Recent content by Achohermano

I honestly think that terastalization is keeping the meta from being actually balanced. It brings a lot more harm that good, and it wasn't thought for closed sheets meta, nor a singles format. For every cool Yanmega set, or band / scarf cool surprise with Landorus, you have 20 kingambits...

When there's an issue in the tier (a Pokémon that's been outstanding aganist the competition and therefore being problematic), or a certain set / move that hasn't a counterplay developed at the moment, there's usually a lot of activity around it. I know that there's also the influence of having...

I don't know what you consider "near the top", but I play on the 1800s, and every single player I face except the Jolteon guy is either playing stall, or HO, 80% of the time it is, in fact, screens HO. And those fellas are like my elo or higher. So I honestly completly disagree. I don't think...

Grimmsnarl has priority but deo-s "has" it too almost all the time due to Scarf being an unsued item and Deo-S being base 180 speed. It can slow-pivot with teleport, it hits way harder with Psycho Boost (if you need to) and has coverage with Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Shadow Ball... It actually has...

I agree with Seraphyde, while I don't think Alomomola, even in an hypothetic Waterpon-less meta that I won't talk in depth since it's theorymon, would be broken, using Gastrodon or even Tatsugiri as arguments isn't good. It's cool to find some sort of niche to those low tier mons, but using...

You made some solid arguments for everything but if you don't mind for making this post easier to read I'll just quote the last line. But I read everything and you made some solid points. The thing is (I knew it could Volt Switch...As you said, for some reason neither of us know) but at that...

Great Tusk --> Okay at best, you don't do anything in front of it except of slightly chip it and probably get yourself worn out if it has helmet. Can set up rocks, bulk up, do heavy damage with headlong, clean away hazards... Kingambit --> Good matchup for Cobalion Gholdengo --> A lvl 1...

In my honest opinion, sadly, Cobalion has nothing to do in this metagame. You need BP to do some damage, and then you need to choose between Stealth Rock, Thunder Wave, Taunt, Roar and, maybe, as Aminal said above me, Stone Edge. Pretty cool on paper, some role compression and while you dont...

Idk if talking a discussion about this is pushing "theorymonning" and if that's the case, I know it's forbidden and I will stop talking about this. But if Tera Blast gets banned, it's not that Eleki will be dropping. It's that it's gonna be straight up bad. 60% - 70% of teams have either Lando...

I know this is ban dependant, but if, at any moment, Gliscor gets banned, Alolan Muk is gonna pop off a lot in this metagame. Nothing in the entire tier likes to switch to a Poison Touch Knock Off, has Drain Punch for Kingambit and the Poison Touch means it makes progress aganist Tusk, Ting Lu...

Separating cheesers from the biggest cheeser itself is quite funny honestly. Like, isn't a Pokémon with 6-7 viable different Teras, Encore, recovery, set up and every coverage ever the most cheesy thing ever? XD

I agree with what you said on this post. At the moment, I don't think that Zamazenta is even near to be broken, mostly because it needs a lot of stuff to go on his way in order for it to sweep. Also, a big problem it has is that while you can "surprise" your opponent by being AoA instead of ID...

I do agree they're not that relevant but you still have to keep an eye for them, I just for example faced one in this elo (which is, imo, decent to analyze what's good or not) like 5 minutes ago. Again, I know you won't face one all the time but you have to also prepare for it, since if it...

The OLT is great for practicing, since I'm getting matches aganist insane players like Leng Loi or Kebab in my "Low" elo (1750s- 1800s). I'm having a great time on the ladder this week. However, while this is very cool and I'm learning a lot, I gotta say I'm getting extremely tired of one...

For me, the thing that tips the scale towards wanting at least a suspect test is that Ogerpon Wellspring has no actual checks. If it has the right move, or is adamant, it can actually beat usually weaker Pokémon like Hydrapple that you would add to your team specifically to check Wellspring...