As far as I know Koko is not coming back with neither HOME nor DLC
Or give it to jolteon instead of quick feet, that ability is so useless on it lmao
To be fair, it wasn’t until very recently that doubling the speed of a base 130 Pokémon wasn’t an absurd idea. I’d also run flame orb over toxic orb, less damage over time would matter on a Pokémon that frail
.might want volt switch on there and tera ice/water tera blast for great tusk
I like using life orb mixed valiant on eterrain. I feel like specs allows the opponent to go to a middle ground and then pivot around depending on the move you're locked into. Life orb means you can use different attacks in order to take full advantage of the eterrain turns without compromising much on power + the recoil doesnt matter much on valiant anyway since it is so frail regardless.
honestly, nice post, I didn't think about Jugulis when I was testing. Might have to try that.
Tinkaton has everything to be a decent mon on OU except from its attack stat. If only it got an item to double its attack like Marowak.
Viable is a strong word for a shed tail-less Cyclizar, at least for OU. Yeah, blocks shadow ball but it does to them in return?
If you really need Gholdengo gone in particular, Cyclizar can threaten 0 HP ones with a Knock Off + Overheat 2HKO without need for investment
Yes, but the main issue with it is that Tusk already can OHKO Gholdengo, fits on more teams and Idk why I'm explaining what Tusk does, Tusk existence makes Cyclizar's niche kinda irrelevant for the tier.
I agree that open team sheet should be an optional setting on the ladder, if for no other reason than to make it easier to steal and try out various sets & teams that you go up against for yourself. It might also help dealing w/ unpredictability when facing Random Tera types or Choice Scarfers, but I really doubt open team sheet would make a difference against those things because from my exp, most people ignore the open team sheet option on the VGC ladder.OPEN TEAM SHEET
So I would like to preface this post by saying,I don't play vgc nor have ever played it and mainly making this post just because I think it could be a fun discussion which could be had and who knows,may become a reality though I can guess what the final answer will be for this topic
WHAT IS OPEN TEAM SHEET?
Open team sheet works basically like the !showteam function on showdown but there is one major difference,it doesn't show the ev's of the pokemon,so essentially when you do open team sheet it shows the tera type,items,movesets and ability of the pokemon's on the team,which obviously works both ways,If your oppo can see all these details except ev's about your team,you can see all the details except ev's of your opponent's team's too.
WHY MAKE THIS POST?
So as most of us know this generation the pokemon company made a semi controversial decision to have open team sheet for vgc,the main idea is to make it as competitive as possible since vgc matches are usually short each turn matters much more and a surprise set could completely flip a game upside down,so open team sheet eliminates that to give the better player a higher winning chance.
So why have it in singles?
It could be interesting! Obviously unless we play with it we cant have an actual idea of how it would be like in singles so we can only guess.
Now obviously we all know pokemon company doesn't care about 6v6 singles at all ,but if it did I think they would def try to implement open team sheet in singles,so why not try it ourselves too?
This idea mainly arose from all the tera preview discussion people keep on having of how some people would much rather prefer to have tera preview so it becomes much less of a guessing game of what tera type a pokemon is and so they can make a better gameplan from preview around it rather than losing to a random tera type,so I thought why not take it a step further and make it so both the ppl know the entirety of each other's teams except the ev's so the entirety of guessing is eliminated and make the matches even more competitive.
Now I obviously know a lot of teambuilding/playing is about creativity in the builder and being able to hide your sets to the perfect time to reveal it which is a 100% fair argument to be made,but the same could of been said for vgc and yet they seem to be doing fantastic with open team sheet,obviously the surprise factor in that matters far more than in singles but the core concept is same,it makes the matches much more competitive and reduces guess work(looking at team structure's,good players can have a pretty decent idea of what type of set each pokemon would have,but even if an extremely educated one, its still a guess).
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
In ladder(Assuming would work same as vgc ladder),Open team sheet(OTS) IS OPTIONAL AND REQUIRES BOTH THE PLAYER'S TO AGREE TO DOING IT BEFORE THE MATCH BEGINS ,I made this point majorly just for ppl who would be rightfully opposed to ots,so if you do not wish to have your matches be ots,simply do not agree/ignore it hence making the point of it being a really bad idea not so bad and for people who want it,they both can agree and play like so and in tourney's it can be optional or be stated in rules before hand.
