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Forum Name: soul3reaper
Cycle 1 Alt: LT41X grim3reaper
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Dugtrio pretty much replaced shadow tag. Arena Trap is only worse because it can't trap flying types. Setting up stealth rocks remedies that problem, most flying types will stay away...
I leaning towards no ban because breaking dug sableye stall is not impossible. Any good special attacker can...
Also Mega Gallade. This guy has higher defenses than MegaCham or Bunny at the cost of less immediate power. He's also the only one of them with Access to SD. If Sableye goes, this will also be a problem.
Finchinator, I couldn't agree more with you. You brought up the facts in your analysis and I find that very admirable in a person. Sableye doesn't deserve a ban. If you saw all the battles (or the gist of them), it is easy to see that before ABR came out with his stall team, they were rather...
TFL I see your point. However, The only other viable stally 'glue' if you will, are M-Slowbro, M-Altaria, and Defensive Variants of Mega Latias. Mega Sableye holds a valuable niche in the OU Tier, being the only defensive Magic Bounce user in the game. Classic Stallbreaking would tear most stall...
I'd like to reply to Blaze Latias and Game boy. Yes you are right, no m-sableye team goes unprepared for classic wallbreaker such as azumarill and Yzard. However chansey is never a perfect switch in. Or amoongus for that matter. And there are plenty of mixed threats that threaten stall teams...
Hello to all. I'm relatively new to ORAS OU (I only started to play on showdown about 3 months ago) but I'm an avid player. On showdown, we've all probably gone up against the terror known as Mega Sableye. But all in all, stall is stall. Mega Sableye may have revolutionized stall teams in that...