Recent content by isr

  1. Other Metagame of the Month Archive

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  2. Tier Shift Metagame (THIS IS BW)

    After peaking about to 1850+, I have some thoughts too. Sun is undoubtedly, at least for my battles, the most common playstyle, despite my last team being rain-based (DDCash is really, really cool!). Cresselia is better on paper than in practice in my opinion, as she was generally set up bait...
  3. OU Team Building

    What to use: Lilligant @Life Orb Trait: Chlorophyll EVs: 64 HP / 252 SAtk / 192 Spe Modest Nature (+ SAtk / - Atk) - Healing Wish - Sleep Powder - Leaf Storm - Hidden Power Rock / Hidden Power Fire Role: Support What It Does: With Politoed, Tyranitar, and even Hippowdown being commonly found...
  4. Hydreigon's New Era

    I've been using it with a sun-based team and I really liked the outcome. Yes, the new BW2 threats are annoying and Hydreigon is a bit slow, but it has been very helpful. The set that I've been using is Expert Belt (Roost + 3 attacks), which attract Ttar or a weakened Heatran (common threats to...
  5. OU Team Building

    Rewrote the Ditto's review, hope it's acceptable now. If anyone have a comment, please go ahead. :)
  6. OU Team Building

    What to use: Ditto @ Choice Scarf Trait: Imposter IVs: 2 Spe EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SDef Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk) - Transform Role: Revenge Killer What It Does: After being a gimmickly novelty during four generations, Ditto returns in BW2 Metagame with its new Ability — Imposter finally...
  7. OU Team Building

    Okay, I expressed myself badly. Outclassed is not the right word for Defensive Starmie. However, it still inferior to the Offensive Spinner. Starmie only need Thunder AND LO to 2HKO the Specially Defensive Jellicent. The Physically Defensive still exists. But I think that Tentacruel is better in...
  8. OU Team Building

    Defensive Starmie is generally a bad idea because its heavy outclassed by some others Pokémon. Starmie has great Speed stat and Natural Cure, but Tentacruel is much more bulky and has Rain Dish with Black Sludge/Leftovers recovery. Also, it suffer from 4 Move-slots syndrom much more than the...
  9. OU Team Building

    Yeah, yeah. On my Starmie, I usually prefer Leftovers too, because Life Orb-Rapid Spin is nearly suicide, but on this review (?) I opted for it because Starmie lose some important KO's. For example, it will fail to 2HKO Specially Defensive TTar. I will slash Leftovers with Life Orb. Thanks!
  10. OU Team Building

    What To Use Starmie @ Life Orb / Leftovers Trait: Natural Cure EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk) - Rapid Spin - Hydro Pump - Thunderbolt / Thunder - Ice Beam Role: Rapid Spinner, Revenge Killer. What It Does: Starmie has been OU since RBY, and this has a reason: is one...
  11. Gen 5 The OU Viability Ranking thread

    Sorry for being insistent, but that's not very true. Fire/Ghost is a amazing typing to sun teams that have troubles with sinergy, with not only three immunities, but resistances to commun attacks like U-turn and Bullet Punch. With Flash Fire, it also prevent the opponente to do heavy damage...
  12. Gen 5 The OU Viability Ranking thread

    Chandelure is not a good spinblocker to rely on, and is easily outclassed by the majority of Ghost-types. It can take advantage of it, though. If it is on the battlefield, it can pull pressure on Rapid Spinner in a mid-game. Starmie fails to OHKO with Hydro Pump some variants, or if it forgo...
  13. Gen 5 The OU Viability Ranking thread

    Hi! Okay, I really think that Chandelure doesn't deserve the D rank. It's a extreme powerfull wallbreaker and basically nothing can safely switch-in in a sun-boosted Fire Blast from the Specs set. It need to be C-rank or B-rank, but I would say about moving it to the C-rank first. Here's the...
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