Recent content by Moyashi

Well I'm late to the party. Advice for anyone not yet done laddering for reqs and reads this: never bum rush reqs when there's not much time left. You're more likely to get a headache than anything else, especially with this ladder's notorious uh... quality. Anyways, I'm pretty firmly in the DO...

how the fuck are we over halfway through February already send help :Zamazenta: A+ -> S I was hesitant on this earlier but at this point I think that Zamazenta has cemented itself at minimum, as a top 2 pokemon in the tier, and I’d argue it’s straight up #1. An insane value Mon that compresses...

I think the thing is that a lot of these examples just aren’t as broadly effective as other options and will come with consistency issues. Like sure Power Gem Heatran may help with ZardY or Volcarona but you can also just answer them with other choices that have more generally useful...

Rilla isn’t a relevant pokemon and not worth including while the rest of these only offensively check Samurott either through being faster or switching in on a hit they’d resist. Zama, Komi and Urshifu are vulnerable to knock off, and none of them actually prevent spikes from going up. The fact...

Ngl it’s pretty tiresome to see comments like this that are reductive and try to boil discussions down to being a push for ‘fat slop’ (which usually is just code for defense, not fat which is between stall and balance). There’s a lot more there to the discussions going on but some of you will...

Alolan Ninetales isn’t anywhere close to as potent or competent a screen setter as DeoS and has pretty big issues that really limit it. It’s a lot easier to abuse turn 1 for an advantage compared to DeoS who has the ability to customize itself how it likes and control lots of different match ups...

I’ve never really found this to be true tbh. Ttar is very prediction reliant if it wants to get a lot done and teams generally are able to force that prediction game, which if called wrong Ttar just drops momentum. It generally needs to make the most of the switch ins it does get so CB is the...

I actually disagree that sand is anything more than niche. Ttar is incredibly easy to wear down and because of its bad speed, easy to take advantage of its bad turns. It does check some stuff but it’s got such glaring defensive issues that force specific structure be built around it to support...

It’s very strong yes, but it’s also harder to fit on teams. Bolt already has trouble with a limited defensive profile and thus can struggle to repeatedly switch into battle as even resisted quickly pile up when hazards are digging in. Booster sets tend to lose a lot of oomph if they’re forced...

Few things. First, regular Mega Chomp already has a clear niche. Its purpose is meant to be a bulky balance breaker with good defensive utility. In theory anyways, and has skmw teams it can be used on and be good on. It’s very niche at the end of the day, but it exists. Regular tank chomp does...

Enough time has passed Time for spicy(?) takes :Tyranitar: B+ -> B I’ve tried to be positive with this mon and have given it a spin several times, but it is just so clunky to use in a lot of match ups. Its very defensively awkward where there are SOME match ups it’s quite good into, but it’s...

There are no damage ranges LO Blaziken reaches that makes the slightly higher damage compared to Mega worth the recoil. The extra speed makes a big difference (notably regular Blaziken still is slower than several scatters as well as the Z mega and Zeraora at +1, which forces it to run protect...

Dragonite has just as bad 4MSS, if not worse, and also happens to be a Tera merchant much more than Zama. Dragonite is really good, but Zama offers a truly remarkable degree of role compression and efficiency that simply cannot be matched. It has some less good match ups like Pecha, yet the Mon...

in OU, Flying types: Corviknight, Dragonite, Talonflame, Gyarados, Skarmory. Of these Gyara is mediocre and lacks flying stab, Talon is passive and not very good, and Dragonite doesn’t really like running its flying stab because its a mid move and has better choices, while Corv and Skarm just...

Banded Sunsteel 2HKOs HP invested Tusk with a Spike up, and Zama can’t comfortably switch in either without the dauntless shield boost as without the +1, even bulky Zama is 2HKOd and can’t even threaten Solgaleo back sufficiently while offensive Zama is of course only a one time switch to Banded...