"Excluding said STAB options, Raikou has no moves higher than 80 base power."
Last I checked, Raikou gets STAB on electric attacks. Being an electric type and all. ;)
Haha, my apologies ; )
"Excluding said STAB options, Raikou has no moves higher than 80 base power."
Last I checked, Raikou gets STAB on electric attacks. Being an electric type and all. ;)
Your statement is about as vague and uncontributing as it gets MapleSandwich. "Proper Moveset" - care to elaborate? Maybe it's just me, but I don't see a Sub CM moveset that can cover nearly as many pokemon as you seem to imply.
Also, if your team is unprepared with checks to stop a Raikou before it gets to +6, it's not a very good team at all. While I agree, to a certain extent, that Raikou's 115 base speed can be a bit of a problem, it don't see it being different enough from checking a Mismagius or a Shaymin to warrant a ban.
Your statement is about as vague and uncontributing as it gets MapleSandwich. "Proper Moveset" - care to elaborate? Maybe it's just me, but I don't see a Sub CM moveset that can cover nearly as many pokemon as you seem to imply.
Also, if your team is unprepared with checks to stop a Raikou before it gets to +6, it's not a very good team at all. While I agree, to a certain extent, that Raikou's 115 base speed can be a bit of a problem, it don't see it being different enough from checking a Mismagius or a Shaymin to warrant a ban.
However, I've been examining a few things myself, and Raikou, wonder of wonders, has more counters than I thought. Nothing I'd actually WANT to use, because it would completely wreck my strategy.
Can't or unwilling to adapt to the metagame? Vote the troublesome pokemon away, and make the metagame adapt to you! Brilliant.
That's all I'm going to say on this subject though, as it's blatantly obvious that some people just aren't going to change.
Can't or unwilling to adapt to the metagame? Vote the troublesome pokemon away, and make the metagame adapt to you! Brilliant.
That's all I'm going to say on this subject though, as it's blatantly obvious that some people just aren't going to change.
@ Yokie Uh... Sub Users and Ghosts have fun with Registeel. Especially SubSeed Shaymin.
Don't worry, I wasn't clear, I run high Defense Tomby, so I'm just used to being able to not be threatened by Regi.
It's funny though, Sub is the ultimate Anti-Registeel move. T-Wave and Explode are blocked, Iron Head has a chance of not breaking, Stealth Rock doesn't get Regi anywhere. Still, I'll be curious to see how Raikou has an effect on Regi... but I think EQ will still be somewhat useful, for things like Kabutops. But I dunno.
I'd just like to remind everyone that no where in any of the three characteristics of a BL is the word "Overcentralization" or even "centralization" mentioned... this is because it has no bearing. So please stop mentioning it for why something is BL, because even if it was true, using that as basis for your vote when the time comes is a slap in the face to the characteristics (and is likely to make your vote null).
Can we at least keep our arguments to how something does or does not fit the characteristics?
UU Suspects:
1- Gallade
2- Abomasnow
3- Staraptor
4- Raikou
5- Froslass
6- Crobat
As far as I can tell, it's a little less than 50/50 in favor of UU with Crobat, but, like things were with Prop 8 in California, the minority is so loud that it seems as though it's even. Other than that, it seems overall to be a fair summation.
I assumed you were talking about prop 8 and not prop 9, the Victims' Rights and Protection Act of 2008, which expanded the legal rights of a victim and affected parole hearings....but seriously, why did you even post this? We aren't discussing minority rights, we are discussing tier placement of pokemon. The opinion of the majority actually matters in this case.