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Other Metagame of the Month — Classic Hackmons
Deoxys-Speed @ Leftovers This set is one of the most common in the Hackmons metagame and its primary goal is to OHKO everything with never missing Sheer Cold. This works exceptionally well on Deoxys-Speed because it's extremely fast and can thus outspeed practically everything and hit them before they can even move. Hypnosis puts Pokemon that are potentially immune to Sheer Cold, such as Wonder Guard Pokemon, and then allows Deoxys-Speed the time to use Gastro Acid and nullify the ability. This set is a massive pain to deal with and must be accounted for when teambuilding. 
Giratina @ Leftovers This set is able to steal the momentum of an opponent trying to set up on Giratina. Giratina uses Curse on them and forces them to hard switch out while it sets up a Substitute so Giratina is able to then pass to a Mold Breaker. Curse is also a great way to deal damage to against opposing Wonder Guards because it is effectively typeless. Giratina is a very powerful defensive threat and can shuffle a lot of the metagame. Other Metagame of the Month is a thread in which the users nominate and vote on metagames to be put on the official Pokémon Showdown! server as a temporary ladder for the entire month. Toward the end of each month, users nominate metagames for a couple of days. Afterwards, the users vote on the nominated metagames and the one with the highest number of votes wins. This thread is run by the OM Leadership team. Anyone is eligible to nominate, but your account must be one week old to vote. Nominated Metagames
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Winning Metagame FeaturetteClassic Hackmons is a metagame idea that has come from in-game hacking, but was not directly made by anyone in particular. Zarel did create the name, however, so the name credits go to him! Besides this, Classic Hackmons is derived from Hackmons — an older metagame with basically the same rules. In this format, anything goes! Any Pokemon can have any move, any ability, and have all stat with 252 EVs invested. There are no clauses put in place and a Pokemon may start in a Mega Evolution / Primal form without requiring its respective stone or orb. This leads to some insane strategies that include Wonder Guard and... well, countering Wonder Guard! Some top threats include Deoxys-Speed, Giratina, and Mega Gengar. This format is much more diverse than one would expect and offers great fun! ReplaysPikachuun versus GimlafExcaliju versus regirock Chopin Alkaninoff versus Esperasso Esperasso versus dramlamb 
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