Recent content by Cookees

Avalugg pretty underrated IMO. Hits hard, walls the meta and can stop boosters with Curse. Has Ice Spinner too.

Huh my post was removed. Anyways, I did propose dropping Hippowdon, T-tar and Ninetales. Maybe 'pivotal' was a bit exaggerated, but why reduce diversity unnecessarily. These weren't even threats to begin with. Snow Cloak and Sand Veil have been around for many generations across Smogon.

Banning these evasion abilities is actually ridiculous, it is a core element of the main game, and is one of the pivotal elements of sand / hail teams. This is such a huge unnecessary nerf to weather teams, diversity and synergies. May as well drop Hippowdon, T-tar, Ninetales down a rank now...

Been away for a while due to work commitments, but come on - you can't just ban every single UU threat that doesn't get outright walled by something. This is why UU has become so dominated by fat teams.

to A- Incredibly strong counter to most physical meta-game threats and capable of running many surprise sets as well. Can easily form a solid defensive core with any separate special tank, or act as a scarf or bulky end-game sweeper. If you're not running this in any non-HO / thematic team...

lol AV buzzwole. Seems like buzzwole has become the universal physical check now too, a big change from back when I started the buzzwole meta. Also, cool that people have started using slowbro and blissey over chansey now. It's just better (even with eviolite) as I mentioned a year ago. Just...

Kyurem-Black @ Icium Z Ability: Teravolt EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe Hasty Nature - Blizzard - Hail - Fusion Bolt - Outrage Mixed Kyurem-B with Z-Hail for the +1 Speed Boost. Kyurem-B usually has limited effectiveness against Offensive teams because of its comparatively low speed. Z-Hail...

Mimikyu: Unban

Hey man, Thanks for the shout-out and and I'm glad that my team was a source of inspiration for you. I've been a bit busy with work commitments so just saw this post now haha. Just want to say that this is perhaps the most impressive formatting I have seen in any RMT, so that's truly a...

Thanks for the feedback, yeah I agree that Pyukumuku might be an interesting addition to the team. I've used the mon many times in lower tiers, so I can definitely see the value it would bring to the team. Spite is also cool because it synergizes with the Pressure stalling style of this team...

Thanks for your feedback. Generally speaking, I'm not too concerned about Azumarill. +6 Aqua Jet fails to OHKO Zapdos and Articuno, both of which can OHKO (50%) in return with Discharge and Freeze-Dry respectively. Skarmory also survives a +6 Knock Off after Stealth Rocks and can revenge with...

Alright, just a small update. Following some of the suggestions that maroon has kindly proposed and additional testing, I have made a few adjustments to the team by replacing M-Aero with Celesteela, and giving Mantine a more physically defensive set. The team has now reached #5 on ladder with...

Thanks for your suggestions. I can tell that you have spent a lot of effort on formatting and have clearly thought this through. You've made some interesting proposals that I may test out maybe during the upcoming weekends. The Mantine set looks good, and I think I will likely switch to that...

Had some free time, so decided to try Monotype yesterday. The team itself has since peaked at #5 with 1816 ELO, and I think it definitely has potential to go higher, but I figured that I'll just stop here since the weekends are almost over. I think Monotype is an interesting tier, and does take...