Recent content by Darknut07

Electric/Dark Luxray

The bottom line is it's an ineffective strategy. Just because a few players made it high on the ladder with such a team doesn't change this. With luck based strategies you are bound to have some outliers in the upper end of the distribution, but that's what they are - outliers. Introducing bans...

Name: Darknut07 Tier: XY OU

You know, with all the people claiming that the CPU has a distinct advantage (hitting more often, more crits, etc.), I know Smogon's done research on this before and I'm just looking for the thread again.

There are a lot of things that Gyarados has over Zygarde, and we shouldn't compare them in the first place, but its STABs are not one of those things.

Quoting this in hopes for a response.

Hey is there a thread where someone has looked systematically into the "hax" in the subway? Either statistical tests or looking at the games' data? I'm aware of the results, I just want a link.

If you're running a physically defensive Scizor and a Blissey, you are probably playing a defensive style...which means you definitely want your own hazards up.

Boomburst goes through subs anyways. Sometimes knowing the items is kinda useful. I like frisk, but I can see why people prefer infiltrator.

I believe Mega-Kangaskhan should stay in OU. This is not because I do not believe is broken, but rather I because I do not have enough evidence to conclude otherwise. The argument I hear most often (with every suspect test) is the number of counters it has, but I believe this is a case of a...

How much does Seismic Toss do with Parental Bond? How do we know?

I hear a lot of "it isn't worth wasting your mega slot on". I think as the metagame settles down, people will realize that you can make a good team without a mega fairly easily. Once that happens Manectric will see a lot more use ironically. You don't need to force a mega onto every team, and...

The strict definition of counter was not designed with Shadow Tag in mind and its useless to use it here. Gengar has no counters by this definition but neither does Shadow Tag Gothitelle, Wob, and other things.

The problem with these type of threads is (lets be blunt for a few minutes), there are good opinions and bad opinions. Good ones are reasoned, intelligible ones that someone arguing the opposite can understand. Then there are bad ones; the ones repeating things form other threads that don't...

Sorry that wasn't quite what I meant. Garchomp is the only pokemon left on that team that can check Dragonite at +1. But you do have other pokemon and so are not locked into one move.