Recent content by Scrubdown Showlord

It does seem that self sacrifice moves now make the user faint even when there are no valid switches, Lunar Dance did the same to me today.

I would take strategizing around struggle over sitting for 200 turns because of four Dusclops at -6 Atk -6 Acc +6 Evasion with water ring and ingrain behind a substitute.

I've been using the UFOs for quite a while, usually Delta/Aerilate or Delta/Intrepid. They work fairly well but get walled by stall teams and murdered by HO. Metro, it turns out, punishes half measures. There is another flying type bulky enough to run these sets in Dragonite, but that mon works...

The most common move types that target enemies are: #1 Normal 90 16% #2 Grass 32 6% #3 Fighting 31 6% #4 Fire 30 5% #5 Psychic 29 5% #6 Water 26 5% #7 Dark 25 5% #8 Electric 25 5% #9 Poison 22 4% #10 Flying 19 3% #11...

Nice work, we did do research on how viable Guzz was post coat and did find it to still be very strong. The main alternatives were of course Dauntless and Fluffy. Using Dauntless gives you less of a Def boost but Fluffy means special teams can do serious damage with fire moves. Overall Fluffy...

its probably because an item swap/steal move or ability would allow a silvally to bypass the steel type ban.

raising the BST limit to 669, AKA up to where legendaries live, would only give us mega starters (I count Ash Gren here) and mega Gyarados. oh yeah and base Kyurem. some of the starters would be nice to have, maybe bulky af Kyurem can do something but not much would change. I would be fine with...

Fluffy: Unban Fur Coat: Keep Banned

I got a minor announcement for y'all. I hit 1600 Elo. Since I hit my goal I see no reason to hold my cards close to my chest anymore so here is the team Since getting REQs I have been running lots of simulated battles with GooberGamer, partly to find new tech and partly to see what a...

I agree with basically everything you say here, all I can really add is insights I have from lots of simulated games. I mentioned Mold Breaker not as an argument for unbanning, but because its the only archetype that can consistently beat the best Fur Coat teams with notably better odds than a...

So, Fur Coat is absolutely broken. GooberGamer and I have been labbing lots of ideas behind the scenes and he managed to get ladder #1, #2 and #3 simultaneously by using the best team we could find. I borrowed it for Reqs and 3 of those losses were explosions, with the last being a turn 1 toxic...