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I've used it prior to Walking Wake's release because it has a great matchup against a lot of HO cheese (not only sun, but also Psychic Terrain for instance) and sand chip is invaluable when trying to chip down the likes of Dondozo, Amoonguss, DNite and Tera'd Garganacl. I've had the most success...

Can anyone provide me some links of Walking Wake gameplay? Preferably high ladder or tournament play.

Unranked is way too harsh in my opinion. I think C is fine primarily because TTar does a great job at slowing down progress of opposing Hyper Offense. I don't think it's great for ladder teams because it has a bad matchup against the - in my opinion - two best pokemon in the tier in Great Tusk...

Last day of the 2006/07 Eredivisie (Dutch league) season. AZ, PSV, and Ajax were all tied at 72 points but AZ had the superior goal difference (AZ +53, Ajax +47, PSV +46). PSV basically needed AZ to drop points and win with a goal difference of at least 2 higher than Ajax. So, that's exactly...

I noticed there isn't a thread for underrated (/ creative) sets yet, so I'll just post it here. Rotom-W is in my opinion easily a top 10 mon in the tier at the moment. It consistently runs into favorable matchups as popular archetypes like bulky offense generally don't have great Wisp switchins...

Blissey can run Heavy-Duty Boots which is extremely helpful in a meta with very limited hazard removal options. On that topic, I am really fond of Ghost-terastallize Gholdengo. Removing the Ground weakness goes a long way in the Great Tusk / Iron Treads matchup and those +2 Shadow Balls are...

To add on to what Katy said (because I believe Ferro does much more than check dangerous checks like the mentioned rain teams), Ferrothorn is amazing at taking advantage of defensive cores that lack the tools to immediately threaten Ferrothorn with a strong supereffective hit (e.g. Clef+Pex...

From my experience it's better to start with a solid defensive backbone than to go straight to Pelipper + 2 Rain abusers and see what glues you still need. Barraskewda is a great abuser but I only use it on approximately 60% of my Rain teams, whereas Ferrothorn is on nearly all of them. So in a...

The EV spread is simply what I've been using on my team because I was paranoid of some of the Adamant base 80s that were very threatening to my team (mainly Mamoswine and Sub Blaziken, which are both frankly extremely rare). Realistically speaking you can go as low as 16 Speed EVs to outspeed...

I thought about adding SubRoost with Pressure but I'm not totally convinced it will put in a lot of work. The reason Kyurem works so well with a similar set is because it's generally much more difficult to wall so it's able to PP stall the one mon on the opposing team that can comfortably switch...

Base stats: 90 HP / 100 Atk / 90 Def / 125 SpA / 85 SpD / 90 Spe Abilities: Pressure / Flame Body [01] Gust [01] Leer [05] Ember [10] Safeguard [15] Wing Attack [20] Agility [25] Ancient Power [30] Incinerate [35] Air Slash [40] Roost [45] Heat Wave [50] Sunny Day [55] Hurricane [60] Endure [65]...

Moltres please Ruft edit: approved

Even after the recent bans I feel like the metagame is still forced into balanced cores such as the WCoP staple Blissey-Zeraora and the current resurgence of Ditto semistall as a way to somewhat check wallbreakers like Crawdaunt, CM Hatterene and Urshifu. It's a shame the next DLC is dropping in...