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Burning hot take: We should begin putting a heavy emphasis on non-competitive strategies. To make things simple, I'm going to define competitiveness as the amount of importance in battle decisions have on the outcome of a battle. I'm going to start with one example, because I think its the...

Action Outright ban Only STAB Tera types allowed 1 Tera user per team (first team slot) Reveal Tera type at team preview

:Iron Valiant: Is definitely an S- rank mon. One of the best abusers of tera and booster energy along with its near unprecedented mixed attacking stats and fantastic speed make it one of the most difficult mons to lock down in the game. Two of the best spammable, if not simply the best, moves...

Maybe this is the wrong place to post this, but why do we still have move cancelling on sims. It creates unnecessary and unreplicated (from cartridge) mind games most obviously with moves like sucker punch, but in general time to pick a move informs my decisions enough that I think it has a...

Figured I'd post the team I used to get voting reqs . Pretty fun team, not the easiest to pilot as chi yu and iron valiant are a pain, but its good enough to get the job done. Concept is a simple tusk+bax overwhelm with para support, i'll explain in detail as we go on :) Great Tusk @ Choice...

:jirachi: edit: confirmed!

I made quite a lengthy post about why tera should be banned or tiered, I've completely changed my mind. I find tera to paradoxically be the healthiest mechanic ever added to the game. Heres why. 1) Matchup: Tera allows teams to plug up holes they otherwise wouldn't be able to. Each tera on...

Absolutely not. Smogon as a ruleset can only exist by consenting players agreeing to abide by the standards set. If the standard is you can only put one pokemon to sleep, then the players have a mutual agreement to those terms. If it is that palafin is banned, again the same. There is no in...

One thing has to be completely clear: tera is an uncompetitive mechanic and will eventually be banned. 108. There is 108 additional things to play around while tera is in the game. While on the ladder, it doesn't really effect anything drastically, good players will climb over time despite...

Where can i find prelimenary usage stats?

glaceon doesnt have stab hydro pump

I agree and am fine with the ban, but theres been very few meta's i thought were unplayable #1 for me was skymin in ou gen 4

I dont think mane made the game even remotely unplayable. it was incredibly restrictive on team building but certainly you could come prepared for it and I never felt I was at a great disadvantage when facing one; also never went the route of terra normal or other gimmicks people started...

Chiyu continues to be a ridiculous, undertalked about threat Chi-Yu @ Choice Specs Ability: Beads of Ruin Tera Type: Water EVs: 252 SpA / 4Df / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Dark Pulse - Flamethrower - Overheat/Fire Blast - Psychic There is more or less 0 reliable switch ins to this mon...

CB hera wipes your team quite easily... CB+Guts(tspikes) cc/megahorn does over 50% to your gliscor set (861 Atk vs 296 Def & 354 HP (120 Base Power): 187 - 221 (52.82% - 62.43%)) and gliscor isnt going to be killing hera for a long while... Your only way to beat it is to fire off draco meteor...

I think you should go flashcannon>phycic, for two reasons. 1. Swampert+electrics are the only thing that resist fc and tbolt. You have swampert in complete check, with tspikes, and it's inability to get by the majority of your team. Also the only electric rachi could potetially have trouble...

Meh, since he's trying to sweep w/ lucario, he really doesn't have to use a counter to bulky waters, as most are ohko'd after an sd. Even if he really needs the bulky water killed, a flash fire'd fire blast 2ko's alot of them and hp grass 2kos most too. Also vaporeon wouldn't fit into the team...

Saying if ___ pokes goes down than ___ can sweep your team means you can find flaw in any team. Although I agree that gyara can be a problem, he doesn't have to change anything if he doesn't want to. Using stone edge on luc is acceptable, by all means, but again he doesn't have to. I agree w/...

Rain multiplies water type attacks by 1.5 Using the rain also lets you use a mixed set so you won't get walled as easy. EDIT: hp fire is more standard, for the x4 super effective damage on scizor.