Recent content by tratchy

The community was definitely hasty in promoting Victreebel to OU. It's been about six months since it happened, and already it's back to being a niche pick. I would support moving it back down to UU, since it was only a mid-tier threat there anyway. Lapras and Slowbro are more difficult, since...

Unless they're using Explosion or STAB Hyper Beam (which have drawbacks), no physical attacker can match the raw power of Rhydon's Earthquake in a single turn, not even Tauros. Take a look at these calcs: Tauros Body Slam vs. Chansey: 251-295 (35.7 - 41.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO Rhydon Earthquake...

:rb/rhydon: Even though I'm personally not the biggest Rhydon fan in the world, to say it's awful or unrewarding is just wrong. Yes, it's hard to switch in at times (unless they have an Electric-type, in which case it can switch in for free) but when you do, it can screw the opponent over...

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This is an interesting idea for a tier. I could see this being on the rotational for RoA tour nights. I feel like Dodrio ought to be banned, though. It's more viable than most of the pure Normal-types, especially with Tauros out of the picture.

Porygon's main niche in OU is to wall Snorlax, which it can do semi-reliably because it's faster, has Recover, can't be paralyzed by Body Slam, and is actually slightly bulkier than Chansey on the physical end. Snorlax not being present deprives Porygon of its main niche. That said, to my...

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1036963847 On turn 40 of this game, Centiskorch's Will-O-Wisp bypassed Aegislash's Protect. Is this a bug, or does WoW now bypass Protect?

People have made good points about Golem, mostly towards it belonging in UU. Although I still think it's worthy of OU, I wouldn't be opposed to it dropping if that's what people want. Unless a majority of people are fundamentally opposed to Victreebel in OU and Golem in UU, I say those changes...

I've been thinking about Golem for a while, and I think I've finally convinced myself that it should be OU. The main argument against it is that it's outclassed by Rhydon, but it really isn't. Rhydon and Golem fulfill the same niche, and in general both perform it equally well, but there are a...

The OU/UU line should take the ebb and flow of the metagame into account. There will be spells where certain Pokemon are hurt by metagame changes, but they'll always rebound eventually (Rhydon and Jynx are good examples). I don't think Slowbro will ever fall into UU territory. In general...

In my view, a Pokemon being viable in OU is not the same as being a member of OU. Things like Persian, Articuno, and Dragonite can and should see niche use, but that doesn't mean they're integral parts of the tier. If these mons didn't exist, the metagame wouldn't change much, which you can't...