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Spending the beginning of every match scouting out the opposing player's Genesect set just to have them pivot around on you and risk them setting up is a hassle to say the least. Even if you correctly predict their coverage with your Mega-Venusaur or Amoongus, having to keep those ons healthy...

While Genesect may play out different in practice than on paper, this post doesn't do an adequate job of showing what Genesect can do throughout a game. Genesect should never be used to directly switch into Mega-Metagross, Mega-Scizor, or Tapu-Lele, and it also doesn't need to win a majority of...

While true, Weezing lacks reliable recovery outside of pain split, and leaf storm/hp ice can chunk weezing for quite a bit (47.9 - 55.9%) and (29.6 - 35%). It can only act as a counter to sceptile maybe twice throughout the match before it gets too whittled down. Weezing is also not the most...

Could someone explain to me why piloswine was brought back down to B? It was fairly recently that it got the rise to A- from B+, I'm curious what new metagame shifts make it less viable

Hp grass helps deal with mons like quagsire that can wall entire teams, and can reliable kill threatening setup mons like rhydon. I get the whole "it's already suboptimal so who cares if you miss" argument, but focus blast is just so inaccurate that really simple necessary things like failing to...

+2 252 SpA Life Orb Raichu Hidden Power Grass vs. 40 HP / 216+ SpD Lanturn: 234-278 (58.3 - 69.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery +2 252 SpA Life Orb Raichu Grass Knot (40 BP) vs. 40 HP / 216+ SpD Lanturn: 159-187 (39.6 - 46.6%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery If you're...

Ahh, I must be blind. Cool item use, I suppose safety goggles is a great option on hail teams. Still, leftovers Sawk is surprisingly strong, as it allows it to get back to sturdy even after stealth rock damage. This wouldn't do much with hail up though.

Doesn't leftovers go after hail, thus keeping sawk at 100%? Or does it activate afterwards?

Why safety goggles over leftovers on Sawk? Is it for sleep powder protection?

archeops, mesprit, crustle, rhydon, piloswine, carracosta that's a good list of hazard mons that can work as reliable leads.

This is a really interesting team, my only question is why you chose to use Lumineon instead of just giving Shiftry defog? This would allow you to use a better water type in a similar role (specs Lanturn or LO Poliwrath, specifically). Lumineon is a fun pick, but getting locked into defog is...

Very solid team man! However, I would consider giving Magmortar either hp grass or flame charge over earthquake. The former gives you a better way to deal with Quagsire, which your team is quite weak to, while the latter allows Magmortar to sweep unprepared teams without getting revenge killed...

Fantastic team guys! I would maybe consider running icicle spear on piloswine as the 90% is sorta unreliable and allows it to beat lead archeops. It should still 2HKO xatu with ice shard, even if you get 2 hits in (I'm fairly certain). Everything else looks good to me!

I'd argue this mon is better compared to scyther than combusken, as the banded set with u-turn can compete with scyther's various choiced sets.

Stunfisk's typing and variety of resistances is unique, it's ability to preform a number of utility roles (rocks setter, physical tank, rest/talk) is unique, and it's ability static (which stops physical sweepers from firing off moves behind a sub or u-turning) is also unique. Frogadier is a...