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Potential other option addition: 12 Atk EVs (or an adamant nature) and Earthquake can make a somewhat effective Magneton lure/double switch for Skarmory as that is the minimum needed to always kill it from full. It's not very good tho so it's fair if it gets ignored
Made another VR bc my opinions have been influenced by my time using el classico and registeel classico
:RS/Swampert: - My bespised. You're so fucking good that you outclass almost everything else that goes in your slot. Genuinely top 4 I think.
:RS/Zapdos: - I've been using you in the lead...
This is reason enough to keep Registeel UUBL. Like he's objectively good enough to be tiered as OU but let's do a bit of community service and keep Registeel in UUBL. <3
It's extremely vindicating for me and my anti-gyarados agenda to see that it's below the big name UUBLs on the rise as well as several OUs people are saying were "falling off" like Jolteon. Cloyster is absolutely better than Gyarados but this is usage and not viability.
In theory a lot of Gengar sets have issues with power and/or speed but in practice gar's move pool (mainly wisp and boom) as well as not even knowing if your opponent's gar is fast or bulky until you actually interact with it outside of switches forces a lot of respect and makes gar a lot...
Alakazam has all of the tools to be extremely threatening but unfortunately for it, bulky tar exists and as such it requires an obscene amount of support to perform remotely well. It wouldn't surprise me if it rose up the VR a bit in the future but it's never going to be tiered as OU unless tar...
I don’t really know where I stand on sleep but every time I encounter a smeargle or some gambling addict running hypnosis I lean closer and closer to wanting sleep banned. These things never fail to genuinely make my day worse
E: Had the misfortune of encountering a 4 pressure pokemon pp stall...
ADV Hot take of the day: if you're getting into an endgame position where it's likely going to be decided by an aerodactyl speed tie, regardless of whatever walls each of you have left, just let the speed tie decide it and have the game end like 15 turns earlier. If both of you are playing well...