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Crunch Spdef Hippo:
:hippowdon:
Hippowdon (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Slack Off
- Earthquake
- Crunch
after building some wonky fat with foreseeable gengar problems, I threw crunch on spdef hippo on a whim and was weirdly...
can i ask why so much attention goes into laboriously evaluating obvious stupid-but-technically-maybe-borderline cases over and over? isn't the purpose of tiering to make metagames as competitive as they reasonably can be? i feel like tiering on this site suffers from an insistence on asking...
https://pokepast.es/ffa547fee129aa19
:mesprit: :lucario: :magnezone: :tyranitar: :bronzong: :latias:
I made this forever ago in a fugue-like state. Is it good? Probably not. It wasn't the most consistent team. It looks cool, though, and lead Mesprit scores you lots of aura points or whatever...
sleep clause is a bend-over-backwards contrivance that preserves an inherently nonsense status for no real reason beyond some strange, almost religious-feeling apprehension to nuking an entire status condition. speaking mainly from an adv/dpp perspective, the amount of variance it adds...
if your post starts with "i dont play [format in question], BUT" that's a sign to reevaluate whether or not you should be spending time making the post to begin with
seriously, i feel like these boards are a twilight zone of genuine madness. it's universally understood how frustrating pokemon...
please host an invitational with jirachi banned and the domino effect bans in place (latias, clef, machamp, sleep) to give this push actual momentum. said invitational should be crowd funded to encourage effort across the board, making the data gathered more meaningful. invitees could be polled...
please spam machamp in dpp so mister fister finally gets guillotined. i say guillotined because the french might be more on board with it if that's the method of execution
as is true to real life, the giant tiger's mortal enemy is a pack of precisely three small moles
if you want to gameplan around lategame raikou you have to account for this massive dugtrio weakness somehow. you can simply use p2 to countertrap dug after it dugs something that's not raikou, or...
i am but a humble adv ladder gremlin at this point so my stakes in this are not as great as frequent tournament players, but i think it's uncontroversial to say that at bare minimum drypass ought to remain intact no matter what
i dont have any swoon-worthy sell for this viewpoint beyond the...