Recent content by EndPhaze

I quite agree with your sentiments, however I did just want to point out that although they don't have the prominence of Belly Drum sets, Assault Vest and CB sets are still viable albeit less used. In some cases, other variants are better in surviving a specific attack or fulfilling a niche role...

Ferro might move down in viability in stall in general, however against your more common BO and HO teams Ferro might see more usage as a result of the ban, being able able to force a switch on Mega Diancie, a prominent wallbreaker in the meta ( when it's not running HP Fire) is nothing to be...

I've been quite surprised that practically no-one has been utilising a Focus Sash on Alolachu. 7/10 games that i've played that have had Koko + Alolachu have not been running a Focus Sash on A-chu. Is it just because people are just expecting to nuke everything or muscle past teams from a...

can be tricksy to try and secure the kill necessary for transformation, and while its raw stats are impressive for offence, its defences are still poor; as a fast af mon in a slow meta game of base 60's and base 43's, it loses momentum slightly on faster u-turns, and is guaranteed to go last in...

Potentially useful yes, albeit against a very specific matchup with mons that benefit from Tapu Koko. Most users and abusers of electric types are mostly going to be running a rain team with Pelliper/Politoed as well for the Thunder and Hurricane spam. And ofc, Water types receive a fat buff in...

Faster Priority as well checks Mega Medicham, such as Talonflame or a mon that runs ESpeed

You are right, Salazzle is incredibly frail, but Corrosion allows it to Badly Poison Muk. In a favourable matchup, theoretically Salazzle outspeeds, Toxic's Muk before it can Minimise. after that Muk is very much outstalled, despite minimise

Practically only one weakness from it's typing, incredibly effective against Fairy types, which imo are going to have a prominent rise in this generation, especially with all the Tapu's. Appreciates Tapu Bulu's grassy terrain, and can use Grassy Seed to further boost defences. I hope people...

Bulky Charizard X sets have been around for a some time with varying effect, with sets such as the one below, that generally do well against bulkier mons due to a surprise factor of a bulkier set instead of DDance sets. I can theorise that Zard X would do better against Chansey or Mega Venusaur...

I'd like to nominate Ferrothorn to Tier 1.5 The Tier 2 bio states that Pokemon which have broad applications on a variety of teams but are simply less effective than the Pokemon in the higher tiers. This also includes Pokemon which, while good, only fit on a specific team style or require heavy...

Zapdos Tier 3 -> Tier 2 I've been using this thing a lot in the rough 1500's, and it's been doing really well. A bulky physically defensive set with Tailwind has saved my ass numerous times. The Tailwind support allowed me to outspeed a lot of fast mons, such as Scarf Lando-T and Talonflame...

It doesn't really matter on whether you're using a legendary pokemon or not. The mons are classed into the OU tier because of their higher usage than the tiers below them, and everything in the DOU metagame has specific checks and counters. Lando-Therian if running a CS can be countered by two...

Interesting. Veeery interesting. First off I will probably change Focus Blast to either HP Fire or Ground, depending on what I tend to see more of. Most likely it will be changed to HP Fire, due to Ferrothorn being much more annoying to deal with that Heatran. Regarding the changes to Volcanion...

It seems to me that your team has a serious SR weakness. a 2x Weakness on Weavile and Kyurem Black, as well as a 4x weakness in Talonflame. I would suggest only running those 28 EV's in SpA on Azelf only if you're going to run Hidden Power Steel for Mega Diancie leads. It also doesn't fare that...

This is my personal team that i like to use in Doubles OU, although it was originally my Smogon Triples Team. At the moment the team has put me at the ranking of 1517 Proof^ Also, I haven't yet peaked with this team, meaning it has a lot more potential and is open to change. Originally, as I...