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Great Tusk feels like the Lando T of this generation, he's extremely popular and can fill 10 different roles on a team but he has very clear weaknesses and doesn't feel super restrictive on teambuilding despite all that. Plus, I imagine a large part of his high usage rate is people attempting to...
meowscarada if you want to run something like spikes/brick break/toxic spikes/taunt. you can't hit glimmora yourself but you can taunt it then swap to something that can hurt it without getting hazards up. similarly, you can taunt grimmsnarl then just brick break to clear the one screen he got...
Sylveon has hyper voice + pixilate coming off a base 110 sp atk stat at a time when darks, dragons, and fightings are omnipresent in every team and shed tail is still legal. scream tail outclasses it in defensive utility yeah, but sylveon can put in work killing things if it has to and wish pass...
I ran into the same problem, I hover 1500-1600 with my usual bulky offense teams but it’s too easy to get cheesed out of a win on low ladder with that play style and the way the suspect test is formatted eating a single loss in your first 15 games is a death sentence. The format essentially...
If anything gets banned it should be cyclizar, orthworm will rarely get more than a single shed tail off without some good earthquake predicts and even if you do you’re still stuck using orthworm so you really need to make good use of that single sub pass because otherwise you’re essentially...
I don't want to be "that guy" but this is a pretty commonly misunderstood aspect of Tera so I thought it's worth mentioning. When you same type TERA you're going from 1.5x power to 2x power so its not a 50% boost to the overall power, its a 33% one. That's still a hefty boost, but its not quite...
It's basically just Moltres Lite, you fish for flame body burns on u turns and rapid spins and stuff then either u turn out yourself or defog or w/e. also even with max bulk investment flamethrower still 2hkos gholdengo so that's cool. yeah its not particularly great at killing anything else...
does anyone have suggestions for mons that can reliably counter annihilape without being totally useless otherwise. The best general solution i've found is to run something like specs chi yu and just muscle through him but even that's not enough sometimes.
Slowbro @ Heavy-Duty Boots
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I had a decent amount of success with it at the start of gen 9, it worked pretty well but I found it really needed the powerboost from sun to punch through things that would otherwise wall it. That was when palafin was still running around, so now that he's gone I imagine its even better...