Recent content by finnaggann

A few weeks ago I ran into a rest cure pressure stall team with the typical houndstone Heatran Levitate core, but, to my surprise, they ran sub protect and rest on every mon, leaving only a single other move available. Me being me, I thought: “That sounds like a lot of fun!” So I built my own...

It works properly, the pp indicators for the opponent on showdown are just wrong sometimes, especially when the opponent’s move hits a protect or substitute. I believe there is also a shared power specific situation where if a mon’s ability activates, and then you switch out to something that...

Corviknight isn’t as bad as it usually performs. The problem I think is when you see it, it tends to run unnerve, which is basically shooting yourself in the foot in the team builder. It works pretty well on semi-stall though as a pressure donor and defogger, with the added potential to sweep...

I would say that Latios is an A-, access to agility and recover and its higher speed tier give it significant advantages on balance teams (which feel viable again btw) over Giratina-O in the role of levitate donor. It doesn’t have the support moves of giratino, but most balance giratino are...

Unaware isn’t shared either, both are restricted, but unaware is usually more useful. Might I suggest hydration instead. Gives access to rest healing for survivability while still offering anti status. I think you probably want recovery of some sort on pelipper, and maybe even tailwind? Not...

I have seen attempts, the issue with imprison transform is that defensive teams basically don’t care most of the time, and offensive teams take mew out extremely easily in sp. At best you catch somebody who doesn’t know the set off guard and get a ko, and then get some chip before mew goes down...

Yeah, “Hustle wouldn’t be broken without No Guard” isn’t an argument that No Guard is unbalanced. And a team reaching number one is not really a sign of what is overpowered at all. Reaching number one is a matter of being reactive to the meta, innovative in team building, and putting in the...

I must admit that I was perhaps looser than may be appropriate with the term “balance”. I am native to vgc, and it seems I have misused this term that is native to singles. substitute “bulky offense” for most uses of “balance” in my orginal statement and I think most of my points still have...

I think I disagree with your analysis. The idea that defensive abilities are limited to stall is kind of absurd to me. Balance archetypes run defensive abilities in SP, and they always have. You need both defense and offense for a balance team, and the easiest way to get either in SP is through...

It would definitely be a radical move to lower the power level across the board by banning Ubers/legends, but the current state where a number of them are banned and the rest remain free felt odd to me when I first started playing. The power level of the meta isn’t really increased in the same...

Ah, I guess as a (mostly) stall player I don’t use shadow sneak at all. I never find room on Giratina (too many good support moves and shadow ball is just better for chip) and houndstone doesn’t actually fit very well most of the time. It doesn’t apply the kind of persistent threat stall needs...

it strikes me that sheer force is kind of diluting the identity of a prio-spam team, because the priority moves themselves don’t benefit (and fake out and upper hand lose their flinch which is bad), plus it takes away from slots for other support abilities you might want like guts, scrappy, or...

So, I built a dumb gimmick team a couple of weeks ago and then somehow I took it to 1500, so I guess I am posting it here now with a bit of a write-up for anyone who hasn’t had the displeasure of facing my annoying stall gimmick team. Some games with this team are no brain, just do the...

I think shed tail might have been accidentally banned again when wish got banned. It’s not working again.