Metagame Pokébilities

[Ivy]

The OU bans + brightpowder should be live on the server now (or after the next restart). It's been a long time since I did this but I figure we could do a classic style suspect test for the two biggest nuisances remaining, from what I gather that would be yanmega and some choice between gambit or kingdra (would like to do at most 2 mons lest the focus get too spread thin).

I'm looking into whether the OM staff see it fit to write in an exception for evasion abilities (e.g. make them not be included in the mod, if you have a pokemon with one, it'd just be ignored). This would be the best outcome rather than obliterating everything that has an eva ability or leaving them unchecked forever, but it's sketchy territory for the principles of OM mechanics.

 

[typhlosion787]

The OU bans + brightpowder should be live on the server now (or after the next restart). It's been a long time since I did this but I figure we could do a classic style suspect test for the two biggest nuisances remaining, from what I gather that would be yanmega and some choice between gambit or kingdra (would like to do at most 2 mons lest the focus get too spread thin).

I'm looking into whether the OM staff see it fit to write in an exception for evasion abilities (e.g. make them not be included in the mod, if you have a pokemon with one, it'd just be ignored). This would be the best outcome rather than obliterating everything that has an eva ability or leaving them unchecked forever, but it's sketchy territory for the principles of OM mechanics.

When it comes to the choice between Kingdra and Gambit, I think Gambit would likely be the better decision since its existence and power in the tier has been discussed longer than Kingdra, and, in my opinion, it is far more overcentralizing due to not being playstyle specific

 

[Mechazor]

I just wanted to add that Kingambit has been on almost every single team I play against. I don't think its healthy that one slot on every team is hardly optional because its incredibly easy to slap onto any team and just send it out last if nothing else.

 

[Ivy]

I just wanted to add that Kingambit has been on almost every single team I play against. I don't think its healthy that one slot on every team is hardly optional because its incredibly easy to slap onto any team and just send it out last if nothing else.

It's a great check for other things like Yanmega... which are arguably also broken, so yeah, getting rid of some broken-checking-broken obligations would very likely be pretty freeing for the meta.