Recent content by Ramplestilskin

I have a few things I wanted to share regarding tournaments : First of all, I regularly watch tournament battles to keep up with the current metagame and trends. It kind of made me wonder why everyone was so scared about DeoS when it litteraly did nothing in tournament... Anyway, I try to...

Here is my personal opinion on the ban/unban topics close to DLC2 drop : I think whatever we want to do with Gholdengo /Kingambit does not matter in the slightest. What I mean is that whatever the support from community, council, whether we ban them, suspect them, let them as is, every single...

What is your personal philosophy on how OU should look like ? Let me explain what I mean with this question : we all have a certain "notion" of what OU pokemon should look like and this definition has certainly changed over the years as we today have an UU that is the OU of old gens. Meaning...

To be fair, ever since Uber has been recognized as a competitive tier and AG has been created, I don't even understand (apart from the fact that this is historically what has been done and people want to stay true to a pre-established order and are naturally against big changes) why Uber is...

Hi ! First, I have to say I really like the flavor of your team. I felt in love with Cinderace in this meta, but most notably, the Thundy outspeeding Samurott and volt switching into Lando with Helmet to prevent any spikes is pretty nice. I don't really know if this team in particular is the...

I personally find it astonishing that light clay is being radared before stored power. I can understand the statement that a lot of pokemon learn the move and are not uncompetitive but I do not really understand what it proves. As someone already said, Baton pass has been banned even though a...

Has it ever been considered to ban Stored Power ? I mean I know we prefer banning pokemon over moves but every instance where we see stored power being used has always been quite unhealthy. It was literally the reason why baton pass teams started being banned back in the day. Without it, I don't...

Following the survey and on a different note from what have been discussed over and over on this thread (mainly orthworm, and I said back before Espathra ban that shed tail was actually a problem), what are your thoughts on unending trap moves ? Do you think they are healthy for the metagame ? I...

Is there actually any incentive to suspect shed tail ? If we are all being realistic, that is what got Cyclizar to get banned and I personally think that is what makes Espathra really broken. Espathra has very low opportunity to come in any move of any Pokémon in the metagame. Be it a status...

Hey guys, I played quite a lot lately (didn't really played seriously since Gen6, like little after ORAS I think), with different playstyles and I just wanted to share some thoughts about it. Started off with "obviously broken things" without thinking much about what i putted in my team, just...

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"We're banning Cutiefly because the fact that a random pokemon is able to baton pass quiver dance boosts is broken" gg

I kind of agree with that, because it would be bad banning each pokemon getting access to BP and a move like quiver dance in the future. As venomoth back when it was banned, this is actually the fact to be able to boost both speed and offensive stats, then passing it to the appropriate pokemon...

There is something I really don't understand here : why would you ban cutiefly / BP when you can simply do the same thing as every other tiers : use the Baton Pass Clause ???

Porygon-Z isn't banworthy at all, it is soooo predictable. It really has a hard time switching into anything, and then has to set up. So it's probably taking two hits before it can effectively sweep. All calcs saying "it's not even 2HKO by this or this" are mostly irrelevant because of that, but...