Recent content by Jorgen

I feel like Ttar as the sole Phazer made a lot more sense in the pre-Golem era where Monolax was a lot more viable. I'd almost always pair Ttar with Rest + Cursetalk or even LK CurseLax, which importantly have the edge in the ditto vs. a Snorlax that opts for EQ coverage, and thus can function...

I feel like Rhydon has always been one of those things where you remind yourself "oh yeah I should probably be able to handle that" but, at the same time, is awfully shaky to be piloting yourself. In this era where you're probably already running EQ or even Surf on Lax to punish Golem, though...

I'd say the way to think of it is more: You have your big 3 normals: Tauros, Snorlax, Chansey. It's kinda weird to think of them as a combo. Each one, in isolation, is nearly auto-include on its own merits. Meanwhile, combos like Cloydonbro are how you'd try to fill out the rest of your...

Fun idea. Always love to see weirdo Pokemon make things happen. But I'll be honest, I don't think I'll be going out of my way to use Gyarados in OU anytime soon. I guess it's a funny way to lock out your opponent's spikes game if they're relying on Golem + Cloy to do the job, but it just does...

There's two sets. 1 - bulky swords dance. defensive stalwarts like skarmory shut it down 100%, but your typical balance team which runs Golem as its main normal resist is actually going to be a little shaky against it since those teams need to shoo such threats away, and meganium is not so...

Okay then, I can look into that and see if it can also work for the other illegal combinations ETA: it doesn't work for the other combinations without breaking things. Plus the logic should frankly work without having to doctor the learnset data. I think the quickest fix here (which is still a...

Would that cover the gen 1 tradebacks case?

I can take this. All of those hardcoded move incompatibilities are exclusive to gen 1 but incorrectly applied to gen2.

It'd be a pretty solid check to Egg, but a million weird things already do that. But it also shuts down Alakazam funnily enough. Not to mention Espeon if it doesn't pass. And it'd be a decent second look to Jynx. Not bad! It would lose the Machamp and Hera matchups though, which is a semi-big...

This list is probably sleeping quite a bit on the six selfdestruct/explosion users in the tier: weezing, voltorb, graveler, geodude, pineco, and koffing. They probably end up being quite influential.

You're right. The "main" playstyle is probably better called "Spikes offense" than anything to do with Explosion. One might even call it "Balance" to keep things even more general. It's just that most teams in this mold have at least two Explosions that they use to punctuate the match, but the...

Well, if we’re gonna get meta, the goal is definitely not to make a set of recommendations for newbie teambuilders. It’s more for folks to quibble about what actually counts as a different yet *viable* playstyle and what is ultimately just a substitution of ingredients. I think my thinking...

Hey, so I know we have the sample teams thread and all, which currently sorts things into "Offense", "Spikesless offense", and "Stall". But I'm a curmudgeon who's not totally happy with those three buckets. What buckets would y'all say capture the variety of teams out there? If I were to start...

The most recent official Smogon Tour round to feature GSC (and which explicitly published rules banning HP Legends) seems to have been this from 2007: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/season-5-week-9-gsc-2-won-by-fear.19023/ Funnily enough, Fear won it :) Sometimes I forget he was at this...

This post is clearly a bit of some sort but I can't parse what that bit is supposed to be. In any case I don't really care, I just wanna talk about the team in the paste. It's good! A subtle yet aggressive twist on a standard formula, carrying 4 Explosions, most notably with one on Snorlax...