Recent content by Rothj

I've capped out at 1400 with... glaceon. I'm a bit burned out by the meta but I just want to talk about this mon and why it potentially has a niche despite being in a low tier for pretty much ever. -It has one of the highest special attacks in the entire tier. -It is one of the only decent ice...

I took the survey but probably would have preferred if there was a middle option between tiering or not tiering of tera. Basically, for me a lot of the new mechanics and new pokemon were pretty hype. But the metagame has kind of devolved and I don't know for sure what the answer is. I'm...

I've been experimenting with full special def tank roaring moon and it hilariously walls chi-yu in the sun. It gets a boost to it's special def in sunlight which means chi-yu basically tickles it if you're fully invested. It has the stats to make a good special def wall and decent typing if...

I think if you really want to do bans to make balance and stall more reasonable, you have to get rid of gholdengo and then maybe annihilape. Gholdengo makes it to where you must have a rapid spinner on your team or a magic bounce pokemon(which doesn't even provide a great solution). Basically...

Honestly the data is old, there are tons of mons that are solidly in ou now if you look at just the last week. Espathra and rotom wash are notable ones off the top of my head. lokix, pex, and maushold have fallen below the threshhold. Annihilape is massively higher in usage now. I've been...

It's based on a lot of the older data pre bans I think. If you look at more recent stats, rotom-wash is like 10th on useage. Chomp is also way higher. A lot of these will be uu next month.

It would still take about 30% from pursuit every time it switches out(which it would have to do if a tyranitar switches in). This makes tyranitar a much better switch in that would see more play. As far as blissey, my point is that gen 8 blissey is literally a much stronger pokemon than gen 9...

Imagine for a moment that we had gen 8 blissey in the tier. Chi-yu would not even be in the discussion. Blissey would come in and either hit toxic or teleport and gain massive value. They would have 16 uses of softboiled so running out would be no issue. Alternatively, we could also have gen...

I understand what you're saying, but not sure if you represented it right. Once you see extremely high useage, being a couple percentage points above 50% or below 50% is more significant. Having a high use rate but a below 50% win rate would mean either that it's difficult to use but a lot of...

It changes a lot by day. If you look at weekly it evens out more... but yeah chi-yu is doing well today for some reason. Stats I linked were for today only. Meta is still changing rapidly... for example rotom wash wasn't seeing much useage but is now seeing a ton of play. It would have been...

The person I was replying to was seeming to imply that when I said the main counterplay is to "not use passive mons" that I was suggesting to abandon a playstyle. I don't know if they specifically meant pure stall.

I think my main argument is that if you want to save pure stall there's a lot of things you'd have to fix. The fact that gamefreak massively changed the move pool on a lot of them is a big factor. Some of the new ones we got are some of the best walls ever.

Well, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about honestly. The highest I've gotten to is like 1500 this gen. These were just my own perspectives/experiences.

There's so many factors. Right now, no one can clear hazards because of gholdengo without great tusk. That's one thing. Secondly, no teleport on most defensive mons outside of slowking(who dies to all the dark types). Passive teams really struggle with annihilape and iron valiant as well. A...

Yes, people are using it. But by far the one pokemon that is driving everything in the metagame is gholdengo, and to a lesser extent great tusk. So if cyclizar got banned literally nothing would change. At high ratings it's not seeing that high of useage. edit: The counterplay is to not use...