Recent content by Doctor Swagmoar

Venomoth What does it have going for it? Quiver Dance - One of the best set-up moves in the game. Boosts special attack, special defense, and speed on a single use. Sleep Powder - Venomoth can disable a Pokemon from doing anything whatsoever as it sets up. Ability: Tinted Lens - This...

Pidgeotite: Ban

Although I do not believe M-Pidgeot is "Over-Powered" in the traditional sense of that term, I do agree that it's absence from UU is healthy. Will be voting BAN

Confirming as Mr Cheeks

I think I've said my piece here, so I'm out. There's an impasse between those in favor of ban, thinking team building is less healthy now, while those in favor of no ban disagree. No real deep sympathy for stall players from me, so I guess we'll see. I'd rather use Entei over Vic at this point...

The ladder is spammed with Pidgeot and Gator and they do get more usage than Victini, and that's just a fact. So by your logic, since Pidgeot and Gator and many other offensive Pokemon see more usage than Victini on the average team, Victini is somehow ban worthy. Again, totally failing to see...

I think you're blindsided by the elegance of that logic, xShiba. It doesn't get any simpler than this really. If 'tini was OP it would actually get a fair amount of usage by people with the desire to win (pretty sure everyone wants to win, right?) Instead, it's usage on the suspect ladder was...

Simply put, if it were truly an overpowered mon it would get far more usage. In the last dozen battles I had, it was on zero of the opposing teams.

Thanks for the response, but allow me to spit some of your logic right back atcha' I think the best way of discovering just how OP a mon is in a tier should also depend on what that mon can explicitly hard counter. When you frame it like that, the question becomes: What attacks can Victini...

Hello, longtime lurker here. Just thought I'd share a few things I've noticed about Victini in this test... So far I believe the decision of allowing the V-creating little monster back into UU meta has been a good one so far, but I am still not seeing it as much as I'd like to really test its...

Gyarados @ Lum Berry Ability: Moxie EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 Def Adamant Nature - Waterfall - Dragon Dance - Substitute - Bounce Instead of Celebi, I'd recommend Bounce Gyarados. It'll be able to deal with Conk, Heatran, Greninja, Zard-X and Venusaur better than Celebi can. Lum allows it to...

Fair enough. I only highlighted the use of Deo's supportive sets since they are usually most prevalent. Is Gothitelle really the only other time a tier leap has happened then? That's not much of a precedent. I'm pretty sure that ban had something to do with it's admittedly rather broken ability...

@Pharohcalvin You haven't shown me how Deoxy-s/d are broken with that reply, only stated your opinion. Unfortunately for your conventional wisdom, this does not apply to Deoxy-s/d. The majority of which run residual spam sets that renders them predictable. There is nothing "high-skill" about...

Long time lurker here. Just thought I'd pop in and raise the question (in case it hadn't already been raised before) that Deoxy-s and Deoxy-d are both currently sitting in the UU tier. The question of banning them from OU should not ever arise before at least giving them conditional OU status...