Recent content by The Lonely Alula

Quagsire doesn't really need a second damaging move and Haze has other uses too. Thundurus can't Taunt Espeon, but Espeon isn't exactly hard to force out. Unless the wallbreakers/stallbreakers are under screens or something they're not really going to sweep an offensive team anyways (unless...

Like I said in the last page, this (the bold part) is not true. If I do not have any "checks" to HO/stall/balance/whatever in my team, that means that I am basically running a shitmons team. There is no chance of me winning unless I hax the opponent badly, just like with BP. One of the problems...

I don't know if BP is broken to the point of something needing to be banned/nerfed (although it probably is) nor do I care that much about whether it gets banned/nerfed or not, but I don't think that the "even if you're unprepared for a certain threat/playstyle, you can still beat that...

Vaporeon is being used as the main win condition in 3BP teams as it has good bulk, unlike Espeon. After its checks and counters are gone, usually the boosts are passed to Vaporeon and Vaporeon ends the game. It doesn't have BP, but that doesn't mean its not part of the team. That alone doesn't...

It isn't a counter, but it forces the opponent into a 50/50 of Hidden Power or Thunderbolt. If you use HP Ice and Kabutops/Kingdra/other stays in, then you're practically left at <10 HP whereas if you Thunderbolt and the opponent switches into Thundurus-T, which could be a bit weakened from...

I disagree. Thundurus-T's niche is to absorb Electric-type attacks on rain teams and use their users as set-up bait, deal at least a third of their HP to them with Volt Switch, or to outright KO them (and still do Mega Manectric's or another Electric-type's job of defeating Water-types...

252 Atk Terrakion Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Chansey: 518-612 (73.5 - 86.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 252 SpA Choice Specs Keldeo Secret Sword vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Chansey: 548-648 (77.8 - 92%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 252+ Atk Conkeldurr Drain Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite...

On second thought, I suppose it could be unranked since its niche is just about as large as the hordes of other bulky waters that have niches but aren't allowed on the viability ranking list (and Empoleon should join them, as I've stated before). Although if a Pokemon has an analysis, doesn't...

I agree with Zapdos and Scolipede staying where they are, and with Mr. Mime getting removed, but the others I think shouldn't be treated as harshly (except Smeargle). Smeargle should probably go down to C, since while smashpass and sticky web still make it kind of viable, for the most part it's...

No, Imposter does not copy the HP, the happiness, and the Amie affection (AFAIK, it might for the Amie). I'm not sure if I got your second question, but I think it was asking whether or not people run Frustration over Return on Mega Pinsir (or other Pokemon). The answer is that people DO run one...

I don't know if your idea would work or not, but Dragon Claw or Flare Blitz/Fire Punch should be used in the third slot since they deal more damage than a super-effective Shadow Claw. Also, the set should probably have 248 HP or something similar, to be bulkier (probably avoid some 3HKOs and...

The thing is it's not that simple. Chandelure or Kyurem-B also both have high power and good enough coverage, but that doesn't mean that they're A+ threats. Mega Charizard Y is in A+ and is being considered to drop to A because it's partially outperformed by Landorus-I, because it has many...

http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sableye.3499672/ I believe the set here is still considered its best.

Aqua Ring + Big Root would recover 0.08125 of your HP. Aqua Ring + Leftovers would recover 0.125 of your HP. So, Leftovers is better. It doesn't really matter if you're slow and you have Recover. Most Pokemon that use recovery are slow anyways since most defensive Pokemon are slow. So why use 4...

Amoonguss could technically check a lot more things if all that was needed to check them was to put them to sleep, but fair enough. I'm still not convinced that just because Amoonguss sometimes runs Hidden Power Fire over Foul Play means that all assumptions that Amoonguss has Foul Play are...