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Steel type was banned because the metagame entirely became dual-Melmetal. Good as Gold is used less than 10% of the time on most Pokemon, and is generally outclassed by Magic Bounce and Magic Guard, except for the fact Good as Gold can ignore Perish Song. So while I understand what you're saying...

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I definitely haven't been as active this gen, but I would love to contribute a very solid team I've been using since the Opportunist ban, and hopefully get it added as a sample. Ting-Lu @ Clear Amulet Ability: Purifying Salt Tera Type: Ghost EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 252...

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Def agree, copied this from pre fur coat/fluffy suspect and missed updating those lol

Metronome Battles Official Unofficial Abilities Tier List by Jeffdaboss Unfortunately since Smogon stopped sending me notifications from this thread I completely missed out on the Opportunist suspect which is very sad, but I'm glad to see it go nonetheless. I thought that I would take some time...

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9challengecup1v1-1781414660-f69fpi91iv49psk9wxp8p2mbkffcuodpw man I love being rewarded for my mistakes

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I definitely agree that Opportunist is starting to get uncompetitive. It almost completely invalidates the effects of Weakness Policy, and heavily dissuades the usage of any stat-boosting strategy, such as Intrepid Sword, Download, Anger Shell?, and any terrain seeds. If we look at the usage...

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https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9metronomebattle-1735213928 On turn 2 of this match, Jolteon gets hit by Throat Chop, and then on turn 3, Jolteon is prevented from using Metronome due to Throat Chop. Metronome isn't a sound move, so this shouldn't be the case. The only explanation I can...

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it's a meme where he is running trace and ability shield, trace tries to copy an ability, and the item ability shield prevents your ability from changing, so then it tries to copy the other mon, fails, and then tries again the next turn.

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