Recent content by Jorgen

Lead Ttar is a cool idea! Overall, you're pretty shaky against Curselax yourself. Your only Normal resist (Tyranitar) doesn't Phaze and thus doesn't actually function all that well as a Curselax check. Yeah, Donphan's got good Defense, but you really want a resist. You're also kinda shaky...

One other minor advantage of hidden power, too: the extra pp. Less relevant nowadays, but it does mean you match Fire Blast Snorlax's effective PP with a standard Roar set. Granted, you might rather just be able to flinch and kill it, but it's part of the equation I guess.

It's a marginal difference, I'll grant y'all that, but idk. Something about using Hidden Power when you have a perfectly usable Rock Slide just feels wrong. For instance, Rock Slide keeps open the (small) chance that you're running hp bug for egg. fFinches are also no small resource to have...

Curse and Roar are probably the most replaceable parts of Rhydon's standard kit atm since non-Curse Lax is pretty common nowadays. You really want both STABs on this guy. Hitting Zapdos is super duper important, even if you're not hitting Zapdos with it per se, you're keeping it out by...

2+ months old and the existing answer is already really good (short answer: no). That said, it's viable on something like Substitute+Reversal Hitmonlee to let you go for a KO on, say, a Zapdos that's in Reversal KO range and will probably just go for Rest itself expecting you to switch out...

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.