Recent content by CaptainKing06

I think the problem he's referring to is better described as "cteam culture" rather than an "old boys club". I've been helping storm and 3d prepare for spl with teamchoices and practice matches and when 3d sends me initial teams he wants to use some of them outright lose to common archetypes or...

whens kyurem suspect #3 going to happen?

wrote in static, and flame body for ban. mentioned tinglu for tiering action bc its op. mentioned ape and espa for a retest bc they have low bst and were banned in a wildly different tier, tho im not particularly fired up about either of them i think both are more valid retests unlike lugia and...

As a general rule of thumb I would avoid 680 bst box legends like the plague as I don't think the limitations those two have are anywhere near as bad as say kyub from gens 5-7. I'd focus more on things that were once ou like ape, bax, sneas, eleki, volc, ursh-rs but filtering out things that...

I'm glad we're retesting uber mons that were quickbanned in completely different metas, this is a big step forward for the tiering process and I wouldn't mind more going forward but instead of doing it through a likeshop I think incorporating reasonable options in surveys is the way to go...

Dropping in to say a few things. I liked the new suspect system. I'd add a metric that lets people automatically qualify with existing ladder alts. I don't feel strongly about tera blast but if anything is to be looked at in the near future it's that. The two borderline banworthy mons both...

We don't need to speculate about the future when looking at how gliscor functions in the present is a good enough indicator. Cape Canaveral here is a summary I found outlining smogon tiering philosophy and the different aspects of broken, uncompetitive, and unhealthy. Gliscor can at times be...

Gliscor should be banned. Fast SD is really wild and flips the matchup on BO structures that rely on things like tusk, ghold, bolt, hrott, etc to get hits off. This combined with its plethora of other options solidified my view that it is broken. SD tera normal helps mitigate two of its flaws by...

Any updates on a gliscor test?

Kyurem: Ban

The best voices from the ban and no ban sides should be forthrightly heard and easily accessible. Like many others, I endorse the suggestion made by 3d and am glad things will be different next time. After a several month hiatus I've been getting back into the tier and am dismayed with the state...

Kyurem should be banned from SV OU. Subtect and loaded dice are two splendid sets without much overlapping counterplay. I find NMI inconsistent, and dd tera blast can be threatening but it's a tera hog, though loaded dice 4 attacks is really brutal and even storm zone admitted to me last night...

Gouging Fire: Do Not Ban