Recent content by dk

the veto thing finch outlined makes plenty of sense. as the ladder finds new ways to make itself worse, it only makes sense that the nebulous mass of unpaid labor that we call smogon bureaucracy grows in power to keep it the madness in check. we already trust tier leaders with guiding bans; this...

thanks for the posts thus far. i think the criticisms of ban packages/banning multiple things at once as an actual formal tiering action are entirely fair and make a number of good points. in light of that, i think it makes the most sense to try to push the thread towards discussing the...

prize pots was the attempt to address this problem, but given the variables in terms of how much the pot actually motivates honest tries at building ban package meta-specific teams (the pot may not end up big enough, busy participants may outright not have time to build for a test meta, exchange...

while this backtracks on what i'd view as ideal, the ban package trialing could still serve as a way to drum up serious interest in just getting the ball rolling on doing the standard piecemeal 1-by-1 ban process while keeping the ban package hitlist in mind long-term. if you trial the complete...

10/24/2025 edit: please see this post before replying. thanks. I'll try to keep it short since half the time policy review feels like it's populated by highschoolers that are too used to padding out assignments with fluff to hit word count requirements Anyway, this is a genuine issue in...

Crunch Spdef Hippo: :hippowdon: Hippowdon (F) @ Leftovers Ability: Sand Stream EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD Careful Nature - Stealth Rock - Slack Off - Earthquake - Crunch after building some wonky fat with foreseeable gengar problems, I threw crunch on spdef hippo on a whim and was weirdly...

can't you fit toxic somewhere instead of relying on counter clef for pert

can i ask why so much attention goes into laboriously evaluating obvious stupid-but-technically-maybe-borderline cases over and over? isn't the purpose of tiering to make metagames as competitive as they reasonably can be? i feel like tiering on this site suffers from an insistence on asking...

https://pokepast.es/ffa547fee129aa19 :mesprit: :lucario: :magnezone: :tyranitar: :bronzong: :latias: I made this forever ago in a fugue-like state. Is it good? Probably not. It wasn't the most consistent team. It looks cool, though, and lead Mesprit scores you lots of aura points or whatever...

sleep clause is a bend-over-backwards contrivance that preserves an inherently nonsense status for no real reason beyond some strange, almost religious-feeling apprehension to nuking an entire status condition. speaking mainly from an adv/dpp perspective, the amount of variance it adds...

https://www.smogon.com/tools/suspects/view/62