtrio's role on a team is fairly one-dimensional, and it is easily brought down to focus sash (or KO'd) by any single attack. Additionally it gets very few free switchins other than on...

Seems good, but what do you think in terms of effectiveness over your last team? Have you battled much with the new version? Also, my opinion is that Choice Band Dugtrio is less reliable than focus sash, although choice band is definitely viable, and very cool as it is uncommon compared to Scarf...

Hey man, I'm glad to see someone posting stall teams, as I thoroughly enjoy playing against stall with well-prepared offensive builds. Stall is obviously a very consistent playstyle, but there are some essential elements to effective stall teams that your team seems to be lacking: 1. A Trapping...

Thanks for the reply Ktütverde. I agree that weavile has strong viability over tyranitar, but appreciate tyranitar's ability to threaten bulky and balanced teams where weavile can be shrugged off. Dual dance landorus can be an issue, however they must chose to either swords dance and lose to...

Hello everybody! This team I have put together uses one of my favorite pokemon, Chandelure, as well as a pokemon that has become considerably more popular this generation, Dugtrio. These two pokemon are used to address popular offensive and defensive threats, such as Chansey, Pheromosa, Heatran...

Thanks for the replies everybody! Hira - You are totally right that Scarf Nihilego is a big problem for my team. I haven't used this team much in the past week or so, but I imagine that it would be extremely difficult to win that matchup. The only real solution I could see is killing it with AV...

Thanks for the reply Seamus Eso! I think smooth rock is quite viable on TTar, and I will consider making that change, however I worry that it will miss out on valuable pursuit KO's such as tapu lele and genesect after stealth rocks. I can't argue that it is a bit overkill, and definitely can...

Hey Aaawq You are totally right in the fact that matchups vs HO can often be worse. If you test the team out yourself, you will often find that these matchups rely on getting sand up frequently and chipping away at offense's defensive pokemon with Excadrill. If you can successfully pressure with...

Ursaring is a pokemon that has typically only seen usage in low tiers (its home was PU in the ORAS metagame), however I would argue that Ursaring is much more viable now with two conditions being met in the SUMO OU metagame: 1) The Speed Shift - In SUMO OU, many teams rely on slow defensive...

Thanks for the comments guys! I was originally going to use thick fat originally, because i do agree that it is generally superior ability, however i wanted to pressure teams that rely on lead azelf, such as the birdspam team ( http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/xtra-chirp.3579051/ ) seen so...

WINTER IS HERE, AND IT'S TIME TO PLAY IN THE SNOW!! Ok everybody, we all know how overpowered weather can be in Pokemon. Rain teams have been extremely popular in ORAS, and I'm sure everybody is familiar with the Tapu Koko rain teams flooding the SUMO OU ladder. Tyranitar and Excadrill continue...