Recent content by TheEvergreenChameleon

It's a poor choice over a Lum Berry or even a Red Card even in the absence of the Flying Gem, since it essentially reduces Hawlucha to relying on High Jump Kick for damage after the Power Herb has been consumed, allowing any number of threats who were previously OHKOed or 2HKOed to come in...

What you're essentially saying is that if there is no rain, hail or sand (which either provide the extra damage or nerf Synthesis) and no entry hazards of any kind, and Chesnaught is at full health, it is able to force Breloom to switch out once, whilst providing your opponent the opportunity to...

Problem is that no longer is the worst case scenario if you're facing Breloom. This is: 252+ Atk Choice Band Breloom Superpower vs. 252 HP / 0+ Def Chesnaught: 247-292 (65 - 76.8%) Breloom's vulnerability to Talonflame means you will rarely find it running a dancing set any more. I've been...

I've been using it and it works fine. It doesn't actually need the Flying Gem boost to perform its function, and it doesn't even really need to Unburden. They're advantages, but not mandatory ones.

Except that nobody is ever going to bring said Pokemon in against M-Medicham. They're going to bring in Aegislash, or Talonflame or Megakhan after the switch. 'Good enough to kill many threats' doesn't cut it when you're competing for a team slot with Megakhan, who is better at Wallbreaking...

I haven't run a Flying Gem since it became obvious that it wasn't going to be available in-game, and I play on both the cart and on Showdown. I've had success with the same set on both formats. I haven't really settled on an item, but have been switching between using a Red Card and a Lum...

Medicham has always been one of my favorite Pokemon, but man is this mega underwhelming. M-Medicham's problem is the meta really just doesn't allow it to play to its strengths. It has difficulty wallbreaking due to the prevalence of Aegislash, can't sweep due to the ubiquity of Talonflame and...

I agree, and that would be challenging, but I feel that in the long run it would be well worth Smogon's time. The problem is that we've entered an era of greater participation, both on simulators and outside of them, and to compound that problem, we're also faced with the introduction of new...

TBH I personally feel that grouping on the basis of actual usage is increasingly looking to be an outmoded method of tiering.

I tested this set a while back, but tbh, whilst it performed really well initially, when I made my way up the ranks it had a marked drop in usefulness. Skarmory and Talonflame, and even Sableye to an extent, are almost ubiquitous when you get into the 2000s, which effectively means Scolipede is...

I've been playing Hawlucha extensively, and I've never had any trouble with Talonflame or Aegislash. Talonflames are only really threatening if they come in after a KO, because they simply are too afraid of Acrobatics and even HJK to risk switching in. Aegislash, to be blunt, isn't threatening...

My bad. I actually meant circle throw.

I've been having some success with: Impish @ Leftovers 252 HP/ Def ~ Scrappy - Vital Throw - Parting Shot - Rest - Sleep Talk It's actually won me a humble number of games in Pokebank OU. Would work so much better if it had any decent speed, but oh well, you work with what you have.

Mega Banette also has access to prankster WoW. Nintetails is faster and can WoW. Ditto Gengar, Charizard, Mismagius, etc. This isn't even factoring in the fact that most Megakhans run Adamant + max HP for maximum damage and longevity. If there are any +speed Megakhans running around, I...

Much more power, thanks to Pixilate multiplying the initial damage by 1.3 before the STAB bonus.