Recent content by ianlazerbeem

Glad to see the thread back. However I'd like to speak out AGAINST tiering Rotom forms, and if they're tiered, we should also be tiering every single other event pokemon. Tiering the alternate Rotom forms because "everyone has access to the dns exploit" (not true, especially factoring in that...

Frankly I think Dragonite is cheaper than roaring moon, I don't think roaring moon is any different for being a Tera sink since Dragonite loves to Tera normal extremespeed, and like roaring moon it is extremely dangerous when it deviates from anything but the most common set and Tera...

Is there a particular reason that "we can't ban it because it is so valuable for what is able to check and what it brings to the meta" is a legitimate argument with regards to Pecharunt or Ting-Lu, but not for Kyurem, Volcarona, Gliscor, or Kingambit? I agree with this logic, but shouldn't it be...

I think looking into Ting-Lu would be a more productive way to address spike stacking being so dominant - if looking into Gliscor instead of Ghold was proper during DLC1, it would only make sense to address Lu before Pech now. Pech is extremely good and quite a challenge to wear down, parting...

"expect stall" he's going to lead hoopa-u and the game is going to be over in 12 seconds, you can't say you're using stall in a tour out loud Would love to bet on raine but not sure I can in good confidence

Ting-Lu is a part of that, it's a crazy spike stacker on offense. Srn's post on it in the viability rankings is an excellent analysis of the ways it warps the tier and every archetype around itself. I'm not convinced it should be banned but I was interested enough in it being looked into to...

Council lobs us an opportunity to finally do away with Tera blast and somehow we get Kyurem suspect #12 out of it ): please make it stop, this Mon has put up a genuinely pathetic performance in SPL and there is no legitimate reason to view it as a problem at this point

Not only has it not been on any public survey, it's been written in by several people on each one - if the first Volc decision was any indication, write ins can be grounds for a quick ban - why are the ones for Tera blast not even leading to survey inclusion? If you're trying to be positive how...

The only reason Kyurem remains controversial is because of the people that refuse to accept the results of both suspects. And sure the suspects are "close" and yes if Kyurem is suspected over and over again eventually the combination of people that do/don't get recs will lead to a ban. But if...

Tera Blast is going to score the highest on the survey (if we ever even get one) and we are going to get a 3rd Kyurem suspect, then probably a 4th one when the inevitable DNB verdict is reached. Either that or there will be no survey and the Kyurem 3 suspect is announced due to a nebulous...

"DPPT" as an umbrella is a fallacy here bc the situation was improved so much in platinum in both regards. Adding everything that got a new evolution in gen 4 to the Sinnoh dex makes the sinnoh dex much stronger so you can make better teams, enemy trainers more often have evolved pokemon so...

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Surveys should be more often, in fact in my opinion should be a regular thing, monthly, quarterly, after every major tournament, your call. Right now surveys feel very "reactive" in that they are usually only released if the meta feels unhealthy to the council or their peers; with the fairly...

quite decently is right. Banded babyfin is an absurd momentum sink if it doesn't click flip turn, and that predictability is inherently exploitable, for example with your own u-turn. while I can see the chip that banded t1 flip turn does being somewhat valuable (although chipping a suicide lead...

Palafin is "fudging the calc" by needing to switch in before getting those boosts, and in many cases requiring bulk up or band to sweep. I agree with you that bulk up wave crash or pivot wave crash isn't really a real set, but I think not being able to viably run its strongest move in many cases...