Recent content by ohgeedubs

That's exactly the thing though. The people who like ORAS and who are going to continue playing it probably like the meta more or less how it is. They may dislike Sableye or think it's unhealthy, but probably like enough about ORAS to continue playing it for a while after SM comes out. Why would...

I used to be on the side of "it's never too late to fix a metagame", but now I'm starting to worry because we're talking about a pokemon that is not clearly broken, has as lot of disagreement among top players, and SM is coming out in 2 weeks. Pokemon bans do get used as precedent, and I...

They didn't say anything about fairies being broken, just that Mega Metagross might be a healthy influence on the tier by virtue of its ability to check some very dangerous fairies. Clefable in particular has been despised by many players because of how easy it is to slap onto teams and glue...

Skarmory's bulk isn't as good as it used to be, and whenever I use it, I find myself roosting all the time and losing momentum. I find it actually pretty difficult to set up hazards with it safely vs. offense. Aggron on the other hand just takes neutral physical hits or non-stab super effective...

I guess I'll restate (from a different thread discussing Clefable) why I think Magic Bounce is ridiculous - and as a result, ridiculous on a mon that is bulky and has as much utility as Sableye. We all know Magic Guard is an amazing ability, but Magic Bounce is it on steroids (that is, a...

I mean, most pokemon have a niche because very few Pokemon have absolutely no unique qualities. But I think it's not so much that a Pokemon makes an impact on the metagame, it's that it a) it fulfills a unique niche better than any other mon and b) it's worth using. Hydreigon is useful for...

I wouldn't call it unpredictable so much as versatile. In practice, the way to deal with Talonflame is usually pretty consistent. 1) Try to keep rocks up to limit its switch-ins, or at the very least abuse their "wasted" turn rapid spinning/defogging. 2) Switch in your check and figure out if...

lost vs Tesung ggs

Smogon is honestly a very schizophrenic community and I think it's because of the weird mix of "welcoming" and "exclusivity" that makes it unhealthy. I'm not exactly a high-level player (although I definitely don't think I'm bad), so I can only state observations as a former moderator / de-facto...

Instead of this, why not borrow threefold repetition from chess? I'm not familiar with GSC, but there might be some marginal cases similar to chess where in order to get the desired position you need, you have to play very careful, positional (but relatively passive) moves in order to get into a...

won vs Maskun529