Recent content by lacerta

This is one thing that really troubles me about Mega Sableye. What reason is there for a stall team not to run it? The benefits that it grants in terms of team support alone are greater than the benefits that many individual stallmons give to their team in terms of synergy, hazard control, and...

I would certainly agree with you for the base 110 tier, however I'm unsure about the relevance of the base 130s. If I were a scarfer or boosting sweeper, I'd quite want to outspeed megalop and megaman, as a priority actually. Perhaps it would even be worth extending it as far as the base 145s or...

Apologies for this post: I found the speed tiers invaluable in previous gens, so I thought it might be helpful to compile an updated list that is as complete as possible. Alexwolf said it would be ok to post this. Any feedback, questions or criticisms would be very much appreciated, especially...

I apologise for any suggestions I make in this post that have already been mentioned and refuted, or just outright don't work! I have only just come back to pokemon and so am a little out of touch with the meta, and have only been able to try most of the following suggestions on paper. I...

Expert Belt Latios Dugtrio SD U-Turn Scizor

Keldeo: Ban

Remember when HGSS came out, and a big fuss was made over Head Smash Aggron? It was the trendy pokemon of the moment, because it possessed the power to straight-up OHKO moderately-bulky neutral offensive mons, a feat uncommon if not unheard-of at the time. Now fast forward to BW2, and virtually...

When people complain about a pokemon, move, or tactic requiring "no skill", I generally understand this to mean that the thing in question has virtually no downsides to its use, or few enough that it pays off to use it in more situations than not. Competitive pokemon is about using the right...

You know that feeling you get when you accidentally wander onto the Ubers ladder with your OU team? Or if you ever accepted an Unrated challenge from a random back on PO, and their team pops up with four OU mons, Electivire, and Dialga/Reshiram/Palkia/Mewtwo etc. You know that you can run...

Landorus-I: Do not ban I hope I'm not too late??

Taking a quick trip to the damage calculator, I suppose a spread of 252 HP / 28+ Def / 228 SpD could be helpful. It lets you avoid the 2HKO from Specs Keldeo's Hydro Pump in rain, and avoid the 2HKO after SR if you're carrying Protect - whilst still keeping you from being OHKOd by its Secret...

HP Fire Deo-D is very unappreciated. Forry is my Spinner Of Choice, so whenever I come across a Deo-D lead, I am always afraid to try spinning on it in case it's that set. However, I feel that this spread and set achieves only one of its goals: KOing scizor. Forretress can't be OHKOd, so it's...

I'm surprised that Taunt isn't listed here among the notable moves, as Hydreigon is a perfect user of it. Personally I'm a bit of a semi-stall and balance player, and I like to try odd things. I've been having a lot of fun recently with a set of: Hydreigon @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 196...