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Avalugg Why this Pokemon deserves an OU analysis: This Pokemon is criminally underrated but for reasons that mostly make sense given the history of its fellow Ice-types; it's a slow Pure-Ice-type and it's none too fond of Special Attacks. But Pokemon like Skarmory have shown that lack of...

Zoroark Overview ######## Gen VI has been very kind to Zoroark overall. Thanks to the Steel-type nerf and Knock Off buff, what was once a Pokemon that lived and died by its gimmick is now one of the fastest STAB users of one of the better offensive types in the game. Zoroark is now less reliant...

The Trick Room Play-style in Gen VI While many may still consider Trick Room a gimmick, the team style has benefited greatly from the generation shift. Bulky offense has stolen the show in generation VI so, with Trick Room historically being only 2nd to stall when it comes to bulk, it's easy to...

Pokémon XY Data Collection Approved by Stellar This thread is for the collection of data on the new Pokemon, moves, and abilities introduced in Pokemon X and Y. This thread is NOT for discussing opinions; only collecting data. All XY competitive discussion about the OU tier belongs in the...

Peaked 1986 ACRE / 2044 Glick2 228 Wins / 83 Loses Total The purpose of building this team is twofold; I wanted to test how one of our newest Fairy-type Pokemon fares in OU before its Fairy-typing and I also wanted to test a bit of philosophy: Today, it's becoming more accepted that Sleep can...

Done! Since hide tags don't work, I uploaded the original skeleton here http://www.mediafire.com/view/f3ok3dcwq7o1hmr/Liepard.rtf to avoid scrolling through two analyses to get to the comments. And if it does work somehow and I'm just not aware, please tell me. No download is required for that...

So I’ve been having fun with a Hyper Offensive-ish team lately and I felt that Smeargle has been doing well enough to merit an analysis. And happy birthday to Smeargle, because apparently Deo-D got banned while I was away this evening. Cool beans. *removes mentions of Deo-D* QC: 2/3 alexwolf...

Big props to PK Gaming for like 90% of this. QC: (3/3) alexwolf, ginganinja, lavos spawn GP: (2/2) NixHex, Oglemi Zoroark [Overview] <p>Zoroark is all about fighting dirty by using sneaky tricks and underhanded tactics to win matches. It achieves this by utilizing its signature...

Zoroark RMT/Research Study (Peaked 1836 (-9) with a 18 Win Streak alone) This is a RMT stemming from my looking into how the hell Zoroark works in OU. The team is essentially the end result of everything but I've summarized everything I've learned in the hide tag below just to keep it...

Trying out a new RMT format with this one while having a little fun. SkarmBliss: (Chansey in this case) the bread and butter of stall. When the OU forum opened its stall exploration project, I wanted to break the mold and see if I could put a twist on an age-old concept. I immediately turned to...

Revamping and merging the Sub+3 Attacks set with the Protect analysis. QC: 3/3 (ginganinja, PK Gaming, Pocket) GP: 2/2 (Melvni, Redew) Done and ready to go! Gengar [SET] name: Offensive 3 Attacks move 1: Substitute / Protect move 2: Shadow Ball move 3: Focus Blast move 4: Hidden...

Today’s the day for Gothitelle. As of August 9th Shadow Tag Gothitelle is (allegedly) released. She’s the first Shadow Tag Pokémon that can attack directly and set up as well as the first trapping Pokémon with access to Trick. Whatever she decides to do, with Shadow Tag Chandelure nowhere to be...

I'm sick while writing this so it's far from a masterful RMT; sorry about the quality. With the introduction of Keldeo and Thundurus/Tornadus-Therian, Politoed has begun his plans of global saturation. Thankfully, the primary abuser of Rain is a fantastic Pokemon even in Sunlight meaning that...

I normally don't write analysis for the intent of influencing a Pokemon's usage rather than just pointing out cool things low tier Pokémon can do; but after a long period of researching and using Poliwrath, I really like using it on my teams and I honestly believe it should be much higher in...

With the BW metagame winding down as we count the days to Black 2 & White 2’s release, I think it would be interesting to look back on some of BW’s items. BW didn’t give us that greatest items, but it by far gave us the most interesting items. Most of these items haven’t been properly looked at...

I felt like writing tonight/this morning. (Whichever one keeps ya sane) Why OU?: Misdreavus is one of the ‘gems in the rough’ of 5th Gen. With Eviolite & Max Defense, she reaches a very respectable 324/360/309 defensive spread, (beat that, Jellicent) which actually makes her a great deal...

Welcome to the Anti-Metagame "Tier List!" This is a list of Pokemon that counter the Top 11 in OU arranged into an easily readable "tier list" for your team building convenience. It will soon be a Top 20 list but for the moment, it's just Top 11. A Few Quick Notes Before Reading On...

The Frozen Boundary (18:39:35) *** Your rank in Standard OU is 10/49981 [1501 points / 42 battles]! Screen Cap "Did I just speed-run the ladder?..with Kyurem?" After a mere 3 hours (& about 20 minutes) of battling, this team skyrocketed to the top 10 of OU. It was the absolute fastest I've...

Tous Pour Un, Un Pour Tous (All For One, One For All) Hello! This is a team with the "gimmick" of using all 3 of the Musketeers successfully; a task I believe I accomplished. What was originally a simple dark horse challenge team as became my main team for laddering as well as one of my most...

A set that invokes such messages as; "That is bullshit!", "I hate you.", "The window was disabled due to one of the players closing the battle window.", and other flattering remarks from the Smogon Server. The main Sableye analysis is currently in copy-editing so I'm giving this it's own...