Recent content by Kibblecat

Having not used non-mega Garde I can't comment on whether many of your points are valid or not but regardless you still acknowledged the niches that give Sylveon it's rank. Its Fairy STAB does hit harder, it does get Baton Pass (and a heck of a lot more bulk, at that), and again it has Hyper...

EDIT: ninjad, but I'll leave this here anyway I guess since I said a lot... :P Wow, never seen so much bandwagoning in my life. Since when did "it uses choice items" make something totally unviable? The whole 'what does it do that Garde/Clef can't' thing is just confusing, people are comparing...

While I don't necessarily disagree that it could be in A and not A+, this is a massive over generalisation. Weavile was part of the general popularity of dark spam before Hoopa became too centralising and offensively checks a huge amount of other A and A+ threats like ground types and almost any...

While I by and large agree with this, it has to work only up to a point because if a suspect is making a whole play style almost unviable to the point of forcing it to take things counter-intuitive to that play style, I'd say the suspect at least deserves it's suspect test. To imply I called...

Using the word "carefully" here isn't really saying anything without quantification or comparison because everything needs to take some degree of care over choosing it's moves. If Hoopa didn't need to take some care and could just spam one move and 6-0 teams, the ban wouldn't even be up for...

Sorry to be about to refute or twist everything you say Rick, but I really think that most of your points are just driving home how unhealthy this thing is. But Hoopa-U causing certain 50:50's is a fact, just because some predictions do take more thought than that doesn't remove the fact that...

I think "the ladder is a bit more boring without Hoopa-U" isn't really an argument that's convincing anyone, yet it's an argument that's being alluded to in places, and masking the irrelevance of that argument by trying to link the pace of the meta to skill requirements is wrong too, regardless...

I doubt Roserade should be going up, if for no reason other than the fact that it literally just went down. I was saying this a page or so back, but I think it should more likely go unranked out of lack of relevance than to move up, for the same reason as the discussion on Haxorus - it's got...

I don't really think there have been any massive meta shifts that really favour Azumarill enough to push it up. At the very least, things that are valuable about it now (strong priority, generally hard hitting, reasonably bulky for switch-ins and enough coverage to cope in a bloated metagame...

The Hoopa-U Meta isn't totally unplayable, but my opinion is that I preferred without. We're in the interesting situation now of having had a meta without Hoopa-U prior to it's release, and so weighing up how close it might be after the ban and deciding if that's a healthier metagame or not...

Hey, so I've always had trouble making anything work with Mega Gardevoir, and I've had a hankering to have a sand team lately, so I'd like to request a M-Gardevoir + Sand team. I'm cool with any variant of the Garde + Sand core, but here's a start. I left the actual sand setter out because I've...

Thanks for this, Taunt was the thing in front of my face that my brain missed out as being relevant. In which case, dropping them both out of lack of relevance is more or less what I'd be getting at if I were to try to say anything that I hadn't already. Even with Taunt, I can't really see...

While the lower ranks are being tidied, I'd like to suggest Nidoqueen to D Nidoqueen's supposed niche over Nidoking is it's added bulk at the cost of a little power, which seems like a reasonable quality to focus on as an offensive hazard setter. However, Nidoking is a niche enough hazard...

I don't really see Quag as on par with most of what's in B+ right now, and the meta is shifting against it's viability if anything, not towards it - we're in a place where a lot of common special attackers like Hoopa-U, Keldeo, Tornadus-T, Latios, Manaphy, Mega-Gardevoir (and even some strong...

I've also lately been playing with Terrakion, using a Sash SD/SR lead set. It's by no means the best thing in the world as it's issue with common priority and general frailty are still there, but the set up opportunities issue is alleviated in the suicide lead role. Like most sash'd suicide...