Recent content by ashleyumu

Garganacl being steel-water type would be particularly problematic considering that would mean the best check to garganacl is garganacl's own salt cure

Knowing the tera type takes out a good bit of guessing - as it stands now with something like Kingambit, you don't know which tera type it is and thus don't know which pokemon you have to preserve in order to deal with it. It also allows you to potentially midground a lot more effectively...

I wouldn't be surprised if hazards are still an issue even after Gholdengo/Gliscor are gone, but I feel like it's important to at least see how the meta develops after those two are removed rather than jumping headfirst into removing two setters which may be fine once Gholdengo isn't around to...

Bax was already OU before DLC1 after the chien pao ban, it's just that ice types aren't super stackable generally and chien pao was the better mon and taking up that spot, and scale shot *was* significantly more prominent than DD glaive rush sets - scale shot was on 75.332% of baxcalibur's...

Both Baxcalibur and Roaring Moon got incredible new tools that led to them being banned, with bax getting scaleshot + alolan ninetails as support and roaring moon getting knock off. It's not like they suddenly picked up in metashare out of nowhere and that led to a decision to ban them, it's...

The short answer is that Gen 2 is kinda in a broken checks broken metagame where Snorlax checks Zapdos, and without Snorlax players would likely have to resort to Pokemon like Blissey in order to check Zapdos leading to more stall based gameplay than there currently is. No one really knows what...

Invoking gen 2 Snorlax is an awful argument to not ban something - gen 1-3 was a very different time for Smogon and things were very rarely banned, if generation 2 was the current gen Snorlax would certainly be banned under current tiering policy.

Player name: ashleyumu Tiers played: HG OU Tiers not played: all others

Not even those can wall the band set - pex gets two hit by crunch even without chien tera dark, and dondozo gets two hit if it does tera.

:Veluza: UR -> D Veluza's unique combination of water STAB, incredible immediate boosting with Fillet Away, access to stored power, and mold breaker ability positions it to be a reasonable role player on certain shed tail hyper offense teams, and a great partner to Espathra. Many of the things...