Recent content by TheTraininator

If you want to argue that point, fine, but following it to its logical conclusion doesn’t support the argument of Tera Blast being banworthy due to brokenness either. Excluding D-rank Pokémon, the current OU Viability Rankings has 109 Pokémon ranked on it. Though the three ranked Ogerpon formes...

I feel like pro-banners for TB don’t understand the magnitude of the scale of the ban they are proposing because they’re just viewing it in the context of a few Pokémon in the OU metagame. We’ve banned 3 Pokémon directly due to the move, but there is a total of, (if I did my math correctly), 727...

Just wanted to point out they changed the wording and to say thanks for that! I didn’t mean to derail the thread into more Terapagos talk, so I apologize for that, but I did want to just say I appreciate the fact that we as a community are being listened to, even over small things like this.

Terapagos-Stellar (Not Exceptional) Terapagos-Stellar is a form that results in Terapagos terastalizing. Since terastalization is the only method to use Terapagos-Stellar, banning Terapagos instead of modding the game to remove the option of terastalizing it is the preferred option. Regardless...

This current wave of Dragonite suspicion seems more like alarmism to me than anything else to be honest. Of course after Roaring Moon gets banned people would look at the Pokémon most similar to Moon in the tier who has been top tier for similarly long, but it kind of overlooks a lot of factors...

I am very out of the loop here; why is Terapagos suddenly considered notably more viable in Ubers?

I will concede Solgaleo being a solid Kyurem check does make a strong case for it to be suspected sooner rather than later, even if I remain unsure as to how healthy it would be. That said, I do believe the council has said they’re open to a potential 3rd Kyurem suspect after SPL concludes if...

I maintain that Kyurem continues to be the highest priority to tackle for the health of the tier. However, I’ve come around on the idea of a Solgaleo suspect eventually, and I think it should probably get a chance down the line. The one asterisk that gives me pause about it is its access to...

I’ve avoided posting about it, but I’m really not in favor of a Tera Blast ban and never have been. This isn’t to say that I think it’s a terrible idea or that it would ruin the tier or anything like that, hell I can see the arguments in its favor as to why it might technically make the tier...

I think Entei has always been kind of an underrated Pokémon post-gen 6 because Sacred Fire is an absolutely cracked move. It takes a Pokémon with very “decent but not amazing” damage output and makes it surprisingly hard to switch into because a huge amount of the physically bulky ground type...

SD has Sucker Punch to play with; you’d usually just drop Knock if you wanna run SD. Band doesn’t wanna be locked into Sucker, but Aqua Jet in the last slot works fine enough if you need to pick something faster off. You’re mainly using it as a surprise breaker that plays off of people’s...

At this point I’m half-convinced Hamurott could run Flame Orb and find a way to make it work. The sheer number of items that ‘mon can run is astounding sometimes. Band Hamurott is a sleeper.

The fact that we can’t talk about the most minor of tiering policy decisions without resorting to ad-hominem attacks both ways is kind of ridiculous. We’re calling each other clout-chasers and telling each other to get good over… the policy behind abstention votes and the tiering contributor...

Although I’m heavily invested in this suspect, I don’t think I’ll be able to invest time to get reqs, sadly. Being an adult working a 40 hour/week job is hard, and to all of you who can do what I do and still find time to ladder, I want to offer you genuine props; you guys are the backbone of...

It’s literally JUST been made available on ladder lmao literally no one has time to make an informed opinion yet