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Hellfire Heatrans (7) vs (1) Hyperspace Horrors
SV Bo7: Indi01 vs Mist - its indi
SV: rarax vs happysh - happysh running from me in sm, gets owned in sv2
SV: SomeRandomDoodle vs TGK - doodle would be the fifth best sv1. sv3 doodle is like prime KD on the guangdong tigers
SV UU: paysa vs LongRat...
I was going to say something about this comment but then I saw neomon say that pchan and zio have “unc synergy” and I felt every bit of those billion years
quickly shouting out some players who you should NOT draft
Potatochan - you know
Marshmelto - graduate of the tol school of "stick around long enough and the new people won't know you're bad"
Tol - same as above
SomeRandomDoodle - is a chatgpt plugin
I wanted to clarify my position on the powder/venu issue a little. Ultimately my stance isn't that we shouldn't suspect anything. Although I personally didn't have an issue with Venusaur while building for CL, there are a substantial number of players who did. My issue is with the target of the...
why not just complex ban venu+powder lol, that seems to be what this is leading to and would be the simplest solution if we're taking this path wrt tiering policy
no collateral damage, a nice clean cut, yall get your nerf
I’m still not sure what part of this is an argument for banning Sleep Powder and not Venusaur. You say that “basic speed traps” like Smeargle are fine, and Jumpluff and Vivillon definitely fall under that definition. You say the slow powderers are beneath mention- which is true, but then how is...
Even aside from the insanity that is claiming that 3 posts on the subject, two of which are one liners and one of which argues against your point, are a "consensus" on anything, this post raises a lot more questions than it answers.
My biggest issue with this post is that I'm left entirely...
Well, that horse had better get ready for another round. I've always been against blanket sleep bans because by and large the arguments have been predicated by people who see some meaningful difference between getting blast burned by zardy and getting sleep powdered by jumpluff. There isn't a...