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i'd like to ask seraphyde if he believes anything is genuinely healthy lmao
Great Tusk used Knock Off
Not every team archetype can fit a contact punisher, only one that comes to mind for HO for instance is Mora which gets pummeled by Headlong Rush. If the fucker is dumb enough to click Rapid Spin you can punish it with DGleam but Tusk still claims a pyrrhic victory by managing to remove hazards. Same thing with H-Samu, you can Razor Shell and drop defense to kill with priority but you still have to go to the trouble of Edging Ceaselessly on the opponent again. Tusk isn't broken but it's really fucking annoying because, as I said earlier, it has the raw power and bulk to spin in the face of anything and defeat Ghosts (or force a Tera) with its coverage. It would be less annoying if Rapid Spin didn't give the speed boost as you could still out-offense it but a speed boosted Great Tusk is nearly impossible to out-offense without either priority or a speed boost of your own.
what
nice animation btw
so are you going for a custom title or a banner or what
Most can, and hey, rocky helmet is right there that 7 OU mons can use effectively (I've even seen stuff like rocky helmet glowking and hatterene). The only playstyle is HO, which y'know, its whole job is to stop spinning.
Cool, maybe don't lead glimmora every game? And if you are taking down one of there best physical walls, I would say that's a trade worth taking as every physical sweeper (gambit, wink, wink, nudge, nudge) gets a lot scarier.
Cool, so you take down there physical wall. Good trade tbh. And you still have priority to chip something else or get off a Ceaseless Edge.
And that's alright???? Like shit, maybe things are allowed to get rid of hazards. Maybe that's whats been the case for idk, since rapid spin existed? All the spinblockers can heavily damage tusk in return, pult burns it, ghold hits it really hard with even just make it rain, skele also burns it (but even still it can switch to a ground immune like enam), sinistcha can matcha gotcha it and is a great spinblocker, ceruledge can use it as a setup opporunity with focus sash, pecharunt doesn't care about headlong as it does like 50% for fast sets (which outspeed tusk).
And why don't you have priority or speed control of your own???? Unless your using webs, which both of the webbers beat it, you should have speed control. I honestly find it hard to not have speed control when all of moth, valiant, d-nite, gambit (can tera to iron head it regardless), darkrai, treads, rillaboom and lokix are all good options for teams. This honestly just seems like you are making bad HO, that is rightfully getting destroyed by tusk because you don't account for it enough (which means a lot of other mons are going to destroy it regardless).
Anything to not let the stupid dolphin come back to OU (I almost called it a fish, which would be very concerning, guess I have Chi Yu on my mind).
Terapagos is locked into stellar as it's only tera type the same way the ogerpon forms are, you can't change it's tera type in the builder (or in cartrige for that matter). If tera stellar were banned it would be impossible to unban any form of Terapagos because it has to select Stellar as its tera type; It would be the same situation as DPP Froslass and Snow Cloak.
I couldnt have said this better, OU isnt OU as we know it, its like, HU (Hyperused) and then UU is OU and so on and so forth.
i agree moon is stupid as hell but jesus christ people, give up on the booster energy narrative already. no one's buying it. let's take a look at the data, in simple visual form, to figure out why:
definitely broken |    |
arguably broken |  |
probably not broken but i got my eye on these motherfuckers if they try anything funny |   |
definitely not broken |               |
Is walking wake "definitely" not broken now? I basically agree but it was suspected and the narrative at the time was strong. It does 2hko nearly everything. Was adding woger enough to move it to definitely? Can it have the same affect on Palafin?i agree moon is stupid as hell but jesus christ people, give up on the booster energy narrative already. no one's buying it. let's take a look at the data, in simple visual form, to figure out why:
so, even if i'm extremely generous and assume that all of the first three categories are broken (they aren't) and that booster energy is the single shared element breaking all of them (it isn't), that's still six data points against fourteen. you're outnumbered more than two to one in the absolute best case for your argument
now if we factor in that flutter is obviously still broken without booster, bundle didn't even use booster, and neither valiant nor bolt are particularly problematic right now, we have exactly two cases left: roaring moon and gouging fire. booster energy played a role in the gouging fire ban, certainly, but would i say it was the thing that caused the ban? jury's still out on that one. and frankly, we've had enough argument about gouging fire to last a lifetime so let's not let the jury back in. (don't worry, all the jurors have coats and stuff, they'll be fine. if anything it's probably nice for them to get a breath of fresh air instead of being cooped up in the courthouse all day)
and then there's this asshole. roaring moon. angry boomerang. spicy croissant. the prequel to the sequel to salamence. marvel's what if they gave garchomp dragon dance. whatever you want to call it, it's definitely a fucker, and i for one would be very glad to see it go. and yes, this one is exclusively because of booster energy. but arguing for a booster energy ban just to deal with one mon is overkill. worse, unlike rage fist and a handful of other examples, this has actually relevant crossfire—a ban of booster energy would hurt great tusk in a meta that's entirely held together by great tusk, and it hurts treads a pretty significant amount too. couldn't we rather, i dunno, ban the one single mon that booster energy is breaking and leave the other dozen or so alone? i'm under no illusion that a roaring moon ban is ever going to happen as much as i want it to, but it's definitely more sensible than a booster energy ban, so why not argue for that instead?
You could've used the adjective...
WOOOOOOOOOOO
I think they should ban everything except Toxapex and Mareanie because I like them :3
First of all, respect my guy Pincurchin. Second of all, no lol. It's so ass it makes Torkoal and Pelipper look like Groudon and Kyogre in comparison.
It not getting back Rising Voltage while Raging Bolt is the only user of it currently is a huge detriment.
