Recent content by Gwerks

  1. ORAS OU Team Heroes - #3 1860

    Hi mate, You've got a cool team with tonnes of potential for momentum building over the course of a battle. I too use scarf Hydreigon with an identical moveset, and I certainly understand what you mean when you say it is an excellent "anti-meta scarfer". Dark Pulse and U-Turn are so easy to...
  2. Baton Pass - its role in the metagame and possible solutions to nerf full Baton Pass chains

    The rationale behind banning swagger and foul play was that any person could simply be educated on this strategy and employ it with little knowledge of the metagame beyond it. Sure, this strategy annoyed people, but that is not why it was banned. If the community banned everything that was...
  3. Baton Pass - its role in the metagame and possible solutions to nerf full Baton Pass chains

    Hey buds, I appreciate your post and I agree with a lot of the logic you are laying down. I use Crobat too, and have laddered up to 1808 with my team. Baton Pass users get quite heavy as you ascend through the ladder, and even with max attack investment, Crobat struggles to destroy any properly...
  4. Baton Pass - its role in the metagame and possible solutions to nerf full Baton Pass chains

    This really is such a difficult topic. I've heard a lot of opinions indicating that Baton Pass should be banned on Espeon only, and I admit that this would appropriately nerf the baton pass strategy. However, I believe that this would be unnecessarily cruel to Espeon, who would plummet in usage...
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