You seem to think that the main idea of my posts are that "I'm offended" or something completely unrelated to the actual content of my post. Additionally, you are trying to make this personal and thus irrelevant. I don't care that you and thund use Venomoth and Ninetales, I'm not talking about "gimmicky" Pokemon users, I'm talking about people not "trying" to play competitively. There are clearly people (For example, yourself) who use things like Jynx with Lovely Hax to the best of their ability (ie competitively), and these Pokemon don't really have other Pokemon who outclass them. My main complaint is that people are not making good teams, they are just using whatever Pokemon for whatever reason (ie not competitively). I should not be able to run from 0-1550 without losing once using a team that is basically designed to fail "if you're thinking straight during your team building process".I'm not arguing anything. I'm merely stating facts. If it offends you that a large group of people on the ladder would rather experiment with novel sets than play competitively I invite you to make a hardcore team full of what you feel are the best pokemon in the tier and get to the top of the leaderboard, since by your argument it's very easy to beat gimmicky users like me and thund. If enough people do that maybe players like us will take the ladder seriously enough to start using bog standards again! Until then though please excuse me if I continue using things like venomoth and ninetales and still end up consistently winning the vast majority of my games against players using things like Moltres and Milotic
It's egotistical and selfish to expect people to play competitively on a competitive Pokemon server? I must be out of place then or something iono....You guys are complaining about the vast majority of players not being good enough to entertain you? That is a very egotistical and selfish reason to hate the current metagame.
I know the way you play pretty damn well, and it is definitely under the category of competitive (by any reasonable definition). You don't just use Lovely Hax Jynx for shits and giggles, you use it because it fits your team well and you use it very effectively. I'm talking about peoples entire attitude towards the ladder. There are too few players who are playing competitively. A competitive player will beat my shitty Omastar team without even thinking about it.And nope, I don't strive to build the best team out there or perfect a certain playstyle, but apparently you know the way I play better than myself.
Even with Trace I feel this is better left to Alakazam. I do think Wish and WoW could be useful and differentiate it a bit though. WoW in particular helps it set up.Right, let's try and move on from the metagame love/hate and talk about some cool things that this 'stable' metagame has let us try out (preferably to good effect). So I would say CM Psychics are among the most threatening Pokemon out there, being able to manhandle the common Fire/Water/Grass cores once you remove/weaken some specific Dark-type Pokemon (basically Spiritomb). I think someone mentioned the effectiveness of a Mismagius + CM Psychic offensive combo not too long ago, and I've been using something similar with a variety of different Psychics with nice results. I played around with CM Alakazam but had some difficulty setting up against opponents who didn't switch out in fear / had just used a support move. CM Mesprit was very nice and impressed me a lot, and it's a Pokemon I would definitely recommend outside of the lead position it is so often relegated to. Grumpig was fun but don't try it haha. But out of all of them, I am now completely in love with CM Gardevoir - it is fast (enough), it's strong, it can take a decent beating on the special side, and it has so so many options aside from the obligatory CM/Psychic/coverage move that it'll keep you occupied for days!
Gardevoir @ Leftovers
Timid - Trace
4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
- Calm Mind
- Psychic
- Focus Blast / Thunderbolt
- Will-o-Wisp / Taunt / Encore / Wish / Hypnosis / Heal Bell / Pain Split / (Disable) / Destiny Bond
Trace is niche but can still be extremely helpful - in particular it makes it quite easy to switch in on Intimidate Hitmontop and certain Flash Fire users, while also acting as a decent check to Rain / Sun teams. Try this thing out, it has a crazy number of viable options to play around with and has a very good balance of power and bulk. You can tailor it to fit a lot of specific team needs and still function as a great setup sweeper.
Yeah I like this line of discussion better.
A note on that Gardevoir: Synchronize should be used if you're running Heal Bell in order to screw things like Toxic Milotic and Chansey over. .
That's why i prefer th 252 HP EVs instead of 252 SpA ones.Even with Trace I feel this is better left to Alakazam. I do think Wish and WoW could be useful and differentiate it a bit though. WoW in particular helps it set up.
