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Bro I dunno if one of us messed up the calcs but +1 adaptability tbolt+discharge is WAY stronger than ur calcs give it credit for:Now I haven't played this meta yet so I'm not too sure about the viability of the set in question, but I just thought I'd let u all know about the power of this beast...
I'm not advocating for a Lando suspect/ban, but some of the logic used in the anti-ban arguments are kinda dumb.
First of all, saying the meta would fall apart is pure speculation and theorymonning.
Second, and more importantly, I'm seeing a lot of shit like "lando checks other mons and makes...
I question the usefulness of sap sipper Azu.
One of the arguments is that it lures and traps Pex and Ferro, but +6 knock off does like 94% min to spd pex (by far the most common set from my experience because ash gren is broken) and a similar amount to physdef ferro, so after some rocks chip...
He used +1 modest adaptability electric Porygon-Z for that calc. Not entirely sure why he didn't just copy paste it:
+1 252+ SpA Adaptability Porygon-Z Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Toxapex: 376-444 (123.6 - 146%) -- guaranteed OHKO
I feel if Porygon-Z were ever to rise it would be because of the NP Z-Hyper beam set. Z-Conversion kinda fails as a sweeper because (as many others before me have outlined in greater detail) it's a little too slow, a little too weak and not quite bulky enough, basically. (if it could setup...
To expand on your point a little, in team-building you can get away with not running dedicated lando checks/counters to make ur team not weak to Lando.
Like sure if ur weak to z-move lando u could bring physdef HP ice bronzing...but when was the last time you've seen physdef HP ice bronzong?
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On phone rn so excuse potential sloppy grammar and pacing while I post my thoughts on big N
What pushes Naganadel over the edge imo is beast boost, because it's kinda like arena trap where counter play becomes limited to non-existant.
Like against normal setup sweepers you can just stay in and...
Is there a similar list where it only shows the moves that Pokemon didnt previously have? Like in that list for example it says Necrozma can learn SR through move tutors but it could already learn it before.
Its just more convenient if it was ordered this way so we can more easily distinguish...
Sorry if i'm asking this in the wrong thread, feel free to delete my post and redirect me to the correct thread if i am
At the beginning of SM, why didn't the tiering process start in Ubers rather than OU? If tiering is based on usage, surely the optimal strategy is start with the most powerful...