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Pokemon Throwback - Gen IV Tier Shift
- Thread starter EV
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Nor Sap Sipper. Just Poison Heal+Toxic Orb, Magic Guard+Flame Orb, and Insomnia to stop the sleep spam.
Edit: And Guts, and Magic Coat.
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This also there's vital spirit but anyways, remember everyone that leaf guard does not work like hydration aka you can't use rest in the sun w/ leaf guard. Also I believe that hydration was in this gen because manaphy was introduced.
EV
Banned deucer.
If anyone has any ideas for next month's ladder, go ahead and post. I'll narrow down the list to a few and have users vote within the last 5 days or so of the month.
Keep in mind that Gens 1-3 are very buggy on the simulator, so most of our metas will probably fall into 4 and 5. While a lot of metas already existed in 5, I'm sure you all can think of some new ones that hadn't existed yet and would be fun for gen 5 mechanics. ;^)
Keep in mind that Gens 1-3 are very buggy on the simulator, so most of our metas will probably fall into 4 and 5. While a lot of metas already existed in 5, I'm sure you all can think of some new ones that hadn't existed yet and would be fun for gen 5 mechanics. ;^)
This is kind of stupid, but a previous generation of Ability Shift would be interesting, since it would produce different shifts.
Other weird ideas, some of which probably shouldn't be chosen: Gen I/II Monotype, Gen IV STABmons, Gen IV Averagemons
Other weird ideas, some of which probably shouldn't be chosen: Gen I/II Monotype, Gen IV STABmons, Gen IV Averagemons
Gen 2 stabmons just to make lax more broken B) give it espeed
rby bh just for kicks
Sounds interesting...
Clamp + Spore Electrode. GG World.
Also forget non-exploding Special Attackers 'cause Amnesia Chansey
its basically just rby just that everyone has everything
tbh it's a joke suggestion because it doesnt really seem much diff from rby (chansey still dominates meta, at most psychics get fucked over... by increased twineedle distribution zomg wow)
I was sarcastic but well, you're right, it wouldn't be a diverse meta.
Let's not do another bh so soon. How about rby AAA? Anyone? No? Ok.
EV
Banned deucer.
Already told TEG, but posting here anyway. My suggestions are Gen 4 Tier Shift (we didn't have TS in 4) and Gen 5 1v1 (we didn't have 3v3 preview in 5).
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AWailOfATail
viva la darmz
I was thinking about Gen 4 Averagemons. Hidden Abilities haven't been released yet, so no broken Sableye. Sure, it could still be good, but not absolutely broken. Also, no Regenerator cores, which became extremely hard to deal with without the use of Shadow Tag (Gothitelle). Wobbuffet still exists, but its movepool sucks. The Arena Trappers exist, too, but once again, their movepools. It could fix a lot of broken things (read: tflame, megakang, sableye, goth, etc.) and still introduce a lot of new strategies. Yea, I know we just had Gen 4, but earlier would be buggy and Gen 5 still has some of the broken things ability-wise. To me, Gen 4 Averagemons looks overall really interesting and more balanced.
Kit Kasai
Love colored magic
Monte Cristo
Banned deucer.
GEN 4 AAA WHY NOT
AWailOfATail
viva la darmz
>no gen IV averagemons
Gen IV STABmons
Gen IV STABmons
Gonna vote Gen V Ability Shift even though it won't win