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  1. alphatron

    Baton Pass - its role in the metagame and possible solutions to nerf full Baton Pass chains

    If it's broken in ubers, I guess it could get banned from ubers too. I think jpw hit the nail on the head. Mare clock brought up some good points too in that smogon has never outright banned an entire playstyle before, but has gotten rid of problem Pokemon instead. And except for rain's case...
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    Baton Pass - its role in the metagame and possible solutions to nerf full Baton Pass chains

    Offensive teams can still deal with baton pass though. http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-105180260 http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-105186966 Not my replays. You can make the argument that his team is tailored to deal with baton pass but that isn't exactly the case. At a glance, it's a...
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    Shell smashing against Tyranitar is totally legit! Stone edge has about 10% accuracy anyway, so when it misses, you're free to set up and sweep! Reminds me of fifth gen wifi battles. I had my Latias in against a garchomp and I had used calm mind 4 times already. Sand was up. I missed dragon...
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    There's nothing wrong with using drizzle and drought on the same team. Especially when the drought user is someone good like charizard Y. It's why some ubers teams use groudon and kyogre on the same team. I don't mean to be mean, but a lot of this thread has been "The Bad vs. the Terrible"...
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    Nah, this is completely legit. When a Pokemon's movepool is so bad that you've got no other options, you have to work with what you've got. The silly thing is that somebody is using leafeon in OU. But if you absolutely have to tread those waters for whatever reason you choose, then dig is a...
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    Official XY OU Suspect Process, Round 1, Voting

    Lucarionite: Ban Genesect: Do Not Ban Deoxys-S: Abstain
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    Forgot that slurpuff had unburden. I can't watch too many of the replays in this topic.
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    There's no way the second guy could have been legit. Staraptor outsped slurpuff on the first turn. What was he using when he came in a second time? Whirlwind?
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    Other Don't use that, use this [XY OU Edition]

    2% usage isn't even OU though. So it's not really necessary to make a post talking about why you shouldn't use arcanine at all. I mean, umbreon and metagross currently have higher usage than he does and I don't see anybody mentioning them in this topic.
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    XY Suspect Testing Round 1 np: Michael Jackson - (extreme)Speed Demon (READ POST #1278)

    I still see a lot of people using deoxys-S as a pure suicide hazard setter on the ladder and my only question is "why?"
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    His physical movepool is good enough to prevent the usual special walls from being a threat to him. That's why neither Tyranitar nor blissey were considered counters to him last gen and that's one of the reasons why he was banned. If you're running four attacks and some coverage moves, there...
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    XY Suspect Testing Round 1 np: Michael Jackson - (extreme)Speed Demon (READ POST #1278)

    Heatran doesn't take a lucario close combat at all. Even 252/252 bold heatran.
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    Donphan is pretty hilarious but have you ever heard of forretress in 6th gen OU? Now that's real humor.
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    Kirby Dreamland 3 is a pretty cool game.

    Kirby Dreamland 3 is a pretty cool game.
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    XY Suspect Process, Round 1 - Voter Identification Thread (READ POST #119)

    Confirming as DOUBLE SPOILER. I have no business playing pokemon at 4 am in the morning. That picture of Stu sounds really accurate right about now. Sorry if I didn't recognize all the alts.
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    Other Silly Things You've Seen On The OU Ladder: V2

    Choice scarf deoxys-S with extreme speed. I have a long and painful list. I'd rather not get into it all at once.
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    Other XY OU Viability Ranking Thread (B- and C+ Pokemon discussion)

    Mr. Mime has no use in OU outside of the baton pass gig. I'd really like to know why he's getting an OU analysis at all. Because they're good players. Defog has downsides that rapid spin does not. The fact that it gets rid of the hazards you took the time to put up is a problem unless your...
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    Other XY OU Viability Ranking Thread (B- and C+ Pokemon discussion)

    All this Donphan talk has me thinking about forretress' current placement. It's worse than donphan at nearly everything. It usually doesn't have the time to set up hazards beyond SR. Unlike donphan, it has absolutely no way to handle spinblockers at all besides catching gengar on the switch in...
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    Pokémon Donphan

    Donphan wasn't the only rapid spinner for sun teams at all. I'm not sure why people keep saying that. Donphan's best set this generation is probably the assault vest set. There are better SR users. And he has no business getting walled by the likes of charizard and friends.
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    Pokémon Infernape

    It's not as simple as thinking that they'll always use king's shield. If they use shadow ball on the SD turn, then you lose your infernape to shadow sneak next turn.
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