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Now why the fuck would I do that? Your argument against Tera is akin to saying "if you play badly you'll lose." How about instead of Tera Fairying when theres a Bullet Puncher on the loose, I Tera Water my annihilape and win the game on the spot instead, because what are you gonna do? Tera Grass...

I dont know how to explain to you that stall still exists in the meta, and there are other forms of viable HO apart from those two. In any case, at this point you're disagreeing with me just to disagree, and have not refuted the actual point of my first post, which was addressing that held items...

I believe that forcing people to run one of very few niche users of niche items to fulfill a completely avoidable Item Clause isnt competitive. Thats what this whole debate is about. Do you think every team should be running Sash Glimmora, Light Clay Grimmsnarl and Pex just to round out the item...

Focus Sash is only ever seen on Glimmora and Spidops because unless you have a dedicated hazard lead, its kinda shit as its just going no item vs hazards, which are really strong in current meta. Air Balloon is only seen on Gholdengo atm, and honestly with how Great Tusk has adapted to using...

Fun fact, very few people are saying that every pokemon is able to run every tera type.

This is such a weird take to me. Why is everyone jumping on this arguement? Items are in no way uncompetitive, and that is largely because offensive items have a drawback. If the Choice Band was just a flat 1.5x boost to attack with no drawback, it would be banned, and rightfully so, because it...

Genuinely the level of snark coming from someone advocating for life orb chien pao is astounding.

They most certainly do not. Set up sweepers do not run choice for obvious reasons, but HO always run atleast 1 scarfer and 1 band/specs mon for the power. Very few mons are running Life Orb, even the sweepers, because the chip damage is not worth it most of the time unless you have reliable...

??? Life Orb has been slowly declining in usage for like 4 gens now because it gets worse every gen. Choice items are 100% the play for offensive items. What meta are you even playing?

Being the Taunt CM set had opportunity cost. It meant you could beat pex, but you were worse into more offensive teams than if you ran scarf. You had to choose, in the builder, between your Fini being self-sufficient enough to muscle past some of its checks at the cost of not bringing as much to...

Just my two cents in the matter. Laddering this gen has been really, really fun. Probably the most fun Ive had with a new gen outside of early days mega chaos of XY. In addition, I dont particularly have too many problems with Tera, but thats just my playstyle. I play conservatively, and...

Was in New Hampshire for thanksgiving and the internet was shit so I had to wait 6 days to post this update but here it is! So, last time we left off, we had JUST unlocked Ranked Battles, which is where the main focus of this playthrough will be. Lets take our good boys and girls into Ranked...

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9almostanyability-1724502610 Im aware this is low ladder and my team is shit, I just want to share the funniest set I've come up with so far Iron Thorns @ Air Balloon Ability: Rocky Payload Tera Type: Rock EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Adamant...

Hey everyone! I decided not to do this run over the weekend because there was a balance update yesterday and I wanted to see who got buffed before making any purchasing decisions. Anyways, lets get into it! We have access to two more days of missions, and the rewards from these are pretty good...

Upon logging in today, I was greeted with my free Slowbro license. Im still not sure if Im gonna allow myself to use him, but its a useful poke to have in the back in any case. Additionally, I can unlock yet another pokemon for free, this time Alolan Ninetales. Now, Alolan Ninetales is not...