Recent content by vanderlylic

Hey there, when does the http://www.smogon.com/stats/ page usually get updated?

Pk-Kaiser's Barian-dos

Hemiswap!

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This is interesting, I was about to petition for Tangrowth to move down to C rank. Lets consider the S and A ranked Grass pokemon. In term of defensively oriented pokemon, we have Venusaur, Ferrothorn and Cradily. Which of these are you going to remove on your team to make room for Tangrowth...

Twix's Kyurem-B

Hey Anttya, I was looking through the Viability rankings thread, and noticed Celebi has dissappeared from Grass. Here are the posts that I could find for it: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/monotype-viability-rankings.3517737/page-18#post-5758209...

I definitely agree with Whimsicott moving up to A rank. As you said, it's speed tier is great for grass, it provides good dragon coverage. It can also run the offensive set that you have there, or more defensive utility sets which utilise prankster, so it has plenty of options. Other decent...

"Hey, I have a great idea for a new metagame!" "Yeah, what is it?" "Let's split all 720 Pokemon up into 18 separate groups and players can only choose Pokemon from one of those groups when building a team." "So according to my calculations, you should have 40 in each group?" "What, no. In...

Can I just put this here again in case people have forgotten. All this talk of usage based bans is completely unfounded; nowhere can I read in that tiering philosophy should a pokemon be banned because of its type's usage. Nor has there ever been a ban in the past that was done due to type...

Again, we can't do this and expect to have results that are accurate or meaningful. Click the link and scroll down for explanation. Maybe you should add something to explain this to the bottom of the matchup page scpinion so people don't keep doing this analysis.

A monthly stat update time! As usual, I'll do my bit of a write about about grass. My attempt is to give a broad overview of the type for players that don't use grass much, or have trouble building teams with it. If you have experience with grass, its likely nothing I'll mention will be new...