Recent content by Mediocre Ladder Player

RIP 2nd coming of Zygarde Complete, you will not be missed.

I'm sure Bloodmoon would love to run a 5th move. Most pokemon would love a 5th move slot. Bloodmoon doesn't particularly need that 5th moveslot to be competitively insane.

As an added benefit, the way CCR sings it is mumble-y enough to sound like "there's a blood moon on the rise" if you don't listen too closely.

Bad moon rising?

I feel like Half might be overstating it, but only because this gen has/had a TON of problems in regards to pokemon and moves that are mostly not overpowered in a 4v4 doubles format but are extremely freaking problematic in a 6v6 singles one. Tera has even exacerbated some of those problems, but...

At least they remembered to make sure it could learn Present.

Well, might as well put in my 2 cents on Cinderace. When Ace was in the Tier, I had a team full of good checks to common Ace moves; Flash Fire Heatran, Dragapult, and especially Physdef Toxapex. It still felt like my team was weak to Ace. And even if I was able to pull off one of my most fondly...

As far as exploration goes, down at the 1300-1500 range on the ladder I've noticed a decent amount of Scizor usage, seemingly always coming with one of Tapu Koko or Rotom Wash for Volt-turn cores, as well as spamming Bullet Punch. It seems to match up well with pokemon like nonmixed Garchomp and...

Hey, I'm new here. As the name suggests, I'm not all that good, so maybe my thoughts are completely off on this. But looking back at the usage stats, the entire bottom half of the top 10 was filled with Pokemon who were used less, and that I think will be used more with the new bans. Rillaboom...