Recent content by Carl_the_turtle

I play stall on ladder often so I guess I can try to answer some of these. I'm not really sure what this means? Every team is playing not to lose, and stall, just like others, relies on keeping mons on the board while they're important to answer your opponent's pokemon. You can generally force...

Gee, hazards sure have been suddenly constraining and powerful in gen 9 out of the blue. If only there was a reliable way to remove them...

From personal experience, there are definitely games going on up there right now, they're just all privated because most people don't want to deal with 20+ people raiding them per game/+potential scouting if testing a team for major comp. (apologies if this was heavy sarcasm i'm still working...

Not really? It does nothing back unless you commit to tera fighting tera blast or something, and tera blast is already its own hotly debatable issue which is arguably broken in itself... +2 0 SpA Lugia Aeroblast vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tera Dark Kingambit: 226-267 (66.2 - 78.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO Keep...

Incredibly solid mon, love using him, hate facing him, great defensive check and chip at the cost of your tera slot. Banworthy though? Ehhh. Could maybe see him getting a suspect slot 10-12 mons down the line, but as of right now there are more threatening mons that do more for their slot and...

What does this have to do with anything? Cloddy is 60 lower and a reliable defensive stopgap to the tier's special attacking nightmares. If anything's holding it back, it has to be the exploitable weaknesses. lack of recovery, or, in this case, the opportunity cost of not running a better ability.

Are you certain? I'm pretty sure it gets out damaged by CB proto atk gouging in sun (even with adding grassy terrain to grav apple), and while that requires sun setup, gravity for CB flapple would also require external setup to get going as well.

Turn 2: The opposing Great Tusk used Bulk Up! “guess I’ll die” -gliscor, probably I dunno, scor already wants so many moves that I can’t see it fitting this.

Your last few posts have just been you vaguely gesturing at the idea that terastalization is so overpowered that anyone who likes it is clearly just enjoying having overpowered presences in OU, when frankly whether the mechanic is overpowered or not is not nearly as cut and dry as you make it...

In all seriousness, though, I feel like there's not much this can really do against the taunt set since it's forced to just click body press, which is far too exploitable.

walled by yung crowbar (double dance id/bu corv with power trip from legit stall) fake answer sorry. unironically, while I love niche heat, i feel like most non taunt/quake sets aren't particularly consistent at higher levels, with stuff like jaw lock + roost or w/e being almost entirely meme...

oh crap i'm in the replay hiiii! this was incredibly peak i can't even be mad i'm a yung crowbar believer now

People here seem intent on making their refusal to use Ting-Lu the entire metagame's problem. Most of the tier's darks are faster than Dengo and capable of killing or severely denting/crippling it, excepting ting (who walls and forces out regular offensive, defensive, and psyshock sets while...

most people who are good at building stall would recognize that it would be better to throw clodsire on the team instead can't say what balance uses but I think there's rarely a situation where spdef dozo is your best option

I feel like spdefzo just... stops being an answer to rm and gambit (which it was already shaky against for tera dark glasses or tera flying taunt) and loses mus into pokemon its supposed to physically check in order to become a pokemon that holds its own against... gholdengo (maybe), ival (until...