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1) Ladder doesn't really matter as much as it used to, so there's less good games happening on ladder. 2) Usage stats require a large number of high-elo games to really function. 3) Usage stats offer smogon "legitimacy" as they cannot be argued with. NU leadership deciding that Noivern is NU is...

Dark / Flying Steel / Flying Grass / Flying Dark Water / Flying Dragon / Flying Flying Rock / Flying

The Steel / Flying hate is a bit weird to me cause it's sorta ignoring a lot of fundamentals about the typing. We're not gonna be running Steel + Flying STAB on the mon, we're probably giving the mon either U-turn or Flamethrower or Wave Crash or whatever as a secondary click, and its very easy...

Dark / Flying This typing is pretty interesting here due to its interaction with Fighting-types and Ghost-types specifically. Fighting types are suddenly a bit less afraid to click that Close Combat into a neutral target if we're a bit low, or if we're predicted to roost this turn, while Ghost...

I do not know why we'd stray from Flying. It functionally guarantees that we're going to run Beak Blast, it is immune to the single most common non-contact physical move (EQ), and can bait a contact move once a match due to your general love of your item. Our main thing is going to be...

Double Shock

Double Shock Focus Punch Barb Barrage Thunderclap Beak Blast

Calling act. I was a bit late, and didn't message until 10:23, but its been nearly an hour since then, and I have a busy-ish rest of the day. Would have liked to play, but so it goes.

I expect to see a subset of Focus Punch / Thunderclap / Double Shock / Temper Flare / Water Spout / Beak Blast / Barb Barrage on slate. I wanted to give my opinions on the relative worth of these options. We can make a successful product with all of these. I am going to be rating them on how...

Despite my badges I am no longer a mod of CAP. I made that list as a way to assist other posters as a member of the community. I could probably update it now but we've moved past that stage of the process. ------------- Temper Flare Condition: If your previous move failed then Temper Flare...

Going by the "actively wants to use the conditional move, rather than being limited by options" feels like it sorta paradoxically limits our options. Our options here are 1) signature move that is only not all over OU because its only learned by Toucannon, 2) conditional moves that already have...

Gonna mostly agree on dex; we should base typing and ability discussion around "how does this interact with 1 worthwhile conditional option". Building around Poltergeist is easy, building a mon that runs Poltergeist, Water Spout and Counter is not. We likely still want to have additional...

Working list of all moves that can even vaguely be argued to be conditional. Mods feel free to edit/add in stuff. Acrobatics Aurora Veil Avalanche Baneful Bunker Barb Barrage Beak Blast Blood Moon Burning Bulwark Counter Curse Double Shock Dragon Energy Electro Shot Endeavor Eruption Expanding...

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