Recent content by Muksu

The problem here is that Crabrawler hates getting locked into a move, being a huge momentum sink and requiring extreme prediction when running Choice Scarf. You should run Mankey instead, as it has U-turn for pivoting. Mankey also has access to Night Slash/Assurance, making it slightly more...

Gastly being gone will probably shape the metagame quite a bit. People in the winter league tournament have already built for a metagame without Gastly beforehand so they already have some experience. Here are some of my predictions for metagame development: Potential drops: Stunky, Shroodle...

Probably C-D tier at best. Scorbunny dies very quickly in practice, and it requires a lot of prediction to be effective. It's not seen in high-level play for good reason.

I think Gastly is too powerful of a mon to be worth having around in the metagame. Its flagship Eviolite Will-O-Wisp set forces progress effectively and is close to impossible to answer reliably, as its combination of speed, power and capability of living some hits gives it an edge over most...

Girafarig: Do Not Ban

It's not like you are always forced to deal with Girafarig by making big gambles on tera plays or surprise moves. And tera gambles can backfire for the Girafarig player, too. There are many opportunities to deal damage to the mon, and many mons like Toedscool and Mudbray can trade hits with it...

Scarfers aren't generally enough to beat Girafarig on their own, but they can definitely help in dealing with it. They can sometimes switch in quite favorably if you get the predict right. They are exploitable at times, but imagine a situation like having scarfed Larvesta click U-turn against...

Girafarig is obviously a stupidly strong mon, but I find it fair and manageable. Here are the reasons why: Every mon can make progress against it. Girafarig's defensive typing gives it a very limited amount of immunities and resistances, meaning that pretty much any mon is capable of...

What's the plan for gen 9 LC mon analyses?

I think tera is pretty fun and flexible. You can do a lot with it, and the mechanic opens up interesting teambuilding options and decisions during battles. ...or I would think like that if it wasn't for the sweepers. Sweepers can use Tera Blast to fix their offensive coverage to become very...

The first thing that I do when a new LC meta kicks in is trying out Trick Room and rain teams. Trick Room got practically deleted because we lost all the good setters. :( Rain on the other hand is pretty funny in this meta, capitalizing on the lack of Water resists. This is an unrefined team...

Meowth @ Life Orb Ability: Technician Level: 5 EVs: 236 Atk / 76 Def / 196 Spe Jolly Nature IVs: 0 HP - Double-Edge - Knock Off - Feint - Fake Out Meowth is a lot better now thanks to it getting back two key moves in Double-Edge and Knock Off. It seems to find pretty decently...