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Resource ORAS OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers MKII (Read the OP First!) (Now with 100% more Rules!!!)
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xD, that's actually hilarious.
Sorry for asking a rather silly question But the analysis you talk about are, where are they?
Go to the strategy pokedex on the main page. It should be the first link
Hey all, I'm new to competitive battling.
I need help on creating a team for an OU singles battle, since in another forum I'm in a tournament of my clan.
I honestly don't know much at all about competitive battling, so hopefully I could receive help here.
I need help on creating a team for an OU singles battle, since in another forum I'm in a tournament of my clan.
I honestly don't know much at all about competitive battling, so hopefully I could receive help here.
There are some cool examples of well-built and original teams here http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/teambuilding-workshop-v2-open-read-op.3542464/
Take your pick! If you have a specific core you want to build around they can also help you.
Mostly traditon, it has been enforced since forever even by Game Freak. The implications of a meta without species clause would be quite interesting though, and something I would like to see.
Without species clause, you could run one manaphy with hp fire, one with psychic, one with eball, and your opponent would have to kill 3 manaphys instead of 1, and stall would be even more unviable than it was before.
It would probably create a huge shift towards offense since you can literally just run 4+ of the same powerful prio user (think Talonflame or Bisharp) to weaken their (its?) own check, which would make the metagame a lot less varied and fun. To give you a concrete example, Ekiller is completely dominant in AG for the same reasons.
edit : sorta ninja'd by littlelucario
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But then that's a problem with "X" pokemon being too threatening (metagame balance). I agree game would become very boring, but stacking pokemon that share the same counter and overloading it is already a viable strategy.
Isn't species clause a way to soften the impact of game imbalances? Am I missing anything?
Isn't species clause a way to soften the impact of game imbalances? Am I missing anything?
species clause is a standard for official ingame formats as well. Thats really it and we as such abide by this for the sake of simplicity and consistency.
Is there a chance that I can see all the Mons who was in the ORAS Metagame in S-Rank? I mean not the actually Mons but in the past.
You would need to go through older VR threads for that.
But iirc S ranks in earlier ORAS included, not all at the same time obviously though: Mega Mence (S+), Greninja, Keldeo, Lando-T, Lando-I, Mega Sableye, Clefable, Mega Lopunny, and Mega Metagross. There was a period where Zard X dropped to A+ and tons of people were pushing Mega Gallade for S for reasons I still don't understand
How did Sableye end up an S-ranker? Was stall that freaking good at one point?
Mega Sableye stall was pretty hyped up back when it had just been released. It dropped down after people realized it wasn't the savior for stall that people made it out to be.
It was considered practically the cornerstone of Stall and the best Pokémon on it regardless of how good or bad the playstyle was.
Two pokemon fleggumfl forgot are Thundurus and Latios, who were both S rank in early ORAS (as most of you might remember the OP and Blue S rank)
Mega Sableye was S rank because the metagame wasn't as much prepared for it as it is now. Counters like SD Gliscor, Manaphy and Volcarona almost saw no usage while they are all pretty common nowadays.
Mega Sableye was S rank because the metagame wasn't as much prepared for it as it is now. Counters like SD Gliscor, Manaphy and Volcarona almost saw no usage while they are all pretty common nowadays.
Latios was S-Rank? Why?
I have a question over Mega Gardevoir. I've been using her lately and was wondering, since before you Mega you have trace, on the turn you mega would you also have trace or pixilate? I know speed is changed the turn after but are the abilities? If the former is the case that would make Garde the ultimate troll to weather teams.
The ability changes to Pixilate, but if you trace one that boosts speed in weather, you get a 1turn +2 speed boost + Pixilate.
an example of this would be:
t1
non mega gardevoir v mega swampert, rain is up - traces swift swim
t2
mega evolves, keeps swift swim, gains pixilate, outspeeds and hits swampert with hyper voice
It's useful, but Mega Alakazam is usually better for that as it gets to keep the weather ability until it switches.
I'm actually in need of an OU team, with a teeter dance spinda - which is required for all people in the tournament we are having.
Although, I will definitely use that page for future competitive battling.