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Gouging Fire clearly is not overwhelmingly broken and op to the point where it is breaking the tier apart with insane unstoppable force.
Meta has barely progressed since dlc2 and arch ban, It is much more difficult to unban a mon than to ban it, so why vote ban now when it can be properly...
Meta is considered to be extremely powerful, probably most powercrept gen since 5. Meta has a lot of extremely explosive mons who just try to kill you.
Solutions.
Ban a huge amount of pokemon (if It needs to be done it needs to be done)
Ban Booster energy (weather remains strong, sun arguably...
I completely agree
The generation has consistently had issues being consistently healthy, with few exceptions the majority of the controversial mons have either had the following; Broken because of Hazard control being bad, Broken because of tera or broken because of booster energy. The power...
Serp goat but whats up with the H-Qwilfish? What set are you running with it?
On another note
I fail to understand what is the reasoning with the VR ranking policies regarding weather pokemon. Walking Wake is A but Torkoal is in A- which is odd as most of WWs viability is from sun. I am still...
why is maushold preferred over cincinno?
are the alternative webs mons, garvantula, araquanid and alternative weather mons, politoad and ninetales simply unviable now as opposed to a brief mention in the lower ranks? I find they all have quite legitimate niches
If the point of kokoloko is to force progress upon the metagame due to its unusual status. Is the best move to not look at what underpins the metagame first? Tera and potentially gholdengo and booster energy are all metagame warping things that underpin gen9 ou. I think before employing the...
Very Excited to not have to run Pincurchin And Masquerain if I want to run Eterrain or Webs now. Very happy to see that Atails is back so now Snow teams dont have to rely on poopy Abomasnow if they want to run it.
Does anyone else have any relatively gimmicky playstyles they are excited for...
Hazard removal though limited still has a plethora of relevant strong mons who can control hazards. Tusk, Corv, Cinderace, Hatterene, Treads off the top of my head. There are more niche mons such as Avalugg, Glimmora, Maushold and Toedscruel who either don't fit on every archetype or are limited...
Personally I think it is with boots.
It is so much easier in the current meta to for example, slap boots into your zapdos and glowking.
it means that you don't even have to bother thinking or considering hazards for what is your pivot/defensive core. I don't think it will ever be about how op...
one time i had 20+ likes on a post, I will brag to my grandchildren about this event.
To not be a one liner.
I've recently been using a lot of AV pex and Ironpress Garg again
I am honestly not quite sure why those two sets in particular fell out of the meta, they have really good synergy...
This might sound a bit whack but i've actually been using a decent bit of lokix but not the band set
I've been running double dance lokix and with leech life it actually is so much fun
the set i use is this
Lokix @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Tinted Lens
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD...
I think it is kind of irrelevant if Gambit can beat teams that are relatively prepared for it with or without a niche tera. Volcarona which got banned also was able to be subdued, but people had to run 2-3 checks to make sure they did not loose to the mon and even then sometimes niche teras...
Weakness Policy Gambit
Kingambit @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Supreme Overlord
Tera Type: Dark/(?)
EVs: 236 HP / 252 Atk / 20 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance/Low Kick
- Kowtow Cleave
- Sucker Punch
- Iron Head
We all know what normal Kingambit does, but the question I have...