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- 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.

The Tera Blast Fairy set is the only remotely problematic Moon set. The bulky variants are certainly threatening, but they sacrifice speed for the ability to set up in certain matchups. Not outspeeding booster mons at +1 is a major issue for it, and while its added bulk is certainly not...

Hi, thought I would give this a shot as your team looks fun to use. I ended up making a team focused around Sneasler and Rayquaza. I made this team in about 30m so you can prob optimize it more, but I gotta go to work. :rayquaza: :sneasler: :landorus-therian: :arceus-fire: :kyogre...

Roaring Moon currently reminds me of the whole Darkrai furor during last WCOP. Darkrai was not broken, but the metagame trends at the time incentivized its usage to the point where some viewed it as a problematic element of the tier. Nobody is calling for a rai ban anymore as the 'mon is clearly...

Thanks for taking the time to review. I've implemented all requested changes. I didn't mention Skeledirge initially (as well as other options like Chilling Water Alo and Ditto) due to low usage. Was not sure what the cutoff was (I don't think it's even Ubers by usage anymore) and most stall...

It provides a variety of utility options like Knock, Roar, Trick Room, and Teleport, on top of having reliable recovery from Morning Sun (Crown has none). This allows slower teams to better incorporate it as a defensive piece.