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You get a Leaf Stone right before Fortree, which is approximately when you'll want to evolve Gloom anyways since it learns Giga Drain at 34.

I just beat the Elite Four in my no-EXP Share Omega Ruby nuzlocke, it was a pretty close one. My team going into it was Altaria, Swampert, Vileplume, Camerupt, and an underleveled Tropius and Carvanha I hadn't been using but needed to carry HMs for Victory Road. Camerupt died to Glacia's...

I'm of the opinion that the only things that really belong in S tier are Pokemon that are consistently excellent for the entire game with very few down points. In most tier lists (in general, not specifically for pokemon), S represents things that are way above and beyond the things that are...

I'd like to suggest moving Oddish-Vileplume up to B. It has pretty early availability, the typing is average but Gloom and Vileplume are bulky enough to take even an SE hit from most things. It's one of the only reliable sources of sleep, it gets access to a decent offensive movepool supported...

If the Landorus in that example uses U-turn to predict a switch and there wasn't a switch, nothing bad happens to him because KS was used twice in a row and failed.

You're actually trying to argue that Aegislash "forces" pokemon to use one of the best physical attacking moves in the game? Picking a move that deals with one threat as opposed to picking another move to deal with a different threat is part of teambuilding. Of course you have to make difficult...

The problem with this, ginganinja, is that the next big metagame shift will happen before we're done getting through all the "and now we have to ban X", JUST LIKE what happened last gen where there wasn't enough time to suspect test all the crap that kept causing problems because of how that...

So then Skarmory warps the metagame by forcing too many pokemon to run moves to deal with it? Having to choose between threats to negate isn't a bad thing for the metagame. It keeps things interesting, and forces people to make actual decisions when teambuilding instead of just "this is the...

I disagree. Sure, EQ is 20 BP less, but I'd argue that Ground has better coverage than Fighting, and it doesn't have the defensive drawback that CC does. They're both very good moves, though, and either of the two should be run on nearly all physical attackers. Aegislash making some pokemon lean...

Aegislash isn't holding back Psychic as a type. What's holding that back is the massive buff that Ghost and Dark moves got in this generation, as a whole. Aegislash certainly contributes to that, but there are plenty of other Pokemon that can Knock Off / Shadow Ball / etc. and OHKO most psychics...

Aegislash without King's Shield is pretty much worthless in OU, so banning it doesn't actually accomplish anything that just banning him wouldn't. Saying that he forces physical attackers to run Earthquake is dumb, because physical attackers should be running it most of the time anyways. It's...

Aegislash does not have a BST of 720. If you're going to spout ignorant drivel, at least make sure it's not blatantly incorrect first.

I completely concur with this. Things getting obscenely ubiquitous to the point where 80% or more of all teams run them possibly in addition to a dedicated slot to counter them... there's a problem.

I have to agree that his best use is probably in Trick Room. You can get his speed up with Nature, EVs, and Rock Polish and then risk someone gibbing you with priority before you can do anything with your setup, or you can have someone else set up for him and then switch in to wreak havoc...

People who dislike weather need to learn to play tanky disruption Altaria. Drop in on the weather user with Cloud Nine and either block/toxic or whirlwind them for hilarious times all around.

So, uh... I started with Tepig, caught two lilipups, and got my pansage. Pansage died on his first battle to a critical tackle, and now I have no Poke with cut, can't catch anything else, and can't proceed forward because of the dream dust crap. What do?

I'll be restarting my Black and running a Nuzlocke fairly soon. Possibly tomorrow, depending on how long the drive to Ribfest is. ^_^ Also, I just read this comic, and I highly recommend that anyone else who is a fan of Nuzlocke or just Pokemon in general read it. It's a real heartwrencher. The...