Recent content by Rootb

One innovation you're starting to see is Body Slam, which actually hits slightly harder than Scald, even after STAB. While you do have to make contact, you still have a 30% chance to status -- and with how important speed is at the moment, Paralyze isn't that much worse than Burn at crippling...

honestly it says more about Earthquake that in a meta with Air Balloon and Grassy Terrain, it's still one of the most reliable clicks in the format

I mean, this makes complete sense to me. While a team like that is prepared for Volcarona, Volcarona and Volcarona, it's a bit weak to mons like Volcarona and especially Volcarona. And while this sounds like (and, honestly, really is) an elaborate shitpost, it's also the reality of the...

So, right now, there are 41 pokemon in Ubers proper (less, if you don't count non-Arceus formes as distinct), and another 43 OU in OU proper. That's 84 pokemon out of 733 available in game. At the moment, I am way too lazy to calcuate how many of those are pre-evolutions, but even at a...

Isn't it obvious? No Covert Cloaks.

I'd been thinking about making a post about this, but this said it a lot better than I ever could have. When I see people post something like "I'm voting Do Not Ban, this was the wrong choice", it gives off this aura of superiority. It suggests that everyone else is wrong, and they're right, and...

Unfortunately, I don't think upping reqs will really move the needle, either. Spite is a fantastic motivator, and you're way less likely to stop someone motivated by it than you are to stop just about anyone else. If anything, it might accidentally make the problem worse, as people who only...

That's exactly the point, yeah. Not only is it not much easier, debatably it's not even easier at all! Like has been mentioned both in this thread and on twitter, most good players hit reqs well before 1800. Adding the ability to grind out reqs won't meaningfully change how many people are...

It's not that it should be made easier, it's that the current system heavily incentivizes spiking. The whole reason it's even a consideration at the moment is because a single person playing through, instead of just resetting their account, has attracted significant attention for doing it "the...

It's not really about any specific mon, it's that the total pool of mons has grown. Each additional viable offense threat means one more thing your team has to account for, and the DLC additions lean far more offensive than the base game did. After all, this is a generation where Ting-Lu...

Everything below 1300 is a lawless wasteland, where the only "usually useless" moves are the ones found in high-rated RMT. Trying to engage the locals in a game of chicken is like trying to win a breath-holding contest against a brick wall.

And what's fun is that you can just as easily argue the opposite from the same starting point! You needed not only a specific clause to nerf the moves, but also multiple high tier mons that render your team immune to sleep, just for the mechanic to be balanced. Those two fought valiantly, but...

Honestly, I think the way they handled it was fantastic. The Policy Review thread was more or less a suspect test, and it allowed them to move through an issue while still taking 2 weeks to collect informed opinions.

I mean, you can still win on time. In fact, that's pretty much what Stall is designed to do! Whether it's a chess clock or an arbitrary timer, in the immortal words of the Magic the Gathering Comp Rules:

The one thing I think they could have done better was to tag this thread with [NEW VIEWS FROM THE COUNCIL] or [NEW POLICY REVIEW THREAD]. There really was a ton of discussion, and it lasted longer than a suspect test normally would.. but if you aren't clicking into the OU forum on a daily...