Hello and good evening!
Damn, I didn't even come close to the required ranking this time.
Anyway, I played a lot, so here are my nominations!
Same reasons as before.
He is, in many aspects, in the same boat as Doryuuzu (Excadrill...). Sand is
what pushes him over the top. I was debating for a long time whether I
should nominate the Sand Stream Bros
or those two guys, but I
think that Sand Stream should be tested without Doryuuzu and Landlos.
Drizzle!
Two main reasons for a Drizzle Ban. First of all, as everybody knows, it
makes offensive Rain Teams close to unstoppable, and in this case, we
should rip the evil's root out.
Second reason: Pokémon is more fun to play when there's a variety in
teams you play against. But eventhough I played against players with an
average rating of 1050 to 1300, literally every second team I faced was a
DrizzleToad team! I'm tired of seeing them, and the game is not fun to play
when every second team you face has at least (!) 3, most of the time 4
members in common.
Drought!
In the last week or so of the testing process, I had the feeling some people
started to see the potential of Sun teams.
To make it short, eventhough I like using Drought myself, I don't think it
deserves its place in OU. It has the same dangerous potential as Rain
(Drizzle), perhaps even more if you take the fact into consideration that
most Chlorophyll-Sweepers have access to a lightning-fast Sleep Powder
which, combined with the new Sleep mechanics, is indeed broken.
Hrrrrmmm.... No, I don't think the twins are too different from each other.
Latios has too much offensive potential for OU, Latias has close to the
same power and is much harder to kill, especially on the Special side.
Oh, and the over-centralization issue appears here as well! Latios and
Latias can just play too many different roles to be passed up in
teambuilding, therefore too many players will use them, and seeing the
same Pokémon in every second team is not desireable in a game that has
about 200 viable Pokémon that you could use, right?
Depending on which of my teams I used this thing either was no trouble for
me at all or completely rolled over me.
In case you're interested: The only thing that can reliable shut this thing
down and turn it into set-up fodder is a Pokémon with a Choice item and
Trick. The problem with that is, however, that many opponents see Trick
coming from a mile away when you send any only half-common Trick-user
into this thing.
Aside from Tricking it a Scarf, I found dealing with this thing super-hard.
People have already pointed out the most important things Rankurusu can
do, and the most important Pokémon it can set up on, so I'll leave it with
that.
Sand Veil / Snow Cloak!
Bla bla bla luck factor bla bla... sorry Garchomp. Ice Beam missed!
The foe's Garchomp used Steamroll-Your-Team! It's super effective!
Shadow Tag!
Same reasons as before, eventhough Wobb is not as common as I thought
he would be.
Side note: We might have to deal with Shadow Tag Shandera
(Chandelure...) sooner than we thought we had to: It is very possible that
the upcoming Pokémon Wii game has Dream World Pokémon in it.
That's it for now, have a nice day!
Damn, I didn't even come close to the required ranking this time.
Anyway, I played a lot, so here are my nominations!
Same reasons as before.
He is, in many aspects, in the same boat as Doryuuzu (Excadrill...). Sand is
what pushes him over the top. I was debating for a long time whether I
should nominate the Sand Stream Bros
think that Sand Stream should be tested without Doryuuzu and Landlos.
Drizzle!
Two main reasons for a Drizzle Ban. First of all, as everybody knows, it
makes offensive Rain Teams close to unstoppable, and in this case, we
should rip the evil's root out.
Second reason: Pokémon is more fun to play when there's a variety in
teams you play against. But eventhough I played against players with an
average rating of 1050 to 1300, literally every second team I faced was a
DrizzleToad team! I'm tired of seeing them, and the game is not fun to play
when every second team you face has at least (!) 3, most of the time 4
members in common.
Drought!
In the last week or so of the testing process, I had the feeling some people
started to see the potential of Sun teams.
To make it short, eventhough I like using Drought myself, I don't think it
deserves its place in OU. It has the same dangerous potential as Rain
(Drizzle), perhaps even more if you take the fact into consideration that
most Chlorophyll-Sweepers have access to a lightning-fast Sleep Powder
which, combined with the new Sleep mechanics, is indeed broken.
Hrrrrmmm.... No, I don't think the twins are too different from each other.
Latios has too much offensive potential for OU, Latias has close to the
same power and is much harder to kill, especially on the Special side.
Oh, and the over-centralization issue appears here as well! Latios and
Latias can just play too many different roles to be passed up in
teambuilding, therefore too many players will use them, and seeing the
same Pokémon in every second team is not desireable in a game that has
about 200 viable Pokémon that you could use, right?
Depending on which of my teams I used this thing either was no trouble for
me at all or completely rolled over me.
In case you're interested: The only thing that can reliable shut this thing
down and turn it into set-up fodder is a Pokémon with a Choice item and
Trick. The problem with that is, however, that many opponents see Trick
coming from a mile away when you send any only half-common Trick-user
into this thing.
Aside from Tricking it a Scarf, I found dealing with this thing super-hard.
People have already pointed out the most important things Rankurusu can
do, and the most important Pokémon it can set up on, so I'll leave it with
that.
Sand Veil / Snow Cloak!
Bla bla bla luck factor bla bla... sorry Garchomp. Ice Beam missed!
The foe's Garchomp used Steamroll-Your-Team! It's super effective!
Shadow Tag!
Same reasons as before, eventhough Wobb is not as common as I thought
he would be.
Side note: We might have to deal with Shadow Tag Shandera
(Chandelure...) sooner than we thought we had to: It is very possible that
the upcoming Pokémon Wii game has Dream World Pokémon in it.
That's it for now, have a nice day!