Recent content by Frogifier

I've been gone for a while, and I looked at the viability rankings. A lot has changed. What specific metagame shifts have moved Clefable, Manaphy, Sableye, Zam, and Weavile from their previous positions?

What are Suicune's best set(s) right now?

Reserving BANDNITE COUNTER rawr Dragonite @ Choice Band Ability: Multiscale EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe Adamant Nature - Outrage - Extreme Speed - Fire Punch / Thunder Punch - Earthquake / Superpower Pretty self explanatory. Dragonite resists both of keldeo's stabs, and can simply click...

just to make the math easier, perhaps you could consider playing LC. The calcs will be easier and there will be less items and variety to deal with. IMO you should perfect the algorithm in LC before applying it to OU.

reserving ~bulky qd volcarona~ the best bug, even better than stupid scissorhands Volcarona @ Leftovers Ability: Flame Body EVs: 248 HP / 136 Def / 124 Spe Bold Nature - Quiver Dance - Fiery Dance / Fire Blast - Giga Drain / Bug Buzz - Roost ** HARD CHECK** None of sylveon's attacks can ko...

P sure BB and leftogres are better, talon loses basically every hope at revenge killing with Acro + item, and Lefties seem pretty valuable to tflame. What does the NP stand for before suspect threads?

Is hazard control necessary for this team? I have run stuff like m-diancie and in many games rocks ended up being on my side of the field. Absol's magic bounce should be supported with a defogger/rapid spinner imo. Off of the top of my head, zapdos seems nice but then many physical walls would...

Stone Edge (or rock slide but im assuming you're using aero as a wallbreaker), Aerial Ace, and choose 2: Eq, Fire Fang, Ice fang. Most run Ice fang to fuck lando-t but Eq vs fire fang really depends on the rest of your team

People don't want scolipede and smeargle tested because they serve other purposes besides their baton passing sets. Scolipede can serve as a late game cleaner and fairy check with its Offensive LO set. That set definitely has some issues, and is definitely not metagame defining, but it is still...

Although it isn't standard, sub BD chesnaught can be considered a setup sweeper.

On the topic of retesting aegislash, I don't really see how the current metagame affects the reasons why aegi was banned in the first place. It still causes many 50/50's with king's shield, has great bulk, power, and typing, both offensive and defensively, and lacks an 100% universal counter...

Now that Greninja is gone, I think the next suspect should be mega metagross. After both using it and facing it several times, I have found that there are very few consistent switchins to this monster. Bulky waters can be stopped by grass knot, many physically bulky steel types can be stopped by...

Pretty sure poliwrath isn't viable, it isn't on the viability ranking thread

Reserving stupid gremlin CHECK Sableye @ Sableite Ability: Prankster EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA Bold Nature - Calm Mind - Recover - Dark Pulse - Will-O-Wisp Sableye can switch into any attack bisharp can go for and threaten it with a will o wisp. After burn, Bisharp becomes setup fodder and...

If the HO team is built effectively, it will probably include a stallbreaker or some way to beat stall. Megagarde and several powerful wallbreakers are capable of destroying stall