Recent content by Piplz

While I agree with backing things up with stats (and if that trend continues that obviously means it actually is decent), I'm not too sure about this particular one. Admittedly I haven't played a whole lot of randbats lately because I've been busy with other games, but even as someone in pretty...

Maybe an exception for recovery moves too? It's mainly what sets the diff between something like say Skeledirge or Typh-H. One is much more prone to be used as a defensive asset as it walls a bunch of mons with just slack off and its typing. smth along the lines of "if has no setup OR has...

Legality is a completely fair point and I agree than it would probably become hackmons more than anything else at a pace that'd go way faster than I initially thought (as an example I actually didn't even realise Palkia couldn't learn bubble lmao, I never questioned it and assumed it was one of...

Wouldn't that be a good opportunity to revisit that philosophy, or test it out at the very least? I don't know how familiar you guys are with twitch plays pokemon, but eventually instead of them running cartridge games it became kind of a casino where you could bet on pokemon battles, with the...

I think you make a lot of interesting points and in theory I agree; however, in actual reality, I do not see that logic being what has been applied. What happened when it came to banning Brightpowder and Sand Veil/Snow Cloak is actually the exact opposite of that logic. It got banned because it...

Eh? Cloyster pretty much fits that definition like a glove and was like 90% of the reason to ban king's rock, the remaining 10% being beat up weavile memes.

I agree with that definition, but I disagree with the conclusion that the game was taken out of their hands. I mean, on an individual game basis, obviously yeah, but handling RNG overall and chances for different events to happen is part of the skillset of playing pokemon, right? The same way a...

The only real annoyance with Scald for me is Pex. Pressing EQ against Pex and doing 80% of its health, only to be rewarded with it staying in and taking it raw and getting a burn in return. Then it switches out and walls the mon that was supposed to break it just because it was able to win a...

Have you tried Icy Wind on Luvdisc? In the same vein that having T-Wave on Klefki is always nice to stop something in its tracks, Icy Wind could kinda sorta do similar since Luvdisc's only quality is outspeeding most of the meta... I can't say I've ever been really happy about Ice Beam on...

tbh while i do agree forcing removal of hazards would go against the nature of the format, said nature isn't a reason not to have sanity checks where necessary. things like having only a maximum of two pokemon sharing the same type *is* an example of a sanity check. zacian not being possible in...

not sure if scream tail should really use that speed investment, it's obviously more useful with encore that way but it makes it really shaky as a check, whereas with bulk investment it becomes one heck of a fat special wall and becomes even better under sun which works wonders to check wake's...

This is a genuine question, but has there ever been a single Pokemon using a Stored Power set that wasn't a dumb gimmick or matchup fish or straight up overwhelming? all I can think of are things like shift gear WP magearna, or memes like cosmic power clef/mew. not the pinnacle of fun sets to...

I agree that noone would ever use that item if garg was to go (at least for now), but is that truly because the item is awful, or simply because it provides invisible power? There are countless, countless examples of items, characters, builds etc in many different games providing invisible...

:tymp: We were about to hit 15 pages, too... Anyway, looking forward to the imminent quickbans as well. Especially the fish, like everyone else I imagine. And maybe the ape. Also glad to see Garganacl is starting to worry people as well. No idea if it's broken, I'm not very good at...

I don't disagree with that statement but it has to be put into balance with the fact it has never been easier to apply spikes and hazards in general. In current gen, none of the hazards are as rare as they were in some of the examples you used. While SR has more or less always been very widely...