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Nice run man :) Semis is great!

Also you need to slash HP ice in the last slot, since victreebel's major advantage over venusaur is its ability to run grass / fire / ice coverage. Otherwise, venusaur can just run hp fire > weather ball and be bulkier, faster, and stronger...

Replays? n.n Congrats soul fly!

Right, my midnight arithmetic needs work. Actually I got it right though, I just mistyped both the starting and the ending stat. Figures lol...

Goutland, that zapdos EV spread is super inefficient. Timid and 16 spe EVs gets you 264 speed, which you could get by using 112 speed EVs. If you then run a modest nature and subtract 96 EVs from SpA, you'll have 357 SpA instead of 349, a free boost by 8 pts. So a more efficient spread is...

Yeah the problem with using usage as an argument is that something being broken "tends" to lead to it being used a lot, but that it absolutely doesn't have to. If a mon or strategy is extremely potent but difficult to execute, it may only be used by high-level players. The classic example is...

I think starmie is pretty clearly a decent check to keldeo--it beats it 1-on-1 and can take most any hit from it. Offensive sets can generally take one hit, outspeed, and OHKO, while defensive sets can generally take a hit for <50%, outspeed, and 2HKO. There are absolutely exceptions (choice...

Hmm well jpw's post disappeared while I was writing a response to it. I guess I'll respond to myzo. 1. OK, well if you're willing to advocate the ebelt set > the choice ones, more power to you. I just think it's important to realize that any argument that rest on the boosts keldeo gets from...

1. Things setting up on choice-locked keldeo My issue with your argument about keldeo bluffing is this: the ebelt set is great at bluffing as choiced, but the choiced sets don't bluff as ebelt. In 99% of games, if I send out keldeo against your +1 dragonite with multiscale broken, you're going...

Ahh, I see what you meant. Oh OK I read that wrong. Nice warstory guys! It was pretty close and there were some good plays there. There were some questionable moves (dpulse on toed, as a major one), and I thought it was a little weird when it was forry vs landy since neither of you really had...

Haven't read this yet but just want to suggest--don't reveal who wins in the introduction to the warstory lol. It makes it much less exciting! I'll comment more once I've read it probs!

Toxicroak should stay in B+ at best. It's a decent keldeo check I guess (although 2HKO'ed by neutral specs HPs, and secret sword if any prior damage), and a good sweeper in rain, but it's honestly not all that threatening--it's relatively slow, and is weak without a boost (and even with, it...

First of all, to commment on the prediction issue--this is absolutely valid to bring up, and here's why. It's true that it can go either way depending on the prediction, but...these are keldeo's counters we're talking about--the mons that can handle it best in the game! The fact that keldeo can...