Recent content by Blackdragonking

I've always preferred Bulk Up/Shed Skin Scrafty, personally, especially with all the bloody special attackers he can set up on, but I think Scrafty's a very anti-meta pokemon, and being able to run at least two very effective sets is a very nice advantage for him.

Despite losing chomp, I don't predict an enormous shift in the metagame. For the most part, the votes have tended to enforce the status quo unless something is so overwhelmingly powerful that everyone hates it like Skymin or Blaziken or Garchomp. I have my doubts people will even remember they...

An entire suspect test of people bitching about Sand Veil instead of whether or not we should get rid of them this time, that's how. :/

It'd be a pretty huge double standard if we allowed Rough Skin Garchomp back but not Blaze Blaziken. I would not get my hopes up. Good riddance to Garchomp, but disappointed nothing else got banned and finding it a little lulzy that people are more scared of Thunderous than they are of...

Lightningrod would've actually been a really good option for Jolteon, even a straight-up upgrade on Volt Switch. It would keep its electric immunity, but grab a quick specs boost every time it switched in to take an electric hit for something else... Although that would put it in competition...

Mismagius also makes a good partner for Bisharp, although sadly Bisharp's IDEAL partner is Gengar, a tier too high to use with him. Bisharp is one of the only pokemon in the game that x4 resists Ghost and Dark moves, Mismagius's only weaknesses, while Mismagius is immune to ground and...

I gather from the people I play with that it's not a failure of understanding; people that hold ideals of what is the right way to win hold them because the alternative proposed isn't just odious to them, it tends to be delivered in this exact kind of insulting, condescending tone. It's one...

Wow. A suspect round where I wouldn't be sad at all if every single suspect got banned. I don't know if that's happened before.

I guess I won't be too bothered about the fate of weather, but I don't think I'd mind a clear skies meta. I'm worried it's going to open a big can of worms if the weathers are thrown out of balance, though, hopefully that won't happen. I'd like to see Garchomp go, simply because people's...

I suppose so, although I am still 100% in favor of banning Latios forever. Hell, I'm not so keen on Latias being around and that thing's in danger of dropping to UU. There is a point there, but the problem is getting to the point that they threaten it gives Lugia a free turn or two to either...

Why would Lugia be needed to stop a Cloyster sweep? Or Thunderus, for that matter? It has five teammates for a reason, a big one of them being so it switches in at its leisure against things that can't take advantage of its weaknesses very well. I pointed out that Lugia switches in very well...

I gather the hostility is because the people that didn't side with the proposal all thought it was a terrible idea and had no desire to play in a meta with one of the best walls in Ubers available for OU play. People were similarly unafraid to point out that trying to unban Giratina was a bad...

I think Manaphy can get his second chance if Drizzle goes, but I'm still not sold on this whole "let's try out Lugia" thing. It just seems like bringing that kinda stuff down is exacerbating the power creep that a lot of people don't like, and it seems like it's still pandering excessively to...

The only way I could see Quick Feet being handy to Jolteon would be if it got Electro Ball, but it doesn't. That being the case, giving up its immunity and subjecting it to status for speed is a poor decision.

Alexwolf, please don't respond inside the quotes. It makes it hard to actually respond. I find it much easier to just divvy up the other person's quote and respond to each bit in turn; then they can do the same while discussing with you. After even two DT, in PvE or PvP, your ability to...