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Thank you for the responses, everyone! My group and I feel a lot better about the board after I sent them this thread. I have one other question about a specific pokemon. I don't see a metagame thread for NatDex, but I can move the conversation somewhere else if that's better.
Roaring Moon...
I am starting a SV NatDex draft league with some friends, and we have some questions and concerns about the sample draft board from this post. Before we actually draft, could someone help us understand some of the decisions?
Some prices are very weird
Just to give some examples, Mega Gallade...
Won in 2, GGs:
G1: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9doublesou-2553606638-in9n6n37lrda4yxa1ioar3579im0fdupw
G2: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9doublesou-2553610015-4vh9d0fiosdupgm65rdsuyx7ijxisyrpw
:Sylveon::Dragonite::Incineroar::Chien-Pao::Gholdengo::Amoonguss:
I made a PaoNite team featuring Skill Swap Sylveon. I was trying a CM set at first, but found it was never that strong. I dug a little deeper into its moveset, and though that Skill Swap was a neat tech. It allows me to give...
Won in 2 vs TyCarter
g1. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3doublesou-1746263550-nuxprt7sp5on0n1ce2jtpr7esecnckjpw
g2. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3doublesou-1746267361-73ndgkzpxvc62x8uf4km4jjcl6r33w9pw
Whether or not I agree aside, that is the logic Smogon uses as a whole for tiering. They want to keep bans as simple as possible, and they don't like to break up a Pokemon's sets for the purposes of bans (e.g. Gorilla Tactics and Zen Mode Darm-G in gen 8 OU). For a well known example, Blaziken...
Out of curiosity, did the council members give thoughts on their Flutter Mane votes? It's the only pokemon on the slate that had more than one ban vote, so I'm curious what they thought about it.