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Priority Switcheroo is interesting. It can be used to cripple physical sweepers by giving them, say, an Iron Ball or a Choice Item. I think it deserves to be at least mentioned.

I'd like to mention that Payback is vastly inferior to Ice Punch on the Substitute set. Now that Payback has been nerfed, it only does double damage if Machamp is slower, and Ghost types that are faster than it are, the vast majority of the time, incredibly frail, meaning Stone Edge does enough...

Magic Coat and Stealth Rock are really all it has going for it. It could come in on something like Skarmory, but then it would just be Whirlwinded out, and Nattorei has STAB grass attacks that hurt. If it had Spikes, it would be amazing, but alas, it's basically a surefire Stealth Rock and...

WALL OF TEXT APPROACHING This is going to sound silly, but just hear me out. I'd like to try to bring up Steelix again. I've been testing it and it's been working astoundingly well. If you compare its stats to Skarmory, it's superior in almost every way, and even though it has lower...

Well, you have to understand that the idea behind banning is to keep everything within a playable range that doesn't depend completely on luck (evasion, inconsistent etc.). Rain essentially means that certain Pokemon become fast well beyond the point of Ubers (Deoxys-S, the fastest Pokemon in...