CONCLUSION:
Seeing as how we have played singles for decades now,there shouldn't be much harm in testing it and trying out this change,it may be miserable,may be aight,may be good,we don't know till we have tried it and obviously once again reiterating there is a option to deny open team sheet and requires both the player's to agree to it for it work and hence I don't see much harm in testing it out,single's game are usually long enough to scout hence ots doesnt feel necessary is a fair arguement too but then again no harm in testing and see how it may go.
Now obviously there is an immense amount of discussion which could be had on this topic,which this thread is for,so do it if you wish and I also know most ppl would be seeing this as a clown post and that's aight too considering the topic of this post,if I was someone else I would dismiss this as a clown post too but I really think this could be a interesting thing to try and add some mix to the usual singles we play.
OPEN TEAM SHEET
So I would like to preface this post by saying,I don't play vgc nor have ever played it and mainly making this post just because I think it could be a fun discussion which could be had and who knows,may become a reality though I can guess what the final answer will be for this topic
WHAT IS OPEN TEAM SHEET?
Open team sheet works basically like the !showteam function on showdown but there is one major difference,it doesn't show the ev's of the pokemon,so essentially when you do open team sheet it shows the tera type,items,movesets and ability of the pokemon's on the team,which obviously works both ways,If your oppo can see all these details except ev's about your team,you can see all the details except ev's of your opponent's team's too.
WHY MAKE THIS POST?
So as most of us know this generation the pokemon company made a semi controversial decision to have open team sheet for vgc,the main idea is to make it as competitive as possible since vgc matches are usually short each turn matters much more and a surprise set could completely flip a game upside down,so open team sheet eliminates that to give the better player a higher winning chance.
So why have it in singles?
It could be interesting! Obviously unless we play with it we cant have an actual idea of how it would be like in singles so we can only guess.
Now obviously we all know pokemon company doesn't care about 6v6 singles at all ,but if it did I think they would def try to implement open team sheet in singles,so why not try it ourselves too?
This idea mainly arose from all the tera preview discussion people keep on having of how some people would much rather prefer to have tera preview so it becomes much less of a guessing game of what tera type a pokemon is and so they can make a better gameplan from preview around it rather than losing to a random tera type,so I thought why not take it a step further and make it so both the ppl know the entirety of each other's teams except the ev's so the entirety of guessing is eliminated and make the matches even more competitive.
Now I obviously know a lot of teambuilding/playing is about creativity in the builder and being able to hide your sets to the perfect time to reveal it which is a 100% fair argument to be made,but the same could of been said for vgc and yet they seem to be doing fantastic with open team sheet,obviously the surprise factor in that matters far more than in singles but the core concept is same,it makes the matches much more competitive and reduces guess work(looking at team structure's,good players can have a pretty decent idea of what type of set each pokemon would have,but even if an extremely educated one, its still a guess).
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
In ladder(Assuming would work same as vgc ladder),Open team sheet(OTS) IS OPTIONAL AND REQUIRES BOTH THE PLAYER'S TO AGREE TO DOING IT BEFORE THE MATCH BEGINS ,I made this point majorly just for ppl who would be rightfully opposed to ots,so if you do not wish to have your matches be ots,simply do not agree/ignore it hence making the point of it being a really bad idea not so bad and for people who want it,they both can agree and play like so and in tourney's it can be optional or be stated in rules before hand.
CONCLUSION:
Seeing as how we have played singles for decades now,there shouldn't be much harm in testing it and trying out this change,it may be miserable,may be aight,may be good,we don't know till we have tried it and obviously once again reiterating there is a option to deny open team sheet and requires both the player's to agree to it for it work and hence I don't see much harm in testing it out,single's game are usually long enough to scout hence ots doesnt feel necessary is a fair arguement too but then again no harm in testing and see how it may go.
Now obviously there is an immense amount of discussion which could be had on this topic,which this thread is for,so do it if you wish and I also know most ppl would be seeing this as a clown post and that's aight too considering the topic of this post,if I was someone else I would dismiss this as a clown post too but I really think this could be a interesting thing to try and add some mix to the usual singles we play.
well its other niche is its huge base speed and the ghost immunity, being a spinner that dragapult cant block and also able to kill gholdengo. (switching in on draga is ONLY possible if its a choice locked shadow ball, but honestly pretty much every dragapult runs specs anyways so its not a huuuuge issue? if anything, being able to outspeed hisuian zoroark and pop a knock off to remove their specs is also nice for your own shadow ball spammer)
