Recent content by cyberpunkbanana

First thing, nice looking fat balance team you have here. Second, besides medicham (which you mention is broken as shit anyways), charizard-y also destroys this team with rocks up. The only real form of counter play, from what I'm seeing, is relying on spdef talon to stall out fireblasts. Of...

Theres definitely an in-depth guide somewhere, but a simplistic answer would be use a dedicated stealth rock lead and 5 threats. Be careful to have back up answers to set up sweepers and fast revenge killers though.Such answers include prankster twave or priority ect.

I would like to preface this post saying that I do not actually agree with latios going to s-rank. I think it's psychic typing is too easily taken advantage of in this meta and the mon plays too predictably to be ranked that high. That single move slot for optional coverage only goes so far...

http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ya-heard-xtra-got-hella-hos-free-samples.3535158/ Use the team with garchomp. Without repeating what others have already said, another example of offensive synergy is when you have mons that have the same checks or counters but are also powerful enough to...

To anyone saying that Sableye-mega invalidates all relevant spikers, I would like to remind everyone that spikes diggersby is very viable in the Overused metagame. When the stall player switches in their skarmory to tank the life orb fire punch, you can just hit him up with those crispy layers...

I really don't understand the assumption that manaphy is deadweight against offense. Yeah it kind of blows against hardcore HO, but bulky offense and balance-like offense tend to utilize mons that are slower than base-100 speed which manaphy just smashes through. The majority of teams would have...

Gravity Lando-t Landorus-Therian @ Life Orb Ability: Intimidate EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe Naughty Nature - Gravity - Stone Edge/Knock Off/Stealth Rocks/whatever - Hidden Power [Ice] - Earthquake This is a set that I used to toy around with in some of my old ho teams...

Conk is definitely a mon that has not gotten any better in the transition to ORAS. Bulky teams do not care about it at all with walls like sableye and hippo everywhere that set up/set rocks in its face. Furthermore offense, the playstyle that conk would normally have the best match-up against...

Ay whats good =)

I have to disagree with this nomination. After testing houndoom quite a bit, I've actually found it to be a very potent threat in this metagame. Besides the obvious reasoning that dark pulse spam is incredibly hard to switch into, something that has convinced me is the fact that stab sucker...

Not sure if this comparison is completely accurate, considering that clef with fire blast can't really switch into ferro or zor while aggron with fire punch can (maybe) counter these two. Aggron probably shouldn't rise tho. Regarding hippo, personally I don't think it should rise simply because...

Nitpick, but Gallade is a bad example because many in the viability thread wanted it to drop before the suspect test.

favorite fat mons? thoughts on chansey? have you ever uploaded a po live without keldeo? Love the videos btw

^^ Gliscor shouldn't be your heracross answer anyways (which is actually an underrated threat atm).

I have a question for the people saying that banning gross will balance the meta, and I apologize if this doesn't fit the criteria of this thread. Is the (main) purpose of banning things to "fix" an unstable meta, or ban an objectively broken pokemon? I personally don't agree that metagross is...