Recent content by Metan

As stated above, all speed boosting abilities are now banned from sharing.

Wording Level 1000 Weedle. Banning Dazzling/Queenly Majesty will turn the meta into yet another EspeedAte with a bit of Terrain wars to spice it up. Also, banning Magic Guard will also limit offense significantly due to recoil and status damage while improving Stall strategies such as Rough...

Without Magic Guard, running Rock Head would be a must in some teams, and you'd still lose HP due to Life Orb recoil, unless you also run Sheer Force, and that doesn't cover all attacks. Furthermore, Rough Skin+Iron Barbs team would be ugly to deal with.

Oh, good call, then! Also, against Unaware teams, I attempt to weaken their team first before going for the setup, although there isn't a lot of time to afford weakening it for too long.

A while after my post one page ago and moments before I finished my shower, I brewed an idea that, with humble honesty, I believe it has little counterplay; battling a few has only firmed that belief, and thus I'll share my team here so that perhaps different points of view point out other flaws...

... yeah, I just faced a similar team (Tangrowth, probably not Assault Vest since I OHKO'd with Bug Buzz, rather than Necrozma) and as soon as I killed said Tangrowth, Clefable began to boost and there was nothing I could do, since Marvel Scale+Prankster CM meant by the time it's my turn to...

*leans into mic* hoje wtf it doesn't accept unicode

And my point is to show you otherwise. Arena Trap as it is goes against one of the most important topics of a Pokémon battle, that is switching, from most currently existant Pokémon, is uncompetitive according to Smogon's own concept of uncompetitiveness, as I'm sure this point has been...

If I may, none of those are as centralizing around itself nor as allowing towards the Pokémon making use of that ability than Arena Trap. I'll pick a few examples, based on your abilities of choice: While Protean is a great ability, it does not carry a Pokémon by itself. I could use Greninja's...

Interesting how nobody up till page 3 pointed out Landorus-Therian's usage. So many gens later and it's still OU's finest, most present Pokemon.

I'm assuming the intention here is to stop opponents spamming battle timer on/off; if that's really it, I'm surprised that was even considered worthwhile, and moreso that both timer buttons glitch like this. Feels like it wasn't properly tested before implementation. "/timer on" worked, but...

haha woo

*dabs*

I've found a visual bug regarding Normalize in Showdown, and a calculating bug in the Showdown Calc: Resimulating the EVs and stats in Showdown's calc, we concluded that the Normalize 1.2x boost as of Gen 7 is working as intended: 80 SpA Life Orb Normalize Delcatty Hyper Voice vs. 252 HP / 0...