Recent content by Vincent210

I’ll vouch for Superpower on Nidoking for sure. I’ve hit it on just as many Tyranitars as I have Blisseys, simply because what seems like an opportunity to set up sand and absorb a sludge wave as a midground is anything but. The normal worse case scenario for a play like that is taking an Earth...

Yeah, I think I also got misunderstood along the way. What I was trying to present was the why behind why I had been using a slower rain. I couldn’t compress the roles I wanted to so when I ran it more offensively, I ran into issues where I was losing a mon to urshifu every time I scored a kill...

This post saved me a lot of time, and helps highlight some of the decision rationale that went into that team in the first place. Thanks. Okay so putting aside that psyshock blows me up if I take this: This team is already pretty weak to FuturePort as it is, with my only real counter-play...

With all due respect, if we’re here debating whether or not a mechanic even works the way its intended, then that means not enough testing happened. A metagame discussion thread honestly shouldn’t even bring up untested gimmicks; if you want to talk shop about an underused mon or unique lure...

Is future sight really a problem at all? Honestly it seems like strictly an Urshifu issue, and not even one that deviates much from the typical issues inherent to Urshifu Clicking Future Sight on a turn is an invitation for something to switch in on you, and to hit you twice if you’re intending...

Speaking of Aromatherapy... To state the immediately obvious, this is a good move, because status is strong. To really drive a point home, this meta is kind of being held together by status checks. :pheromosa: :melmetal: :swampert: :cinderace: :rillaboom: :urshifu: and more are being checked...

Another thing that’s worth saying out loud about :Nidoking: is that having the option to run choice physical moves that allow it to act as a lure or otherwise adapt to better fit a particular team is pretty great. Superpower for :tyranitar: and :blissey: as well Rock Slide for :Moltres: are two...

Thank you, I really appreciate this. It goes over alot of what I already know, but I think it’s highlights where I failed from the outset; I wasn’t taking a offensive enough approach to Rain, treating it closer to Bulky Offense than Offense or HO, and so that meant often running into Spectrier...

Rain seems surprisingly difficult to build well. It feels like due to having two slots devoted to :Pelipper: and :Barraskewda: off the bat harshly condenses the other slots on my team. Maybe that’s just my ignorance showing, but I often find that I’ve made glaring omissions even after several...

I kind of feel like :Grimmsnarl: is genuinely worth discussion right now, considering that it's actually got quite a few upsides in this meta? :Urshifu: This thing dies to one uninvested Spirit Break, Wicked Blow is super resisted, and CC doesn't ever OHKO, nor 2HKO (lets say you click...

So I was messing around a little with :buzzwole: + :tapu-fini: as a defensive pair, and this is honestly really cool, I think. Since Zygarde managed to fill several pages of discussion on how much of a massive threat it is, I’ll start by mentioning this core does not lose to pretty much any...

https://pokepast.es/760b76f1519eb1ea might as well

Joined Monotype a couple of weeks ago and have really been enjoying myself. Quite a thing you guys got going. It's unfortunate (but understandable, and this is in no way facetious) that complex ban rulings necessary to achieve acceptance as an official meta puts so much strain on your suspect...

That Sableye+Empoleon game killed me. Yeah, no, who stays in there, but who clicks Waterfall over Play Rough when the switch-in is 100% Empoleon your using a x4 resist (water v water/steel) vs a x2 that kills what is actually in front of you. Both of you are crazy. Moving on to the actual team...

Well for one, I imagine in a lot of those situations that you could've killed the opposing mon as opposed to using T-Wave, but that's not debatable without gameplay footage, so I'll drop the line. But more importantly, it's okay if he dies spreading paralysis if the target was picked well. For...