Recent content by Excalibuwrath

Okay, I want to highlight something really important, which is that you're very correct that "uncompetitive" gets thrown around a lot in tiering discourse and rarely gets defined precisely, and so I agree with you that talking about a Tera Blast ban on the basis of being uncompetitive is...

Given that Finch and leng loi are the only SPL players to make a post either here or in the Policy thread and the only other tournament players to post did so in favour of Tera Blast (in conjunction with the middling survey results) it does seem like the proposal is dead in the water so there...

Making the kind of post that I would have appreciated as a spectator with very little first-hand memory of past tours, because considering the massive amount of effort it takes to qualify for this tournament it's kind of a shame that the Slam playoff threads rarely have good posts talking about...

My two favourite things are digging through stats and ranking things in list format so without further ado, here's Hall of Fame Watch WCOP2025 edition! 17 players are looking for their first Smogon trophy with this tournament: - US West: Attribute, PZZ, Ruffles, Frito, vivalospride, Kustavan...

Great run by a great player! Some records to contextualize this achievement :)) With this, Santu becomes the 16th player to pick up his second individual trophy (17th if you count Frontier I guess). The 15 to do it before him aren't exactly the consensus top-15 of all time, but it's not far...

Wanted to put together some stats about all-time quarter/semi/finals appearances in individuals, because the existing stat sheets for individual tournaments are pretty out-of-date except for the recent (excellent) Tour Playoff Appearances and Classic Hall of Fame sheets. Figured now that we're...

But that's the point! If you can't come directly in on hazard setters, then you're going to have to play at least a bit of the game with hazards up. That can be fine, and it can also take certain team members out of the game if you really need hazards off. Sure, you can say "don't use sets that...

Having played around with both Levitate and Gas :Weezing-Galar: for a bit now, there's actually something I want to mention that I feel has gone a little underdiscussed. I used to be a bit of a Neutralizing Gas hater before I used it, because it never felt particularly good when I played against...

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This reminds me of a cool RMT from a year ago that uses a variation of this set, actually, in that case used to trap special walls more broadly for Specs Kyurem. I've tried to play around with some variant of the concept, and I think it's so good in theory, where your opponent reacts to an...

Good post. I will say, though, that I don't really think that Dnite is particularly matchup-fishy. Like, it is in the sense that there's always going to be that one set that completely bowls over the opposing team, but the more important aspect about Dragonite to me is that its combination of...

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To be clear, I do agree that the only problematic part about Dragonite is the range of two-attack sets it gets access to with Tera Blast (Ghost/Fairy/Flying/Fire), but I will say that I think this list undersells its threat level a bit. Volc's massive issue, to me, was how easily it could get...