Recent content by Redheron

DOU seems to be slept on a lot more than standard OU in this regard. Look at standard OU: Chi-yu/Chien-pao both banned. Haven’t even been suspected in DOU despite being far stronger there. Double sleep is banned in OU no matter what you use to get it but for some reason only gravity/hypnosis is...

If anything, they’ll be even more of a problem after pokemon home. There’s basically no world in which their abilities don’t enable the worst of the worst. They turn powerful pokemon into absolutely broken pokemon. That’s… only going to be more of a problem when even more powerful pokemon than...

That doesn’t feel very accurate. Chien pao and dragonite are on basically every team I encounter. Is there any usage statistics to go on? In my experience, arcanine does nothing as Dragonite and Chien pao both outspeed and obliterate him round one. Esp if dragonite is running inner focus. You...

Has any thought been put into suspecting dragonite? Seems like everywhere 1500+ is Chien pao dragonite teams as far as the eye can see. And there’s honestly very little counter play. You either also run paonite or you have to build a team specifically to counter it. I’m just kind of shocked at...

How does the suspect process work for banning mons from tiers?

I’m just surprised at the duos that are banned in this format and how paonite isn’t? Maus ape is banned. Dozo/tatsu is banned. Paonite is on basically every single team and is basically impossible to counter due to how broken it is. All you need is to put paonite protecting next to extreme...