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On a serious note about the meta. Jesus Christ I haven’t seen a meta this bad since the cancer known as late gen 8 ou. Instead of things being too passive, it’s every single fucking mon can murder you in some way, and it devolves into hyper offense and weather spam because that’s the only 2...
I find it funny that these days any team with hammorott and ghold can be called hstack. You know, back in my day, we have to use jank like double hazards ferrothorn and defiant bisharp. But yeah, looks good besides a concerning lack of reliable checks for choice band gouging fire.
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen9ou-2064054533-0w0jmtl8g02535yitlbordh2qa93yicpw
I lost brain cells. Why didn’t he swap in his scarf latias to revenge kill my roaring moon
Guys pls don’t ban gouging fire that mon balanced I swear! Just run Tera fairy air balloon Tran on every team! On a more serious note, now that rain is significantly weaker, dinosaur sun spam will most likely rise up, and that will probably just kill stall for a while. I wouldn’t be surprised if...
https://pokepast.es/8612367cb28a49ed
When dinosaur spam couldn’t get anymore braindead. Moon and gouging fire cover for each other really well, with them usually blowing enough of a hole so the other can shit on the rest of the team. Lando t was there because free eq switchin yay. Also slams the...
The obese turtle is just, guess that Pokémon taken to the extreme. If you guess wrong a single time ur likely gonna be blasted by a Tera starstorm and by the off chance that some man was insane enough to run mental herb, congrats ggwp
In my experience, terapagos is hilarious. He either does nothing because some dumbass decided to overkill and set up another cm, or he 6-0s your team because you guessed the wrong set and gg
https://pokepast.es/a79f88e3f035c324
I burned the kitchen with this one…….. I have to say that eforce deo s is something straight out of nightmares. The obligatory obese turtle, and alolamolamola is there as a standin, any defensive backbone can work.
ye the obese mega turtle is definitely speedrunning the ban hammer. If that thing by some miracle stays in ou, the entire tier becomes how many hard counters do you have for the obese turtle