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I think the two potential pokemon for suspect testing are Mega Sableye and Mega Metagross, although I think that of the two, only Mega Metagross needs a test. Overall, I think Mega Sableye has been a very strong, but not overpowered addition to the metagame, as have the other stall Mega...

This is my final Mega-Alakazam set. Alakazam @ Alakazite Ability: Magic Guard EVs: 32 HP / 252 SpA / 224 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Psychic - Shadow Ball - Focus Blast - Encore The Speed EVs are standard, and outspeed Scarfed Tyranitar by 1 point before Mega-Evolving, and outspeeds +1 Spe...

The consensus seems to be leaning towards a bulky water or grass type in our 5th slot. If we go down this path, I think we need to ensure that our 6th slot offers some form of alternative victory condition. If Mega Absol falls, or is up against a team with pokemon like Scarfed Landorus-T and...

I've been going down the OU Viability list from the top and identifying pokemon that give us issues. Although we can paralyse certain Mega Pokemon with Klefki to stop them from sweeping, I'll leave the ones on that our team still has trouble handling even after they've been paralysed. S Rank...

In this post, I'll explain the teambuilding process that I went through in my initial draft of the team. 3 Attacks (Psychic/Focus Blast/Shadow Ball) + Substitute. Substitute protects from priority moves, and dodges Sucker Punch. Mega Alakazam is an excellent late game cleaner, and performs...

Um, so is there a start date for this? It's been a few days since anyone's signed up, so I hope it's alright to try and kickstart some discussion. In ORAS OU, Mega Alakazam is now forced to run a Timid nature to outspeed all of the newly introduced Megas, but with 175 SpA, still packs quite a...

It's always going to be difficult to build around Mega Absol, as it can't safely switch in to most pokemon, and thus doesn't provide any real defensive synergy with teammembers. At the moment, I think Rain with Mega Swampert is a much larger threat than Keldeo, along with pokemon including Mega...

I don't want to vote for my own set, so I'll go for Ferrothorn, as long as we don't use the primary slash for the 3rd moveslot. Spikes or Protect are fine, but two Stealth Rock setters aren't necessary.

I know DD Dragon Rush Zard-Y isn't a great lure and probably isn't worth including in the OP, especially when more reliable counters like Mega Altaria exist, but I explained why Dragon Rush is a better Latios lure than Dragon Pulse with the calculations; a +1 Dragon Rush KOs Latios after Stealth...

One less obvious factor that makes some Fairy types stronger than their average BST's would indicate, is Moonblast. Its 100% accuracy and 95 base power sits slightly above the 100% accurate 80-90 base power moves available to other types, but more importantly, the secondary effect's 30% chance...

At present, some players are running very fast Heatrans, to be able to Taunt as many pokemon as possible, including the standard 152 Spe Stallbreaker Mew set. I'm not sure if you'd always want to run it with that much speed on full stall, as with a Timid nature, you miss out on a fair bit of...

Maybe have a look at this round of the OU Teambuilding Competition V5 (Round 2: Voting). The first round was built around the very strong Mega Metagross + Keldeo core, and these two pokemon lend themselves perfectly towards Bulky Offense.

FEAR on Mamoswine is only really effective when it's being used as a dedicated/suicide lead. Stealth Rocks are too good to pass up, as they have utility against every type of team, even when you may need to Defog the hazards away for Zard-X and Volcarona. If you're looking for a pokemon that...

It's a bit hard to comment without knowing what your sets are, but at a quick glance, on Turn 4 - it was probably unnecessarily risky to stay in, as Porygon2 with the Eviolite walls a lot of his team, and Charizard was a completely safe switch. On Turn 7, it was much safer to go for roost...

Charizard-Mega-Y @ Charizardite Y Ability: Drought EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Naive Nature - Fire Blast - Solar Beam - Dragon Dance - Dragon Rush I think Zard-Y is likely to be better at going mixed than Zard-X, as thanks to Drought, Zard-Y has a lot more initial power than Zard-X, and with...

Slowking @ Assault Vest Ability: Regenerator EVs: 248 HP / 164 SpA / 96 SpD Modest Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Scald - Fire Blast - Grass Knot - Ice Beam I'm nominating Assault Vest Slowking, as I think this set provides the special backbone that our team needs, along with reasonable offensive power...

The OU viable pokemon that resist Ice + Electric are the Magnezone line, Rotom-H (and the unviable Rotom-Frost); factoring in abilities, you also get Mamoswine and a few niche Water-type pokemon with Lightningrod. To answer your other question about Manectric checks and counters, Mega Manectric...

Username: Fourth Inversion Alt name: Psychotic Tracing Ladder Ranking: n/a Pokemon: Mega Alakazam Should be interesting. Going with the one I haven't used before in ORAS OU.

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