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If Togekiss gets banned and Slowbro, Heracross, and Mew all go, Lucario just got a ton better. EDIT: Thanks Machi.

When will there be official word on exactly what is staying/going?

Totally agree with Scarfchomp being the superior option but would point out that you outspeed all the threats you are trying to deal with with an Adamant nature so you shouldn't run Jolly.

Does that mean the results will be in Sunday? Or maybe phrased a little differently, for those of us who are relatively new to Smogon, when should we expect to actually see the bans go into effect, given that bans are voted for?

And I understand it now :D Thanks. Totally missed that.

0 SpA Mega Venusaur Sludge Bomb vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Chesnaught: 290-344 (76.3 - 90.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery Your point confuses me

Any Ground move is going to threaten Heatran without Air Balloon and on a team with Genesect a U-Turn would theoretically pop Heatran's Balloon before switching the Dugtrio in. Of course while Heatran may stay in for Ground-moves it can switch out on it would be insane to stay in with Dugtrio...

Dugtrio cannot counter Aegislash with Shadow Sneak as it takes a hit on the switch and then gets Sneaked to death after Sash. Same story for Bisharp who will do the same to it with Sucker Punch and Mega Luke who has priority and will not be with us much longer anyway. Volcarona doesn't have a...

Two things about that. First if you are already facing the Genesect and you believe it will U-Turn, you can switch out your Heatran and while, yes, they can see that, your Heatran is going to be safe and you can look at their team to determine your best play to conserve as much momentum as...

Outside of opposing Heatran, Dugtrio has little else that it really shines at in the OU metagame. So, while Dugtrio can prevent you from bringing in Heatran (it doesn't completely do this as Heatran can actually be used to bait out Dugtrio as well when not switching in to a pivot), it basically...

I think many of the hyper offensive teams would be sorely tempted to Taunt before using the Fire Punch on Forretress as cleaning up hazards can be an inconvenience to some of them. That said, I wouldn't consider to Forretress to be a very viable counter just because, at a minimum, Deoxys-S can...

Dugtrio with Genesect isn't really a great Heatran counter because with Team Preview it's pretty obvious what they are going to be trying to do. You can pretty easily predict the U-Turn into the Dugtrio and make your own switch which gains momentum for you so running Genesect with Dugtrio is...

Alright let's talk Genesect since it's pretty obvious Lucarionite will be gone and Deoxys-S is going to be here to stay (for now). The issue with Genesect isn't just the fact that it can gain momentum with the effortless switching. As many people have pointed out, many Pokemon can gain...

If your team needs a hazard setter that can get the hazards up and get out of the way like hyper offensive teams do, who else would you suggest? Deoxys-S does the best job of any Pokemon in the metagame. Also the LO set tends to lose momentum as it gets one hit off and then immediately has to...

Yeah so I ran the damage calcs and Mega Venusaur needs to be removed from the Offensive DD set as a check that needs to be considered in teambuilding. Here are the damage calcs run against a max Def (a considerably rare set) Bold Mega Venusaur for +1 Bounce. +1 252+ Atk Life Orb Gyarados...

I guess my point is that you cover all the threats you mentioned better with Ice Fang than Return but Return obviously has better coverage so that's a fair point. I should have probably been more clear that I'm speaking only of Gyarados without the Mega Evolution, which obviously has Mold...

The only Pokemon you mentioned that are anything close to common threats in this metagame are Dragonite and Rotom-Wash. Any team utilizing a Gyarados set should have, at a minimum, one Rotom counter but really it should have more than one if possible. Gyarados should not be facing Rotom...

I should start by saying that Gyarados has always been my favorite Pokemon but I pretty much abandoned his use in Gen VI after I was thoroughly disappointed by the Mega Evolution set. I pretty much stumbled upon the (very well done) analysis in this thread and decided to try out the Offensive...

So I have built what appears to be a semi-successful Sand Rush team after numerous failed attempts at abusing Mega-Lucario as I'm still trying to learn the metagame and always surprised when I get OHKO'd by super effective attacks by Pokemon whose typing indicated to me there is no way they...