Recent content by Mr. Degradation

Does anybody have any sweet utility builds? The utility build on the Smogdex interested me, are there any variants of that anyone is using?

So backpeddling a bit, I think "Garchomp would be a solid sweeper if..." is a poor diagnosis. The meta is just very hostile towards sweepers in 6th Gen, especially physical ones. Garchomp is still capable of performing sweeps, but committed builds for it tend to fall short because stacking...

No. Kindoffunny- but no. It's just a curio, if crossup potential exists- it's worth asking around about and running calcs on imo, so I just thought to ask about practicality in actual play.

Are there are any good crossup/mixing builds for Talon? The first thing that comes to mind sounds sketchy but fun. Both of it's attack stats are kindof crap, but getting Brave Bird and a special fire STAB to go under physical walls sounds pretty annoying. Talonflame @ LifeOrb Gale Wings Brave...

The "you're wrong, Gren is broken" argument doesn't bother me so much- but your example does. Mega-Maw was the last of the XY bannings, but that slippery slope effect did occur with 4 items, and 1 OU threat over a year's time, and ORAS came out a month later. When the usage data comes in, and...

The slippery slope argument isn't fallacious if the result is obvious to all parties involved (something else that's staple in the meta becomes the next overpowered centerpiece of this discussion.) See also, gen4 Salamence after Garchomp got the axe. Slippery slope is a fallacy, when it's used...

I think you missed my point. Which is that the banhammer wouldn't solve the meta problem- whether or not we consider the Therian Lando minutia etc. Gren is overpowered, but something always is because removing one overpowered thing opens up the void for the next best thing to skew the balance in...

Greninja is oppressively good- (perhaps not as much as MegaMence,) but what do you expect to be done? Seriously, it's obvious that Gren and Landorus-T are too good for the tier, but what happens when they're gone? Mega Gallade meta? Is that any more fun? Or what if Protean is gone? Would Torrent...

A few issues... 1. Talonflame rips through the team quite handily because of it's priority, speed and SE STABs, ontop of simply outspeeding your Pranksters. 2. Being so setup based means that your team auto-crumples to paralysis or quicker setups like Volcorona, Alakazam, Gyarados etc. because...

So.. I was looking for a better thread to ask (couldn't find a current tier-list discussion thread for public usage.) Why is Deoxys in any form still Uber? Is there a set for Vanilla or D that I'm overlooking? Is S or A really so good that it dominates usage in spite of the game being packed...

The Nintendo format is 2v2, a format where evasion is not only weaker due to attacks often being focused- but one that is also considerably faster, where extensive setup strategies get squashed. There's no need to ban it in that format, because there isn't enough time to buy free turns with...

Regardless of whether you agree with it or not, the players at the top of the ladder at the time of the discussion made the ban on principal. Stage 1 evasion is negligible and Stage 2 evasion rarely matters, as you can witness from jumping into WiFi cart games. But, with that in mind- how stark...

When this crap comes up there tend to be 2 camps that forget why things are the way they are. Cloak and Veil weren't banned until Hidden Abilities (Dream World Abilities) became a thing- because it means that banning evasion abilities isn't outright banning mons like Sandslash. Evasion itself...

30 base HP is about 1/5th more butt ontop of a Psychic immunity and some SDEF is nothing to sneeze at, and the gain from Eviolite doesn't dwarf it by any means. Since you're looking for a more promising mon to spam it and Pangoro belongs to two of the largest egg groups- it may be worth...

Much like Heliolisk- I really don't like trying to push Delphox as an aggressive sweeper, just because it's fast-ish. The support movepool on Delphox is pretty deep and it's probably the first Pokemon I've ever seen and thought "You know- Fire Spin looks useful." I think Delphox plays into 6th...