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Steel / Ghost

Steel / Ghost Steel / Ground Steel Steel / Flying Steel / Electric

The ladder is not considered a valid measure of what is good or should be run. The sample size is poor and it's flooded with bad players running poorly optimized sets, even at high ranks, because they got there by beating the other bad players with poorly optimized sets. If you ask anyone with...

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252 SpA Gengar Shadow Ball vs. 252 HP / 132+ SpD Arghonaut: 105-124 (25.3 - 29.9%) -- 0.2% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery Yes. The special tanks of the format have no trouble at all taking unboosted neutral hits, and Shadow Ball's pretty medium base power doesn't hurt (help?) either.

4) Typings I have seen support of and am some degree of positive towards are Steel/Ghost, Steel/Ground, Steel/Flying, and Mono-Steel, in approximately that order. I haven't seen a lot of support for types that I think are bad, so I'll leave that alone, it's well-trodden ground. My personal...

1) Yes. Doom Desire, while certainly not weak at 140 bp, is not much stronger than essentially any usable attack would be with STAB. To get the desired power out of Doom Desire almost certainly requires STAB, and while this could hypothetically be compensated with higher Special Attack, that...

Dogfish44 Jordy Brodaha

Dogfish44 Jordy snake_rattler Yoshi Brodaha Birkal

Name - These Shackles Make Me Mortal (Rewritten from 2MN's submission for CAP24) Description - A Pokemon of brutal, unimaginable power, who by some combination of lacklaster/actively detrimental ability, dubious typing, and poorly optimized movepool, balances out into something appropriate for...

Oops. I really should visit more often. ...Time to make a new team.

I think waiting is for the best, yeah. Don't worry folks, it'll be along before too long.

Eh. Probably not, but we'll see.

I saw a shell bell Talonflame trying to mitigate the brave bird recoil. That got a good laugh.