just to test this theory, maybe on the next survey it could be mandatory to at least write something there, even if it's "nothing" or just a space, and that way we'd get more accurate opinions by including the people who have problems with the meta but don't normally bother with write-ins. then we can compare the amount of write-in responses we get (aside from the "nothing" ones) for that to the number for this one and see if it really makes that much of a difference
The biggest draw of surveys is it takes very little time to fill them out, so ideally we do not implement anything that gives everyone even a very small roadblock to this for the majority who have nothing to add.
If people are gonna be pissy about writing down "Nothing" or "N/A", that's honestly their own problem lmao. Anyways I still stick by my original point and I like DaddyBuzzwole's idea to improve the surveys. Ban Kyurem
understandable, but how much weight should we be putting on the opinions of people who would rather quit out of the whole survey than type one (1) extra character on a keyboard? that's a level of laziness and pettiness even i'm not capable of reaching. and the entire point of this would be to test if the majority has nothing to add or if they're just not bothering to voice it. i think it's the former but i certainly wouldn't discount the possibility of the latter
My goal is to get people responding above all else, so probably some weight considering that being the priority
Christ. That was physically painful to watch.
Flinch Hax Gods came to your favour
retest (albeit with a stored power ban) and the recent discussion of 
matching up well into the rest of the metagame has made me want to bring it it up here. I’m not quite sure what it would be like without stored power, I know it’s sets are very diverse and it was banned in gen8 with little to do with the move, but can a more offensive and powerful metagame deal with it better? It would be a fantastic answer into 
and a soft check into 
, some of the biggest sore spots in the metagame at the moment. With 
being so popular I would assume only shift gear physical/mixed sets would be able to do anything about it. What exactly would make it so broken in the current gen if it didn’t have the funny “sit behind screens and win” button? Eager to hear from people who were more active in gen8 when mag was around or used without stored power when it was legalI was one of the two that advocated for a
yeah idk how anyone could consider the Volc ban a bad thing, it was such an organic growth of discontent up to the suspect test
a good player can make lower tier mons work, but when they are using 5 of them in a team they will always be at a disadvantage
(im not exactly proban darkrai but not dnb darkrai either)
a.) ttar is a shit/niche at best mon in ou as it stands, and does not cover darkrai at all considering that already runs focus blast for gambit/other darks
Thanks for support :D. I appreciate it. I will eventually change the voting method somehow. Do you have any ideas I could do?
well we can't ban flinch. modding it out would be a step backwards after the progress we made this gen with sleep clause, and banning all flinch moves cuts an unacceptably deep hole into the game. so the best we can do is kill the most prominent abusers of flinch if they get out of hand. especially if something, oh i dunno, frequently packs a freeze move and sometimes carries thunder wave. same with freeze, we can't ban ice beam/blizzard/freeze-dry/powder snow or bring freeze clause mod into the modern ecosystem but we sure as hell can kick out the one (1) mon that can viably use freeze fishing as a real and effective strategy
Yes crazy that the mon that can similarly abuse that mechanic with very high speed and its stab to generate free turns is potentially pushed over the edge because of that mechanic.
my guy you could show me a replay of weavile icicle crash flinching like 4x in a row and say the same thing
This is true, however I think your claim lacks context; sure, gyarados can flinch with waterfall, but no one will look at that as being problematic because Gyarados sucks. However, if a mon is already being seen as pretty problematic like darkrai is (and not weavile - also note that icicle crash is almost purely worse then dark pulse as stab) then being able to generate free turns through secondary effects is absolutely damning; the replay and secondary effects can't be looked at outside of context. The luck in this replay is insane but it's still a valuable example of how Darkrai can abuse the secondary effects of its stabs (and frankly all of its attacks) to cheese through counterplay.
broken things get more rng procs. that's why volc always got flame body burns and fiery dance boosts but moltres and iron moth get their procs a normal amount, or why darkrai hypnosis used to hit so often, or why sneasler's dire claw rolled sleep so much more than the other statuses. this is a well-known, time-tested, objective scientific fact that i came up with just now
