Recent content by Kammi

won in a good match vs Crashy http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/monotype-351375855 thanks for the fun last battle :) Thanks so much to Dirpz and Lax for drafting me this season, the whole team was really fun to work with and it's sad we didn't get farther than this despite having a good run...

What's the point in a metagame that is official but stale. Sure, we have consistency and simplicity. Yes, our banlist is basic enough to capture at a glance. Yes, we might be one step forward to becoming official, if that is even possible at all. But I hope the council, and the users of this...

I'll go ahead and answer scp's questions for myself first :] (apologies for interrupting the Zapdos conversation, by the way) I like ORAS currently. I think the metagame is very balanced, moreso than it has been in the past year or so, and it's doing really well in terms of getting Monotype out...

Kinda disappointing, but calling activity. It's been almost all week and haven't heard anything. No guarantee I'll be able to play Sunday either, since it's my grandma's b-day.

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I think this is a really cool team. Ghost gets really generic, and high ladder players will expect the sets that are always run -- you get the advantage by bluffing sets that they know, and then pulling a CM or an energy ball on the switch :] cool team. I imagine it loses a lot of impact when...

In my opinion, part of what makes Ghost so fun, enjoyable, and VIABLE to play in the metagame is the uniqueness of the Pokemon it has at its disposal. Mega-Sableye and Aegislash have no true replacements. They both are extremely special, as far as pokemon go, and it's a misnomer to simply call...

The fight on Mega-Sableye has been going on for a while now. Ghost AND Dark users have been expecting this suspect, and I'm sure that any self-respecting monotype player has thought about how to deal with the metagame after the mega is banned, if it is banned at all. On the Ghost side, Taunt...

Glad to know my team is still fairly relevant and being used by an amazing kiddo :] grats pika, and thanks for the shoutout o/

Small note, but Poison has possibly the easiest answer in the metagame to Sableye in Toxic Spikes (set them up on literally anything else on the opposing team and they have no way to get ride of them), and also if you have issues with the Calm Mind variant, Clear Smog is pretty effective...

Thanks for the official update scp! These are some pretty good questions in regards to tiering philosophies. In terms of the type-specific bans, I agree with almost all of the ones so far except maybe Galladite (Zapdos created a monstrous defensive core that took little to no skill, Aegislash...

I feel that, first of all, Greninja isnt just *arguably* better, but obviously superior due to 1. protean (gives you essentially the download boost in both directions from auto-STAB) 2. speed tier and 3. the versatility that comes with protean, i.e. allowing you to gain resistances and...

Dark only achieved this 6% usage after Hoopa Unbound was released, and the 'mon currently has a usage over 50% on the type so please check on the change in the type after Hoopa release before you say Dark doesn't need it. Usage of Dark can also expect to drop because of Bug spam / people only...

I will say that Energy Ball / Ice beam Genesect (about 20% of all sets) is probably extremely unhealthy for the Bug vs Ground matchup as it creates a lot of 50/50s and one shots a ton of 'mons with the correct download boost; however, the most common coverage run on Genesect is boltbeam...

I'm gonna go ahead and build on what Acast said in his great analysis, mostly elaborating on Hoopa and Bug and what this implies for our metagame continuing forward. Considering that Hoopa Unbound was only released halfway through the month, it has really shown a large amount of usage; this...