Recent content by micmacaroni

https://pokepast.es/ec9c2226dbd19bed Forretress showcase, cause I imagine you won't have too many teams for this mon. I did a bit of testing with the team and it's really just a suicune showcase with forretress as support, but hey, that's what forretress does right?

https://pokepast.es/2023e76846cce5b0 gravity hyper offense that's weak to ash-gren. Pretty fun team though

The main reason heart swap magearna is used in ubers is because of the various calm mind arceus forms and xerneas. It's still useful against CM gothitelle, CM lunala, and NP naganadel, in a last ditch effort to stop a sweep. So obviously these threats aren't around. What could a heart swap set...

In Mantine's OU analysis http://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/pokemon/mantine/ou/, it says this in the set details section: The given Special Defense investment [208 calm] allows Mantine to take two Dark Pulses from Ash-Greninja if Stealth Rock is not up, survive two Shadow Balls from Choice Specs...

Hey Joey! Love your vids. I made some random uu araquanid team and this was the end result after some testing, it just happened to have ambipom in it. http://pokepast.es/b441a113b7921458 Just a short explanation, spider web/rest araquanid lures in fatmons like mega aggron, alomomola...

I think the way endless battle clause works is that one person is deliberately forcing an endless battle for the opponent. For example, the infamous funbro (starts at around 8:30). If both players willingly allow an endless battle, the game doesn't take that into account. If such a situation...

Hey, I couldn't exactly replicate your bug. I did the best I can. http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-683333268

Pex rising is a horrible reason to warrant a volcarona drop. Volc has some way to get past most, if not all of its checks. (By checks, I mean something that would survive a +1 fire blast and be able to retaliate back or have priority/higher speed) Bug Buzz> Tyranitar, Latios, Quagsire...

Just playing the devil's advocate here so discussion isn't entirely one sided (I support hawlucha's rise to A-. To be brief, I believe his upsides heavily outweigh his downsides and he just stands out from all the other pokemon ranked at B+) Hawlucha is a scary threat for offense, but that's...

The calcs I showed were mostly against stuff that blace should force out, outside of heatran, quagsire, and sometimes kartana, meaning that unlike kyub, mega mawile, or tapu lele, it'll have a much riskier time switching in. I then discussed about the amount of support the team needs to provide...

While i was writing a post on the VR thread, I found a pretty neat Tyranitar EV spread that I wanted to share. It's nothing too major, but it makes it a more consistent specs blace check. You go from 252 SpA Choice Specs Blacephalon Hidden Power Ground vs. 80 HP / 0 SpD Tyranitar in Sand...

I have to disagree with Blace's rise as well (in its current state). While it's not a bad mon at all, boasting huge wall breaking potential, it doesn't seem quite as good as the more consistent pokemon in the A tier. For example, it doesn't switch in on a lot of pokemon. It takes huge damage...

Stakataka -> B Stakataka seems underranked at the moment, and I feel that it's really unexplored. A physical attacker that can 2hko lando-t AND skarmory is already impressive, but pair that with a spammable stab move named gyro ball that heavily dents even resisted pokemon like excadrill...

Yes, it does have checks. So does every other mon in ou. What I'm saying is that once the 1 or 2 checks to mega lop gets weakened on a team (standard Mew only needs to take something like a u-turn or volt switch to get in 2hko range). Mega lop, like every other wall breaker, requires some...

Hi there. I decided to come here to check how well rated some pokemon are, and I'm very surprised to see Mega Lopunny at a dismal B rank. I would say it deserves at least a B+ rank for the moment considering the following facts: It is an excellent anti-lead which beats all viable sash users...