Recent content by finnaggann

I noted similar things at the start of the post-zamazenta meta, Giratina is more effective as a mixed attacker, with better typing to boot, but in defensive or offensive special attacker roles, I think the lati twins usually outclass it yeah. They have better movepools for those roles. But...

I’ve been making Berry teams basically non-stop for the last month and pushing my understanding of the archetype beyond what I call the “standard berry core.” While I’ve mentioned a lot of what I’m going to say here on the OM discord, I figured collecting the knowledge I have gained and the...

So true though.

I kind of think steel spam isn’t a real archetype rn. The point of spamming a type like that is to overload defensive counters, but steel spam doesn’t really have the offensive power to overwhelm a lot of the sheer bulk in the meta. So much stuff stops steel spam so well: heatran, and Tera...

Yeah giratina-altered is at like 3% usage (higher at high ladder) and Groudon is at like 4%, Giratina-origin is back to being popular at above 10%. A lot of those rates are probably going to be higher actually, since that data is from beginning of November to beginning of December. The other...

Thank you for the correction, I was misled by people on the discord months ago, after asserting this and multiple people were like, nah it’s definitely not. Should have checked myself then.

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...