Can this thread not be a pissing contest to see who can get the most likes by trashing another post? This whole experience could be discussion to making needed changes to the tiering system js
Y'all complaining about Ambipom and I'm here like
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This. God forbid someone use a Mega Slowbro over a Toxapex amirite?? No. Showdown should be about using the pokemon you want to use and have fun with them rather than using mons you don't really like just to ladder. It gets boring when every single OU team is Toxapex, Lando-T, Magearna, Heatran, Kartana, and Ash Greninja. If you are high ladder OU, this is like the only team you will find. It's that bad. This has been the least fun generation for OU, UU, and PU imo. It's really sad to see Smogon become so cold and unwelcoming to any new ideas.Threads like this show how Anti-Fun the Smogon Community has acted as of late. Sorry every UU team isn't Scizor, Latias, Gliscor, Azumarill, Serperior, and Mega-Manectric. God forbid anyone use anything different. Go back to OU and use your Lando-T, Toxipex, and Tapu-Kok if you want a stale metagame.
Ambipom may be 'sub-optimal' in some peoples eyes, but there is a charm in beating a team of cookie cutter top tiers with an underdog. Winning with Ambipom shows you demonstrate skill over what will largely be a bad matchup. I'll continue to use Ambipom because I like the mon and props to aim love the content and exposing the system/community for how petty it can be
Threads like this show how Anti-Fun the Smogon Community has acted as of late. Sorry every UU team isn't Scizor, Latias, Gliscor, Azumarill, Serperior, and Mega-Manectric. God forbid anyone use anything different. Go back to OU and use your Lando-T, Toxipex, and Tapu-Kok if you want a stale metagame.
Ambipom may be 'sub-optimal' in some peoples eyes, but there is a charm in beating a team of cookie cutter top tiers with an underdog. Winning with Ambipom shows you demonstrate skill over what will largely be a bad matchup. I'll continue to use Ambipom because I like the mon and props to aim love the content and exposing the system/community for how petty it can be
i constantly find it a miracle you haven't been permabanned
Guys, guys, calm down. As the guy who uses Parasect in OU and Wishiwashi in Monotype, I understand that some people use suboptimal mons for fun, and to showcase any mon can be good in specific circumstances. But does that mean those mons have to rise multiple tiers?
Rain teams were on a hypetrain there and very viable. Kingdra was the best Swift Swimmer and was a really good mon. It continues to be viable nowadays, but rain teams just aren't common enough for it to reach 3.41% usage anymore.Back in the day Kingdra went from BL3 to OU
Rain teams were on a hypetrain there and very viable. Kingdra was the best Swift Swimmer and was a really good mon. It continues to be viable nowadays, but rain teams just aren't common enough for it to reach 3.41% usage anymore.
yeah, low ladder is a lot more fun suprisingly, with more fun and innovative sets than high ladder. You get to see lower tier mons much more and see that they might actually put in work and have a nice niche, but go undiscovered alot because the meta focuses on only 15 mons when there are over 800 to try, while you cant use all of them because they may be banned or something, innovation is key in this game imo. Showdown needs to make changes soon imo.
in your opinionHigh ladder isnt boring
Ambipom is """"""""Viable""""""""""", but terribly outclassed and not something that should be UU. Face it, if not for Pokeaim's acts, that thing would never rise to even RU. I understand that Joey mainly did this for fun and to amuse his fans, but people should not suddenly start praising Ambipom as something as meta-defining as Scizor or Megactric.You got my point then. Ambipom rose to UU because a lot of people used it but it eventually will fall (even Joey said it on his video). Ambipom's time in UU can be compared with Kingdra's time in OU. It showed that it is viable, but it will not stay that high.
Omari P is a ladder hero that has seen incredible success despite his team being super bad on paper. Also, i wasnt calling anyone an actual idiot simply a joke.in your opinion
also what even is the omari ps team? im intrigued
oh and no need to call anyone an idiot because they disagree so pls let us all be friends
http://www.smogon.com/aboutCompletely agree with you.
The main point of Smogon was to promote creativity as I said before, but people only want to turn it into a pretty staple metagame by always using the exact same Pokémon. If that happens, you're going to get a REALLY BORING tier like USUM OU.
I hate to say this, but the people who trashtalk Ambipom are indirectly proving the arguments that Smogon haters have in my humble opinion.
Please do not misconstrue the focal point of Smogon in future posts.The UU (and RU and NU) metagames exist to mitigate this problem by creating an arena where lesser Pokémon can be used while still following the competitive ideal, but this is not perfect, and many Pokémon simply find themselves never used.
Ambipom is """"""""Viable""""""""""", but terribly outclassed and not something that should be UU. Face it, if not for Pokeaim's acts, that thing would never rise to even RU. I understand that Joey mainly did this for fun and to amuse his fans, but people should not suddenly start praising Ambipom as something as meta-defining as Scizor or Megactric.
ah, that's fine. for people who didn't know that though it's really hard to see the joke so remember your /s folksOmari P is a ladder hero that has seen incredible success despite his team being super bad on paper. Also, i wasnt calling anyone an actual idiot simply a joke.