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I feel like the thing that holding this meta back right now and making it kind of not fun to play is the lack of viable pokemon. Dexit really slashed the pool of usable mons by removing megas and most box legends. Most notably, the lack of viable normal and dark types really hurts. There's not a...
What I think may improve the bot without having to change the algorithm too much or too intelligently is to change the way it uses teams. I think if it had a pool of pokemon to build a team with instead of a pool of teams to choose from it would work better even with the same win+1 loss-1...
While CB Primal Groudon is absolutely devastating with V-Create, I think that tinted lens shines to it's true potential with attacking types that lack any immunities or 4x resistances- like flying.
Switch in To What (Rayquaza-Mega) @ Choice Band
Ability: Tinted Lens
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252...
So... page four and we haven't agreed on anything yet. Or even come close really. Oh well. Now, I'm not the guy who's going to come up with a super amazing idea we can all jump on and merrily advance, but I can at least recap what has been said and who said it. Maybe that'll refresh things and...
I think that we actually agree more than we disagree here. I was more arguing against the weather/hazards/status suicider that some people have been suggesting. At the end of my last post I suggested a "sniper" role for CAP- basically a Pokemon meant to take out a key Pokemon or two on the...
Pretty cool discussion here guys, I just have a few points I want to make.
Firstly, I've been seeing a lot of avocation for playing the role of something that gets KO'd after doing some job to give a set up sweeper an opportunity to come in safely and set up. It's a pretty cool idea and it was...
Name: If it isn't broken...
General Description: A Pokemon that is as "good" and centralizing as possible in the OU Metagame without being considered broken.
Justification:
It happens about midway into every generation. After all of the really obviously broken Pokemon are banned (Speed Boost...
IMO baton pass is a shitty gimmick that occasionally catches people off guard, much like FEAR or cosmic power Sigilyph. It can net you a win every so often but anyone actually laddering for a while with a baton pass team is not going to rise above the ~1200 range. It's annoying to face but I...