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A Calm Togekiss with only 4 SpA EVs using Air Slash vs. a Bold Slowbro with 252 HP EVs and 0 SpD EVs has a 99.9% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery, according to the calculator. Air Slash has a 60% chance to flinch the opponent with Serene Grace. Let's not even involve Thunder Wave in this...

In the post of mine you quoted, I specifically directed Haunter to games 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Why do you think I did that. Please check out those games and tell me which of them involve Electrodes. Your reply showed that you did not bother to check out any of those six games before hastily...

The ADV team refers to Tyranitar, Swampert, Dugtrio, Celebi, Blissey, and Skarmory. The SwagPlay team included Klefki and Tornadus-I amongst others. It is clear that you did not even bother to watch one single game I linked before replying. The point of running the test with an ADV generation...

I would recommend checking out Matches 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 here if you haven't already. Blissey was used rather than Chansey; and the team was a fairly standard all-purpose ADV OU team, definitely not what you'd call a stall team. If an ADV team with a Blissey can handle SwagPlay this well, I...

We don't have an Attraction or Paralysis clause either. The point with Swagger is that any problems it may have -- whether you are for or against banning it -- extend beyond its mere denial of agency. Therefore, it's important to point to more than its mere denial of agency as grounds for a...

Banning a move solely on the grounds that it is uncompetitive (something which, as defined by staff for the purposes of the discussion, removes agency from the player on the receiving end) sets a precedent that it is okay to ban any element of the game solely on these grounds. That the move's...

Perhaps. But even if they did, would they ban the sleep move, the ability, the creature, or a combination thereof? That's part of the point: it's absurd to say that we should ban all of Swagger just because a very specific perfect storm in the form of Swagger, Foul Play, Substitute, and priority...

First, you keep saying "autonomy" but I believe you mean to say "agency." Autonomy refers to, among other things, the capacity for an individual to make informed, un-coerced decisions or for a political entity to govern itself. Agency refers to one's capacity to act. Agency is what we're...

Swagger alone is neither much of a problem nor do I believe it is the problem. If you playtest the following four scenarios, I think you'll see why. (I would encourage everyone reading this post to do so. You needn't take my word for it. You needn't take anyone else's word for it either, pro-ban...

There's no need for personal attacks. Haunter expressly said in the OP post that they have no place in this discussion. Please. We're all friends here. We all want the best, healthiest meta even if we don't all agree on what that is or what it takes to get there. I understand Jukain's...

You're misrepresenting what I wrote. I'm not suggesting that in order to ban something you must prove that it 100% guarantees victory. I did write that if something 100% guarantees victory then it deserves a ban, but that should be a given and I hardly think you want to argue that point. What I...

Disprove that SwagPlay can enable a less-skilled player to beat a more-skilled player? There is no disproving that because it's a fact: SwagPlay has the potential to allow the less skilled to triumph over the more skilled. However, this is true of every strategy under the Sun. Imagine if someone...

The problem is that the people I am describing are calling for confusion's head on a silver platter rather than addressing the real problem at hand. The problem isn't confusion. The problem isn't Swagger. The problem isn't even Swagplay, uncompetitive though many may feel it to be. The problem...

Many of the people supporting a proposed ban of Swagger (or, more broadly, all status-category moves which induce confusion) keep suggesting that: Elements of chance are uncompetitive. Elements of chance therefore have no place in a competitive game. I'm going to have to disagree with the...

Don't forget what Haunter said in the very first post: Bold emphasis my own. We've not been corralled into discussing which of only three options we think is best: we've been invited to suggest other possible measures which would address the issue. But since you ask ... of the three options...