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There's a lot that can be said here, but I'll note that Nuzzle doesn't have the greatest synergy with Trick Room.

I remember that explicit usernames were actually banned for a while, within the last year or so. Anyone with any no-no word in their username had to start over. Kind of weird and arbitrary what they blocked too. Like "pee" was banned, but "fart" wasn't? Then the usernames were all unbanned. Not...

You also have to justify using it over Fini, which has a lot of Tentacruel's strongish points, such as hazard control, usable speed, and the ability to pivot/check against Urshifu while being a little less passive than pex. Fini can do all that and more, and its typing is pretty much a straight...

It would depend what type of TR you're facing, but basically every good TR team to my knowledge uses at least Lunar Dance Cresselia, and Porygon 2 as setters. Sash Hatterne with a suicide move is generally the best third setter (and usually a good lead). There are a lot of potential attackers...

If we're on the subject of typings, it's honestly incredible to me that Gamefreak has stubbornly stood by its decision to remove a Ghost type resistance (Steel) without adding another one, and pretend that it is a good balance decision. Maybe one day they'll let people who actually play the game...

Trick Room, which yeah, falls into the category of "select few HO".

In general, what would be considered the least match-up dependent playstyle in the OU meta at the moment? I think in the past this used to be stall, but nowadays even stall seems pretty matchup fishy overall. I remember back in earlier gens, you could basically just build one team, and it would...

I guess on the note of Crawdaunt, I don't think I've ever come across a successful trick room team in the current meta that uses Crawdaunt. If you've got one, I'd be interested in seeing it. Although, Crawdaunt does more or less give you an auto-win against TR teams, so there's that.

I was starting a new username and was wondering why there were so many choice band teams with 1000 rating at the bottom of the ladder. Looks like this thread is the culprit.

It's worth noting that Baton Pass can also pass some passive conditions like Substitute, so even just limiting it to just stat boosts will miss a few things. Smogon attempted to craft unabusable complex Baton Pass clauses multiple times, and every time they failed until they finally just gave...

One tidbit I'll add is that despite all the matchup issues and set guessing that Kyurem tends to create, one archetype that really doesn't care about Kyurem at all is Trick Room. Like, obviously TR has its own matchup issues and limitations, but for the most part, you don't even notice Kyurem...

Where is the most up to date place to view and discuss developments in the current metagame? Before, Smogon forums used to be fairly reliable in feeling out where the metagame is at currently, but nowadays it seems like the forums are over a month out of date when it comes to sharing and...

Item clause is a very drastic, game-altering, and unfun rule to force on everyone out of the blue. Item clause sucks to use in six mon singles--no one wants to artificially gimp half the sets on their team for what is honestly a very subjective balance reason. Overall, it sounds like you're...

This seems mostly a symptom of ghost just being kind of OP as an attacking type ever since trollfreak decided to remove Steel's resistance to it. Sometimes you have to work with what you have, or in this case, don't have.

I was very confused reading this while skimming, until I glanced at the rest of your post and realized what Volc you were talking about.

How is Shedinja used to combat future sight for stall teams? I was under the impression that Wonder Guard and Protect don't work on Future Sight. Was that changed this generation?

The team that you posted has a Jellicent without Taunt. Taunt is the most important tool that separates Jellicent from Toxapex. If you're not using a Taunt + Wisp set on defensive Jellicent, then you have almost no reason to be using it over Toxapex. Taunt + Wisp lets Jellicent stallbreak...

I mean, if there is a shortage of people testing new things in the metagame and you think you have a better idea, then you ought to celebrate that rather than covering your ears and running off to a different battle client. Because that is your opportunity to abuse this new and effective thing...

I never thought I'd see the day when Smogon became so ban happy that they actually decided to start suspect testing randoms. It's literally an rng tier. Leave it alone.

Despite not being able to switch moves anymore, this thing actually kind of likes Dynamax gone, because enemy Dynamaxes almost universally screwed it over, robbing it of KOs and pretty much universally always KOing in return. It's still tough to deal with, though, especially now that you can't...