Recent content by ab15

I hate how we are talking about flinching now. Togekiss+ serene grace + Air slash should be banned. I've always thought this but I don't know how I feel if the last straw to ban darm is hax. If its too much then yeh (See sub veil garchomp), but I guess I gotta test more now that dyan is gone...

It is Actually one of the strongest reasons why we should not change it (there are others but I'll explain this one). Team Preview, Stealth Rocks, Mega Evolution, Z Moves, Gen 1 psychic, and some others are all meta defining inclusions to the game that we have to had to play around if you...

Been Playing for a while and really don't hate dynamaxing. It's this gens game mechanic and I think it is way too soon to remove it. Played around with quite a few underrated mons that I would like to share: Avalugg @ Heavy-Duty Boots Ability: Own Tempo EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def Impish Nature -...

Yes but maybe forcing your opponent to dyna early is part of the meta. Maybe to force it early, deal with it with some strats / "sub par moves" and then proceed to sweep with your dyna mon. Seems like a meta to me. Yes the games are objectively faster with dynamaxing in, but is that an...

Dynamaxing does change how the game is played and how you build teams, but for now I dont think it should be banned. Many things change from game to game, Team Preview, Stealth Rocks,weather wars, and crazy held items have all changed the game, all to arguably the same degree (though I would...

YES please. People are complaining about it when we don't know all of the mechanics. Is it confirmed that choice band does not work for dyna mons. What about life orb ect...? Also does heavy slam do more damage if you are dyna'd?

Is that jolly or adamant? And yes the second you throw out excadrill against a faster opponent then the opponent will know that it is scarfed and then the predictions/ counter play get pulled in. However when something switches into an excadrill thinking it is faster or you sack a mon and show...

How would a Lando-T lose to a charizard X, especialy if scarfed? Also agree, it is very obvious to know when a excadrill is scarfed. If one were to run scarfed it would have to be saved for a surprise KO.

Woah gone for a bit, never thought they would suspect meta before Sableye. I have written the all reasons I could find when the topic was brought up, and the majority then was much more towards suspecting Sableye (not that I think they are both broken but maybe suspect). Any way here is the...

http://www.smogon.com/smog/issue39/aegislash Makes good points about Aegislash but mainly "it checks most of the new Mega Evolutions introduced, such as Mega Altaria, Mega Sceptile, Mega Diancie, Mega Gallade, Mega Latias, Mega Beedrill, and Mega Metagross. No new great checks or counters were...

I read the thread a bunch of times and the argument about Mega Sableye and Mega Metagross are interesting but all over the place with not much calcs or info. I have compiled the Pros and cons of each mon that is being said but there is a hard way to quantify who has the better pros/ worse cons...

This is really the smart way people should be looking at it. Some one a bit angry (or angry sounding) worded it like this: Everyone has to take into account Landorus-Therian, CharizardX, and even a Gliscor when building a team or they will get beat bad. I think people are just frustrated with...

As much as I like that set, it pretty much gets walled by ANY fairy. A flying stab would be nice but he only gets wing attack?(??? I guess Mega Salamence showed us the power of a good flying stab). I fought a couple of Weakness Policy D-nites which was cool, though I had an Unaware Clafable so...

Not a bad idea, maybe something like Dusknoir and Mandibuzz. Will try to test it out. Aegislash is pretty much on his way out now so I don't think discussing him would help ghost pokemon, plus again Aegislash is a huge exception because of his ability and steel typing. With Aegislash gone...

Steel has a lot to do with this because now dark moves are now a lot more common and useful , just look at Bisharps and tyranitar. Dark pokemon could now spam their dark attacks more now that a steel pokemon can't just be thrown out and resist them. Furthermore because of Darks buff more...