Recent content by Aasgier

Yeah but I didn't use Swellow much except very recently in my newest team that somehow is still weak to Tauros (especially a Scarfed variant), but I used Floatzel a lot during early ORAS. And if you read what I wrote, I was talking about Pokémon I actually used to potentially check Tauros...

Well, Tauros is a long term threat obviously but quite a few checks and counters are gone or rendered irrelevant due to meta shifts. If I look at what I used to check Tauros in the past, none of these mons are in the tier anymore, or not usable for other reasons (Ty, Knock Off buff). The only...

I will not make a verdict with my lack of meta experience at this moment (the only thing I enjoy about playing Pokémon now is making the occassional really silly team) but I do have something to say about it. But way back, in my first few matches on Pokémon Online (before I even joined here!), I...

What part of "joke post" did you miss? That, and it was more referring to the fact that you suggested a Murkrow with four attacks and Imsomnia... if you use Murkrow, then at least use Prankster and T-Wave/Tailwind/whatever for reasons you just highlighted. Tailwind is especially important, as...

Thank you for writing this post. I was almost writing a joke post about how Pikachu is better than a Murkrow that doesn't make use of Prankster. And Pika's pretty garbage either, though Extreme Speed is hilarious and even if you don't run it you have a plethora of coverage options, or an...

In terms of counters to Jynx, you forgot our lord and savior, the mighty Metang! The only reason Metang is known as a counter to Jynx is that it was used often in late Gen V because Jynx was horribly centralizing that meta and Metang was simply the best we had in NU to stop it.

Hehe, thanks for proving me wrong. still, there's always that coverage most Fire-types carry. Magmortar's Thunderbolt, Pyroar's Hidden Power Grass, just Will-O-Wisp, etc Punchshroom: No, but they (I faced more than just one Carracosta) probably had taken a few rounds of hazards damage. I forgot...

Doesn't a powerful STAB Fire move - at least if it is special - 2HKO Carracosta anyways? Dunno, last time I spammed Fire Blast against it was Gen V, with Choice Specs Solar Power Charizard in the sun - which really had no problems just flat out OHKO'ing Carra, quad resist be damned, but we are...

Yeah, a good number of Scarfers can revenge Zard X. Zard X is probably part of the reason why Scarf Durant is fairly common, because Durant can revenge Zard safely at +1 with Stone Edge. However, even if Zard X got the banhammer, Scarf Durant remains extremely splashable on offensive teams...

Dugtrio needs to be ranked. Being an uncounterable revenge-killer... damn. Heatran, T-Tar, or just Chandelure or whatever weakened mon that can still destroy half your team. Dugtrio comes in and makes sure it doesn't escape. It even has Sucker Punch for the few things faster than it. It does...

Life Orb Durant is much more threatening than Scarf Durant, but Scarf Durant is incredibly splashable as a revenge killer on basically any and every offensive team.

Oops, thought Magmortar had the attack stats of Electivire, but swapped around. AV Magmortar not only beats the puffball, it also beats Gengar and can counter Mega Sceptile throughout the match.

I just run an Assault Vest Magmortar to rid myself of all that sleep bullshit. Works decently enough, but you really need to run max HP on it which is annoying as that makes it fairly slow. It hits fairly hard however, with Fire Blast and Focus Blast coming from 123 SpA, so that is a plus...

You can even remove Goodra with Dugtrio if you want to build around Whimsicott. Gourgeist is also a sleep counter btw, but the problem is that most sleep inducers outside of Whimsifluffball can hit it SE. Also, things like Skarmory and Clefable just get put to sleep and then you switch or...

There are also a few Imsomnia users, but outside of the Gourgeist forms they are pretty garbage.