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Taking a break from the weather wars and tera debates, I just want to point out how funny it is that we were all scared for months of how this rumored 19th Tera type was going to wreak havoc on the metagame and then it came out and just kind of sucked
Now that the meta is settling in, there’s honestly nothing I feel is egregious except for Roaring Moon, which needs to be gone right now. Seriously, that thing needs 1 DD to sweep entire teams.
Has anyone been having success with Venu on Sun? I’ve been using it with Dino Suicune and Entei as a FWG core but I’ve found it hard to switch in on much. Thinking about swapping for the third Dino
What do we think of Venusaur as a Chlorophyll sweeper in this meta? I’ve played around with him a little, he provides useful speed control against other Protosynthesis/Booster Energy mons and forms a nice little FWG core with Wake and Paradoxtei. The Poison typing hurts when you really want...
With Gamefreak, never attribute to competence that which can be attributed to laziness. The removal of old level up moves is most likely just because they didn't want to figure out how to implement them with the new move relearning system. The clip of Milotic using Scald suggests they never...
I assumed the removal of widespread scald/toxic/knock was deliberate balancing but I guess it was just laziness lol
Also, with the new "toxic poison on ANY attack" ability, I wonder if there would be an appetite for an OM that breaks from cartridge and does some rebalancing. The power creep is...
This is silly but I do feel that, post DEXIT, every generational metagame is going to continue to be "Gen 7 OU but worse" and at some point I would be happy to see smogon metagames break from the cart and always run the national dex and do its own balancing. I know there's NatDex but that's...