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When I use my bp team, so many people use roar and whirlwind over and over again thinking, hey, maybe this time it won't fail against ingrain! those roots run too deep, guys
I'd honestly love to play. I know I'm not exactly the most frequent poster on these boards, but I've been playing competitively for years(check my join date!), and I have a solid amount of experience against some of Smogon's greats. If anyone would like to reccomend me, that'd be awesome. If...
Ha alright you guys are probably right. To me, manaphy is a pokemon that's kind of on the fence between tiers (although some of you may feel differently about that). My initial thought was that perhaps a slight restriction could make it fall on one side, but time and testing may decide that...
Thanks for bringing that up. If that's the case, and the consensus is that that set is too game-breaking for the OU metagame, then Manaphy should be uber. Some previous posters have brought up hydrarest, and my only point was that a small restriction would make the second set beatable enough...
Unfortunately, “potency” in an environment is not the driving force behind tier assignments. Rather, it’s the exact opposite. As many of the mods have stressed, tier assignments are meant to exclude pokemon only when they are too game-breaking for a certain tier. If a small restriction is...
I'm not exactly sure I agree with this, particularly concerning Manaphy’s tier assignment. Manaphy’s ability to tail glow up and simply heal off the damage with a one-turn hydration rest is what threatens to make this pokemon too threatening for the OU metagame. In that case, why don’t we...