Recent content by Insolence

You do not need to precisely map out all four moves from preview. A lot of discussion around Woger tends to hinge on its set variety - This is one of Pinkacross' main points - but once you've identified the set, you know how it's going to be used in a match, and can formulate a plan for handling...

This discussion point comes up somewhat frequently. In fact, these exact arguments were made in both the Kyurem and Gliscor suspect tests. If it really was the case that all of these 'mons demanded such overwhelming respect in the teambuilder, surely they would be farming every game now that...

The removal of one of the only strong, splashable knock + pivoting options (Moon, who also served as a check to Woger) directly drives up the usage of it's competitors in that slot, Woger being by far the biggest one. Other beneficiaries of Moon's ban also indirectly benefit Woger, such as the...

A big reason why we play CG OU is the competitiveness of the meta/ladder; if you've ever played lower tiers you know how long it can take to find a single game once you've reached the top of the ladder. Even in OU, you will often times chain queue into the same player when loading at high elo...

:glimmora: B+ > A- Sash lead HOs are dead in the water, but Meteor Beam and Red Card sets fill that void quite nicely. Spikes + TSpikes are able to put a lot of pressure on teams that feature non-boots pivots like AV Alo, and the threat of mortal spin + earth power allows you to force sequences...

- Light Clay received significant support on a previous survey. - Manaphy received a higher score than Ursaluna-Bloodmoon in a survey. - Gouging Fire (banned with >90% supermajority) received 8 total write ins on a survey, less than Ghold or Tera, only two months before it received a 4.2 from...

Zap-King-Lu refers to passive fat boots spam team comps. These teams don't always use that exact three mon core, but the idea is the same: ignore hazards and chip down opponents with status and hazards until you can clean the endgame with your win condition (historically, this was either Zama or...

The meta tends to be broadly cyclical and rotates through the same advancements based on the current dominant team structure. This has happened time and time again over the past two years, as the meta trends through the rough pattern of: Offense -> Boots -> Breakers -> Offense Each style is...

Zama's ability to make progress into fat is greatly overstated in this thread and most of the examples given do not pass the sniff test of actually happening either on the high ladder or in tours. People bring up his strong matchup into offense, but one thing to note is that thanks to its...

A lot more 'nites on high ladder nowadays are foregoing parts of the classic Boots + Extreme Speed combo for alternative sweeping options. Moveset stats illustrate that Boots usage has dropped a decent chunk (~80% boots usage in January to ~67% in April, extreme speed going from ~80% as well in...

[SET] Offensive (Ho-Oh) @ Heavy-Duty Boots Ability: Regenerator Tera Type: Flying / Ground EVs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 152 Spe or 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe Adamant / Jolly Nature - Sacred Fire - Brave Bird - Recover - Substitute / Earthquake [SET COMMENTS] Offensive Ho-Oh trades survivability for...

Gas lets you do a lot of other cool stuff beyond just defogging on Ghold, it denies Gliscor Poison heal, stops regenerator healing, lets you status Blissey and stop natural cure, you can wisp Garg, you ignore Gambit's overlord boost as well as booster energy proto/quark drive boosts, clef can't...

:sv/ho-oh: [OVERVIEW] Ho-Oh is the most consistent defensive Pokemon in Ubers. Monstrous base stats, a fantastic defensive typing, and access to Regenerator let it serve as a potent defensive pivot, helping its team handle threats like Koraidon, Extreme Killer Arceus, Necrozma-DM, and...

If nobody else has taken it, I will revamp the fiery chicken. Sets on dex + update tera types, (Fairy/Grass/Dark for the defensive set, Flying should be first for offensive). Sub can also maybe be first slash over EQ for the offensive set. yep! -Lasen

Implemented. Please let me know if I missed anything.