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And we're back! We had the slumbering, lumbering, not so gentle giant: Snorlax! Did he do well? Did we do well? Who knows? You'd wanna know wouldn't you? THEN READ ON DAMMIT!
:snorlax:
Me:
I went into this thinking that Snorlax would be a fun mon to Research, I was dead wrong. I hated the...
And we're back again! This week with Electric Terrain! Is it as worthless as people say it is? Does it have a niche at all? Let's see what we found out!
:pincurchin:
Me:
I really wanted this to have some sauce man. I tried every trick in the book, from normal terrain bs like unburden mons and...
This week we got Poliwrath to research! Now how did this slightly bigger poliwhirl do? Let's find out!
:Poliwrath:
Me:
Poliwrath didn't do much for me overall sadly. Circle throw sets felt bad because 9 times outta 10 you take more than you do by making them take hazards again.
The only...
Two prankster mons? Two weeks? Yessirrrrr! This week is Sableye's turn! How did it do? Well why don't ya read on to find out, dingus?
:sableye:
Heatranator: Sableye has always been an interesting pokemon. With truly horrid stats, it makes up for this with baiscally everything else. Amazing...
Aaaaand we're back! After a hiatus caused by lack of interest we've decided to make the process on our end easier behind the scenes and lo' and behold, we got a lot more interest this week!
Now who are we researching on our first week back? Well wouldn't you like to know? Pay us 499 Pokedollars...
I usually don't make these types of posts, but I felt like I had some takes to add to this VR specifically!
:Espeon: A -> A+
I feel like this mon is being a bit underrated and downplayed here. Putting this as A tier because of how it worked in Grassy terrain is disingenuous. This thing does...
...power, ancient power has 60, you're not breaking a lot with those moves, but at least, it can hit hard, its speed tier isn't that bad. Thing is : **It's outclassed by salazzle in every way**
Defensively it brings nothing, fire flying ain't it, too many common weaknesses without really...
...example, or hwish pass, even tailwind in some more gimmicky archetypes, it has clearly enough bulk to withstand most of the attacks thrown at it.
**BUT**
It's flawed, sadly, mono grass type doesn't make it defensively and the metagame is too hostile for it to thrive, the weaker defense will...
Hello hello hello PU folks! I'm back with another weekly post from the research group! This week we got y'all a treat of a pokemon, which most will not even glance at currently, but maybe should!
It's :emboar: time!
I'll start by telling you guys the combined ratings we had for this mon...
Won 2-1 I love Ambipom so much
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2293151322-i5bw1nrhu4wtem53wyhkc5rdmu5byr8pw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9pu-2293160571-9prj3lis22sb0fqfuoexxtvswtjoo59pw