Recent content by TravisB

My opinion on the quick ban situation is to ban Iron Bundle, Palafin, and Shed Tail. After that I think they should deal with the Terra question before doing anything else and then after that do suspects if anything else pops up as potentially broken. I think Terra will ultimately need to be...

If tera gets banned I would like to see Palafin reintroduced at some point. I wouldn't risk messing up a stable meta, so adding it when a dlc drops and then quickly banning it again if its obviously still broken without tera (probably most likely scenario), or giving it a proper suspect if its...

Its been really good for me. I haven't played a ton, but Ive been using it as a rocker/spinner on rain with flying tera type. Ive also been using Revavroom with flying tera type on rain and its surprisingly hard to kill despite its unimpressive bulk.

My initial impression of tera is that it is definitely really interesting and cool right now and I wish it could stick around long term, but I just can't imagine its possible to develop any kind of consistent competitive meta with it as is. How do you even begin to actually approach team...

Would it possibly be a good idea to make a separate thread for ban/suspect discussion? When I first started following the forums again earlier in this gen it seemed that most, or at least a lot, of the discussion in this thread was general metagame stuff, with a bit of ban discussion, but as...

Zera can learn Rising Voltage. Its kind of situational obviously, but you can do some serious damage with that under terrain and being specially based also makes Grass Knot and Volt Switch better. Could run Toxic/Knock Off/Aura Sphere/Focus Blast in the 4th slot.

Its generally a loss for the Spectrier player if they lock into mud shot because its so bad against most other things. At worst you can still force them out once after a switch in, which can be pretty costly for the opponent since flame orb Goon is very difficult to switch into, and can still...

Ive been using Jolly on Flame Orb Goon since DLC2. It lets you outspeed max speed Nidoking, Excadrill, Landorus-T, Rotom-W/H, most Zapdos, adamant Urshifu, and lets you speed tie max speed Tapu Lele and Kyurem. You get 1hko's on all those except Lando, defensive Zapdos, and you barely miss...

With the normal flame orb + guts Obstagoon set you can at least switcheroo on the first disable turn and then switch out and back in. I'm not sure if this actually lets the Obsta 1v1 the disable set, but they'll at least be very weakened after substituting multiple times and taking burn damage.

I think Kyurem-b is the only thing left that deserves a quickban. Anything else I think deserves a suspect and I expect Zygarde would be getting one very soon if thats the route the council goes. After Zygarde I would guess that Melmetal is the next most likely thing to eventually get a suspect...

Wicked Blow easily 2hko's max Def Moltres unless you get a burn on the first hit. Banded sets still have a chance to 2hko if you get the burn. Idk about Melmetal. It does have some hard counters, but it will absolutely demolish most things that aren't one of those counters. First match I played...

Defensive Moltres can easily tank banded double iron bash. 248 hp / 200 def, Moltres takes max 60% and can roost it off. If they try to keep bashing you they're just going to get flame body burned very quickly. Moltres can even beat banded thunder punch if its at high enough life to survive the...

Naganadel not breaking 10% usage in the ladder or in Tundra cup (ranked 20/21) and having the 2nd lowest win percentage of any mon in the top 25 of Tundra Cup usage behind Tornadus-T (3rd lowest of the top 50). That seems odd for a mon that was so broken that it got a unanimous quick ban vote.

Obstagoon (guts) is an amazing offensive counter to Ghostrier. Its still outshined overall by Urshifu-S, but its a much better check to Ghostrier and can do some similar things hitting like an absolute truck. They can't get you on the switch with will-o-wisp since you want to be burned anyways...

The set that I've been running is almost identical. 204 Def / 20 Spe, with the extra EVs drawn from SpA. Now that I'm looking at the speed tiers, 20 Spe to tie with neutral nature max Spe EV Tyranitar might not be necessary since Scorching Sands doesn't do much damage and they easily 1hko you...