Recent content by gunnervi

Heh, silly me. Didn't know about this. Full teams obviously opens up strategies that can't be used in 1v1s (i.e., hazards), and makes some moves (Curse, Substitute) less broken. But personally playing a full 6v6 in this ruleset sounds awful, whereas I'd be willing to try 1v1s, assuming the...

An idea i've been mulling over for a bit: Pacifist 1v1 A 1v1 meta (3 pokemon teams, choose 1 in team preview) with attacking moves banned. Take down your opponent's pokemon with clever strategy rather than brute force. Useful Moves: Toxic (obviously), Soak (prevents Ghost types from using...

So Ampharos gets a much needed boost in this meta: "fast" amphy (95 speed) Ampharos @ Ampharosite Ability: Static EVs: 132 HP / 252 SpA / 124 Spe Timid Nature - Thunderbolt - Dragon Pulse - Focus Blast - Volt Switch or, if you want speed at the expense of attacking power, there's always...

Alphabet Cup

If Adaptability gave you a 2x STAB in this meta, it would be extremely OP, since you would have a 2x STAB and a 1.5x DTAB. This could potentially put it on the banlist, and at the very least it goes against the spirit of the meta. Making Adaptability give a 2x DTAB fits the spirit of the...

I'd like to nominate Pinsirite Heliolisk for B- or C+ ranking. Pinsirite gives it a nice speed boost, and small defensive and SpA boosts. Electric/Flying type is great, and STAB hyper voice gives it a strong flying STAB that Zapdos and Thundurus lack. It's also great for taking down...

Some interesting effects: Roost should make you typeless, so it's a great recovery for fast mons with poor defensive typed attacks Pokemon with great defensive typing but poor offensive typing receive a huge boost, as they can (more) safely switch in (or move second), and their type changes...

Okay. I don't play standard very much anymore, so I don't always remember what's released and what's not. And I've seen Normal and Flying gems in random battles all the time, so I assumed they were released.

Why no Flying Gem on Talonflame?

Has anyone tried Glalitite Raikou? Refrigerate Espeed is pretty good coverage, especially coming off of 125 base Attack. It should be significantly better than Raikou's Aurorus set in Inheritance, which I thought was pretty effective. Maybe something like: Raikou @ Glalitite Ability...

Mix-and-Mega

I think option 2 will allow more pokemon to stay viable. Most offensive OU pokemon don't have a problem with their attack movepool, so they get a lot out of an extended setup movepool. And, since you don't have moves like Extremespeed and Boomburst everywhere anymore, this becomes a lot more...

Shifters EDIT: Hmm, just noticed that the thread is locked. I'm not going to edit my nomination, because everything else I'd like to see on the ballot has already been nominated.

The hard limit is for minimum Base Stat is -2. Below that, you can get a negative stat if you have no EVs or IVs in the given stat. So allowing 0 or negative base stats doesn't really affect much, and I think that it makes a lot of sense to restrict to 1-255.

Electric-Flying Jynx. Probably won't make A rank, but I think it will see some niche usage. If only there were a physical version of Assault Vest....