Recent content by Hobie

I realize that this might get lost in the shuffle of the discussion about the recent ban, but I just wanted say that one of the sample teams is invalid. I'm not sure if its a problem with the team or showdown, but the rain team by njnp is invalid on PS. I wanted to try out the rain team since I...

I'm pretty new to LC and have been enjoying it a lot. I've mainly been using one of the sample teams with Eviolite Grookey + Staryu (PokePaste), but I have had some serious problems with Fire types, am I missing something with this team that makes it deal with Fire types (aside from Staryu...

Since it hasn't really been mentioned in this capacity before I would like to bring attention to what I think the absolute best offensive partner to Latios is: :infernape: To explain why I think this let's go over all of the defensive answers to Latios (including the fringe ones that some...

I can't really say that I agree about the result of Latios staying in the tier but tbh I didn't get voting reqs so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ at least I find Latios to be fun. Now it seems the discussion will begin to focus on Manaphy who I also see as an unhealthy presence in the tier but is a lot less fun...

I think you are totally right about Choice Latios not being broken; it gets chipped down rather easily and once you know its coverage moves it can be relatively easy to answer defensively, as well as fast mons being able to beat it with neutral moves once its chipped. However, as you pointed out...

Just because Shedinja walls all of those mons does not mean that the reason it is being used it to beat those mons, the reason that Shedinja is being used is to beat Latios. Shedinja is likely to have a small niche for the entirety of this metagames life, however this niche is likely to be in C...

I will admit it has been a long time since I have participated in a suspect test so I don't remember if this is a viable reason for banning a mon or not, but it seems to me that when people are talking about how splashable Latios is they should really be talking about how centralizing Latios is...

:Scizor: I know some people have briefly mentioned it before but I want to say how insanely good Sp Def Scizor is right now being one of only two reliable long term answers to Latios (the other being Clef). I've mainly been running a similar dragons offense team since the drizzle ban and Sp Def...

Yeah I'm really enjoying it, the evs spreads have saved me quite a bit and Yawn on Torkoal has been extremely helpful.

Bumping this and posting the slightly updated team with the tweaked P2, Rilla, and Torkoal

I know that some people adamantly believe that Zama would be broken in the tier (and quite honestly I'm not sure if I think it would or wouldn't), but what is the harm in suspect testing it? People have been thinking about it for quite a while and given that there's no clear consensus if it...

Could you explain the thought process behind choosing your mons and your sets? That would help a lot with giving advice

What moves do you suggest swapping out? Earth Power for sure but what do you suggest I swap Burning Jealousy out for? Also if you have better ev spreads that would be greatly appreciated, I don't really know how to make ev spreads for VGC so it would be a big help.

This is the first team I have made for Season 8, and only the second one I made for 2021 VGC in general, however this team has taken me to over 1500 so I'm fairly confident that the team is at least half decent. I really like playing TR teams so I wanted to make this team a primarily TR team...

Hey guys, I was fairly active in playing OU at the start of Crown Tundra, but I dropped off playing a while ago. I wrote the Zapdos analysis and figured I should update it to match with the current metagame. How is Zapdos doing and are its main sets still these? If there are any new sets that...