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Where is iron treads??

Very obviously problematic. Has pretty fake defensive value tbh (gonna get 4th move rockslided by kyurem lol. Or nuked by draco. Also, who genuinely thinks rilla is a problem??) so broken checks broken wouldn't be a good argument even if it wasn't already inherently not a good argument. Also...

Hahaha yeh I forgot abt that lol. I feel like it's a right of passage to forget that at least once a month :)

I always love fact checking replays for random noms so here goes: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2091228982 Claim: (Vs Mimikyu Stardust, Thundy was able to T-Wave the CB Pult turn 1, a solid anti-lead against other offensive leads. If it was Hexpult, it would’ve opened up the...

My personal thoughts is to lean on what CTC said. For better or worse, the metagame is only about three weeks old. To pretend that we fully understand the entropy point of where this current metagame is going, and how gouging fire may be a keystone in said meta is a pointless argument I'd argue...

is 160 HP / 252+ Def Skarmory a real spread or is it an "azu can 2 hit ko skarm no cap frfr" type spread

I would have preferred a gholdengo suspect first, since we have precedent for what will happen after a gliscor ban (Hamurott/Ting-Lu + Ghold still causing an oppressive hazard centric metagame) and I doubt banning gliscor will actually fix the hazard problem. That being said I do think reducing...

Most non-pokemon bans are tier independent. So a booster energy ban in OU would not be enforced in other tiers.

I've been thinking a lot about why it's so hard to find a good direction for balancing the current metagame. Because while there is a lot of consensus that the metagame is in a bad spot, there is a lot of argumentation on what the cause of the problem is, and hence what is the correct course of...

post replay then I'll simp for you

I swore it did lol. It was also using 5 moves in my head at one time (defog + roost + u-turn + will o + fire move). Lemme remove that real quick :)

Moltres in C+ is criminal. Often moltres feels like it can do most of what zap can do defensively just as well if not more comfortably. It's cleaner against ace and the more common ice spinner gtusks (head smash causes gtusk to kill itself anyways). Burn actually annoys ting-lu, more quickly...

?? Never really seen anybody with this mindset tbh. From A+ to S ranks maybe, from UR to C- maybe, definitely not A- to B+. Not to mention the whole 'philosophy' of the VR is pretty ill defined in general, meaning any nitpick you have with how other people interpret this thread is ultimately...

What you say is true in some ways BUT I think my main argument still stands: 1. The set you used to Noivern was unable to perform the roles you claimed, giving no real example of noivern successfully checking either volcarona. It also never checked Urshifu-S in a capacity your slowking...

I hate to be "that guy" and argue against what I genuinely believe to be a well written post, but I'm gonna be that guy. There is no way that noivern is viable in OU. I mean, C- is full of garbage that isn't really viable, so I guess among that company noivern fits right in. But since I'm an...