Recent content by Gross Sweep

Thought I'd share a few opinions before the next vote slate based off my mid ladder experiences. As much of a fan that I am of the Future Sight + Pivot move team model, I have to say this thing has come across as fairly lackluster in my experiences. Plenty of common Pokémon pressure Slowking...

I have been playing a fair amount of Ubers lately, and by that I mean I have been spamming webs on the ladder. I started with the Aberforth sample team as a baseline for the archetype. After a little bit I started looking at tour replays for ideas to borrow (steal), and I pretty quickly noticed...

Been reading through the recent nominations and this is the one I definitely agree with the most, so I figured I would write a little something with a vote coming soon. I feel like whenever I use Zapdos it helps make some kind of progress towards winning a game, whether that be through status...

Player Name: Gross Sweep Region: US Central Formats played: Any Are you interested in captaining?: No Forseen inactivity: No

I would like to join the echo chamber, and suggest a rise for Flapple. It's most splashable set right now is probably scarf. Fast U-turn is always good, and Tera Dragon Scarf Outrage feels free in a lot of end games as the tier lacks fairy types and Steel types with any sort of recovery outside...

Hey hi1080, pretty cool team you've cooked up. My first team for season 2 actually had a couple of the same mons. Personally, I think it's to early in the metagame to do an actual rate and go about changing mons and trying to balance out a team for the current meta. Mainly because as all players...

I'd like to thank whoever takes the time to read this. It has been a while since I've played any Pokémon with even semi-serious intent. I could never get into gen 8 and I didn't think gen 9 would be any different. As a long time OU player I had found myself growing bored with the game to the...

Recently 1v1 released new sample teams, That I honestly think are quite good. They do a really good job of avoiding auto lose match ups that tend to plague most teams in this tier. However, no team can cover everything, and these teams are no exception. In this post I'll be going over a Pokemon...

Player Name: Gross Sweep State/Country: Kansas (USA) Foreseen Inactivity: None Formats played: SS and ORAS Are you interested in captaining?: No

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Obviously not going to have a lot of success in the current format without using the allotted two restricted Pokemon which typically play a major part in shaping a teams identity, but you already know that. With that said I'll try and throw out a couple ideas or concepts that may be decent in...

I would like to nominate Steelix for a rise. Between Band and Taunt sets Steelix really puts in work in the current metagame. This thing is run everywhere from the ladder to high tournament usage in tours like 1v1PL. I know Regidrago is falling off pretty hard, but it warped the meta into a...

I'd like to join the G-Max Charizard echo chamber, and say it should rise past A- to either A or A+. Sun is in a really good place right now, and Charizard is at the archetypes forefront. G-Max Wildfire is an incredible move, combined with a hard hitting Max Airstream makes Charizard an...

Some of you may or not remember me, but I used to frequent this forum in Gen 6 and early Gen 7. For the first time I played some Gen 8 1v1 and pretty quickly got sucked in. Played around 150 games on the alt Unknown Gross, some of you may have seen me. I used a pair of sample teams, so while I...