Recent content by clare

ok so: Lugia is bad, but not as bad as Muk-Alola, and it...appears to be a Koraidon counter? if Koraidon is banded and uses Flare Blitz as Lugia comes in with Multiscale intact: 252 Atk Choice Band Orichalcum Pulse Tera Fire Koraidon Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Multiscale Lugia in Sun...

I wasn't even aware that the formes had different movepools but it seems like Calyrex-S gets Roar now. It also gets some good physical moves, but what are you doing with physical moves and 85 Atk?

yeah I see what you mean. do you usually lead Espathra, Smearagle, or Drifblim? In the past I've always led Sash Drifblim and fished for evasion boosts, but there's always the concern that they lead with something that OHKOes non-Sash Drifblim which puts you in a poor position...

The team is fun but I just got mauled by an Urshifu-RS at the bottom of the ladder lol. Surging Strikes 2HKOes the entire team, breaks Smogon's Focus Sash, and hits through Espathra's Protect. Unless I'm missing something the only out is to click Minimize on Drifblim and pray?

I think Dark Void was nerfed because Darkrai terrorized VGC, where they don't have Sleep Clause or a mechanism to ban non-box-legendaries.

Ah yes, corrected.

I don't understand how people are even entertaining a Koraidon ban. Calyrex-S was banned because it (1) has no counters (2) snowballs out of control if it gets a KO and (3) most importantly, runs a myriad of sets (Scarf, Specs, Sash, LO + NP, SubSeed) that have vastly different checks. For...

Did you actually generate this with GPT?! Anyway, the best Calyrex-S sets use Tera Blast + Tera Fighting; Specs Tera Fighting Tera Blast 2HKO's 252/252+ Ting-Lu so Ting-Lu is not a counter (it gets KOed if it switches in). The sweeper sets are very good but it's really the wallbreaking sets...

Great Tusk is a fine 'mon though you probably don't want Tera Ghost (Tera Ghost is meant for hazard lead sets to block Rapid Spin in an emergency) - Knock Off would be good to hit Calyrex-S and other ghosts on the switch. The problem with Giratina is that it defogs and does...nothing else. This...

I think it is. The things only counters are bad (Alolan Muk is not exactly the pinnacle of viability here!) so following the same vein as Megaray and Zacian (banned after it got Close Combat since Assurance + CC KOes NDM if Rocks are up) it should go.

As much as I love Caly-S I think this time around it should be a ban: because of Tera, Caly-S now has no counters (in the Smogon tradition a "counter" is a 'mon which can switch in at full health on _any set_ and win one on one). Tera gives you nonsense like: 252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fighting...

Moody definitely needs to go. HO doesn't care as much as other archetypes because it can apply a ton of offensive pressure, but if Scovillain comes in against a passive 'mon and manages to net a Speed boost you're up against a SubSeeder with 546 speed which gives you a world of hurt. Sure, its...

I think whether Calyrex-S should be banned depends less on whether its broken and more on what the playerbase wants the culture of Ubers to be going forwards. Relative to the tiering policy of any other tier, Caly-S is indisputably broken, basically mandating the usage of a bulky Dark-type or...

I'm not convinced that a blanket ban on Dynamax Ubers is the perfect solution, since the problem right now seems to lie with boosting sweepers. After setting up on a forced switch, sweepers can Dynamax, which, thanks to doubled HP, defensive boosts, and Speed boosts, makes them incredibly hard...

Er, I didn't mean for it to be interpreted as "other formes cannot Dynamax" - rather, I was proposing to have clauses banning particular Pokemon from Dynamaxing. Dusk Mane was just an example, and maybe a confusing one (functionally, Necrozma, Dusk Mane, and Dawn Wings are different Pokemon...