Recent content by Flygonial

Aegislash It may not have been in the metagame for as long as some other defining threats, but it sure as hell shaped the metagame while it was legal. It single handedly neutered the viability of dozens of pokemon, and bolstered the viability of pokemon that could answer it - of which there...

Mega Charizard X Longest standing top-tier viability, potential to threaten almost any team, not much more needs to be said and everything here has been brought up in some other way, shape or form.

Check: Endure Salac Berry Garchomp Counter: Rhyperior

To be honest, I'm sure there are very few people here who don't know what KyuB does, and I also find it strange that you gave no mention of it's Life Orb set. On top of that, I find myself repeating this over and over, you haven't explained how the metagame has changed in any way that warrants a...

Ah, got that. Any KOs it misses or no?

What KOs would the extra bulk be useful for specifically? If it doesn't avoid any relevant KOs, I don't see any reason not to run max/max - which strictly speaking there isn't necessarily no reason to run either - situational still - but if the bulk doesn't do anything relevant that uninvested...

The main issue with your nomination, regardless of whether I agree with it or not, is that you fail to explain how the metagame has changed for it in a way that warrants a rise. While you've touched upon some of the issues that hold it back, you otherwise haven't really accomplished anything in...

Of course, the prevalence of Pursuit trapping works against Latios, but that's failing to acknowledge another recently introduced factor that also bolsters Latios' viability - Volcanion, as one of the better offensive checks to it. Furthermore, it can also play around many of its switch-ins...

Just saying, you would rather hit and switch out of Ferrothorn than stay in and X-Scissor. Ferro threatens to OHKO you with Gyro Ball or cripple you with T-Wave, so it's not worth chunking it for more damage and leaving your MBee vulnerable. Furthermore, most offensive 'mons weak to Bug would...

Tyrantrum is still frail on the special side, and both of them can actually take weaker coverage on that side such as HP Ices. Also, your calcs disregard Ice Punch, which allowed Rhyperior to do this to some of the calcs that you cherry picked with the bloody RU set: 252+ Atk Choice Band...

Sure, Mega Metagross is the same pokemon, but as you admit, many of the metagame trends work against it. In the end, I don't see how you're doing much more than describing rehashed strong points for Mega Metagross and ignoring whether anything has changed to increase its merit in the meta. I'm...

iirc, Thundy's been known as a good Hera partner for a while. Maybe you could even run Sludge Wave to lure Clefable if you wanted.

About my Mega Scizor spread from a while back, I would just completely drop the mention of the 188 SpD EVs and say to swap 44 Atk and 16 Def around to avoid the 2HKO from Mega Lopunny. 200 SpD EVs avoids the OHKO from Mega Diancie's HP Fire after rocks, but IMO, you could clarify that in the...

Checks: Azumarill, AV Metagross, Mega Scizor Counter: Slowking

Core 5 & 6 E-rank plz