Thanks for your questions everyone -- this is back open for new ones, which I hope to get to later next week!
Would love something that has an ability that summons Trick Room like weathers or terrains.if you were given full creative control over the design of a single new pokemon, what would it be like competitively?
T-Rex, my girlfriend's dog is named Rex so why notalso, what's your favorite dinosaur and why?
Toxapex is a fraudwhat pokemons you think that sucks but they are in OU anyways because of usage stats and some mons that are in lower tiers but they desreve to be used more
Sinistcha is rly good into some offenses; would try it for sureMr. OU Leader Finchinator. I am graced by your presence and being able to ask you a question. That question is: What is an anti-meta/interesting pokemon pick you like in the current metagame?
I run the surveys and am the public face of the council, so I spend hours each week on posts and making sure people know who I am/what I am/they can approach me with any questions. Council members do not have as much of a binding need to be accessible so much as just share their stances within council discussions I suppose.What additional responsibilities and roles does being Tier Leader bring as opposed to just a council member, at least in your opinion? Do you like that it's made you a public figure and the face people associate with OU?
ExcadrillIs there a Pokémon not in this generation that, in your opinion, could help to balance out the meta? I used to think that Ferrothorn could do a lot to help, but that was at the beginning of Gen 9 and with how prominent hazards have gotten recently I think it’d just make things worse now.
Trick Room and Rain are both very limited imoWhat playstyle do you like that is niche/bad in the metagame? An example for me is electric terrain teams/sand teams.
Not really, no. I have tried it and it just leaves so much to be desired, sorry.Does lokix have any niche in ou? To me it wants to run a power boosting item and heavy duty boots but strong tinted lense priotity seems good
I think UUbers could be a fun, novelty metagame for people looking to play the Pokemon that are too much for OU, but not quite viable in Ubers. I do not view it as necessary or a tool for OU tiering at all, but I am glad it exists if only because it makes people who play it happy and that's a big plus in my book!With UUbers recently getting its debut, we have the opportunity to see some of the lower-rated Ubers mons in battle.
This led me to think : despite how different the UUbers metagame is to ours, do you believe that UUbers could be useful to assess the power level of mons currently not allowed in OU?
Either something with a new archetype forming ability (i.e: summons Trick Room upon entry) or something with a new typing (i.e: Fairy / Ghost on something viable defensively and a good to suit that, not Mimikyu) would be super sick. I like being able to create new teambuilding ripples tbh.For the Indigo Disk, GameFreak reaches out to you to create the new Mythical Pokemon, with the only constraint being it has to have 600 BST as the gen's "cute mythical". You decide to use this opportunity to create something that fulfills an unexplored niche in OU (bonus points if it's not something already found in a dexited mon). What would you want to make? All signature moves, abilities, etc. are on the table for you to use, as its not unheard of for mythical Pokemon to steal former signatures for themselves.
I am excited for them, but I think Blaziken and Serperior steal the show here and could have larger implications. The rest are going to likely be mostly seen in lower tiers admitedly.Mr.... Finch....?
I don't wanna one liner even here but I guess since thats the talk of the town in the metagame thread, any thoughts on the returning starters? I'm looking to mess around with Primarina myself.
Plan is to give it a serious consideration and potential action during the DLC2 metagame. A ban now makes no sense.Hello Finch, long time no see. Is there any talk of a Gholdengo quickban right now, with a suspect test near the beginning of DLC2? If not, is there a concrete plan for what to do with everyone's favorite cheese stick?
Yesare you willing to bring back kyurem to OU?
I do not know; this would hinge upon a PR discussion and community sentiment. If it were up to me, the only options would be banning tera, banning tera blast, and no ban.do you ever get tired of our crap?
on a more serious note, assuming there will be another tera suspect when dlc2 releases and everything settles down, will their be many options be like the first time or just ban/no ban? I ask because I saw some people saying they would've liked tera restricted in some way but chose no ban because they would prefer that over full ban.