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Iron Leaves
:SV/Iron Leaves:
Introduction
Iron Leaves has always interested me since it's stats and movepool were revealed because of how it was so obviously a UnderUsed caliber pokemon. Even before it dropped I was theorymonning and labbing it because it seemed like such an incredible...
Iron Leaves + Electric Terrain
:Iron Leaves: :Pincurchin: :Froslass: :Hawlucha: :Iron Jugulis: :Magnezone:
^Click On The Sprites For The Paste :3^
Iron leaves was by far the drop I was the most excited about and this culminated in me making and testing a bunch of different Hyper Offense...
WooHoo New Drops!
Personally I think that it's kind of a shame that we only really got offensive juggernauts through the Tier shifts and lost a defensive staple, which is definitely an overall net loss for fat in general. But then again I am le big stall player so take that with a grain of...
Man this suspect tier run was rough as shit, I haven't had it this rough since I tried doing the OU suspect run :worrywhirl:. Overall I didn't see Tinkaton even once while playing so therefore I came to the conclusion that it is a Do Not Ban mon. If no one is using it it's obviously bad...
I've been enjoying a lot of the recent metagame changes as of late and thought that it'd be appropriate to post some of my thoughts regarding how the metagame has developed and which mons have changed for better or for worse. Generally I'd say that the tier is in a pretty stable state at the...
Research Academy - Naclstack
:SV/Naclstack:
Introduction
Naclstack is a pretty interesting mon that perfectly suites my personal playstyle, which is why I chose it over the stupid mushroom. It's place on Stall and SemiStall builds in particular has always interested me because at first...
:Scizor::Alomomola::Talonflame::Wo-Chien::Tinkaton::Kilowattrel:
This is a Balance team that's built around repeatedly Wish Passing into Scizor in order to attempt to mimick the good old Roost + SD sets we saw in oldgens. Scizors main issue in the current metagame is definitely longevity so...
Alright so I just finished getting my reqs by using this stall team and it was pretty easy overall aside from edge mega haxx cases. Turns out that packing two specific checks to one of the most centralizing mons in the tier which therefore makes said mon a non issue during team preview is a...