Recent content by Ortheore

Holy fuck dude how are you this committed to misapplying mathematics in order to demonstrate your lack of understanding of the game? You clearly don't have data supporting any sort of mathematical representation of the worth of sleep, you're clearly ignoring a LOT of the ways sleeping pokemon...

I mean at that point you're just describing stall, which has pretty much always struggled in rby. Parahax and crits ruin the efficacy of stalling out the game, making teambuilding for that sort of thing even more of a stretch. As much as I like to bash Wrap, it's just better at utilising...

Hi, I've researched Kadabra, brought it to tournament and posted about it in the jank thread and on my blog (on mobile rn, so linking sucks). Suffice it to say that it's usable, and honestly one of the better shitmons available. It's honestly a solid lead, usable outside the lead slot (better as...

It isn't "for" anyone. Individual issues got decided on a case by case basis over the years (e.g. freeze clause originated around the time NetBattle was developed, making it bloody ancient), and then that patchwork kinda stayed in place long enough to build up such inertia that change is...

Although I've previously supported the idea that Venu is a better SDer in a vacuum than Bel, I think sometimes we take it too far lol and that the gap isn't as big as we tend to make it out to be. Sure SD isn't Bel's best set, but imo it can gain a lot of mileage out of the fact that most people...

Also what the fuck are garbage ass mathematical "proofs" about Jynx doing here? Pretty sure this thread was intended for discussion of jank strategies that aren't likely to be good enough to use in tournament. I'd rather this thread serve that purpose than act as garbage disposal for shitty...

Short answer is there's not really a role compendium and you're right in that pokemon are generally flexible in the roles they fill. Starmie's a good example, since in your team you're clearly using it as a key defensive cog (or so I assume based on your team), but it can often be a lead, and...

So I've been testing a triple Wrap team on ladder (after previously testing solo Dragonair and dual Dragons) and I need to vent because this archetype is incredible fucking garbage. Stacking up on awful Pokemon with common weaknesses makes a significant number of matchups absolute hell. But the...

I'm probably fine with Clef in D tier (B tier is definitely too much), but I do agree that it's underrated. Quite versatile, generally a solid status spreader that can be menacing in a lot of matchups. I think 1v1 analysis tends to overlook its biggest flaw, which is that it's really bloody...

Cloyster only counters (or strongly checks) 2 of those pokemon btw, it generally can't switch in on Chans/Egg/Star. Ultimately if you think that Cloyster is underrated and has anti-meta potential that's totally fine, I don't want to flat out dump your reasoning because it's still a notable...

Hmm, this is an interesting approach, and though I don't dispute that understanding a meta and how to counter top threats is a huge component of teambuilding, I read this post as implying that this is the primary goal of teambuilding which doesn't sit right with me. As I see it, at the core of...

"Big 4" is a really outdated grouping that specifically ignores Cloyster's worst matchup, which is a bit disingenuous when Starmie is arguably as good or better than Chansey/Egg (opinions on the exact order of those 3 seem to vary). As for its flaws, it loses to practically every special...