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The only significant OU threats it's significantly more effective than Night Shade against are Espeon and Gengar. That's essentially useless.

I'm not going to pretend to be some sort of stall expert, just covering some basics. Dusclops does get Taunt; WOW/Taunt does most of the job of shutting down walls with recovery, mooting Toxic in many cases. It doesn't get Thunder Wave. Shadow Sneak is not an OO. It does less damage than...

Read the post I was replying to. I agree that it shouldn't be used as a physical wall. Rotom-H really struggles to switch into Thundurus. If a 252HP/0SpD Rotom-H switches into a Thunderbolt then eats a Focus Blast (seeing as Thundurus is faster and all), it's taken 81.9% - 96.4%. That's a...

Well, here goes nothing. Username: A Man In Black Age: 29 Pokemon Online/Shoddy Username: A Man In Black, or some variation on same if I'm on a testing alt Your timezone and usual hours of availability: GMT-6, 2100-0200ish. What tier do you want to learn?: BW OU, chiefly. Tell us a...

All of those except Escavalier are frail as a frail thing, and taunting doesn't stop DTail or Circle Throw phazing while you're trying to set up. Jask and Octillery in Team Preview might as well be a neon sign announcing what you're up to, as well.

Team Preview lets people see it coming. And once it's forced out, the Focus Sash and lack of a set-up move or any kind of utility makes it a liability. Lead sets are on the decline. Anti-lead sets are dead as the dodo. Any "lead" set that Skarmory sees as set-up fodder is none such.

I don't think Quagsire, Gastrodon, and Swampert are bigger threats than Gliscor, Garchomp, and the many dragons and outspeeders crippled by HP Ice and TWave. HP Grass might be a good option if you're specifically using Zapdos to lure those out to KO them but the rest of the time HP Ice offers...

Because its DW ability hasn't been released, that's why.

It's an anti-lead that deals with one single attacking lead. The metagame full of other potential leads. Your opponent see that you're running Bisharp in Team Preview and switches leads. Your opponent just U-turns Mienshao away from a known Inner Focus user. Mienshao isn't even that common...

This is just an attacker with a Focus Sash. It doesn't work in OU because of Team Preview, because people can just say, "Hey, there's Chandelure, let's lead with something fast/resistant to its attacks." Even if you do succeed with it, all you kill is their lead, while any revenge killer or...

Metal Burst Bisharp wrecks one Pokemon then dies horribly if your prediction is absolutely spot-on amazing. If your prediction isn't perfect, it just dies horribly or gets set up on. Plus, there is the issue of being hard countered by Conkeldurr, many things with with Substitute, etc. On top of...

Dream World Slowpoke is released. Also, Healing Wish and Regenerator?

When is Rotom-H's typing an asset as a physical wall? Stone Edge is everywhere, and Rotom-W can do the same thing, with better defensive typing.

Deoxys-D, Mew, and Uxie strike me as exceptions to this, albeit relatively uncommon ones.

Mienshao basically does all of the things that you're saying Ambipom does with just HJK. Would you rather have a Pokemon that can OHKO this, that, or the other if you predict correctly...or a Pokemon that can OHKO all of those things with its main STAB attack? (Hell, it almost 2HKOs physically...