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I legitimately don't think blessing is going to make a very big splash to be honest, the pokemon it's limited to, it only reviving at half health and having 1 pp is all too limiting
What are you reviving that your opponent took down already that's going to flip the whole game on its back? Especially with team preview showing you have brain bug or pawmot waiting to do so?
I suppose you could have a second shot at memento or something or the oft mentioned second coming of the great ape but I dunno
What are you reviving that your opponent took down already that's going to flip the whole game on its back? Especially with team preview showing you have brain bug or pawmot waiting to do so?
I suppose you could have a second shot at memento or something or the oft mentioned second coming of the great ape but I dunno
Offense with rest/talk pawmot sheesh, only played 3 games or so
setup screens with grimmsnarl and switched in cyclizar and then just manuvered til i won, revival blessing let me bring back my Ekiller Dragonite after its checks were down and dont even get me started on annhialape
Edit:DONT RUN REST/TALK forces you to switch but you cant so you auto lose to timer
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Depending on playing 5/6 this isn't the most dissimilar idea to when some teams would run stuff like Healing Wish or Lunar Dance to revitalize a potential Win Condition, albeit it's a less powerful position for most to come back to. That said, the opposite argument to the sentence there is "How much work did it take your opponent to deal with the first time?"
Imagine an offense team that managed to weather and take out something like Ape or Chi-Yu, having that progress undone by now having to do another 50% to a mon that could have taken several turns of careful play to remove without reckless losses.
It might be a gimmick in the end given the value of another go at a mon is match-up reliant, but conceptually there is a lot of potential value in reviving certain Pokemon since in a well played team, the mon you revived fainted after doing work and now may get to do more.
You can if you use /switch [Pokemon] btw. Do this in the meantime until it's fixed on PS.
The cuts from this gen are really starting to annoy me. Old pokemon like the Eeveelutions keep getting worse move pools. I can't get Defog on Pelipper for my Talonflame rain team. And now I find out there's no Rowap Berry. There goes my plan to try out a chip special wall Arboliva set. Ah. I love Arbivola's design and was so excited to try something new with it. Why cut the berry options when you release a new Harvest pokemon? And we got no Grassy Glide available, either. So between that and the cuts, there aren't many other viable pokemon that can actually take advantage of Grassy Terrain. Sowing Seeds is another cool ability that won't see the full potential this gen, at least not until we get the transfer of more mons. Arboliva could have much more potential than it currently has.
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Bro, play Nat Dex if it's sooo bad
There's always one. God forbid anyone complain a little and it's go play some other tier. Did I say it was that bad? No. I just said I was annoyed. Forget context while you are at it. Do you really think Arboliva would be more viable in the Nat Dex pool?
you got me
Didn’t the website say it only had a 12 ish percent use rate? If it was this “common” mon wouldn’t it be much higher usage wise? And the cyclizar v cyclizar match ups would push it closer to 50% which means it probably has a lower win rate excluding those match ups because it is below 50.
it is stab, you are banded, did you tera fighting
Was it Tera Fighting?
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1727889542
Not exactly a high level match but with revival blessing sacking mons is less punishing for offense and pawmot does decent damage thanks to iron fist
Not exactly a high level match but with revival blessing sacking mons is less punishing for offense and pawmot does decent damage thanks to iron fist
He didnt Tera the whole game
Nope was turn 1 didn't tera
Most underrated pokemon in the usage statistics: Espathra.
| 51 | Espathra | 2.518% |
Pretty sure everyone knows what this does by now, and maybe it was just that it took a while to catch on but I really think this thing is a top tier threat. Tera fairy dazzling gleam is pretty standard but it also has shadow ball, sub, roost, and of course functions very well with screens or shed tail support.
Most overrated mon: Corviknight
| 6 | Corviknight | 22.238% |
I just cannot justify this much usage on a hazard remover who has nothing for gholdengo, doesn't do much vs glimmora or garchomp, gets 2hkod by chien pao icicle crash and also let's chi yu come in for free. Whats he doing up here?
| 51 | Espathra | 2.518% |
Pretty sure everyone knows what this does by now, and maybe it was just that it took a while to catch on but I really think this thing is a top tier threat. Tera fairy dazzling gleam is pretty standard but it also has shadow ball, sub, roost, and of course functions very well with screens or shed tail support.
Most overrated mon: Corviknight
| 6 | Corviknight | 22.238% |
I just cannot justify this much usage on a hazard remover who has nothing for gholdengo, doesn't do much vs glimmora or garchomp, gets 2hkod by chien pao icicle crash and also let's chi yu come in for free. Whats he doing up here?
Heal Bell is no longer usable on Blissey due to it not actually being usable in-game. This compromises the common Blissey + Dondozo stall core.
Rip Bozo.
How long until we officially get usage tiers?
November is over.
November is over.
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