Recent content by Askeia

I’m defending Stakeout and Prankster because they give more flexibility with stats. To me, a good Beak Blast needs too many high stats to work without an ability to patch one of those. It needs solid bulk to take hits, enough damage to discourage switches, and possibly a fast recovery+Taunt so...

After looking at some of the other noms, I think I’m still firmly in the Stakeout camp. While it can be a balancing nightmare power-wise, I think the main benefit it brings to the process is that it opens up the option that we don’t have to be a physical attacker. Having a lower physically...

I think the fact that Beak Blast almost always gets the Analytic boost is a huge point against it. May just be my own bias, but I personally think that pseudo-unconditional power boosting abilities are uninspired, especially in CAP. We have all the flexibility in world in the stats section to...

I think Stomping is pretty limiting in terms of downstream design because of it doesn’t have a proactive condition. It ideally wants to have a strong spammable STAB that warrants the opponent switching to an immunity, but once it gets 2 or more strong moves Stomping starts to get more and more...

I know about rounding, but I want to know what is being rounded down here. Even with 252 HP, 6.25% from Burn and SR (for Clod) gets rounded down, 12.5% and 18.75% from SR (for Pex) and Spikes gets rounded down. 25% from Spikes rounds up but that doesn't prevent Pecharunt or Tyranitar, who also...

Can someone explain why some defensive mons run 248 HP and others 252? I can understand in the case of SR weak mons like Zapdos and mons like Corviknight whose at 252 HP investment just happens to reach a multiple of 125. What about Clodsire and Toxapex, who do not hit a SR number, and seems...

Maybe it's just me, but I personally always have a Poison type on my team in every Gen naturally without thinking much about it. Bulbasaur/Nidoking in RBY/FRLG, Tentacruel and Crobat in GS/HGSS, Roserade in RSE/ORAS, Drapion/Skuntank/Roserade in DPPt etc... I think one of the problems about...

Hot take, but I think Eruption/Water Spout/Dragon Energy can be pretty neat to build around. While we do have some good users of the moves, it isn’t really a defining move on any of them, at least not in Singles. It is not strong enough to be generically strong, but is strong enough to build...

Ok listen up... Specs Blizzard under Hail and Trick Room. For real though, would Frosmoth be a decent option for Trick Room if you are running Slowking as the setter? It's a decent Ground resist who get a boost with Snow, with access to a very strong Blizzard and also sets up Aurora Veil for you...

Watch any high rank game with Corviknight and it happens all the time. U-turn into Garchomp or Ting-Lu, click Spikes as Gholdengo is forced to switched out. Repeat once or twice and you are already ahead on hazards against the spike stacking team. Gholdengo is coming in at most twice before it...

So Gholdengo is the only spinblocker that loses to the 2 best spinners in the tier and that's a strain on teambuilding? Gholdengo doesn't even always beat Corviknight because everything it does is telegraphed. U-turn out a few times on it and you can just Defog once your own hazards wear it down...

There are only 4 Ghost types in OU, and you listed half of them in the "except" category, which doesn't really say anything about Gholdengo's "so much better" spinblocking ability. Gholdengo is literally weak to the 2 best spinners and has to carry balloon AND them not carrying Knock Off to stop...

If Spikes is the problem, suspect Spikes, if it's not a problem, then neither is Gholdengo. The low amount of defoggers relative to the high amount of Spike users is 100% the problem here, not Gholdengo. Corviknight is literally the only thing that Gholdengo stops that other Ghosts don't. Ban...

If I'm Steel RM, I will never choose to Iron Head a Breloom because I'm never going to assume Breloom's Tera typing is Rock in the first place. If their only check to Steel RM is Breloom, then I'm more than satisfied to lose my Booster Energy to keep my RM alive 100% of the time. If I'm Flying...

There are 8 options for you, but only 2 options for them because they are aware of their own Tera type. If they are Flying, they Acro you. If they are Steel, they switch out. If you Tera Rock, you win 50% of the time, and the other 50% of the time you just made a Tera Rock Breloom, grats. If...