Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v4

Like I said before, Palafin’s movepool is pretty big (with Encore shutting Dozo down pretty badly and Taunt bullying Alo) and it even has 106 SpA to take advantage of more niche options. Grass Knot is pretty much a Dozo killing move and Alo doesn’t like having to eat that either. Whatever Palafin feels like checking/countering for the day, it can put on a move to do so.
You still have to fit it all in the moveslot, if you build fin to just kill those things it will probably struggle against other stuff that would die to more common fin sets, which in return will handle fin with ease. It would just be better to grab a raging bolt or smth to kill dozo and mola rather than make fin the mola/dozo killer

Despite that, you do raise some good points
 
Dondozo, spam the fuck out of that body press you ain't gonna die anytime soon it's fucking dondozo (tho fin can heal itself quite a lot)
Or flip turn with mola into a mon that can fight back against it more comfortably like boots will-o dragapult, bulky ghold, encore waterpon or even iron defense zamazenta

Also you can just knock off the covert with someone else and then scald burn the fin, this is why tera fire is much better for bulk up sets imo
Me when i click drain punch vs the dozo qnd widdle it down as its unable to heal due to taunt and mfw alo gives me free turns.

I dont particularly enjoy posting in this thread but please use common sense dozo doesnt beat bu taunt when unboosted alo gives it free turns and non encore waterpon isnt a check palafin clicks the tera button and wins vs non encore waterpon
 
Me when i click drain punch vs the dozo qnd widdle it down as its unable to heal due to taunt and mfw alo gives me free turns.

I dont particularly enjoy posting in this thread but please use common sense dozo doesnt beat bu taunt when unboosted alo gives it free turns and non encore waterpon isnt a check palafin clicks the tera button and wins vs non encore waterpon
Well yeah I specifically said encore waterpon for a reason
Also mola can give it as many free turns as you want it can still flip turn on it and go to smth like meowscarada to shoot a flower trick that goes beyond the physical defense boosts or to raging bolt to kick its ass, if you can't beat it on the defensive side you have to outpace it
 
Well yeah I specifically said encore waterpon for a reason
Also mola can give it as many free turns as you want it can still flip turn on it and go to smth like meowscarada to shoot a flower trick that goes beyond the physical defense boosts or to raging bolt to kick its ass, if you can't beat it on the defensive side you have to outpace it
Then the mon only has offensive checks got it.
 
Then the mon only has offensive checks got it.
Waffles and pancakes tweet type of shit

Not every palafin will be taunt covert bulk up and even then people will find a good defensive check. Dare I say some examples are iron defense zamazenta, helmet corviknight and bulky ghold, they fit the bill well enough
Even static zapdos can be good enough imo
 
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Baxcalibur
Calyrex-Ice
Chien Pao
Giratina-A
Iron Bundle
Regieleki (with Tera Blast still unbanned)
Zamazenta-Crowned
Archaludon
Lugia

Fire Ogerpon
Sneasler
Solgaleo
Volcarona
Terapagos (non-Stellar)
Baton Pass (unrestricted or Dry Pass)
Sleep
Shed Tail
Evasion Abilities
King's Rock
OHKO Moves
Shadow Tag (with a complex Ban on Shadow Tag + Trick)

Bolded are things that I personally would support retesting in OU. Not bolded are things I would not support retesting but that would ruin the Meta less than Palafin would.
 
Hydrapple amongus zapdos sinischacha can probably check it if zamazenta doesn't count. Pokemon damage calculator won't correct from obamasnow to run calcs. I know palafin can probably OHKO with Tera ice ice Punch idk

it's a very powerful mon and I'd really really rather we get rid of Tera blast. Keeping kyurem and adding leki and mayne flame body moth would give palafin an easier time later. I think this is a waste of time and I even believe it's a purposeful waste of time to get us off track of the alternative path that was finally in front of us after gliscor and kyurem failed and Tera blast was being acknowledged as the next logical step.

I have decided to embrace niche as full on bigsmogon conspiracy schizo until Tera blast is given a fair shake lol. Which is now going to be at best 2 months later after we run this silly palafin suspect and then let things "settle" then survey. Probably get third kyurem sus pushed in the mean time and by then it will be considered long enough to go through with. If it passes we go back to gliscor and then others potentially. I can see tera blast being put off until gen10 or never as a result of this "fun" announcement.

Oh well. Im voicing my thoughts that I believe are reasonable but I may be alone in this.
 
Baxcalibur
Calyrex-Ice
Chien Pao
Giratina-A
Iron Bundle
Regieleki (with Tera Blast still unbanned)
Zamazenta-Crowned
Archaludon
Lugia

Fire Ogerpon
Sneasler
Solgaleo
Volcarona
Terapagos (non-Stellar)
Baton Pass (unrestricted or Dry Pass)
Sleep
Shed Tail
Evasion Abilities
King's Rock
OHKO Moves
Shadow Tag (with a complex Ban on Shadow Tag + Trick)

Bolded are things that I personally would support retesting in OU. Not bolded are things I would not support retesting but that would ruin the Meta less than Palafin would.

Idk how we think this fat ass Lugia will be less overcentralising than Palafin would be - I don't even want any retests but let's be so fr
 
This is going to be fun/exciting and I think it lives up to the hype, but will probably make the meta worse/even more offensive in the long run lol.

Obviously Palafin is an extremely offensive Mon and I think Lugia will likely turn into a CM/stored power merchant despite what people say.
 
I really do not think that this was a psyop made by the Council to intentionally kill/delay a Tera Blast suspect to the point of unviability when Ausma (and maybe other members) have posted about how Tera Blast is worthwhile of tiering action and iirc Finch said Tera Blast would be on the December Survey.
There will be no December survey if we are even half seriously going to suspect palafin in 12 days? I don't see how

It could be beyond ausmas control. Too much resistance from the site owners perhaps.
 
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Baxcalibur
Calyrex-Ice
Chien Pao
Giratina-A
Iron Bundle
Regieleki (with Tera Blast still unbanned)
Zamazenta-Crowned
Archaludon
Lugia

Fire Ogerpon
Sneasler
Solgaleo
Volcarona
Terapagos (non-Stellar)
Baton Pass (unrestricted or Dry Pass)
Sleep
Shed Tail
Evasion Abilities
King's Rock
OHKO Moves
Shadow Tag (with a complex Ban on Shadow Tag + Trick)

Bolded are things that I personally would support retesting in OU. Not bolded are things I would not support retesting but that would ruin the Meta less than Palafin would.
i know we're all react farming to buy cool stuff right now but shit man you didn't have to larp this hard
 
how has this thread fallen to the point where we are supporting conspiracy theories about council scheduling this to intentionally block a tera blast suspect?
Threads been fallen since the announcement was teased don't pearl clutch now. We're like 10 pages deep and my unhinged rant is in good faith to influence towards a path I think would be for the best. Despite the leader pledging near half.of the needed votes for palafin immediately setting the tone, it is still relatively possible for tera blast ban to still become favored.

It's still a higher quality post than literally just asking for reacts.

Thanks for your response happy holidays
 
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