Recent content by Avira

I feel for you. I don't believe there's even a remotely good way to determine that that set you faced is that set just by looking at your opponent's team composition. This is one of the reasons SV OU has such high variance in that you can not only change a mon's types to gain more set-up...

Personally, I do not agree with Finchinator and others who have the same view as him that the pro-Tera Blast supect camp must prove that Tera Blast is broken for a suspect to proceed. The tiering framework does indicate that an element can be acted on if broken, uncompetitive, and/or unhealthy...

Yeah, fat hasn't really notably improved after Roaring Moon's ban, and certain Ceruledge sets are even more demonic against fat than many Roaring Moon sets given Ceruledge doesn't exactly have widely consistent defensive counterplay with strong tools in Bitter Blade and Taunt. I'd go further...

Being misinformed doesn't mean one is necessarily making or intending to make a conspiracy theory, and this is part of what I dislike about American tribalism and the culture in the U.S., but I'll drop this subject now though since you've already explained why the general playerbase's write-ins...

This is uncalled for given you're replying to me, and I have never stated that the OU Council ignores the will of the people. I just favour the council tiering towards high level play, which should be how it works. If that wasn't the case, Toxapex would be suspected in Gen 7 'cause low ladder...

Can you stop bringing American toxicity (calling anything you dislike a conspiracy theory) into this with randomly calling my take a conspiracy theory? As can be seen by the results of the OU surveys, it is a fact that whoever posts the survey results only posts honourable mentions/write-in...

I believe it's perfectly true. Whenever Finchinator or someone on the OU Council cites the numbers regarding the decision to suspect something, the focus is almost always on the qualified demographic, and it has been stated more than once that Smogon tiers around high-level play, whether it be...

Suspecting something that has nowhere near the support to get banned would be a waste of time. Gliscor was last suspected 8 months ago and Kyurem 10 months ago, so more than enough time has passed for them to be suspected again. I know you really hate Ogerpon-Wellspring, but the community at...

That's only if you include the general playerbase as a whole, and since the OU Council only looks at the qualified demographic when determining what to suspect, it was Gliscor that had the highest survey score followed by Kyurem. Ogerpon-Wellspring has the highest (downward) shift in score from...

Personally, I don't believe the support will ever be there to ban Ogerpon-Wellspring even if I hate her effect on the builder to an extent since not enough offense players would get on board with banning her, whereas with Kyurem, it almost happened if not for one troll DNB vote from LoseToRU? I...

I'm guessing the Policy Review thread will be about Tera Blast. After the recent update to the tiering framework that qualified in which circumstances are non-Pokemon elements bannable, Tera Blast appears on the surface to be off the table regarding tiering action. Thus, it's possible a number...

You have nothing to apologize for. No previous OU Tier Leader has been as readily transparent and public-facing as you have been. You're doing an outright excellent job as the tier leader here. A large part of why SV OU has gotten to a tolerable place is 'cause of your outstanding leadership.

I'm surprised Ogerpon-Wellspring is the one who gets a suspect test when Gliscor had a higher score on the latest survey by the qualified pool of survey takers, who consist of most of the players who will be getting reqs. OU straight up ignores the survey answers of the general playerbase with...

There has been fearmongering about Boots spam since at least the Volcarona suspect, and Boots spam has not been broken after Volcarona was banned, after Gouging Fire was banned, which 'his holiness' CTC was adamant would happen (which was completely wrong), or after Roaring Moon was banned, and...

While I wouldn't be against a Tera Blast ban, the OU playerbase has not even gotten to a point in which it agreed that there needs to be action on Tera with the first Tera suspect only resulting in 58% wanting action on Tera and subsequent surveys (aside from the one in July 2023) showing waning...