Consider Hypnosis for the last spot as well. Calm Mind up as they bring in their counter, put it to sleep. RestTalking Milotic is a pain, but whatever. You can also run Lum Berry or something like that for the item, so if something like Chansey comes in as you CM, put it to sleep, continue boosting until it wakes up, get cured of status, put it to sleep again, boost once more and start attacking. This is, of course dependent on how many turns Chansey stays asleep for and HYPNOSIS DOES NOT ****ING MISS!!Golduck @Leftovers/Life Orb
Timid-Cloud Nine
40 HP/252 SATK/216 SPE
-Calm Mind
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Toxic/Focus Blast
Fact: Lovely Kiss hits 100% of the time and lasts for four turns.I don't trust hypnosis. Lovely Miss happens often enough that I absolutely would not put my faith in any attack that has even less accuracy.
LOL. I remember when Flare's Specs Rain Gorebyss swept my entire troll team when Hydro Pump did not miss ONCE.Fact: Lovely Kiss hits 100% of the time and lasts for four turns.
Even if the rest of his post was as naive as we've come to expect from yuggles, I'm going to back up this statement. Heck, even in a "suspect" metagame this thread isn't needed. All that it does is create numerous circular arguments which in the ends aren't resolved and posts such as the ones above mine that should be going in the cmt. Any information discussed can be done by creating threads on large suspects/threats or in the cmt. That way the discussion, if you can call it that, on all the different topics doesn't run together like bad dairrhea.Yeah, a megathread is hardly even needed...
First of all I don't know who claimed that this metagame was "suspectless" in the first place, because currently it is not in that state, but anyway the thread is still useful. We have not had nominations, we have not voted, and we have not even discussed many important aspects of the metagame yet such as "what strategies are effective" and even "what's common on the ladder(we are talking about this at the moment)" or more importantly "what are people using in tournaments".Even if the rest of his post was as naive as we've come to expect from yuggles, I'm going to back up this statement. Heck, even in a "suspect" metagame this thread isn't needed. All that it does is create numerous circular arguments which in the ends aren't resolved and posts such as the ones above mine that should be going in the cmt. Any information discussed can be done by creating threads on large suspects/threats or in the cmt. That way the discussion, if you can call it that, on all the different topics doesn't run together like bad dairrhea.
Does this mean you're considering nominating something for BL at the end of the period, or did I misinterpret this?First of all I don't know who claimed that this metagame was "suspectless" in the first place, because currently it is not in that state, but anyway the thread is still useful.
I've been using Golduck too, and I don't find the need to run Focus Blast because Missy does such a good job of luring in and KOing Registeel. I use it as a sort of late-game sweeper, and it's been doing extremely well, only stopped by shit like Chansey who is setup bait for Missy anyway.Yeah I like this line of discussion better.
A note on that Gardevoir: Synchronize should be used if you're running Heal Bell in order to screw things like Toxic Milotic and Chansey over. I would probably run Wish on that last slot though, just because at least it'll help cushion your switch-in if you invite something like Houndoom.
Well I've been briefly testing a Golduck. I run:
Golduck @Leftovers/Life Orb
Timid-Cloud Nine
40 HP/252 SATK/216 SPE
-Calm Mind
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Toxic/Focus Blast
The main aim of this Golduck is to lure in common counters to specially-oriented sweepers and cripple/kill them. Toxic with Leftovers is preferred if you're more interested in beating Milotic and prefer survivability, while Life Orb lets you beat defensive Venusaur and Registeel way easier (Ice Beam ohko's physically defensive Venusaur with Life Orb at +1 where the leftovers one doesn't and Focus Blast does 65% minimum to Registeel, where Surf barely doesn't 2hko).
This Golduck is best used in tandem with things like Mismagius and Specstile.
I meant exactly what I said: "We haven't nominated or voted on anything, so we don't know if this is a suspect-free metagame or not"Does this mean you're considering nominating something for BL at the end of the period, or did I misinterpret this?
As far as suspectless goes, the only poke that really stands out to me is Milotic, but it's less BL than really freaking annoying.
In my experience Mr Mime just gets hammered by anything remotely resembling a "strong physical attack" and faints right there.ANYWAYS
I briefly fooled around with Nasty Plot passing with this guy:
Mr. Mime (M) @ Salac Berry
252 HP / 4 SpD/ 252 Spe Calm
- Substitute
- Nasty Plot
- Psychic
- Baton Pass
I didn't use it long enough to "speed-fix" the EVs, and Ambipom probably outclasses this because there aren't many phazers in UU, but it worked a bit better than I thought it would.
This. Seriously, go die Milo. I'd rather get forced into a stall match with two Wobbuffets back in RSE than face another Milotic at the moment...As far as suspectless goes, the only poke that really stands out to me is Milotic, but it's less BL than really freaking annoying.