Recent content by Szark

Powercreep or not the reality is that we have a lot more Pokemon these days than we used to. Tiers can only hold 40 or so Pokemon and we have about 500 of those, albeit not all in the game. Yes Pokemon have gotten stronger over time but also our tiers havent gotten bigger, OU can hold only so...

People will say "powercreep has gone too far" and then use 85 speed mon with terrible defensive typing as their example. Personally I never thought of Kleavor highly but it started to fall way before DLC2 and somewhat before DLC1 even

Congrats to both apples gaining the prestige of VR team member and A+ rank respectively. What's the deal with Zarude going all the way from C to B?

:hydrapple: B+ -> A Hydrapple is one mon that enjoyed the tier shifts a lot, Iron Moth leaving the tier as well Garchomp being banned makes it much more potent as a defensive wall. Hydrapples defensive profile is pretty incredible in current meta, resisting water, electric, ground and grass...

You mean 3 months because we are back to the 3 months rise schedule

I have noticed that despite latest update saying Cobal rose to B its still B- on actual ranking

If we are talking in terms of winners and losers one big winner of Chomp Ban is :ogerpon-cornerstone: Chomp could pretty comfortably tank Crudgel whilst setting up Hazards which break Sturdy and being faster than it at +1. :kommo-o: there was already some exploration of DD Drain Punch sets in...

:deoxys-speed: A -> somewhere lower Anyone watching UUPL knows this mon gets absolutely no results. It feels like it should be good but there are just so many things holding it back. As an attacker it often feels just slightly too weak and too frial, it's main attacking options lower it's stats...

With Grass Pon you always risk it switching in on your Defog or Pain Split and Encoring you and/or Knocking you off. The big issue with Geezing is that most physical threats in the tier have ways to deal with it or work around it. Knock Off makes it even more passive, U-Turn lets you chip it...

Sinis gets a spinner to block finally and instantly falls. What happened to Mandi that it fell from A? I didnt think much has changed for it.

While I am personally undecided on Chomp itself there is something that sticks out to me. That is Baloon Fairies. I find it to be somewhat similar to the whole Covert Cloak debacle when Garg was in the tier. Firstly yes, Baloon is nowhere near as specific as Covert Cloak, dodging Spikes damage...

DEOXYS-WHAT Thats for sure...unexpected. The demon could easily become broken under Psychic Terrain, Psycho Boosting its way to victory with great coverage and even bolstering hazards. At least counterplay doesnt seem too different from Latios. Leads sets are most likely going to be pretty...

At Zapdos argument I do not believe it is correct to just look at calcs and say that :ogerpon: doesn't beat Zapdos. While in the vacuum it might seem like it doesn't from the calcs I think it is really shallow way to look at it. Ogerpon has access to Encore and bolsters a superior speed tier...

Weird question. I am not sure balanced is the right word. Goltres is a mon that when you see on preview you know what you are getting yourself into barring the edge cases of unusual Tera Types. What arguably makes Goltres broken it's the ease of snowball which means the defensive checks need to...