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Posting a Core for Why Nerdy OFFENSIVE CORE + OR With the changes this metagame makes to Magnezone, it becomes a premier steel trapper with the abilities Sturdy and Magnet Pull. Analytic's boost makes switching into a specs set difficult. Magnezone can be paired well with either of these...

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Lotus league folks know me as Axl, I made a pretty solid dark mono, and I consider myself pretty good outside the low ladder. #BestPlayerOnABudget

Definitely see your point there, that was a reason I had thought up before typing about why tailwind isn't there. Could you possibly include just setters then? If not I understand

Hey cbrevan great job here but I believe you left out Tailwind.

Aegi is pretty ass in this meta due to the prevalence of Fire and Ground types like Houndour, Pdon, Drilbur, Rhyhorn, and Vibrava. One of those mons are usually run on almost all 350 archetypes, so I believe it would be safe to say Aegi isn't really a threat to most teams.

Bird Spam team is outdated iirc, Rufflet is banned now.

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A or A+ Vibrava makes an excellent partner to Clefairy, a dominant defensive pokemon in this metagame. Vibrava also has heavy versatility, due to its ability to viably run Band, Scarf, Mixed, Life Orb 3 Attacks, and Support sets. It provides simultaneously an offensive threat as well as a pivot...

A or A- Houndour is a great threat in 350. Special attackers/defenders are less common in this tier, and Houndour destroys most of them anyway. It has a good speed tier in 130, a great special attack stat in 160, and decent bulk at 90/60/100. This is a set I've been using to massive success on...

As previously mentioned, I think the gifts to pokemon under 350 BST give newer players a sense of "tunnel vision" seeing no options other than 350- mons. Ubers are still very viable, especially Salamence-Mega, who can adapt to the physical threats it has to deal with through mixed and even...

I find mankey is criminally underused for a pokemon with the near strength of Drilbur and 4 base points more speed. 160/140 is not a bad physically offensive spread by any means, not even in Ubers, and with access to Close Combat, U-turn, Poison Jab, Rock Slide, Taunt, Night Slash, and Overheat...

Akumeoy great catch, I always forget that. In any case, I have also directed attention to Doduo, as it has something over the other birds in Knock Off, as well as similar speed/power. Obviously not as fast as Staravia or as bulky and powerful as Rufflet, but Knock Off may be the move it needs to...

Cores that have caught my eye lately: DrilPotas is a great balanced core that, although not very type synergetic, this core makes up for it in the sheer offensive/defensive output. Sand Stream, along with a Smooth Rock, allows Drilbur to capitalize on the maximum amount of sand turns...