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Bro I feel u I get anxiety attacks just using air slash lol

I think the best solution to power creep is to accept that there is none. The only "solutions" there are would utterly annihilate the competitive singles as we know it. It sucks, but there's nothing we can do.

bro forgot what low ladder was like just had a good suspect run ruined by tera psychic zen headbutt defiant gambit lol

Anyone have advice for someone trying to get suspect reqs for the first time?

I get what ur saying, but things like this were tried before with a gen 6 uu no scald ladder, and usually don't work because with two ladders, people tend to prefer the official one.

252+ SpA Choice Specs Magearna Fleur Cannon vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Giratina: 444-524 (88 - 103.9%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO 252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Giratina: 372-440 (73.8 - 87.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery 252+ Atk Supreme...

Sets like this are why it overpowered. You need to run a specific set that makes the Mon overall somewhat worse just to beat every set EXCEPT one. Having to heavily adapt a standard set just to not lose to most sets is inherently unhealthy for the meta.

When doing things that will have a huge effect on the meta like this, its always best to do something that has proven effective elsewhere when possible, rather than risk doing something that could have a negative effect on the meta. Also, I'd like to repeat that I think banning dire claw would...

On one hand, I agree with what you say about dire claw being relatable to kings rock, but the fact is that theres a good reason smogon always goes for consistency, and banning the Mon is the consistent thing to do.

If every new toy needs to be ubers, than OU would suffer more if they weren't. Also, tera got the exact same treatment as max (Suspect). The only difference is that the community decided not to ban it.

Me too. I'm especially excited to finally get to play more with the home mones, since I haven't gotten much time in the past week with school and studying for finals.

I hear what you're saying, but smogon tends to repeat past solutions for problems, and the past solution is to ban light clay. Also, while Grimm is the best screener, other screeners have unique traits that make them strong too, like kelfki's spikes or pults curse/wisp.

Traditionally, in situations like this, smogon bans light clay over the dual screens user. You ban grimsnarl, people use kelfki. You ban that, people use azelf. Light clay is better than screens itself because it keeps the overpowered thing in check with less effect on the meta.

The big bird is back and its here(probably) to stay. I'm glad pelipper is back, since it think even peephole rain was hugely slept on, and now it gets several new abusers.

Yes, but I don't think the move is broken, more as it's uncompetitive and luck based. It seems kind of like kings rock, in that its abuser can try to use it to simply had through would-be walls. The kings rock ban is the main reason I'm saying this, since it was only really used by cloyster...