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  1. Weather and its effects on the metagame

    I got a Hail team that I rather enjoy. I know that Hail is the unloved red-headed stepchild of the weather family, but I do enjoy it nonetheless. The only actual creative thing I have on it, though, would probably be sticking Worry Seed on Abomasnow. It's situational, but it's definitely worth...
  2. Stealth Rock Discussion

    But we're not talking about pokemon, we're talking about a move. If 90% of teams started running Scizor, for example, then you'd have to build your team around killing Scizor; while that's still a pain, Scizor still has an easily defined set of weaknesses that you can exploit. And I imagine...
  3. Stealth Rock Discussion

    Most of the metagame is based around SR. As mentioned above, SR completely makes or breaks many otherwise viable pokemon; SR weakness is often one of the only damning properties of a pokemon, banishing it from OU. Damage calculations are almost always done with SR included. If people want to use...
  4. Gastro Acid/ Worry Seed

    I stuck Worry Seed on my Abomasnow on my Hail team and it works surprisingly well in some situations. It's very situational, I'll admit, but I did have some fun with it. I was facing a Rest talk Gyarados so I just tossed Worry Seed on him. No more Rest. And in a spectacularly lucky...
  5. Stealth Rock Discussion

    Well, that's hardly fair to say "your team sucks if anyone has a 4x rock weakness". Even a 2x rock weakness is still crippling against Stealth Rock. Most Rock attacks don't have 100% accuracy, so that does balance out crippling weaknesses a little, but Stealth Rock hits no matter what as soon as...
  6. Ask a Simple Question, Get a Simple Answer - Read FAQ in First Post Before Asking

    I was on the Smogon server (I'm pretty sure I was, anyway), and this was around a week or two ago, when one of Deoxys' forms (I forget which one) was up for voting. He ended up not getting banned.
  7. Ask a Simple Question, Get a Simple Answer - Read FAQ in First Post Before Asking

    In the same vein, I have a question about this. I was battling on Pokemon Online on the Smogon server and I mentioned something about Deoyxs being suspect, and someone told me that Smogon banlists don't apply to PO. Was I just being trolled?
  8. Tier Lists (Ubers, OU, UU, RU, NU, LC)

    I managed to get a thread locked on the WoW forums because some idiot consistently spelled "lose" as "loose" and I finally corrected him, leading to a huge argument that derailed the thread completely. I was rather disgusted by the amount of people that tried to defend the other guy. Apparently...
  9. Would you still play in Smogon's OU Metagame if Stealth Rock was banned?

    Well, picking one pokemon does limit your choice for one of team slots from over 600 to around 20 (ok, technically you don't really have over 600 pokemon to choose from for an OU team since most pokemon are unevolved and even from the evolved ones, many are not fit for OU at all, but the point...
  10. Creative (and good) Movesets (READ THE OP FIRST)

    Hehe, I realized that I was I typing, but I couldn't really think of a better move to put there. I hardly use Focus Blast anyway, I generally switch my Honchkrow in for Superpower when I need a Fighting move.
  11. Dustox

    Troll Freak strikes again >.> It's the same reason why they gave Flareon a beastly Attack stat but no physical Fire STAB stronger than Fire Fang.
  12. Scrafty

    I got swept by a Scrafty today (not yours, hehe). It was embarrassing >.> I have no idea how to counter it on my Hail team, the only Flying and Fighting moves I have on anyone is Brave Bird and Superpower on my Honchkrow, and he's pretty squishy.
  13. Creative (and good) Movesets (READ THE OP FIRST)

    My Hail inducer is Abomasnow (of course), but I think I'm fairly creative: Abomasnow Modest 252 SpA 252 Spe 4 defense Giga Drain Blizzard Focus Blast Worry Seed Giga Drain and Blizzard are no brainers, being powerful STAB (I went for Giga Drain over anything harder hitting because I don't...
  14. np: OU Suspect Testing Round 4 - Blaze of Glory

    It's more than easy enough to take out a Shell Smasher before he gets to even boost up, and it's still easy after a boost if you have a priority move or someone who can handle a boosted move. Cloyster's got a high defense but his special defense is meh, if I'm not mistaken, and it's not...
  15. np: OU Suspect Testing Round 4 - Blaze of Glory

    The reason why Drizzle + Swift Swim was so overpowered was because Rain boosted all these STAB water moves while also making the Swift Swimmers outspeed everything. So you end up with a few pokemon who are extremely fast and hit for massively boosted damage. In contrast, Chlorophyll and...
  16. Rarely Used (RU) Tier

    I've actually been using Honchkrow on my OU Hail team, and he destroys things. He's unfortunately sorta squishy, but he hits like a truck. He's very useful in OU for me, so I can only imagine how useful he is in RU.
  17. np: OU Suspect Testing Round 4 - Blaze of Glory

    Seems like the first set can't really kill any Steels though, with them being immune to poison and resistant to dragon.
  18. Stealth Rock Discussion

    I think the biggest problem is the very small distribution of Rapid Spinner. It really narrows down your choices if you feel like you need a Rapid Spinner, a SR inducer, a Spin Blocker, and maybe a Taunter. I just find it a bit silly that there are 4 roles dedicated to stopping one move that...
  19. Poll: Would you still play in Smogon's OU if all perma-weather was banned?

    I'd probably stop playing, only because I use a Hail team >.> Can Hail be excluded from the hypothetical weather ban? It's not exactly open to abuse like the other weathers are, Hail is the neglected little brother of weather.
  20. Should we ban perma weather?

    Poor Hail, it's so unloved that people don't even remember it when talking about banning weather =(
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