it doesn’t really, sure it would make sense, but keldeo doesn’t have sharpness, which is the only thing that affects slicing moves
Yes I know
you say that, but they did replace defiant with competitive on empoleon and early bird with wind rider on shiftry, so they've proven willing to replace not-useful abilities with more useful ones. it wouldn't be too much of a stretch of the imagination to give sharpness to
Because that's not what this thread is about? DLC hopes/predictions belong on Orange Islands, this thread is for discussing the current OU metagame
This image is a pretty accurate representation of how I feel about any forum discussion on the same things as always. It's been like... the same thing since what, Baxcalibur got quickbanned? You tell me: ya'll are either bored or suuuper clingy to this shtick. This needs to s t o p
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Bug Lokix First Impression vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Your Sorry Ass: 1336-1576 (664.6 - 784%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Silver lining is that we'll have a somewhat stable tier soon, as this will probably be the last big banwave. I honestly like what Dexit has done to differentiate competitive gens (hot take probably), but the DLC release model really sucks in this regard.
While I agree with your points I find the part about Earthquake being mandatory kind of odd. EdgeQuake is still a good combo and it's not like Terrakion has much else to run after STABs. The other moveslots are kind of filler, to the point where non-STAB Quick Attack has been used on Band and I think SD sets in the past.
Ik that also other people are tired of these discussions and of others mons as MattC said above, even me that joined Smogon to know better the competitive Pokémon now perfectly knows them without even doing a match (Ik that I should play games and be in other threads and not only the OU one, but don't know where to go and I'm scared to do battles and also Teambuilding is hard when you just started and don't know how to do that, but for not derail too much this will be for another day and feel free to tell me in the messages if you want to help me), but in the end is unavoidable, since are some of the mons that besides being popular, are also some of the most hated ones, so it's normal that people constantly rant about them and doing this they try to find a miracle as someone that has a solution for them or that their messages are finally seen by the Showdown mods and that they will finally ban them from the tier.
Skill swap to beat magic bounce hatterene I guess
thanks.
Tournament winrate is a very misleading statistic that has to be analyzed very carefully and in context to have any merit. The more used a pokemon is, the more useless winrate becomes. In the extreme case, a pokemon with 100% usage such as Gen 2 snorlax will always have a 50% winrate. At the same token, less used pokemon fall into a different problem of having low sample sizes. I'd recommend checking out BKC's video on the topic. What you would have to do to start using this data in a useful way is carefully go through replays one by one in context, looking at what role kingambit played in the game, whether it was even sent out, what kind of teams it is on, and more. A more interesting statistic would be how frequently a "true 50/50 turn" pops up in games after kingambit is sent out, namely the kind of turn where one or both players have to make a raw prediction of tera or no tera, as is common in the kingambit vs iron valiant both sides haven't terad yet interaction.
Until they ban something that leads to another thing being broken, and that to another, like most of this gen ngl. Hell, i expect half of the new mons to be suspected bare minimum at this point. When's shit broken, and when's shit just the new OU?
