Recent content by ChrisSweeper

No, it's just that of you are using your speed/attack boosting move on something that's resisting it, that's a really good way to get your Dynamax killed.

Last I heard Aegislash was a good Pokemon, why don't you start using it? If it's usage increases then less people will use Hawlucha. This is how a meta works. Half the anti Dynamax posts are acting like every Dynamax is getting attack and speed boosts like Hawlucha does. Even Hawlucha has to be...

I'm sure it won't be missing for long, there's no point playing a Sword Sheild regional dex without Dynamax. There'll be people wanting the full national dex. It's part of the picture, there's a whole set of strategies you can use. I'm not saying that any one thing is a silver bullet so let's...

Points against a ban: It's only been a few (2?) weeks, it's not enough time to decide anything. Let it play out for a while. There are multiple strategies to waste your opponent's Dynamax, many of which are existing strategies (e.g. Protect). You can't switch out without losing Dynamax, so it's...

I'm convinced that people making these arguments haven't actually played the game with Dynamax, either arguing in theory based on what they have heard or they played a few games and their Sun/Moon stall team didn't work anymore. How much time have you really spent team building in a week? The...

The point is that people can come here for the guides which are mostly applicable to the console format, then maybe they visit the forums and stay for the "more balanced" Smogon format and start playing outside of their console. Banning Dynamax would go a long way to making those guides useless...

It's weird, low on the Switch ladder my Gyarados could easily sweep entire teams like you guys describe but now I'm approaching the top it's constantly walled by Corviknight and choice specs special Dragapult is too weak to beat it with Thunderbolt. So I'm now thinking about how to switch up my...

At the risk of going around in circles, you need to think about what you mean with "normal circumstances" and "suboptimal". Normal has changed and this could have been said about any other situational move the generation they became useful. The argument essentially reads "Dynamax is broken...

Thanks for the substantial reply but you compared the positives and negatives of established situatonal moves with just the negatives of something that could perhaps be useful. Not saying they are great but it's a strategy worth exploring to counter Dynamax on Pokemon like Gyarados and...

I was pointing out that the trade off between power, accuracy and utility is a core part of the game. A class of moves gaining utility so that the power/accuracy trade off is more viable doesn't make the game broken. I think you are overstating Dynamax as an "I win" button and you can very...

Well why are they objectively bad moves? That argument could be used against anything that isn't similar strength and accuracy to Earthquake. Priority moves have very low base power, are they objectively bad and therefore everyone Pokemon should have the same speed stat? I'm seeing more...

Banning Dynamax would be a mistake. The game has to be recognisable as the one on the Switch, diverging from the official metagame too much is going to cut off the supply of new players arriving here for strategy advice. There's already a lot of jargon here without banning major game mechanics...