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You can try running golduck for his cloud nine ability, or take advantage of your opponent's weather by utilizing castform and it's weather ball attack.
i feel like saying tera lets teams react defensively is similar to the argument that volc gives a defensive utility to teams
sure ur technically correct but its so overwhelmingly used for offense to sweep that it completely dwarfs the defensive usage
maybe tera should have required an item...
okay but there's no rule against a "no ban gang" clan right? if a bunch of facebook antibanners who are truly skilled trainers that want to win with their favorites all banded together every suspect test to make sure no bans go through, that would be okay?
something popped into my head and idk if this has already been mentioned or dealt with, but how does smogon prevent someone who simply wants to see the world burn, making a bunch of alts (with some precaution like using vpns) and then getting reqs for each of them to make sure nothing ever gets...
everyone loves that syndrome quote but its actually pretty wrong because even when syndrome says it, he doesn't mean everyone.
he means the ones who can afford his technology. those who have the connections and power and wealth to buy it and do whatever they want. he's not gonna be giving that...
the conversation about the tera bans and how the banners all left does leave a question about the future of the current metagame bans though.
it reminds me of the boomer game "mafia" where the werewolves are the minority and the villagers are in the majority, and each day everyone votes on...
has smogon ever considered a restriction process like VGC for singles OU? each team can only have x amount of restricted pokemon so you can't for example jam roaring fire, bolt, lando T, ogrepon etc all on teh same team
how would that affect the meta? for better or for worse? or would it be...
this gen having all these broken mons keeping each other in check so that you can't ban one of them without the others becoming dominant reminds me of this