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Hey Pinkacross, I was wondering for when building Balance/bulky balance how necessary steel types are - I usually view steels as mandatory but I wanted to see how valid this was.
I agree with the Iron Valiant nomination for sure given how ubiquitous and impactful it is on HO, but I've used Heatran before and to be honest it always seems to struggle for me. People have made the joke that heatran is good 75% of the time (which is valid) but honestly it feels like it needs...
I don't really know about hydrapple or sciz, although A-seems quite high for both of them, but as much as I love gking there's no way it fits in S. It is an amazing glue mon, and I think top of A+/bottom of S- is probably its most accurate placement, but it feels like as much as it finds its...
this isnt really true. boots glowking does an okay job either way although its shaky. the issue is that boots glowking is a way more splashable set than AV and to be honest there's already limited defensive counterplay to kyurem; either gking (with your argument that its only AV, a much less...
Some noms
:ogerpon: -> A-/maybe A
Very good mon. Mostly running mono-grass sucks but the combination of U-turn/knock/encore is fantastic at disrupting teams. Has great MUs into offense with its tera, not only boosting its speed but making its signature hit even harder, and encore is extremely...
Puts strain doesnt mean there's not counterplay. I think kyurem and wellspring are broken but they do have counterplay. It's just that its fairly specific counterplay.
I wanted to write a post actually discussing anti-ban arguments that have repeatedly come up in this thread. I obviously don't agree with them, and I want to explain why I think these arguments are flawed by actually engaging with them. By and large, the main anti-ban arguments have been: 1)...
Surprise, I'm voting ban.
I don't actually think Volcarona is the most broken thing in the tier right now, I actually think just behind Waterpon and Kyurem. However, it's still broken.
Volc has always been questionable and has always been seen as the Match-Up Moth, but I think its base kit...
thanks for the response. I want to point out that I also think kyurem is bannable, and I think kingambit is potentially unhealthy, so it's not as if I disagree with those examples or see either or those as 'fair'. I don't even think Volc is the most broken thing in the tier right now (cough...
'Everything having many tera options' is not a good counterargument because of how well Volc abuses tera and in particular, tera blast. Tera blast is unviable on most mons because its such a high opportunity cost, so it should be telling that people are highlighting volc having many tera...
Going to write my own post later, but I heavily disagree with these arguments. The argument that Volcarona is only broken because of tera blast and so tera blast is the problem is irrelevant because tera blast isn't being discussed right now. As well, nothing in the tier is able to exploit...