Recent content by Dubbidub

Anyone think dondozo should be A+? If you can knock out special attackers, it will basically win you the game. And powerful physical attackers are dominant in the meta. I've won a few where it's my last mon left...

Court change is normal type though. Isn't ghost typing immune to it?

Cinderace has a good match up against Gholdengo and has court change. Of course, Gholdy is immune to it but doesn't seem to smart to send it in against cinder ace. Gholdengo is faster with the scarf but cinderace can survive one shadow blast.

Suspect that Breloom is over-rated. It's slow and frail, and mach punch is easy to play against when every other team uses Gholdengo

Thoughts on scarf Gholdengo with dazzling gleam and fairy type tera? There are so many dark Pokemon running around and focus blast's 70% accuracy feels bad. Also changes Gholdy's dark type weakness to a resistance. Think it might help against Kingsgambit and Great Tusk. Gholdengo @ Choice...

Donodozo is a monster on the lower ladder. Wish I had a dollar for every time an dragonite or roaring moon used dragon dance in front of my big fish, who was clearly not impressed.

Chi-Yu is the Pokemon that most needs a ban. There's no safe switch-in counter. Gholdengo and the ape have distorted the metagame but can at least be countered.

But it is central to gen 9. No is arguing that it needs to introduced to Gen 1-8 OU. Gen 6 had megas and gen 7 had Z-moves, neither of which were determined necessary to ban. Gen 8 had dynamax, which was banned by an 87% majority for being uncompetitive and severely hurting the quality of the...

I wrote one sentence after "The purpose of smogon rules, rather, is to promote a competitive metagame while preserving the essence of Pokemon battles in the mainline games." I'm not sure how your post significantly differs from what I said. My point is that competitiveness is not the only factor...

Are you still accepting PMs on this subject or has the time for that also closed? To keep this post relevant to the topic: I think we need to be clear that the purpose of smogon regulations is not to maximize the competitive nature of Pokemon battling. If that were the case, critical hits...

Having better luck with dondozo than I had with corviknight as a switch-in counter to roaring moon. Roaring moon if it can pull off a clean DD will tera to flying or even ghost, making corgi pretty useless. Gholdengo often making defog useless also makes me prefer, I think dondozo, as a physical...

Simple question: can you get rid of poison by tera-ing to steel or burn by tera-ing to fire?

So the plan is for question 1 to be take any action on tera, yes or no? And for question 2 to be ranked voting for various options including full ban? 60% support for implement at least one of a diverse range of options does not justify taking action based on the results of ranked voting among...

Carry out the two question (must answer both to for your vote to qualify) suspect test as discussed. Question 1: should tera be banned? Question 2: If tera is to be restricted in some manner, rank your preferences among the options provided by the OU council. If there is a majority consensus for...

The default option to to maintain the rules of Pokemon battles in the mainline games. Smogon also implements a number of modifications, intended to make the metagame more competitive, that are agreed upon by the community. I think it's bad faith to compare taking no action that does not have...