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Forum Name: Adamantx Cycle 1 Alts: LT1R Adamant, LT1S Adamant, LT1T Adamant Do my alts for Cycle 1 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: Yes.

Yeah, I agree with poliwrath not being ranked. The only potential niche I could see for it over keldeo is some belly drum swift swim set, but that seems really gimmicky. Keldeo could in theory be used in the same defensive matter that you would want to use poliwrath, having slightly less...

Status: Hard Check Emboar @ Life Orb / Choice Band Ability: Reckless EVs: 40 HP / 252 Atk / 216 Spe Adamant Nature - Flare Blitz - Superpower - Wild Charge - Sucker Punch / Head Smash Some may say emboar is unviable, but with the release of reckless, he has gained somewhat of a niche in OU. He...

Status: Check Landorus (M) @ Life Orb Ability: Sheer Force EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Naive/Timid Nature - Earth Power - Focus Blast - HP ice - Knock Off / Calm mind / Rock Polish Pretty ironic having one form of a pokemon check its other form. Landorus-I can avoid the 2hko from any move...

This is a cool set, but I feel like taunt would be a very good option over iron head to prevent opposing hazards from getting up. Yeah, diancie is kind of a problem then, but it is much less situational

I'm not opposed to gliscor rising, but a little nitpick: landorus-t also learns knock off and sd

I'd like to nominate Rhyperior to get moved down to B- (Possibly C+ but that seems a tad harsh). Its main niche in XY was to check both bird spam and Charizard-X in one teamslot iirc, but both of those are significantly less common now. Furthermore, Rhyperior gained a lot more checks in ORAS...

I wouldn't even be opposed to blacklisting milotic, but idk, it does kinda have some sort of miniscule niche in competitive i guess? Doesn't seem like it's worth being discussed. For the sake of having some actual content in this post, I'll say a bit more. I've changed my mind about omastar...

Kingdra would have the slight edge IMO because it has (arguably ) better typing, better overall bulk (Omastar's physical bulk is a lot better but kingra's special bulk is a lot better than Omastar's, kingdra's are more even though), better speed so it doesn't get outsped by scarfers/boosted...

To anyone saying tenta should drop with greninja's ban, you must also consider that without greninja running around everwhere spamming gunk shot at all the fairy types, they will likely become more popular, and who is an excellent check to them for defensive/balanced teams, who can do more than...

Best dragon dancer outside of ubers? Charizard X, (Mega) Gyarados, and Altaria would like to have a word with you. Dragonite really isn't as good as it once was, and like Cyberpunk said, wp dnite is bad. Most viable dnite is cb, dd sets are pretty outclassed tbh. You say you want to save your...

This set isn't super creative per se (a variant of it is on the analysis), but it is pretty underrated and is surprisingly effective. Clefable @ Life orb Ability: Magic Guard Evs: 252 HP / 252 SAtk / 4 Speed Modest Nature - Moonblast - Fire Blast/Focus blast - Psyshock/Thunderbolt/Focus...

I'm a little skeptical about dragalge moving to the b ranks. On one hand, its adaptability boosted STABS are disgustingly powerful, and with focus blast and hp fire/scald/hydro/shadow ball, you have some nice options to nail the few things that can stomach Dragalge's STABs. It also has some real...

smh, I thought people knew by now to stop throwing AV on everything... It's not an item that any pokemon can use effectively, and Hydreigon is not one of those pokemon. It's not that bulky, its defensive typing is meh, and it looses a significant amount of power and speed by 1: not using LO and...

I wasn't really referring to Stone edge, as obviously like you said you wouldn't stay in on it anyway. Pidgeot is going to be the target of more moves with imperfect accuracy than just stone edge, and although a miss should never be relied on, a m-lopunny missing her hjk or Latios missing his...

The point about focus blast really doesn't make much sense. Yes it's inaccurate, but Pidgeot doesn't even have the option to use focus blast, so why would that be a negative for torn? Pidgeot is hard walled by quite a lot in today's meta while torn actually is surprisingly difficult to wall...

I'd like to chime in on one nomination that has been going around, and that is Mega Pidgeot. I honestly don't think it deserves B- ranking, for the sole fact that it is mostly eclipsed by Torn-T in the role of a fast hurricane spammer IMO. Let's take a look at the advantages Mega pidgeot...

Thanks for the suggestions from both of you! Not gonna go with bandzor, reasons for this are in the OP. I really like a lot of your suggestions Albacore. Again, I do kinda like energy ball on Alakazam, but I suppose I should probably take the advice multiple people have given me and try other...

Thanks for the feedback! In the early stages of this team, I actually did have dazzling gleam over energy ball on Alakazam, but to be honest, I really didn't like it. The only common target of it was Mega Sableye, but him coming in on my Alakazam just means a free switch into Sylveon, who can...

Using my one bump :) ya know it'd be nice if someone rated this.